To: Charles Winfrey, Human Services Committee Chairperson
From: Joshua Freeman, Director of Administration
title
RE: MSU-E MOU
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Approval of an agreement between Genesee County and MSU for the MSU-E millage.
BACKGROUND:
Genesee County voters passed a millage to support of MSU-Extension services. Genesee County partners with MSU-Extension to help manage the funding for their programming.
DISCUSSION:
Genesee County enters into an agreement, annually, with MSU to provide for the operation and finances of MSU-Extension services. Our current agreement has expired. Attached, is the updated agreement for this programming.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
There is no impact on HR.
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
There is no direct impact on the budget as the activities contemplated in the MOU are fully millage funded in Fund 2132.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
Facilities & Operations will be responsible for finding and providing space per the MOU.
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
IT does provide some support for MSU-E and is reimbursed by the millage.
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
This agreement will conform to several of Genesee County’s priorities, including Community Growth, Inclusive, Collaborative Culture, and Healthy, Livable & Safe Communities. The programming provided by MSU-E promotes environmental stewardship, public health, collaboration with other agencies, and allows for the county, through it’s millage, to act as a convener that allows for growth and relationship building.
resolution
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
WHEREAS, the Michigan State University Extension provides valuable services to Genesee County residents in the form of 4-H youth development, master gardener, urban agricultural, agricultural/agribusiness, health and nutrition, natural resources, and other community education programs; and
WHEREAS, since 2014, these services have been funded by a property tax millage, which Genesee County voters first passed in a special election held on November 5, 2013; and
WHEREAS, Genesee County voters chose to continue funding this millage following a vote of the electorate on August 7, 2018.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request to authorize entering into an Agreement for Extension of Services, between Genesee County and The Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on behalf of the Michigan State University Extension (“MSUE”), whereby MSUE will continue to provide, among other things, access to programming, staff to implement programs, and a County 4-H program, for an annual assessment in the amount of $721,622 payable for FY24, to be solely provided by the millage fund, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request and supporting documents being on file with the official records of the December 6, 2023, meeting of the Governmental Operations Committee of this Board) and the Chairperson of this Board is authorized to execute the extension on behalf of Genesee County.