HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2015.09.17 - 22011MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #15238 September 17, 2015
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS/LIBRARY BOARD - DISPOSAL OF RESEARCH UBRARY
COLLECTION ITEMS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Library Board commissioned a study group to examine all facets of library operations and
to make recommendations as to how to structure those operations for the next five to ten years; and
WHEREAS the Library Board presented their recommendations to the General Government Committee
on December 1, 2014; and
WHEREAS the Library Board will begin to decommission the Oakland County Research Library on
October 1, 2015; and
WHEREAS the Research Library has a public collection of books, magazines, newspapers, and maps;
and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has a policy regarding disposal of County items
at public auction; and
WHEREAS the sale of these materials would not amount to a significant amount of revenue for the
County; and
WHEREAS the Research Library's collection items would be of interest to the Oakland County's local
public and academic libraries; and
WHEREAS the Library Board is requesting permission from the Board of Commissioners to offer the
Research Library's collection items to any public or academic library in the County who is interested in
obtaining them for the purchase price of $1.00 and to donate any remaining materials to local literacy
organizations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners authorizes the
Library Board to dispose of the Research Library's public collection by offering items to the County's
public libraries for the purchase price of $1.00 and to donate any remaining materials to local literacy
organizations.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Matis, Woodward and Quarles absent.
Resolution #15238 September 17, 2015
Moved by Fleming supported by Bowman the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Hoffman, Jackson, KowaII, Long, Matis, McGillivray,
Middleton, Quarles, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bowman, Crawford, Dwyer,
Fleming. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda were adopted.
1 HEFIEGYAPPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.569A (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 September 17,
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 17th day of September 2015. -
Lisa Brown, Oakland County