HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.09.03 - 17920MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 87201 August 13, 1987
BY: PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE, Richard D. Kuhn, Jr . , Chairperson
IN RE: CIRCUIT COURT/FRIEND OF THE COURT - APPROPRIATION TO
IMPLEMENT PUBLIC ACT 97
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen :
WHEREAS 1987 Public Act 97 provides that a support payment
due under a domestic relations support order is a judgment on and
after the date each support payment is due. Such orders are not
subject to retroactive modification on and after the date they are due ;
and
WHEREAS Subsection 3 (3 ) of the Act allows payment to be
modified retroactively but only from the date that notice of the petition
for modification was given to the payer or recipient of support ; and
WHEREAS Subsection 3 ( 5) ( a) of the Act provides that the Friend
of the Court must, by October 2, 1987, mail notice to each payer z.-tad
recipient of support, informing them of the changes in the law as set
forth above; and
WHEREAS Subsection 3 (5 ) (b ) of the Act further provides that the
Friend of the Court must, by October 2, 1987, publish notice in at least
one general circulation newspaper in the judicial circuit, informing
payers and recipients of support of these changes ; and
WHEREAS the notification requirements will cost Ten Thousand
Three Hundred Forty-Five Dollars ($10,345), expenditures not anticipated
in the Circuit Court/ Friend of the Court 1987 Budget request.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners does hereby authorize the appropriation of Ten
Thousand Three Hundred Forty-Five Dollars ( $10 , 345 ) needed to
effectuate compliance with the notification requirements of 1987 Public
Act 97 and recommends that said amount be appropriated to the Circuit
Court/Friend of the Court Budget.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE
ITTEE
FISCAL NOTE
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDLML, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: CIRCUIT COURT/FRIEND OF THE COURT - APPROPRIATION TO IMPLEMENT
2ELI PUBLIC ACT 97 - MIS OUS RESOLUTION #87201
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule XI-G of this Board, the Finance Committee has
reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution #87201 and finds:
1) Public Act 97 of 1987 provides a change in the law regarding
support payments.
2) Sections 3 (5)(a) and 3 (5)(b) of the Act requires the Friend of
the Court, by October 2, 1987, notify each payer and recipient of
support of the changes in the law through the mail and published
notice in at least one (1) general circulation newspaper.
3) These notification requirements will cost $10,345, the
expenditure not anticipated in the 1987 Budget, however
sufficient funds exist in the 1987 Contingency Account to cover
the cost.
4) $10,345 available in the 1987 Contingency Account and recommends
the transfer of said amount to the 1987 Friend of the Court
Budget as specified below:
1-10100-909-01-00-9900 Contingency $(10,345)
4-21500-312-01-00-3528 FCC - Miscellaneous 10,345
$ -0-
LLEN
#87201
September 3, 1987
Moved by Richard Kuhn supported by Jensen the resolution, with a positive
Fiscal Note attached, be adopted.
AYES: Rewold, Rowland, Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Crake,
Doyon, Gosling, Hobart, Jensen, Richard Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald,
Angus McPherson, Moffitt, Nelson, Page, Pernick, Price. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, with a positive
Fiscal Note attached, 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 meetin• held on Seetemb.er 3 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 3rd day of / ) September 19 87
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
#87201
August 13, 1987
Moved by Richard Kuhn supported by Moffitt the resolution be adopted.
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee. There
were no objections.