HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2008.04.24 - 9409Miscellaneous Resolution # 08082
BY: Commissioner Bill Bullard, Jr,, District #2
RE: Board of Commissioners — Support for Housing Counseling Program and Partners
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Comprehensive
Housing Counseling (CHC) grant program provides funding for a full range of housing
counseling services, information and assistance to housing consumers in improving their
housing conditions and meeting the responsibilities of home ownership and tenancy; and
WHEREAS the Housing Counseling Program services are provided in the Oakland county
Community and Home Improvement Division of the Oakland County Community and Economic
Development Department; and
WHEREAS services provided to Oakland County residents include information for first time
buyers, pre-occupancy, rental delinquency and mortgage default assistance, Home Equity
Conversion Mortgage Program, home improvement and rehabilitation resources, displacement
and relocation resources and pre-foreclosure assistance; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Community and Home Improvement Division's Housing
Counseling unit delivers free comprehensive housing counseling services to Oakland County
residents; and
WHEREAS as a county, we have witnessed unprecedented high housing foreclosure rates,
high unemployment, and business stagnation as a result of our state economy. In 2007, nearly
8,000 Oakland County residents — a record number — reported losing their homes due to
foreclosures; and
WHEREAS the Housing counseling staff worked in close conjunction with the Oakland County
Commissioners to present a series of "My Home — My Future: Home Ownership Retention
Seminars" to residents; and
WHEREAS these seminars were presented by a collaboration of housing counseling agencies
including Oakland County, Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency (OLHSA), Michigan of Peace
National Corporation, and Lighthouse Community Development, private businesses and community
organizations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
hereby affirms its unwavering support for the Housing Counseling Program and applauds the
diligent efforts of the Administration and Staff of the Community and Economic Development
Departments' Home Improvement Division to provide free foreclosure intervention and
prevention seminars that help families protect their most valuable asset -- their home.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urges the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to continue to provide funding for the
Comprehensive Housing Counseling (CF-IC) grant program and continue support for Oakland
County's vital housing counseling program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk is requested to forward copies of
this adopted resolution to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the
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Oakland County delegation to the U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate and Oakland County's
legislative lobbyists.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
I MEP APPROVE FOREGOffi RESOLUTION
Resolution #08082 April 24, 2008
Moved by Bullard supported by Long to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION
#08082 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR HOUSING COUNSELING PROGRAM AND
PARTN ERS.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Gregory, Greimel, Hatchett, Jacobsen, Kowaf, Long, Middleton, Nash, Potts, Scott,
Spector, Zack, Bullard, Burns. Coleman, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson. Gosselin. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #08082 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR
HOUSING COUNSELING PROGRAM AND PARTNERS carried.
Moved by Bullard supported by Greimel the resolution be adopted.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Greimel, Hatchett, Jacobsen. KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash, Potts, Scott, Spector, Zack,
Bullard, Burns, Coleman, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson. Gregory. (18)
NAYS: Gosselin. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Ruth Johnson, 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, 2008, 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 County of Oakland at
Pontiac, Michigan this 24th day of April, 2008.
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Ruth Johnson, County Clerk