ADOPTED - MAY 22, 2001

Agenda Item No. 14

Introduced by the Human Services and Finance Committees of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION TO SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORATE A SPECIAL MILLAGE QUESTION FOR A COUNTYWIDE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM PRIMARILY FOR THE DISABLED AND ELDERLY

RESOLUTION #01-166

WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners desire to continue to provide a transportation system primarily for the elderly and disabled within Ingham County; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners has provided the financial stability necessary for sound planning through a long-term millage during the past several years; and

WHEREAS, the current millage expired December 31, 2000.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the following question be submitted to a vote of the electorate in the primary election to be held on August 7, 2001.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED

MILLAGE RENEWAL QUESTION

For the purpose of continuing funding for a transportation system to be used primarily by elderly and disabled persons in Ingham County, shall the Constitutional limitation upon the total amount of taxes which may be assessed in one (1) year upon all property within the County of Ingham, Michigan, previously increased by 40/100 (.40) of one (1) mill, $.40 per thousand dollars of state equalized assessed valuation, be continued and renewed for a period of five (5) years (2001-2005) inclusive. If approved and levied in full, this millage will raise an estimated $2,330,564 for the transportation system in the first calendar year of the levy based on taxable value.

YES [ ]

NO [ ]

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this question is hereby certified to the County Clerk.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Clerk is hereby directed to place the proposal on the August 7, 2001 ballot and to be prepared and distributed in the manner required by law.

HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE: Yeas: Czarnecki, Dedden, Severino, Hertel, Celentino

Nays: None Absent: None Approved 5/14/01

FINANCE COMMITTEE: Yeas: Czarnecki, Hertel, Minter, Swope, Lynch

Nays: None Absent: Schafer, Krause Approved 5/16/01