HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1970.09.03 - 166175481 RESOLUTION NO
September 3, 1970
RE: OAKLAND-ORION AIRPORT EAST-WEST RUNWAY
BY: AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE - Mr. Gabler
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners by Miscel-
laneous Resolution 5245 authorized top graphic and engineering studies
for the development of an east-west runway at the Oakland-Orion Airport;
and
WHEREAS, the Oakland-Orion Airporit engineering report was pre-
sented to this Board on August 6, 1970 and was referred to your
Aviation and Transportation Committee for review and recommendation
within thirty (30) days; and -
WHEREAS, your Aviation and Transportation Committee has reviewed
said reportand finds that the General , Aviation Airport recommended
in the said report meets the foreseeable needs of general aviation in
Oakland County; and
WHEREAS, your Committee finds that not more than 800 acres of
land will be required to fulfill the construction program called for
in said report; and
WHEREAS, your Committee finds that federal matching funds must
be committed before the Committee can recommend the construction of
the Oakland-Orion Airport as called for in said report;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Board authorize 1 the
County Airport Committee to make application to the Federal Aviation
Administration through the Michigan Aeronautics Commission for matching
grants to construct an east-west runway at the Oakland-Orion Airport
in accordance with Phase 1-A of the August 6, 1970 engineering study.
Niles E. Olson
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MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Avation and Transportation
Committee, I move the adoption of the 'oregoing.resolution.
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Wallac,e'F.,--Gabler, Jr.!, ,Chairman
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Mahlon Benson, Jr.
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Thomas H. O'Donoghue
James Mathews
Moved by Gabler supported by Benson the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Powell supported by Bawden the resolution be amended by
adding, after the fifth paragraph, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this
Board of Commissioners establishes the policy to build no more than a
general aviation airport at said location and not to exceed 800 acres
at any time and that this is done in an effort to keep the faith with
the surrounding communities by urging all future county policy makers
to conform herewith".
Moved by Perinoff that the airport question be made a special order
of business at a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners, the
date for said special meeting to be set by the Chairman of this Board.
Motion withdrawn.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Mastin supported by Brennan the amendment be amended to
limit expansion of the airport to the amount of property now presently
owned by the County.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Perinoff supported by O'Brien that the airport question be
postponed until October 5, 1970 at 7:30 P. M. at a special meeting of
the Board.
A sufficient ,majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
• 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 #5481 presented at the September 3,.1970 meeting of the
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Oakland County Board of Commissioners
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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, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan -
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Lynn D. Allen.,
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