HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.04.29 - 34356MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21148 April 29, 2021
BY: Commissioners Marcia Gershenson, District #13; David Woodward, District #19; Charlie Cavell, District
18; Bob Hoffman, District#2; Adam Kochenderfer, District#15; Thomas Kuhn, District#11; Christine Long,
District #7; Gary McGillivray, District #20; Chuck Moss, District #12; Philip Weipert, District #8; Penny
Luebs, District #16; Yolanda Charles, District #17; Janet Jackson, District #21; Karen Joliet, District #4;
Eileen Kowall, District #6; Gwen Markham, District #9; William Miller, District #14; Kristen Nelson, District
#5; Angela Powell, District #10; Michael Spisz, District #3; and Michael Gingell, District #1
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — PROCLAIMING APRIL 2021 AS NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING
MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Fair Housing Act, enacted on April 11, 1968, safeguarded into federal law the goal of
eliminating racial segregation and ending housing discrimination in the United States; and
WHEREAS the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing based on race, color, religion, sex,
familial status, national origin, and disability, and commits recipients of federal funding to affirmatively
further fair housing in their communities; and
WHEREAS more than 50 years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, discrimination persists, and many
communities remain segregated; and
WHEREAS many individuals still experience different sales prices or rental charges for the sale or rental of
a dwelling based on one's color; or are assigned a certain "area" of a building or complex to live due to their
religion; or denied a mortgage or are charged a higher interest rate since they have a disability; and
WHEREAS these acts of housing discrimination and barriers to equal housing opportunities are
unacceptable to a common sense of decency and fairness; and
WHEREAS our social fabric, the economy, health, and environment are strengthened in diverse, inclusive
communities; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners is committed to the mission and intent of
Congress to provide fair and equal housing opportunities for all.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners does hereby
declare the month of April 2021 as Fair Housing Month in Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Oakland County is an inclusive County committed to fair housing and
the promotion of appropriate activities by private and public entities to provide and advocate for equal
housing opportunities for all residents and prospective residents of Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of the adopted resolution to the Fair Housing Center of Metropolitan Detroit, the Fair Housing Center
for Southeast and Mid -Michigan, the Alliance for Housing, the Community of Housing Network, and the
HOPE Warming Center.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #21148
April 29. 2021
Moved by Long seconded by Luebs the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham,
McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
I HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
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 29, 2021,
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 291h day of April, 2021.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County