HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1990.09.13 - 18341Miscellaneous Resolution # 90221 September 13, 1990
By: Larry P. Crake, Chairperson
Planning and Building Committee
In re: Establishment of Oakland County Solid Waste
Management System
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies ana Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, pursuant Act 186 of the Michigan Public
Acts of 1989 ("Act 186"), the Board of Commissioners of the
County of Oakland (the "County"), by resolution adopted on
June 14, 1990, has established a Department of Solid Waste
Management; and
WHEREAS, a county that establishes a department of
solid waste management is authorized under Act 186 to
acquire, construct, operate and maintain a solid waste
system, which is defined in Act 186 to include all plants,
works, instrumentalities, properties, rights, processes and
contracts used or useful in connection with the collection,
transportation, recycling, processing, storing or disposing
by treatment, incineration or otherwise, of solid waste, or
as may be provided in a solid waste management plan or
update of a solid waste management plan approved for a
county pursuant to Act 641, Michigan Public Acts of 1978, as
amended ("Act 641");
WHEREAS, by separate resolutions adopted on June
28, 1990, the Board of Commissioners approved (i) the update
of the Oakland County Solid Waste Management Plan (as
amended or updated from time to time pursuant to Act 641,
the "Act 641 Plan") and (ii) a form of Intergovernmental
Agreement for Solid Waste Processing and Disposal Services
(the "IGA") between the County and participating local units
of government in the County, which IGA contemplates the
establishment by the County of a solid waste system for the
purpose of acquiring and providing processing and disposal
facilities and services for the processing and disposal of
certain solid wastes and recyclable materials for the
benefit of, and to protect the public health and welfare of
the people of, such local units of government; and
WHEREAS, the proposed solid waste system will
consist of a combination of mass burn energy generating
incinerators ("WTE's"), recycling facilities, composting
facilities, sanitary landfills and possibly transfer
stations, which shall be owned by the County and operated by
the County or by private vendors pursuant to operating
contracts with the County or which shall be made available
to the County by contract or lease; and
WHEREAS, the construction, financing, operation and
maintenance of the solid waste system facilities to serve
participating local units of government will protect the
public health and welfare of citizens of the County of
Oakland.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF OAKLAND, as follows:
1. The Board of Commissioners of the County of
Oakland, by a majority vote of its members elect, hereby
authorizes and directs that there by established, maintained
and operated under the provisions of Act 186 and any other
applicable acts a solid waste system for the processing and
disposing of recyclable materials and solid waste for the
benefit of participating local units of government in the
County that elect to sign the IGA, said system to consist of
all rights, processes, contracts, equipment, sanitary land-
fills, transfer stations, recycling facilities, composting
facilities and any WTE's that are acquired, constructed or
operated, or are to be acquired, constructed or operated, by
or on behalf of, or available by contract or lease with, the
County in accordance with the Act 641 Plan.
rry y Crake, Chairperson
Planning and Building Committee
2. The solid waste system shall be known as the
"Oakland County Solid Waste Management System."
3. All resolutions and parts of resolutions
insofar as the same may be in conflict herewith are hereby
rescinded.
MR. CHAIRPERSON, on behalf of the Planning and
Building Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
i aniel T. Murphy,fCourfty Exerutivei Date
OVE THE F OING RESOLUTION OR4
Mis.c. Resolution # 90221 September 13, 1990
Moved by Crake supported by Pernick the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Olsen supported by Rewold tie resolution be amended in the
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS paragraph, under
#1. -the middle of the paragraph after "solid waste for the benefit of
participating local units of government in the County" add "providing a sufficient
number of local units of government", elect to sign the IGA
AYES: Law, McConnell, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen, Pappageorge, Pernick,
Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Crake, Gosling, Huntoon, Jensen,
Johnson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn. (21)
NAYS: McPherson. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution as amended:
AYES: McConnell, Moffitt, Oaks, Olsen, Pappageorge, Pernick, Price,
Rewold, Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Crake, Gosling, Huntoon, Jensen,
Johnson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Law. (21)
NAYS: McPherson. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended, was
adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing
resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners on September 13, 1990
with the original record thereof flow remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affi30 the seal of the County
of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 13th day or..) S9.,temb_er7,-.117g 19gQ_
1-Yr1111. Allen, County Clerk