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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #01185 July 19, 2001
BY: Finance Committee - Sue Ann Douglas, Chairperson
IN RE: OAKLAND COUNTY APPORTIONMENT COMMISSION - APPROPRIATION FOR
OUTSIDE LEGAL SERVICES
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Act 261 of 1966, MCL 46.401 requires the Apportionment
Commission in each county to apportion the county into commissioner
districts every ten years, consistent with the United States official
decennial census figures; and
WHEREAS pursuant to the Act, the Oakland County Apportionment
Commission met five times to develop a plan to reapportion county
commission districts; and
WHEREAS on June 6, 2001, the Oakland County Apportionment
Commission adopted a plan by a vote of 4 yes, 1 abstention for the
county commission districts; and
WHEREAS the adopted plan was filed in the Office of the County
Clerk on June 7, 2001, and submitted to the Secretary of State
consistent with MCL 46.405; and
WHEREAS pursuant to MCL 46.406, any registered voter of the
county, within 30 days after the filing of the plan, may petition the
Court of Appeals to review such plan; and
WHEREAS on July 10, 2001, the Chairperson of the Apportionment
Commission was served with a copy of a complaint purportedly filed with
the Court of Appeals; and
WHEREAS the Apportionment Commission seeks to retain outside
counsel with knowledge of and experience with these specialized legal
matters.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners hereby authorizes the Apportionment Commission to retain
the services of attorney Eric Doster of the law firm Foster, Swift,
Collins & Smith to represent the Apportionment Commission and
appropriates $10,000 to the Clerk/Register budget for the purpose of
defraying the related legal expenses.
On behalf of the Finance Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Moss absent.
Resolution #01185 July 19, 2001
Moved by Douglas supported by Coleman the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Coleman, Crawford, Dingeldey, Douglas, Galloway, Garfield,
Gregory, Law, McPherson, Melton, Millard, Moffitt, Moss, Obrecht, Palmer,
Patterson, Suarez, Taub, Webster, Amos, Appel, Brian, Buckley, Causey-
Mitchell. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was
adopted.
I HEREIFi0 HE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
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L. Brooks PatteCi. County Executive Date
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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 July 19, 2001 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 19 th iday oVJuly, 2001.
G. -William Caddell, County Clerk