HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2020.06.04 - 33291MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #20178 June 4, 2920
BY: Commissioner Penny Luebs, Chairperson, Health, Safety and Human Services Committee
IN RE: PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION — SUPPORT OF REQUEST TO CONVERT
MICHIGAN NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST FUND -ASSISTED PROPERTY AT INDEPENDENCE
OAKS COUNTY PARK
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Parks and Recreation Commission received a grant (TF06-199) from the
Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund ("MNRTF") for the acquisition of Independence Oaks -North; and
WHEREAS MNRTF policy indicates that "Property acquired or developed with Michigan Natural Resources
Trust Fund assistance shall be retained and preserved in its natural state including development needed
to provide for outdoor public recreation use as set forth in the MNRTF application"; and
WHEREAS MNRTF policy further indicates that "property acquired or developed with MNRTF assistance
shall not be wholly or partially converted to other than public outdoor recreation use without approval of the
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and MNRTF Board and the implementation of mitigation measures
approved by the DNR and the Board"; and
WHEREAS a 135 -year-old residential home ("the Bailey House") located at 9965 Sashabaw Road,
Clarkston, MI 48348, was acquired with MNRTF funding as part of the Independence Oaks -North property
acquisition; and
WHEREAS Preservation Clarkston and Clarkston Public Schools presented the Oakland County Parks and
Recreation Commission with a plan to restore the Bailey House through the school district's trades
programming, to teach students skills and techniques for historic home repair, renovation and preservation;
and
WHEREAS Preservation Clarkston also presented Oakland County Parks and Recreation with a plan to
swap the Bailey House property (.73 acres) for 3.4 acres of available property along Sashabaw Road and
adjacent to Independence Oaks County Park to meet MRTF's conversion mitigation requirements; and
WHEREAS the mitigation property (3.4 acres) provides additional connectivity between Independence
Oaks and Independence Oaks -North; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Parks and Recreation Commission has preliminary approval from the DNR
for mitigation of this conversion with the identified 3.4 acres adjacent to the park.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners supports the
request to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund
Board to convert.73 acres of MNRTF-assisted property at Independence Oaks County Park.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED a budget amendment is not required.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Health, Safety and Human Services Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
Commissioner enny Luebs, District #16
Chairperson, ealth, Safety and Human
Services Committee
HEALTH, SAFETY AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Gingell absent.
Resolution #20178 June 4, 2020
Moved by Gershenson seconded by Luebs the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Vote on Consent Agenda, as amended:
AYES: Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray,
Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack,
Gershenson. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
1 HEREB`f APPROVETHIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
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 June 4, 2020,
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 41h day of June, 2020.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County