HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1975.07.10 - 14615July 10, 1975
RESOLUTION NO, 7176
RE: RECOMMENDATIONS OF SUBURBAN
WATER COMMITTEE ON WATER RATES
BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, the City of Detroit, through the Detroit Metro-
politan Water Department and the Detroit Board of Water
Commissioners, has increased its water and sewer rates; and
WHEREAS, the Suburban Water Committee has recommended
that the Michigan State Legislature be requested to enact legis-
lation to correct the current inequities existing between the
Detroit Metropolitan Water Department, the Detroit Board of
Water Commissioners and the City of Detroit and the suburban
customers of such system; and
WHEREAS, you Planning and Building Committee concurs in
the recommendations submitted by the Suburban Water Committee.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners concurs with the Suburban Water Committee and
recommends the following legislative changes be submitted to the
Michigan Legislature for enactment during the current session:
1. The Michigan State legislature enact legislation requiring
an immediate audit of the Detroit Metropolitan Water
Department by an outside auditor. This audit shall cover
both the water and sewer budgets. Further, that additional
legislation be enacted requiring cities of over one million
population and owning their own water system to be audited
annually by an outside auditor. Provision shall be made
in both pieces of legislation that when these audits are
performed, the DWI) be required to follow the accounting
procedures recognised by the State of Michigan.
2. The Legislature enact legislation revising both the makeup
requirements and appointment procedures of the Water Board
so that it may become more truly representative of all water
customers. This could be accomplished by enlarging the cur-
rent Board to include equal numbers of Detroit and non -Detroit
members. Regardless of the formula used, suburban communities
must have a greater voice in who shall- be their representatives
on the Water Board than at present.
3. The Legislature enact legislation which will specify formal,
steps the Board of Water Commissioners must take prior to any
water or sewer rate change. These steps shall include, but
are not limited to, a public hearing or hearings. Concurrently,
provisions shall be made for a formalized appeals procedure of
any Water Board rate-related decisions.
4. The Legislature enact legislation which make the DIVWD subject
to study by a nationally recognized rate study firm. Purpose
of this study shall be to complement the outside audit in order
to determine if (a) water and sewer rates currently in force
are justified.; and (b) to judge the necessity of any proposed
water or sewer rate change.
The Planning and Building Committee, by Mr. Patrick M.
Nowak, Chairman, moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PLANN
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I ND BUILDING COMMITTEE
Patrick M. Novak. Chairman
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Moved by Nowak supported by Patterson the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution 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 annexed copy of
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with the original record thereof now remaining 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
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By Depi.ty Clerk
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