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Macomb County commissioners approve appointments and committee recommendations; one dissent on contract items
Summary
The board confirmed multiple appointments and approved committee recommendations across several committees. Contracts in the Records & Public Safety packet passed 11-1 after Commissioner Wallace voiced concern about unknown pension costs.
The Macomb County Board of Commissioners approved a slate of appointments and committee recommendations at its Dec. 1 meeting, largely by unanimous votes, while recording a single dissent on contract items tied to pension-cost uncertainty.
Nominations approved included two three-year appointments to the Friend of the Court Advisory Committee (Susan Fisher and Terence Brailford); five members to the Macomb Zoological Authority (James Sawyer, Lauren Broch, Marilyn Lane, Andrew McKenzie and Stacy Zarco); and seven board-chair appointments to the Building Authority Commission (Arnold Hasig, John Johnson, Larry Rocca, Peter Thomas, Rodney Tolbert, Ronald Tromley and Derek Wilzinski). These motions were recorded as passing by unanimous roll-call votes in the meeting transcript.
The board processed multiple committee recommendations as blocks: Internal Services Committee items 9A through R, Health & Human Services items 10A through D, Government Oversight item A, Public Services items 12A through H and Finance, Audit and Budget items 13A and related pieces. Those blocks were recorded as approved with 12 to 0 tallies.
A notable exception occurred during the Records & Public Safety Committee item group (14C through 14F), where the contracts were approved but with an 11-1 vote. Commissioner Wallace said she supports the raises included in the contracts but raised a substantive concern: "we still don't have numbers for the pensions which will deeply affect the cities and townships that have to pay for them." Her recorded no vote on the contracts was the lone dissent.
The board also approved proclamations and received and filed the board office term-end report. Routine motions to adopt the agenda and approve minutes were recorded earlier in the meeting as 12 to 0 votes.
All approvals recorded in the meeting transcript appear as formal motions and recorded tallies. The transcript contains a notation that Commissioner Romano voted no on item 12A while the same block's recorded tally is listed as 12 to 0; that internal inconsistency was not resolved on the record at the meeting.
