HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1998.07.16 - 25362REPORT (Misc. #98152 July 16, 1998
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - NANCY DINGELDEY, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE:
OF 1998
MR #98152 - SUPPORT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROTECTION ACT
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above-
referenced resolution on July 6, 1998, recommends that the
resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the acceptance of the foregoing Report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE!
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Holbert and
Schmid absent.
June 11, 19,98(
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 98152
BY: Commissioner Shelley Taub, District #12; Commissioner Dorm L. Wolf, District #19
IN RE: SUPPORT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS through the adoption of Miscellaneous Resolution #97227, the Oakland
County Board of Commissioners urged the Federal government not to negotiate any Treaty in
Kyoto, Japan which would:
(A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the
United States, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific
scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for
developing countries within the same compliance period, or
(B) result in job loss or serious harm to the economy of Oakland County, the State of
Michigan and the United States; and
WHEREAS MR#97227 further resolved that: any protocol to, or other agreement
regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, signed by the
United States at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, should:
(1) be voluntary as much as possible;
(2) include all nations, developed and developing, under comparable criteria
and within the same compliance period;
(3) assist developing nations in growing economically while increasing energy
efficiency; and
WHEREAS MR#97227 memorialized the members of the United States Senate not to
consent to any protocol or agreement regarding the Global Climate Change, unless said protocol
or agreement was:
accompanied by an analysis of the detailed explanation of any legislation
or regulatory actions that would be required to implement the protocol or
agreement; and
(ii.) accompanied by an analysis of the detailed financial costs and other
impacts on the economy of the United States that would be incurred by
implementation of the protocol or agreement; and
WHEREAS along with a growing body of evidence from economic studies which
indicate that any U.S. effort to significantly limit greenhouse gas emissions in a short timeframe
will slow economic growth, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs in Oakland County and
throughout the United States, comes a strong opposition of US citizens and businesses to such
mandatory constraints on fossil fuel use which would raise the monthly cost to consumers for
electricity, heating and cooling bills by more than 50%, and it is projected that the residents of
Oakland County could experience a gasoline price increase of $0.50 per gallon; and
WHEREAS, in the face of such growing opposition, President Clinton and his appointees
at the Environmental Protection Agency, have been unable to garner the necessary 2/3 vote of the
Senate to adopt this ill-advised policy on climate control, and have determined to force Kyoto-
level emission reduction standards on all of the states, thus circumventing the Senate by
abridgement of the United States Constitution; and
WHEREAS, Congressman Joe Knollenberg has introduced House Resolution 3807,
(accompanied by Senator Ashcroft's S 2019) known as the American Economy Protection Act of
1998, to prohibit the use of Federal funds for a stealth implementation of the Kyoto Protocol to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, unless or until the Senate has
given its advice and consent on ratification of the Protocol; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners finds itself in the most
distressing position of having to address its Federal elected officials to take action to insure that
the President and the EPA do not circumvent the US Constitution in an action more designed to
enlarge their power and control than to protect wildflowers and songbirds.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners strongly reiterates its position in MR #97227, that the United States should not
agree to any international global climate proposals which are not justified by sound scientific and
economic policies; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners does
hereby support THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998, to protect not
only our County's economy, but our Constitutional process; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the
President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, Senator Spencer
Abraham, Senator Carl Levin, United States House of Representatives, Congressmen Joseph
Knollenberg, Sander Levin, Dale Kildee, James Barcia, David Bonior, Dave Camp, John
Conyers, Jr., John Dingell, Vernon Ehlers, Peter Hoekstra, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Lynn Rivers, Nick
Smith, Debbie Stabenow, Bart Stupak, Fred Upton, Oakland County Legislators, the Governor of
the State of Michigan, the National Association of Counties, Michigan Association of Counties
and to Oakland County's Legislative Agents.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Resolution #98152 June 11, 1998
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government
Committee. There were no objections.
,
Resolution #98152 July 16, 1998
Moved by Dingeldey supported by Wolf the General Government Committee
Report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the report was accepted.
Moved by Dingeldey supported by Wolf the resolution be adopted.
McPherson,
Dingeldey,
(6)
AYES: Hoffman, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Law, McCulloch,
Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Amos, Devine,
Douglas, Garfield. (19)
NAYS: Holbert, Jacobs, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Coleman, Gregory.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, 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 July 16, 1998 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 16th day of July 1998.
1.71777b Allen, County Clerk