HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2001.09.06 - 26662MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #01210 August 16, 2001
BY: Public Services Committee, David L. Moffitt, Chairperson
IN RE: CIRCUIT COURT — USE OF MEDIATION FUNDS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS by Miscellaneous Resolution #90177, the Board of Commissioners
established the Circuit Court Civil Mediation Fund; and
WHEREAS the fund is to be used to help pay for Circuit Court enhancements and
improvements as requested by the Circuit Court and approved by the Board of Commissioners;
and
WHEREAS the Court seeks to utilize the Mediation Fund for the following purposes:
QTY DESCRIPTION COST
Furniture
5 Courtroom (Jury box chairs, podiums, $ 22,400
Counsel tables, clerk desks & chairs,
Witness chair)
4 Jury Room (Jury room chairs, table, 25,000
Cabinet, credenza)
5 Judges (Bookcases, console table, floor 6,550
Lamp, side chairs)
4 Judicial Staff (task chairs) 5,500
1 Court Administration (landscape furniture) 3,500
1 Family Division Administration (table and 3,500
1 Jury Assembly Room (table) 2,000
1 Case Management Office (landscape
Furniture for five workstations, desk) 21,000
1 Judicial Support Unit — Family Division 40,000
(landscape furniture for 13 workstations)
Equipment
2 Judges (transcribers for two chambers) 1,450
1 Judicial Staff (4-drawer lateral file cabinet) 800
2 Case Management Office (one 4-drawer and 1,550
One 5-drawer lateral file cabinet)
TOTAL MEDIATION FUND REQUEST $133,250
WHEREAS the total Civil Mediation Fund transfer for the above-referenced items is
estimated to be $133,250.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners approves the use of $133,250 from the Circuit Court Civil Mediation Fund for
the above-referenced items.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Services Committee, I move the adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
Public Services Committee Vote:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Moffitt, Crawford, Sever and Buckley absent.
Resolution #01210 August 16, 2001
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee.
There were no objections.
FISCAL NOTE (M.R.#01210) September 6, 2001
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, SUE ANN DOUGLAS, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: CIRCUIT COURT - USE OF MEDIATION FUNDS
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule XII-C of this Board, the Finance Committee has
reviewed the above referenced resolution and finds:
1. M.R.#91077 established the Circuit Court Mediation Fund and
provided that after payment of the attorney mediators; the
balance of the fund will be used by the Court for
enhancements and improvements.
2. The Circuit Court Mediation Fund currently has a balance of
$982,989.
3. The Circuit Court has requested using $133,250 from the Fund
to purchase various furniture items.
4. The FY 2001 Circuit Court budget should be amended, as
specified below, to utilize funds from the Civil Mediation
Account (35-101-2853-050110):
Revenue
1-35-130000-22200-0351 Civil Mediation
Expenditures
2-35-230000-22200-3620 Special Projects
$133,250
$133,250
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote with Taub and Friedman
Appel absent.
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Moved by Douglas supported by Moss the resolutions on the Consent Agenda,
as amended, be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Appel, Brian, Buckley, Causey-Mitchell, Coleman, Crawford,
Dingeldey, Douglas, Galloway, Garfield, Gregory, Law, McPherson, Melton,
Millard, Moffitt, Moss, Obrecht, Palmer, Patterson, Sever, Suarez, Taub,
Webster, Amos. (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefore, the resolutions on the
Consent Agenda, as amended, were adopted (with accompanying reports being
accepted).
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 Bo ard of Commissioners on September 6, 2001 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 6th iclay oVSeptember, 2001.
G. William Caddell, County Clerk