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Miscellaneous Resolution 6308 May 3, 1973
BY: LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE - Robert A. Button, Chairman
IN RE: OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED LEGISLATION REQUIRING COUNTY JAILS
TO PROVIDE DOCTOR AND NURSING CARE ON A 24-HOUR BASIS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS there is presently pending legislation that proposes to require that all
county jails provide doctor and nursing care on a 24-hour basis; and
WHEREAS the Undersheriff of Oakland County attests that the County's present
arrangement for a one-shift nurse, visiting doctor, medical turnkeys and County Hospital
staff on call is more than sufficient;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
opposes the proposed legislation dealing with jail medical requirements as being far in
excess of the actual medical needs.
The Legislative Committee, by Robert A. Button, Chairman, moves the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Robert A. Button, Chairman
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. Moved by Button supported by.Dearborn the resolution be adopted.
• Discussion followed. . ,
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. A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the .reso_lUtion . 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
Resolution #6308 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at
their meeting held on May 3, 1973
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, 1 have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 4th day of May o 19.. 73 ..
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By Deputy Clerk