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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1988.01.21 - 17432January 21, 1988 Miscellaneous Resolution # 88G06 BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson RE: (SUPPORT) PROVISION OF NECESSARY FUNDING TO CARRY OUT THE WORK OF LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING DISTRICTS (TITLE ITT) TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS, the Title III, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 is aimed at assisting communities to meet their responsibilities with regard to potential chemical emergencies; and WHEREAS, this Act specifically is designed to increase the public's know- ledge of and access to information relating to the presence of hazardous chemicals in the community and the effect that release of these chemicals into the environ- ment may have; and WHEREAS, the State Community Planning and Right-to-Know Commission has designated each Michigan county as a Local Emergency Planning District and is appointing local emergency planning committees for each district to establish rules and give public notice of its activities; and WHEREAS, Oakland County's Local Emergency. Planning Committee has been activated and supports the statewide effort to obtain necessary funding for the Title III program. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners take a position urging state and federal legislators to provide the needed funding to carry out this program. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to the Michigan Association of Counties (MAC) and to the National Association of Counties (NACo). Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE 21st day of 7 ) January 1 9 88 County Clerk/Register of Deeds ALLEN RESOLUTION # 88006 January 21, 1988 Moved by Skarritt supported by McDonald the resolution be adopted. AYES: Luxon, McConnell, McDonald, A. McPherson, R. McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron, Bishop, Calandro, Crake, Doyon, Gosling, Jensen, R. Kuhn, Lanni, Law. (22) 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 this Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at their meeting held on January 21, 1988 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 this