HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1993.08.05 - 22115Miscellaneous Resolution #93136 August 5, 1993
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - Donald W. Jensen, Chairperson
RE: SENATE BILL 689 (OPPOSE) - GIVING AUTHORITY TO APPOINT
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES BOARD MEMBERS TO COUNTY
EXECUTIVE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Senate Bill 689 would remove the authority of County
commissioners to appoint County Community Mental Health Services
Board members in counties that have a County Executive; and
WHEREAS this appointive authority, taken away from County
Commissioners, would be given to County Executives; and
WHEREAS Senate Bill 689 also gives County Executives authority
to appoint the Director and all members of the County Community
Mental Health program, removing this responsibility from the County
Community Mental Health Services Board and Board of Commissioners
respectively; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners did not
request the amendments to the Mental Health Code proposed in Senate
Bill 689; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners is evaluating our present
system and planning for Full Management.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners opposes Senate Bill 689.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent
to all Legislators from Oakland County, the Michigan Association of
Counties and the County's Legislative Agent and State Government
Liaison.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
August 5, 1993
Resolution #93136
Moved by Jensen supported by Price the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Garfield, Gosling, Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Law, McCulloch,
McPherson, Miltner, Moffitt, Oaks, Obrecht, Palmer, Pernick, Powers, Schmid,
Taub, Wolf, Aaron, Crake, Dingeldey, Douglas. (23)
NAYS: Kingzett, Price. (2)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
DOES NOT REQUIRE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ACTION
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution is a true and accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the
Oakland County Board of Commissioners on August 5, 1993 with the original record
thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 5th day of Aucist 1997,
Lynn D. Allen, County Clerk