HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.05.14 - 17864Miscellaneous Resolution # 87119___
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
RE: MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES (MAC) LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE-
(SUPPORT) RECOMMENDATION THAT ACT 388 BE AMENDED RAISING
THE DOLLAR LEVEL AT WHICH CAMPAIGN REPORTING IS REQUIRED
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF' COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS under existing state law a campaign committee in its campaign state-
ment must list the names of each person who made a contribution of $20.01 or more
in connection with a campaign event; and
WHEREAS under the same law, Act 388 of the Public Acts of 1976, if a
campaign committee receives or expends more than $1,000.00 for an election, the
committee must file a campaign statement; and
WHEREAS considering the escalating campaign costs in recent years resulting
in more and more candidates for elected office being required to file campaign
statements under Act 388, it seems appropriate that the Act be amended to stem
the excessive flow of paper work and record keeping.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners recommends that the Michigan Association of Counties Legislative
Committee propose amendments to Act 388 changing the individual campaign contri-
bution reporting requirement from $20.01 to $50.01 and that the reporting waiver
requirement for a campaign committee be increased from $1,000.00 to $2,500.00.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if MAC adopts the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners' recommendations, .copies of the MAC resolution be mailed to all
members of the State Legislature, the Governor and the Secretary of State.
Mr, Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
14th day of
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
May 987
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 87119
May 14, 1987
Moved by Skarritt supported by McDonald the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Hobart, Jensen, Richard Kuhn, Susan Kuhn, Lanni, Law, Luxon, McConnell,
McDonald, Ruel McPherson, Moffitt, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Skarritt,
Calandro, Crake, Doyon, Gosling. (21)
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 ado2ted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on May 14, 1987 —
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
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