HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.01.24 - 30967MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #19018 ILRA.sk-v- Ckto
BY: Commissioners David Woodward, District #19 Li (-V- -a I 41( ei,J(6,7e.
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — ASSISTANCE FOR OAKLAND COUNTY RESIDENTS
SUFFERING FROM A FOOD EMERGENCY DUE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS on December 22, 2018, the President of the United States and the United States Congress failed
to agree on the timely appropriation of sufficient funds for the 2019 fiscal year or a temporary continuing
resolution, resulting in a shutdown of Federal government offices and services that continues to this day; and
WHEREAS the lapse of funding for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs means that millions of
families are facing uncertainty in meeting their nutritional needs; and
WHEREAS the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation's largest anti-hunger program,
reached roughly forty million low-income individuals nationally and roughly eighty thousand within Oakland
County according to the USDA; and
WHEREAS the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves about
seven million pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children until age 5 nationally and, according to the
Michigan League for Public Policy, an estimated seventeen thousand are recipients of the program in Oakland
County; and
WHEREAS a prolonged shutdown would lead to many of the programs such as SNAP and WIC which serves
the low-income individuals and their children, to run out of funds and miss payments as soon as February
2019; and
WHEREAS halting funding for programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Child
Care and Development Block Grant, Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), Commodities
Supplemental Food Program and more, exacerbate the welfare of our most disadvantaged Oakland County
residents; and
WHEREAS the USDA has taken steps to protect millions of low-income households, if only for a short period
of time, including millions of poor children by providing the February SNAP benefits early, the vast majority of
these individuals will not have this availability if the shutdown continues; and
WHEREAS school meal programs such as the Free and Reduced Lunch and Breakfast will no longer be
reimbursed as of March 1, 2019, impacting millions of students, schools will have to make the difficult choice
of being forced to discontinue or front the cost of the programs; and
WHEREAS meal programs for children in childcare programs and adults receiving adult care will be impacted,
the USDA announced that funding for the Child and Adult Care Feeding Program (CACFP) will not be
available if the shutdown continues into March; and
WHEREAS without intervention the harm to Oakland County residents from the Federal government shutdown
is immediate and on-going, and will continue to be felt long after the shutdown ends.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby authorizes
$1,000,000 from General Fund Unassigned Fund Balance Account for the purposes of assisting Oakland
County residents who are suffering from a food emergency due to the Federal government shutdown.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners express their concern for the
welfare of Oakland County residents who are unjustly affected from the on-going Federal government
shutdown and reliant upon federal food assistance programs for survival,
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution
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Resolution *19018 January 24, 2019
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Finance Committee. There were no objections.