HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1970.09.17 - 16634Miscellaneous Resolution 5500 September 17, 1970
BY: George N. Grba
IN RE: REPEAL OF BO\ RD OF AUDITORS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is the desire of this Board of Commissioners to adopt County Home Rule to
modernize government and make it more responsive to the will of the electors of the
county, this is a long drawn out process that will take years. One of the main features
of Home Rule is the County Executive, an office that would separate the administrative
functions from the legislative body. The State Legislature has a County Controller
Act that embodies all the duties and functions of the Auditors Act, except the County
Controller is one officer and he is known as the Chief Accounting Officer. The County
Commissioners can abolish the Board of Auditors and replace it with the County Control le
and effect a Home Rule provision that is more desirable, because it will effect the
separation of the administration functions from the legislative functions.
Shall the three man, partisan Board of Auditors created by the voters
November 5, 1918, when the County was in a rural state of being, and the old Board
of Supervisors was composed of part-time appointments from the cities and township
supervisors, and required two organizational meetings because city members were
appointed during the spring, and township supervisors were elected during the fall;
and the supervisors were required to appoint! two partisan auditors of the majority party
and one partisan auditor by the minority party for three year terms, and a chairman
from the three each year. This same process is followed by the one man, one vote
Board of Commissioners of Oakland County The following counties, the largest in the
state, all have a Controller: Macomb, Genesee, Kent, Ingham, Saginaw, Washtenaw,
Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Jackson, Bay, Eaton and Marquette; from the Michigan County
Government Financial Report, Department of Treasury, December 31, 1969, with the
exception of Bay and Washtenaw Counties Which had their Auditors repealed by local
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act as reported in Michigan Association of Counties, Legislative Action Bulletin this
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summer. Wayne County has the elected Auditor,/the remaining nineteen largest
counties twelve counties are operating under the Controller Act.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the ballot question Repeal of the
County Board of Auditors be placed upon the November 3, 1970, General Election
ballot:
Shall the electors of Oakland County repeal the FArtical Board of Auditors -
to be replaced by a County Controller, Who shall be appointed by the elected
County Commissioners in accordance with "section 13b of Act No. 156 of the
Public Acts of 1851, being section 46.13b of the Compiled Laws of 1948 and
as amended by Public Act of 1969, No.1 49 § 1, and given immediate effect
July 17, 1969.
Shall the partisan Board of County Auditors Office be abolished?
Yes I-1
No
Moved by Grba supported bOlastin the rules be suspend:
to consider the resolution.
AYES: 11
NAYS: 15
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the motion lost