HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1997.05.08 - 25138MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #97102 April 24, 1997
BY: Public Services Committee, Shelley G. Taub, Chairperson
IN RE: CONSULTANT TO STUDY, ANALYZE AND PROPOSE PLANS TO REDUCE THE COSTS
OF HEALTH CARE IN THE COUNTY JAIL
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Michigan law, (MCL 801.4; MCL 801.4a), requires that all charges
of safekeeping and maintaining prisoners and persons charged with offenses
detained in the county jail be paid from the county treasury; and
WHEREAS Michigan law, (MCL 51.75), requires the Sheriff have the charge
and custody of the jails of the county and of the prisoners of the same; and
WHEREAS pursuant to 1973 P.A. 139, (MCL 45.563[h]) and written agreement
the Oakland County Health Division, as part of its duty to provide all public
health services for the County, provides medical services for Oakland County
Jail inmates; and
WHEREAS Michigan law, (MCL 801.5), provides that the Board of
Commissioners may provide by contract for all necessary supplies for the use
of the jail, including fuel and food, clothing, bedding, and medical
attendance; and
WHEREAS the County taxpayers' cost of health care, prisoner transport,
hospital watches and related personnel and administrative expenses has been
increasing at a rapid rate; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners, the Sheriff and the County Executive
are interested in exploring all options available to the County to control,
limit and/or reduce the costs to taxpayers of inmate health care without
compromising the County's ability to fulfill its legal obligations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners hereby establishes a Jail Inmate Health Care Task Force
comprised of the Sheriff or his designee, the County Executive or his
designee, the Chairperson of the Board of Commissioners or his designee, the
Chairperson of Finance and Personnel Committee and the Chairperson and one
member of the Public Services Committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Task Force is charged with developing a
Request for Proposal (RFP) for a consultant to study, analyze and propose
plan(s) to control, limit and/or reduce the costs of inmate health care to
Oakland County taxpayers.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any study shall include, but is not limited
to, the following issues: reduction of costs through privatization of the jail
Health Clinic, reorganizations, and innovative staffing strategies related to
jail Health care, contracting for the provision of all necessary health
supplies for the use of the jail, medical insurance, including capitated
managed care packages, in-house hospital beds, prescription medicine, lab and
x-ray tests, hospitalization and deputy overtime as it relates to health care.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Jail Inmate Health Care Task Force
coordinate with the Purchasing Division and, prior to issuance of an RFP,
report with a recommendation to the Public Services Committee within ninety
days of adoption of this resolution.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee, I move the
adoption of the forgoing resolution. Af
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Resolution #97102 May 8, 1997
Moved by Taub supported by Huntoon the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McPherson, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Powers, Schmid, Taub,
Wolf, Amos, Coleman, Devine, Dingeldey, Douglas, Garfield, Holbert, Huntoon,
Jacobs, Jensen, Johnson, Kaczmar, Kingzett, Law, McCulloch. (24)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
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L. Brooks P
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 May 8, 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 8th day .of May 1
Lytn D. Allen, County Clerk