HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.04.18 - 31307MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION, #19092 April 18, 2019
BY Commissioner Nancy Quarles, Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and GovernmentOperations
Committee
IN E: BOARD;OF COMMISSIONERSm AUTHORIZE TRANSITION OF_ADAMS-PRATT LAW LIBRARY
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY 1 L RESOURCES CENTER
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS on April 29, 1976 the Board of Commissioners adopted;a resolution naming the Oakland County
Law Library the "Adams -Pratt Law Library" in honor of Clark J. Adams;, former Michigan Supreme Court
Justice, former Circuit Court Judge and Philip Pratt, a former Oakland County Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney, former President of the Oakland County Bar Association, former Circuit Court Judge and former
United States District Court Judge; and
WHEREAS at the time of the adoption of this resolution, the Oakland County Law Library held more than
40;000 volumes and was the largest public law library in the state; and
WHEREAS Judges Adams and Pratt were noted for their "significant roles in the growth of the Oakland
County Law Library"; ,and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners has tasked the Oakland County Library Board with the
development of recommendations for an updated operations plan consistent with the guidance provided by
the State Court Administrative Office; and
WHEREAS these recommendations provide the County with affordable alternatives for the delivery of legal
resources as a di Minirnis law library; and
WHEREAS to accomplish these recommendations the Library Board appointed subcommittees charged
with studying the operations/services and subscriptions/collection of the library; and
WHEREAS the Library` Board's subcommittees issued reports recommending' significant changes In all
aspects of operations and practices; and
WHEREAS the Library' Board unanimously approved the recommendations of both subcommittees on
January 8, 2019; and
WHEREAS the Administrative Director of the Board of Commissioners is implementing the
recommendations of the Library Board, consistent with authority granted by the Board and direction given
by Board leadership; and
WHEREAS the Library Board has adopted a revised mission statement recommending that the Adams -
Pratt Law Library be renamed to the Oakland County Legal Resources Center to reflect the updated
services focused on self -representing litigants and court appointed attorneys; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Legal Resources Center will be operated as a di Minirnis law library with
access to electronic legal databases and a very limited print collection.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners declares their
support for the revised mission; statement adopted by the Library Board on March 19, 2019.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes the renaming of the Adams -
Pratt Law Library to the Oakland County Legal Resources Center.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee, l move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
ChairpersonLe' islalive Affairs and G+
Operations �ittee
Resolution #19092
April 18, 2019
Moved by Gingell seconded by Markham the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be adopted with
accompanying reports being accepted.
AYES: Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray,
Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Gershenson,
Gingell, (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda were adopted with
accompanying reports being accepted.
GERALD D. ISSN
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NO PURSUANT TO MCL 4S.559A(T
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, 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 April 18, 2019,
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 Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 18th day of April, 2019. 1 I
Lisa Brown, Oakland County