HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2000.09.21 - 26238September 21, 2000
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #00238
BY: General Government Committee, Shelley Goodman Taub Chairperson
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES/HEALTH DIVISION - GRANT APPLICATION FOR
POLLUTION PREVENTION GRANT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS funding is available from the Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality for pollution prevention activities targeting critical pollutants; and
WHEREAS this grant will involve a partnership with Oakland Schools to
address the excess and unused chemicals in schools that can create a hazard or
danger to students; and
WHEREAS this demonstration project could then be used by other school
districts throughout the state as a pollution prevention model; and
WHEREAS the grant is broken into two phases and the grant period is for
two years; and
WHEREAS Phase I (Year One) of the grant will be to train high school
Science/Chemistry teachers to survey for chemicals in the schools and assess the
current need for those chemicals; and
WHEREAS Phase II of the grant (Year Two) would be to develop a model to
clear the schools of the unneeded/unusable chemicals present and develop a new
system for ordering the chemicals; and
WHEREAS the creation one (1) Special Revenue PTNE (1000 hour) Public
Health Senior Sanitarian position and one (1) Special Revenue PTNE (1000 hour)
Clerk III position are required to support this program; and
WHEREAS acceptance of this grant does not obligate the County to any
future commitment; and
WHEREAS of the total estimated project cost of $359,198 for two years,
grant funding will consist of $271,067 and a local match is required of a minimum
of 25% of the grant funding; and
WHEREAS the County Match requirement will be satisfied through in-kind
services provided by Oakland Schools and Oakland County Health Division staff.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners approves the application for two year funding for the Pollution
Prevention Grant in the amount of $271,067, with a County Match of $88,131.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that services associated with this program be
contingent upon continued grant funding at a level sufficient to maintain
the program.
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 with Dingeldey, McPherson and Law absent
Resolution #00238 September 21, 2000
Moved by Taub supported by McPherson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Law, McCulloch, McPherson, Melton,
Millard, Moffitt, Obrecht, Palmer, Patterson, Sever, Suarez, Taub, Amos, Appel,
Causey-Mitchell, Colasanti, Coleman, Dingeldey, Douglas. (22)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
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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 September 21, 2000 with the original
record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hid an affixed the seal of the
County of Oakland at Pontiac, Michigan this 214 da
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of Septeml".r, 2000. /
G. William Caddell, County Clerk