HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1988.05.12 - 17575Miscellaneous Resolution # 88129 May 12, 1988
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-Richard G Skarritt, Chairperson
RE: SEMCOG-URGE THE STATE TO RESTORE DIRECT FUNDING FOR REGIONAL
PLANNING AGENCIES, MINIMALLY AT $500,000, IN THE STATE BUDGET
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS regional planning and development organizations in Michigan,
including SEMCOG, perform valuable comprehensive planning,
intergovernmental coordination and technical assistance services for local
government as well as state and federal agencies located within the state; and
WHEREAS due to other budget priorities of the Michigan Department of
Commerce, the proposed Michigan budget for fiscal year 1989 removes all of
the State General Fund monies previously allocated to the State Regional
Planning Grant Program ; and
WHEREAS in recent years, except for the current fiscal year, SEMCOG
has received approximately $100,000 of an annual state appropriation of
$500,000 which is shared by 14 regions across the state; and
WHEREAS this total appropriation was reduced to $350,000 in the
current year budget with SEMCOG receiving a proportionate reduction in its
share ; and
WHEREAS the diminished state support in the current budget forced
some reduction in regional planning program activity and made it clear that,
in order to perform their function properly, SENICOG and the other regional
planning agencies require minimum state funding of $500,000 annually.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners urges the State Legislature to restore direct funding for
regional planning agencies in the 1989 budget at a minimum of $500,000.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to all
Oakland County legislators and to the Legislative Agent.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
12th day o f May 1.98 8
ALLEN, County Clerk/Register of LYW
May 12, 1988
Resolution # 88125
Moved by Skarritt supported by Gosling the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Hobart, Jensen, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, McConnell,A. McPherson, Moffitt,
Page, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Calandro, Crake,
Doyon, Gosling. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution g 88129 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on May 12, 1988
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 Test irony Whereof, I. have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
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