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April 24, 2024
RESOLUTION #2024-4070 _ 24-33
Sponsored By: Brendan Johnson, David Woodward
Board of Commissioners - Resolution Supporting an Increase in the Governor’s Local Bus
Operating FY 2025 Budget
Chair and Members of the Board:
WHEREAS Local Bus Operating (LBO) funds from the State of Michigan help fund local transit
programs that provide benefits to a broad population of residents much needed transportation; and
WHEREAS on November 8, 2022, the residents of Oakland County showed their support for public
transit, with more than 57% of votes, and approved the Oakland County Public Transportation
millage; and
WHEREAS transit was a key provision highlighted in the Growing Michigan Together Council’s
December 2023 report, which identified ways Michigan could improve its economic competitiveness
and attract young talent to the state; and
WHEREAS local transit programs maintain residents’ independence and helps them affordably reach
critical destinations every day (work, grocery shopping, medical appointments, senior centers, and
more); and
WHEREAS local transit programs keep residents who are unable to drive active, engaged, and
independent in their communities; and
WHEREAS when well-integrated into a community, transit options such as buses can combat traffic
congestion, reduce pollution, reduce unhealthy inactivity (built-in walking), and spur development;
and
WHEREAS transit promotes sustainability by allowing for a single vehicle, a bus, to serve many trips
at the same time. Increased LBO allows more transit service to be available reducing carbon fuel
consumption and greenhouse gas production, which would help meet Michigan’s climate
commitments from the MI Healthy Climate Plan; and
WHEREAS Act 51 states that the LBO may be funded at up to 60% of state eligible expenses for
non-urban transit agencies and up to 50% of state eligible expenses for urban transit agencies.
However, Michigan has never fully funded this line item and has fallen short of state-determined
need. Non-urban agencies received 34-42% of eligible expenses and urban agencies received just
29-34%; and
WHEREAS the Governor’s current proposed FY 2025 budget would provide $40 million less than the
current year in LBO, which would be detrimental to local transit programs, resulting in transit agencies
struggling to meet existing demands.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urges the
Governor of the State of Michigan to increase the Local Bus Operating budget for Fiscal Year 2025 to
minimally maintain FY 2024 funding levels, and optimally fully fund maximum allowable amounts.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to
forward copies of this adopted resolution to the Governor of the State of Michigan, the State Senate
Majority and Minority leaders, the State House Speaker and Minority leader, the members of the
Oakland County delegation to the Michigan Legislature, the members of the Michigan Legislative
Transit Caucus, and the Board of Commissioner’s legislative lobbyist.
Chair, the following Commissioners are sponsoring the foregoing Resolution: Brendan Johnson,
David Woodward.
Date: April 24, 2024
David Woodward, Commissioner
Date: April 29, 2024
Lisa Brown, County Clerk / Register of Deeds
COMMITTEE TRACKING
2024-04-24 Full Board - Adopt
Motioned by Commissioner Brendan Johnson seconded by Commissioner David Woodward to adopt
the attached Resolution: Resolution Supporting an Increase in the Governor’s Local Bus Operating
FY 2025 Budget.
Yes: David Woodward, Michael Spisz, Penny Luebs, Karen Joliat, Kristen Nelson, Christine Long,
Robert Hoffman, Philip Weipert, Gwen Markham, Angela Powell, Marcia Gershenson, Charles
Cavell, Brendan Johnson, Ann Erickson Gault, Linnie Taylor (15)
No: None (0)
Abstain: None (0)
Absent: Ajay Raman, Michael Gingell, Yolanda Smith Charles, William Miller III (4)
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
24, 2024, 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 Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County Clerk / Register of Deeds