HomeMy WebLinkAbout1990-01-29-HSC-min.pdf Human Services Committee Minutes, l '29/90
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Present Renee Cochin and Bob Cushman , Co-Chairmen Dick
Dougherty; Leonora Feeney; Ann Irving; beYmour Mandel ;
and Steve Baran, Human Services Coordinator
Minutes of 1/22/90
The Minutes of 1/22/90 were accepted with the following
corrections
In section on page 1 regarding Council on Aging
substitute Council on Aging for RePlace In section on
page 2 regarding Replace add Sheila Martin to those
presenting report
Subcommittee Reports
Czunci "on Aging
Seymour reported that the salary of the E~ ecutive
Director had been raised to bring it within the middle
of the range for similar positions based on data from a
number of similar communities He reported further
� that he had been informed there were no cuts in COA
_ services planned for FY 9l Steve reported that
/ \ federal funding projections for FY 91 were based on FY
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`- 88 reported ependitures
In spite of the report that there had been no cuts in
COA services planned for FY 91r an analysis of their
budget suggested otherwise, particularly in the area of
support services For e'.ample, in social day Lare, the
allocation fOr FY 90 is $25, 300 whereas the al ]dcation
for FY 91 will be $l7, //V0 The allocation for respite
care had gone down from $21 , 7o0 to S16, 600 Homemaker
services were down by $150N0
The total. budget was overstated due to errors in
addition which reduced the total by $9, 600
The Senior Health Monitor budget was increased by
$2, 000
Questions raised related to why there was an increase
in personnel when dollars appropriated to services were
apparently being reduced and whether in the next budget
it would be possible for COA to reallocate between line
items to reduce the impact of State and Federal budget
cuts It was felt that the Committee would be better
prepared ne: t year to ask the proper questions of CDA
earlier on
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It was agreed to recommend the COA budget as requested
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Human Services Committee Minutes, 1/29/90 Page 2
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RePlace
It appeared that RePlace had not been as productive as
they might have been in the counseling area thus
producing reservations about recommending that they be
funded at their requested level On the other hand,
there was agreement that the Town should offer as much
to Le; ingtnn a adolescents as it was providing through
its EAP program to the Town s employees, i e , three
initial assessment interviews Furthermore, it was
felt that ReFlace had been very responsive to concerns
of the Town and had performed very well in the areas of
peer support and community education It was,
therefore, agreed to recommend $11v500 tor
administration , $33, 500 for community education and
peer support, and S25v2H0 for crisis intervention
combined with initial assessment (600 sessions. @ $42
per session based on an average of 7 sessions for each
of 200 new clients)
CMARC and Cooperati 'e Elder Services
/- \ It was agreed to recommend the requested amounts for CMARC, level
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` funded at $11 , 000 and Cooperative Elder Services, level funded at
$3, 500
Me` t meetings
The Committee will meet at 7 30, before the Selectmen s meeting,
on Monday, February 5 The following meeting will be on
Wednesday, February 21 at 8 p m
Respectfully Submitted,
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Stephen DNran,
Human Services Coordinator
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