HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1994.08.18 - 24014MISC. RES. 194256
BY: MARILYNN GOSLING, COMMISSIONER DISTRICT #14
RE: CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES UNDER
THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, Act 139, of the Public Acts of 1973, as amended
provides that the Board of Commissioners may create additional
departments within county government, and
WHEREAS, the employees of Community Mental Health are
employees of the County of Oakland, and by passage of Res.#93248,
are subject to the provisions of the Oakland County Merit System,
and
WHEREAS, in keeping with the Board of Commissioners'
decision to operate the Community Mental Health Services under a
full-management agreement with the State of Michigan, it is a
logical progression to formally restructure what has become a de
facto department of the County of Oakland, and
WHEREAS, several counties throughout the State have
indicated a preference to have the Community Mental Health
function as a department of the counties, and have requested that
the MAC Mental Health Committee review proposed amendments to
Chapters 2 & 3 of the Mental Health Code, MCLA 330.1220 et seq.
which would include establishing Community Mental Health as a
County Department with an advisory mental health board appointed
by the Board of Commissioners.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners does hereby express its desire and intent to
make the operations and functions of the Community Mental Health
Services Agency a department of the County of Oakland, and
BE IT FURTHER KESOLVED that the County Executive, through
the Office of Corporation Council, draft proposed legislation
which will allow the departmentalization of Community Mental
Health, and that such proposed legislation be brought to this
Board for further review.
Chairman, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.