HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1983.02.24 - 11521Miscellaneous Resolution # 83022 February 24, 1983
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BY: General Government Committee—John E. Olsen, Chairperson
IN. RE: PROPOSED MICHIGAN INTRASTATE FUNDING FORMULA FOR AGING SERVICES
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
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WHEREAS the Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging proposes
to update the current intrastate funding formula used to distribute $26
million in stite and federal fund i for areavide planning and services
for older adults; and
. WHEREAS these state and federal funds are used in Oakland County
to provide needed homemaker, personal care, chore, counseling, outreach,
legal, and nursing borne ombudsman services as well as senior center
staffing, congregate and home delivered meals, and specialized services
to vision and bearing impaired older adults; and
VHEREAS the current intrastate funding formula applied to 1970
census data provided 15.99% of statewide funds to Region 1-B and that
same formula applied to 1980 census data would provide 19.77% of statewide
funds to Region 1-3, an increase Of approximately $805,000 annually;
WHEREAS the proposed intrastate funding formula applied to 1980
census data would provide 17.38% of statewide funds to Region 1-B, an
increase of approximately $327,000 annually; and
WHEREAS-the six-county Region 1-B, of which Oakland County is a
part, now has the largest number of persons over the age of 60 of any -'
region in the State of Michigan and has almost a 40% greater increase
in the number of residents over seventy-five years old than the statewide
average.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners, while supporting the concept of the proposed funding floors
by Service category, does hereby oppose the proposed intrastate funding
formula published in the 21 December 1982 OSA Report 4108.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
supports adoption by the Michigan Commission 01 Services to the Aging
of a formula which, when applied to .1980 censuidata, would distribute'
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funds to each region on the basis of the following factors and weights,
resulting in distribution of 17.532 of statewide funds to Region 1-B:
Factor Wight,
60 years of age and older
75.. years of age and older
60+ below poverty ,
60+ minority
60+ rural
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolntion
be transmitted to the Intrastate Funding Formula Task Force and the
Michigan Commission on Services to the Aging and the Legislators
representing Oakland County.
Y./. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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83022 February 24, 1983
day of February 1993.
LYNN/O. ALLEN, County Clerk/Rgister of 1D
Moved by Olsen supported by Gosling the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Olsen supported by McPherson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McConnell, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Page,
Perinoff, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Doyon, Foley, Fortino,
Gosling, Jackson, R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was
adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, ,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 1/ 83022 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on February 24, 103
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office-, a nd
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof. •
In Testimony Whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 24th.