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Human Services Committee
1 /2/91
Present Renee Cochin and Bob Cushman, Co-Chairmen;
Dick Dougherty; Barbara Levine ; Seymour
Mandel ; Jack Sarmanian; Bill Blout and Jerry
Howell (RePlace) ; Steve Baran, Human Services
Coordinator
Absent Ann Irving ; Dennis Murakami
Minutes 12/ 19/90
The Minutes of the meeting of 12/ 19/90 were approved with one
exception Estimated income from Trustees ' investments is around
8 9%, not 6%
Report of Human Services Coordinator
Steve reported that Human Services fund expenditures for the
period July 1 , 1990 - December 31 , 1990 totalled $4, 146 including
expenditures for camperships and food pantry ( $890) The
Trustees provided $5, 000 as a beginning balance, and income
during this period from donations amounted to $750 The balance
in the fund at the beginning of this year is $ 1 , 603
Work on preparing bids is going forward with interviews ongoing
with the administrators at RePlace and CMARC Sheri McCann at
CMARC reported that it is becoming more difficult to get
contracts Income has decreased from $55, 000 per month to
$40, 000 per month
Human Services Fund
Steve is endeavoring to follow up on all recipients of the Fund
and is working with Bob Cushman on a procedure to use a loan
concept for as many recipients as possible
Bids
Committee members questioned whether a late start in setting up
bidding procedures would permit of the best possible outcomes
Steve invited Committee members to help, said that he was
planning to proceed as expeditiously as possible as required by
law Dick Dougherty, commenting that bidding was now legally
required, offered to assist in reviewing an initial draft which
Steve shared with the Committee
RePlace budget request
RePlace budget figures were presented by Bill Stout, Director,
and Gerry Howell , Treasurer RePlace is requesting $80, 700
involving fewer hours of service and a salary increase
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The Agency is experiencing considerable success in fundraising
from individuals $34, 969 in FY ' 90 Most of this represents a
response to a telethon approach which only covered a portion of
Lexington residents The telethon will be repeated this year
On the other hand, the recession is likely to limit
contributions $37, 000 is projected for FY ' 92
RePlace was asked to provide a second quarter statistical report
as soon as possible along with projections based on past
experience
Bill announced a Hancock Church award of $70, 000 over three years
beginning January, 1992, conditional on the money being raised
The Committee congratulated Bill on his success
The School is contemplating drastic cuts in Guidance The
RePlace school counselor (half-time in school , half-time at
RePlace) is now completing second
p g the year of a three-year Mass
Department of Education grant The DOE grant was cut back
considerably this year leaving barely enough in the budget to
fund the School Counselor
Bill said that he was experiencing difficulty in devising rates
for the educational portion of what the Town might continue to
contract for in relation to RePlace services It was suggested
that even if it proves to be too difficult to estimate rates that
there be full reporting of numbers of sessions and an attempt to
come up with outcome indicators
Community Foundation
Steve reported on his investigations into the community
foundation concept including a discussion with the Executive
Director of the Cambridge Community Foundation ( $2, 500, 000 in
assets, $45, 000 in annual income)
A subcommittee composed of Bob Cushman, Renee Cochin and Seymour
Mandel will meet on 1 /7 to pursue the matter with particular
emphasis on clarifying the purpose of such a fundraising body
Steve questioned whether it was necessary to set up an additional
entity since most of the functions of a community foundation were
already in place, other than fundraising--through the Human
Services Committee and the Trustees of Public Trusts ( including a
Human Services Fund )
Frequency of Meetings
Renee reported that Steve had suggested to her that Committee
members might meet less often and devote time ordinarily spent in
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meeting to becoming acquainted with other human service-oriented
community organizations This will be taken up as the first item
on the agenda next time
Respectfully submitted,
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