HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2016.02.17 - 22202REPORT (MISC . #16016)
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: MR #16016 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT OF THE HARDEST HIT
FUND (HHT) PROGRAM STEP FORWARD MICHIGAN HOMEOWNER PROGRAM
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above referenced resolution on
February 8, 2016, 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
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Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #16016
BY: Commissioner Shelley Taub, District #12; Commissioner Wade Fleming, District #16; and
Commissioner Nancy Quarles, District #17
IN RE: SUPPORT OF THE HARDEST HIT FUND (HHT) PROGRAM STEP FORWARD MICHIGAN
HOMEOWNER PROGRAM
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the U.S. Congress has allocated an additional $2 billion dollars to the Hardest Hit Fund
Program Step Forward Michigan for 2016; and
WHEREAS the program has kept tens of thousands of homeowners across the State in their homes,
including 2,536 families in Oakland County through December 31, 2015, thereby strengthening our
communities; and
WHEREAS Oakland County Housing Counseling has been working with homeowners in Oakland County
since the program's inception in 2010 and has found the Hardest Hit Fund Program Step Forward
Michigan to be a vital resource during this long period of record breaking high foreclosures; and
WHEREAS public indication from the media suggest that all 2016 Hardest Hit Funds awarded to the State
of Michigan will go solely to blight elimination and demolition, which has already received $175 million of
the original allocation of $498 million; and
WHEREAS demolition was never the intended use of the funds as the original award was meant to assist
the individual homeowner who has been impacted by the economic crisis and at imminent risk of
foreclosure, remain in their home; and
WHEREAS Stepforward Michigan is in the shut-down phase of its current homeowner program due to
lack of funding.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners requests the
Michigan Legislature and Michigan State Housing Development Authority honor the original purpose of
the program and allocate a portion of the dollar amount the Department of Treasury awards the State of
Michigan to the Hardest Hit Fund Step Forward Program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the County of Oakland is directed to submit a copy of this
resolution to the Board's Legislative Lobbyists, the Office of the Governor, Senate Majority Leader,
Senate Minority Leader, Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader and the Oakland County
delegation to the Michigan Legislature.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #16016 January 20, 2016
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.
Resolution #16016 February 17, 2016
Moved by Hoffman supported by Dwyer the resolutions with (fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Dwyer, Fleming, Gershenson, Gosselin, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII,
McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Scott, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Bowman,
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).
11 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 February 17,
2016, 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 17 th day of February, 2016.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County