HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-10-15-HSC-min.pdf HUMAN SERVICESCOMMITTEE
Minutes of the Meeting of October 15, 1984
Present Roberta Black, Marion Shepp, Ed Foley, Judy Zabin, C.C. Chao,
Stan Finkelstein, Leonora Zola, David Budding Bea Phear
Minutes The minutes of the meeting of October 1 were approved as mailed.
Calendar
The budget process calls for requests to be placed by November 1, and the
committee to then deliberate and make recommendations to the Selectmen by
December 1. Bea will re--submit the RFP information to the newspaper with
a November 15 deadline, since it was not printed the first time around.
Committee members should be talking with their agencies in anticipation of
requests and, when requests come in, investigating
Subcommittees
The following subcommittees were organized.
Youth & Families - David Budding & Ed Foley - RePlace, Youth Commission
Elderly - C.C. Chao & Judy Zabin - Council on Aging, Cooperative Elder Services
Health - Stan Finkelstein & Leonora Zola - Mystic Valley, Board of Health
Special Needs - Marion Shepp & Sheila Martin - CMARC, Enablement, M.R.
Town Report
Roberta received a notice that the Town Report comments were due and that a
photographer would be coming to a meeting in October Bea will invite him
to November 5 meeting Roberta will draft the text
Guests
The committee will invite Alan November to the next meeting to discuss the use
of his computer students on a possible information and referral project There
is concern that data gathering will be complex, and we don't know if the students
are prepared to undertake that. Questions are How useful would a booklet
be? Who would use it? Consumers? Providers? Could information go into the
Lexington telephone directory printed by the Chamber?
Stan suggested separating the assembling on information, which should not
merely lie in Bea's head, with the dissemination of information.
Roberta will invite Paul Marshall to a meeting Since the Selectmen also
meet on Mondays, 7 00 pm may be the best solution.
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Coordinator' s Report
1. Bea spoke with Gerry Howell, and indeed RePlace had decided not to apply for
DSS funding because of the loss of agency control and closed referral
requirements. Ed and David will talk to RePlace further about this
2 Bea and Sara are about to hire a Lexpress assistant
3. The meeting for parents of retarded people with George Zitnay was held
on October 10 Parents chose to form two task forces which will have
their initial organizational meetings as follows
Housing - October 25 at 7 30 pm in room G-15
Recreation - November 1 at 7 30 pm in room G-15
Committee members are welcome to come.
4. Susan Adler has a student intern working on a coordinated volunteer program
for the town, schools, CoA, and Library Bea is offering advise
5 Bea's intern, Christine, is working with the Enablement Committee, and has
just completed the required "Evaluation and Plan" for the October 17
deadline. The plan is phrased in a phased work plan over the next year
to identify specific structural targets, prioritize them, solicit
public comment, hold a hearing, and then write specific recommendations
Christine has also expressed interest in working on Cable TV issues
6 A meeting needs to be scheduled on the issue of Community health. Bea will
try for a Monday evening with Bill Page and members of the Board of
health.
7 We have received two responses from our RFP so far Jim Lambie of the
Board of Health commented on the issue of very frail elderly Joanna
Fuller of Cooperative Elder Services is requesting funding of $3,000
8. The Selectmen forwarded a request for proposals from the Attorney General's
Committee on Criminal Justice for $20,000 for community based drug, alcohol,
and abuse programs designed in collaboration with town and police Bea
feels that submitting a grant application would not be worthwhile, as there
is so very little money however is does seem a good vehicle to initiate
discussion with the Police Department.
It was decided to ask Paul Furdon for an appointment in his office with
Ed, Dave, Roberta, and Bea The committee is interested in how the Police
react to crises, what some of their needs data might be on rape or abuse,
what are the policies on wild teenage parties, and how they relate to
other agencies such as Mystic Vallye, RePlace, and the Crisis Team.
Mystic Valley
Judy, Stan, and Bea met with Richard Weiss He gage submitted quarterly statistics,
and discussed FY86 funding He plans to submit for $15,000 again.
Next Meeting November 5, 7 30 p m. , room 111
Respectfully submitted, Beatrice Phar