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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-03-12-HSC-min.pdf HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE II Minutes of the Meeting of March 12, 1984 Present Steve Baran, Marion Shepp, Roberta Black, Judy Zabin, Stan Finkelstein, Thea Sheveloff, Bea Phear Minutes The minutes of the meeting of February 27 were approved as mailed Telephone log Bea reported that she had kept a log of all incoming telephone calls during the week of February 15 In that four day period, 45 calls were received. Most of them related to management of town activities Four of the calls were straight information and referral questions from citizens who would not have had another office to contact if the human services position did not exist Bea thinks she gets about one of those per day Meeting with legislators The committee felt the meeting was valuable Steve asked if any one was interested in taking Dick Knaus's invitation to visit the Senate There was discussion as to how to facilitate communication between the committee and the legislators It was suggested that the committee reports be sent`to them, if the Selectmen approve Needs Judy is concerned that the committee has not taken a general look at needs, in order to give the kind of input the legislators wanted or to affect other questions such as school reuse and day care She suggested that this does not necessarily imply that the Town should begin funding programs for each need that is discovered, but that the committee could have an impact on other kinds of decisions Marion mentioned the possibility of regionalization of recreation programs for retarded citizens as a possible advoca;y position Bea is currently working on a needs assessment for retarded citizens Bea said she thought one of the problems in finding out what needs exist in Lexington is related to the demography of the community, where the income level is fairly high and the population largely self-sufficient, which makes the incidence of any one problem relatively small She will go back over old minutes and records and make a summary list of what has been cited in the past She will also call those providers of Charitable Trust appropriation to ask what their current needs are, and will try to get a sense of the waiting lists for day care The Committee is also interested in the next Providers Council meeting, discussing needs of various groups They will telephone providers to encourage attendance, and committee members will make an effort to attend themselves Charitable Trusts Bea distributed a summary of the reporting of agencies receiving Charitable Trust funding She was asked to get a recent sense of their needs Judy will talk to Alan Fields about planning for next year The Trustees are concentrating on investment strategy, and the committee does not know what their thinking is regarding disbursement Town Meeting It was decided to give Town Meeting members a copy of the most recent report to Selectmen under Article Two This will also be made available at the information meetings Steve will intoduce the report, unless he is busy in which case Judy will introduce it Next Meetings Monday, March 26 - Marion will invite representatives from Lexington Friends Community Residence Monday, April 9 - Bea will invite Arthur Johnson, Arlington Human Services Monday, April 23 Respectfully submitted, 132.0._-PG-Q0,4 Beatrice Phear P S The airing of the Cable TV program on adolesence-will be Wednesday, March 21 at 8 00 pm Thursday, March 22 at 2 30 pm Monday, March 26 at 11 00 am