HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1987.10.22 - 18109October 22, 1987
Miscellaneous Resolution # 87289
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
IN RE: SUPPORT COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES BOARD POSITION ON LEGALITY OF STATE CONTRACT
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Social Services Board has a statutorily mandated
responsibility to review and make recommendations on contracts between the
Michigan Department of Social Services and private agencies within Oakland
County; and
WHEREAS, a 35-page contract was entered into by the Michigan Department
of Social Services and the International Field Services of Michigan Inc. to
establish within Oakland County a youth camp with a work and learn program from
May 6, 1967 through September 30, 1989 for male wards of the State of Michigan;
and
WHEREAS, a copy of the contract intended for review by the Oakland County
Social Services Board was received by the County Social Services Board on
July 6, 1987; giving this board no opportunity for review and recommendation
prior to the signing by the two parties involved in the contract; and
WHEREAS, because of questions raised over the contract, the Oakland County
Social Services Board has reauested the County Prosecutor to provide an opinion
on the legality of the contract; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Prosecutor responded to the County Social
Services Board stating that the Michigan Department of Social Services violated
MCL 400.25(2) (e) by entering into the contract without first giving the Oakland
County Social Services Board an opportunity to review the contract; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Social Services Board, at a meeting held
October 9, 1967, voted to initiate legal action.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
go on record as endorsing the decision of the County Social Services Board to
enforce the review provisions of MCI 400.45(2) (e) as it relates to this contract.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Richard G. Sgarritt, Chairperson
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Oct. be.
LIU Att.tN
day of 1987
#87289
October 22, 1987
Moved by Skarritt supported by Richard Kuhn the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
AYES: Law, McConnell, McDonald, Angus McPherson, Moffitt, Page, Rewold,
Skarritt, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Crake, Doyon, Gosling, Hobart,
Richard Kuhn, Susan Kuhn, Lanni. (19)
NAYS: Luxon, Ruel McPherson, Price, Rowland. (4)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
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 of Commissioners
at their meetin_g held on October 22, 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
this 22nd