HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2007.06.14 - 28444MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 107142 June 14, 2007
BY: Planning & Building Committee, Sue Ann Douglas, Chairperson
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS — WASTE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT — MICHIGAN GREEN
SCHOOLS PROGRAM
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Michigan Green Schools Program is a new program that was
enacted in 2006; and
WHEREAS the program encourages public and private schools to take steps
towards being more environmentally and ecologically friendly; and
WHEREAS 20 specific activities are listed for the program, and a school must
participate in 10 of those activities to be designated an official Green School; and
WHEREAS many of these activities pertain to recycling and fall into the goals
and work of Oakland County Waste Resource Management; and
WHEREAS Waste Resource Management has been asked to manage this
program for the Oakland County public and private schools; and
WHEREAS there is no additional cost to Waste Resource Management to
manage this program; and
WHEREAS the law states that a county can designate either a county department
or the county's Intermediate School District to manage the program.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners designates Oakland County Waste Resource Management as the manager
for the Michigan Green Schools Program in Oakland County.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning & Building Committee, I move adoption
of the foregoing resolution.
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
PLANNING & BUILDING COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Gershenson absent.
I HEREBY APPROVE IHE FOJECTOIM RESOLUTION
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Resolution #07142 June 14, 2007
Moved by Rogers supported by Potts the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda, be adopted.
AYES: Burns, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Gregory, Greimel,
Hatchett, Jacobsen, KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash, Potts, Rogers, Scott, Spector, Suarez,
Woodward, Zack, Bullard. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended
Consent Agenda, were adopted.
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 June 14, 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 14th day of June, 2007.
Ruti-Aigifsg,'ffirounty Clerk