HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.09.14 - 17185September 14, 1989 Miscellaneous Resolution 89236
BY: Planning and Building Committee-Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
IN RE: PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF STYROFOAM PRODUCTS BY COUNTY
DEPARTMENTS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies- and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland is actively engaged in the
development and management of solid waste disposal; and
WHEREAS, in order to avert a crisis in solid waste, not only
must the County develop a solid waste disposal system, it must also
educate and promote citizen awareness of how to protect our environment
and conserve our limited natural resources; and
WHEREAS, the suggested update to the 641 Solid Waste
Management Plan and the Report adopted by the Solid Waste Task Force
both call for 50% recycling of waste; and
WHEREAS, to that end a recycling program has been initiated
within the governmental departments of the County; and
VaIEREAS, in a continuation of such educational promotion and
conservation, the use of non-recyclable and non-biodegradable products
must be limited
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of
Commissioners does hereby institute a policy to prohibit the purchasing of
styrofoam products by the departments of Oakland County government and
does direct that the County Executive instruct the Director of Management
and Budget to have the Purchasing Department develop a policy for
submission to, and approval of, the Board of Commissioners which limits
the use of colored paper; use of 81 x 14 paper; and prohibits the
purchase of styrofoam and non-biodegradable„ non-recyclable and kindred
products wherever an environmentally safer substitute can be obtained.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building
Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
BUILDING COMMITTEE
Resolution # 89236 September 14, 1989
this 14th '<Jay of September 1989
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LYNN" ALLEN, County Clerk/Register of D
Moved by Hobart supported by Pappageorge the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McConnell, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen, Pappageorge,
Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Calandra, Chester,
Crake, Ferrens, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, Johnson, R. Kuhn, Law, Luxon. (26)
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 and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the attached
resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at their regular
meeting held Ph_ September 14, 1989
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