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Miscellaneous Resolution 82194
BY: HEALTH & HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE-Marilynn E. Gosling, Chairperson
RE:
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, expenditures for delinquent shelter payments, heat and utility bills represent
a substantial portion of the Emergency Needs Program (ENP) expenditures; and
WHEREAS, current policies under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and
General Assistance (GA) programs require payment to the recipient with their other budgeted needs
unless the recipient is sanctioned for non-compliance with the Employment & Training program require-
ments or money mismanagement or the recipient volunteers to participate in the vendor payment program; and
WHEREAS, a number of recipients do not volunteer to participate in the vendor payment program
and subsequently become delinquent in their shelter, heat and utility payments; and
WHEREAS, a mandatory vendor payment program for shelter, heat and utilities would result
in reduced expenditures for ENI)? and
WHEREAS, with a guarantee of vendor payments by the Department of Social Services for future
service, it may be possible to avoid payment for service provided prior to application for assistance; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable to encourage recipients to conserve heat and utilities, any vendor
payments less than the standard allowance for the number of persons in the household would be refunded
to the client once each year; and
WHEREAS, vendor payment of shelter expenses may encourage families to live in the same dwelling
unit for a longer period, thereby stabilizing the home and school environment.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners recommends
to the Michigan Department of Social Services that a mandatory vendor payment system for AFDC and GA
recipients be developed for clients who have one or more of the following items included in their
assistance grant: shelter, heat and utilities„
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urges the Michigan
Department of Social Services to submit, prior to January 1, 1983, any required requests for waivers
to federal regulations, and/or proposed necessary amendments to existing state laws to enable the
department to implement such a mandatory vendor payment system
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk forward copies of this resolution to the
Michigan Department of Social Services and Oakland County's state legislators.
Mr. Chairperson, an behalf of the Health and Human Resources Committee, I move the adoption
July 1, 1982
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES-MANDATORY VENDOR PAYMENT SYSTEM
of the foregoing resolution.
#8 21 94 July 1, 1982
ist day of July 1982
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Moved by Gosling supported by Cagney the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Caddell, Cagney, Calandro, DiGiovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Gabler,
Geary, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, Kasper, Lanni, Moffitt, Montante, Moore, Olseq,
Page, Patterson, Perinoff, Peterson, Price, Whitlock, Wilcox, Aaron. (25) -
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIAN)
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 #82194 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting_held on July i, 1982
with the orginial 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
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