HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1971.03.17 - 16156March 18, 1971
REPORT
RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION NO. 563
PRE-ADOPTIVE GIRLS RANCH AT CAMP OAKLAND
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
The Human Resources Committee, by Mr. James Mathews, Chairman,
reports Miscellaneous Resolution No. 5638 and concurs in said
resolution.
"MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION NO, 5638
RE: PRE-ADOPTIVE GIRLS RANCH AT CAMP OAKLAND
BY: PERSONNEL PRACTICES COMMITTEE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, in conducting hearings: with various heads of Oakland
County Departmental operations as to their presently indicated
personnel needs as of January 1, 1972,1 it has been brought to the
attention of your Personnel Practices Committee that thanks to
their receipts of a pledged gift in the amount of approximately
$105,000.00 toward the construction ofi a building to be used in
preparing children for adoptive placement, the Camp Oakland
Board has committed itself to the construction of this building
and will take care of all of the capital costs of same; and
WHEREAS, it is the unanimous representation of the Juvenile
Court for the County of Oakland and the County Director of Juvenile
Services that such a program is greatly to be desired, in that it
affords promises of placing a substantially increased percentage of
the children who become wards of the Court into adoptive homes,
of providing better coordination between prospective foster parents
and the professional staff of the cou t, of expediting the placement
of the permanent wards of the Court into adoptive homes on a per-
manent basis with resulting reduction of long term foster care costs
to the County; and
WHEREAS, it is represented to your Personnel Practices Com-
mittee that the proposed staffing requirements of such a program,
effective January 1, 1972, would approximate $20,000.00 per year.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Board of Commissioners
communicate to the Camp Oakland Board Inotification of its intention
to include provisions for same in its :budget for the year 1972.
The Personnel Practices Committee, by William L. Mainland,
Chairman, moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution."
The Human Resources Committee, by Mr. James Mathews, Chairman,
concurs in the foregoing resolution.
HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
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James Mathewk, Chairman
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
son that Resolution #5638 Moved by Mathews supported by Harr
be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted
was adopted.
therefor, the resolution
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
(ss,
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 #5638 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
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at their March 18, 1971 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, 11 have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at '''Mch
— . 18th March 71 ' day of 19
Deputy Clerk By