See report at link below:
Michigan Legislature Reps Votes This Past Week
House of Representatives Members Representing Oakland Township
John Reilly – House District 46 – Most of Oakland Township plus Addison, Oxford, Brandon Townships and villages therein. In his last year of his third and final 2-year term (1992 term limits)
Mark Tisdel – House District 45 – Oakland Township southwest precincts 4 and 7 plus Rochester and Rochester Hills – In his first year of his first 2-year term.
House Bills Voted on this week
HB 4953 – 2/1/22, Amends The Revised School code to require providing certain information to students, John Reilly -NO, Mark Tisdel – YES, Total YES-94, NO-11 Revised Summary as Reported from Committee (1/29/2022)
HB 5434 and HB 5435 – 2/1/22 – Revises Skilled trades regulation act and Occupational Code
John Reilly -YES, Mark Tisdel – YES, Total YES-91,NO-14 Summary as Reported from Committee (1/31/2022)
HB 4994 – 2/1/22 – New law to allow donation of shoes abandoned at shoe repair shops
John Reilly -YES, Mark Tisdel – YES, Total – YES-102,NO-3 Summary of H-3 Substitute (1/28/2022) (mi.gov)
State Senator
Rosemary Bayer – 12th Senate District, All of Oakland Township, also Oxford, Orion, Addison, and Townships; parts of Bloomfield and Southfield Townships, Cities of Pontiac, Auburn Hills. https://www.senate.michigan.gov/maps/SD12.pdf
SB-654 – 2/1/22 – Changes certain court district boundaries in northern MIchigan YES-38, NO-0 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2021-2022/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2021-SFA-0654-F.pdf
SB-694- 2/1/22 – Changes the number of judges and their terms in several counties, not Oakland, YES-38, NO-0 http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2021-2022/billanalysis/Senate/pdf/2021-SFA-0694-F.pdf
Over 100 U.S. Traffic Deaths Each Day. Can’t we Lower That?
About 40,000 people die in traffic accidents each year in the U.S. For 2019 the actual data was 39,107 or 11.9 deaths per 100,000 population. So Oakland Township’s “quota” of deaths for our 19,000 residents in 2019 should have been about 2+ people. If we were still at the 1970 death rate of 26.8 per 100,000 we should have expected 5+ deaths among Oakland Township residents.
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator, Steven Cliff is quoted in an Oakland Press February 3rd article on page 1 as saying “We have to change our culture that accepts as inevitable the loss of tens of thousands of people in traffic crashes”. I agree.
It is heartening to see the downward trend in the death rate from 26.8 deaths per 100,000 population in 1970 to 11.9 in 2019. I calculated using the spreadsheet the graph below is made from that this totaled 1,318,237 lives saved since 1970 by whatever we have been doing (seat belts, better road signals, traffic circles, education, safer cars, etc.) to decrease the death rate. That’s a lot of people still alive to pursue “Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness”, not to mention many children and grandchildren who would otherwise never have been born.
Let’s all work together to further reduce traffic deaths a lot more.
Graph and spreadsheet available here from the National Safety Council.
Give Your Input to one of our Michigan House Representative; Feb. 21, 6-8 PM Rochester Hills Public Library
https://gophouse.org/posts/rep-tisdel-announces-february-office-hour
Mark Tisdel is representative for District 45 which includes Rochester, Rochester Hills and voting precincts 4 and 7 of Oakland Township. This map will tell you if you are in his district. I plan to ask him about the merits of a “protest vote” which he says he recently cast on HB 4277.
The rest of Oakland Township is in District 46, John Reilly is represenatative.
Michigan House Representative Mark Tisdel urges citizen input for School Safety Task Force
District 45 Representative to the Michigan House of Representatives, Mark Tisdel is urging citizen input to a bi-partisan committee on school safety. Representative Tisdel’s district includes Rochester, Rochester Hills and part of southwest Oakland Township. Details at the link below.
https://repsomerville.gophouse.org/posts/rep-tisdel-urges-citizen-input-for-school-safety-task-force
Winter Carnival, Bear Creek Nature Park, Noon to 4 PM, Saturday Feb 5, 2022, Must Take Shuttle from Oakland Christian Church
Page 3 of the recent Winter / Spring Parks and Recreation Newsletter (link below) gives details of the many activities. Note that you can’t park at Bear Creek Park. You must go to Oakland Christian Church at Rochester Road and Snell Road corner and take a shuttle. Everything is free, including the shuttle.
Consider “lobbying” for Your Favorite Safety Path at Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Meeting, 6 PM, Township Hall Board Room (Main Floor)
The next monthly meeting of Safety Paths and Trails Committee is Wednesday, 2/2/22. This committee of citizens appointed by our Township Board of Trustees makes recommendations to the Board for safety path construction. With the Gallagher Road path coming to completion this year, they will be planning their next path. At the Septemember meeting they listed three they saw at that time as high priority to research. Contribute to their research by telling them your preference and why.
• Gunn Road: Adams Road to the Paint Creek Trail
• Adams Road: Gunn Road to Marsh View Park at Clarkston Road
• Snell Road: Rochester Road to Bear Creek Park
See their webpages for more information on this committee and its master plan.
http://www.oaklandtownship.org/township_departments/safety_paths_and_trails.php
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