HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1994.08.18 - 24007MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 194247 August 18, 1994
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, DONALD W. JENSEN, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: SUPPORT FOR OAKLAND COUNTY TO RECEIVE ITS FAIR SHARE OF
PUBLIC ACT 189 FUNDS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS in 1993 the Michigan State legislature passed Public
Act 189, designed to reimburse Counties for a portion of their
trial court operational cost; and
WHEREAS the State Court Administrator's Office (SCAO) is
responsible to administer PA 189 funds and has developed a formula
to distribute PA 189 funds; and
WHEREAS the SCAO developed formula is based on incorrect and
incomplete financial information and interpretation of the
legislation resulting in the potential loss of PA 189 funds to
Oakland County amounting to millions of dollars annually; and
WHEREAS the SCAO did not verify the financial information used
in the formula prior to its use in two distributions from the State
Court Fund; and
WHEREAS, among other concerns, the distribution formula:
a. Assumes district court revenue collected by the 52nd
District Court and given to municipalities to be
County revenue, reducing the amount of PA 189 funds
available to the County;
b. Ignores Oakland County Child Care expenditures
located in reporting units other than the Probate
Court (Children's Village, Camp Oakland, etc.),
however credits the County with all child care
revenue.
WHEREAS the County Executive, through the Department of
Management and Budget, is attempting to work with the SCAO, to
correct the problems with the formula, the accuracy of the
financial information in that formula, and to ensure that Oakland
County receives it fair share of PA 189 funds.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioner supports the efforts of the County Executive to work
with the State Court Administrator's Office in correcting the
problems with the PA 189 distribution formula, the accuracy of the
financial information in that formula, and to ensure that Oakland
County receives its fair share of PA 189 funds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be
forwarded to Oakland County's legislators and to the Michigan
Association of Counties with the request that they join Oakland
County in seeking an equitable solution to this funding.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and agixed the seal of the
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 18th day ot:Ailgusr=„2,994.
D. Allen, County Clerk
Resolution #94247 August 18, 1994
Moved by Jensen supported by Wolf the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Kramer, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt, Newby, Oaks, Obrecht,
Palmer, Pernick, Powers, Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Crake, Douglas, Garfield, Gosling,
Huntoon, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
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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 18, 1994 with the original record
thereof now remaining in my office.