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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.12.10 - 17894MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION NO. 87342 December 10, 1987 BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE, ANNE M. HOBART, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: DRAIN COMMISSIONER - ALLOCATION OF SURPLUS CONSTRUCTION FUNDS TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners adopted Miscellaneous Resolution No. 87235 on September 17, 1987; and WHEREAS, Miscellaneous Resolution No. 87235 provides that the Drain Commissioner shall be requested to use the balance of surplus construction funds available under the provisions of Public Act No. 165 of 1984 for future special assessments against Oakland County adopted by Chapter 20 Drainage Districts in 1987 and 1988; and WHEREAS, the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain, a County drain established under the provisions of the Michigan Drain Code in 1949 and located in the City of Pontiac and the Township of Waterford in Oakland County requires substantial work to clean out the drain to alleviate serious drainage problems which exist in the City of Pontiac, the Township of Waterford, and particularly on real pro- perty within those two municipalities which is part of the Oakland County Service Center; and WHEREAS, the improvements by the Michigan Department of Transportation to Dixie Highway in the City of Pontiac and the Township of Waterford will increase the flow of storm water to the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain, and make a project to clean out the existing drain necessary so that adequate drainage can be provided to the lands in the City of Pontiac and the Township of Waterford, including land within the Oakland County Service Center, which is tributary to the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain; and WHEREAS, the Michigan Department of Transportation is willing to contribute $72,250 to the cost of cleaning out the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain so that road drainage from the Dixie Highway improvement project can be assured, on the condition that the County of Oakland will similarly contribute the sum of $72,250 to the cost of cleaning out the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain; and :a10 WHEREAS, the Township of Waterford has agreed to provide $18,305.61, and the City of Pontiac has agreed to provide $16,209.81 towards the cost of cleaning out the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain; and WHEREAS, funds are available in the amount of $72,250 from the balance of surplus construction funds identified in Miscellaneous Resolution 87235 to fund this amount as a contribution from Oakland County for the cost of cleaning out the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Commis- sioners of the County of Oakland does hereby request that the Oakland County Drain Commissioner, as Chairman of the Oakland County Drainage Boards, transfer surplus construction funds in the amount of $72,250 to the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain in conjunction with contributions from the Michigan Department of Transportation, the Township of Waterford, and the City of Pontiac to finance the cost of cleaning out the Pontiac Creek Extension Drain. Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson I liEP'77,';" APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION 10th day of / ) December 1987 ALLEN Clerk/Register of Deeds Coun RESOLUTION # 87342 December 10, 1987 Moved by Hobart supported by Wilcox the resolution be adopted. AYES: Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Calandra, Crake, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, Luxon, McConnell, McDonald, A. McPherson, R. McPherson, Moffitt, Oaks, Page, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Rowland, Skarritt, Wilcox. (26) 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 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at their meeting held on December 10, 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 this