HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1960.09.19 - 19289RESOLUTION September 19, 1960
BY: Mr,
IN RE: BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 1961 TO DECEMBER 31, 1961
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Your Ways and Means Committee herewith presents to this Board the budget for the
operation of the County for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1961 and ending December
31, 1961 and by way of explanation states as follows:
The report of the amounts set up by the Salaries Committee, totals of which were
supplied to the Ways and Means Committee and which you have received, have been inserted
as the recommended amounts in the 1961 budget.
It has been the custom of the Ways and Means Committee in the past, in accordance
with good budgetary procedure, to place a conservative enough estimate on receipts so that in
no case would the estimate be more than was actually received. In the 1961 budget because
of the decrease in mil lage it was necessary to bring the receipts closer to 100% of actual
amounts collected. While Register of Deeds, Direct Relief and Hospitalization will be less
than 1959, the receipts have been increased $211,500.00.
The amounts placed after the respective departments in the budget have been arrived
at by reference to the budget recommendations of the Board of Auditors, Department Heads and
Salaries Committee and consideration has been given to past experience as well as requirements
of increase in service during the fiscal year the budget covers.
In order to give the Board of Auditors a better budgetary control of purchases of
furniture and fixtures for the several county departments, we have deleted from the departmental
budgets all amounts for such purposes and placed a single item in the 1961 budget under the
heading of "CAPITAL OUTLAY AND IMPROVEMENTS" amounting to $73,773.00 with a
detailed sheet to support that amount. As it becomes necessary, in the judgment of the Auditors,
to purchase new items of furniture and fixtures, the cost of such articles will be paid from the
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said appropriation of $73,773,00 and the charge reflected in the expenditures of the affected
department or institution,
The appropriation for the Oakland Child Guidance Clinic is continued for the year
1961 in order that the Clinic may continue its program and have ample opportunity during the
next year to find other sources of revenue in anticipation that the County will not make an
appropriation for this purpose in the year 1962. The Committee does not anticipate that there
will be sufficient millage in the future to continue an appropriation for the Clinic. In view of
the definite State responsibility to carry on this function and the lack of the legal right of the
County to continue to make such appropriation, the Committee recommends that appropriations
to the Clinic be discontinued beginning with the 1962 budget.
Special attention is called to the moderate Contingent Fund of 41/100ths of 1% of the
total budget. Careful consideration should be given to any expenditures therefrom during the
ensuing year.
The Committee recommends the continuation of the policy on anti-nepotism as
approved by this Board in 1940 (Miscellaneous Resolution No. 1813) and further recommends
that the Board of Auditors be charged with the responsibility of strict enforcement of this
policy.
In accordance with the long established policy of the Board, the Committee recommends
that a close liaison with the administrative offices of the County be continued.
We again reiterate the recommendations made in the past years concerning the
following policies:
We recommend the continuance of the policy to have the Board of Auditors submit
quarterly reports to all members of the Board of Supervisors and each Department Head.
We recciAmend that the salaries provided for be in lieu of all fees, which fees belong
to and are to be credited to the General Fund.
Cs-ph C, Holmes
MR. CHAIRMAN, I move the adoption of the above report and approval of the 1961
budget as submitted.
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
David Levinson, Chairman
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