HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2000.11.30 - 26202/6eA FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
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MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #00299 November 30, 2000
BY: Finance Committee, 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, as previously noted in Misc. Resolution #99123 (wherein the Board of
Commissioners appropriated $693,005 to defray the cost of identified unfunded mandates),
Oakland County has been and continues to be inundated with unfunded State and Federal
directives to perform services at new levels requiring additional computer programming
effort; 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 two new requirements the County confronts include: 1) State implementation
of Federal Welfare Reform that results in the need to develop the capability to accept
electronic payments for child support from the newly formed State Disbursement Unit; and
2) new reporting requirements associated with Governmental Accounting Standards Board
(GASS) Statement #34 and Federal Office of Management & Budget Circular A-133 (Single
Audit Act Amendments of 1996 - P.L.104-156); and
WHEREAS these projects have been included in the Department of Information
Technology 2001/2002 Master Plan and given a high priority by the Courts/Law Enforcement
Leadership Group and Finance Leadership Group, respectively; and
WHEREAS the combined cost of the foregoing mandates equals $153,183, which exceeds
previously appropriated funds; and
WHEREAS the Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act for Local Units of Government
(UBAA), Public Act 621 of 1978, 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 funding for the aforementioned mandates is available from increased
revenues derived from the County's revised Indirect Cost Allocation Plan prepared by DMG
Maximus, LLC; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the UBAA, the County Executive recommends that the FY2001
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 Board of Commissioners 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.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
authorizes the following amendment to the FY2001 General Appropriations Act to defray the
Department of Information Technology related costs of identified Federal and State
unfunded mandates:
General Fund:
Revenue
90-130000-12000-0585 Indirect Cost $153,183
Expenditures
90-210000-21000-8001 Trans. Out - Info. Tech 153,183
0
Information Technology Fund:
Revenue
18-636111-10000-1701 Trans. In - Info. Tech $153,183
Expenditures
18-636162-15000-3346 Professional Services 153,183
0
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.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Obrecht absent.
Resolution #00299 November 30, 2000
Moved by Douglas supported by Causey-Mitchell
adopted.
the resolution be
Douglas, Galloway,
, Obrecht, Palmer,
AYES: Buckley, Causey-Mitchell, Coleman, Dingeldey,
Gregory, Jensen, Law, McPherson, Melton, Millard, Moffitt
Patterson, Schmid, Sever, Suarez, Taub, Amos, Appel. (22)
NAYS: Garfield. (1)
resolution was A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the
adopted.
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 November 30, 2000 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 3,4th dVof Novembr, 2000.
G. William Caddell, County Clerk