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Oakland County chair's call for moratorium on Road Commission headquarters draws pushback from staff and contractors
Summary
After Oakland County Board Chair David T. Woodward expressed support for a moratorium on the Road Commission for Oakland County's new headquarters, RCOC officials and local contractors argued halting the project would cost taxpayers and jeopardize federal grants.
Chair David T. Woodwardof the Oakland County Board of Commissioners drew public pushback after comments in which board support for a moratorium on construction of a new Road Commission for Oakland County (RCOC) administrative headquarters was reported to have been expressed.
The dispute surfaced during public comment at the board's meeting when Mary Gillis, director of central operations for the Road Commission for Oakland County, said the project has been years in planning, that RCOCmanagement saved non-road revenue to fund it, and that stopping work would be costly. "The cost of unnecessarily halting this project exceeds $10,000,000 and could possibly be more depending on the legal disposition of this action," Gillis said. She also warned that a federal grant of…
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