HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.03.25 - 17851March 26, 1987 Miscellaneous Resolution 87085
BY: James A. Doyon-County Commissioner, District #10
Hubert Price, Jr.-County Commissioner, District #8
John T. Rowland-County Commissioner, District #7
RE: SOLID WASTE-SITE SELECTION PROCESS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS members of the Planning and Building Committee participated in a
tour of waste-to-energy facilities conducted in consort with the Municipal
Solid Waste Board; and
WHEREAS the participants of this tour learned about the operation of
these facilities which had not been considered in the Oakland County site
selection process; and
WHEREAS all but one of these facilities were located in industrial-
commercial areas; and
WHEREAS the production of energy in the form of steam and electricity is
important to defray the cost of the operation; and
WHEREAS at each of the facilities that were visited the representatives
stressed the importance of future growth potential to the profitability of the
facility; and
WHEREAS it is important that the Oakland County Municipal Solid Waste
facility be located in an area that will provide for future facility and energy
growth.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners'
Planning and Building Committee re-open the site selection process for the
location of the Municipal Solid Waste Board waste-to-energy facility.
Mr. Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
AngusiMcPherson
#87085 March 26, 1987
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Planning and Building
Committee. There were no objections.