HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1995.03.22 - 24516March 23, 1995
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 195067
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Kay Schmid, Chairperson
IN RE: HB4365, (Support) Amendment for Tobacco Tax Distribution
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, H34365, as the supplemental appropriatlnnq bill for public
health funding, will designate the manner in which the tobacco tax funds will
be distributed, and
WHEREAS, amendments have been made to HB4365 which would place the
tobacco revenues earmarked for local health departments in the Health and
Safety Fund, which would greatly reduce the amount of money available for
local public health programs, as the Health & Safety Fund has a formula which
first fully distributes monies to the Medicaid Indigent Voluntary Adjustment
Account and to Wayne County Bond Repayment, before distribution to local
public health departments, and
WHEREAS, the additional 1.3% tobacco tax derived from Proposal A was
never intended to be placed in or minimized by the Health & Safety Fund
Formula, and
WHEREAS, an amendment has been proposed to HB4365 which will release the
accumulating tobacco tax money to local health departments and to establish a
separate fund for the additional 1.3% tobacco tax.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners does hereby support the amendment to HB4365 which will release
the accumulating tobacco tax money to local health departments and to
establish a separate fund for the additional 1.3% tobacco tax.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that (.'opies of th::.s resolution be sent to all
state legislators from Oakland County, the Governor, to the County's State
legislative liaison personnel, and to the Michigan Association of Counties.
Chairperson, I move the adopzion of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Resolution 495067 March 23, 1995
Moved by Schmid supported by Taub the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law, McCulloch, McPherson,
Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Pernick, Powers, Quarles, Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Amos,
Crake, Devine, Dingeldey, Garfield, Holbert, Huntoon, Jacobs. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
COUNTY UECUTIVE WILL NEITHER APPROVE NOR VETO
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, 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 March 23, 1995 with the original record
thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereuato set my hand and affixed the seal of the
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County of Oakland at Pontiac, Mich:gan this 23rd day of arch 5.
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. Allen, County Clerk