HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2009.12.09 - 9722REPORT (MISc. 109282) December 9, 2009
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE — Christine Long, Chairperson
RE: MR #09282 — Board of Commissioners — Support for Protecting Section 20j Funds for
Oakland County School Districts
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The General Government Committee, having considered the above titled resolution on
November 30, 2009, hereby recommends that the resolution be amended as follows.
1. Amend the BY: line to include: "Steve Schwartz, District #14; Jim Runestad, District #6; Kim
Capella, District #9: Gary McGillivray, District #24
2. Strike the 7' WHEREAS paragraph and insert the following two WHEREAS
paragraphs:
WHEREAS "20J" School Districts received an additional reduction in
State funding, in excess of the $165 per pupil and $127 per pupil reductions;
and
WHEREAS in Oakland County these reductions for "20J" School
Districts include: Birmingham ($957,520), Royal Oak ($1,347,794),
Southfield ($1,282,239), Avondale ($1,117,251), Bloomfield Hills ($614,201),
Clarenceville ($563,293), Novi ($1,695,421), Troy ($2.961,023), West
Bloomfield ($1,738 1 614), Farmington ($2,205,325), Lamphere ($455,738)
and Walled Lake ($4,479,393); and
3. Insert the following as the 1 st BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners requests that the State Legislature and Governor Granholm
adopt a budget process that allows public school districts to know what their
State funding is prior to June 1 of each year.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
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Miscellaneous Resolution # 09282 Woodw itrti
BY: Commissioners Shelley G. Taub, District #16, Marcia Gershenson, District #17 /C—i-evsiNAt, A 1-61
RE: Board of Commissioners — Support for Protecting Section 20j Funds for Oakland 1:11
County School Districts
TO: Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS in Fiscal Year 1994-95, Michigan's school finance system was revamped, and the
'foundation allowance' became the basic mechanism used to distribute state funding in school
districts. A foundation allowance is a per-pupil amount that is allocated to each school district and is
used to pay for school operations; and
WHEREAS 15 years ago when voters approved Proposal A, they were assured that those school
districts which had shown strong financial support for their schools would not be penalized — they
would be "held harmless". The intention was to close the school funding gap, and
WHEREAS the State School Aid Act first included Section 20j in P.A. 119 of 1999. to take effect in
Fiscal Year 1999-2000. The hold harmless school districts have a foundation allowance above the
State Maximum Foundation Alliance and must levy local millages to make up the difference between
their maximum and foundation allowance; and
WHEREAS since 1994, approximately two-thirds of Michigan's school districts have received a
125% increase in funding, while "hold harmless" districts have been held to an increase of
approximately 17%; and
WHEREAS Section 1211(3) of the Revised School Code prohibits "hold-harmless" districts from
collecting more than an inflationary increase in their per-pupil State and local revenue from one year
to the next year. This means that if the dollar increase in the basic foundation allowance exceeds
the inflation rate when applied to a hold harmless district's previous year foundation allowance (not
when applied to the basic foundation allowance itself), the district cannot by law levy the number of
mills necessary to receive the full dollar increase given in the basic foundation allowance: and
WHEREAS in October, Governor Granholm's vetoed $52 million in 20j funding, leaving 40 school
districts, which adopted their annual budgets in June, abruptly without adequate funding; and
WHEREAS there are 40 "hold harmless" school districts in Michigan, and 12 are located in Oakland
County: Avondale School District, Birmingham City School District, Bloomfield Hills School District,
Clarenceville School District, Farmington Public School District, Lamphere Public Schools, Novi
Community Schools, School District City of Royal Oak, Southfield Public School District, Troy Public
School District, Walled Lake Consolidated School District and West Bloomfield School District; and
WHEREAS the Michigan House has recently passed a K-12 supplemental bill for Fiscal Year 2009-
10 (KB 4860) which reduces the governor's proration of $212 million by appropriating $184 federal
stimulus funds. This reflects reducing the cut from $127 per student to $10 by tapping these federal
funds set aside to cover the budget hole in 2010-11.
WHEREAS the supplemental amendments in House Bill 4860, restored half of the 20j school district
funding of $251 million (which represents only one-half of FY 2009-10 funding level); and
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WHEREAS the $59 million in total funding for Section 201, Section 201, and Section 32d is from the
Michigan Future Fund – currently an unfunded revenue source; and
WHEREAS the continuous effort to cut 20j funding would be devastating to these school districts
and will have a detrimental impact on their ability to provide quality education.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby
urges Governor Granholm and the Michigan Legislature to preserve and protect the 20j funding for
our local schools.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk is requested to forward copies of this
adopted resolution to Governor Granholm, the Oakland County delegation to the Michigan
Legislature, the school districts in Oakland County, Oakland Schools, the Michigan Association of
Counties and Oakland Counties Lobbyists.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing Resolution.
Resolution #09282 November 12, 2009
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no objections.
Resolution #09282 December 9, 2009
Moved by Long supported by Taub the resolution be adopted,
Moved by Long supported by Taub the General Government Committee Report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the report was accepted.
Moved by Long supported by Taub the resolution be amended to coincide with the recommendation in the
General Government Committee Report.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor. the amendment carried.
Discussion followed.
Vote on resolution, as amended;
AYES: Greimel, Hatchett, Jackson, Jacobsen, Long, McGillivray, Middleton, Nash, Potter, Potts.
Runestad, Schwartz, Scott, Taub. Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Cabello, Coleman, Coulter,
Douglas, Gershenson, Gingen, Gosselin. (25)
NAYS: None.
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution, as amended, was adopted.
GOES NOT REQUIRE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ACTION
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I. Ruth Johnson, 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, 2009,
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 County of Oakland at Pontiac,
Michigan this 9th day of December, 2009.
Ruth Johnson, County Clerk