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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987-09-14-HSC-min.pdf Minutes, Human Services Committee, September 14, 1987 Present Harvey Lowell, Chairman, Leonora Feeney Seymour Mandel; Sylvia Perlman Bob Cushman, Co-Chairman; Steve Baran, Human Services Coordinator Minutes of-meeting of August 17 The Minutes of the meeting of August 17 were approved. Announcement of Co-Chairmanship Harvey Lowell announced that Bob Cushman had graciously agreed to accept responsibilities as Co-Chairman of the Committee a Visiting Nursing Request for Proposal Harvey Lowell said that there had been a meeting of Committee representatives with the Board of Health The Board members decided to maintain their super- vision of visiting nursing as it pertained to well baby and communicable disease activities as well as the health clinics for the elderly but transfer responsi- bility for health visiting to the frail elderly to the Human Services Committee and Council on Aging Along with this transfer the Board agreed to recommend a transfer of funds, a portion of the $8,100 allocated to visiting nursing and clinic services through the Board, and endorse the plan of the Human Services Committee The endorsement was based upon the expectation that with a growing elderly population, increasingly restrictive in-patient coverage, the fact that the VNCH caseload had been stable for the past three years and the need to study the problem through providing services a project was necessary Harvey Lowell recommended that in view of the established presence of case management already in place at the Council on Aging that the increment in case management required should be under the jurisdiction of the Council on Aging Therefore, the RFP, as opposed to the overall plan for increased services, should be strictly for visiting nursing Steve Baran advised that the case management component should entail a skilled casework capacity with the caseworker having expertise in dealing with both medical and family systems A budget will be prepared after costing out the case management and visiting nursing components Lee Feeney noted that visiting nursing capacity must be expanded to coincide with the increased case management. Replace Seymour Mandel has been invited by RePlace to provide fundraising consultation A Fund Raising Committee of the Board has been established with Sally Castleman as Co-Chairman It was noted that RePlace's fundraising expectations are unrealistically low--$4,000 from foundations and $6,000 from the United Way-- since the Town will not be continuing its FY '88 level of funding in FY '89 A more realistic goal would be $20,000 Steve noted that the United Way appli- cation is being denied on the basis that RePlace has not engaged in any fundraising from foundations and corporations and that the United Way dollar must be viewed as the dollar of last resort. Minutes, Human Services Committee, 9/14/87, p 2 RePlace will be formally advised as to what they can expect in funding in the next fiscal year and of the Committee's reaction to their budget Their efforts to undertake new directions were, however, noted. application to United Way, acceptance of Judy Zabin as Board member and the establishment of a fundraising committee Equity Sharing An equity sharing review committee responsible for reviewing bidders to do the feasibility study and reports is being established. The tentative list includes Paul Marshall, Chairman; Bill Hays Nathan Becker; Ellie KTwminzer• Richard Perry; and Bob Pressman Bob Cushman has located a bidder Next meeting The next meeting of the Committee will be on Monday, September 28 in Room 111. Committee assignments for the coming year will be one of the items on the agenda Respectfully Submitted, Stephen Baran, Human Services Coordinator