Committee Meeting | HHS - November 10 , 2026

The Wayne County Commission Health and Human Services Committee met on November 11, 2026. It unanimously approved Amendment No. 2 to the intergovernmental agreement with Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency (Wayne RESA) for educational and mental-health services to students outside Detroit. The retroactive amendment returns $589,859.50 in unexpended funds from the original $14,495,129 agreement, leaving an amended total of $13,905,269.50 based on the figures stated. The discussion covered reallocations among mental-health, literacy, and math expenses; Wayne RESA said it used RFPs to select providers, with much of the mental-health work delivered by local school districts and the literacy service provided through an online text subscription. Commissioners requested the last two quarterly reports and follow-up information on outcomes and the share of funding spent on staff versus services. A separate $1 million county literacy initiative was described as forthcoming, not part of this amendment.

The committee also received and filed a report on Wayne County’s 2026 cyclospora outbreak, which involved more than 2,000 reported cases and was linked through the broader investigation to potentially contaminated produce. Members requested additional information on Detroit-area data and a report on measles activity in Wayne County and Michigan. No other procurement action was identified in these discussions.