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Miscellaneous Resolution 8093 July 21, 1977
BY: HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE - Joseph R. Montante, Chairman
IN RE: APPROPRIATION REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR
FURNITURE RESOURCES CENTER
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Furniture Resources Center was established in 1968 as a
charitable, non-profit corporation; and
WHEREAS, the Furniture Resource Center collects usable furniture, applicances
and household items and distributes them to poverty families in the Pontiac
Metropolitan area at no cost to donors or clients; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Department of Social Services has provided
funds to cover the trucking expense for the past several years amounting to
approximately $5,000 a year; and
WHEREAS, effective January 1, 1977 the Social Services Board found it
necessary to discontinue providing this financial support due to revised State
guidelines under the State funded general assistance program; and
WHEREAS, the Social Services Board has explored this problem with the State
Department of Social Services on several occasions but has been unsuccessful
in resolving the problem.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
appropriate $2,000 for the 1977 budget year to be used by the Furniture Resources
Center for trucking expenses.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland-Livingston Human Services Agency
and the Furniture Resources Center be requested to meet to explore alternatives
for 1978 budget year funding and report their findings back to the Health and
Human Resources Committee.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 1977 funding of $2,000 be directed through
the Oakland County Department of Social Services for accountability purposes
and that such funding be granted subject to a legal opinion hereby requested
from the Civil Counsel office.
HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
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FISCAL NOTE
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, Paul E. Kasper, Chairman
IN RE: APPROPRIATION REQUEST FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR
FURNITURE RESOURCES CENTER
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Finance Committee has reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution No 8093
and finds a maximum of $2,000 would be needed to finance the Furniture
Resources Center through the remainder of 1977.
Pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the Finance Committee finds
funds not to exceed $2,000 are available in the Social Services Departmental
Budget's General Assistance Line Item. Such funds are to be released contingent
on favorable legal opinion from Civil Counsel.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Paul F. Kasper, Chairman
#8093 August 18, 1977
Moved by Montante supported by Fortino the report be accepted and Resolution
#8093 be adopted.
AYES: Daly, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler, Gorsline, Hoot, Kasper, Kelly,
Lanni, McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Moxley, Murphy, Page, Patterson,
Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Simson, Wilcox. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the report was accepted and
_Resolution #8093 was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
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 #8093 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
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Commissioners at their meeting held on August 18, 1977
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 Pontiac, Michigan
this 18th day of...A..149u.s.t........19.
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By .................................Deputy Clerk