HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1991.06.13 - 18528Miscellaneous Resolution No._ 9:1129 June 13, 1991
BY: Dennis M. Aaron, County Commissioner, District 19
IN RE: Oakland County's Permanent and Annual Pledge of Financial Support
for Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART)
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Tr-County area of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties,
is one of the few metropolitan areas in the United States of America that
contributes no dedicated permanent financial support for public transit
needs, and
WHEREAS, over 70,000 households in the Tr-County area have no
access to an automobile and are effectively denied an opportunity to seek
and maintain meaningful employment in the Tr-County area, and
WHEREAS, an efficient and convenient transit system of buses
would enhance the quality of life for the elderly, the young and many
others in Oakland Couty and would reduce roadway congestion, would reduce
wear on the roads and would conserve energy use.
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that Oakland County does hereby
pledge its "fair share" of the necessary permanent funding required to
presently maintain and/or improve transit service in the Tr-County area
without increasing unnecessarily fare-box revenuns to SMART and does
hereby call upon the Counties of Wayne •and Macomb to also contribute their
"fair share" to this effort.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that should the Counties of Wayne or 'Macomb
fail to join in the effort to maintain and/or improve transit service in
the Tr-County area and should they fail to contribute their "fair share",
then the monies so appropriated from Oakland County be usecLsolely for
intra-county transit purposes in Oakland County,
De nis N. Aaron, Countiissioner-
#91129
June 13, 1991
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government
Committee and the Finance Committee. There were no objections.