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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2018.11.14 - 23858Conimissioner(Mfohael J. Gib District #1 MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #18351 BY: Commissioners Michael J. GingeII, District #1; David Woodward, District #19; IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — RENEWED PARTNERSHIP WITH OAKLAND HOPE TO PROVIDE HUMAN SERVICES ASSISTANCE FOR LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: WHEREAS Oakland Hope launched in 2016 as Oakland County's only non-profit one-stop shop human service agency providing a wide-range of resources in a single location; and WHEREAS Oakland Hope is a non-profit, volunteer-driven human service organization that has recently formed within our county following in the footsteps of Focus Hope and Macomb Hope; and WHEREAS Oakland Hope provides a client choice food pantry for the working poor, fulfilling a critical nutritional need for low income individuals in the area; and WHEREAS Oakland Hope aims to provide humanitarian services most requested by families in need, including assistance in obtaining benefits, job training, and counseling; and WHEREAS Oakland Hope receives regular donations and operates a thrift store, with a supply of clothing, furniture and other household items; and WHEREAS the 2016 report "Map the Meal Gap" from the organization Feeding America found that 164,400 individuals in Oakland County were "food insecure", meaning they met the USDA's definition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food; and WHEREAS the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for the administration of the human services functions of county government, including programs that are targeted to ensure maximum availability of food and nutrition to low income residents of Oakland County; and WHEREAS the Department of Health and Human Services has established a partnership with Oakland Hope to provide low income individuals an opportunity to receive necessary items such as food or resale items that would provide an excellent opportunity to partner with Oakland Hope. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby approves a renewed partnership with Oakland Hope for the one-time amount of $50,000 to provide human services assistance for low income individuals. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Board of Commissioners authorizes the Chairman of the Board to execute a contract for this program, subject to review by the poupty Executive coptract review, process, and approve expenditures for this project. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resoluti Commissioner David Woodward District #19 CommiMioner District Commissioner trict * Commissioner\ District #/al Commissioner District # Commi4sione District Commissioner Commissioner District # District # Commissioner Commissioner District # District # Resolution #18351 October 10, 2018 The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee. There were no objections. FISCAL NOTE (MISC. #18351) November 14, 2018 BY: Commissioner Thomas Middleton, Chairperson, Finance Committee IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - RENEWED PARTNERSHIP WITH OAKLAND HOPE TO PROVIDE HUMAN SERVICES ASSISTANCE FOR LOW INCOME INDIVIDUALS To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: Pursuant to Rule XII-C of this Board, the Finance Committee has reviewed the above referenced resolution and finds: 1. Resolution approves a renewed partnership with Oakland Hope and authorizes a one-time expenditure of $50,000 to provide human services assistance to low income individuals. 2. This will provide low income individuals an opportunity to receive necessary items such as food or resale items. 3. Miscellaneous Resolution #18329 adopted September 27, 2018, authorized that $50,000 be assigned to the Board of Commissioners Project Assigned Fund Balance with the FY 2018 Year End Report (the FY 2018 Year End Report will be presented to the Finance Committee on November 29, 2018). 4. Funding is available from the General Fund Assigned Fund Balance (G/L Account #383313) to the Board of Commissioners General Fund, Administration Division, Special Projects Account. 5. The FY 2019 budget will be amended as follows: GENERAL FUND #10100 Revenue 9010101-196030-665882 FY2019 Planned Use of Balance Total Revenue $ 50,000 $ 50,000 Expenditures 5010101-180010-731822 Special Projects Total Expenditures $ 50,000 $ 50,000 CoMmissioner Thomas Middleton, District #4 Chairperson, Finance Committee FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE: Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote. Resolution #18351 November 14, 2018 Moved by Crawford supported by Quarles the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). AYES: Crawford, Fleming, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Taub, Tietz, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Berman, Bowman. (19) NAYS: None. (0) A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted). HEREBY APPReIVE THIS RESOLUTION CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45,559A (7) STATE OF MICHIGAN) COUNTY OF OAKLAND) I, Lisa Brown, 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 November 14, 2018, 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 14 0, day of November, 2018. Lisa Brown, Oakland County