HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1986.08.07 - 10854Miscellaneous Resolution # 86230
By: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE--Nancy McConnell, Chairperson
In. Re: DEPT. OF INSTITUTIONAL & HUMAN SERVICES--COURT HEARINGS
FOR CLINTON VALLEY HOSPITAL PATIENTS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS there is a need for patients of Clinton Valley Hospital to
appear before a Probate Judge; and
WHEREAS Safety Division personnel are currently transporting such
patients to Probate Court facilities in the courthouse; and
WHEREAS the facilities in the courthouse to hold such patients while
awaiting their hearing are neither suitable nor humanitarian; and
WHEREAS patient families have expressed the concern that patients
are needlessly traumatized by hearings in the courthouse and feel they are
perceived unfairly by the public as criminals; and
WHEREAS the proposed facilities at Clinton Valley Center would be conducive
to confidentiality in discussion of extremely sensitive matters, yet are sufficiently
spacious to permit access by the public and advocates of patients' rights
to monitor the proceedings; and
WHEREAS holding hearings at Clinton Valley Center would facilitate
testimony by the actual psychiatrist involved with the individual patient
and improve the quality of the hearings for all concerned; and
WHEREAS the transportation and holding in the courthouse of such
patients increase the security problem and exposes county employees, patients,
and the general public to a potential risk; and
WHEREAS the present system is costly due to the number of personnel
needed and hours spent in transportation and security functions as well
as in overtime costs; and
WHEREAS current space will be furnished by Clinton Valley Hospital
which could be renovated by Oakland County at an estimated cost of $10,000
with furnishings estimated at $5,000; and
Aor
H- alth an./ Human Services Committee
FREBY APPROVE THE FOREGONG RESOLUra
Date
WHEREAS Public Act 258 of 1974 states that mental health hearings
shall be held at the hospital in which the patient resides whenever practicable ;
and
WHEREAS the Act has been interpreted by the Probate Court to retain
judicial power of determining practicability of holding hearings at the hospital.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners strongly urges the Oakland County Probate Court to hold all
mental health hearings involving patients housed at Clinton Valley Hospital
at that facility for the humanitarian and practical reasons stated above.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that should the Court determine that hearings
at Clinton Valley are indeed practicable, the Board of Commissioners is prepared
to appropriate $15,000.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Health and Human Services Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
#86230 August 7, 1986
Moved by McConnell supported by Gosling the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Price supported by Fortino the resolution be referred
to the General Government Committee.
AYES: Pernick, Price, Rowland, Fortino. (4)
NAYS: R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Calandro,
Doyon, Gosling, Hassberger, Hobart. (19)
A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the motion failed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Susan Kuhn, Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt,
Nelson, Olsen, Page, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox, Calandro, Doyon,
Gosling, Hassberger, Hobart. (18)
NAYS: Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rowland, Fortino, Richard Kuhn.
(6)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was
adopted.
STATE OF MtCHlGAN1
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a
seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on August 7, 1986
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office,
and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and
of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said County at l'ontiac, Michigan
this 7th day of August
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Lynn/1. Allen, Coun y Clerk/
RegYster of Deeds
1986