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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. I HEREBY,A'PPRO THE FOREGOING F;?`"".. 7/224V Brooks Patt‘rson:Count'y Executive Date 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 ) an of Septeml".r, 2000. / G. William Caddell, County Clerk