HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2012.10.18 - 20557MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #12254 October 18, 2012
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, THOMAS MIDDLETON, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET — 2012 APPORTIONMENT OF
LOCAL TAX RATES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Finance Committee on Local Taxes has examined certificates, statements, papers
and records submitted to it from the various townships, cities and villages having taxes to be spread upon
the Tax Rolls, and has checked these documents with the pertinent laws, specifically Section 37 General
Property Tax Laws, and has caused corrections to be made where necessary; and
WHEREAS the committee has prepared tax certificates showing the certified rates as adjusted by
M.C.L. 211.34, M.C.L. 211.34d, M.C.L. 211.24e and M.C.L. 211.34e of the General Property Tax Laws,
authorized to be spread against state taxable valuations, which certificates are submitted herewith, and
which are the basis for the tabulation above mentioned, and it is recommended that the Board of
Commissioners authorize the Equalization Director to sign these certificates; and
WHEREAS the electorate of the State of Michigan amended Article IX of the constitution and
added Section 36; and
WHEREAS the legislature, as directed, implemented said legislation under Section 37 of the
General Property Tax Act and the 1976 State School Code, as amended; and
WHEREAS the certified rates are subject to M.C.L. 211.36 which allows additional millage to be
voted up to and including December 7, 2012 for schools and, if adopted, up to and including November 6,
2012 for taxing jurisdictions, as specified in said section; said additional millage(s) would require Board
approval before they could be spread; and
WHEREAS the electorate of the State of Michigan voted to limit school operating levies on
homestead and non-homestead property taxes in accordance with this report.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
adopt the attached certificates with the recommendations herein contained as part of the permanent
records of the Board.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Equalization Director be authorized and directed to sign
the several tax certificates on which the attached tabulation was based, thereby authorizing and directing
the various assessing officers to spread the rates against the taxable valuation set forth herein for 2012.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Woodward, Runestad and Quarles absent.
Resolution #12254 October 18, 2012
Moved by Weipert supported by Quarles the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Dwyer, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis,
McGillivray, Middleton, Potts, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Bosnic,
Crawford. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
I HEREBY APP. OVETIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45,559A (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Bill Bullard Jr., 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 October
18, 2012, 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 18th day of October, 2012.
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Bill Bullard Jr., Oakland County