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Minutes, Human Services Committee, 4/23/87
CPresent Harvey Lowell, Chairman; Sylvia Perlman; Bob Cushman;
Marion Shepp; Renee Cochin; Steve Baran, Human Services
Coordinator
1 The Minutes of the meeting of April 9 , 1987 were approved
2 Marion announced that there was considerable participation
in a new committee being formed to address special needs housing
The committee leaders had decided to restrict their focus to
needs of highly functioning mentally ill and retarded, and
a discussion with Chuck Howard, a developer interested in
equity sharing,had dealt with such concepts as shared staff and
continuum of care Committee members questioned restricting
group to only higher functioning noting that people with special
needs would not have to live together; the group was laying itself
open to charges of discrimination while spending public funds;
mental retardation activists were wedded to normalization
approaches; and restrictiveness ran counter to desires for
inclusiveness previously expressed as being relevant for the
Enablement Committee
3 Renee reported that Town Meeting had approached the 21/2 limit
There will be reconsideration of such items as the stabilization
fund and public works in a special Town Meeting to be held on
May 11. At that time there will be a reconsideration of the
operating budget
3 Committee agreed that cost reporting should become a part of
FY ' 88 contracts along with some language alerting recipients
of funding that future funding was contingent upon submitting
reports This was in view of announcement that VNCH and Replace
had submitted no reports during this fiscal year
4 With announcement that a Senior Aide had been secured to work
with VNCH under CoA supervision it was agreed to have a meeting
in June to discuss FY ' 89 RFP planning in relation to compre-
hensive services to the elderly Jayne Tapia, VNCH Director;
Linda Crew Vine , Director of the Council on Aging; and Garry
Davis, Case Manager, Minuteman Home Care Corporation will be
invited VNCH funding for the remainder of this fiscal year
in the amount of $7, 000 has been secured from the Town
5 At special town meeting advocates for Emerson Gardens will seek
permission to delay eviction for single families and those
of moderate income This will require a two-thirds vote of Town
Meeting and the approval of the Attorney General Harvey Lowell
and Bob Cushman are following developments at Emerson Gardens
6, The Committee agreed to accept responsibility for the equity
sharing concept which has been shared with the Selectmen and
Emerson Gardens tenants and other interested parties It was
agreed that the Committee would sponsor a forum on housing
alternatives Steve is submitting a proposal to seek funding
to do a feasibility study of equity sharing
Respectfully SAmitted,
Stephen Bara4 Human Services Coordinator