Board of Trustee Minutes

CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MINUTES – MONDAY, MAY 29, 2007

PRESENT: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Stefanes, Savoie

Also present, Attorney Kristen Kolb

ABSENT: None

Supervisor Payne welcomed the public and led the Pledge of Allegiance.

ITEM #1 Approved Board Minutes of May 14, 2007

ITEM #2 Consider Approval of Fireworks Permit for John Krajenke/18th Tee, Wabeek Country Club

Wabeek Country Club sponsors this display each year and there have been no complaints.

MOTION by Barnett and SUPPORT by Buckley to APPROVE the Fireworks Permit for John Krajenke/18th Tee, Wabeek Country Club.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

ITEM #3 Consider Approval of Fireworks Permit for Tibor Gyarmati, 3075 Heron Pt.

Mr. Gyarmati has held this display for a number of years. There have been no complaints regarding this event, but there has been some as to firecrackers and other explosives being set off afterwards.

MOTION by Savoie and SUPPORT by Stefanes to APPROVE the Fireworks Permit for Tibor Gyarmati, 3075 Heron Pt.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

ITEM #4 Award Contract for 2007 Cranbrook Road Reconstruction – Presented by Wayne Domine

In May 2006, the Board authorized the use of tri-party funds to reconstruct Cranbrook Road at a cost of $1,360,000.00. Since last year, the cost to complete the project has increased to $1,539,000, with the Township’s share being $478,000.00.

Domine recommended acceptance of the low bid from Florence Cement Company to complete the work for this project.

Once the tri-party agreement is signed, the work will begin tentatively in July 2007, with final restoration being completed in October 2007.

MOTION by Devine and SUPPORT by Buckley to AWARD the Contract for the 2007 Cranbrook Road Reconstruction to Florence Cement Company and to AUTHORIZE the Increase in Expenditures for this Project.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

ITEM #5 Award Contract for Environmental Assessment – Presented by Wayne Domine

Proposals were secured from four consulting firms to conduct Phase 1 of the Environmental Assessment Survey. This survey will assess the potential for hazardous materials for the Capital Building Program.

Domine recommended Huron Consultants to perform the work with a budget not to exceed $12,470.00.

MOTION by Barnett and SUPPORT by Roncelli to AWARD the Environmental Assessment Survey for the Capital Building Project to Huron Consultants with a Budget NOT to Exceed $12,470.00.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

ITEM #6 Consider Adoption of Ordinance 585, Amendment to Establish Permanent Lawn Ground Cover for Construction Projects

This Ordinance was introduced to the Board at their last meeting on May 14, 2007.

MOTION by Barnett and SUPPORT by Roncelli to ADOPT Ordinance 585, Amendment to Establish Permanent Lawn Ground Cover for Construction Projects.

AN ORDINANCE TO REQUIRE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMANENT LAWN GROUND COVER AT THE TIME OF ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY OR THE POSTING OF A FINANCIAL GUARANTEE

THE TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD ORDAINS:

Section 1.

Article XVII Administration, Section 1702. Certificate of Occupancy, of the Township Zoning Ordinance No. 265, as amended, is hereby amended to add subsections 2 b, c and d to read as follows:

SECTION 1702. CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY:

No land, building, structure, or part thereof shall be occupied by or for any use for which a building permit is required by this Ordinance unless and until a Certificate of Occupancy shall have been issued for such new use. The following shall apply in the issuance of any certificate:

A Certificate of Occupancy shall also be required for the change of any existing principal use or tenancy of a building or land to another principal use or tenancy, excepting residential tenancy.

Section 2. Repealer.

All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed only to the extent necessary to give this Ordinance full force and effect.

Section 3. Savings.

All proceedings pending and all rights and liabilities existing, acquired or incurred at the time this Ordinance takes effect, are saved and may be consummated according to the law when they were commenced.

Section 4. Severability.

If any section, clause or provision of this Ordinance shall be declared to be unconstitutional, void, illegal or ineffective by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such section, clause or provision declared to be unconstitutional, void or illegal shall thereby cease to be a part of this Ordinance, but the remainder of this Ordinance shall stand and be in full force and effect.

Section 5. Effective Date.

The provisions of this Ordinance are hereby ordered to take effect immediately upon publication in the manner prescribed by law.

Section 6. Adoption.

This Ordinance is hereby declared to have been adopted by the Township Board of the Charter Township of Bloomfield at a meeting thereof duly called and held on the 29th day of May, 2007, and ordered to be given publication in the manner prescribed by law.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

ORDINANCE DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of an ordinance adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

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JANET M. RONCELLI

TOWNSHIP CLERK

ITEM #7 Introduction of Ordinance 586, Code of Ordinances Adopting Ordinance

It has been 22 months since the Codification of Ordinances contract was signed. All ordinances will be codified up to Ordinance #582, adopted March 2007, and will be available on the Bloomfield Township website within the next two weeks. Approximately two times per year there will be supplements to this codification; to include new ordinances that have been adopted.

The Board acknowledged Jan Roncelli, Clerk, and Tina Barton, Deputy Clerk, for their coordination of this massive undertaking.

Attorney Kolb stated that this ordinance would repeal all ordinances that are not up-to-date.

MOTION by Buckley and SUPPORT by Barnett to ACCEPT the Introduction of Ordinance 586, Code of Ordinances Adopting Ordinance.

AN ORDINANCE ENACTING A CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD, WHICH INCLUDES REPEALING, REVISING, AMENDING, RESTATING, CODIFYING, AND COMPILING CERTAIN EXISTING GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE MANNER OF AMENDING SUCH CODE; AND, PROVIDING WHEN SUCH CODE AND THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE.

THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD ORDAINS:

Section 1 of Ordinance. Purpose and Intent.

The present general and permanent ordinances of the Township are inadequately arranged and classified and are insufficient in form and substance for the complete preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare of the municipality and for the proper conduct of its affairs. The State of Michigan legislation empowers and authorizes the Township to revise, amend, restate, codify, and compile any existing ordinances and all new ordinances not heretofore adopted or published and to incorporate such ordinances into one ordinance in book form. The Township Board has authorized a general compilation, revision, and codification of the ordinances of the Township of a general and permanent nature and publication of such ordinance in book form. It is necessary to provide for the usual daily operation of the municipality and for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare of the municipality that this ordinance take effect at an early date.

Section 2 of Ordinance. Short Title.

This Ordinance shall be known as the "Code of Ordinances Adopting Ordinance" and may be so cited.

Section 3 of Ordinance. Adoption of Code of Ordinances.

The general ordinances of the Township as revised, amended, restated, codified, and compiled in book form attached hereto and incorporated herein, are hereby adopted as and shall constitute the "Code of Ordinances of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, Michigan."

Such Code of Ordinances as adopted in Section 1 shall consist of the following Chapters:

{See Attached and Incorporated Exhibit A, Table of Contents}

Section 4 of Ordinance. Penalty.

Whenever in this Code or any ordinance of the Township an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be a misdemeanor or a municipal civil infraction, or whenever in this code or any ordinance the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be a misdemeanor or municipal civil infraction, the violation of any such provision by any person shall, upon conviction of a misdemeanor, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both, except whenever a specific is otherwise provided. Whenever any such violation shall constitute a municipal civil infraction, a finding of responsibility shall be punished by a civil fine not exceeding $500.00, except whenever a specific penalty is otherwise provided.

Each act of violation and each day upon which any such violation shall occur shall constitute a separate offense. The penalty provided by this section, unless another penalty is expressly provided, shall apply to the amendment of any Code section, whether or not such penalty is reenacted in the amendatory ordinance. In addition to the penalty prescribed above, the Township may pursue other remedies such as abatement of nuisances, injunctive relief and revocation of licenses or permits.

Section 5 of Ordinance. Code Additions or Amendments.

Additions or amendments to the Code when passed in such form as to indicate the intention of the Township Board to make the same a part of the Code shall be deemed to be incorporated in the Code, so that reference to the Code includes the additions and amendments.

Section 6 of Ordinance. Later Ordinances.

Ordinances adopted after March 26, 2007 that amend or refer to ordinances that have been codified in the Code shall be construed as if they amend or refer to like provisions of the Code.

Section 7 of Ordinance. Repealer.

All prior ordinances pertaining to the subjects treated in such Code of Ordinances shall be deemed repealed from and after the effective date of this ordinance except as they are included and reordained in whole or in part in such Code.

Section 8 of Ordinance. Savings.

All proceedings pending and all rights and liabilities existing, acquired or incurred at the time this ordinance takes effect are saved and may be consummated according to the law in force when they were commended.

Section 9 of Ordinance. Prior Ordinances Not Revived.

The repeal provided for in Section 4 hereof shall not be construed to revive any ordinance or part thereof that has been repealed by a subsequent ordinance that is repealed by this ordinance.

Section 10 of Ordinance. Severability.

Should any section, subdivision, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance be declared by the courts to be invalid, the validity of the ordinance as a whole, or in part, shall not be affected other than the part invalidated.

Section 11 of Ordinance. Effective Date.

This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon publication in the manner prescribed by law.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

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ITEM #8 Introduction of Ordinance 587, Solicitation Amendment, and Resolution

This ordinance and resolution is in response to residential concern with solicitors in the Township. It proposes that the solicitor must apply for a permit, wear an identification badge, and pay an issuance fee.

Board members made suggestions regarding the badges such as the Township seal/logo being added, making the "Solicitation License" title larger, and putting the Clerk’s office phone number on the back so that residents may call to verify.

MOTION by Savoie and SUPPORT by Barnett to ACCEPT the Introduction of Ordinance 587, Solicitation Amendment.

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 551, THE TOWNSHIP SOLICITATION ORDINANCE, TO REGULATE ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONS SOLICITING AND, TO REQUIRE REGISTRATION, DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION, LICENSING, INCLUDING AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSING FEE AND/OR LICENSE FEE AND AN IDENTIFICATION CARD BEFORE SOLICITING, AND TO EXEMPT QUALIFIED VETERANS.

THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF BLOOMFIELD ORDAINS:

Section 1. Purpose

The Township Board having determined that it is in the best interest of Bloomfield Township to enact an Ordinance regulating organizations and persons soliciting in the Township, the enactment of said Ordinance being necessary to promote and protect the public safety of those persons soliciting as well as to protect the public safety, protect residents’ privacy, as well as preventing fraud as to those persons in the Township being solicited.

Section 2. Definitions

The following words and terms shall have the following definitions for the purposes of this Ordinance.

A. Person: An individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation, trust, business entity or any combination of the above.

B. Soliciting Material: Printed or similar materials, including but not limited to the labels, posters, brochures, flyers, pamphlets, magazines, booklets, books and other like items used in the course of and for the purposes of soliciting.

C. Solicitor:

(1) A person who solicits when traveling either by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck, or other means of conveyance from place to place, from house to house or from street to street.

(2) A person who hires, leases, uses or occupies any building, structure, hotel, room, shop or any other place for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples or soliciting material and taking orders for future delivery.

(3) The word solicitor shall include but not be limited to the words canvassers, peddler, and hawker.

D. Solicits: The act of offering or attempting to offer wares, merchandise, services, items of personal property, real property, either for immediate or future delivery; or the act of seeking or attempting to seek contributions either in money or services for charitable or commercial purposes.

Section 3. License Required

No person shall be a solicitor and/or solicit in Bloomfield Township without first obtaining a license therefore. An application for a license shall be made to the Township Clerk. In the event that the application is made by an organization, group, association, partnership, corporation, trust, business entity or any combination of the above, an application must be made for each agent or employee who shall be engaging in the act of soliciting.

Section 4. License Application

A license application filed hereunder shall furnish the following information:

(A) Name and description of the applicant.

(B) Permanent home address and full local address of the applicant.

(C) A brief description of the nature of the solicitation contemplated.

(D) If the applicant is an employee, the name and address of the employer, together with the credentials establishing the exact employer/employee relationship.

(E) The length of time the applicant intends to solicit.

(F) The place where the wares, merchandise, services, items of personal property or real property are located, manufactured or produced, where such items are located at the time said application is filed and the proposed method of delivery.

G) One photograph of the applicant, said photograph being from the applicant’s driver’s license, and a copy of said driver’s license to be attached to the applicant’s application. If the applicant does not have a driver’s license, the photograph may be from a state identification card, and a copy of said state identification card shall be attached to the applicant’s application. In the event that the application does not have a driver’s license or a state identification card, then the application shall submit a photograph which shall be at least 2" x 2" and show the head and shoulders of the applicant in a clear and distinguishing manner.

(H) The applicant’s social security number.

(I) A statement as to whether or not the applicant has been convicted of any felony, misdemeanor or violation of any municipal ordinance, the nature of the offense and the punishment or penalty assessed therefore.

Section 5. Administrative Fee and/or License Fee

There shall be a reasonable administrative processing fee and/or license fee required by the Township to obtain a solicitor’s license from the Township. The administrative processing fee and/or license fee shall be declared by resolution of the Township Board.

Section 6. Issuance, Possession, and Presentation of License

Upon approval of the license application, the Township Clerk shall issue a license and license identification card including the name, address, and photo of the licensed person. The licensed person shall visibly display on their person at all times the license identification card when conducting activities permitted by the license. The licensed person must produce and present the license identification card upon the request of any Township official or person being solicited. Failure to visibly display on their person and/or present the license identification card may result in revocation of the license subject to Section 7. Failure to visibly display on their person and/or present the license identification card may result in penalty imposed under Section 11.

Section 7. License Revocation

A license may be suspended or revoked by the Township Board for violation of this Ordinance after reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard. The Township Board may suspend on an emergency basis, without hearing, any license issued to the solicitor when the Township Board specifies in the notice of emergency suspension, the reasons and grounds indicating the violation of this Ordinance which constitutes the emergency. The notice shall set forth that within 48 hours, at a designated time and place, a hearing shall be held on whether the license shall be permanently suspended or revoked. The solicitor may show compliance with the requirements of this Ordinance and shall have the burden of adducing the evidence.

Section 8. Prohibited Activities

The following acts or activities shall be prohibited:

(A) Fixed stands prohibited. No solicitor shall stop or remain in one place upon any street, alley or public place.

(B) Prohibited areas. No solicitor shall obstruct any street, alley, sidewalk or driveway.

(C) Litter. No solicitor shall litter any street, alley, sidewalk, driveway, or private property in the Township.

(D) Curb service prohibited. No solicitor shall operate or maintain any stand, vehicle, store or place of solicitation on or near any highway. No solicitor shall be permitted to use the streets, alleys, lanes or public places of the Township for soliciting or to use any stands, stores or other places of transaction in any manner that requires the person wishing to participate in a transaction, when engaged in the transaction, to stand within the limits of the streets, highways, alleys or public places of the Township.

(E) Prohibition of entry upon private property expressly requesting no solicitation. No solicitor shall enter upon and/or call upon a place of residence or business within Bloomfield Township after having been expressly notified by the occupant of the place of residence or business that no solicitation is desired, or if the place of residence or business visibly displays on its property and/or premises a sign indicating "no soliciting", "no solicitation" and/or other language specifically conveying the message that no soliciting is desired.

(F) Prohibition of creation of nuisance. No solicitor shall threaten or annoy any resident of the Township in the course of their solicitation or in any way engage in any conduct which is or would tend to create a nuisance.

Section 9. Hours of Operation

Soliciting may take place within the Township between the hours of 11:00 a.m. in the forenoon and 7:00 p.m. in the evening while daylight savings time is in effect and from 11:00 a.m. in the forenoon and 5:00 p.m. in the evening when daylight savings time is not in effect.

Section 10. Exempt Persons

The following persons shall be exempt from the licensing requirements, administration and/or license fee, and license identification card requirements of this Ordinance, but shall be subject to the other provisions herein:

(A) Persons engaged in the occupation of sale or of distribution of newspapers.

(B) Persons engaged in soliciting on foot within one-half mile of their residence.

(C) Persons engaged in non-commercial, religious canvassing.

(D) Persons engaged in the distribution of handbills, signed or unsigned, political or otherwise.

(E) Persons duly licensed under Act 359 of 1921, MCL 35.441, et seq. (Qualified Veterans).

Section 11. Penalty

Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 plus costs of prosecution or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or by both fine and costs and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.

Section 12. Repealer

All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed only to the extent necessary to give this Ordinance full force and effect

Section 13. Severability

Should any section, subdivision, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance be declared by the Courts to be invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole or any part thereof, other than the parts so invalidated.

Section 14. Savings

All proceedings pending and all rights and liabilities existing acquired or incurred at the time this Ordinance takes effect, are saved and may be consummated according to the law enforced when they are commenced.

Section 15. Effective Date

The provisions of this Ordinance are hereby ordered to take effect thirty days after publication in the Birmingham Eccentric, a newspaper circulated within the Township.

Section 16. Adoption

This Ordinance is hereby declared to have been adopted by the Township Board of the Township of Bloomfield in a meeting thereof duly held and called on the ____ of June, 2007.

MOTION by Devine and SUPPORT by Buckley to ACCEPT the Introduction of the Resolution for Ordinance 587.

WHEREAS, the Township Board of the Charter Township of Bloomfield has adopted Ordinance No.587, an ordinance to amend Ordinance 551, the Township Solicitation Ordinance; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to said amended ordinance, Section 5, the Township shall impose a reasonable administrative processing fee and/or license fee for applicants to obtain a solicitors license from the Township; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 5, the administrative processing fee and/or license fee shall be declared by resolution of the Township Board;

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Township Board of the Charter Township of Bloomfield that an administrative processing fee and/or license fee shall be established in the amount of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars per person.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

ITEM #9 14 Mile Road Surfacing

Jon Stoppels, Franklin Village Manager, approached Supervisor Payne as to the possibility of the Township participating in placing a new gravel surface on 14 Mile Road from Franklin Road to Inkster Road. The cost would be split between municipalities with each paying approximately $6000.00.

MOTION by Stefanes and SUPPORT by Savoie to APPROVE the 14 Mile Road Surfacing.

Be It Resolved that the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees approves the joint project with the Village of Franklin and the Road Commission for Oakland County for placing new gravel on 14 Mile from Franklin to Inkster and will fund the cost of material with the Village of Franklin up to $6000.00.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

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ITEM #10 Approve Payroll and Vouchers

MOTION by Buckley and SUPPORT by Roncelli to APPROVE payroll and vouchers A002381-A002405; B016043-B016228; E002282-E002292 totaling $1,373,139.59.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

ITEM #11 Public Comment

No Public Comment was made.

Supervisor Payne advised the Board that the City of Bloomfield Hills had contacted the Township as to the possibility of the two Boards meeting in an informal setting to discuss common issues. The Board discussed whether the meeting would need to be posted. Attorney Kolb suggested that it would be best to post the meeting as a study session.

Trustee Stefanes stated that the sidewalk on Lahser Road, south of Lahser High School to Quarton Road, was amazing. The Board agreed.

As approved in the budget, the Deferred Compensation Plan and pay increase that will be retroactive to April 1, 2007 for the Trustees was reiterated.

ITEM #12 Michigan Township Association (MTA) and Oakland County Clerk Advocacy Against House Bill 4780-4788

MOTION by Stefanes and SUPPORT by Barnett to APPROVE the Resolution Supporting MTA and Ruth Johnson, Oakland County Clerk, Advocacy Against House Bill 4780 – 4788.

RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE MICHIGAN HOUSE BILL 4780 – 4788

MICHIGAN TOWNSHIP SERVICES CONSOLIDATION ACT

WHEREAS, House Bill 4780 – 4788 advocates consolidation of election duties by the Clerk, assessing duties of the Supervisor, and tax collection duties of the Treasurer in rural Townships to be assumed by the County; and

WHEREAS, this bill affects rural Townships with populations of 10,000 or less and rural Townships with populations of 10,000 or more, but less than 20,000 which do not provide for and make available fire, police on a 24-hour basis either through contracting for or directly employing personnel, water to 50% or more of its residents, and sewer services to 50% or more of its residents; and

WHEREAS, this bill strips away local authority from rural Townships which comprise more than 90% of the Townships in Michigan; and

WHEREAS, the proposed cost-saving measure could result in higher costs to taxpayers. More than 50 percent of the state’s population lives in townships; yet townships spend one-eighth the amount of cities on providing services to residents; and

WHEREAS, the Michigan Township Association (MTA) and the Oakland County Clerk, Ruth Johnson, have voiced opposition to House Bill 4780 – 4788,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees joins with the MTA and Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson to OPPOSE House Bill 4780 – 4788.

AYES: Barnett, Buckley, Devine, Payne, Roncelli, Savoie, Stefanes

NAYS: None

RESOLUTION DECLARED ADOPTED.

I, JANET M. RONCELLI, TOWNSHIP CLERK of the Charter Township of Bloomfield, County of Oakland, Michigan, do hereby certify the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board at their regular meeting held on May 29, 2007.

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JANET M. RONCELLI

Included in Board Packet: Bloomfield Twp. Fire Dept. – March 2007 Monthly Report

TABLED ITEMS: Innerwoods Lot Split

(Tabled Indefinitely)

Cost Recovery Resolution

(Tabled Indefinitely)

Meeting adjourned at 8:41 p.m.

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