HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1975.07.23 - 14652July 23, 1975
RESOLUTION NO. 7203
RE: ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMUNITY MENTAL
HEALTH PROGRAM
BY: HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
TO: THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, Act 258 of the Public Acts of 1974, as amended,
provides that effective August 1, 1975, any community mental
health board established pursuant to the provisions of Act 54 of
the Public Acts of 1963, as amended, will no longer be operative;
and
WHEREAS, Section 204 of said Act 258 provides that a county
may establish a single county community mental health program
pursuant to Act 258 and in particular Chapter 2 of said Act 258;
and
WHEREAS, Section 202 of said Act 258 provides the State
shall financially support in accordance with Chapter 3, county
community mental health programs that have been established and
that are administered pursuant to the provisions of said Act; and
WHEREAS, Section 204 provides a county community mental
health program established under Chapter 2 shall be an official
county agency; and
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland desires to provide appropriate
continuity in its community mental health services and to continue
to be eligible for State financial support; and
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland, pursuant to the provisions
of Act 258 of the Public Acts of 1974, as amended, and in particular
Chapter 2 thereof, desires to establish a Community Mental Health
Program; and
ARC' i -:,1REGOING RESC.:',123410N
WHEREAS, Chapter 2, Section 204, provides that a county
board of commissioners shall determine the county procedures and
regulations that shall be applicable to a county program providing
that such procedures and regulations shall not take effect until
at least three (3) public hearings on the proposed procedures and
regulations have been held;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 2 of Act
298 of the Public Acts of 1974, as amended, hereby determines to
etablish a County Community Mental Health Program, including
a 12-member County Community Mental Health Board to be appointed
by the Board of Commissioners.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Haman Resources Committee
be and is hereby directed to establish the procedures and regu-
lations to be applicable to the County Community Mental Health
Program for adoption by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.
The Human Resources Committee, by Mr. Wallace F. Gabler,
Jr., Chairman, moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
TiUMAN i'flMMITTEE
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Wallace F. Gabler, Jr.. CKairman
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Moved by Gabler supported by Daly the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Patterson, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Roth, Simmons, Button Coy, Daly,
Dunleavy, Fortino, Gabler, Hoot, Houghteq, Lennon, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante,
Nowak, Olson, Page. (21)
NAYS: Douglas. (1)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution 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 #7203 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on July 23, 1975
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
Lynn D.
Clerk