HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1976.09.02 - 14351Miscellaneous Resolution 7679
BY: Commissioner Joseph R. Montante, M.D.
IN RE: ELIMINATION OF BOARD OF INSTITUTIONS
TO THE O7\KL7x.:ND COUNTY BOARD OF CCWaSSIONERS
-Mt. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Institutions was created
to help county government care for many virulent, contagious diseases,
including tuberculosis in its acute stage; and
WHEREAS, the Hospital and previous ',1 1diml Care Facility were
designed and intended to deal specifically and dilc,-tly with the problem -
of active, contagious tuberculosis and other virulent communicable
diseases requiring highly specialized care, and isolation;
WHEREAS, progress in eliminating t-'-se kinds of 'm
nedical advances in treatment of these e
need for such Hospitals; and
WT-17RS, Hospitals such as the Oakland County Hospital and
previous Medical Care Facility were virtually the only institutions
available for this kind of isolation and care; and
WI-TIMAS, the TB Hospital and previous Medical Care Facility
no longer exist; and
WHEREAS, the present Medical Care Facility was inLrr.7-
to meet any of the above needs, and was not designed as, and was never
intended to become, a facility for the treatment of tuberculosis or
other highly contagious, virulent diss; and
WHEREAS, the need for the Bo—rd of Institutions ended when the
need for the TB Hospital and previous Care. Facility and their
specialized treatment and isolation of highly contagious drises ended; and
WHEREAS, the Board of institutions is an extra level of
government bureaucracy which unnecessarily adds to government size and
spending while diffusing and clouding- responsibility for government
actions, increasing the difficulty of citizens to know which, if any, of
their elected officials can specifically be held accountable , for the
operation of the Medical Care Facility; and
WHEREAS, in August of 1974, the citizens of Oakland County
clearly expressed the desire to separate administrative and policy
authority into two distinct branches of government and to increase the
accessability and accountability of government officials,
have elimjn-t,:d the
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Institutions
is hereby dissolved and abolished and no longer exists; and
BE IT FURTHER. RESOLVED that the resbonsibility for policies
of the Medical Care Facility, including determinatn of final budgets,
shall pass to the Oakland County Board of Commiss 4,-=s under authority
granted it by Act 139, the "Unified C Cover fl: Act'
I Tove the adoption of the for.— , resolution.
I7679 September 2, 1976
The Chairman referred the resolution to the General Government Committee
There were no objections. .