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!Miscellaneous 6450 October 9, 1973
BY: LEGISLATIV: COMV'TTEE - Robert A. Button, Chairman
IN RE: 7i- OF MICHIGAN MENTAL HEALTH STATUTES
TO THE OAKLAND COUN1 :J7 D OF COMMISSIOLi .er:
the NA: ',* Mental Health Statutes Study c.,u1)cor f the
Legislative Council is engage ,..; in drafting an omnibus revision of Mi chu statutes
relating to mental health care, including the Community Mental Health Act of 1963; and
'WHEREAS this slation, which is expected to he introduc ;:
year institutional care, long-term institutional care, community men:.;: services
or any other publicly funded agencies; and
WHEREAS our first concern must be to make the best and most gopropriate
mental health care readily a ! all County r its, the which effort is now
hindered by the multiplicity of icientcil health currently in operation; and
WHEREAS your Commiteee concurs in the recoiendation of the Health Committee
that the fixed funding ratio be set at 90% State / 10% County dollars .o provide
for a distribution of financial responsibility which is ,snd commensurate with the
fiscal capabilities of County and State;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis-
sioners supports a single fixed funding ratio of 90% State/ County dollars
to be applied to the costs of all public mental health services of whatever type, which
costs should be : incorporated into the proposed legislation to insure
the counties of a voice in oh decisions which will affect the cost of St
operated mental health services; and that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners so
recommends to the County's Legislators for inclusion in the omnibus revision of the Mi
mental health statutes.
The Legislative Committee, by Robert A. Button, Chairman, moves the adoption
of the foregoing resolution and requests that certified copies thereof be forwarded to the
Oakland County Legislators.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
#6450
Moved by Button supported by Houghten the resolution be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that 1 have compared the annexed copy of
Resolution #6450 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners at
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their meeting held on October 9, 1973
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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
.r October 73
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