HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1999.02.04 - 25728February 4, 1999
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 99016
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, SHELLEY G. TAUB, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES/HEALTH DIVISION - GRANT APPLICATION
FOR FETAL-INFANT MORTALITY REVIEW INITIATIVE
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS funding is available from the Michigan Department of Community
Health (MUCH) for the development of local teams to review fetal and infant
deaths in communities where infant mortality rates are higher than the state
average; and
WHEREAS the infant mortality rate for the City of Pontiac significantly
exceeds the rates for both the state and the county; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Health Division (OCHD) is applying for funds
in the amount of $10,000 to assess fetal-infant mortality within the City of
Pontiac; and
WHEREAS the OCHD will partner with community agencies to assess data and
to develop a service delivery model that educates and targets vulnerable and
hard-to-reach pregnant women and parents of newborns; and
WHEREAS application does not obligate the County of Oakland to any
future commitment; and
WHEREAS no additional personnel are being requested; and
WHEREAS grant applications are due to MUCH on January 23, 1999, and the
grant period ends September 29, 1999; and
WHEREAS the grant application is being submitted to MUCH pending
simultaneous review by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners approves the application to the Michigan Department of Community
Health for grant funding in the amount of $10,000 to develop a fetal-infant
mortality review initiative.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
General Government Committee Vote:
Motion carried on unanimous roll call vote
Resolution #99016 February -4, 1999
Moved by Taub supported by Melton the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Douglas, Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Jensen, Law, McCulloch,
McPherson, Melton, Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Patterson, Schmid, Sever,
Suarez, Taub, Amos, Appel, Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Devine,
Dingeldey. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
FOREGOING RESOLUTION
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, G. William Caddell, 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 February 4, 1999 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 ,nolpt day/4f February, 1999.
G: William Caddell, County Clerk