HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.12.09 - 35099BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
December 9, 2021
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 421-467
Sponsored By: Janet Jackson, Michael Spisz. Peony Luebs. Gwen Markham. Angela Powell
IN RE: Board of Commissioners - Resolution Opposition to Senate Bills 597-598 Which IvVouhl Amend
the Social Welfare Act and the Mental Health Code
Chairperson and Members of the Board:
WHEREAS Senate Bills > 78-598 would destroy the partnerships that the public sector has created to provide a
system of community treatment for individuals in need: and
WHEREAS according to the C'onuuunity Mental Health Association of Michigan, these bills will unravel
Michigan's nationally recognized public mental health system. its network of providers, its public managed care
operations, and foremost harin the 320,000 Michiganders served by this system: and
WHEREAS law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, child protection services. hospitals, emergency rooms, crisis
centers. healthcare providers and others work together to implement the sequential intercept model (SIM),
which details how individuals with mental and substance -use disorders collie into contact with and move
through the criminal justice system, and
WHEREAS SBs 597-598 seek to remove public funding for existing conmiunity-based, managed -tare
organizations that are accountable to individuals served and give it to for -profit health plans accountable to
investors; and
WHEREAS these bills would dramatically change the public mental health system in Michigan by creating
damaging privatized solutions for the state's local mental -health services; and
WHEREAS these bills also threaten to eliminate key components of care at the local conimmnity level by
shifting the state's tar,-ely public mental -hearth system to private insurers while stripping the S3.6 billion systeni
of public accountability, and
WHEREAS private in are not subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act or ripen Meetings Acts.
as are county -based eonununitg mental -health programs: and
WHEREAS tine proposed legislation focuses solely on the administrative ! managed care level, not the direct
service level, and the suggested changes could in fact hurt individuals receiving the care they need at a time
,vvilen so mane across our state are struggling, vulnerable and in need of support, and
«'HEREAS thousands of families across the State of Michigan depend on the public inental health system for
affordable, accessible care; and
WHEREAS the consequences of untreated mental illness have implications across the criminal and civil justice
system as well as education and child protection, managing the problem requires community partnerships and
the most important partner is the system that delivers mental health care.
NOAV THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners opposes Senate
Bills 597-S98 which would amend the Social Welfare Act and the Mental Health Code.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board of Counirissioners recognizes that rather than pursuing the
outlined i-o t'llese Senate billsMichigan c" bui I d on its sn'�'Islths to adva nce this sysipul and luake I,iM,_
quality care accessible to all.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk Register of Deeds is requested to foist and
copies of this adopted resolution to the Governor of the State of Michigan, the State Senate %Iajority and
Minority leaders. the State House Speaker and Minority leader, the members of the Oakland County delegation
to the Michigan Legislature, and the Oakland Conimumry Health Netci-ork.
Chairperson, the follow-itig Coiiunissioners are sponsoring the foregoing Resolution: Janet Jackson, Michael
Spisz, Penny Luebs, Gwen Markham, Angela Powell.
David Woodward. Commissioner
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Lisa Brown. County Clerk! Register of Deeds
COMMITTEE TRACKING
Date: December 09. 2021
Date: December 15, 2021
2021-11-10 Full Board - Referred to Legislative Affairs R: Governinent Operations
2021-11-30 Legislative Affairs h Goverinnent Operations - recommend to Board
2021-12-09 Full Board
VOTE TRACKING
Motioned by Conmiissioner William Miller III seconded by C oimnissioner Robert Hoffivan to adopt the
attached Resolution: Opposition to Senate Bills '�97-595 yy'liieli Would Amend the Social Welfare Act and the
Mental Health Code.
Yes: David Woodward. Michael Ginaell, Michael Spisz. Karen Joliat, Kristen Nelson, Eileen Kowall,
Christine Long, Philip R'eipeit, Gwen Markham. Anaela Powell. Thomas Kuhn. Charles Moss. TMarcia
Gershenson, `Uilhant Miller III. Yolanda Snrith Charles, Charles Cavell, Penny_ Luebs, Janet Jackson. Gary
DlcGillivrav, Robert Hoffivan. Adaiii Koclici derfer (21)
No: done (0)
Abstain: None (0)
Absent: (0)
The Motion Passed.
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STATE OF MICHIGANJ
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 December 9. '0? 1
)1,411 the ntiginal rare Ord tha4vnf 1101W ntt . -
In Testimony Whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan on Thursday. December 9, 20' 1.
Lisa Brow?j, Oallmul Comity Clerk Register ofDeedy