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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION # 09199
BY: Commissioner Jeff Potter, District #8
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – SUPPORT LEGISLATION TO
TEMPORARILY REDUCE NUMBER OF CIRCUIT COURT JUDGESHIPS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the County of Oakland is facing severe budget challenges due to a sharp
decline in the taxable valuation of property and reduced federal and state revenue distributions;
and
WHEREAS in response to declining revenues, the elected officials and departments in
Oakland County have been asked to reduce expenditures to eliminate projected budget shortfalls:
and
WHEREAS the Circuit Court will have an open judgeship on January 1, 2011 due to
Constitutional limitation; and
WHEREAS the Circuit Court has requested legislation (legislative bill request 04430'09)
to temporarily reduce the number of circuit court judgeships from 19 to 18 for the period January
1, 2011 to January 1, 2015 for the purpose of reducing county expenditures to help alleviate
budget shortfalls which are currently projected for the next few years; and
WHEREAS it is estimated that Oakland County will save nearly $1.8 million over the
four-year period during which the number of judgeships is reduced from 19 to 18; and
WHEREAS legislative bill request 04430'09 would reinstate the number of circuit court
judgeships to 19 on January 1,2015.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners supports legislative bill request 04430'09 to temporarily reduce the number of
circuit court judgeships in the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court in Oakland County from 19 to 18 for
the period January 1. 2011 to January 1, 2015.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the copies of this Resolution be sent to Oakland
County's legislative delegation, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, the Speaker of the
House, the Senate Majority Leader, the State Court Administrative Office and the Oakland
County lobbyists.
Chairperson. we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #09199 September 2, 2009
Moved by Potter supported by Middleton to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #09199 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT LEGISLATION TO
TEMPORARILY REDUCE NUMBER OF CIRCUIT COURT JUDGESHIPS.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Gosselin, Greimel, Hatchett, Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash,
Potter, Potts, Runestad, Schwartz, Scott, Taub, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Capelio, Coleman,
Coulter, Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell. (24)
NAYS: Burns. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #09199 — BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — SUPPORT
LEGISLATION TO TEMPORARILY REDUCE NUMBER OF CIRCUIT COURT JUDGESHIPS carried.
Moved by Potter supported by Middleton the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Greimel, Hatchett, Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts,
Runestad, Schwartz, Scott, Taub, Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Capello, Coleman, Coulter,
Douglas, Gershenson, Gingell, Gosselin. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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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
September 2, 2009, 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 2nd day of September, 2009.
Ruth Johnson, County Clerk