HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.10.12 - 17135Miscellaneous Resolution # 89257 October 12, 1989
BY: SUPPORT NAMING M-59 BETWEEN 1-94 and 1-96 THE VIETNAM
VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY EXCEPT THE SECTION BETWEEN
UTICA AND PONTIAC
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen :
WHEREAS House Resolution 324, House Concurrent Resolution 379
and House Bill 5117 have been introduced and call for the naming of
M-59 between 1-94 and 1-96, excluding the section named Veterans
Memorial Highway between Pontiac and Utica, the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Highway; and
WHEREAS 2,594,000 Vietnam Veterans served their country with
honor and distinction ; and
WHEREAS 58,100 brave American men and women made the
ultimate sacrifice by giving their lives for their country during the
Vietnam conflict and 2,646 of the Vietnam Veterans who died in action
were from Michigan; and
WHERE AS it would be a fitting and appropriate tribute to name
state trunkline M-59 running through Macomb, Oakland and Livingston
Counties in honor of the Vietnam Veterans.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners supports the legislative package naming the major
portion of M-59 as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to all State Legislators from Oakland County, the Michigan Association
of Counties and to the County's Legislative Agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Government & Transportation
Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GOVERNMENT & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
Resolution # 89257 October 12, 1989
uiar Board leeting held on October 12, 1989
12th day of tober 1989
ALLE
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Moved by Calandro supported by Pappageorge, the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Calandro, Chester, Crake, Ferrens, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, Johnson,
R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Law, McConnell, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen,
Pappageorge, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Wolf, Bishop, Caddell. (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 Michigan,
do hereby certify that have compared the annexed copy of the attached
Miscellaneous which was adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioner r
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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