HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2020.11.19 - 33901REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
_ UNDER NEW BUSINESS
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #20583
BY: Commissioner Marcia Gershenson, District #13
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONER — APPROVAL OF THE REALLOCATION OF CARES ACT
CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND MONEYTO OAKLAND TOGETHER CULTURAL INSTITUTION COVID-
19 SUPPORT FUND
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS on September 3, 2020 the Oakland County Board of Commissioners approved Miscellaneous
Resolution #20365, which established the Oakland Together Cultural Institutions COVID-19 Support Fund
and allocated $2,000,000 in funding from the $219,438,710 of the Coronavirus Relief Fund; and
WHEREAS the purpose of the Oakland Together Cultural Institutions COVID-19 Support Fund is to provide
financial assistance to Oakland County cultural institutions that have been negatively impacted
economically by the COVID-19 pandemic; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners also established the Oakland Together
Emergency Financial Assistance Program and Working Families Support Program via MR #20190; and
WHEREAS the spread of the COVID-19 virus has been rapid and far-reaching across Oakland County,
causing significant economic distress across all sectors of our economy and has been particularly
devastating for the cultural and creative sector; and
WHEREAS the demand for financial assistance from cultural institutions in Oakland County has exceeded
the original allocated amount of $2,000,000; and
WHEREAS upon receipt and review of all grant applications, the Oakland County Cultural Institution
Oversight Group determined that additional funding is needed to fulfill all submitted requests; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Cultural Institution Oversight Group recommends the reallocation of
$60,000 from the Oakland Together Emergency Financial Assistance Program and Working Families
Support Program to fulfill the grant applications received under the Oakland Together Cultural Institutions
COVID-19 Support Fund.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby approves a
reallocation of $60,000 from the Oakland Together Emergency Financial Assistance Program and Working
Families Support Program towards the Oakland Together Cultural Institution COVID-19 Support Fund.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that no budget amendment is required at this time.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Commissioner Malta Gershenson
District #13
Resolution #20583 November 19, 2020
Moved by Gershenson seconded by Jackson to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous Resolution
#20583 — Board of Commissioners— Approval of the Reallocation of CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Money
to Oakland Together Cultural Institution COVID-19 Support Fund.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on Miscellaneous
Resolution #20583 — Board of Commissioners — Approval of the Reallocation of CARES Act Coronavirus
Relief Money to Oakland Together Cultural Institution COVID-19 Support Fund carried.
Moved by Gershenson seconded by Taub the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Vote on resolution:
AYES: Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Middleton, Miller, Nelson, Powell, Quarles, Spisz, Taub,
Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn,
Long. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
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I HEREBY NWOVETHIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A V)
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 November 19,
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 191h day of November, 2020.
Lisa Oakland County