HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1971.07.01 - 16098July 1, 1971
INTERIM REPORT
RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 5667 .
ABOLITION OF FUNERAL PROCESSIONS
BY: LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES & GENTLEMEN:
Your Legislative Committee has had several meetings to
discuss Miscellaneous Resolution 5667. The Committee has received
testimony from the sponsors of the resolution and from Mr. Henry
Earle, Michigan Funeral Directors As sociation, Mr. W. Bennett Yost
of the William R. Hamilton Company and the Reverend Malcolm K.
Burton, First Congregational Church.
Following the testimony taken its June 14, 1971 meeting,
the Committee tabled the resolution until October and invited
Mr. Jorgensen and Mr. Earle of the Michigan Funeral Directors
Association and other concerned parties to submit suggestions
for consideration by the Committee. The Committee also received
and filed a letter from Garrison E. Clayton, Chief of Police of
Westgate supporting the banning of funeral processions.
Your Legislative Committee will take up the matter of Reso-
lution 5667 in October for possible :action.
Respectfully submitted,
LEGIS„ ATIVE COMMITTEE
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:awrence R. P-ernick, Chairman