HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2014.05.15 - 21332REPORT (MISC. #I4083) May 15, 2014
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: MR #14083 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OAKLAND COUNTY
CLERK/REGISTER OF DEEDS VITAL RECORDS FEE STUDY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above referenced resolution on May
5, 2014, reports with the recommendation the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the acceptance of the
foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Gershehson absent.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION .#14083
BY: Commissioners Mike Spisz, District #3 and Mattie McKinney Hatchett, District #10
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OAKLAND COUNTY CLERK / REGISTER OF DEEDS
VITAL RECORDS FEE STUDY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Michigan Public Health Code, Public Act 358 of 1978 [MCL 333.2891(16a)]
provides that "the governing body of a local governmental unit that has jurisdiction over a local
registrar may adopt a system of fees for the local registrar that provides for fees less than or equal
to the fees set forth [by the Stater and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds' Vital Records Department is responsible
for, recording and safeguarding birth, death, marriage documents; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has a fiduciary responsibility to authorize
an appropriate level of fees for county services that ensures the full recovery of costs; and
WHEREAS in vital records fee study would be helpful in identifying the labor, materials, and
overhead costs associated with the storage, retrieval, and production of vital records that are under
the jurisdiction of the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds' Vital Records Department
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, hereby
requests and authorizes the Clerk/Register of Deeds and the County Executive's Management and
Budget office to investigate the costs associated with obtaining certified copies of vital records and
explore opportunities to reduce the costs that are passed on to Oakland County residents in the
form of fees for the retrieval of these documents.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners requests that the
results of this vital records fee study and any recommendations be submitted to the General
Government Committee within sixty (60) days of the adoption of this resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to
forward copies of this adopted resolution to the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds and
Oakland County Executive's Office of Management and Budget.
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Resolution #14083 April 17, 2014
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.
Resolution #14083 May 15, 2014
Moved by Crawford supported by McGillivray the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Dwyer, Gingell, Gosselin, Hatchett, Hoffman, Jackson, Long, Matis, McGillivray,
Middleton, Quarles, Runestad, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Bosnic, Crawford. (19)
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).
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I HEREBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
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 May 15, 2014,
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 151h day of May 2014.
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County