HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1984.07.26 - 16635July 26, 1984
- Miscellaneous Resolution #84196
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - John E. Olsen, Chairperson
RE: SENATE BILL 401 (OPPOSE) WHICH WOULD CREATE BOTH STATE
AND LOCAL CHILD FOSTER CARE REVIEW BOARDS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 401 would create a new public
act which would establish a state child foster care review
board and a network of some twenty-five local child foster
care review boards; and
WHEREAS, while the intent of Senate Bill 401 to improve
foster care through statewide citizen input is commendable,
this legislation would add another layer of bureaucracy
on a system which now has ample input from probate courts,
the Department of Social Services and private agencies;
and
WHEREAS, since child foster care review boards would
not be legally empowered, their decision would carry no
force to law which would hinder their effectiveness; and
WHEREAS, this legislation mandating new local services
would be in violation of the State Constitution if the
state fails to appropriate funds to cover all costs resulting
from the mandate; and
WHEREAS, both the Oakland County Probate Court and
the Health and Human Resources Committee have reviewed
this legislation and both recommend that it be opposed.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners takes a position opposing Senate
Bill 401 which has passed the Senate and is now in the
House Committee on Social Services and Youth.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution
be sent to all State Representatives from Oakland County.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government
Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
. Olsen, Chairperson
19 84 26th day of
ALLEN
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
#84 1 96 July 26, 1984
Moved by Olsen supported by Fortino the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Olsen, Page, Pernick, Price, Rewold,
Wilcox, Aaron, Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, Lanni,
Law. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
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
Mi_scellaneous Resolution 4841(36 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on July 26, 1984
with the orginial 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
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