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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #00108
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-SHELLEY G. TAUB, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: SUPPORT OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO AMEND ACT 261, OF PA MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION 1965, AS AMENDED, PARKS AND RECREATION MEMBERSHIP
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Parks & Recreation Program, established under the authority of
Act 261, of the Public Acts of 1965, as amended, is governed by a 10-member Commission which is
made up of BOTH statutory members and members appointed by the Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS included in the statutory membership is a representative of a County Planning
Commission, or in counties not having a County Planning Commission, the president of the regional
planning commission, if that person is a resident of the county; and if the chairperson of the regional
planning commission is not a resident of the County, the Board of Commissioners shall appoint a member
of the regional planning commission who is a resident of the County; and
WHEREAS this appointment criteria is cumbersome and causes confusion and a lack of
continuity in parks and recreation commission membership due to the regional planning presidency being
limited to a one-year term; and
WHEREAS in order to provide consistency and a continuity of membership on the Oakland
County Parks and Recreation Commission, the Board of Commissioners has attempted to continuously
designate the County Executive or his designee to fill this position on the Parks and Recreation
Commission, as members of the county regional planning agency (SEMCOG); and
WHEREAS due to Parks and Recreation's interfacing with administration and management of
other County departments, divisions and agencies, the County Executive or his designee serving on the
Parks and Recreation Commission provides a strong coordination of planning and administrative activities
and allows the enhancement of total county interests.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners does
hereby strongly urge the State Legislature to support and adopt proposed amendatory language to Act
261, PA 1965, as amended, which would provide that in a County that has a population of more than
1,000,000 and elects a county executive under Section 9 of 1973 PA 139, MCL 45.559, the County
Executive or a designee of the County Executive would serve as a statutory member of the County Parks
and Recreation Commission, in accordance with the attached proposed amendment.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be sent to the Oakland
County's legislators and legislative lobbyists.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
General Government Committee Vote:
Motion carried on unanimous roll call vote with Law and Patterson absent
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Counties; boards and comissions; county parks and recreation commission; appoint county executive as member if county is over , a certain population.
COUNTIES: Boards and nnmmissions; RECREATION: Park°
A bill to amend 1.965 PA. 261, entitled
"An act to authorize the creation and to prescribe the Rowers 'and
dUtlee or county and regional parks and recreatinn commissions;
and to prescribe the powers and duties of county boards of super-
visors with.respect thereto,"
by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 46.351), section 1 as
amended by 1990 PA 84.
THE PROPLA OF THM 8TATH OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 • TITLE
2 An aut to authorize the creation and to prescribe the powers
3 and duties of county and regional parks and recreation commis-
sione; and to prescribe the powers and duties of county boards of
.5 -supowv4sows-w4th-waspeat.-thawato- COMMISSIONERS WITH nzerEcT TO
6 COUNTY AND REGIONAL PARIS AND RECREATION COMMISSIONS.
7 Sec. 1. (1) The county board of .uommissioners or a county,
by resolution adopted by a 2/3 vote of all its members, may
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1 create a county parke and recreation commission, which shall be .
2 under Uhe_ge?Ueral control of the board of commissioners.
3 (2) The county parks and recreation commission shall consist.
4 of THE FOLLOWING in members: -.,—inaiLmagalf-rphs-
5 (A) THE chairperson of the county road commission or another
6 road commissioner designated by the board of county road
7 comissioners.
(B) THE county drain commissioner. -7.-
9 (C) ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
zo (i) IN A COUNTY THAT RAS A POPULATION OF MORE TRAY 1,000,0nn
11 AND ELECTS A COUNTY EXECUTIVE UNDER SECTION 9 OF 1973 PA 139, Mtl
12 45.559, THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OR. A DESIGNEE OF l'.HE COUNTY
13 EXECUTIVE.
14 (ii) IN A COUNTY WITH A POPUTATTON OF 1,000,000 OR LESS, the
15 chairperson of the county planning commission or another member
16 ot the county planning commission dooignated by the county plan-
17 ning commission.
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In a county that
20 does not have a county planning commission; the chairperson of -
21 the regional planning commission shall serve on the county parks
22 and recreation commission if that person is a resident of that
23 county. If the chairperson of the regional planning commission
24 is not a resident of that county, then the board shall, by a 2/3
25 vote, appoint a member of the regional planning commission who is
26 a resident of that county to serve on the county parks and
. 27 recreation commission.
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1 (D) SEVEN MEMBER'S APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY BOARD OF
2 COMMISSIONERS, NOT LESS THAN 1 AND NOT MORE THAN 3 OF WHOM SHALL
3 BE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
4 (3) Of the members first appointed by the county board of
5 commissioners, 2 shall be appointed for a term ending 1 year troll
6 the following January 1, 2 for a term ending 2 years from the
7 following January 1, and 3 for a term ending 3 year° from the
8 following January 1. -4beelea44.66- FROM THEN ON, each appointed
9 member shall be appointed for d term of 3 years and until his or
10 her successor is appointed and qualified. Each term shall expire
11 at nom nn 5anuary 1. A vacancy shall be filled by the county
12 board of commissioners for the unexpired term.
13 (4) -444.- The county parks and recreation commission is an
14 agency of the county. The county board of commissioners may make
15 rules and regulations with respect to the county parks and recre-
16 ation commission aR the board of commissioners considers
17 advisable. The members of the county parks and recreation corn-
18 mission -sha11-a44.-44.- ARE NOT full-time officers, and the board
19 of commissioners shall fix the compensation of the members.
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THE FOREGO! RF.SOLUTP";
L. Brooke Patterson, County Executive ' Date
Resolution #00108 May 18, 2000
Moved by Suarez supported by Law the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be
adopted and reports be accepted.
AYES: Appel, Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Dingeldey, Douglas,
Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Jensen, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Melton, Millard,
Palmer, Sever, Suarez, Taub, Amos. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolutions on the Consent
Agenda were adopted and the reports were accepted.
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 May 18, 2000 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 18,4h dam/gf May, 20A0.
G. William Caddell, County Clerk