HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1999.05.27 - 25811MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #99123 May 27, 1999
BY: Commissioner Sue Ann Douglas, Chairperson
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - APPROPRIATION FOR UNFUNDED STATE
AND FEDERAL MANDATES
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Oakland County has been and continues to be inundated with unfunded
State and Federal directives to perform services at new levels requiring
extensive computer programming efforts; and
WHEREAS these unfunded State and Federal directives are effectively
mandates as failure to meet the newly imposed program requirements are punished
by severe reductions in Federal pass-through revenues totaling millions of
dollars (the potential loss of Cooperative Reimbursement Grants for the Friend
of the Court could cost the County up to $6.0 million annually); and
WHEREAS the federal government through the State has provided a cap on the
costs to be reimbursed under the Cooperative Reimbursement Program for the first
time effective October 1, 1999; and
WHEREAS the County has recently acquired E9-1-1 call-taking equipment for
the 32 public safety answering points located within Oakland County (at a cost
of over $3.0 million to the County's General Fund) in order to comply (in part)
with the federal Telecom Act of 1996; and
WHEREAS the County has numerous innovative and important computer projects
underway at the Department of Information Technology, all of which have been
approved and funded by the Board of Commissioners and all of which are designed
to bring improved services to the County's residents and taxpayers; and
WHEREAS the innovative and important County computer projects competing
with the above-noted unfunded mandates for the limited financial and human
resources available to the County include the Judicial Information Management
System for the District / Circuit / Probate Courts and the Jail Management System
for the Sheriff's Department; and
WHEREAS unreasonable requests for immediate completion of unfunded mandates
without regard to other unfunded mandates in progress (for example, CSES and
Centralized Collections) and / or displacing of discretionary computer
programming (for example, repeat offender mandates involved a program for which
the County received notification in mid-April that must be completed no later
than October 1, 1999); and
WHEREAS the Department of Information Technology 1999/2000 Master Plan
Quarterly Status Report lists numerous projects which represent unfunded federal
and state mandates, including:
PRJ. NO. PROJECT TITLE EST. HOURS
Federal:
DB8312WR FOC Welfare Reform 2,402
DB8312FR FOC New Federal Reporting Req 871
DB8312TX FOC Tax Refund Offset Program 612
DB8312IS FOC Interstate Subsystem 1,783
DB8312EH FOC Non-EFT Case Hold Code 364
DB9312FL Federal Parent Locator Service 215
Total Federal 6,247
State:
DB8311MR Mediation Rotation 1,306
DB9320R0 Repeat Offender 600
Total State 1,906
Total Hours - Federal and State 8,153 ; and
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Jensen and Millard absent.
WHEREAS the 8,153 hours identified above required by the unfunded Federal
and State directives, when assigned the standard average hourly rate of $85.00,
compute to a taxpayer cost of $693,005; and
WHEREAS the 8,153 hours cited is well below the total eventually required
as they do not include hours for major pending projects such as Child Support
Enforcement System (CSES) and Friend of the Court - Centralized Collections
because there is insufficient information currently available to determine scope
and timing of services required and adequate federal rules and regulations have
not been prepared to enable efficient programming; and
WHEREAS the combined costs of the innovative and important County projects
and the effectively mandatory unfunded State and Federal projects exceed
previously appropriated funds; and
WHEREAS the Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act for Local Units of
Government (UBAA), 1978 Public Act 621, at Section 19, provides that an
expenditure shall not be incurred except in pursuance of the authority and
appropriations of the legislative body of the local unit; and
WHEREAS Section 17 of the UBAA provides that a deviation from the original
general appropriations act shall not be made without amending the general
appropriations act; and
WHEREAS Section 18 of the UBAA provides that an administrative officer of
the local unit shall not incur expenditures against an appropriation account in
excess of the amount appropriated by the legislative body; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the UBAA the County Executive recommends that the 1999
General Appropriations Act be amended to provide sufficient funds to cover the
costs of the aforementioned unfunded mandates with the understanding that failure
to appropriate funding will constitute a BOC directive either that work on those
mandates be discontinued or that the innovative and important County projects be
delayed or displaced by the unfunded federal and state mandated projects so as
to ensure that the dictates of the State of Michigan's UBAA are not violated;
WHEREAS due to the continuation of state reimbursement for 50t of county
child care expenditures, the County will realize additional revenue in Juvenile
Maintenance Fund, this additional revenue can be used to reduce the General Fund
transfer to the Juvenile Maintenance Fund providing a source of funding to cover
the unfunded federal and state mandates.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
authorizes the following amendment to the FY 1999 Budget to defray the Department
of Information Technology related costs of identified federal and state unfunded
mandates:
JUVENILE MAINTENANCE FUND
Revenue
90-132000-12000-0159 Child Care Subsidy $ 693,005
90-470000-31000-1701 Trans. In - General Fund (693.005)
GENERAL FUND
Expenditures
90-310000-35000-8001 Trans. Out - Juv. Mt. $(693,005)
90-210000-21000-8001 Trans. Out - Info. Tech 693.005
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be sent to
all federal and State legislators from Oakland County and to the County's State
legislative liaisons.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
II HEREBY
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Resolution #99123 May 27, 1999
Moved by Douglas supported by Galloway the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Devine, Dingeldey, Douglas,
Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Jensen, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Melton, Millard,
Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Patterson, Schmid, Sever, Suarez, Taub, Amos,
Appel. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
HE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
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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 May 27, 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 27th day of May, 1999.
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