HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.09.14 - 17176MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION g September 14, 1989
CHAIRPERSON BY: PUBLIC SERVICES COMITTEE,,RICHARD D. KUHN JR.,
IN RE: VETERANS' SERVICES DIVISION - ELIMINATION OF CURRENT MAXIMUM FEE
STRUCTURE FOR VETERANS' GRAVE MARKERS -
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs furnishes a
burial headstone for Veterans upon their devise; and
WHEREAS Public Act 235 of 1911 requires that counties pay toward the
burial expenses and cause the markers to be set for indigent wartime
veterans; and
WHEREAS by Miscellaneous Resolution #5117 of July 1, 1969, the Oakland
County Board of Supervisors set the payment of marker setting at $45; and
WHEREAS Corporation Counsel has reviewed this matter and has
determined that payment of actual cost is the intention of Public Act 235
of 1911; and
WHEREAS because of the limited payment established twenty years age,
there are indigent wartime veterans gravesites which are unmarked for laCk
of funds to pay the cemeteries to set these markers; and
WHEREAS the cost to set a marker ranges from $35 to $175; and
WHEREAS given this present range of marker costs; there are sufficient
funds in the Veterans' Services Division budget to pay the actual marker
setting fees for 1989.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners remove the current maximum fee structure for setting
indigent wartime veterans grave markers and pay the actual cost of causing
the markers to be placed.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Public Services Committee .
ROLL CALL -
Motion carried unanimously with Olsen and Luxon -absent.'
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