HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1972.02.17 - 15730REPORT February 17, 1972
BY: LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE - Marguerite Simon, Chairman
IN RE: MISC. RES. #5908 - SUPPORT OF H. B. 4172 -
TO PROVIDE STATE AID TO COUNTIES FOR BASIC PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Legislative Committee, by Marguerite Simson, Chairman, reports
Misc. Res. #5908 with the recommendation th t the resolved portion of said
resolution be amended, in conformity with H. B. 4172, to read: ". . to
provide State aid to counties for basic public health services at a rate not
less than 35c per capita with a minimum of $10,000 per county . . .".
Your Committee further recommends that Misc. Res. #5908 be adopted
based on the foregoing amendment.
The Legislative Committee, by Marguerite Simson, Chairman, moves the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Marguerite Simson, Chairman
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Joseph L, Barakat
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Charles B. Edwards, Jr.
Lew L. Coy, Chairman
ba6c7e Hursfal
January 19, 1972 ij RESOLUTION
BY: Mr. Coy
IN RE: RECOMMEND SUPPORT OF HOUSE BILL 4172
WHEREAS the State has always recognized and long relied upon county health
departments for the major part of the enforcement and implementation of State health
laws and for the delivery of public health services to the residents and visitors to
Michigan; and
WHEREAS progress in the development of public health services is dependent
upon advancing knowledge in the health sciences and in their effective application;
and
WHEREAS effective implementation of modern public health services depends
upon a stronger partnership between the State and counties; and
WHEREAS all counties are experiencing grave difficulties in providing the
added funds needed to maintain their health departments and to provide even the
minimum basic public health services to the people and these difficulties are mounting
as the result of inflation and the growing competition for capable health workers; and
WHEREAS the State has demonstrated the financial capacity to bring public
health programs to the level which State funds hove achieved for education, highways
and social services;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
requests the support of the Executive Office and the Legislatu re to provide State aid
to counties for basic public health services at the rate of 35C per capita with a
minimum of $15,000 per county as provided in House Bill 4172.
BOARD OF HEALTH
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The resolution was xefdrred to the Legislative Committee.
There were no objections.
• Moved by Simson. supported by Cy that Resolution #5908, as
amended, be adopted.
A sufficient majority having v
as amended, was adopted.
ted therefor, the resolution,
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 #5908 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners at their February 17, 1972 meeting
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
18th 1? this day of February 19
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Lynn D. Allen......... ..... ........Clerk
By •Deputy Clerk •