HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1995.05.25 - 24557MAY 25, 1995
REPORT (Misc. #95111)
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - KAY SCHMID, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: M.R. #95111 - PROTECTION OF SMART TRANSPORTATION FUNDS
FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND PERSONS WITH DISAB1L1TIES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above-
referenced resolution on May 15, 1995, reports with the
recommendation that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move acceptance of the foregoing Report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
REPORT (MISC. #95111) April 27, 1995
BY: General Government Committee, Kay Schmid, Chairperson
IN RE: M.R. #95111 - Protection of SMART Transportation Funds for Senior
Citizens and Persons with Disabilities
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above-referenced
resolution on April 19, 1995, reports with the recommendation that the resolution
be adopted.
GENERAL GOYERNMENT COMMITTEE
Miscellaneous Resolution #95111 April 6, 1995
BY Ruth Johnson, District No. 1; Shelley G. Taub, District No.
12; Fran Amos, District No. 5; Dan Devine, District No. 14; Donna
Huntoon, District No. 2; Kay Schmid, District No. 17; Nancy
Dingeldey, District No. 11; Dennis Powers, District No. 10;
Lawrence Obrecht, District No. 3; Sue Douglas, District No. 8; Don
Wolf, District No. 19; David Moffitt, District No. 18; Donald
Jensen, District 15; Larry Crake, District No, 4; John Garfield,3istrict
No. 9
RE: Protection of SMART Transportation Funds for Senior Citizens
and Persons With Disabilities
TO: The Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS SMART (Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional
TranspQrtation) has exceeded its $43 million budget for the last
several years and has announced that it will run out of money and
will discontinue all line-haul service in Oakland County by June of
1995; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has formed
a Public Transportation Authority under Public Act 196 of 1988 for
the purpose of setting a Special Election to ask the citizens of
Oakland County if they are willing to assess themselves .33 mil in
new property taxes to ba.49vt4MART; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has a strong
desire to ensure senior citizens and individuals with disabilities
throughout Oakland County that the current services provided by
SMART will continue; and
WHEREAS the current State and Federal contributions to the
SMART budget of $43 million per year are financed in part by all
Oakland County residents through gas tax and income tax; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners' first and foremost concern
is to guarantee the continuation of municipal credits and
paratransit services from SMART to meet the needs of senior
citizens and persons with disRl-riliries living in Oakland County;
and
WHEREAS under Public Act 196, municipalities may choose to opt
out of a transit authority; and
WHEREAS there is a question whether SMART plans to halt
transportation for senior citizens and individuals with
disabilities by discontinuing municipal credits and paratrAnajt
service in communities who choose to opt out even though the
current funds and the State formula will continue to exist to
support said services; and
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WHEREAS communities may opt out of the County's 196 Authority,
but they may not opt of SMART because state law mandates their
membership and financial contribution: and
WHEREAS, the two (2) representatives and (1) alternate to the
SMART Board of Directors from Oakland County would both have to
vote to halt the existing municipal credits and para-transit
services for such services and credits to cease.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oakland County
representatives to the SMART Board of Directors are hereby
requested to answer in writing by May 5, 1995, as members of the
SMART Board of Directors, whether they will or will not vote to:
a. Remove municipal credits from any city, township or village in
Oakland County that currently receives said service as long as
they continue to contribute to the dedicated State and Federal
funds that exist to support said service.
b. Remove paratranait from any city, township or village in
Oakland County that currently receives such credits as long as
dedicated State and Federal funds exist to support said
credits.
Chairperson, we move adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Resolution 095111 April 27, 1995
Moved by Schmid supported by Douglas the resolution be adopted.
Commissioner Taub moved to amend the resolution as follows:
Under the NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph, correct the language in
sections a and b, as follows:
a. Remove municipal credits from any city, township or village in
Oakland County that currently receives ealdeaeeeei-ee such credita as
long as they continue to contribute to the dedicated State and
Federal funds that exist to support said ocrvice credits.
b. Remove paratransit from any city, township or village in Oakland
County that currently receives such credits aaid service as long as
dedicated State and Federal funds exist to support said credits
service.
The Chairperson stated the amendment would be considered a friendly
amendment. There were no objections.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Moffitt supported by Law the resolution be referred back to the
General Government Committee.
AYES: Jacobs, Jensen, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law, McCulloch, McPherson,
Moffitt, Palmer, Pernick, Quarles, Wolf, Holbert. (13)
NAYS: Huntoon, Johnson, Obrecht, Powers, Schmid, Taub, Amos, Crake,
Devine, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield. (12)
A sufficient majority having voted, therefor the resolution was referred
back to the General Government Committee.
Resolution *95111 May 25, 1995
Moved by Schmid supported by Johnson the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Schmid supported by Johnson the General Government Committee
Reports be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the reports were accepted.
Moved by Schmid supported by Johnson the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Taub supported by Douglas the resclution be amended in the seventh
and eighth WHEREAS paragraphs, to read as follows:
WHEREAS there is till a question whether SMART plans to halt
transportation for senior citizens and individuals with disabilities by
discontinuing municipal credits and paratransit service in oommuitic.. wL
to op out even though the current funds and the State formula will continue to
exist to support said services; and
WHEREAS communities may opt out of the County's 196 Authority, but they may
not opt out of SMART because state law mandates their membership and financial
contribut:Lon; and
And, further, to delete the NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph and
replace it with a new NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph, to read as follows:
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County representatives to the
SMART Board of Directors are hereby requested to:
a. Continue paratransit service in any city, township or village in
Oakland County that had received said service as long as said
entities continue to contribute to the dedicated State and Federal
funds that exiat to support said service.
b. Continue Municipal Credits in any city, township or village in
Oakland County that had received such credits as long as dedicated
State and Federal funds exist to support said credits.
Discussion followed.
Vote on amendment:
AYES: Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Law,
McCulloch, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Powers, Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Amos, Crake,
Devine. (18)
NAYS: Holbert, Jacobs, Kaczmar, Kingzett, McPherson, Pernick,
Quarles. (7)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Moved by McPherson supported by Kaczmar the resolution be tabled until
after the June 6, 1995 election.
The Chairperson stated a "YES" vote would table the resolution; a "NO" vote
would not.
AYES: Holbert, Jacobs,
Quarles. (7)
NAYS: Douglas, Garfield,
Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Powers
Dingeldey. (18)
Kaczmar,
Huntoon,
, Schmid,
Kingzett, McPherson, Pernick,
Jensen, Johnson, Law, McCulloch,
Taub, Wolf, Amos, Crake, Devine,
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the motion failed.
Moved by Palmer supported by Garfield the resolution be amended in the
second WHEREAS paragraph, to read as follows:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has formed a Public
Transportation Authority under Public Act 196 of 1988 for the purpose of setting
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Resolution #95111 Continued May 25, 1995
a Special Election to ask the citizens of Oakland County if they are willing to
assess themselves .33 mil in new property taxes to bail out support SMART; and
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Garfield, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Law, McCulloch, Moffitt,
Obrecht, Palmer, Powers, Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Amos, Crake, Devine, Dingeldey,
Douglas. (16)
NAYS: Holbert, Jacobs, Kaozmar, Kingzett, McPherson, Pernick,
Quarles. (7)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
was adopted.
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 May 25, 1995 with the original record
thereof now remaintmng th my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 25th day ciie-Ay 199c
LynrID. Allen, County Clerk