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Miscellaneous Resolution #7,478 March 4, 1976
BY:. PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE - Patrick K. Daly, Chairman
IN RE: DETROIT METROPOLITAN WATER RATES INCREASES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Detroit Metropolitan Water Board on December 15, 1975, by
a four to three vote of its members, determined to raise water 39% to
be effective May 1, 1976; and
WHEREAS the said proposed increase in water rates appears to have no
reasonable relationship to costs incurred for supplying said water and may,
therefore, be unjust and inequitable; and
WHEREAS at a meeting conducted in Livonia on February 9, 1976 the
representatives of some seventy communities voted to request that their respective
legislative bodies pledge funds to pay for the costs that may be incurred by
such legal action as may be necessary to assure that an increase in water rates shall
not be implemented unless and until the aforesaid action of the Detroit Metropolitan
Water Board is demonstrated to have been justified and equitable to all communities
served by the water system.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the County of Oakland opposes the
proposed water rate increase; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED in the event it becomes necessary to litigate,
the Board. of Commissioners does hereby pledge $2500.00 towards the costs of litigation
commences prior to December 31, 1976.
The Planning and Building Committee by Patrick K. Daly, Chairman,
moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution,
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
March 11, 1976
FISCAL NOTE
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, LAWRENCE R. PERNICK, CHAIRMAN
IN RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #7478 - DETROIT METROPOLITAN WATER
RATES INCREASES
TO: OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to rule XI-C of this Board, the Finance Committee finds
the sum of .$2,500 available in the Contingent
fund in the 1976 Oakland County Budget. Said funds to be transferred
to a Non-Departmental line item - Water Rates Litigation Fees.,
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Lawrence R, Pernick, Chairman
#7478
Moved by Daly supported by Roth that resolution #7478 be adopted.
AYES: Douglas, Dunleavy, Fortino, Gabler, Hoot, Houghton, Kasper,
McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Nowak, Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Roth,
Simmons, Wilson, Aaron, Button, Daly, Dearborn. (22)
NAYS: Wilcox. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, resolution #7478 was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared. the nnexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #7478 adopted by the Oakland County Board of ....... ..... ..... ..-..s..... ........ s ..... .... s
Commissioners at their meeting held on March 18, 1976 ...... .s..... ...... .. ,s, ...... ..... ...... s„,.,.
with the original record ther eof now 1-,7ma 4 71i7g in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
18th March 76 this .......... —.day of
Lynn D. Allen...„,....,„.. ....
By............ ....... ----Deputy Clerk