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Miscellaneous Resolution # 84081 March 22, 1984
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: SUPPORT OF MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES' POSITION
OPPOSITION TO SENATE BILLS 402-405 INCLUSIVE,
TIE PROSECUTOR'S SALARY TO CIRCUIT JUDGES' SALARIES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Senate Bills 402 through 405 would place the salaries of
full-time Prosecuting Attorneys at the same level as Circuit Court Judges; and
WHEREAS, County Boards of Commissioners under present statutes have
the authority to set Prosecutors' salaries but would lose that responsibility if this
package of bills were enacted; and
WHEREAS, these bills if passed would raise the Oakland County
Prosecutor's salary $8,293, from $59,787 to the Circuit Judge rate of $68,080; and
WHEREAS, Prosecutors' salaries, as proposed in this package of bills,
would become tie-barred to Supreme Court Justice compensation on a percentage
basis just as all judicial salaries are now and, henceforth, pay raises for
Prosecutors and Circuit Judges would be identical; and
WHEREAS, while the salaries of Prosecutors and Circuit Judges would
rise in tandem, the state would continue paying a supplement to the judicial
salary but the county would have to fund the entire salary of the Prosecutor; and
WHEREAS, legislation of this type, if enacted, might be the first step
toward centralization of local government in Lansing with the Legislature fixing
salaries for Sheriffs, Clerks, Treasurers and Drain Commissioners.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners opposes Senate Bills 402-405 inclusive.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to all Legislators from 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
- , Nancy McConnell, Vice Chairperson
22nd day of rch 1984
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
March 22, 1984
Moved by McConnell supported by Gosling the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron,
Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hobart. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
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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 adopted bv_kilLLwmiQawIMAa&gd.pf Commissioners at
their meeting held on March 22 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
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