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Miscellaneous Resolution February 9, 1984
sen, Chairman
BY GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: SUPPORT OF SENATE BILLS 544 & 545, CREATING A REGIONAL
WATER-SEWER AUTHORITY
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the City of Detroit through its Board of Water Commissioners operates
and controls a wholesale water and treatment system which serves more than 100
municipalities in metropolitan Detroit; and
WHEREAS, although water and sewer service from this regional system is paid
for by the charges collected from individual citizens in more than 100 communities, total
operating control of this system is vested in one individual, the Mayor of the City of
Detroit, who appoints all seven members of the Board of Water Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, over the past 13 years the wholesale sewage treatment rate has
been increased by the Detroit Board of Water Commissioners by more than 1,400%; and
WHEREAS, the management and staff of the Detroit Water and Sewage
Deportment has been adversely affected by the large number of management changes
the last few years, including five department directors,in a period of eight years; and
WHEREAS, considerably more than half the population served by the Detroit
system resides outside Detroit and more than half of the revenues of the system, based
on user charges are paid by customers located outside the City of Detroit; and
WHEREAS, Senate Bills 544 and 545 will create a regional water-sewer authority
with nine directors, three from Detroit and six from the water-sewer service area
outside Detroit.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners supports Senate Bills 544 and 545 in the interest of providing adequate
representation for customers in the total service area.
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.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
#84014 February 9, 1984
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Moved by Olsen supported by Rewold the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro,
Doyon, Foley, Fortino, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law,
McConnell, McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution 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
Miscellaneous Resolution # 84014 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Comissioners
at their meeting held on February 9, 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
County Clerk/Register of Deeds