HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1960.01.18 - 19234Miscellaneous Resolution No.
By: Mr Urton
In Re: County Water System
Recommended by Board of Public Works
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the purpose for creation of the Department of Public Works under
Act Na. 185 of the Public Acts of 1957 was to provide facilities and render services
throughout the county when one or more units of government were unable to provide
such facilities and render such services or when one or more units of government
desired to have facilities provided and services rendered by such department for
the benefit of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the Township Board of West Bloomfield Township feel it is in the best
interest of the citizens to have certain water systems operated by the Oakland
County Department of Public Works, and
WHEREAS, Section 9, Chapter 1, of Act No. 185 of the Public Acts of 1957
requires that the consent of the municipality must be obtained prior to the furnishing
of such service to individual users within the municipality, and
WHEREAS, the Township Board of West Bloomfield Township, by official
resolution of said Board passed on July 15, 1959 has given its consent to the
County of Oakland, by and through its Department of Public Works, to operate a
water system, and to serve individual users within Knollwood Heights Subdivision
of said Township, and
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works has made a comprehensive study
and report on the described system, and
WHEREAS, said report has been duly considered by the Board of Public Works
and i.t is recommended to this Board of Supervisors that said system be established
as County system under the Department of Public Works, and
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WHEREAS, the service can be rendered to the areas involved with no financial
obligations to the county since all costs connected with the operation and maintenance
will be borne by the individual users of said system,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors of Oakland
County, upon recommendation of its Board of Public Works does hereby establish
the water system constructed now or in the future in Knollwood Heights Subdivision
as a county water system to be known as the Oakland County Water System, within
the Township of West Bloomfield, under the Board of Public Works as provided for
in Act No. 185 of the Public Acts of 1957, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized
to take any and all necessary steps to acquire, operate and maintain said system
pursuant to the provisions of said Act No. 185.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all costs in connection with the operation
and maintenance of said system shall be borne by revenues from same.
Mr. Chairman„ I move the adoption of this resolution.
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