HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1989.07.20 - 17280Miscellaneous Resolution if 89178 July 20, 1989
BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE, Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS - EXPRESSION OF INTENT TO
ISSUE BONDS TO FINANCE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILTIES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Act No. 641 of the Public Acts of Michigan,
1978, as amended ("Act 641"), and resolutions adopted on August 5, 1982 and
August 28, 1982, the Board of Commissioners of the County of Oakland (the
"County") approved a Solid Waste Management Plan (the "Act 641 Plan")
providing for the disposal of all non-hazardous solid waste generated in the
County using a combination of sanitary landfills, transfer stations and
resource recovery facilities, with emphasis on the use of resource recovery
facilities and limiting the use of sanitary landfills; and
WHEREAS, as required by Act 641 and rules promulgated thereunder,
the County is presently preparing an update to the Act 641 Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners, pursuant to a resolution
adopted on March 9, 1989, authorized the County Executive and the Chairperson
of the Board of Commissioners to execute contracts on behalf of the County
with Westinghouse Electric Corporation for the design, construction,
start-up, acceptance testing, operation and maintenance of a mass-burn
resource recovery and steam and electric generating facility (the "mass-burn
resource recovery facility"), which contracts were executed on behalf of the
County by the County Executive and the Chairperson of the Board of
Commissioners as of March 20, 1989, and which contracts are contingent upon
the issuance of bonds to finance the mass-burn resource recovery facility and
other conditions precedent; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Solid Waste Task Force, in its status
report dated May 1, 1989, has recommended the implementation of an integrated
county-wide solid waste disposal system consisting of a combination of
facilities recycling, composting, resource recovery and sanitary landfill
facilities, with the possible inclusion of transfer stations and household
hazardous waste and infectious waste facilities (collectively the "System
Facilities") - with maximum reliance on the disposal methodologies of reuse,
composting, recycling and source reduction; and
WHEREAS, the recommendations of the Task Force are being
incorporated into the update of the Act 641 Plan; and
WHEREAS, the County is authorized by various provisions of law to
issue bonds and to pledge its full faith and credit with respect thereto to
finance the System Facilities and has proposed new legislation which, if
enacted, will also permit the financing of the System Facilities; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent and purpose of the Board of Commissioners
in adopting this Resolution to take official action, as required by Treas.
Reg. 1.103-8(a) (5), toward the issuance of bonds to finance one or more
mass-burn resource recovery facilities, up to two recycling (materials
recovery) facilities, one or more composting facilities, household hazardous
waste and infectious waste facilities, and one or more sanitary landfills.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE
COUNTY OF OAKLAND, as follows:
1. The County of Oakland hereby expresses its intent to issue
bonds to finance the costs of the acquisition and construction of the System
Facilities described below in connection with the implementation of the Act
641 Plan, as updated, including costs associated with the planning for such
acquisition and construction, in aggregate principal amounts not to exceed
the following:
a. A mass-burn resource recovery facility to be located
in the City of Auburn Hills, south of Brown Road and west of Giddings Road,
in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300 million;
b. Up to two recycling (materials recovery) facilities to
be located at sites to be determined in Oakland County, Michigan, in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $45 million each, or $90 million in
the aggregate;
c. One or more composting facilities to be located at
sites to be determined in Oakland County, Michigan, in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $5 million;
d. Household hazardous waste and infectious waste
facilities to be located at sites to be determined in Oakland County,
Michigan, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25 million; and
e. One or more sanitary landfills to be located at sites
to be determined in Oakland County, Michigan, in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $50 million.
2. All resolutions and parts of resolutions insofar as they
conflict with the provisions of this resolution are hereby rescinded.
Mr. Chairperson/ on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
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RESOLUTION # 89178- July 20, 1989
Moved by Hobart supported by Gosling the resolution be adopted.
Moved by McCulloch supported by Wolf the resolution be amended in the "NOW
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED" paragraph by adding the words "and professional services"
after "....Act 641 Plan, as updated, including costs". The paragraph would read:
"1. The County of Oakland hereby expresses its intent to issue bonds to
finance the costs of the acquisition and construction of the System Facilities
described below in connection with the implementation of the Act 641 Plan, as
updated, including costs and professional services associated with the planning for
such acquisition and construction, in aggregate principal amounts not to exceed the
following:"
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution as amended:
AYES: Ferrens, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, Johnson, S. Kuhn, Law, Luxon,
McConnell, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen, Pappageorge, Pernick, Price,
Rewold, Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Chester, Crake. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
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 on July 20 , 1989 with the original record thereof now remaining
on file 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 this 2Oth day of July , 1989
LIN D. ALLEN, County Clerk
Register of Deeds
Deputy Clerk