HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1988.04.28 - 17470April 28, 1988 Miscellaneous Resolution # P8091
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
RE: URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION (UMTA)-SUPPORT
KEEPING THE FISCAL YEAR 1989 FEDERAL MASS TRANSIT BUDGET AT
THE FISCAL YEAR 1988 LEVEL
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Congressional committees are now reviewing the
administration's proposed Fiscal Year 1989 budget which calls for a 53
percent cut in the budget of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration
(UMTA); and
WHEREAS UMTA is the agency through which the Southeastern Michigan
Transportation Authority (SEMT A ) and the Detroit Department of
Transportation (D-DOT) receive their federal capital and operating funding;
and
WHEREAS this budget reduction proposal would eliminate operating
assistance entirely for cities and regions with populations in excess of
200,000, resulting in a $7.8 million cut in SEMTA's Fiscal Year 1989 budget
and a $14.5 million reduction in D -DOT's funding for Fiscal Year 1989; and
WHEREAS if the proposed Fiscal Year 1989 budget were to pass as is,
SEMTA would have two options; drastically reduce or discontinue services;
and
WHEREAS severely cutting back or eliminating transit service would be
a severe hardship to those who totally depend on it and every effort must
be made to prevent this from happening.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners immediately contact United States Representatives and Senators
urging that the 1989 Fiscal Year mass transit budget remain at the 1988
Fiscal Year level.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to
members of the Michigan Congressional Delegation.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
REPORT
TO: General Government Committee, Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
FROM: Transportation Committee, John J. McDonald, Chairperson
RE: FEDERAL CUTBACKS IN SEMTA BUDGET
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Transportation Committee, having reviewed the communication
on the above referenced topic, reports with the recommendation
that the General Government Committee draft a resolution urging
that the Fiscal Year 1989 Federal Mass Transit budget remain
at the fiscal year 1988 level.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Transportation Committee,
I submit the foregoing report.
Transportation Committee
RESOLUTION # 88091 April 28, 1988
LYNI/t ALLLN, y Clerk/Re9ister of De
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Moved by .Skarritt supported by Hobart the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted .therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Skarritt supported by Hobart the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Law, Luxon, McConnell, McDonald, A. McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks,
Pernick, Price, Rewold, Rowland, Skarritt, Aaron, Bishbp, Caddell, Calandra Crake,
Doyon, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn. (23)
NAYS: Page, Lanni. (2)
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 which was adopted by the -Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on April 28, 1988
with the original record thereof row remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testirx)ny Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 28th 'day of April 1D8 8