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Miscellaneous Resolution # 92164 July 23, 1992
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE -
Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
RE: (SUPPORT) EFFORT TO LOCATE U. S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT FACILITY
IN DETROIT
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the U. S. Department of Defense will establish three
major office complexes next year and is accepting proposals from
some 125 competing cities throughout the nation; and
WHEREAS the three Department of Defense office facilities,
each expected to create up to 7,000 new jobs, will be selected next
spring; and
WHEREAS Detroit has submitted a proposal to use the vacant
downtown Hudson's building as a Defense Department complex and has
certified that this structure meets all Department of Defense
specifications; and
WHEREAS virtually all Detroit area business and political
leaders are supporting the effort to obtain a Department of Defense
office complex for downtown Detroit and Governor Engler has
endorsed the proposal.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners takes a position supporting the Detroit proposal.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to the following: Governor Engler, Southeast Michigan Council of
Governments (SEMCOG), Michigan Association of Counties (MAC), City
of Detroit, Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce, Wayne County Board
of Commissioners, Macomb County Board of Commissioners and the
Oakland County Congressional delegation.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government
Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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July 23, 1992 Resolution # 92164
Moved by Skarritt supported by Ferrens the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Oaks, Obrecht, Olsen, Palmer, Pappageorge, Pernick, Price, Schmid, Serra,
Skarritt, Wolf, Aaron, Bishop, Caddell, Gosling, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Krause, Law,
McConnell, McCulloch, McPherson, Millard. (24)
NAYS: Crake. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
• STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing
resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners on July 23, 1992
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County
of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 23rd . day of-) July ...;+ -199_?
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