HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1984.02.23 - 16169GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
T—E*Isen, Chairperson
Miscellaneous Resolution # 84034 February 23, 1984
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: Opposition to the Concept of Altering the Funding Source for
Family Counseling as Proposed in House Bills 4749-4751
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Public Act 128 of 1887 requires a $20 marriage license fee
with $15 of this earmarked for the funding of family counseling services; and
WHEREAS. a package of House Bills (4749, 4750 & 4751) would reduce
the marriage license fee to $5 and delete the $15 for family counseling from
the marriage license fee; and
WHEREAS, this package of bills would amend the Revised Judicature
Act to impose a $25 new fee for the filing of a divorce action with the entire fee
earmarked for family counseling services; and
WHEREAS, since the cost of a divorce action is already a serious financial
burden to many litigants, imposing an entirely new $25 obligation on this group
while reducing the fee for marriage licenses seems to be unrealistic.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners opposes the concept of altering the funding source for
family counseling when no justification for a change has been demonstrated.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to
all legislators representing Oakland County and to the county's legislative agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
#84 034 February 23, 1984
this 23rd day of 19 84
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Moved by Olsen supported by Aaron the report be accepted and the resolution
be adopted.
AYES: Moore, Olsen, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Calandra,
Doyon, Foley, Fortino, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law,
McConnell, McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the report was accepted and the
resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OP OAKLAND)
Lynn D, Alien, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at
their meeting held on February 23, 1984
with the orginial 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