HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1964.01.17 - 20361Miscellaneous Resolution 4270 January 17, 1964
BY: Mr. Lahti
IN RE: WELFARE RESERVE FUND
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS your Welfare Committee considers it most prudent that a Welfare
Reserve Fund be created, and
WHEREAS the desirability of having such a fund has been recognized in the past
by the Board of Supervisors to the extent that it has in the past created such a fund, and
WHEREAS this Board recently expressed the same opinion in Miscellaneous
Resolution 4151, April 15, 1963, presented by your Ways and Means Committee, the
same being the Proposed Tentative Budget for 1964, from which a pertinent part is
quoted as follows:
"In this regard your committee feels that a prudent Welfare Reserve
Fund of a reasonable amount should be established and that any
balances unexpended from future current Direct Relief appropriations
in those years of favorable experience be accumulated in such Fund
to provide for those years of unfavorable experience; such funds to
be used only for this purpose.", and
WHEREAS the foregoing was presented to the Allocation Board during the course
of its deliberations in performing its lawful function for the year 1964, and
WHEREAS this Committee has been requested to consider this matter by the
Social Welfare Board,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that a Fund to be known as the Welfare Reserve
Fund be, and the same is hereby, established, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the initial contribution, if possible in view of
the commitments of the Board of Supervisors as of this date, be a sum equal to the balances
unexpended for welfare purposes from sums appropriated, including collections, for
welfare purposes in 1963, but in any case to include all such unexpended balances for
1964 and succeeding years, and
WELFARE COMMITTEE
Li
\ernon EdwAard
. W. Lahti, Chairman
Alex
Robert/F. JaasAn Z/ ri=ed L. Yockey/
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Elizabth W. Mitchell
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that similar unexpended balances, if any, from
following years be transferred to the Fund until it totals $2,500,000.00, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that when the Fund reaches a total of $1,000,000.00
the Welfare Committee report to this Board whether or not the above established total
is adequate to meet foreseen contingencies, or is in excess of requirements, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that expenditures from the said Welfare Reserve Fund
be made only for Welfare purposes authorized by a majority vote of the Board of
Supervisors, and then only upon a request initiated by the Social Welfare Board and
approved by your Welfare Committee, and
BE IT RECOMMENDED that the foregoing resolution be referred to the Ways
and Means Committee for consideration and that Committee resubmit the resolution and
report back to this Board at its next meeting.
MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Welfare Committee, I move the adoption of
the foregoing resolution.
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Moved by Lahti supported by Edward the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Levinson supported by De:mute the resolution be
amended that the Ways and Means Committee report at the April Session
instead of the next meeting of the Board.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Vote on adoption of resolution, as amended:
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was
adopted.