HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2007.03.08 - 28476MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 107030 March 8, 2007
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - AMENDMENT TO BOARD RULES REGARDING MEETING
PROCEDURES
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Rules for the Oakland County Board of Commissioners were adopted on January 4,
2007; and
WHEREAS these Rules provide the Oakland County Board of Commissioners with procedural
guidelines to select Board leadership and committee membership, to identify committee responsibilities and to
explain committee and Board operations; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners continually reviews its Rules to effectuate procedures and
efficiencies that would allow its membership, staff and the public to better follow the process of government;
and
WHEREAS one such change to these Rules would require that all amendments to a resolution or
other matter to be voted on by the Board of Commissioners shall be in writing and copies distributed to the
Clerk and all commissioners present before a vote is taken on such amendment.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
amends its 2007 Rules for the Oakland County Board of Commissioners adopted January 4, 2007, to insert
the following into Section XIII — Board of Commissioners' Meeting Procedures.
0. Amendments of Resolutions or Other Matters
All amendments to a resolution or other matter to be voted on shall be in writing and copies
distributed to the Clerk and all commissioners present before a vote is taken on such amendment. If
necessary, the Board Chairperson shall recess the meeting until an amendment is reduced to writing.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Potter and Gregory absent.
Ruth Johnson, County Clerk
Resolution #07030 March 8, 2007
Moved by Rogers supported by Gershenson the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Burns, Coleman, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Gregory,
Greimel, Hatchett, Jacobsen, KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts, Rogers, Scott, Spector,
Suarez, Woodward, Zack, Bullard. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda,
were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
DOES NOT REQUIRE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ACTION
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 March 8, 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 8th day of March, 2007.