HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 1963.06.06 - 7762OAKLAND COUNTY
Board Of Supervisors
MEETING
463
Rule 6, 1963
The Board met as a Committee of the Whole at 2:00 P. M. in the Veterans Memorial
Building, Detroit, Michigan.
Meeting called to order by Chairman Delos Hamlin.
Roll called:
PRESENT: Alward, Bachert, Beecher, Bloc, Calhoun, Campbell, James Carey, John Carey,
Case, Charteris, Cheyz, Clarkson, Cooley, Cummings, Davids, Dewan, Dohany, J. W. Duncan, Wm. Duncan,
Durbin, Edward, Edwards, Fouts, Frid, Gabler, Goodspeed, Hagstrom, Hamlin, Heacock, Hoard, Horton,
Huber, Wallace Hudson, WM. Hudson, Hursfall, Jackson, Kennedy, Lahti, Lessiter, Levin, Levinson,
Marshall, McAleer, McCartney, McGovern, Miller, Mitchell, Moore, 0' Donoghue Oldenburg, Osgood,
Potter, Rehard, Berner, Scramlin, Secterlin, Slavens, Smith, Solley, Stephenson, Tiley, Tinsman,
Voll, Wagner, Webber, Wood, Yockey. (67)
ABSENT: Allerton, Archambault, Bonner, Brickner, Davis, Demute, Ewart, Forbes, Hall,
Ingraham, Kephart, Knowles, Love, MacDonald, Melchert, Menzies, Noel, Taylor. (15)
Quorum Present
The Clerk presented the notice of this meeting together with his affidavit as to the
mailing of said notice, which notice and affidavit ,re as follows:
:NOTICE OF SUPERVIsORS
MLR-COUNTY. M,ITANG
To the Members of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Oakland, State of Michigan
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Oakland County Board of Supervisors will meet as a
Committee of the Whole, at the time and place stated in the following request which has been
filed with me, to-wit:
"A meeting of the Board of Supervisors, as a Committee of the Whole, is hereby
called to be held on Thursday, the 6th day of June 1903 at 2:00 o'clock P. N.
EST, in the First. Floor Banquet Hall of the Veterans Memorial Building, City
of Detroit.
Signed: Frank- F. Webber, Chairman pro tern
Oakland County Board of Supervisors"
Signed: Daniel T. Murphy
Oakland County Clerk and Register of Beds
Dated: May 22, 1963
PROOF OF MAILING
STATE OF MIGHTUAN)ss
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
Daniel T. Murphy, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the County Clerk
and Register of Deeds of Oakland County and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors for Oakland County
and that he served a true copy of the foregoing notice on each member of the Board of Supervisors
of Oakland County, Michigan by enclosing the same in an envelope properly sealed, sufficiently
stamped, and plainly addressed to such member at his last known address and depositing the same
in the United States mail. at Pontiac, Michigan on May 22, 1963.
Signed: Daniel T. Murphy
Oakland County Clerk and Register of Deeds
Subscribed and sworn to before be this 22nd day of May 1963
Signed: Julia Maddock, Notary Public, Oakland County, Michigan
My commission expires November 10, 1964
Clerk read card of thanks from Mrs. H. Russel Holland and family. (Placed on file)
Clerk read appointment of the following supervisors:
MADISON HEIGHTS CITY - Richard W. Marshall, Charles B. Edwards, Jr., John Dewan,
Faye McCartney, John B. Michrina (replaces John Archambault)
BERKLEY CITY - William Wagner (replaces John G. Semann)
SOUTH LYON CITY - Claude R. Tapp (replaces John E. Noel)
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Supervisors Minutes Continued. June 6, 1963
Misc, 4170
By Mr. Levinson
IN RE: JURY COMMISSION
To the Oakland County Hoard of Supervisors
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Your Ways and Means Committee, at its meeting on June 5, considered the Jury Commission
Act and its implications and appointed a sub-committee of throe members to meet with the County
Clerk and Corporation Counsel. This group will study the Jury Commission Act and will submit a
report with its recommendations.
Your Ways and Means Committee will study these recommendations and make further report
to the Board •during the June Session.
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Ways and Means Committee, 1 move that the above report
be received and placed on file.
WAYS', AND MEANS COMMITTEE
11 A Levinson, Chairman
. Carey, ft; C. Cummings, Harry W. Horton
O'Donoghue, Frank J. Voll, Sr.
Fiat i: F. Webber
Moved by Levinson supported by Cummings the report be adopted.
A sufficient majority haying voted therefor, the motion carried.
Misc. 4171
By Mr. Levinson
IN RE: MEMORIAL. FOR JUDGE H. RUSSEL HOLLAND
To the Oakland. County Board of Supervisors -
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
All of Oakland County was saddened last April 23 by the news of the sudden death of
our beloved Circuit Judge H. Russel Holland. Just two months earlier, on February 15, Judge
Holland retired from the Circuit Bench of this County after 27 years of outstanding judicial
service not only to the people of this County but also to the State of Michigan. He was the
last of the famous triumvirate - Judge Hartrick, Judge Doty, Judge Holland - who established
for Oakland County a most enviable position in the judicial history of the State.
Judge Holland was born January 17, 18 at Wilmington, Virginia, and attended the
University of Richmond where he graduated in 102. le first became a teacher and later studied
law at the University of Michigan where he Cce.sd his degree in 1926. After opening a law
office in Pontiac in 1927 he became Pontiac Municipal Judge in 1929 and Circuit Judge in 1936.
Judge Holland looked forward to his retirement, which he announced last January,
despite efforts by the County's other Judges to persuade him to remain on the Bench. His loss
leaves a void most difficult to fill. His judicial ability, his valued advice and counsel to
members of this Board, his homespun humor and his friendliness will long be remembered by all
who knew him or were in any way associated with him.
This Board of Supervisors extends its sympathy to his widow, Nell Holland, and to his
son, H. Russel II, and his daughter, Sharon L. Holland,
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of all of the members of this Board, I move that the foregoing
memorial be spread upon the minutes of this meeting of the Board of Supervisors and that the
County Clerk be authorized to forward a certified copy thereof, with the Seal of the County
affixed thereto, to his widow and children.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
David Levinson, Chairman
William A. Ewart, William C. Hudson
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Moved by Fouts supported by Hoard the Committee of the Whole arise and the meeting
stand adjourned.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Daniel T. Murphy Delos Hamlin
Clerk Chairman