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Votes at a glance: Oakland County EDI committee approves minutes, agenda, receipts and several facility actions
Summary
The Economic Development & Infrastructure Committee approved minutes and agenda items, received communications files Athrough E, and recommended facility items to finance, including an elevator modernization and a Consumers Energy easement; vote tallies are listed below.
The Oakland County Economic Development & Infrastructure Committee recorded the following formal actions during the meeting.
- Approval of minutes from April 2, 2025: Motion to approve moved by Commissioner Lenny Taylor, supported by Commissioner Weifert; committee recorded 6 yeas, 0 nays and the motion carried.
- Approval of the agenda: Motion moved by Commissioner Robert Smiley, supported by Commissioner Lenny Taylor; chair stated the motion carries (committee vote recorded in meeting notes).
- Receiving file (Communications items Athrough E, including Main Street Oakland County, CIP second-quarter report, transit ridership and IT/FirstNet materials): Motion to receive the file moved by Commissioner Weifert, supported by Commissioner Taylor; vote 6 yeas, 0 nays.
- Recommendation to approve facilities planning and engineering FY2025 elevator modernization (IT lobby and West Wing courthouse elevator buttons and controls) and forward to Finance: Motion moved by Commissioner Smiley, supported by Commissioner Taylor; committee recommended forwarding and recorded 5 yeas, 0 nays.
- Recommendation to the full board to grant Consumers Energy a perpetual easement (12-foot) for a high-pressure gas main realignment tied to a MDOT/culvert lowering project and related FEMA drainage work: Motion moved by Commissioner Markham, supported by Commissioner Smiley; committee vote 7 yeas, 0 nays. Staff said the easement is to be granted for $1 and that the work ties to a larger culvert/shoreline/flooding mitigation project affecting Telegraph Road and county campus wetlands.
- Recommendation to the board for planning and collaboration on the Bicentennial Oaks public works building: See separate article for details; committee approved the recommendation 6 yeas, 1 nay.
Each of the above items will be forwarded per committee practice for final board action where required. When individual votes were recorded by tally but not named to individual commissioners in the transcript, the committee tally above matches the counts announced at the meeting.
