HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2020.09.03 - 33619MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #20364 September 3, 2020
BY: Commissioner David T. Woodward, Chairperson, Pandemic Response and Economic Recovery
Committee
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS —APPROVAL OF THE OAKLAND TOGETHER COUNTY COVID-
19 PANDEMIC RESPONSE PLAN AND REIMBURSEMENT OF ELIGIBLE EXPENSES FROM
CORONAVIRUS RELIEF GRANT FUNDS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the economic hardship caused by COVID-19 has been rapid and far reaching across Oakland
County; and
WHEREAS Oakland County government and their employees have been integral in the implementation of
the County's coordinated strategies for COVID-19 public health/emergency response and economic
recovery, and
WHEREAS Oakland County government has and will continue to experience unplanned new costs
associated with COVID-19 response as well as adjusting services/operations to comply with social
distancing public health regulations; and
WHEREAS Oakland County government has incurred new costs associated with working from home; and
WHEREAS the County of Oakland was allocated $219,438,710 under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and
Economic Security Act (CARES Act) 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 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 the County has retained outside expert counsel in Pierce, Monroe & Associates, LLC, assisted
by Guidehouse (formerly PwC), to ensure compliance with the CARES Act and full utilization of federal
funding resources; and
WHEREAS $88,168,937 is to be appropriated from the $219,438,710 CARES Act funding to reimburse the
eligible costs incurred to date and the estimated eligible costs through December 30, 2020
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners authorizes
$88,168,937 from the $219,438,710 Coronavirus Relief Fund allocation received by the County for the
Oakland Together County COVID-19 Pandemic Response Plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes reimbursement of $16,500,000
to Oakland County's fund balance for the utilization of funds by the County in response to the pandemic
outbreak and efforts to support our County employees, healthcare community, first responders, essential
workers and our County residents. These funds were not planned for nor budgeted for in the FY 2020
budget. The funds were appropriated under the following Miscellaneous Resolutions:
• MR#20062, dated March 5, 2020, Local Response to Coronavirus Outbreak - $500,000 (possibly
restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383358 Pandemic Response)
• MR#20085, dated March 18, 2020, Emergency funding for the Coronavirus pandemic response
measures - $1,000,000 (possibly restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383358 Pandemic
Response)
• MR#20097, dated March 31, 2020, Additional Emergency funding for the Coronavirus pandemic
response measures - $5,000,000 (restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383345
Catastrophic Claims)
• MR#20112, dated April 13, 2020, Further Emergency funding for the Coronavirus pandemic
response measures - $10,000,000 (restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383345
Catastrophic Claims in the amount of $3,454,500 and restore fund balance assignment GL Account
#383435 Committed to FY 2023 and Beyond in the amount of $6,545,500).
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes reimbursement of $23,850,000
to Oakland County's fund balance for the utilization of funds by the County in response to the pandemic
outbreak and efforts to support our small business and nonprofit communities These funds were not
planned for nor budgeted in the FY 2020 budget. The funds were appropriated under the following
Miscellaneous Resolutions:
• MR#20096, dated March 31, 2020, MEDC Grant and Small Business Stabilization Fund -
$1,850,000 (restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383487 Revolving Fund Local
Sustainability)
• MR#20123, dated April 29, 2020, Additional Appropriation for the Oakland County Small Business
Stabilization Fund - $12,000,000 (restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383438
Committed FY 2020 Budget)
• MR#20124, dated April 29, 2020, Oakland County Community Response and Recovery Fund -
$10,000,000 (restore fund balance assignment GL Account #383438 Committed FY 2020 Budget).
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes reimbursement to Oakland
County's Department budgets for funds utilized by the County in response to the pandemic outbreak and
efforts to support our County employees, healthcare community, first responders, essential workers and
our County residents. Funds utilized to respond to this pandemic were not planned for nor budgeted for in
the FY 2020 budget. Funds utilized to respond to the pandemic will first seek reimbursement for eligible
expenses under FEMA guidelines. In the absence of approval or a timely review by FEMA, CARES Act
funds will be utilized.
• Expenses identified through July 31, 2020, as eligible expenses under the CARES Act, amount to
$20,307;182.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes $27,511,755, expenditures of
CARES Act funding to be utilized for eligible expenses, as outlined in the U.S. Department of Treasury
Guidance Documents, by the County in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Oakland County will utilize
these funds to take care of approved expenditures incurred by departments responding to the COVID-19
pandemic.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes the creation of an Oakland
Together County COVID-19 Response Plan and Reimbursement Oversight Committee. The Oversight
Committee will be responsible for approving any requests of expenditures greater than $50,000. The
Oversight Committee will be comprised of the following representatives:
• (1) One Oakland County Commissioner from the majority party; and an alternate
• (1) One Oakland County Commissioner from the minority party; and an alternate
• (1) One Representative appointed by the Oakland County Executive.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the FY 2020 budget be amended as follows:
GENERAL FUND (#10100) FY 2020
Project: 100000003253
Bud Ref: 2020 Activity: GLB Analysis: GLB
Revenue
9010101-133095-610313
Federal Operating Grants $88,168,937
9010101-196030-665882
Planned Use of Balance 40.350.0001
Total Revenue
Expenditures
9010101-133095-731885
Supportive Services $47.818.937
Total Expenditures 547.818.937
Chairperson, on behalf of the Pandemic Response and Recover ommittee, move a adoption of the
foregoing resolution.
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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 vole.
FINANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #20364
September 3, 2020
Moved by Gershenson seconded by Zack the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted
(with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray,
Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Gershenson,
Gingell. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted
(with accompanying reports being accepted).
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 September 3,
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 3'd day of er, 2020.
HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RES ON Lisa Brown, Oakland County