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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-12-03-HSC-min.pdf 0 HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Minutes of the Meeting of December 3, 1984 Present Roberta Black, Leonora Zola, Ed Foley, Judy Zabin, C.C. Chao Stan Finkelstein, Sheila Martin, David Budding, Bea Phear Minutes The minutes of the meeting of November 19 were approved as mailed. MR Housing Town Meeting voted to OK the Selectmen's ability to transfer the Hill Street site to the Housing Authority for housing for retarded people Bea is now interested in working with the Housing Authority and Bill Crane (a neighbor with experience in retardation) to help ensure that neighbor acceptance is there She is considering an advisory committee on architectural and vendor selection issues She is tentatively planning a meeting with Jim McLaughlin and Bill Crane on Sunday and wondered if any committee members were interested. Kay Tiffany was also suggested. Roberta reported that at the Selectmen's breakfast, Rita Sullivan had said that a few more possible sites were unofficially identified. Lexington 2,000 There was a long discussion about the Selectmen's request for input for their strategic planning Bea was asked to draft a memo to the Selectmen summarizing this discussion. Draft is attached and should be considered part of these minutes Bea was asked to distribute census data to all members (enclosed) Budget Recommendations RePlace Ed Foley was prepared to recommend that the Replace funding reflect current funding plus the amount necessary for a cost of living increase to staff, but not the new position He felt they should use existing staff to develop their proposal further Sheila was interested in exploringpartial funding of the position Committee members raise questions of justification of the new staff position, of RePlace' s reluctance to agressively seek other sources of funding (such as pursuing DSS) , the possibility of other needs such as teenage suicide and depression and weekend hours for the drop-in center Ed and Sheila were asked to go back to RePlace, particularly the Board, and raise these issues with them. It was decided that the question of exploring the underlying viability of an agency that is based on town support versus an area-wide orientation should be addressed with the Board, but not as part of the budget process Council on Aging & Cooperative Elder Services, Inc Judy and C C. presented their recommendations in writing These recommendations are attached to the minutes and should be considered part of the minutes The committee thought the CoA increase was a small move relative to the growing nature of the population. There were no disagreements with the recommendations 0 Coordinator's Report 1. Bea talked with Alan Feilds about the possible funding of the Hospice request through the Trustees He was very pessimistic that they would vote for it as it doesn't meet the Trust's requirements of being for low income people He personally would vote against. Bea did not speak with the other Trustees 2 Alan November said his students could not do data collection, but only programming Bea feels that to try to use them for a resource booklet would be too much work for her The committee will try to schedule Alan for a future meeting 3. Bea asked for clarification on the use of committee drafts The question arose around the release of the draft for MR housing, before it had been aproved by the committee It was decided that an internal committee draft is for the eyes of the committee only, until it has been approved for release 4. Bea distributed the Council on Aging FY 1984 statistics 5 Federal surplus butter and cheese and honey were distributed, reaching 195 households representing 306 individuals The supply ran out before the scheduled distribution is over Bea will arrange for distribution again in March and will order more Selectmen's Breakfast Bobby attended the breakfast last week She found it very interesting One subject that might interest the committee was that the Arts Council was unable to fund the fit as a fiddle program for exercise in nursing homes this year because the did not have enough money We should make sure the Arts Council is on our list for committee responses next year The Hastings School is scheduled for closing In the fall of 1986 there will be five lower schools (K-5) ; two middle schools (6-8) and one high school (9-12) The committee might think about planning for new uses of Hastings The question of salary calssifications in comparison to the School Department had been raise Bobby wondered if this meant Bea's classification was being addressed, but Bea thought the comparison was only for the upper level staff Next Meeting The meeting of De-ember 10 has been cancelled. The next meeting is Monday, December 17, at 7 30 pm. Respectfully submitted, Beatrice Phear L