HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1970.06.18 - 16493Miscellaneous Resolution 5426 June 18, 1970
BY Mr. Richardson
IN RE: INTERIM ANNUAL REPORT OF PLANNNG, ZONING AND
BUILDING COMMITTEE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen;
In accordance with Section 7 of Rule IV of the By-Laws, your Planning,
Zoning and Bt ilding Committee has made its annual inspection of County owned
buildings and grounds.
Your Committee is pleased to report that it found the buildings and grounds
satisfactorily maintained, cleaned and repaired. The conditions speak well of the
program carried out by the employees and staff of the Board of Auditors Facilities and
Operations Divisions.
While the existing facilities are being effectively and intensely used by the
departments serving the public, it is apparent to your Committee that additional
facilities will be necessary in the future to meet the needs of our growing County.
This year your Board of Commissioners adopted a general development plan for the
Oakland County Service Centers. This plan locates the central nerve core of county
government at the Service Center in Pontiac with satellite centers formed to serve
distant population areas. The plan will provide guidance for your Committee during
the growing years ahead.
During this past year there have been many accomplishments in the facilities
construction program. Construction of the Courthouse south parking lot and remodeling
of the Administrative Annex building has been completed. Construction has started For
the new Law Enforcement-Jai! Complex and a Trusty Camp to meet the needs of Oakland
County's modern law enforcement program. Construction was started for the new Service
Building providing facilities for the Drain Commission, Department of Public Works and
the Board of Auditors' Facilities and Operations Department. Phase If of the new under
ground electrical distribution system at the Service Center and other extensions for water,
sewer and gas have been started this year.
Alexander C. Perim:4f
MaTIon Benson, Jr.
ries B. Edwards, Ch Niles E. Olson
Plans have been started this year for the 4-H Youth Activities Center, the
Mental Retardation Center and the Children's Village Phase IL Federal grants in the
amount of $862,000 have been committed by the Federal government towards the
Mental Retardation Center.
Planning has started, also this year, for the construction of a South Oakland
County office building to be located at the South Oakland Service Center in Southfield,
Initial planning has begun and an architect selected for the design of an addition to the
Health Center on the County Service Center.
Capital improvements are being made at the Oakland-Pontiac Airport and
design studies are underway for the Oakland-Orion Airport.
Your Committee continues to see a large task ahead to provide governmental
facilities for our growing county. The fact that our existing facilities are getting older
each year means this task ahead is even larger. This has been a busy year, but your
Committee expects the years ahead to be even busier to provide an adequate physical
plant.
MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Planning, Zoning and Buildings Committee,
I move that the foregoing interim report be received and placed on file.
PLANNING, ZONING & BUILDING COMMITTEE
The report was received and placed an file.