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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - 2011.12.05 - 36588CHRISTINE LONG Chairperson KATHY CRAWFORD Vice Chairperson MARCIA GERSHENSON Minority Vice Chairperson December 5, 2011 Chairperson Long called the meeting of the General Government Committee to order at 9:32 a.m. in Committee Room A of the Commissioners’ Auditorium Wing, County Service Center in Pontiac, Michigan. COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT : Christine Long, Kathy Crawford , Marcia Gershenson, John Scott, Bob Gosselin, Jeff Matis, Bob Hoffman, Mattie Hatchett, Jim Nash, Nancy Quarles COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABSENT : None. OTHERS PRESENT HEALTH Kathy Forzley, Manager WATER RESOURCES COMMISSIONER John McCulloch, W.R. Commissioner WOMEN’S ADVISORY COMMISSION Dr. Doris Taylor, Chairperson Mischelle Kennedy, Vice Chairperson BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Jim VerPloeg, Administrative Director Sheryl Mitchell, Senior Analyst Helen Hanger, Sr. Committee Coordinator PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Chairperson Long led the Pledge of Allegiance. APPROVAL OF THE PREVIOUS MINUTES Gosselin moved approval of the minutes of November 7 , 2011. Supported by Crawford. Motion carried on a voice vote. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA Mr. Gibb had called to indicate that he wo uld be arriving later due to a meeting with the County Executive. OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 1200 N. TELEGRAPH ROAD, PONTIAC, MI 48341-0475 Telephone (248) 858 -0100 FAX (248) 858 -1572 GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE John Scott Bob Gosselin Jeff Matis Bob Hoffman Mattie Hatchett Jim Nash Nancy Quarles GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE Page 2 December 5, 2011 Gosselin moved approval of the agenda with item 1 to be taken up once the presenter was in attendance. Supported by Crawford. Motion carried on a voice vote. PUBLIC COMMENT Commissioner Nash voiced his objections to several of his resolutions not being placed in the General Government agenda. Commissioner Gosselin noted that he had an outstanding resolution as well. AGENDA ITEMS 2. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES – COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING, BUDGETING AND CONTRACTING AGREEMENT ACCEPTANCE The Health Division is requesting authorization to accept a FY 11-12 Michigan Department of Community Health Comprehensive Planning, Budgeting and Contracting Agreement of $10,476,823 to provide categorical grant funding and partial reimbursement for services in accordance with the Public Health Code. The award is a $1,233,306 reduction from the previous year. Additional funding is expected in future contract amendments this fiscal year. Grant acceptance is contingent upon approval of the Agreement with Addendum A as attac hed to the resolution. Projects allocated funding through December 31, 2011 with anticipated future funding are Adolescent STD Screening, Sexually Transmitted Disease Con trol and HIV Prevention. New funding was provided for the Nurse-Family Partnership and the Advisory Group Pro ject SNAP-ED. Funding was discontinued for Health y Communities – Planning, Immunization Reaching More Children & Adults and Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance. Ms. Forzley reported that the State is being more conservative and is now providing funding on a quarterly basis instead of on a full year or fiscal year basis. Gershenson moved to recommend approval of the attached suggested r esolution. Supported by Crawford. Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote . 3. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES / HEALTH DIVISION – 2011/2012 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER GRANT ACCEPTANCE The Health Division is requesting authorization to accep t a Michigan Department of Community Health Substance Use Disorder Grant of $4,403,645 for Fiscal Year 2011-2012. This is an increase of $110,322 from the previous award year. The required 10% cash match of $656,060 is based on the total program budget for these services. These funds will be used to subcontract with agencies to prevent and reduce the incident of drug and alcohol abuse and dependency , to support staffing which includes screening and coordinating treatment services for Oakland County residents and to monitor subcontractors . Contracts are awarded through the County’s competitive bidding process. Hoffman moved to recommend approval of the attached suggested resolution . Supported by Hatchett. Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vo te. GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE Page 3 December 5, 2011 4. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES/HEALTH DIVISION – AMENDMENT #2 TO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF OAKLAND AND THE OAKLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY The Health Division is requesting authorization to enter into renewal of the intergovernmental agreement, as amendment #2, with the Oakland County Community Mental Health Authority (OCCMHA) to provide substance abuse services to its Medicaid patients pursuant to MR #10236 as amended by MR #11114. The OCCMHA will pa y an annual not to exceed amount of $2,200,000 annually or $183,333 per month to the Health Division for Fiscal Year 2012 to perform Specialty Substance Abuse Medicaid services. The OCCMHA will also pay Oakland County a total of $574,000 for Fiscal Year 2012 for Substance Abuse Adult Benefit Waiver services. Quarles moved to recommend approval of the attached suggested resolution. Supported by Scott. Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote. 5. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – 2012 STANDING COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS Matis moved to report to recommend the 2012 Standing Committee Assignments as follows. FINANCE COMMITTEE: Middleton (Chair), Taub (Vice Chair), Woodward (Minority Vice Chair), Long, Potts, Runestad, Crawford, Dwyer, Zack, Greimel, Quarles GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE: Long (Chair), Crawford, (Vice Chair), Gershenson (Minority Vice Chair), Scott, Gosselin, Matis, Hoffman, Hatchett, Nash, Quarles HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE: Scott (Chair), Bosnic (Vice Chair), Zack (Minority Vice Chair), Middleton, Dwyer, Nuccio, Weipert, Hatchett, Greimel, Covey PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE: Potts (Chair), Weipert (Vice Chair), Nash (Minority Vice Chair), Gosselin, Runestad, Crawford, Nuccio, Jackson, McGillivray, Woodward PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE: Runestad (Chair), Dwyer (Vice Chair), McGillivray (Minority Vice Chair), Taub, Bosnic, Matis, Gershenson, Jackson, Covey Supported by Hatchett. Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote 1. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – COUNTY EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENT – DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS The County Executive has appointed Eirini (Irene) Spanos as Director of Econ omic Development and Community Affairs. Act 139 of 1973 requires that the Board of Commissioners concur with director appoin tments made by the County Executive. Gosselin moved to report to concur with the County Executive’s appointment of Eirini (Irene) Spanos as director of Economic Development and Community Affairs. Supported by Hoffman. GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE Page 4 December 5, 2011 Motion carried unanimously on a ro ll call vote. Commissioner Gershenson asked that Ms. Spanos be introduced at the caucus meetings prior to the next Board meeting on December 15, 2011. Chairperson Long indicated that Mr. Ver Ploeg had to leave for another meeting but would like to address the Committee. OTHER BUSINESS Mr. Ver Ploeg reported that he had spoken to Human Resources and Corporation Counsel regarding Mr. Axtell’s Jury Board salary. The Board of Commissioners does not have the statutory authority to ask Mr. Axtell to return his salary and it would be up to Mr. Axtell to donate it back to the County in a manner similar to that taken by commissioners and other Electeds when salary reductions took place. Mr. Axtell indicated that he would prefer the County not pay him at all as he does not want the tax implications of donating the funds back to Oakland County. His term on the Jury board will expire May, 2012 and the salary will convert to a $75.00 per diem. Mr. Ver Ploeg indicated that he would contact Mr. Axtell to review his options. 6. HURON CLINTON METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY (HCMA) Mr. McCulloch distributed information regarding the HCMA’s board and staff members, park locations, millage and the 2012 Budget and General Fund . He has been appointed Treasurer by the Board of Directors in light of issues facing the HCMA. The HCMA has about 200 full -time employees at an average cost of $100,000 each in salaries and fringes, uses 1,500 hour s/annually part-time employees and has a budget of $73 million compared to Oakland County P arks and Recreation Commission which has 66 full -time employees, down from 100 , uses 1,000 hours/year part-time employees and has a budget of $23 million. Falling property values have resulted in reduced revenues and the 2012 HCMA budget developed by staff proposes to use $3.3 million from $18 million in equity to balance this year’s budget with no long -term plan to address outstanding issues to eliminate the use of equity in the future . Issues include the fact that all employees are still in the Defined Benefit Plan, the cost of Health Care and the $18 million unfunded liability for the Retirement Health Care Plan. HCMA employees belong to associations and are under five-year contracts negotiated by four staff officers who also give themselves whatever is negotiated. There have been no reductions or freezes and a 2% raise is included for 2012. Options to be considered include shorter contracts, the use of independent parties to negotiate and having experts brought in to convert to a Defined Contribution Plan. The Board met with senior staff last week and came up with about $2 million in cuts but if more equitable cuts are not made staff reductions may be necessary. No capital land purchases have been made recently but maintenance was deferred this year and that cannot continue. HCMA is not allowed to borrow money so that is not an issue. Commissioner Nash asked to be provided with compensation information by employee. Quarles moved to receive and file the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority “Metropa rks” 2012 Budget – General Fund Report. Supported by Matis. Motion carried on a voice vote. 7. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS – 2011-2012 WOMEN’S ADVISORY COMMISSION FOR OAKLAND COUNTY – 2011 REPORT Ms. Taylor presented the 2011 final written report of the Women’s Advisory Commission (WAC) as GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE Page 5 December 5, 2011 required by MR #11004. She explained that the WAC had determined its focus topic to be Financial Instability among women and how it impacts their lives. It was further determined that the best way to research this topic was to break it into subtopics of study that included education and training, pay and equity, teen risk behaviors, etc. On the issue of financial instability and domestic violence WAC was unable to perform a mean ingful study due to lack of available public resources containing data sets on this topic. Several organizations have offered to assist in the study and those findings and data gathered in previous years will be reviewed and included in the 2012 report to detail what is necessary to help Oakland County women achieve financial stability. Commissioner Crawford suggested that OLHSA be contacted because they have health centers in some of the major neighborhoods and collect this data. Commissioner Gershenson indicated that once new officers are appo inted but prior to filling any vacancies on the WAC, commissioners will sit down with them to get a clear understanding of what the goals are for next year. Ms. Kennedy reported that they had gone to a church in Pontiac to feed the homeless and are trying to do more community out-reach to keep members involved but obtaining a quorum has been difficult. Matis moved to report the findings of the Women’s Commission for 2011 to the Board of Commissioners. Supported by Quarles. Motion carried on a voice v ote. COMMUNICATIONS A. Clerk/Register of Deeds – 2012 Remonumentation Survey Grant Application B. Oakland County Library Board Minutes – 8/24/11 C. Women’s Advisory Commission Minutes – 9/15/11 Hoffman moved to receive and file the communications. Supported by Quarles. Motion carried on a voice vote. OTHER BUSINESS/ADJOURNMENT There being no other business to come before the committee, the meeting was adjourned at 10:50 a.m. ______________________________ __________________________________ Helen A. Hanger Jim Ver Ploeg Sr. Committee Coordinator Administrative Director NOTE: The foregoing minutes are subject to Committee approval.