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The Road Commission for Oakland County (RCOC) is governed by a three-member
Board, appointed by the County Board of Commissioners for six-year terms. One
member is appointed every two years.
Although the Board is appointed by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners,
the Road Commission is seperate from county general government. The Board
establishes RCOC policies, administers its own budget and hires the managing
director.
It is also responsible for:
- The maintenance of the county road system
- Construction of new county roads
- Improvement of existing county roads
To learn more about the RCOC Board of Road Commissioners members or RCOC's
top administrators, click on the portraits below. |
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 | Richard G. Skarritt | Chairman | You could say that Commissioner Richard G. Skarritt has RCOC in his blood -- his father was a Road Commission employee for more than 40 years.
Skarritt was appointed to the board in 1996 and reappointed in 2005. A long-time General Motors senior staff engineer who spent 15 years in the area of vehicle and highway safety, Skarritt was a county commissioner representing Milford for eight years. During that time, he chaired the General Government/Transportation and Oakland Pontiac Airport committees.
In addition, Chairman Skarritt has served as:
- A member of the Community Development Advisory Council
- An Alternate member of the Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
- A Milford Village Council member
|  | Eric. S. Wilson | Vice-Chairman | Vice-Chairman Wilson was appointed to the RCOC Board in January 2007. He is no newcomer to public service, though.
Prior to joining the RCOC Board, Commissioner Wilson served two terms (four years) on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he served as an Orion Township trustee for nine years and was a member of the township's Zoning Board of Appeals for 10 years.
He is an attorney in private practice and is active in many civic groups in the Orion community.
|  | Gregory C. Jamian | Commissioner | Commissioner Gregory C. Jamian was appointed to the RCOC Board on Feb. 5, 2009.
Prior to his appointment to the RCOC Board, Commissioner Jamian spent four years on the Oakland County Board of Commissioners (2002 through 2006), was elected to the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees and served as a board member of the Oakland County Parks and Recreation Department.
Commissioner Jamian is currently Vice President of the Board of the Manoogian Manor (Home for the Aged) and serves on the Board of the School of Nursing at Oakland University. He is a 15-year member of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce and was a four-year member of the Birmingham/Bloomfield and West Bloomfield chambers of commerce.
Commissioner Jamian has served on numerous other boards including: the Board of the School of Business Administration at Oakland University, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG), Oakland Family Services and the Area Agency on Aging 1-B.
Commissioner Jamian's philanthropic initiatives include numerous community fund-raising efforts. He continues to support hospitals, schools, churches and the arts, with the mission of making his community a better place to live.
Commissioner Jamian is a graduate of Oakland University with a BA in economics. For more than 30 years he has been employed as president and CEO of an integrated health services corporation in Troy Michigan.
He and his wife of 35 years, Sandra Jamian, have three daughters.
|  | Brent O. Bair | Managing Director | If anyone recognizes the costs of unsafe roads, it's RCOC Managing Director Brent O. Bair. Before embarking on a career managing roads, he spent seven years underwriting property and casualty insurance policies and handling city and county liability insurance.
Bair left the insurance industry in 1970 to further his college education and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering. While working on a doctorate in civil engineering at the University of Iowa, he worked part time as a transportation planner and highway accident investigation consultant.
In 1977, Bair joined RCOC to fill the position of transportation planning coordinator. He was also named risk management program coordinator and put in charge of developing an innovative highway risk management program.
In 1983, he bacame director of the RCOC Planning and Development Department, and, in 1988, he was promoted to deputy managing director. He became managing director in 1993.
Bair has been president of the County Road Association of Michigan (CRAM), is past president of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Michigan and past chairman of the influential national transportation technology organization, the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. He is currently chairman of the Public Sector Advisory Committee to the Intelligent Transportation Systems Caucus of the United States Congress. |  | Dennis G. Kolar | Deputy Managing Director; County Highway Engineer | Dennis Kolar is a 20- year veteran of RCOC. He was promoted to Deputy Managing Director/County Highway Engineer in 2005 after having held a variety of other executive-level positions with the agency.
Prior to joining RCOC, Kolar worked for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
He is a registered professional engineer and a graduate of Lawrence Technological University.
Kolar's prior positions within RCOC include:
- Highway Maintenance Director
- Central Operations Director
- Maintenance Operations Engineer
- Design Engineer
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