HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2007.03.08 - 28483Miscellaneous Resolution # 07044
BY: Commissioner Robert M. Gosselin, District #13
RE: Board of Commissioners — Oppose 2% Sales Tax Increase on the People of
Michigan
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan is struggling through a severe, economic recession
that is negatively affecting families of all income levels, causing a decrease in those
income levels; and
WHEREAS, businesses are closing due to over regulation and excessive taxation and a
decrease in business activity consequent to families exiting Michigan to other States that
offer better and more opportunity for adequate income; and
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan is experiencing an all-time high record of homes "for
sale" and homes in foreclosure due to this recession; and
WHEREAS, businesses are closing their doors, resulting in fewer jobs for the families of
Michigan, as well as increasing the need for families to seek medical care and food for
their families; and
WHEREAS, the Government of the State of Michigan has continued to spend
excessively with little regard for the wrongful deficit spending it has not corrected; and
WHEREAS, Governor Jennifer Granholm seeks to relieve this budget mismanagement
by imposing yet more taxes on the working class and newly unemployed residents of the
State of Michigan with a new 2% sales tax; and
WHEREAS, those people who can least afford to pay this tax will be most hurt by this
new tax; and
WHEREAS, any tax increase in the State of Michigan during this recession will worsen
the recession and will negatively affect any potential recovery for the future of the
families and job providers in the State of Michigan for many years to come.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners is requesting that the Governor and the Michigan State Legislature not
increase taxes of any kind, and especially not in the form of a 2% sales or excise tax on
services to the people of the State of Michigan and its businesses that provide jobs.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
respectfully requests Oakland County Clerk, Ruth Johnson, to forward copies of this
adopted resolution to Governor Jennifer Granholm, Senate Majority Leader Michael
Bishop and other Oakland County Senators, Speaker of the House Andy Dillon and other
Oakland County State Representatives.
Chairperson, we move the adop ofithe foregoing Resolution
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Commissioner Robert M.
District #13
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Commissioner Bill Bullard, Jr., Distri #2
Chairperson
Cdmmissiifer Hugh D. Crawford, District #9
Vice C irperson
Commissioner Sue Ann Douglas
.minissioner
District #3
Commissioner Tim Greimel
District #11
Commissii4er Bradford C. Jacobsen
District #
Commis-sioner Christine Long
District #7
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Chntrsioner Eileen T. Kowall
District #6
Commissioner John A. Scott
D:Strict #5
Commissioner Thomas F. Middleton
District #4
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Districti18
Potter
Comthissioner Mike Rogers
District #14
Commissioner Jim Nash
'et #15
Commissioner Da
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Commissioner Dave Woodward
District #18
Commissioner Helaine Zack
District #22
Commissioner Tim Burns
District #19
Commissioner David Coulter
District #25
Commissioner Marcia Gershenson
District #17
Commissioner Vincent Gregory
District #21
Commissioner Mattie Hatchett
District #10
Commissioner Eric Coleman
District #23
District #12
Commissioner Karen Spector
District #16
Commissioner George W. Suarez
District #24
oh, County Clerk
Resolution #07044 March 8, 2007
Moved by Gosselin supported by Douglas to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #07044 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OPPOSE 2% SALES TAX INCREASE ON
THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Douglas, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Jacobsen, KowaII, Long, Middleton, Potter, Potts,
Rogers, Scott, Bullard, Crawford. (14)
NAYS: Gershenson, Gregory, Hatchett, Nash, Spector, Suarez, Woodward, Zack, Burns,
Coleman, Coulter. (11)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #07044 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OPPOSE 2% SALES
TAX INCREASE ON THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN carried.
Moved by Gosselin supported by Douglas the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Greimel, Jacobsen, KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash,
Potter, Potts, Rogers, Scott, Spector, Bullard, Burns, Crawford, Douglas. (18)
NAYS: Gregory, Hatchett, Suarez, Woodward, Zack, Coleman, Coulter. (7)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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I HEREBY APPRUVEII utit(iU1116 RESOLUTION
ACTING PURSUANT TO 1973 PA 13f
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.