HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2005.06.16 - 27878Miscellaneous Resolution # 05121
BY: Commissioner Chuck Moss, District #20, Eileen T. Kowa, District #6, David Coulter, District #25
RE: Board of Commissioners - Support for Wireless Oakland
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the goal of Wireless Oakland is to prepare Oakland County and its workforce for the jobs
and technology of tomorrow. In conjunction with the Emerging Sectors Initiative, it will enhance Oakland
County's ability to attract and retain high-tech and nanotechnology corporations; and
WHEREAS Wireless Oakland's goal is to blanket the County's 910 square miles with wireless intemet
service and provide free high speed Internet access to every resident business and visitor in the County;
and
WHEREAS another goal of Wireless Oakland is to address the County's "digital divide" and provide low-
cost or no-cost personal computers and technology training to underserved population groups; and
WHEREAS Wireless Oakland will also enhance the residential character of our local communities and
further distinguish Oakland County as a great place to live, work, and play. It will support a growing
mobile workforce and elevate the technical knowledge of its current and future workforces; and
WHEREAS Wireless Oakland will play a key role in the transformation of government services
throughout Michigan and support the continued provision of Oakland County's eGovemment services
well into the future; and
WHEREAS members of the State House Energy and Technology Committee have made inaccurate
claims that the Wireless Oakland initiative is anti-competitive and gets local government too deeply into
the private sector. In an effort to stall or derail this project a moratorium on wireless expansion in the
State of Michigan has been proposed; and
WHEREAS Wireless Oakland will not use public tax dollars and grant monies to subsidize the creation
of the network and does not in any way create government control over private business; and
WHEREAS Wireless Oakland's private partners will be selected in a competitive bid process and shall
not have any permanent or exclusive rights. The wireless network will be installed, owned and operated
by private partners; and
WHEREAS Wireless Oakland facilitates a competitive public-private partnership that encourages the
development of new businesses, as well as, creative new opportunities for information service delivery;
and
WHEREAS the Wireless Oakland initiative will be a tremendous asset for attracting and retaining
businesses and for fostering job creation in Oakland County, southeast Michigan and the State of
Michigan.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
affirms its support for the Wireless Oakland initiative.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners is opposed to any
effort by the State Legislature to place a moratorium on the expansion of all wireless technology in the
State of Michigan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk is requested to forward a copy of this
adopted resolution to the members of the House Energy and Technology Committee, the Oakland
County delegation to the State Legislature, the Michigan Association of Counties, and Oakland County's
Legislative Lobbyists.
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Resolution #05121 June 16, 2005
Moved by Moss supported by Crawford the rules be suspended and Miscellaneous Resolution #05121 BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR WIRELESS OAKLAND be brought before the Board for immediate
consideration.
Vote on suspension of the rules:
AYES: Gershenson, Gregory, Hatchett, Jamian, Kowall, Long, Melton, Middleton, Molnar, Moss, Nash,
Palmer, Patterson, Potter, Rogers, Scott, Suarez, Wilson, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Coleman, Coulter,
Crawford, Douglas. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefore, the motion to suspend the rules carried, and Miscellaneous
Resolution #05121 was before the Board for immediate consideration.
Moved by Moss supported by Crawford the resolution be adopted.
Vote on adoption of resolution:
AYES: Gregory, Hatchett, Jamian, Kowall, Long, Melton, Middleton, Molnar, Moss, Nash, Palmer,
Patterson, Potter, Rogers, Scott, Suarez, Wilson, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Coleman, Coulter, Crawford,
Douglas, Gershenson. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefore, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
Ruth Johnson, 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 June 16, 2005 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 June, 2005.
h JohntAn, County Clerk