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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2003.10.16 - 27287October 16, 2003 MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #03290 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, CONFIRMING APPOINTMENT OF ADDITIONAL EDC DIRECTORS AND APPROVING PROJECT PLAN (GENERAL MILL SUPPLY CO. PROJECT) - CITY OF WIXOM To Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS The Economic Development Corporation of the County of Oakland (the "EDC") has designated to this Board of Commissioners a Project Area and Project District Area for the Project for its approval, and the EDC has requested this Board of Commissioners to confirm the appointment by the County Executive of the County of Oakland of two additional directors to the Board of the EDC in connection with said Project, and the EDC has recommended that the Board of Commissioners approve the Project Plan required by the Economic Development Corporations Act (the "Act") for the Project, a copy of which has been presented to this meeting (the "Project Plan"); and WHEREAS the EDC's recommendations to the Board of Commissioners were based upon its determinations that the Project is reasonable and necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Act and that the Project Plan satisfies all of the requirements of the Act regarding project plans; and ' WHEREAS the governing body of the City of Wixom, Oakland County, Michigan, has also approved the Project Plan and given its consent to the exercise of jurisdiction over the Project by the EDC; and WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners has held a public hearing to consider whether the Project Plan constitutes a public purpose as contemplated by the Act; and WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners, following such public hearing and its review of the Project Plan, concurs in the determinations of the EDC with respect thereto; 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 20(b) of the Act; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the appointments of Ron Nordstrom and Kevin Hinckley, who are representative of neighborhood residents and business interests likely to be affected by said Project, to the Board of Directors of The Economic Development Corporation of the County of Oakland are hereby confirmed in accordance with Section 4(2) of the Act, and such additional Directors shall cease to serve when the Project is either abandoned or, if undertaken, is completed in accordance with the Project Plan therefor; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Project Plan is hereby determined to constitute a public purpose as contemplated by the Act and is hereby approved; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the EDC is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to implement the Project and the financing thereof by the issuance of its limited obligation revenue bonds as contemplated by the Project Plan; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk is hereby directed to provide four certified copies of this resolution to the Assistant Secretary of the Board of the EDC. Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. G AND BUILDING COMMITTEE Planning & Building Committee Vote: Motion carried on unanimous roll call vote "IVO G. William Caddell, County Clerk Resolution #03290 October 16, 2003 Moved by Jamian supported by Wilson the resolutions on the Consent Agenda, be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). AYES: Coleman, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gregory, Hatchett, Jamian, Knollenberg, KowaII, Law, Long, McMillin, Middleton, Moffitt, Moss, Palmer, Patterson, Potter, Rogers, Scott, Suarez, Webster, Wilson, Zack, Bullard. (25) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted therefore, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda, were adopted (with accompanying reports being 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 October 16, 2003 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 16th day of October, 2003.