HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1976.06.03 - 14213IN RE: Tj;ECONSTIT OF 07.:J:U.1 COUNTY BOARD OF CON
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Pa tr .1c k No' /175Tht,rict 25
Jurw 3, 1976
Miscellaneous Resolutionj5-94
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOAR-) OF COM IS S :1 ONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Centlemen:
WHI77i3, a =her of well-informed,people and a number of county
commissioners of both parties have, from time to time, commented on
ineffectiveness of the present 27 member Board of Commissioners; and
1,;,L the 8 years existancc of the elected Board of
Comffissioneys tan. leadership of be p=ti,es, there has Leen
considerable and undue partisanship exibited; and -
1777.7\S, the 27 commission board has proven itself to be too
-large and unwieldy to efficiently deal with increasingly intricate and
complex county government ratters; and
WHEREAS, the increasing complexity of county government is not
well served by a part-tire commission; and
more efficiently and intelligently with the office of the County Executive.
NCI'i , THE FEFORE , BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners request the Michigan Legislature to enact legisiation which
would reconstitute the Oakland Cou r-) board of Commissioners in the followIng
manner. The board would be comprised of 15 elected members representing
-districts in the some manner as currently prescribed by law on a one man,
one vote basis; and that. the members be elected in the following runner;
those from odd numbered districts to be elected the same year as the C77
of the state of Michigan; and those from even -numLered districts to be
elected in the same year as the President of the United States; and that the
E=Lers be elected on a non-partisan basis.
Mr. Chairman, I rove the adoption of the foregoing resolution.