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What Oakland County, MI votes on, in plain English — every figure verified against the original agenda before it's sent.
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The Oakland Docket: Finance, 2026-10-07
18 items extracted from the agenda -- coverage mode, no drafted summary yet.
The Oakland Docket: Claims Review, 2026-09-28
8 items extracted from the agenda -- coverage mode, no drafted summary yet.
The Oakland Docket: Majority Caucus, 2026-09-17
The agenda for Thursday's Democratic Caucus meeting lists exactly one non-routine item, and it doesn't say what it's about.
The Oakland Docket: Full Boardof Commissioners, 2026-09-17
38 items extracted from the agenda -- coverage mode, no drafted summary yet.
The Oakland Docket: Human Trafficking Prevention, 2026-09-16
9 items extracted from the agenda -- coverage mode, no drafted summary yet.
The Oakland Docket: Oakland County Zoological Authority, 2026-09-16
16 items extracted from the agenda -- coverage mode, no drafted summary yet.
The Oakland Docket: Oakland County Art Institute Authority, 2026-09-15
September 15th is the day the Authority decides how to spend your art millage dollars in 2027, and reviews whether the DIA is actually delivering what it promised in exchange for them.
The Oakland Docket: Finance, 2026-09-15
10 items extracted from the agenda -- coverage mode, no drafted summary yet.
The Oakland Docket: Finance, 2026-09-02
The Finance Committee is meeting this week to do one thing above everything else: finalize three years of county budgets and send them to the full Board.
The Oakland Docket: Coordinating Zoning, 2026-09-02
Two zoning items. No dollar figures anywhere on this agenda.
The Oakland Docket: Economic Development&Infrastructure, 2026-09-02
Three different drain assessment types are on the agenda this week, all headed to the full Board, which means if you're a property owner in a drain district, your FY2027 bill is getting set right now.
The Oakland Docket: Legislative Affairs&Government Operations, 2026-09-01
This one's a placeholder meeting, basically. The posted agenda for Tuesday lists five departments by name, Clerk/Register of Deeds, County Executive Administration, Public Communications, Human Resources, Parks & Recreation, without saying what any of them are actually bringing f
The Oakland Docket: Safer Communities Ad Hoc, 2026-09-01
Tuesday's entire agenda is about guns. Not in a controversy way, in a "here are two specific programs the county is considering funding to get firearms stored safely or removed entirely" way.
The Oakland Docket: Public Health&Safety, 2026-09-01
Five different district courts are all getting new three-year security agreements on the same day. That's the shape of this agenda: less about big dollars, more about a lot of programs being updated, extended, or handed off to the full Board.
The Oakland Docket: Claims Review, 2026-08-26
Only two items on the agenda this week. One's routine. The other involves a lawsuit the county isn't talking about publicly yet.
The Oakland Docket: Human Trafficking Prevention, 2026-08-26
The Prosecuting Attorney's Office is walking into this meeting with a caseload update. That's the whole ballgame on Tuesday.
The Oakland Docket: Materials Management Planning, 2026-08-25
Monday's meeting has no contracts, no dollar figures, and no votes on anything consequential. It's a planning session, start to finish.
The Oakland Docket: Oakland County Transit, 2026-08-19
Two resident letters landed at the Board of Commissioners this summer, and both are getting filed at this meeting. Nobody's saying what they're about.