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Resolution to Approve a Sobriety Court Grant Program Contract with Dawn Farm, Inc. to Provide In-patient and Out-patient Drug Abuse Counseling and Rehabilitation Services to 15th Judicial District Court Defendants ($45,000.00)
Memorandum
This resolution seeks Council approval for a service grant contract with Dawn Farm, Inc. for in-patient and out-patient drug abuse counseling and rehabilitation services to 15th Judicial District Court defendants who are participants in the Court’s Sobriety Court program, funded by the Michigan Supreme Court State Court Administrative Office (SCAO) in grant year 2005/2006 and in subsequent years.
Funds for these contract services have been awarded to the 15th Judicial District Court by SCAO.
Further, this resolution seeks Council’s waiver of Sections 1:811-1:821 of Chapter 23 of Title I of the City Code (the “Living Wage Ordinance”) for Dawn Farms, Inc., for this contract for the following reasons:
1. Dawn Farm, Inc. is a not-for-profit entity employing approximately 65 persons.
2. Six employees are compensated less than $9.68 per hour with health care benefits.
3. Six employees are compensated less than $11.21 per hour without health care benefits.
4. All employees compensated less than the amounts specified in Sections 1:811-1:821 of Chapter 23 of Title I of the Code are employed at Dawn Farm as nighttime minders for residential patients, where they are permitted - in fact, encouraged - to sleep in the Dawn Farm residential units as part of their patient monitoring responsibilities. All are employed elsewhere during regular daytime working hours, and their Dawn Farm employment is a secondary income source.
5. Six of these employees are provided with health care benefits by their primary daytime employers.
6. Six of these employees are not provided with health care benefits by their primary daytime employers, but are provided with health care benefits by Dawn Farm.
7. Consequently, the employment circumstances of th...
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