HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2020.10.21 - 33761MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #20452 October 21, 2020
BY: Commissioner Helaine Zack, Chairperson, Finance and Infrastructure Committee
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS —SCHOOL DRINKING WATER STATION PROGRAM — FY 2021
APPROPRIATION AND REALLOCATION OF COUNTY CARES ACT CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has authorized the establishment of the School
Drinking Water Station Program with the intention to assist eligible schools by offering a one-time bulk
purchase of drinking water stations; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolutions #19306 and #19411 assigned $300,000 of one-time funding to be
set aside in the Board of Commissioners High School Hydration Stations Assigned Fund Balance (GL
Account #383315) for future appropriation in support of the School Drinking Water Station Program for
Fiscal Year 2020; 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 novel
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic as well as expenditures incurred to respond to second -order
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS Miscellaneous Resolution #20259 reserved $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; and
WHEREAS an Ad Hoc Committee of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners has been appointed to
administer the School Drinking Water Station Program and fulfill all necessary approvals to provide
touchless water bottle filling stations to Oakland County schools; 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 disbursed by December 30, 2020; and
WHEREAS the School Drinking Water Station Program's adherence to U.S. Treasury guidance for the
expenditure of CARES Act — CRF funds will require expedited review, administration and execution under
the direction of the Ad Hoc Committee established by the Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS the Ad Hoc Committee will utilize all funding to promote public health, establish positive lifelong
nutrition habits, and address the COVID-19 pandemic emergency for students in Oakland County
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby approves
the one-time appropriation of up to $300,000 from the General Fund Board of Commissioners High School
Hydration Stations Assigned Fund Balance (GL Account #383315) and reallocate CARES Act — CRF funds
in an amount not -to -exceed $300,000 toward the School Drinking Water Station Program for a total of
$600,000 in Program funding.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes the Ad Hoc Committee to
independently approve components of the program in order to adhere to the permissible use of CARES Act
— CRF funds set by the U.S. Department of Treasury including disbursements for contracted services and
equipment, subject to review of Purchasing Division and Corporation Counsel.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the disbursement of touchless drinking water fountains to qualified
schools under the program are conditional upon the adoption of a Board of Commissioners resolution,
execution of a interlocal agreement and compliance with the standard of the program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners authorizes the following one-time FY 2021
budget amendment:
GENERAL FUND (#101001 FY 2021
Revenue
9010101-196030-665882 Planned Use of Balance $300,000
Total Revenues $300 000Q 0
Exoenditures
5010101-180010-731822 Special Projects $300,000
Total Expenditures $300 000
GENERAL FUND (#10100) FY 2021
PCBU: GRANT Project #:
100000003287
Bud Ref: 2020 Activity: GLB
Analysis; GLB
Revenue
9010101-133095-610313
Federal Operating Grants
$300,000
Total Revenues
$300 QQOQQQ
Expenditures
5010101-133095-731822
Special Projects
$300,000
Total Expenditures
$30Q 944944
Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance and Infrastructure Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution
Commissioner Helaine ZaclVDistrict #18
Chairperson, Finance & Infrastructure
Committee
FINANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Middleton absent.
Resolution #20452 October 21, 2020
Moved by Long seconded by Quarles the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs, Markham,
McGillivray, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Weipert, Woodward, Zack,
Gershenson. (20)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
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HEREBY 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 October 21,
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 21s' day of October, 2020.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County