2001 - Saginaw County

Board of Commissioners September 18, 2001
three years working as a latchkey director and preschool teacher
for the St. Peter Lutheran Church and School.
Holly A Zehnder. Holly graduated with her Bachelors in Child
Development from Michigan State University. She completed an
internship at Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance Company. She was a
teacher's assistant at St. Thomas Aquinas Child Development
Center. For the past year she has been an Infant teacher at Ferris
State University.
FROM: COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES -- 3.2 SEPTEMBER 18, 2001
Your committee has considered communication no. 9-18-16 from John
Niederhauser, Health Officer, Saginaw County Department of Public
Health asking to accept an additional award of $65,900 for the
Healthy Start Program. The grant will be used for a new data
base, staff training and new computer equipment.
The Board of Health approved the additional funding at their
September 4, 2001 meeting. No local match is required.
It is our recommendation that the Saginaw County Department of
Public Health accept the $65,900 grant award for the Healthy Start
Program; further, that the proper County Officials be authorized
and directed to execute the necessary documents subject to review
by the Controller as to substance and Counsel as to legal form,
and to amend the budget accordingly.
Respectfully submitted,
COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES
Robert M. Woods, Chair
Thomas A. Basil
Robert D. Blaine
Robert L. Fish
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Connie D. Smith, Vice-Chair
APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZATION: It is the recommendation of your
committee to concur with the above.
James M. Graham, Chair
Connie D. Smith, Vice Chair
By Commissioner Woods: That the Report of the Committee be
received and the recommendations contained therein be adopted.
Approved.
FROM: COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES -- 3.3 SEPTEMBER 18, 2001
Your committee has considered communication no. 9-18-19 from John
Niederhauser, Health Officer, Saginaw County Department of Public
Health requesting several changes in staff for the grant funded
Substance Abuse Program: deletion of a vacant position of
Administrative Coordinator, allocation of a new position of
Substance Abuse Planner / Supervisor, and the addition of one
position of Prevention / Treatment Coordinator.
The Substance Abuse Planner / Supervisor would assist the Director
with substance abuse treatment and prevention activities
throughout Bay and Saginaw Counties. The position would also help
in the day-to-day supervisory operations in the Bay Area Substance
Abuse Coordinating Agency and the Bay Area Substance Abuse
Assessment and Referral Agency. The position requires referral to