HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1996.03.07 - 24834MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #96053 March 7, 1995
BY: Public Services Committee, Shelley G. Taub, Chairperson
IN: OAKLAND COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES COORDINATING COUNCIL
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, the State of Michigan has, through a multi-agency effort of the
Michigan human services department directors, promulgated a report dated February
15, 1995, and known as "Systems Reform for Children and Their Families:
Strategies for Change", ( "the Report"); and,
WHEREAS, the Report contains ten "recommendations critical to
implementation" of the Report; and
WHEREAS, the Report, by its terms, is intended to "design a road map
which will facilitate collaborative, seamless, locally-controlled, and
family-friendly systems of services"; and,
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland is and has been a state-wide leader in
the organization and implementation of inter-agency and combined cooperative
efforts with private sector agencies to meet the social services needs of
children and their families, including but not limited to the implementation
of the "Families First" program, the 'Wrap Around" program, a Youth Assistance
program, the 41-I program, full management of Community Mental Health and other
similar efforts; and
WHEREAS, the first "key step" in the implementation of the Report, as
set forth therein, is the formation of "one multi-purpose collaborative body
as a decision-making body to coordinate human services within the community";
and
WHEREAS, the Report states that what constitutes the "community" is to
be defined by the Community itself; and
WHEREAS, the Report concludes that the State will communicate to
communities that "effective collaborative policy-making structures" should be
organized to "involve at a minimum: (a) agency directors of the department of
social services, community mental health, local public health, intermediate
school districts, area agencies on aging, or senior volunteer agencies or
their designated representatives with decision-making authority, ( b)
consumers and families, (c) private agency and community representative, and
(d) prosecutors and probate judges ; " and,
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Executive is, by 1973 P.A. 139, charged with
the primary local responsihility for the delivery of publicly funded public
health services and county human services programs within Oakland County; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, through the
mechanisms of the Oakland County Community Mental Health Agency, is
responsible for the delivery of publicly funded mental health services; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners budgets for and works
with the Oakland County Prosecutor's office, the Juvenile Division of the
Oakland County Probate Court, and the Oakland County Extension Service, within
the overall framework of Oakland County Unified Form of County Government, for
the purpose of assisting the efficient operations of those entities and the
delivery of services to the public, specifically including programs to address
the need of children and their families; and,
WHEREAS, the County of Oakland is a "local unit" and the Oakland County
Board of Commissioners is a "legislative body" under the definitions of, and
subject to provisions of the Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act, Act 2 of
the Public Acts of 1968, as amended, MCI, 141.421 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Article VII, Section 8 of the 1963 Constitution of
the State of Michigan and MCL 45.556CC), the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners may establish committees of the Board necessary for the
efficient conduct of business and, pursuant to MCL 45.556(a), may exercise all
powers and duties vested in county boards of commissioners not inconsistent
with the provisions of 1973 P.A. 139.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
1. A "Collaborative Body" in the nature of that called for in the
February 15, 1995 report entitled "Systems Reform for Children and Their
Families: Strategies for Change" ("the Report") is hereby established within
the County of Oakland.
2, The name of the "Collaborative Body" shall be the "Oakland County
Human Services Coordinating Council."
3. The mission of the Oakland County Human Services Coordinating Council
shall be to act as the central advisory authority for coordinating the
delivery of social services within the County of Oakland, pursuant to the
terms of the Report, Michigan Law, and Oakland County rules, policies and
procedures.
4. The membership of the Oakland County Human Services Coordinating
Council shall include:
a. The Director of the Oakland County Department of Social Services;
b. The Director of the Oakland County Community Mental Health
Department;
c. The Health Officer/Manager of the Oakland County Health Division;
d. The Manager of the Oakland County Employment and Training
Division;
e. The Superintendent of the Oakland County Intermediate School
District;
f. The Oakland County Prosecutor;
g. The Oakland County Chief Probate Judge;
h. Two members of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners;
i. The Oakland County Executive, or his designee;
]. The Executive Director of the Area Agency on Aging - 1B
k. One representative from consumers or the families of consumers of
human services within Oakland County;
1. One representative from a private agency which provides
privately funded human services within Oakland County.
5. To the extent that funds are made available by the state or federal
government, or by any other source, to or for the use of the Oakland County
Human Services Coordinating Council, or Oakland County, its boards, agencies
or departments, for or on behalf of a program coordinated by the Oakland
County Human Services Coordinating Council, the County of Oakland shall act as
fiduciary for those funds, pursuant to standard Oakland County policies and
procedures therefore, and such policies and procedures shall be consistent
with the terms and requirements of the Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act,
Act 2 of the PubliC Acts of 1968, as amended, MCL 141.421 et seq.
6. To the extent that the Oakland County Human Services Coordinating
Council, or any Oakland County agency, board, commission or department, for or
on behalf of the oakland County Human Services Coordinating Council, initiates
a program, applies for or receives grants from any source, or enters into
contracts for the provision of services, the initiatives, programs, grant
applications, grant agreements, and contracts for the provision of services
shall be processed and approved pursuant to standard Oakland County policies
and procedures therefore.
7. The Oakland County Human Services Coordinating Council shall report
to the Public Services Committee of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.
8. To the extent that the Oakland County Human Services Coordinating
Council utilizes any non-County funding mechanisms, non-County fiduciaries for
the receipt or administration of funding, applies for or receives grants
through any non-County member of the Council, or provides services through any
non-County member of the Council, appropriate hold harmless and insurance
liability coverage language shall be developed and implemented in any
contracts, agreements, and documents pertaining thereto as may be deemed
necessary to protect the County of Oakland, the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners, Oakland County Elected Officials and Oakland County's officers,
agents, and employees, from any and all liability pertaining to the use,
misuse, or misApproprihtieln of funds, or other similar claims; and for any and
all claims for personal injury, loss, property damage and other similar
claims.
9. The County of Oakland, in a manner consistent with 1973 P.A. 139,
shall furnish accounting, administrative, legal and ancillary services to the
Oakland County Human Services Coordinating Council, and may charge and recover
the cost of providing such services.
1U. The Oakland County Human Services Coordinating Council, except as
otherwise be permitted or provided by law, shall generally be operated in
accordance with the general guidelines set forth in the Report, and such other
and further guidelines, policies and procedures as may be promulgated by the
State of Michigan Human Services Directors.
11. Nothing contained herein is or shall be construed as a waiver, in
whole or in part, of any rights, claims, or privileges afforded to the County
of Oakland under the provisions of the Headlee Amendment, Article IX,
Section 29 of the 1963 Constitution of the State of Michigan, or of any other
rights, claims or privileges reserved to the County of Oakland under the 1953
Constitution of the State of Michigan and the laws of this state.
12. The Oakland County Board of Commissioners may review the operation
of the Oakland County Human Services Coordinating Council as necessary.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee, I move adoption
of the forgoing resolution.
PUBLIC SERVIC L7A!'!4?
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Resolution #96053 March 7, 1996
Moved by Taub supported by Wolf the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Schmid supported by Dingeldey the resolution be amended in the NOW
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph, under Section 4, to add item (m) to read as
follows: m. Executive Director of Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolutioni as amended:
AYES: Wolf, Amos, Crake, Devine, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield, Holbert,
Jacobs, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Moffitt,
Obrecht, Palmer, Pernik, Powers, Schmid, Taub. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
was adopted.
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 March 7, 1996 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 7th day ttp.f.—klarcha-9.96.
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Lyhn D. Allen, County Clerk