HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2015.05.06 - 21841Commissioner Wade Fle
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loner Jeff Matis
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oml-nAsioner Hugh Crawford
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REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
NEW BUSINESS
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 15134
BY: Commissioner Bill Dwyer, District #14
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS'
WEEK MAY 3 - 9, 2015
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistic's information published in September 2014,
at year end 2013, 1,574,700 inmates were housed in the nation's local jails; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Corrections Divisions housed a . daily average of 1,520
inmates in 2014; and
WHEREAS last year almost 20,000 persons were admitted into the Oakland County jail facilities including
juveniles, mentally ill, persons awaiting trial, persons pending arraignment, protective custody cases,
infirm, persons awaiting transfer to State, Federal or other jurisdictions, and sentenced; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Corrections Deputies are responsible for overall inmate
supervision to ensure safe, secure and orderly facility operations, intake and release of all persons,
identification of special needs and classification of all inmates, inmate and professional visitation, inmate
transport and Court security; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Corrections Divisions are recognized as innovative,
professional and able to operate a very complex and crowded set of multiple facilities, transport and
coordinate an enormous number of inmate movements on a daily basis with a minimal number of
staff/inmate injuries or escapes; and
WHEREAS the week of May 3 — 9, 2015, has been designated as National Correctional Officers' Week.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the Oakland County Sheriff's Office Corrections Deputies
and the special contribution they make to ensure the public safety of all citizens in Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby honors all the
Corrections Deputies of the Oakland County Sheriff's Office for their unique skills and abilities and
devotion to duty and pronounce a special thanks to all those Deputies on behalf of the citizens of Oakland
County.
Chairperson, I move adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Commissioner Bill Dwyer
District #14
Commissioner Marcia Gershenson
District #13
Commissioner Shelley Taub
District #12
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Commissioner Hiblaine Zack
District #18
Commissioner Nancy Quarles
District #17
Commissioner Christine Long
District #7
Commissioner Gary McGillivfay
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Coarrrg-sioner
District #3
Commissioner John Scott
District #5
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-Co-mmissioner David B
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Commissioner Michael Gingell
District #1
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(Co`rnmt§sioner Eileenkowali
District #6
Commissioner Robert Gosselin
District #11
Commissiorfer Philip Weipert
District #8
Resolution #15134 May 6, 2015
Moved by Matis supported by McGillivray to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#15134 - Board of Commissioners - Recognition of National Correctional Officers' Week May 3 - 9, 2015.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Hoffman, Jackson, KowaII, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Scott, Spisz, Taub,
Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bowman, Crawford, Fleming, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin. (19)
NAYS: None, (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #15134 - Board of Commissioners - Recognition of National Correctional Officers' Week May
3 - 9, 2015 carried.
Moved by Matis supported by McGillivray the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Jackson, KowaII, Long, Matis, McGillivray, Middleton, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert,
Woodward, Zack, Bowman, Crawford. Fleming, Gershenson, Gingell. Gosselin, Hoffman. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
HEREBY APPPr‘i"qT17 TH1.,
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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 6, 2015,
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 6th day of May 2015.
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County