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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION# 108093 May 22, 2008
BY: General Government Committee. Christine Long, Chairperson
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS'
RULES FOR THE RECORDING OF MEETINGS BY THE PUBLIC
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS pursuant to the Michigan Open Meetings Act (OMA), MCL 15,251, et. seq., the Oakland
County Board of Commissioners may establish reasonable rules and regulations governing the
recording by the electronic media of its meetings that are open to the public, in order to minimize any
disruption to the meeting.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that consistent with the Michigan Open Meetings Act, the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby adopts the following rules and regulations for the
electronic recording of board and committee meetings by the public:
1. The use of microphones. electronic recording devices, video recording equipment or
portable computers used for the purposes of recording the proceedings of board or
committee meetings are permitted, if done in a non-disruptive manner.
2. Videotaping or electronic recording shall not interfere, obstruct or otherwise disrupt the
proceedings.
3. Videotaping or electronic recording shall be done in an unobstructive and non-intrusive
manner, and in compliance with all safety rules and regulations.
4. Video recording or electronic recording devices are to be placed in such a manner as to not
block, obstruct, or hinder access in aisle ways adjacent to or leading to entry/exit doors in
the auditorium or committee meeting room,
5. The Chairperson may. as circumstances dictate. otherwise direct the placement of recording
equipment.
6. The Chairperson has the right to suspend taping of a meeting if these regulations are not
complied with.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this adopted Rule for the Recording of Board of Commissioners'
Meetings by the Public shall be posted and included in the Rules for Oakland County Board of
Commissioners.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
Resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll cell vote with Crawford and Suarez absent.
Resolution # 08093 May 22, 2008
Moved by Rogers supported by Nash the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda be
adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
Vote on resolutions on the Consent Agenda:
AYES: Burns, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson. Gingeil, Gosselin, Greimel, Jacobsen,
KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash. Potts, Rogers, Scott. Spector. Woodward, Zack, Bullard. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda
were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
- NOT NOME COM BRINE ACTION
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 May 22, 2008, with
the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my nand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at
Pontiac, Michigan this 22nd day of May, 2008
Ruth Johnson, County Clerk