HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2005.05.26 - 27939May 26, 2005
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION#05100
BY: PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE, CHARLES E. PALMER, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: FACILITIES MANAGEMENT/FACILITIES ENGINEERING - RELOCATION OF THE
FALLEN HEROES MEMORIAL
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners by Miscellaneous Resolution #01189
endorsed the concept of a Law Enforcement Memorial to pay tribute to the
men and women who have served honorably in the law enforcement duties of
Oakland County; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners authorized the Oakland County
Sheriff to act as the designated facilitator to raise the necessary funds
for the memorial; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners also authorized the Oakland County
Treasurer and the Department of Management and Budget to establish the
Oakland County Law Enforcement Memorial Fund for the purpose of paying for
this tribute; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #02088 approved expansion of the
scope of the project to include paying tribute to both law enforcement and
fire fighters throughout the State of Michigan and endorsed the concept of
amending the Law Enforcement Memorial to the Fallen Heroes Memorial; and
WHEREAS the memorial is currently located south of the Health
Building in the Oakland County Service Center; and
WHEREAS the Fallen Heroes Memorial Team, under the direction of the
Sheriff, has developed a master plan design to include a granite wall with
the names of approximately 800 police officers and fire fighters who have
died in the line of duty in Michigan since the State's founding; and
WHEREAS the Memorial Team has determined that a more appropriate
location for the memorial would be at the North entrance to the Service
Center, adjacent to the new Sheriff's Administration Building (formerly the
Community Mental Health Center); and
WHEREAS the project is to be funded by donations received through the
Sheriff's Department, which will be sought from law enforcement groups,
private citizens, and the private sector; and
WHEREAS total cost of the memorial including any construction or
renovation costs will be the responsibility of the Michigan Fallen Heroes
Memorial Fund; and
WHEREAS Planning and Building Committee approval of the site plan
will be required prior to the relocation of the Fallen Heroes Memorial.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners authorizes the relocation of the Fallen Heroes Memorial to
the North entrance of the Service Center, adjacent to the Sheriff's
Administration Building (formerly the Community Mental Health Center).
Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PLANNING AND BULLeakG COMMITTEE
Planning & Building Committee Vote:
Motion carried on unanimous roll call vote
572-4 los
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Resolution #05100 May 26, 2005
Moved by Long supported by Suarez the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be adopted (with
accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson, KowaII, Long, Melton, Middleton, Molnar, Moss,
Nash, Palmer, Patterson, Scott, Suarez, Wilson, Woodward, Zack, Bullard. (19)
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, 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 May 26, 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 26th day of May, 2005.
Ruth Johns° , County Clerk