HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 89-209 - Supporting Funding for Home and SHHS Council in 1990 Budget - 10/17/1989 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY
RESOLUTION NO. 89-209
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RESOLUTION SUPPORTING FUNDING FOR H.O.M.E. AND SOUTH HENNEPIN
HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL IN 1990 HENNEPIN COUNTY BUDGET
WHEREAS, the Hennepin County 1990 proposed budget eliminates funding for
the H.O.tf.E . program which provides critical service to seniors and
handicapped citizens residing in our communities, and
WHEREAS, the Hennepin County 1990 proposed budget eliminates all funding
for community planning and coordination and citizen participation process
to the Human Services Councils including South Hennepin Human Services
Council (SHFiSC) , and
WHEREAS, elimination of these funds will significantly impair the funciton
of SHHSC which, through a Joint powers agreement between Eden Prairie,
Bloomington, Edina, and Richfield, is charged with the responsibility of
human services planning and coordination between and among these four
cities , and
WHEREAS, elimination of these funds will totally dissolve the formal
process for solicitation of citizen input as to guidelines to determine
priorities in area human service funding, and
WHEREAS, the South Hennepin Human Services Council has in the past shown
itself to play an important and beneficial role in human services
development and delivery such as:
Emergency Assistance Program
Housing Assistance Program
Comprehensive Study of Human Services in South Hennepin
South Hennepin Family and Childrens' Service
THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City of Eder, Prairie requests that the
Hennepin County Commissioners continue to appropriate the level of funding
necesssary to maintain the H.O.M.E. program and South Hennepin Human
Services Council in 1990.
ADOPTED by the Eden Prairie City Council on the 26th day of October, 1989.
Gary, Peters6n,.�Mayor
ATTEST:
Jo�n D. Fr-ane, City Clerk