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Home My WebLink AboutResolutions - 1987.05.14 - 17998REPORT BY: PERSONNEL COMMITTEE - John P. Calandro, Chairperson IN RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #87094, CIRCUIT COURT DEPARTMENT - PRETRIAL SERVICES PROGRAM - PERMANENT FUNDING TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Personnel Committee, having reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution #87094, reports with the recommendation that the 8th paragraph, which reads: "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis- sioners authorizes that the Pretrial Services Unit be continued under the supervision of the Circuit Court Administrator's Office with the following permanent, full-time Merit positions: one director, three caseworker/ investigators, and two clerical trainees, as outlined in the attached fiscal note." be replaced with the following: "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis- sioners authorizes the continuation of the Pretrial Services function under contract supervised by the Court Administrator's Office through November 30, 1987: 1. To allow time to determine appropriate classifications and salary grades for Merit positions required to continue this function, and 2. To allow the contractors currently performing this function the opportunity to compete for Merit appointments through the open competitive examination process, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commis- sioners will reconsider incorporating the Pretrial Services function as an organizational unit in the Court Administrators budget when the issues above have been resolved, and" Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Personnel Committee, I move the acceptance of the foregoing report and recommend that Miscellaneous Resolution #87094 be adopted. PERSONNEL COMMITTEE Calandro person 1 HERE( PPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION L.4L Date 1•/7 - Murphy, - A.unt, 5;4., MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 87094 April 9, 1987 BY: PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE, RICHARDD. KUHN/ .IRe, CHAIRPERSON -CIRCUIT COURT DEPARTMENT-PRETRIAL SERVICES PROGRAM- - PERMANENT FUNDING TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: . WHEREAS/ pursuant to Miscellaneous Resolution 4t86068 of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, the Pretrial Services Unit was established in April, 1986, and funded for one year to help reduce overcrowding at the Oakland County Jail; and WHEREAS, Oakland County voluntarily created the Pretrial Services Unit as one of several efforts to comply with the United States District Court decision in Yoklev, et al. v County of Oakland, et al., in which a consent judgment was entered in 1982, mandating a fixed number of inmates in the Oakland County Jail; and - WHEREAS, Miscellaneous Resolution #86D68 provided that the Pretrial Services Unit would be staffed with six (6) independent contractual • _ •emploveee for one year, the cost of which is detailed in the attached fiscal note. WHEREAS, since it bean operations in July, 1986, the Pretrial - Services Unit has provided judges throughout Oakland County-with the most complete and current information about pretrial detainees for bond review purposes; and , WHEREAS, the Pretrial Services staff has successfully contributed ne to a 15% reduction in the number of inmates released during the pretrial stege of the criminal-process between 1985 and 1986; and WHEREAS/. the Pretrial Services- program has been continuously evaluated by the Pretrial Services Policy Committee, consisting of representatives from the following: the Oakland County District Judges Association, the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court, the County Prosecutor, the County Sheriff, the Circuit Court Administrator, a representative of the-Defense'Bar/_the:Pretrial Services-Director, and a representative of the Board of Commissioners and the County Executive's Office. . NOW'THEREFORE, BE :T RESOLVED that the Public Services Committee acknowledges and applauds the contributions of the Pretrial Services Unit in heaping contain and reduce overcrowding at the Oakland County_ Jail. _ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners authorizes that the Pretrial Services Unit be continued under the • - - - _ . , . supervision of the Circuit —Court7AdMihtStratorsTOtti -ce:Lwith -7-_the-:--- following_ permanent, full—time jierit_positions:one_director/ three caseworker/investigators, and two—diet-Ica-I .-trainees,- as outlined in the- attached fiscal note. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Public Services Committee shall . periodically, continue to evaluate the effectiveness of the Pretrial Services program. Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee/ I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution .. PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE $105,773 $ 66,868 $ 45,746 • $105,773 2,400 1,500 1,925 350 ' 750 470 99 750 , 6,250 6,250 4,750 23,500 14,690 • _.14,690 23,500 • 1,056 ' 660 105 216 685 . 430 239 720 600 • 375' .7'..16 . 900 ' .500 315 416 600 , 2,360 1,475 . 1,595 2,113 - 4,100 • - - •n•n $143 874 $ 93 033 $139,022 OAKLAND COUNTY . CIRCUIT COURT DEPARTMENT PRETRIAL SERVICES PROGRAM Annual Cost and Cost for the Period May 15, 1986 through December 31, 1906 ANNUAL COST COST FOR TUE PERIOD 5/15/86-12/31/86 ACTUAL 1987 1986 APVROP. ;Professional Services*. !Personal Mileage , IPostge Miscl',LCapital Outlay .ç Computer Services - Oper. H. HEquiipMent Rental Hr 4Copfei Rental LLStati .Onery Stock - !I . 1 printShop Telephone Communications Leased Vehicles ' TOTAL COST $ 26,120 56,061 7 3,592 $105,773 PRETRIAL SERVICES PROGRAM .Annual Cost *Professional Services $105,773 - *Annual Professional Services cost includes the contractual cost of the following: J. Program Director 3 Case Workers @ $16,667 2 Clerical @ 11,796 1986-87 Budgeted Amount for Professional Services Contracts 1987 County Merit Salary Costs with Fringe Benefits $1 53,1 16 Sz5LARv 7-"RTNGT, BENEFIT 2 Procram Director $26,9 -95 3 Case Workers @ $19,313- " •57,939 . @ • 7,568 2 Clerical @ $12,191 5,623 $ 109,316 " $ 22,704 11,646 -43,800 24,362 TCTAL SlES 116 FISCAL NOTE BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON IN RE: CIRCUIT COURT DEPARTMENT - PRETRIAL SERVICES PROGRAM - PERMANENT FUNDING - MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #87094 TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: Pursuant to Rule XI-G of this Board, the Finance Committee has reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution #87094 and finds that sufficient funds are available in the 1987 Pretrial Services Budget, Contractual Services line item to maintain the function, thus no budget amendments are necessary at this time. FINANCE COMMITTEE ALLEN Misc. 87094 May 28, 1987 Moved by Richard Kuhn supported by Angus McPherson the resolution, as amended on May 14, 1987 (in the 5th WHEREAS paragraph, replace the word "reduction" with the word "increase" and also amended to be consistent with the recommendation in the Personnel Committee report) be adopted. AYES: Calandro, Crake, Doyon, Gosling, Jensen, Richard Kuhn, Susan Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, Angus McPherson, Ruel McPherson, Moffitt, Nelson, Page, Perinoff, Pernick, Price, Rewold, Rowland, Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell. (24) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended on May 14, 1987, 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 this Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board cf•Commissioners at their meeting held on May 28,1987 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 28th day of ) May 19 87 County Clerk/Register of Deeds this #87094 May 14, 1987 Moved by Richard Kuhn supported by Susan Kuhn the Personnel Committee report be accepted. There were no objections. The Chairperson accepted the report. Moved by Richard Kuhn supported by Skarritt the resolution be adopted. Moved by Calandro supported by Crake the resolution be amended in the 5th WHEREAS paragraph by replacing the word "reduction" with the word "increase"; also to amend so the resolution will be consistent with the recommendations of the Personnel Committee report. A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried and the resolution was amended. The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee. There were no objections.