HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2008.10.23 - 9614REPORT (MSC. #08184) October 23, 2008
BY: General Government Committee, Christine Long, Chairperson
IN RE: MR #08184 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OAKLAND UNIVERSITY NURSING SCHOOL AT THE SITE OF
POH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
To: The Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed the above-referenced
resolution on October 13, 2008. reports with the recommendation that the resolution be
adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move acceptance of
the foregoing report.
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Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Gingell and Clark absent.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of theiroregoing resolu
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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #08184
BY: Commissioner Tim Greimel, District #11 and Commissioner Mate McKinney-Hatchett, District #10
RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – SUPPORT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OAKLAND
UNIVERSITY NURSING SCHOOL AT THE SITE OF POH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS this Board supports continued access to quality healthcare for Oakland County
residents; and
WHEREAS this Board supports the saving and creating of jobs in the difficult economic climate
facing Oakland County; and
WHEREAS there is an acute shortage of nurses throughout the State of Michigan, including
Oakland County; and
WHEREAS the shortage of nurses threatens to curtail growth in the healthcare sector, which is
potentially one of the fastest growing economic sectors in Oakland County; and
WHEREAS Oakland University is interested in establishing a nursing school at the site of FOR
Regional Medical Center; and
WHEREAS the establishment of such a nursing school would train students to fill high-paying jobs in
Oakland County; and
WHEREAS the establishment of such a nursing school would help to alleviate the shortage of
nurses in Oakland County and the State of Michigan, thereby facilitating continued economic growth
in the healthcare sector.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
endorses the establishment of a nursing school by Oakland University on the site of POH Regional
Medical Center and encourages all relevant parties to work cooperatively toward that end.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of CornnIlsuJleI b hereby requests
the Oakland County Clerk to forward copies of this adopted resolution to Governor Jenniier
Granholm, to members of the Oakland County delegation to the Michigan legislature, to Oakland
County's legislative lobbyists, to the Mayor of the City of Pontiac, to the members of the City Council
of the City of Pontiac, to the President and Chief Executive Officer and to the board of directors of
POH Regional Medical Center, and to the President and to the members of the Board of Trustees of
Oakland University.
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Resolution #08184 September 4, 2008
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.
OCTOBER 23, 2008 RESOLUTION #08184
Moved by Long supported by Greimel the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Burns, Coulter, Crawford, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin, Gregory, Greimel,
Hatchett, Jacobsen. KowaII, Long, Middleton, Nash. Potter, Potts, Rogers, Scott, Spector. Woodward,
Zack, Bullard. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the amended Consent
Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
1 HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOIRON
ACTING PURSUANT TO 1973 PA 139
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, 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 October 23, 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 23rd day of October, 2008.
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Ruth Johnson, County Clerk