HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.05.28 - 17803May 28, 1987
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION NO. 87141
By: G. William Caddell, Commissioner District #25
IN RE: Drain Office - ESTABLISHMENT OF DRAIN MAINTENANCE FUND
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, prior to 1956 more than 150 county drains were
established and constructed in Oakland County under the
provisions of the Michigan Drain Code, and
WHEREAS, many of these existing drains were constructed
to serve agricultural lands and now provide storm drainage for
residential and commercial real property, and
WHEREAS, many of these drains are now inadequate to
provide storm drainage for the real property they serve due to
increased runoff as urban development has occurred, and
WHEREAS, surplus construction funds remaining after
completion of drainage projects built under the provisions of
Chapter 20 of the Michigan Drain Code have been apportioned to
separate accounts to the credit of the County of Oakland, against
which a portion of the cost of these drains was assessed in prior
years, as provided by Act 165 of the Public Acts of 1984, MCL
280.499, and
WHEREAS, the surplus construction funds apportioned to
the County of Oakland under the provisions of Act 165 of 1984 may
be used to alleviate drainage problems in the County of Oakland,
and
WHEREAS, the creation of a Drain Maintenance Fund, to
be established with the said surplus construction funds, would
permit the County of Oakland to repair and maintain existing
county drains established prior to 1956 to alleviate drainage
problems in those drainage districts, and
WHEREAS, to maximize the benefits to be received from
the establishment of a Drain Maintenance Fund, only the interest
earnings from the Drain Maintenance Fund shall be used for the
repair and maintenance of existing county drains, with the
principal balance of the Fund to be preserved as a trust fund to
be used only to alleviate drainage problems in established county
drains in the County of Oakland, and
WHEREAS, the establishment of a Drain Maintenance Fund
to alleviate drainage problems in existing county drains would
improve the surface water drainage in the affected drainage
districts to the benefit of the County of Oakland;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of
Commissioners of the County of Oakland does hereby direct,
pursuant to Act 165 of 1984, that surplus construction funds
which have been apportioned or shall be apportioned in the future
to the credit of the County of Oakland be deposited in a Drain
Maintenance Fund, that said Drain Maintenance Fund be established
as a permanent trust fund for the purpose of alleviating drainage
problems in existing Oakland County drainage districts, and that
interest earnings from the Drain Maintenance Fund shall be
expended as herein provided for repair and maintenance costs, to
alleviate drainage problems in said county drains.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Drain Commissioner
shall annually, or more frequently if appropriate, report to the
Planning and Building Committee with recommendations to expend
funds from the Drain Maintenance Fund to alleviate drainage
problems in county drains, and that if the Planning and Building
Committee shall concur in the recommendation, the Drain
Commissioner shall request the Finance Committee to authorize the
expenditure from the Drain Maintenance Fund.
REPORT
By: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE—Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
In Re: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #87141, DRAIN OFFICE--ESTABLISHMENT
OF DRAIN MAINTENANCE FUND
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
The Planning and Building Committee, having reviewed the above-
referenced item, reports in support of the concept and recommends forwarding
the matter to the Finance Committee to scrutinize the resolution.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee,
I move the acceptance of the foregoing report.
Planning and Building Committee