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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 ($101,050.00)
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, $45,000 of which cost is funded by the Michigan Supreme Court State Court Administrative Office (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:
- Dawn Farm, Inc. is a not-for-profit entity employing approximately 65 persons.
- Six employees are compensated less than $10.33 per hour with health care benefits.
- Six employees are compensated less than $11.96 per hour without health care benefits.
- All employees compensated less than the amounts as required by 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. Those employees receive lodging and board as supplementary in-kind compensation as part of their patient monitoring responsibilities. The value of the lodging and board combined with monetary compensation exceeds the requirements of Sections 1:811-1:821 of Chapter 23 of Title I of the Code for all relevant employees. All are also employed elsewhere during regular daytime working hours, and their Dawn Farm employment is a secondary income source.
- Six of these employees are provided with health care benefits by their primary daytime employers.
- 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...
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