# Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee Meeting 11-10-26


**Body:** Oakland County Board of Commissioners
**Date:** November 09, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Transportation, Construction & Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding


The Oakland County Board of Commissioners’ Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee met on November 10, 2026. The committee advanced several spending and contracting items: it approved FY2027 triparty road-improvement appropriations, including project 58972 with Charter Township of Groveland; and recommended authorizing the Water Resources Commissioner to award AKA $4.7 million for final design of a new WRC building. The design amount is funded from money already set aside in the Drain Equipment Fund. The project will be competitively bid with construction management support, and the county expects to return with final bid costs and a separate request to proceed with construction funding. The design authorization passed 4–1. The committee also advanced a lease amendment for the sheriff’s existing storage facility, extending it for up to 16 months with a 90-day termination clause while renovations are completed at the replacement facility.

The committee recommended forwarding a brownfield redevelopment plan for 94 Dwight in Pontiac to Finance: the vacant building is planned for renovation into 29 units affordable for the full 30-year tax-increment-financing period; $4.3 million in costs were described as eligible, with up to $3 million reimbursable within the capture period. It also advanced acceptance of a $282,553 FY2027 state veterans-services grant, allocated to marketing ($248,543), printing ($20,000), and promotional items ($14,000); changed state rules no longer allow the grant to fund veterans’ resource-fair gift cards. Five local transit-provider agreements for calendar year 2027 were approved for recommendation, including SMART at $48.2 million, People’s Express at $8.6 million, NOTA at about $7.087 million, and WOTA at $6.5 million; the committee discussed regional software integration, implementation of the adopted transit plan, and strengthened nondiscrimination language. The meeting also received the county’s updated greenhouse-gas inventory, setting 2023 emissions of 65,278 metric tons CO2e as the new baseline, and discussed ongoing efficiency and decarbonization work; no related purchase was approved in that presentation.

**Source:** Oakland County Board of Commissioners