HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1972.11.01 - 15903Miscellaneous Resolution 6156 November 2, 1972
BY: Marguerite Simson
IN RE: MICHIGAN WELFARE PAYMENTS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Michigan will provide in the fiscal year 1972-73 the sum of
$641,750, 105. 00; and
WHEREAS the federal government provides an equal amount; and
WHEREAS in other states the federal government supplies up to 90% of the totab and
WHEREAS this inequity is compounded by the fact that Michigan is one of the highest
benefit states; and
WHEREAS it is not fair to Michigan taxpayers to pay 50% when taxpayers in other
states pay 10 or 15% of an even smaller sum; and
WHEREAS welfare payments to welfare recipients in some states average approximately
three times as much as other states; and
WHEREAS this results in the poor flocking to the areas which are relatively generous;
and
WHEREAS a federal take-over of the welfare program could stabilize the payments
at a level which would stop the migration of the poor to areas that are already over-populated;
and
WHEREAS it could rescue many cities from a bankruptcy that is being imposed upon
them by the present program;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
strongly urge our United States Senators and Congressmen to give immediate, serious considera-
tion and whole-hearted support to developing a federal equal-payment plan to welfare
recipients in all states to reduce unfair differentials between one state and another.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be forwarded by
the County Clerk to Michigan's Senators and Congressmen and to the National Association
of Counties and the Michigan Association of Counties.
Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
arguerWSimson
County lasimmissioner, District #7
Moved by Gabler supported by Richardson the rules be suspended for
immediate consideration of the resolutionk
AYES: Coy, Daly, Dearborn, Doyon, Gabler, Harrison, Horton, Houghten,
. Kasper, Kronenberg, Mainland, Olson, Paholak, Perinoff, Pernick, Richardson,
Simson, Wilcox, Aaron, Barakat. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Simson supported by Gabler the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
• Resolution # 6156 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their November 2, 1972 meeting
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, IF have lx1reunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
• d 2n • this day of November 19 72
Lynn D. Wen Clerk
•
By ; Deputy Clerk