HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2022.04.14 - 35455BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
April 14, 2022
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #22-128
Sponsored By: Penny Luebs
Public Services - Animal Shelter & Pet Adoption Center - Donation - Acceptance of Gift to the Oakland
County Animal Shelter and Pet Adoption Center
Chairperson and Members of the Board:
WHEREAS the mission of the Oakland County Pet Adoption Center, in part, is to provide a humane haven for
animals in our care and to promote responsible pet placement; and
WHEREAS many individuals have become involved with our shelters either through volunteer activities or
donations to support this mission; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Animal Shelter and Pet Adoption Center Legacy Fund was established to
receive donations to assist our efforts to provide the highest quality service and treatment to animals entrusted
in our care; and
WHEREAS Mr. Kenneth Earl Thweatt was a generous and compassionate resident of Oakland County and
beloved pet parent to Delilah and Alley Cat, both of which he adopted from the Oakland County Animal
Shelter; and
WHEREAS Mr. Kenneth Thweatt named the Oakland County Animal Shelter as a beneficiary of funds in the
amount of $1,090,590.43; and
WHEREAS MR. 483204 requires that gift donations with a value of $10,000 or more, with no match or other
financial obligations to the County, be reviewed by the department's/division's liaison committee,
acknowledged by the Board of Commissioners by signed resolution, accounted for in the appropriate
departmental donation account, and recorded as a general fixed County asset.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners acknowledges
the generous gift of $1,090,590.43 donated by the late Mr. Kenneth Earl Thweatt to the Oakland County
Animal Shelter and Pet Adoption Center.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the donation will be accounted for in the Oakland County Animal Shelter
and Pet Adoption Center's Legacy Fund.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that no budget amendment is required at this time.
Chairperson, the following Commissioners are sponsoring the foregoing Resolution: Penny Luebs.
/ Date: April 14, 2022
David Woodward, Commissioner
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an Date: April 22, 2022
Hilarie Chambers, Deputy County Executive II
Date: April 25, 2022
Lisa Brown, County Clerk / Register of Deeds
COMMITTEE TRACKING
2022-04-05 Public Health & Safety - Recommend and Forward to Finance
2022-04-06 Finance - recommend to Board
2022-04-14 Full Board
VOTE TRACKING
Motioned by Commissioner Gwen Markham seconded by Commissioner Penny Luebs to adopt the attached
Donation: - Acceptance of Gift to the Oakland County Animal Shelter and Pet Adoption Center.
Yes: David Woodward, Michael Gingell, Michael Spisz, Karen Joliat, Kristen Nelson, Eileen Kowall,
Christine Long, Philip Weipert, Gwen Markham, Angela Powell, Thomas Kuhn, Charles Moss, Marcia
Gershenson, William Miller III, Yolanda Smith Charles, Charles Cavell, Penny Luebs, Janet Jackson, Robert
Hoffman, Adam Kochenderfer (20)
No: None (0)
Abstain: None (0)
Absent: (0)
Passed
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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 14, 2022, 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 on Thursday, April 14, 2022.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County Clerk/Register of'Deeds