HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1975.11.06 - 14808November 6, 1975
Miscellaneous Resolution
BY PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE, Patrick M, Nowak, Chairman
IN RE FUNDING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTA
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, there is a need to develop and fund a public transportation program for
Southeastern Michigan; and
WHEREAS, there exists a clear need for road construction, improvement, and maintenance
to assure the smooth and orderly flow of both mass transit and general vehicle travel; and
WHEREAS, funding is also required to replace a short-term projected $18420 Million
annual deficit in the General Transportation Fund which, if not replaced, would hamper
the State's ability to continue financing of ongoing and already committed state-wide local
transit projects; and
WHEREAS, with the enactment of the transportation bond issue, capital grant monies
will be available for numerous transportation projects such as dial-a-ride, port development,
inter-city bus routes for tourist industry, etc., throughout the state; and
WHEREAS, all the counties in the state will require access to local match monies to
fully participate and obtain benefits from the state transportation bond issue; and
WHEREAS, a weight tax is one of the sources of funding that can provide widely distributed
tax revenues; and
WHEREAS, a clearly identified surcharge best enables the citizens to know and under-
stand the nature of the tax and its purpose, and, through their elected representatives, to
adjust the amount of the tax or abolish it altogether, according to financing needs; and
WHEREAS, a system of rebates distributed to each of the state's 83 counties on a per
capita basis is the fairest method of distribution; and
WHEREAS, the surcharge-rebate system can be established on an interim basis and easily
adjusted or abolished as more federal funds, such as the federal gasoline tax rebate now
under consideration by Congress, becomes available.
ON
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby goes on record urging the Michigan Legislature to loin local governmental units in
Southeastern Michigan in strongly urging Congress to revise the federal gasoline tax so that
one cent of the four cents now collected be rebated to the states for use in developing
public transportation, and that until the federal gasoline tax rebate revenue is available
the Michigan Legislature, in lieu of a regional tax, establish a state-wide surcharge on
the existing weight tax averaging $7,50 for each vehicle and that 50 percent of the monies
thus collected be used by SEMTA to develop a public transportation system in Southeastern
Michigan and that the remaining 50 percent be rebated to the state's 83 counties on a per
capita basis for such public transportation and other transportation needs as may exist,
including road improvement.
The Planning & Building Committee, by Patrick M. Nowak, Chairman, moves the
adoption of the foregoing resolution,
PLANNNO BUILDING COMMITTEE
#7330
Moved by Nowak supported by Button the resolution be adopted,
Moved by Dearborn supported by Button the resolution be amended in the NOW
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph by striking out the words "surcharge on the
existing weight tax averaging $7,50 for each vehicle" and inserting the word "Tax".
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution as amended, was
adopted.
Mr. Dunleavy voted "no".
STATE OP MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I. Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do here -oy certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Resolution #7330 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on November 6, 1975
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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
6th November 75 this day of 19,...
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
.......... ..... „„„, ....... Deputy Clerk
Patrick M. Nowak, Chairman
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