HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1968.06.24 - 18930Miscellaneous Resolution 4897 June 24, 1968
BY: Mr. Oldenburg
IN RE: ANNUAL REPORT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with Section 4 of Rule XII of the By-Laws, your Buildings and Grounds
Committee has made its annual inspection of County-owned buildings and grounds.
Your Committee is pleased to report it found the buildings and grounds satisfactorily
maintained, clean and repaired; and, in view of the age of some of the older facilities, the
conditions speak well of the program carried out by the Board of Auditors' Facilities and
Operations Divisions.
All apparent minor deficiencies that exist today are planned for correction through
funds in the 1968 budget and the 1969 tentative budget.
This year your Committee has had a booklet prepared by the Board of Auditors'
Department of Facilities and Operations, to present pictorially and by brief comment the
current buildings and grounds conditions, some of the accomplishments during the past year,
and some of the needs presently under consideration.
Of special note, construction of the new South Oakland County Health Center in
Southfield was completed last July, and the first employees moved into the new East Wing of
the Court House in April of this year. These two facilities add more floor area to the County
buildings to better meet the public service needs of a rapidly growing County. During this
past year 127 acres has been purchased adjacent to the west boundaries of the Service Center
to provide expansion space for the long range growth of future County services.
Your Committee has under consideration, this year, the buildings and grounds capital
protects recommended by the Board of Auditors in their 1968 Capital Program, Plans for the
new Law Enforcement-Jail Complex will be complete and ready for bidding this early fall; the
written building program of needs has been presented by the Board or Auditors for construction
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of a new Service Building to replace the inadequate facilities used by the Drain Office,
Department of Public Works, and the Department of Facilities and Operations; and the
Committee has approved a proposal to construct a new 4-H Activities Center. In addition
to these major projects, the Service Center eletrical, water, sewer, and lightning
protection systems are being improved, and a new parking lot is under construction at the
Sanatorium and the Market.
During 1969 the offices at #1 Lafayette Street will be vacated by the County and
the building will be turned over to the City of Pontiac. The departments which are located
at #1 Lafayette Street are being relocated to the Court House, East Wing, and to the former
Oakland Schools' Board of Education Building.
Your Committee reports a busy year and expects even busier years ahead to provide
an adequate physical plant to house our modern and growing County services.
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, I move that the
foregoing report be received and placed on file.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE