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Misc. Resolution
Recommended by the Board of Public Works
IN RE: FARMINGTON SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
The following resolution was offered by Mr. Thatcher:
WHEREAS, this Board of Supervisors by Misc. Resolution
3341 adopted on January 24, 1958, as amended by Misc. Resolution
3494 adopted on February 24, 1959, has authorized the issuance of
$5,748,000 of "Oakland County Sewage Disposal Bonds - Farmington
System" to be dated April 1, 1959, in anticipation of the collec-
tion of amounts to became due under a certain contract dated
November 1, 1957, as amended by contracts dated December 22, 1955
and February 9, 1959, between the County of Oakland and the
Township of Farmington, Township of West Bloomfield, City of
Southfield (whose territory was formerly a part of the Township
of Southfield) and the City of Keego Harbor, whereby the county
agreed to construct, finance and operate the Farmington Sewage
Disposal System and the said cities and townships agreed to pay
to the county the cost of said system estimated at $5,748,000
in thirty annual installments with interest, as therein provided;
and
WHEREAS, Section 12 of Act 185, Public Acts of 1957
(County Public Works Act) has been amended by Act 34, Public
Acts of 1959, by adding thereto the following language:
"The foregoing tax requirements when
applied to a township shall be subject to
any constitutional tax limitation or any
lawful increase thereof. Any township may
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agree to raise all or any part of its contract
obligation to the county by any one or more of
the foregoing methods. Any contract heretofore
entered into which complies with the provisions
of this section, as amended, is hereby validated.
which language has been added for the purpose of meeting the
objections to said Section 12 as expressed by four of the eight
Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court; and
WHEREAS, said contract of November 1, 1957, as amended,
conforms with the provisions of said Section 12, as amended by
said Act 34, Public Acts of 1959, and therefore is validated by
the above quoted language added to said Section 12.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors
of Oakland County, Michigan, as follows:
1. That this Board does hereby acquiesce in the action
of the legislature of the State of Michigan in the validation of
said contract of November 1, 1957, as amended.
2. That the said Misc. Resolution 3341, as amended by
Misc. Resolution 3494, authorizing the issuance of said $5,748,000
of "Oakland County Sewage Disposal Bonds - Farmington System"
be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and readopted.
Mr. Thatcher moved the adoption of the foregoing
Webber resolution. The motion was supported by Mr.
On roll call the motion was adopted by the following vote:
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Mize— 3528
Yeas: Allerton, :2.1ward, Sender, Bonner, Calhoun, Carey, Castle, Cheyz, Christensen,
Clack, Clark, Clawson, Cummings, Davis, Dohany, .7 . W. Duncan, R. Duncan, Elliott,
Swart, Fouts, Fold, Goodspeed, Hall, Hamdin, Hezck, Hildebrandt, F11, Hoard,
Hocking, Holmes, Forkey, Horton, Huber, Hudson, Hursfall, ingre .!tam, Johnson,
Kelley, Kephart, Knowles, Levinson, Lewis, Lilly, MacDonald, Majer, McCartney,
McGovern, McPherson, Menzies, Clarence Miller„Mitchell, OfOoncghue, Oldenburg,
cIlinlan, Ransom, Remer, Rhihevault, Romer, Schock, F. Smith, W. Smith,
Bailey, Staman, Stevens, Swanson, Taylor, Thatcher, They, Tinsman, Voll,
Webber, Yockey. (74)
Nays : None )