HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2000.05.04 - 26157May 4, 2000
REPORT
BY: General Government Committee, Shelley G. Taub, Chairperson
RE: MR #00078 CROSS COUNTY TRAIL — WEST BLOOMFIELD TO ROCHESTER SEGMENT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee having reviewed the above-mentioned resolution on April 10, 2000,
recommends to the Oakland County Board of Commissioners 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 on unanimous roll call vote with Law absent
Miscellaneous Resolution #00078
BY: Shelley G. Taub, District #12; John P. McCulloch, District #22; Larry Obrecht, District # 3;
Sue Ann Douglas, District #8; Frank H. Millard, District #4; Thomas A. Law, District #13;
Charles E. Palmer, District #16; Donald W. Jensen, District #15; Terry L. Sever, District #19;
Brenda A. Causey-Mitchell, District #6; Michelle Friedman Appel, District #23; Fran Amos,
District #5; David B. Buckley, District #14; Ron Colasanti, District #10; Eric Coleman, District
#21; Nancy Dingeldey, District #11; David N. Galloway, District #2; John P. Garfield, District
#9; Vincent Gregory, District #20; Rue! E. McPherson, District #25; Tim W. Melton, District
#7; David L. Moffitt, District #18; William R. Patterson, District #1; Kay Schmid, District #17;
George W. Suarez, District #24
RE: Cross County Trail - West Bloomfield to Rochester Segment
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Oakland County has been an active promoter of a cross county trail as part of its
countywide greenways plan: and
WHEREAS, the West Bloomfield to Rochester trail has been designated by the President of the
United States as part of a national Millennium Trail initiative; and
WHEREAS, by supporting local community nonmotorized transportation & intergovernmental
linkages, we can provide our growing population with expanded opportunities to access the wealth of
features in our geographic area; and
WHEREAS, such features as town centers, schools, park and recreation facilities and community
centers when linked to residential neighborhoods through nonmotorized transportation routes and
greenways contribute to the social, physical, and economic health of Oakland County's communities
and their citizens quality of life; and
WHEREAS, the communities of West Bloomfield, Sylvan Lake, Pontiac, Auburn Hills, Rochester
Hills, and Rochester, have expressed the desire for their segments, or portions of their segments, of
railroad abandonment be converted to trail development.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
supports the local community initiatives to acquire and develop these designated segments of
abandoned railroad rights of way to trail use as part of the countywide trail and greenway system.
Mr. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution ;
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Resolution #00078 April 6, 2000
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government
Committee. There were no objections
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Resolution #00078 May 4, 2000
Moved by Dingelday supported by Coleman the resolutions on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Appel, Buckley, Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Dingelday,
Douglas, Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Jensen, Law, McCulloch, McPherson,
Melton, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Patterson, Schmid, Sever, Suarez,
Taub, Amos. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolutions on the
Consent Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports 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 4, 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 4tb,day ge r May, 2000.
G. William Caddell, County Clerk