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REPORT (Misc. 07023: March 6, 1997
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE - KAY SCHMID, CHAIRPERSON
MR #97023, SUPPORT OF CONTINUED (MWD INCREASED) HEAD
START FEDERAL PROGRAM FUNDING
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having reviewed on February
24, 1997, MR #97023 entitled, "Support of Continued (and Increased)
Head Start Federal Program Funding" reports with the recommendation
that the resolution be adopted with the RESOLVED paragraph amended
to read:
RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners supports this highly affective OLHSA
program and urges Congress not only to continue but to
increase funding, thereby allowing the Oakland Livingston
Human Service Agency Head Start Program to serve more
eligible families throughout Oakland County and to
empower children and families to move toward self-
sufficiency.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I
move the acceptance of the foregoing Report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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WHEREAS
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The Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency Head Start Program serves 1,567
low income children and families in Pontiac, Royal Oak, Home Base, and fifteen
school districts throughout Oakland County; and
Head Start provides services in areas including Education, Health, Disabilities,
Family Involvement, Family Services, Mental Health, and Career Development to
all enrolled children and families throughout the county in order to empower
children and families to move toward self-sufficiency; and
These services, provided through Head Start, have been documented through the
High Scope Perry Preschool Report, completed in 1993, which assesses the
effectiveness of high quality, active learning preschool programs in providing short
and long term benefits to at risk children living in poverty; and
The results of this report indicated that there are many short and long term
benefits, such as higher literacy rate, higher earnings, lower arrest rate, and higher
level of schooling attained; and
The cost of providing these comprehensive services to children and families by
highly trained staff continues to escalate, while at the same time the provision of
these services by collaborating agencies or programs declines because of funding
cuts; and
WHEREAS Current funding allows only one-half of the eligible families in Oakland County
to be served by the Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency Head Start
Program; THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED that increased funding would allow the Oakland Livingston Human Service
Agency Head Start Prograrn to serve more eligible families throughout Oakland
County, and to empower children and families to move toward self-sufficiency
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Resolution #97023 March 6, 1997
Moved by Schmid supported by Jensen the General Government Committee Report
be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the report was accepted.
Moved by Schmid supported by Jensen the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Schmid supported by Jensen the resolution be amended to coincide
with the recommendation in the General Government Committee Report.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer,
Pernick, Powers, Schmid, Taub, Wolf, Amos, Coleman, Devine, Douglas, Garfield,
Holbert, Huntoon, Jacobs, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
was adopted.
DOES NOT REQUIRE COUNTY EXECUTIVE Acnou
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 6, 1997 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 6th day of March 1997.
. Allen, County Clerk