HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.01.21 - 34121REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
UNDER NEW BUSINESS
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21024
BY: Commissioner David Woodward, District #19
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — REDESIGNATING FUNDING SOURCE FOR 2020 ABSENTEE
VOTER INFORMATION POST CARD
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #20241 authorized the expenditures in an amount not to exceed
$500,000 from the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund grant for the purpose of conducting a voter
outreach and education campaign targeted at ensuring ballot access during the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS pursuant to the provisions of this resolution, an educational post card was mailed to Oakland
County absentee voters providing guidance to ensure voter's ballots will be counted; and
WHEREAS pursuant to Miscellaneous Resolution #20470, Oakland County accepted grant funding in the
amount of $157,907.75 from the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) for purposes related to promotion
of a safe and secure election. Grant funds were designated for non -partisan voter education and poll worker
recruitment, and training expenses related to the November 2020 General Election; and
WHEREAS an available balance exists within the CTCL grant to cover a portion of the costs associated
with the general election absentee voter post card; and
WHEREAS transferring costs associated with the absentee voter post card will release CARES Act
Coronavirus Relief Fund grant funding for use to address pandemic response and recovery needs.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
authorizes the use of funding from the Center for Tech and Civic Life grant for costs related to the general
election absentee voter education post card authorized by MR #2024,1:
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Commissioner David Woodward
District #19
Resolution #21024
January 21, 2021
Moved by Gershenson seconded by Spisz to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#21024 — Board of Commissioners — Redesignating Funding Source for 2020 Absentee Voter Post Card.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #21024 — Board of Commissioners — Redesignating Funding Source for 2020 Absentee Voter
Post Card carried.
Moved by Gershenson seconded by Spisz the resolution be adopted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long,
Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell,
Charles. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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1 HEREBY APPROVE THIS RESO
LUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A V)
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 January 21,
2021, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal )f the Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 21st day of January, 2021.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County