HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2013.11.13 - 21097REPORT November 13, 2013
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Christine Long, Chairperson
RE: MR #13266 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS -SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILLS 495,496,
497 TO CREATE THE PAUL HARVEY TRANSPARENCY ACT AND PREVENTION OFSTATE UNFUNDED MANDATES ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having considered the above-titled resolution on
November 4, 2013 hereby recommends that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the acceptance ofthe
foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Hatchett absent.
Miscellaneous Resolution #13266
BY: Commissioners Shelley Goodman Taub, District 12 and Michael Spisz, District 3
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILLS 495, 496 AND 497TO CREATE THE PAUL HARVEY TRANSPARENCY ACT AND PREVENTION OF
STATE UNFUNDED MANDATES ON LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the 2009 the Legislative Commission on Unfunded Mandates estimated that local
governmental units provide more than $2.5 billion to the State of Michigan in measurable
services and many more that cannot be measured ; and
WHEREAS Senate Bills 495, 496 and 497 have been introduced by Senators Casperson,
Jansen, Meekhof and Robertson in cooperation with the Michigan Association of Counties to
create effective means for the prevention and transparency of potential future unfunded
mandates; and
WHEREAS this legislation would provide needed protections for local governments, including
a requirement that a fiscal note indicating the cost of the mandate be included prior to the
passage or enactment of a new law or rule, create a process to ensure that a state
appropriation be made to fund a new mandate prior to the requirement for a local government
to comply and to shift the responsibility to the State of Michigan for enforcement of rules or
laws found in violation of the Headlee Amendment; and
WHEREAS the Michigan Association of Counties has identified the top ten unfunded
mandates on county governments as:
• Court funding
• Constitutional officers at the minimum staffing levels
• Operation and maintenance of a county jail
• Youth rehabilitation, foster care and juvenile justice
• Friend of the court services
• Local public health services
• Mental health services
• Economic development programs
• Court reporting
• Solid waste planning
• Veterans relief
• County medical care facilities
and that these services put a large fiscal burden of counties; and
WHEREAS Oakland County government provides these and many other services that
frequently have been subject to unfunded mandates in the past; and
WHEREAS these unfunded mandates have limited the options and opportunities for local
innovation as well as shown a disrespect for the rights and duties of local public policy makers.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby declares their support of Senate Bills 495, 496 and 497 for the prevention of unfunded
mandates.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested
to forward copies of this adopted resolution to Governor Rick Snyder; the Oakland County
delegation to the Michigan Legislature; the Michigan Association of Counties; Senator Tom
Casperson; Senator Mark Jansen; Senator Arlan Meekhof; Senator Dave Robertson and the
Oakland County legislative lobbyists.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the
Shelley District 12 Michael Spisz,
foregoing Resolution.
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Resolution #13266 October2, 2013
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.
Resolution #13266 November 13, 2013
Moved by Crawford supported by Jackson (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended Consent Agenda
be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Dwyer, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis,
McGillivray, Middleton, Runestad, Scott, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bosnic, Crawford, (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, 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 November 13,
2013, 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 13,hday of November 2013.
DOES NOT REQUIRE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ACTION
Lisa Brown. Oakland County