HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.02.04 - 34137MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21036 February 4, 2021
BY: Commissioner Penny Luebs, Chairperson, Public Health and Safety Committee
IN RE: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES/EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND HOMELAND SECURITY
— 2021 OAKLAND TOGETHER PANDEMIC RESPONSE INITIATIVE AND AD HOC COMMITTEE
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory illness that can spread from person
to person, The virus that causes COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus that was first identified during an
investigation into an outbreak in Wuhan, China and has now been detected in more than 100 locations
internationally, including the United States; and
WHEREAS on March 10, 2020, the Governor of the State of Michigan declared a State of Emergency due
to the outbreak of COVID-19; and
WHEREAS on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization publicly characterized COVID-19 as a
pandemic; and
WHEREAS on March 13, 2020, the President of the United States declared the COVID-19 outbreak a
national emergency; and
WHEREAS Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter and his administration have worked collaboratively over
the last 10 months with the Board of Commissioners to protect the residents, citizens and workers of Oakland County
and to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These efforts to protect our residents were through the following actions:
- Aggressive countywide testing
- Purchase of Personal Protection Equipment for first responders, hospitals and staff
- PPE kits for over 15,000 businesses and organizations
- Hiring of nurses to advise and consult with administration of 28 public school districts
- Public information forums to communicate with vulnerable populations to the COVID-19 virus
- Purchase and redesign of workspaces to slow down and prevent the spread within Oakland County's
operations
WHEREAS Oakland County has been experiencing a higher volume of cases since a second spike began
at the end of October requiring a continued commitment of funding for the purpose of protecting the public,
reducing the occurrence and threat of widespread or severe injury or loss of life from the known
transmission of COVID-19 within Oakland County; and
WHEREAS to date, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has issued two Emergency Use
Authorization Vaccines: Moderns COVID-19 vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine; and
WHEREAS Oakland County has proactively taken steps to implement and execute a mass vaccination
program through the purchase of needles, syringes and freezers; and
WHEREAS the Consolidated Appropriation Act, 2021 signed into law on December 27, 2020 authorizes,
among other things, $68 billion in funding to assist with testing, tracing, and vaccine distribution; and
WHEREAS Michigan is identified to receive over $600 million of the $68 billion and Oakland County is
estimated to receive 10 to 12% of that distribution; and
WHEREAS the County Executive recommends to utilize funding from the County's Fund Balance to further
the County's efforts of protecting the residents, healthcare workers and the health systems of Oakland
County through vaccines, contact tracing, testing and other actions related to executing these pandemic
response measures in the amount of $10,000,000; and
WHEREAS funding for the $10,000,000 appropriation is available from the General Fund (#10100)
Assigned Fund Balance for Protection & Advancement of Residents & Employees (GL #383472).
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
authorizes a one-time appropriation from the General Fund (#10100) Assigned Fund Balance for Protection
& Advancement of Residents & Employees (GL #383472) in the amount of $10,000,000 for the purpose of
a 2021 Oakland Together Pandemic Response Initiative (Project ID#100000003350) and establishing a
Pandemic Response Ad Hoc Committee.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners hereby establishes the Pandemic
Response Ad Hoc Committee as an ad hoc committee of the Board. The membership of the Committee
shall be:
(2) two members and (1) one alternate representing the majority party of the Board;
(1) one member and (1) alternate representing the minority party of the Board;
(2) two members and (1) alternate designated by the County Executive;
Alternates will serve in the absence of appointed members.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Pandemic Response Ad Hoc Committee shall approve expenditures
and oversee the administration and distribution of funds from the 2021 Oakland Together Pandemic
Response Initiative for purposes consistent with the uses outlined in this resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a written report shall be distributed electronically twice a month to all
members of the Board of Commissioners, including a description of amounts expended from the 2021
Oakland Together Pandemic Response Initiative. The report shall be placed at the next available agenda
of the Public Health and Safety Committee as a communication.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the FY 2021 budget be amended as follows:
GENERAL FUND (#10100)
Project: 100000003350
Activity: GLB Analysis: GLB
Revenue
9010101-196030-665882
Expenditures
9010101-133095-731822
FY 2021
Planned Use of Balance $10,000,000
Total Revenue $10.000.000
Special Projects $10,000,000
Total Expenditures $10.000.000
Chairperson, on behalf of the Public Health and Safety Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing
resolution.
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CommissioneLPenny Luebs, District #16
Chairperson, Public Health and Safety
Committee
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried on a roll call vote with Kuhn voting no.
Resolution #21036 February 4, 2021
Moved by Luebs seconded by Jackson the resolution be adopted.
Discussion followed.
Moved by Spisz seconded by Markham the resolution be amended as follows:
Strike and insert the following language in the 1st BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Commissioners hereby establishes the Pandemic
Response Ad Hoc Committee as an ad hoc committee of the Board. The membership of the
Committee shall be:
(2-3) twe three members and (1) one alternate representing the majority of the Board;
(42) eae two members and (1) alternate representing the minority part of the Board;
(2) two members and (1) alternate designated by the County Executive;
Alternates will serve in the absence of appointed members.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended:
AYES: Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliet, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn, Long, Luebs,
Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward, Cavell,
Charles. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution, as amended, was adopted.
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EXECUTtVE
CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY
)%CTING 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 February 4,
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 41h day of February 4, 2021. _
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County