HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1999.09.09 - 25902September 9, 1999
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #99232
BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE, CHARLES E. PALMER, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIVISION RESOLUTION
APPROVING PROJECT AREA AND PROJECT DISTRICT AREA (ORCHARD LAKE SCHOOLS
PROJECT) - CITY OF ORCHARD LAKE VILLAGE
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS there exists in the County of Oakland the need for projects to
alleviate and prevent conditions of unemployment, to assist and retain local
industrial and commercial enterprises in order to strengthen and revitalize
the County's economy and to encourage the location and expansion of such
enterprises to provide needed services and facilities to the County and its
residents; and
WHEREAS the Economic Development Corporations Act, Act No. 338 of the
Michigan Public Acts of 1974, as amended (the "Act") provides a means for the
encouragement of such projects in this County through the County's Economic
Development Corporation (the "EDC"); and
WHEREAS the EDC has commenced proceedings under the Act for the benefit
of such a project (Orchard Lake Schools Project) and has designated to this
Board of Commissioners a Project Area and Project District Area for its
approval;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Project Area as designated by the
EDC to this Board is hereby certified as approved; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, it having been determined that the
territory surrounding said designated Project Area will not be significantly
affected by the Project because the surrounding territory is devoted to
commercial/industrial uses, a Project District Area having the same
description as and boundaries coterminous with the Project Area herein
certified as approved be hereby established; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, it having been determined that there are
less than eighteen residents, real property owners, or representatives of
establishments located within the Project District Area, a Project Citizens
District Council shall not be formed pursuant to Section 2(:)(b) of the Act; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk is hereby directed to
provide four certified copies of this resolution to the Secretary of the Board
of the EDC.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Planning and Building Committee Vote:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Colasanti and Gregory
absent.
Orchard Lake Schools
City of Orchard Lake Village
EDC No. 99-8
Company:
Project:
The school, founded in 1885 is an incorporated, not-for-profit institution and
is administered by a Board of Trustees. The school consists of SS Cyril and
Methodius Seminary, Saint Mary's College and Saint Mary's Preparatory. The
present site for the schools is a 120 acre campus on the east shore of Orchard
Lake. The schools consists of 21 buildings, nine of which were present when
the school moved to the site in 1909. Orchard Lake Schools provides an
education to 330 college, 420 preparatory and 50 seminary students.
The project consists of the construction of a new 18,000 sq. ft. library and
11,900 sq. ft. science center and a 3,000 sq. ft. student union and computer
labs and parking lot.
Location: The project is located in the City of Orchard Lake at 3535 Indian Trail.
Project Cost: Building, (purchase or construction) $5,352,000
Site Work (land prep.. landscaping) 500,000
Machinery and Equipment 200,000
Engineering Fees 250,000
Legal Fees 30,000
Financing Fees & Costs & Miscellaneous Fees 150.000
Total Project Cost $6,482,000
Job Impact: The number of new permanent jobs to be created is 5. all professional. The
total number of jobs retained is 210, professional, skilled and unskilled.
Owner: Orchard Lake Schools: SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary, Saint Mary's
College and Saint Mary's Preparatory
Prior Approvals: 1. County EDC: Resolution of Inducement (8-24-99)
2. County EDC: Resolution Designating Project Area/Project District Area
& Requesting Appointment of Additional Directors (8-24-99)
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Resolution #99232 September 9, 1999
Moved by Palmer supported by Taub the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Melton, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Patterson, Schmid, Sever,
Suarez, Taub, Amos, Appel, Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Devine,
Dingeldey, Douglas, Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Jensen, Law, McCulloch. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
L. Brooks ta on, County Executive
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STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, G. William Caddell, 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 September 9, 1999 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 9th day oS September, 1999.
G.(William Caddell, Cbunt Cier