HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1998.10.28 - 25508MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 98260 October 29, 1998
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, NANCY DINGELDEY, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: DRAIN COMMISSIONER - APPOINTMENT OF JAMES E. PORTER AS CHIEF DEPUTY DRAIN
COMMISSIONER
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 40 of the Public Acts of
1956, as amended, the Oakland County Drain Commissioner may appoint a Chief
Deputy Drain Commissioner, subject to the approval and confirmation of the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS George W. Kuhn, Oakland County Drain Commissioner, has selected
James Porter to be Chief Deputy Drain Commissioner, to succeed former Chief
Deputy Glen Yrjanainen; and
WHEREAS George W. Kuhn, Oakland County Drain Commissioner, requests that
the appointment of James E. Porter as Chief Deputy Drain Commissioner be approved
and confirmed.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby approves and confirms the appointment of James Porter as Chief Deputy
Drain Commissioner.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move adoption
of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Garfield and
Holbert absent.
JAMES E. PORTER, P.E.
EDUCATION
Lawrence Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineer, 1961
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Registered Professional Engineer, 1966
State of Michigan
WORK HISTORY
City of Detroit, Department of Water Supply
1961-1963
Oakland County, Waterford, Michigan
1963-Current
Civil Engineer II 1963
Civil Engineer III 1966
Assistant Chief Engineer 1978
Chief of Water & Sewer 1986
Manager Water & Sewer Operations 1989
Manager Operations & Maintenance
Drain Commissioner's Office 1993
MEMBERSHIPS
• American Water Works Association
• Lawrence Technological University
Department of Civil Engineering Advisory Board
• SEMCOG: Environmental Policy Advisory Council (EPA C)
Representing Oakland County
• Southeast Michigan Water Task Force
• Business Roundtable Support Stafffor the Infrastructure & Land Use
Committee
Resolution #98260 October 29, 1998
Moved by Dingeldey supported by Palmer the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gregory, Hoffman, Huntoon, Jacobs, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar,
Kingzett, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Schmid,
Taub, Wolf, Amos, Coleman, Devine, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, G. William Caddell, Deputy 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 October 29, 1998 with the
original record thereof now remaining in my office.
and affixed the seal of the In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my ha
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan thls 2
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day of 90tober 1998.
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G. William Caddell, Deputy County Clerk