Re: 2009 House Bill 4998 (Convert Cobo Hall authority “redo” to a lease )

Admin003 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:44 GMT

Senators Thomas and Hunter, under their constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of House Bill No. 4998.

Senator Thomas moved that the statement he made during the discussion of the bill be printed as their reasons for voting “no.”

The motion prevailed.

Senator Thomas’ statement, in which Senator Hunter concurred, is as follows:

I understand moving the process along and keeping us going. Obviously, when the Senate votes on this today, it will continue. I don’t think that these are changes that my colleagues in the House and certainly colleagues in the community that I represent can support. While I understand moving the process along, I don’t think that this is helpful, and I will be voting “no.”

2009 House Bill 4998 (Convert Cobo Hall authority “redo” to a lease )

admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on May 26, 2009, to convert the deal to transfer Cobo Hall to a regional authority proposed by Senate Bill 585 into a 30 year lease, and consider the $20 million the authority would pay to Detroit under that deal to be the lease payment. Also, to require the authority to make a “good faith effort” to hire residents of the region for Cobo jobs

The vote was 66 in favor, 43 opposed and 1 not voting

(House Roll Call 319 at House Journal 0)

Click here to view bill details.

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Re: 2009 House Bill 4998 (Convert Cobo Hall authority “redo” to a lease )

2009 House Bill 4998 (Convert Cobo Hall authority “redo” to a lease )