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June 13, 1996
Miscellaneous Resolution # 96132
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Kay Schmid, Chairperson
RE: Board of Commissioners - (Support) HB 5493 (H-1) With Amendments
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, HB 5493 addresses changes to Section 1. The title and section 1 of Act No. 261
of the Public Acts of 1965, section 1 as amended by Act No. 84 of the Public Acts of 1990, being
section 46.351 of the Michigan Compiled Laws; and
WHEREAS, HB 5493 addresses updating of language that replaces reference to "Board of
Supervisors" with "County Commissioners"; and
WHEREAS, HB 5493 addresses the issue of a statutory seat for a county planning
commission member in counties that have planning commissions; and
WHEREAS, HB 5493 addresses that same issue with counties that do not have planning
commissions, and adds language which provides a statutory seat to the elected County Executive or
his designee in a County organized under Act 139 of the Public Acts of 1973, as amended (Act 139
counties) with a population of over 1,000,000, rather than a member or the chairperson of the
regional planning commission, which in Oakland County's instance is SEMCOG; and
WHEREAS, it is not in the best interests of Oakland County, to continue the statutory
designation of regional planning commission member for the following reasons:
A. A large urban county of over 1 million people and more than 60
municipalities is fully capable of planning its own parks and
recreation programs.
B. The terms of office of a president or chair of a regional planning
commission are one-year terms beginning and ending in June of each
year which is disruptive to the Parks Commission, whose other
members are minimally appointed for three-year terms and whose
appointments run on a calendar year.
WHEREAS, the appointment of the tenth member should reside with the Board of
Commissioners, and that the County Executive should not be required to sit as a member of the
Parks and Recreation Commission, nor should one member be singled out to have a voting alternate
representative.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
supports the language of updating of Board of Supervisors to Board of Commissioners, and the
removal of language which allows the regional planning commission a membership on the Parks and
Recreation Commission.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners supports
the following change in Sec. 1, Item C of HB 5493 (H-1) to read as follows:
The chairperson of the county planning commission or another member of the county
planning commission designated by the county planning commission, and 7 members
appointed by the county board of commissioners, not less than 1 and not more than
3 of whom shall be members of the board of commissioners. In a county that does
not have a county planning commissions, the chairperson of the regional planning
commission shall serve on the county parks and recreation commission if that person
is a resident of that county. If the chairperson of the regional planning commission
is not a resident of that county, then the COUNTY board OF COMMISSIONERS
shall, by a 2/3 vote, appoint a member of the regional planning commission who is
a resident of that county to serve on the county parks and recreation commission. IN
A COUNTY ORGANIZED UNDER ACT NO. 139 OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF
1973, BEING SECTION 45.55 TO 45.573 OF THE MICHIGAN COMPILED
LAWS, WITH AN ELECTED COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND A POPULATION OF
1,000,000 OR MORE, THE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MAY
APPOINT THE ELECTED COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO SERVE ON THE
COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION AND THE BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS MAY APPOINT AN ALTERNATE FOR THE ELECTED
EXECUTIVE, WHO MAY PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETINGS OF THE PARKS
AND RECREATION COMMISSION fN THE ABSENCE OF THE COUNTY
EXECUTIVE, BUT WHO DOES NOT HAVE A VOTE.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Resolution #96132 June 13, 1996
Moved by Schmid supported by Douglas the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Holbert, Huntoon, Jacobs, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law,
McCulloch, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Pernick, Powers, Quarles, Schmid, Taub,
Wolf, Amos, Crake, Devine, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield. (24)
NAYS: McPherson. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
DE NOT kLUnE CUUT XECUTIVE
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 June 13, 1996 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 13th day o4 June 195J6_,_
Lynn'D. Allen, County Clerk