HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.01.21 - 34088MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21012 January 21, 2021
BY: Commissioner Kristen Nelson, Chairperson, Legislative Affairs and Government Operations
Committee
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — URGING THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND
PREVENTION TO INCREASE MICHIGAN'S AND OAKLAND COUNTY'S COVID-19 VACCINE SUPPLY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS getting a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine helps to protect individuals by creating
an antibody response in their body without becoming sick with COVID-19; and
WHEREAS vaccines to prevent COVID-19 are the best hope for ending the pandemic; and
WHEREAS the federal government oversees a centralized system to order, distribute, and track COVID-
19 vaccines; and
WHEREAS all vaccines are ordered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
distributed from the CDC's centralized distributor or directly from a vaccine manufacturer; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Health Division (OCHD) is following Michigan Department of Health and
Human Services (MDHHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for
prioritization of distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to individuals; and
WHEREAS these recommendations are based on input from the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP), a federal advisory committee made up of medical and public health experts who develop
recommendations on the use of vaccines in the United States; and
WHEREAS Michigan received 725,850 doses to date, which all have been shipped to the State's more
than 1,000 providers, including hospitals, health departments and pharmacies working with long-term care
facilities; and
WHEREAS for each dose, however, a second dose is being held by the CDC until the week it is meant to
be administered; and
WHEREAS last year, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners and the County Executive Office
worked diligently to prepare for COVID-19 vaccine distribution; and
WHEREAS the capacity to store and administer vaccines is much higher than the number of vaccines
received so far; and
WHEREAS to date, the OCHD received 5,850 doses of the Pfizer's vaccine and is scheduling vaccine
distribution seven days a week; and
WHEREAS the OCHD has finished vaccinating priority Phase 1A individuals, including emergency medical
personnel, healthcare workers, and residents of long-term care facilities and is expanding vaccinations to
Phase 1B individuals including residents 65 years and older, as well as some front-line essential workers
like teachers, first -responders, and workers in prisons, jails, and shelters; and
WHEREAS unfortunately, due to the insufficient amount of the vaccines, appointments must be scheduled
and are almost immediately unavailable.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby urges
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to increase Michigan's and Oakland County's COVID-19
vaccine supply.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of the adopted resolution to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director and the
Michigan Congressional delegation.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Legislative Affairs and Government Operations Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Commissioner Kristen Nelson, District #5
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HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOIOTION Opelrations Committeee Affairs and Government
LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Kochenderfer and Jackson absent.
Resolution #21012 January 21, 2021
Moved by Gingell seconded by Nelson the resolutions on the Consent Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliat, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn,
Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward,
Cavell. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the Consent Agenda were adopted.
Moved by Gingell seconded by Kowall MR #21002 be amended as follows:
Add the following Commissioners as co-sponsors of the resolution:
Bob Hoffman, District #2; Adam Kochenderfer, District #15; Eileen Kowall, District #6;
Thomas Kuhn, District #12; Christine Long, District #7; Gary McGillivray, District #20; Chuck
Moss, District #12; Philip Weipert, District #8; Charlie Cavell, District #18; Yolanda Charles,
District #17; Janet Jackson, District #21; Karen Joliat, District #4; Penny Luebs, District #16;
Gwen Markham, District #9; William Miller, District #14; Kristen Nelson, District #5; Angela
Powell, District #10
Discussion followed.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor the amendment carried.
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 January 21,
2021, 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 21st day of January, 2021.
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County