HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2007.08.16 - 28366Miscellaneous Resolution # 07190
BY: Commissioner Helaine Zack, District #22, David Woodward, District #18,
Bill Bullard, Jr., District #2, David Coulter, District #25, David W. Potts, District #20
RE: Board of Commissioners — Support for State Appropriation for the Detroit Zoo
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Detroit Zoo is located in Oakland County; and
WHEREAS 30% of the Detroit Zoo's visitors annually are Oakland County residents; and
WHEREAS about 1,000,000 people visit the Detroit Zoo annually and more than 50,000 Metro
area households have active Detroit Zoological Society memberships, making the Detroit Zoo
the largest fee-based family attraction in Michigan; and
WHEREAS the Detroit Zoo currently operates on a $23 million annual budget; and
WHEREAS the Detroit Zoo has more than a $60 million annual economic impact on the local
economy; and
WHEREAS on June 17, 2006, the management of the Detroit Zoo transitioned from the City of
Detroit to the Detroit Zoological Society (DZS); and
WHEREAS the Detroit Zoo requires a $12 million appropriation from the State of Michigan to
complete the transition from the City of Detroit to the DZA in order to maintain the current
operation of the zoo; and
WHEREAS if $12 million in funding is not secured by the end of FY 2007-08, the Detroit Zoo
will be forced to close and may result in a permanent educational, cultural, and economic loss to
Oakland County, the region, and the entire State of Michigan.
THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners urges Governor Jennifer Granholm and the state legislature to appropriate
$12 million to the Detroit Zoological Society in the FY 2007-08 state budget to complete the
administrative and operation transition of the Society; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners instructs the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners' lobbyist, Strategic Public Affairs, to actively engage in securing the
above mentioned $12 million state appropriation in the Michigan Capital Outlay Budget for the
Detroit Zoo; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioner strongly
urges the entire Oakland County delegation in the state legislature to support appropriating
$12 million in FY 2007-08 to the Detroit Zoo; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution is forwarded to the following:
The Detroit Zoo's Executive Director Ron Kagan, the Detroit City Council, the Oakland County
delegation of the state legislature, Governor Jennifer Granholm, the Detroit Zoological Society,
County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, and all Oakland County media.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the for;-:. 'ng Resolution.
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Resolution #07190 August 16, 2007
Moved by Coulter supported by Potts to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #07190 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR STATE APPROPRIATION
FOR THE DETROIT ZOO.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Greimel, Hatchett, Jacobsen, KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts, Scott,
Spector, Suarez, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson,
Gregory. (21)
NAYS: Gosselin. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #07190 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR STATE
APPROPRIATION FOR THE DETROIT ZOO carried.
Moved by Coulter supported by Potts the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Hatchett, Jacobsen, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts, Spector, Suarez, Woodward, Zack,
Bullard, Burns, Coulter, Crawford, Gershenson, Gregory, Greimel. (17)
NAYS: KowaII, Long, Scott, Douglas, Gosselin. (5)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
DIES MOT NOUN COUNTY DICOME ACM
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 August 16, 2007,
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 August, 2007.