HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2020.07.23 - 33558REPORT (MISC. #20259) July 23, 2020
BY: Commissioner David T. Woodward, Chairperson, Pandemic Response and Economic Recovery
Committee
IN RE: MR #20259 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - RESERVE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR
SCHOOL TOUCHLESS WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATION FROM COUNTY CARES ACT
CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND GRANT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Pandemic Response and Economic Recovery Committee, having reviewed the above -referenced
resolution on July 20, 2020, reports with the recommendation that the resolution be adopted.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Pandemic Response and Economic Recovery Committee, I move the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
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Commissioner David T. Woodward, District #19
Chairperson, Pandemic Response and
Economic Recovery Committee
PANDEMIC RESPONSE AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION— #20259
BY: Commissioner William Miller. District #14
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — RESERVE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR SCHOOL TOUCHLESS
WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATION FROM COUNTY CARES ACT CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND
GRANT
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners School Drinking Water Station program replaced
more than 650 old drinking water fountains at 29 Oakland County schools and 7 public school academies
with state-of-the-art drinking water and water bottle refilling stations in 2018, and
WHEREAS in 2018, Oakland County's bulk purchasing power reduced the price per unit by more than
$100, allowing the County to significantly expand the number of units and participating schools; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolutions #19306 and #19411 assigned $300,000 for future appropriation in
support of the School Drinking Water Station Program for Fiscal Year 2020; and
WHEREAS an Ad Hoc Committee of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has been appointed to
administer the School Drinking Water Station Program recommend procedures, a vendor and a distribution
plan for touchless water bottle filling stations for Oakland County schools to the Board of Commissioners;
and
WHEREAS access to healthy drinking water while protecting against the spread of COVID-19 remains a
priority as schools reopen to secure the safety and wellbeing of Oakland County students and faculty; and
WHEREAS County of Oakland was allocated $219,438,710 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security Act (CARES Act)'s Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) to respond directly to the emergency
as well as expenditures incurred to respond to second -order effects of the emergency; and
WHEREAS the County has retained outside expert counsel in Pierce Monroe & Associates assisted by
Guidehouse (formerly PwC) to ensure compliance with the CARES Act and full utilization of federal funding
resources; and
WHEREAS these funds may only be used to cover costs that are necessary expenditures incurred due to
the public health emergency; were not accounted for in a budget approved as of March 27, 2020; are not
government revenue replacements; and are incurred by December 30, 2020; and
WHEREAS an additional assignment of $300,000 from Oakland County's CARES Act Coronavirus Relief
Fund Grant would authorize the Ad Hoc Committee on the School Drinking Water Station Program to move
forward with a total of $600,000 as they progress with program planning. Additional funding will build upon
the success of the 2018 program by leveraging the power of bulk purchasing to drive down the cost per
unit and expanding the number of schools that can participate/units offered.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby reserves
$300,000 from the County's CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds (CRF) for the 2020 School Drinking
Water Station Program under the direction of the Ad Hoc Committee on the School Drinking Water Station
Program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this assignment is subject to review of program policies and agreements
by Pierce Monroe & Associates assisted by Guidehouse (formerly PwC) to ensure compliance with the
CARES Act and full utilization of federal funding resources.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any appropriation of these funds shall require a separate resolution by
the Board of Commissioners.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
Commissioner William Miller
District #14
Resolution #20259
July 15, 2020
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Pandemic Response and Economic Recovery Committee.
There were no objections.
Resolution #20259
July 23, 2020
Moved by Gingell seconded by Zack the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be adopted (with
accompanying reports being accepted).
Discussion followed.
AYES: Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham,
McGillivray, Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack,
Gershenson. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda were adopted (with
accompanying reports being accepted).
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1 t EREBY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, 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 July 23, 2020,
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 Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 23rd day of July, 2020.
Lisa Oakland County —