HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2018.04.19 - 23390MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #18096 April 19, 2018
BY: Commissioner Christine Long, Chairperson, General Government Committee
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - AMENDMENT TO THE RULES FOR THE OAKLAND
COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - TRANSFER OF COORDINATING ZONING COMMITTEE
MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Coordinated Zoning Committee was established by resolution of the Board of
Commissioners in 1974; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners has delegated the authority to conduct master plan and
township zoning reviews granted under Michigan law to the Coordinating Zoning Committee; and
WHEREAS Planning and Economic Development Services, a division of the Department of Economic
Development and Community Affairs, is the lead agency tasked by the county administration to provide
services related to planning and zoning; and
WHEREAS the Rules for the Oakland County Board of Commissioners have contained a long-standing
provision requiring the members of the Coordinating Zoning Committee to maintain membership on the
Planning and Building Committee of the Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS the membership requirement was a result of the Planning and Building Committee's liaison
role with the Department of Economic Development and Community Affairs; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners have created the Standing Committee on Economic
Development and Community Affairs and transferred the liaison responsibility for the Department to the
new committee; and
WHEREAS an amendment to the Board's Rules is necessary to re-align the membership requirement of
the Coordinating Zoning Committee to the updated liaison committee for planning and zoning services.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes and amendment to
the 2017-2018 Rules for the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, adopted on December 7, 2017, as
follows:
Section XI, F, (3): Three (3) members of the Economic Development and Community Affairs
Committee shall be appointed by the County Board of Commissioners to act as the County
Coordinating Zoning Committee. Termination of membership on the Economic Development
and Community Affairs Committee shall also terminate membership on the County
Coordinating Zoning Committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes staff to make technical
adjustments to the Board's Rules to incorporate these amendments into the 2017-2018 Rules for the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
CommissiorTer Christine Long, Dist=7
Chairperson, General Government mittee
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #18096 April 19, 2018
Moved by Fleming supported by McGillivray the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Dwyer, Fleming, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long, McGillivray,
Middleton, Spisz, Taub, Tietz, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Berman, 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).
HEREVAPPROVE-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 April 19, 2018,
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 19 th day of April, 2018.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County