HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1975.06.05 - 14692June 5, 1975
RESOLUTION NO. 7156
RE: DETROIT METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD
RATE INCREASE
BY: HENRY W. HOOT and LILLIAN V. MOFFITT
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, The Detroit Metropolitan Water Board is ordering an
excessive increase (of approximately 40%) in sewage treatment
rates to be effective July 1, 1975; and
WHEREAS, the need for this increase has yet to be fully
substantiated or documented; and
WHEREAS, the Detroit Metropolitan Water Board steadfastly
has refused to authorize or submit to an outside independent audit
directed to substantiate the new rate structure; and
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland pays annually approximately
Four Million ($4,000,000.00) Dollars for sewerage treatment.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the County of Oakland
strongly recommends the following:
1. Whatever rate increase is necessary that it be staggered
over a period of four or five years to meet increasing
needs.
2. Uniformity of contracts and rates structure be nego-
tiated to protect the interest of Oakland County and its
customer municipalities.
3. That an independent firm be employed to study the
allocation of costs to Detroit and the suburban customers
and to recommend rates to correspond to the cost of
service provided.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Com-
missioners reserves the right to protest the new rate structure
effective July 1, 1975, and seek legal remedies of any possible
violation of contracts held between the County of Oakland and
Detroit Metropolitan Water Board.
MR. CHAIRMAN, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
• ..-- Henty W. Hoot
Commissi4er, District #14
Lillian V. ffitt
Commissioner, District #15
Lawrence R. Pernick
Commissioner, District # 20
#7156 June 5, 1975
Moved by Moffitt supported by Hoot the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the resolution.
AYES: Page, Perinoff, Price, Roth, Simmons, Wilcox, Wilson, Button, Daly, 1/2
Dearborn, Dunleavy, Fortino, Hoot, Houghten, Lennon, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante,
Nowak, Olson, (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Moffitt supported by Hoot the resolution be adopted.
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 orlginal 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
this..... 6th June of....... l97 ..
Lynn D. Allen......................Clerk
By.................................Deputy Clerk