HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1969.12.18 - 19490Dece.ber 18, 1969
RESOLUTION NO
RE: REBOR ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE "1970' COUNTY LEGISLATIVE
PROGRAM
BY: LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE - Mr. O'Brien
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
MR. CHAIRMAN. LADIES & GENTLEMEN:
You Legislative Committee has considered various legisla-
tive items that were referred by denartments of the County or
and individual members of the Board of Supervisors with
requests that they be supnorted and included in the 1970 formal
Legislative Program of Oa kland County and your Committee recommends
that the following be included in the 1970 Legislative Program:
1. Remove basic amount for foster care reimbursement
from the State and nrovide reimbursement on a 50-50 basis.
(H.B. 2429-69)
28 Legislation to transfer and train ,iuyenile court
officers from the Department of Social Services to the Court
Administrator's Office. (H.B. 2716-69)
Le g islation authorizing the establis hme nt of an
autonomous State youth Authority within the Deportmw ,t of Social
Services. (S.B. 951-69)
4.
Oppose proposed Federal legislation to increase
allowable truck axle loads and truck widths on the Interstate
Highway System.
5. Amend Sec. 25G of the Michigan Property Tax Law to
permit Board of Supervisors to establish a real estate index number
system which would constitute a sufficient legal description
required by the Act.
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6. Legislation amending General Property Tax Law
to provide separate equalization factors for real and personal
property.
7. Oppose granting additional exemptions, real or
Personal, unless provisions are made for State reimbursement to
local units of government,
8. Oppose any provisions for additional probate
judges in the absence of a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors
from the Probate Bench.
9. Legislation to amend Act 293, Public Acts of
1966, Sec. 14(a) the County Home Rule Act, to provi
option of electing or appointing the Chief County Ad4TO-ft4-4-7,
10. Legislation to amend the Child Abuse Act.
Act 219 of the Public. Acts of 1967, to provide that a hospital may
detain a child for twenty-four (2)) hours if necessary for its
health and welfar- .on immediate notification to the Probate
Court and upon order of said Court.
11. Legislation to amend Section 106 of the Drain
Code to provide for assessment of Drain Revolving Fund monies
within two years instead of the present five year period.
Legislation to amend the Probate Code to provide
that the claim a„:sinst estates by a County shall have the status
of the expenditure which gave rise to the claim.
13. Legislation to permit the Department of Public
Works to o-t=rate a refuse disposal system.
Th. New legislation controlling throw-away containers.
15. Legislation to amend Act 162 of the Public
Acts or 1968 to restore power of appointment of Jury Commissioners
to the Board of Supervisors.
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16. Legislation to amend statute governing contagious
diseases to eliminate the cost responsibility of the county where
the contagious patient was found and hosottalt7ed.
17. Legislation to provide for reimbursement to counties
or Grand Jury expenses when such Grand Juries are Initiated by the
Attorney General,
islation to amend the Aeronautics Code to change
the population limitation provision from 1,00n,000 to 1,5o0,000
as it pertains to operation of airports by Road Commissions.
The following itemsJiavealready been approved by the
Board of •uperviors:
19. Road Commllsion's proposed change in the gas and
weight tax distribution formula.
The Legislation Committee reoorts the following item
without recommendation:
PO. Legislation to Amend Act 21, of the Public Acts
of 19E6, Sec, 5(a), the County Home Rule Act, to provide for the
election of the Charter Commission on a non-partisan basis.
OFV-M4'!, on behalf of the Legislative Committee.
move the adoption or the foregoing legislative items for inclusion
in the 1970 County Legislative Program and that certified conies of
this resolution be forwarded by the County Clerk to the Oakland
County members of the State Legislature requesting their coopera-
tion and support,
LFOISLATIVE COMMITTEE
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Moved by O'Brien supported by Richardson the report be adopted.
Moved by Walker supported by Gabler the question be divided, to
vote on the first eighteen items and the last three items.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Houghten supported by Gabler the report be amended by
adding a new paragraph, 19a., to provide that the State of Michigan, any
political subdivision thereof or any public utility, prior to destroying
or removing a tree greater than two inches in diameter located upon land
where the fee is held by other parties, shall give ten days notice of its
intent to destroy or remove said tree by certified mail to the owner of
record of land where such tree is located.
Motion ruled out of order.
Discussion followed.
Vote on the first eighteen items:
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Gabler supported by Wilcox the question be divided as to
the funding of Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA)
and change in the gas and weight tax distribution formula as one question
and the amendment to the County Home Rule Act as another question.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Vote on funding of SEMTA and gas and weight tax distribution formula:
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Vote on amendment to County Home Rule Act:
AYES: Bawden, Coy, Houghten, Mainland, Patnales, Perinoff, Wilcox. (7)
NAYS: Brennan, Edwards, Gabler, Grba, Horton, Kasper, Mastin, Mathews,
O'Brien, Olson, Pernick, Powell, Richards, Richardson, Szabo, Walker. (16)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the motion lost.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
(ss.
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
= Resolution #5252 presented at the December 18, 1969 meeting of
the Oakland County Board of Supervisors
with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at,.:
18th December this.. ...................day of 19.6.9,
f' ..... ........... Clerk
By..................... ....... .....Deputy Clerk