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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgendas/Packets - 1971.03.05 - 39528oakland county service center 2800 watkins lake road pontiac, michigan • 338-6196 Chairman February February 26, 1971 Velma Austin Vice -Chairman Henry A. Schiffer To the Members of the Sec?etary ® PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION Daniel W. Barry Oakland County, Michigan Clarence A. Durbin William L. Mainland Ladies and Gentlemen: Paul W. McGovern Donald W. Nick Carl W. O'Brien A meeting has been called of the PARKS AND Richardson E. Commissioners Commissioners RECREATION COMMISSION as follows: • Kenneth L. Van Natto TIME ............... 9 : 3 0 a.m. Director Friday, March 5, 1971 • Gerard C. Lacey PLACE..............Parks and Recreation Office Assistant Director 2800 Watkins Lake Road • Pontiac, Michigan 48054 Pauline McCormick Adm. Assistant • PURPOSE............ Special Meeting The meeting is called in accordance with authori- zation of Frances Clark, Chairman of the Parks and Recreation Commission. Cordially, Kenneth-L. Van Natta KLV:slw *NOTE: The meeting time has been changed from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m, March 5, 1971. OAKLAND COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION AGENDA March 5, 1971 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of minutes of February 19, 1971 4. Royal Oak Township 5. Huron -Clinton Metropolitan Authority proposal to raise the present 1/4 mill to 1/2 mill to be inside the 15 mill limitation 6. Removal of old structures at Davisburg Park for new clubhouse work 7. Food service program for 1971 8. Architect for concession building at Addison -Oaks 9. New Business 10. Adjourn HURON-CLINTON METRO AUTHORITY MILLAGE PROPOSAL The Huron -Clinton Metro Authority millage proposal (see attached) is submitted for your study and action. A careful analysis of this proposal should be made by the Commission and a report of its recommendation to support or not support the proposal be forwarded to the County Com- mission. A copy of a letter from the Legislative Committee to Chairman Clark is attached. Your Director recommends non -supportive action for this H.C.M.A. millage increase. We were advised that a new H.C.M.A. park in our county was not dependent on the 1/4 mill increase. To this point we were not informed what recreation oppor- tunities, if any, our tax contribution would generate for Oakland County residents. Under present plans this 1/2 mill would be taken from the County operating allocation, which presently is struggling to balance its essential service costs against rising citizen demands. Oakland County has its own park system financed by its people over the 15 mill limitation. We are the only county in the Authority that has taken this action. The recent action by the people of this county, by a two to one majority to extend the county park millage should seem to be an apparent positive response to our policy and progress. Rather than an additional 1/4 mill being contributed to a metropolitan system, the people of all the counties would be better served if additional millage inside the 15 mill limitation accrued to county park systems that are well rep- resented by elected county officials who would be responsive to local needs of obtaining open space and green belt areas in intensively developing areas. Mention should be made that this commission is not against a metropolitan park system. We are willing and ready to cooperate at any given time, but the additional financing, if any, should be further explored in an effort to obtain it from other sources. STRUCTURES AT DAVISBURG It is the recommendation of the Director to accept a bid of $200.00 from a Mr. Craig of Davisburg to purchase and remove these buildings and to completely clear the area of debris that may be caused by their removal. We have received another bid of $100.00 from a Mr. Tower for only the North building. He does not have the time nor the desire to handle them both. This recommendation is based on price only as I do not know the merits of either of the men. These wooden structures were built in 1928. They are presently insured but seldom used. One of the buildings is located on the site of the proposed new clubhouse. The other will be in the way of the second nine hole golf course layout. To have our men remove these buildings and endeavor to salvage the material would be costly compared to the salvage gained. V. Pups fi jj k Bill to Increase HCMA Millage {� The Huron -Clinton Metropolitan Authority was established by the legislature in 1939, with five county referendum approval its 1940. Its primary function has been to build and operate regional parks in Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties. Presently, there are nine developed parks totalling 11, 800 acres in the system with some 8, 800, 000 visitors in 1970. Additional parks are in land acquisition or initial development stages. The Authority is financed by a 1 /4 mill property tax on the state equalized valuation throughout the live counties. Year by year, as existing parks are improved and new parks :ire opened. a larger and larger proportion of the Authority's income koes just ti) onerzte the park system. In 1970 the Authority receivrd 14, 600, 0(;0 fr �m taxes and $870, 000 from operating revenues. A6ministration, operations and maintenance cost $4, 000, 000. The Authority needs an additional quarter mill property tax to carry out its plans to develop at least three new Ana jor parks 11) the five county area over the next fifteen years and to lease and reouile Belle Isle. During this time the five county pop,ilatit)n is exp< cted to approach six million people and, with our ever increasing leisurr. mobility and affluence, the need for regional parks will more than double. The voters in the dist-ict should be given the opportunity decide whether they are willine -, p:iy for an expinded r,etrnpollta park system. It is imperative that action be ini,Aated n..iw befor,, suitable park land is either no longer available or becc-nes prohibitively expensive. City of Detroit voterti, in the 1970 pri-nary, approved the eventual leasing of Belle Isle Park to the Apt}:. riCy , "subj _ ct to a possible county millage inc rea se of a maximum, Quarter :hill" . A property tax increase is proposed as this tax can most readily and fairly be applied to a five county area. A quarter mill tax for a representative taxpayer with a $20, 000 house assessed at $10, 000 would be $2. 50 per year. i. t ' A bill to.amend section 7 of Act No. c47 of the Public Aco& of 1934 entitled , "An act to provide for the incorporation of the Huron -Clinton Metropolitan Authority; to permit the counties of Wayne, Washtenaw, Livingston, Oakland, and Macomb, or certain of such counties, to join in a metropolitan district for planning, promoting, and/or for accl,iirin$, constructing, ownitig, developing, maintaining and operating, either within or without their limits, parks, connecting drives, and/or limited access highways; to provide for the assessment, levy, collection and return of'taxes therefor; to provide for the isst�.ar:ce of bonds; to authorize condemnation proceedings; and to pro-.•ide a referendum thereon, " being section 119.57 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, and to provide a referendum. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHICA:� ENACT. Section 1. Section 7 of Act No. 147 of the F -blic ACtB 11 of 1939. being section 119. 54 of the Compiled Lave - of ' y48. is amended to read as follows: Sec. 7. The Commissioners may levy i :r the p;.r;,o:;c`s of the Authority a tax of not more than, one qi&afL6er mill upon each dollar of the as:,-� se,' %-,A1,te ref i,e pr -r• the district. ;Pre p-j,rd sh,, ,. ert the taxes or 4,f 7oprlation r ;.,ire 1 +:ir it ci shah :ere�uj cr. cer':r. to the Board of Su +ite►e `1V1 �S:c3itiE.?L each Cour; . comprising the district the -:ec• c,iry tax rate to rat. such amount, which shall be uniform in she t'.stri� t, and shali take into consideration the ratio that the total assessed valuate• -in of prospective County bears to the total .., s sess•� d value of all property. real and personal in said entire district according :r) the last assess- ment in each of said respective Counties. All taxes shall be assessed, levied, collected and returned as County taxes under the general property tax law. All moneys collected by any tax collecting officer from the tax levied under the prov,. sions of this section shall be transmitted to the Author-s-ly to ,>e isbursed as provided in th.s Act. The subjects of taxation for the district purposes shall be the same as four State, County and schuol purposes under the general law. Section 2. This amendatory act shall. not take effect until it is approved by a majoYity vote of the hectors of the district voting thereon at the next general election _at which it shall be submitted in the manner prnt•ir1F�1 Fr/ 1,��.�.�. �. i 1; 1 13 1200 A971 deb fva�' R\crgpR Fiances on ofn ?,ec5ecitloGtafn los 5Rgad PER rs" Azo14 cw% gon t 0 klon ofn I 0S 0 'NDF-V4 I �Osvp E;'O j3p, "�P'N 'on ,A tA 6VZSZ4 resO\"t �AekrO?o S �A� c - nkon 3PMF C. 130fz,F S. ,,tlafkec 0 P'UF Deaf N\v \r4e 0 \-\,Jf 00 Go\? 'S\lq L- ON- ROS' king e In k kIne ��JC'Y' ' 'N;� mee 0 /4 to tl6o qP" . SO -S�l N 0�3r 6 Inc t-y CS V. Gp'q' JTOO oction . C R'SS ,?ose -oun vjr� v4p'u%-P� JVZ. t1be ? \\Oge Hof sent pnt OF-�-Os "P, P'fzv0qOt4. fltl -ttee Is J. �A , Tq jlwk�lo Cornfni Ut kl6e ?I ,,I efnf'rl ",OR 00 unty n G'4 -�Vt4 0� k\le e taken 6s oj C-0 . a �OG�A I &cklon veosoning as wou\6 the nee 0\ Jon ana iiklol rao Te ?P' "0 V� (yt tl% on - Cl auto SSR I\clge n r \-. a Cited ,,\,,6e _onkcIct me P, S GN\oc please )PI OUS0 "'-SS ork cis to mot'jon F ?P,-VN jC;K cife. Su %nko� Oesfk-� V. es - RE Cq �Etr,-,Ief\u ?er, fkjs-�01' P. ROSO , 0 \r P, SOga OoNa Yo- ri P, U e Sincere 1 ANIOCOAtA GK 50 t4 RS Cly %ttee 4Jm?Wl Com fence ?,- \(,t*,,4e Chai foan f �-egls 101? .re Kenneth REPORT ON FOOD SERVICE PROGRESS After some research and a considerable amount of endeavor expended in studying some of the solutions to known problems, our only conclusion presently is that we must handle our own food service in the park system. We are aware that this will necessi- tate additional time and endeavor, and probably overburden present office staff. However, the deeper one gets into present catering performances, the more apparent it becomes that supplying our own food services is a must. The State of Wisconsin and Ohio park systems handle their own food service; Michigan does not. We are informed this is be- cause the present feeling is that they do not want to be bothered with it. We are advised that a food service expert on the national level has advised all parks systems to accept this responsibility immediately if they are not already doing so, or a great majority of the systems will have a food service program that is less than mediocre. Presently, a seemingly good chef has been contacted. He is willing to enter into a contractual arrangement to work for us on a full time basis for $12,500 for one year, with the opportunity of going on our pay roll at the end of the contract period. The above suggestion and arrangement, in principle, have been suggested by me. In the event this arrangment failed to be successful it would enable us to look further without a commit- ment to keep this man in our employment. On February 28th this man did the preparation of the food for a wedding reception of 150 people. I stayed with the project as an observer until it was over. We were paid many compliments on the food and service and the manner in which it was handled. It was a sit-down dinner with a basic cost of $4.00 per plate. Even without good purchasing arrangements, and with strange help, we had a net of 25% above food and labor costs. The following Monday morning we had reservation requests for six other parties; there seems to be a greater need and demand for this type of facility than we had anticipated. Our inability to make a firm commitment on these calls is disconcerting. Based on the above it would seem a $50,000 yearly gross would be very minimal @ 25% net. This would pay the chef's wages; a gross of $75,000 would pay wages for the house staff; anything above this figure would begin to generate a net profit for the operation. (continued) FOOD SERVICE - Page 2 With the knowledge we have of some of the reservations we have booked, our gross income for a twelve-month period would be above this amount. When the porch is completed, some time in April, our operation will then become efficient and desirable. It is recommended that we proceed with entering into a contractual arrangement with this man immediately in order that we may be able to serve our park visitors this summer. There will be some additional cost to this program once we become organized. These items will be brought to the Commission for budget approval. SHERIFF'S WATER SAFETY DIVISION WATER SAFETY POSTER CONTEST It has been suggested by Lt, Kratt that the Parks Commission pay for the awards of a Water Safety Poster Contest. Cost of the program would be $75.00 first place, $50.00 second place, and $25.00 third place, a total of $150.00, The Commission can be the judges, or the State will do it and have the Commission do the presenta- tions. This water safety education program is carried on through most of the schools by the Sheriff's Department, and the cost of the program is paid for by the State. If we do not do this, I believe Lt. Kratt can obtain any number of people who would. This seems like a very fine public relations endeavor at a young age level that may pay handsome dividends. It is recommended that this Commission take affirmative action on this proposal.