HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1973.04.10 - 15344Miscellaneous Resolution 6274 April 10, 1973
BY: COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION - Patrick M. Nowak, Chairman
IN RE: SUPPORT OF DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS AND
THEORY OF CHECKS AND BALANCES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS County Commissioners are charged with the responsibility of adopting a
budget to operate the County; and
WHEREAS part of such duties is for the Commissioners to determine the priorities of
various needs and requirements and the salaries to be paid to County employees; and
WHEREAS the Third Judicial Circuit Court has encroached upon the legislative and
administrative powers of the Wayne County Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS these United States and the States therein, were founded on the doctrine
of the separation of powers and the theory of checks and balances, and that to permit one
co-equal branch of government to interfere with and exercise the powers of another co-equal
branch of government destroys the tenets of a Republic; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners objects to the encroachment by
any other co-equal branch of government upon the legislative and administrative duties of
County Commissioners;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
records its support of the doctrine of separation of powers and the theory of checks and
balances.
The Committee on Organization, by Patrick M. Nowak, Chairman, moves the adoption
of the foregoing resolution.
COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION
Patrick M. No a , Chairman
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Moved by Nowak supported by Lennon the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolutign 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
kesolution #6274 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at
their meeting held on April 10, 1973
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
this 11th day of April Io 73
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By Deputy Clerk