To: Dale K. Weighill, Governmental Operations Committee Chairperson
From: Rochelle Brown, Prosecutor’s Office Operations Director
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RE: Approval of an agreement between Genesee County and the Michigan Department of Attorney General to provide for up to four (4) Special Assistant Attorneys General positions; these are grant funded positions
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
The Prosecutor’s Office requests the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Michigan Department of Attorney General and the Genesee County Prosecutor’s Office.
BACKGROUND:
For the past eleven years, the Prosecutor's Office has been the beneficiary of the Michigan Attorney General's Office "Special Assistant Attorneys General" (SAAG) program which was established under the State of Michigan's Public Safety Initiative (a.k.a. the Distressed Cities Initiative). This has provided us at any given time with up to four SAAGs each year who work in our office performing the work of assistant prosecutors (APAs). SAAGs do everything an APA does from warrant reviews to felony jury trials. It has been an invaluable program to the Prosecutor’s Office and provided the County millions of dollars’ worth of service over the years.
DISCUSSION:
Under this program, the SAAGs are authorized to serve as Assistant Prosecutors in Genesee County. SAAGs are selected, hired, and supervised by the Genesee County Prosecutor’s Office and they provide temporary, year-to-year non-supplanting services to our office. Salaries are funded entirely by the AG’s budget. The Board has agreed and signed in the past the Memorandum of Understanding.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
None
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
None
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
None
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
None
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
This grant advances the priority of safe communities by adding resources to assist in the prosecution of crime. These grant funds also tie into the County’s value of service by giving us more resources to provide prompt, efficient and competent service to victims of crime while at the same time helping secure the County’s financial stability by providing funds that otherwise would have had to come from the County’s general fund.
resolution
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Office of Prosecuting Attorney to authorize entering into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between Genesee County and the Michigan Department of Attorney General to continue the Special Assistant Attorneys General program for the period commencing October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025, with no County appropriation required, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request and MOU being on file with the official records of the May 7, 2025 meeting of the Governmental Operations Committee of this Board), and both the Prosecuting Attorney and the Chairperson of this Board are authorized to sign the MOU on behalf of Genesee County.