Employment Committee The Employment Committee will be meeting on
the following dates in 2004
Planning and Grants Committee
The Planning and Grants Committee
will meet on the third Tuesday of each month
from 2:30 to 4:40 PM
in the Council's conference room
June 8, 2010 Joint meeting with Multicultural Committee, 9:30 to 11:30 AM
July 20, 2010
August 10, 2010 Joint meeting with Multicultural Committee, 9:30 to 11:30 AM
September 21, 2010
October 12, 2010 Joint meeting with Multicultural Committee, 9:30 to 11:30
AM
November 16, 2010
December 21, 2010
Meeting
Activities
Date: May 18, 2010
Planning and Grants Committee
_______________________________________________________________________________________
ISSUE:
- Welcome
and Introductions
- Minutes
- Regional
forum update
- RFP
and grant funding
- Grants
update
_______________________________________________________________________________________
DISCUSSION:
- Welcome
and Introductions
- Minutes
- Correct
attendance notes for February 16 meeting and add Betty Henderson as being
absent.
- Change
the wording to: “the Aurora location for Project SEARCH” in the
February 16 minutes.
- The
minutes for the April 13, 2010 will be reviewed at the Jun 8 2010 meeting
- Regional
forum update on Glenwood Springs forum on June 16: flyer is being printed.
Bill Higgins from the Legal Center office in Grand Junction will represent
legal/Sue Fager of the Multi-Cultural Committee will also be on hand to help
out. Katie Grange added that the flyers were completed May 18. Leadville,
Parachute, Vail and other western slope towns would get advertising as well
as some radio coverage.
- RFP:
Discussion of whether to go the RFP route or to address the issue of
seclusion and restraint in public schools and the need of the Legal Center
for more financial support for that work. While Mary Anne Harvey disclosed
her potential conflict of interest, the Committee discussed what outcomes to
look for: Legislative changes, changes in practice and policy. Teachers need
training in behavior support.
Discussion covered the questions of conflicts of interest, outcome
measurements.
On the agenda for this committee:
Amount of money available and mechanisms the Council has available
Options discussed: 1) seclusion and restraints and TLC, 2) Slight
revision of the model for the Cultural Conference and follow-up workshops (task
forces, work groups), other ideas Council members have to offer.
- Grants
update
_____________________________________________________________________________________
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Todd
Coffey moved to approve the minutes with corrections; Mary Ann Harvey
seconded; minutes approved, as amended.
- Committee
will discuss with the Council next week mechanisms for funding and concepts
to fund.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey,
Katie Grange (by phone), Mary Anne Harvey, Betty Henderson
Staff Present: Marna Ares, Mackenzie Helton, Lionel Llewellyn
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Those absent:
Katherine Carol
Meeting
Activities
Date: April 13, 2010
Joint Meeting: Multicultural Committee and Planning & Grants
_______________________________________________________________________________________
ISSUE:
Purpose: Design the curriculum for 6-7 regional forums in
order to gather data for the strategic planning process of developing the
Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council’s next Five-Year Plan for
2012-2016.
1. Introductions
2. Sending out the survey
a. What should the subject of the email be, in order to get people’s
attention? Your voice does count –shape the future of services in Colorado.
b. Change the order of text
and put the questions first. Keep
the first introductory paragraph. Add at the end of the first paragraph a
sentence saying that the text after the survey questions gives important
information about what the Council and the TLC.
- Forums
- Legal
Center is planning on having staff at each forum.
- First
forum will likely be in Glenwood Springs on June 16.
- Make
sure that press release makes it clear that the Legal Center and the
Council will be at each forum.
- Curriculum
for forums
- Ice
breaker:
- Curriculum
gives an historical perspective, but doesn’t look forward to the future,
i.e. “Where do we go from here?”
- What
about technology?
- What
is everyone else doing, as a way to talk about the future – social
networking, technology, telemedicine, health care in general, increase in
segregation for people with disabilities, change in job categories,
economic trends, cultural trends, continuum in various presentations, and
etc. Be sure to inform people of HUD vouchers and CDASS.
- Make
sure that JFK Partners is described as a resource, in addition to the
Council and
- Legal
Center
f.
Have part of it be a discussion of what the local resources
are. (interactive)
g.
Appropriate place for the Legal Center is on the disability
rights section.
h.
What videos could be used? TLC has access to one produced by
the national organization for P&As. Norman
Kunc’s When the Moon Comes Up is also a good, succinct presentation.
5. Minutes for February 26:
a. Make sure the DD definition, federal and state, is part of the forum
curriculum
_______________________________________________________________________________________
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
1.
Mary Anne and Marna will finalize the text for the survey. Marna will get
the survey text translated, post it on the website and have it sent out.
2.
Minutes for February 26, 2010 approved.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
Mackenzie will talk with regional coordinators about
donations of food allowable, with Legal Center receiving the donations.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Those in attendance: Sue Fager,
Yvette Plummer (by phone), Mary Anne Harvey, Penny Gonnella, Betty Henderson
Staff Present: Marna Ares, Marcia Tewell, Mackenzie Helton
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Those absent:
Todd Coffey, José Reyes, Jeanette Cordova, Mike McCarty, Deon Gillespie,
Darlene Beals, Karen Ferrington
Meeting
Activities
Date: February 26, 2010
Joint
Meeting: Multicultural Committee and Planning & Grants
ISSUE:
Purpose: Design the curriculum for 6-7 regional forums in
order to gather data for the strategic planning process of developing the
Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council’s next Five-Year Plan for
2012-2016.
1. Introductions
2. Review of DD Act and Development of current
Five-Year Plan for 2007-2011
DD Act directions
Strategies employed
Text of survey document
Modalities for gathering citizen input
3. Review of Voting Item providing for regional forums
a. Communities to outreach
to: what is the rural community to
be chosen? Consensus was to try to include a rural farm community in the
southeast part of the state (La Junta, Lamar, Rocky Ford).
b. Council members on the
list for various communities would be helping with finding the regional
coordinator, not being the coordinator.
4. Timeline:
The Plan should be submitted to the DSA in May or June 2011.
After Council approval, the Plan will be submitted to DSA. Have the
forums finished by the fall of 2010.
5.
Job description and logistics of hiring regional forum coordinators
a. Using existing
community organizations for cross-disability outreach:
i.
Katherine emphasized the importance of including CCB’s.
Also suggested local coordinator could convene a committee that could help them
with ideas for outreach. The advantage can be in including young people, college
students.
ii.
Mary Anne talked about the Legal Center’s focus on serving
people with mental health issues.
iii.
Public forum versus focus groups. Would we want to have a
number of different types of focus groups (people with disabilities and
families, service providers, others)?
iv.
What is the message to potential participants that will make
them want to come to the regional forums? Combination of what the projects have
done to push the system in positive directions, and knowing that participants
can help the Council focus on what’s important to the participants.
People’s ideas could generate ideas for the potential projects that the
Council could fund in the future.
v.
For Denver it might be great to have one graduate from each
of the two leadership projects be co-coordinators for the Denver forum.
6. Curriculum for each regional forum
a.
What are the best practices to be emphasized?
i.
Cultural responsiveness
ii.
Person-centered decision-making
iii.
Active inclusion in all aspects of community life
b.
Who are the local contacts?
c.
Which grantee would be available for making the presentation?
6. Map of each session
3:30
PM to 5 PM
Overview of Council, grant projects that have been funded under current
Five-Year Plan.
Grantee/Council presentations
5 – 6 PM Dinner
6 to 8 PM Focus group to gather information through responses
to Focus Group questions
_______________________________________________________________________________________
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
-
Introductions, followed by viewing of video Sue Fager brought
(“The Potato Video”)
-
Committee members are encouraged to send in names of
potential regional coordinators so that Council staff can start interviewing
and selecting coordinators. The deadline for getting names to Council staff
by next Friday, March 5, 2010.
-
Mary Anne wants definitions (State and federal definitions of
developmental disabilities) to be a handout at the forums. Mary Anne will
review the focus group questions with her DD group that meets on Monday.
-
La Junta was chosen as the seventh rural community
-
We need an orientation for all regional coordinators before
the forums are begun.
-
Need to give gifts of some kind as an incentive to regional
coordinators. They can each come up with something to offer participants at
their forums, and the Council needs to come up with something for each
coordinator. Their will be a group orientation and a group celebration with
coordinators.
-
Let participants know that they will be invited to the
unveiling of the Plan in July 2011.
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
- Marna
to email Katie the focus group handout from 5 years ago.
- Marna
to send out notes and the job description after this meeting.
Those in attendance: Sue Fager,
Katie Grange (by phone), Ben Sutton, Karen Ferrington, Mary Anne Harvey, Penny
Gonnella, Yvette Plummer, Betty Henderson, Darlene Beals
Staff Present: Marna Ares, Marcia Tewell
Those absent:
Todd Coffey, José Reyes, Jeanette Cordorva, Mike McCarty, Deon Gillespie
Meeting
Activities
Date: February 16, 2010
ISSUE:
- Call
to Order, Introductions, Minutes
- Chairperson
– legislative Report
- Oversight
of grantees assignments/volunteers?
- Approval
of job description for local coordinators for forums
- New
Business
- Old
Business
- Minutes:
The minutes were not approved due to lack of quorum. Minutes will be at next meeting for approval in March.
Katherine mentioned that her name is not listed as present and would
like her comments on attendance at Council events as sometimes impossible to
set as priority be noted.
- Legislative
Report: Mary
Anne reported on the CORA legislation regarding Colorado open records act.
Marcia reported on #1213 that does away with the I.P. process for those on
the waiting list. The group
discussed each of the bills
- Oversight
of grantees Report:. Katherine and Katie oversee
PCP with PEAK, Mary Anne had previously volunteered for Access and Ability,
Betty Henderson volunteered previously for WOW.
Staff will email those not yet committed to get oversight for Grupo
Vida. Katherine and Marcia will do a visit to the Aurora
location for Project SEARCH and Marcia also sits on the advisory committee
for the Aurora project.
- Forum
Development: The
job description for the local coordinators was presented with suggestions to
change including the outreach additionally be to Chamber of Commerce, Rotary
Clubs, any local economic development group, county commissioners, and
legislators. It was also
recommended to include language in the narrative that mandates outreach to
Chamber of Commerce and legislators. It
is strongly recommended to have local vendors for the food as well so that
the community is included as much as possible. Mary
Anne offered to co-host the forums as the Legal Center would also like to
gather information. TLC is able to purchase food for the events!
Marna will send the survey questions to Mary Anne to see if they
continue to suffice for both groups in terms of collection of information.
- New
Business: Discussion
let to the suggestion of developing a Face Book page for the Council.
MCC had previously suggested this.
Katherine suggested that an intern from a communications dept. could
develop the page. Georgia Council has a page that could be used as a
prototype.
- Old
Business: none
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
Marna send survey to Mary Anne. Locate
intern for Face Book page development. Email
committee members not present to determine which grants they will over see.
Coordinate site visits as soon as possible between grantees and committee
members. Alter job description with above changes to the draft document. Make
suggested changes to minutes for approval next month.
Absent: Todd Coffey, Betty Henderson
Guests: none
Staff Present: Marcia Tewell
Personal attendant: none
Meeting
Activities
Date: January 26, 2010
Joint
Meeting: Multicultural Committee and Planning & Grants
ISSUE:
- Welcome
and Introductions
- History
of the formation of the two committees
- MCC
issues and concerns
- Resolutions/solutions
to concerns
- Planning
& Grants responsibility for Five-Year Plan development
- Plan
for MCC and P&G joint work and technical assistance
DISCUSSION:
- Marcia
began the meeting with a welcome and introductions.
- History
of the formation of the two committees
- The
group discussed the history of both committees and the Council, with input
from most members.
- Discussed
more in depth the early history of the MCC.
- MCC
issues and concerns
- Issue
one was not having the third annual Cultural Competence &
Responsiveness conference and follow-up workshop.
- Other
issues: Penny being cut off in time to present on cultural competency to
the council before finally being given time a third time to present;
Council members not in attendance at the conference and follow-up
workshops; the disapproval of food costs for the workshop that meant that
Committee members had to contribute private dollars.
- The
status of the MCC and the conferences/workshops needs further defining:
are those efforts those of a grantee or a subcommittee o the Council?
- Resolutions/Solutions
- Make
sure that discussions at Council meetings are allowed to fully explore the
issue at hand.
- Give
people new to the Council the benefit of the kind of historical review
that was discussed at this meeting.
- Bridge-building
from committees to the Council, especially important for Multicultural
Committee in its providing technical assistance in the development of the
Five-Year Plan.
- &
6. combined:
- How
can the Committees work together in developing the forums (assuming they
are approved by the Council tomorrow)?
- Work
on best way to do outreach and maximize participation.
- Meet
jointly to develop the curricula for the regional forums.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- After
the Council vote tomorrow, Marna will send out a Doodle calendar survey to
all members of the MCC and P&G to determine which dates work for most.
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
Those in attendance: Sue Fager, Todd Coffey, Mike McCarty,
Katie Grange, Ben Sutton, Karen Ferrington, Mary Anne Harvey, Darlene Beals,
Penny Gonnella
Staff Present: Marcia Tewell, Marna Ares
Guests:
Personal attendant:
Those absent:
Jose Reyes, Yvette Plummer, Jeanette Cordorva,
Meeting
Activities
Date: December 15, 2009
Planning and Grants Committee Meeting
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from November 3, 2009
- Update
on PEAK’s project
- Update
on fiscal matters
- Five-Year
Plan development
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes for November will considered at the January 26, 2009
meeting.
2.
Update on PEAK’s project: families from the Western Slope
find it impossible to get to Denver once a month for Taking Charge! Katie is
exploring alternative funding to conduct Taking Charge! In the mountain area,
after PEAK’s Council-funded project finishes their third and final year.
3.
Update on fiscal matters:
a.
Council official functions: The request for having the MCC
Follow-Up Workshop at St. Cajetan’s, including dinner has been denied by Mary
McGhee of the CDHS Boards and Commissions Office.
b.
Amendment extensions for PEAK and Access & Ability are in
the contracts office and have been approved.
c.
Development of Five-Year Plan: The idea to have meetings
throughout the state will have to be proposed, but CDDC will not be able to pay
for venues or provide food. The proposal to conduct seminars around the state
will likely be denied if more than one person’s travel is planned for each
focus group/seminar.
Committee reviewed the MOU between CDDC and CDHS, signed by Karen Beye and Penny
Gonnella, the Council chairperson at the time, on October 23, 2007.
4.
L&PP update:
a.
Sheryle sent an email of potential upcoming bills, with a
request for some direction
b.
Telemedicine, dental care, and mental health care bills
(system of care and Frangas’ bill) could potentially impact people with developmental disabilities.
c.
It would be a good idea to set up a joint meeting with the
L&PP and P&G Committees.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
1.
Marna will email a pdf of meeting handouts to all members not
in attendance today.
Those in attendance: Katie Grange (by phone), Mary Anne
Harvey, Todd Coffey
Staff Present: Marna Ares, Mackenzie Helton
Meeting
Activities
Date:
November 3, 2009
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from October 20, 2009
- Legislative
& Public Policy Committee update
- Grants
Update
- Five-Year
Plan development and collaboration with the Multicultural Committee
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes for October.
2.
L&PP update:
a.
Tax credit for 20 companies coming into Colorado. Two tax
credit bills were passed in the 2009 legislative session, one for small
businesses, and the other for larger companies. L&PP is reminding employers
of the tax credits available through the ADA. Sheryle and Katherine will also be
meeting with Don Marostica, who is now the director of the Office of Economic
Development and International Trade.
b.
Four task forces from the Kefalas Committee: health care
(Irene Aguilar), poverty reduction Katherine and Sheryle), job creation (Mike
Hoover), hospice and palliative care (no reps from L&PP, though Sheryle has
attended most of the meetings). Go to the General Assembly interim committees
and see task forces and the bills they are introducing. http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&cid=1244045241879&pagename=CGA-LegislativeCouncil%2FCLCLayout
c.
Legislative Audit Committee: (today’s meeting). HCPF audit concerned additional issues
to the audit that was done on long-term care and CCB audit. Many of the October
deadlines have not been met. At a hearing yesterday the State Controller’s
Office was on the carpet, David McDermott testifying as to lack of transparency
and accountability by counties. The Controller’s Office was called to account
for lack of detailed reports.
d.
Nursing Home Parity: L&PP met with Dr. Wadwah and HCPF.
Will try to work through the statutes rather than introducing legislation. HB
1293 Affordable Health Care bill from 2009 is going to be the basis for the work
on the statutes.
3.
Planning for developing the next Five-Year Plan and
collaboration with the MCC
a.
MCC would like to provide technical assistance as information
is being gathered for the development of the next Five-Year Plan. Committee
discussed having a joint meeting to discuss how the collaboration could take
place. This is an opportune time now that the Council has full membership.
Denver Foundation is sponsoring a multi-cultural conference at Auraria on
Monday. With TASH coming next year, how can the Council connect with the broader
community?
b.
Members need to be contacting people who they know in regions
that aren’t covered by Council membership, e.g. Grand Junction and Sterling.
Jeff _______ is the new CCB director in Grand Junction, and it could be that the
Council could ask the cooperation of CCBs to help gather people. The more
various groups the Council can reach out to, the better information we get.
(Chambers of Commerce, P&A, UCED, universities, churches, SILC, SEAC,
grantees
c.
When to meet with the MCC?
Mary Ann suggested that Penny repeat the presentation on cultural
competency that she did at the retreat. The committee agreed. January 26, 2010
is the date for the January meeting of the P&G and the MCC can be invited to
that. Another option is to do have dinner after the Planning & Grants
Committee January 26.
4.
Concern about supports for Council members who are people
with developmental disabilities:
a.
Are these Council members getting the benefit of the
expertise available from other Council members? The first step is to put the
question out to members of the Council to see if they share the impression.
b.
Consider the DBTAC poster on disability etiquette, or some
other format that can be provided to all Council members.
c.
Have those who attended the retreat review what they learned
at the retreat at the next Council meeting. Committee members also suggested
going over the contents of the notebook and asking what else needs to be added.
Also asked that review of the evaluations of the retreat be summarized.
d.
Sue suggested that WOW do a training on disability etiquette.
e.
It would be good to use the small group work at Council
meetings, i.e. follow the example of the retreat format.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
1.
Betty moved to approve the minutes with correction to section
3ai for spelling of Beth’s name. Katherine seconded. Minutes were approved as
amended.
2.
Marna will send out a list of MCC meeting dates to P&G
members so that they may attend the meetings if possible. Katie will email dates
when she’s available at the beginning of December, and the P&G may meet on
the same day as MCC.
3.
The January meeting of the committee was changed to January
26 in order that Katie can attend while she is in town for the January 27
Council meeting.
4.
Hand out at the next Council meeting the Council’s brochure
on including people on boards of directors.
5.
Marna will send Mary Anne a copy of the most recent quarterly
report from Access & Abiltiy.
6.
Sheryle will write a short article for the CDDC website about
how to apply to be on boards and commissions.
Those in attendance: Katie Grange (by phone), Katherine
Carol, Sue Fager (MCC representative), Mary Anne Harvey, Betty Henderson
Staff Present: Marna Ares,
Mackenzie Helton, Sheryle Hutter
Those absent:
Todd Coffey
Meeting
Activities
Date: October 20, 2009
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from September 2009
- Legislative
& Public Policy Committee update
- Grants
Update
- Five-Year
Plan development
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes for September: Sheryle submitted some changes to the
L&PP update. Minutes approved with changes.
2.
L&PP update:
a.
Sheryle and Katherine updated on activities on the Kefalas
committee and subcommittees. They are both on the Access to Public Benefits
sub-committee.
b.
Nothing About Us Without Us: the work now is to have people
with disabilities be included in more subcommittees, task forces and boards and
commissions. Recruitment is a problem. Considered the utility of social
networking. Phone calls to particular people is another effective strategy.
c.
Sheryle has talked with Brandon Shaffer, President of the CO
Senate, about the differential, and unwelcoming, reception citizens receive when
they testify and want to share information with the legislature.
d.
Employer tax credit: Marcia and Sheryle are writing a letter
that will go to the 20 or so new companies coming to Colorado.
e.
Nursing home parity: two new bills to talk with HCPF about on
Monday, Wadwah will be at Atlantis on Monday. 1) How to address nursing home
rate increases and parity, 2) home health care providers fee. There looks to be
support from HCPF, some legislators, and possibly the head of the JBC.
f.
Health care placement certification: Irene Aguilar has been
watching the health care task force, with feedback from Sheryle and CCDC.
3.
Future work for this Committee
a.
Monitoring grants: PEAK, El Grupo Leadership, P2P African
American Leadership, Project SEARCH, Access and Ability
i.
Katherine and Katie are taking responsibility for PEAK’s
project. They will contact Beth and get the dates for upcoming sessions for
Taking Charge and for Life Building. Marna will send them the most recent
quarterly report.
b.
Developing next Plan
i.
Timeline begun
1.
March 2011: discuss at CDDC mtg the draft Five-Year Plan and
recommended areas of emphasis
2.
April 10, 2010: post draft Plan on the web and mailed, maybe
as part of the newsletter
3.
May 2011: CDDC vote to approve the Plan
4.
August 15, 2011 Plan 2012-2016 submitted to ADD
ii.
Idea is to get schedule of town meetings established and
invite legislators to each. Katherine and Sheryle will have cultivated members
through their work with Kefalas’ committee and the work of Legislative and
Public Policy Committee.
iii.
Katherine suggested doing both regional town meetings and a
statewide summit. Discussion of sequence seemed to point to doing regional town
meetings first, as a way to stimulate interest and participation in a statewide
summit.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
1.
Katherine and Katie will both miss the next P&G meeting on November
17, as well as the Council meeting on November 18. The meeting for this
committee is changed for November to November 3, 2009 from 2:30 to 4:30 PM.
2.
Sheryle will write a short article for the CDDC newsletter about how to
apply to be on boards and commissions.
Those in attendance: Katie Grange (by phone), Katherine Carol
Staff Present: Marna Ares,
Mackenzie Helton, Sheryle Hutter
Those absent: Mary
Anne Harvey, Todd Coffey, Betty Henderson
Meeting
Activities
Date: September 15, 2009
ISSUE:
- Legislative
& Public Policy Committee update
- Grants
update
DISCUSSION:
1.
L&PP
update:
a.
Sheryle
reviewed “Nothing About us Without Us.” At the signing, Morgan Carroll said
people with disabilities should have representation everywhere.
Mark Simon is on the Pinnacol subcommittee, and Rep. Kefalas wants
representatives on subcommittees for this committee.
Menda Warne was appointed to the Health Care Affordability task force,
and Katherine Carol and Mike Hoover were given the status of stakeholder on the
Equal Access to Public Benefits and Job Creation sub-committees, respectively.
b.
Nursing
home parity: Representative Ferrandino is working with group on two bills, one
to eliminate perpetual increases in rates for nursing home care workers, and the
other to address the provider fee.
c.
Sheryle
sent Marna an email listing all boards and commissions with vacancies. Marna
will email the list to the Planning & Grants Committee.
2.
Grants
Update
a.
How
does the Council make the procurement process more open to small non-profits and
grassroots organizations?
b.
Reviewed
responsibilities of the committee
c.
What
information needs to be at the retreat concerning the development of the next
Five-Year Plan, federal and state budget constraints and projections?
d.
Katie
and Katherine suggested that with fewer grants it would be possible for each
committee member to take responsibility to oversee a particular grant. They
volunteered to be primarily responsible for the grant to PEAK on Enhanced
Person-Centered Planning.
Those in attendance: Katherine Carol, Katie Grange, Mary Anne
Harvey
Absent: Todd Coffey, Betty Henderson, Ben Sutton, Shari
Repinski
Staff Present: Marna Ares, Sheryle
Hutter, Marcia Tewell (at the beginning of the meeting)
Meeting
Activities
Date: August 18, 2009
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from July 2009
- Legislative
& Public Policy Committee update
- Measuring
System Change Synergy: report back from NACDD TA Institute
- Grants
update
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes
for July: minutes were approved. If
members see any changes needed after today’s meeting they will let Marna know
of them.
2.
L&PP
update:
a.
Press
release a week ago on the $38 million federal match to the mill levies. Bill
Hanna, legislative analyst for CDHS, is looking into the match issue
b.
Health
care affordability act (HB-09-1293): Menda Warne is on the task force for the
L&PP.
c.
SLS:
there are still questions and concerns among families about the cuts to
individual budgets. Westword reporter interviewed Sheryle as representative of
the Council, and Sheryle announced the opportunity to contact the reporter to
tell more personal stories.
d.
Kefalas’
committee on reducing poverty: working
over the next 5 years. Sheryle already noticing that the issues for people with
disabilities are not being included, and Sheryle has asked for that to change.
e.
Sheryle
is monitoring the Pinnocol study. Sen. Morgan Carroll is the chairperson for
this committee.
f.
Irene Aguilar gave an update on HCAC perspectives on health
care reform. There will be a rally on Sept. 14 10:30 AM on health care reform.
g.
HB
664 was amended (?) by Dennis Kucinich to allow states to institute single payer
health care plans.
h.
09-1281:
(nothing about us without us) is getting a lot more attention by boards and
committees recognizing they need to include people with disabilities on their
bodies.
i.
Parity in home health and nursing home rates: looking at 2
bills to come out of it. 1) a
provider fee, as nursing homes have it now, since 1293 does that for hospitals,
and 2) lack of equity of nursing home mandated 5% increase, and other providers
not being provided the same.
j.
Committee members will be setting up meetings with Dr. Wadwah
and Ellen Caruso (lobbyist, President of Home care association of Colorado)
k.
09-101:
employer tax credit. CDDC will write letters to companies coming into Colorado
and reminding them to follow ADA hiring practices, letting them know of possible
tax credits.
l.
Task force to eliminate the wait list meeting currently:
looking at waiting lists for children, and is being chaired by Rep. Primavera
now, instead of Cindy Acree.
3.
Measuring
System Change Synergy
a.
Result
of NACDD TA Institute presentation by PA DD Council and their grant to HSRI on
how to measure system change. Marcia
summarized the information, and the committee discussed the various handouts.
b.
Todd
suggested reflecting the goals and objectives of the Five-Year Plan more
clearly. Could also make it specific to individual grants.
Incorporating the Arthur Himmelman ideas on the collaboration continuum,
we have already seen how it is possible for PEAK to share resources and ideas
with Project SEARCH, with El Grupo Vida
c.
One
thing the committee could do in the future is to look at successful grants and
pick apart the results to see what strategies worked to lead to the successes.
d.
In
order to enforce the concept of collaboration in the future, be sure to include
in the RFP not just required letters of support but required demonstration and
commitment to collaboration among the supporting entities.
4.
Grants
Update
a.
Mackenzie
presented the grants update. Mackenzie and Marna will follow up with the
Parent-to-Parent grantees to find out why billing and reports have not been
forthcoming.
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey, Katherine Carol,
Betty Henderson, Katie Grange, Ben Sutton, Shari Repinski
Staff Present: Marna Ares,
Mackenzie Helton, Sheryle Hutter, Marcia Tewell
Guests: Gloria Semien
Those absent: Mary
Anne Harvey
Date: July 21, 2009
Planning
and Grants Committee Meeting
_______________________________________________________________________________________
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from June 2009
- Meeting
with representatives of PEAK’s Enhanced Person-Centered Planning Project
- Update
on meeting with MCC on July 15, 2009
- Review
of voting items for Council meeting tomorrow
____________________________________________________________________
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes for June
2.
Meeting with PEAK: Want to share brief stories about some of
the participants in the past year, talk about the project is doing to address
sustainability, and finally the plans for coming year to address sustainability
and keeping the services at the same level for project participants.
Elizabeth told the committee about one participant in the first year of Taking
Charge who became a facilitator in year two and has recruited people to be part
of Taking Charge as well. The person who she recruited has gone on after
finishing Taking Charge to keep his circle network active. Of the two years 6 of
18 participants have succeeded in living more self-directed lives.
Second participant was able to be in both courses (first year she was too ill to
complete), and now has established the beginnings of her own circle. Beth told
about a third participant who has been able to truly take charge of his circle
and decisions about his own life.
Sustainability: marketing brochure developed, disseminated to >1000 people in
2009. Aurora meant contact with 20 departments and groups as part of recruiting.
Facilitator group includes 46 people who are trained in facilitating
person-centered planning circles. Many more people, as members of circles, have
been affected in addition to the people with disabilities who have convened the
planning circles. PEAK has been
soliciting interest from other potential funders; development community is
telling PEAK that it would be more likely to result in funding if they wait
another 10-12 months (economic conditions). PEAK is using video technology to
produce DVDs that can be used in marketing, soliciting contributions. Also
inserting information in current materials to let people know how a contribution
of $500 would cover a PATH session for one person, for instance.
Will also enlist Taking Charge and Life Building grads to help with
marketing for the program, as well as for themselves. Will be asking for year
four funding from at least 4 large foundations.
Addressing committee
recommendations:
·
22 PATHS will be done this year, as opposed to the 16 noted
in the proposal.
·
Recruiting for Taking Charge has been difficult, especially
being done in November through January. Want to do 4 sessions February through
May, not for costs reasons but to keep the momentum going. Want to keep
participants to 10.
·
Life Building: participation waned toward the end (they did 5
sessions). There seemed to be too much time between sessions, and commitment to
Saturday sessions was difficult for families to make. Want to do two daytime
sessions, two evening sessions, and provide more support in between the
sessions. Beth will be taking on more responsibilities for PATH sessions.
Sheryle noted that what is missing,
and is needed, is a solid plan for evaluating the outcomes of the project.
How many of the people touched by the project are making a change in
their own lives or more broadly?
Sheryle
recalled a Life Building discussion indicating that people wanted shorter and
more sessions.
3.
Meeting with the MCC: Betty represented the P&G Committee
at the July 15, 2009 meeting. The action steps that came out of the meeting: MCC
will put an article in the newsletter; will educate the Council on cultural
competency and responsiveness at the September meeting and October retreat. The
MCC felt that there was a disconnect between the Planning and Grants Committee
and the MCC
Discussion: how to conduct regional conferences incorporating all elements of
the Five-Year Plan, including the multicultural aspects in the Quality Assurance
goals. Those regional conferences
would also be used as opportunities to learn what issues are important to
citizens around Colorado. Ben commented that the Council needs to look at
disability first as it comes together to address all other issues of importance
to people with disabilities.
4.
Role of the committee within the Council: it will be
important for this committee to help the Council and its committees develop a
collaborative way of working together rather than to let the committees see
their own areas be important and separate. Council orientation will be done
Council-wide so that current and new members will receive the same information
at the same time in order to move forward as a Council.
5.
Policy update:
a.
SB 1293: hospital provider fee bill advisory committee met
today. Confusion over how it will work with CO indigent care program dn increase
in number of people receiving Medicaid. Foresees more hospitalization because reimbursement goes to
hospitals and not primary-care providers.
b.
Medicaid buy-in committee met yesterday. Meeting schedule is
on HCPF website and Sheryle will send the schedule to Marna to send out via
email. Applications to be on committee are not longer being taken.
c.
SLS program and reductions in many people’s budgets are
getting wide discussion. DDD publication would provide some navigation of the
system. It could be seen as an opportunity for families to organize and be
resources to each other when case managers are uninformed and overwhelmed.
One effect of changes in SLS funding tiers is that people will be re-segregated.
d.
CCB state audit hearing occurred last week: the audit covered
7 CCBs, HCPF and DDD/CDHS. DDD,
HCPF have not come into compliance with any findings in the federal audit done
two years ago. Katherine suggested that the audit recommendations be part of the
October Council retreat.
e.
Interim committee headed by Cindy Acree (re: waiting list) is
focusing just on children.
f.
Eligibility for Medicaid: working on technology to put
together a network. Is suggested to be restricted to Medicaid for people without
disabilities and CHP+.
g.
CDASS: the number of people enrolled in CDASS has increased
from about 300 people to about 800. Proposals from prospective intermediaries
were due on July 7. The awards will be made in September, and Accent will
transition out (unless they receive the grant) by November.
h.
Federal bill on health reform included an amendment by
Kucinich that states may pass their own legislation to provide single-payer
health care.
i.
Three bills:
i.
to strengthen language on the “Nothing About Us Without Us
Bill” (LaBuda)
ii.
Nursing home parity bill.
First meeting last month with core group that needs to get more members.
iii.
Health care reform – Kefalas, with Health Care for all
Colorado and CCHI are helping with this effort
j.
SB 228 follow-up: there haven’t been legal challenges filed
as yet. There will be a rally
during the first week of August to protest cuts being made as a way to balance
the budget.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey Katherine Carol, Betty
Henderson, Katie Grange, Ben Sutton,
Staff Present: Marna Ares,
Mackenzie Helton, Sheryle Hutter
Guests: Beth Schaffner, Elizabeth
Hepp
Those absent: Shari Repinski
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Meeting Activities
Date:
June 18, 2009
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from May 2009
- Proposal
review
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes for May were not reviewed
2.
MCC proposal:
i.
Identified the comments given from conference and workshop attendees:
They specifically addressed lessons learned and specified how they would
change their plans for the conference and workshop.
ii.
The range of diversity limited. We need the demographic information and
to recruit more diverse ethnic communities.
iii.
The letter from this committee needs to be addressed – this committee
would like to meet with the MCC in order to get suggestions on recruitment and
outreach.
iv.
Consider incentive or milestone payments, contingent on achievement of
outcomes.
v.
Consider giving the MCC a year off to consider what they’ve learned and
what might be needed. Also would
allow the Council to not be locked in to a cultural conference and maybe have
another type that would address emerging issues and include multicultural
competence as a foundation, along with other foundational values of the Council.
vi.
Todd talked about the desirability of doing regional conferences. It
would also offer opportunities to the Council as it develops the next Five-Year
Plan.
vii.
Discussion of the motion: if we don’t fund this and want to do regional
conferences, it won’t involve contracts but will involve purchase orders.
We can say not to this right now, and still have money for next year.
viii.
The recommendation for a hiatus, and not to fund the request, will be
offered as a voting item at the next Council meeting. The Committee decided that
all recommendations, either to fund or not to fund, must be presented to the
Council for discussion and vote.
ix.
Betty and Katherine plan to meet with the Multicultural Committee on July
15 to discuss the letter the Planning and Grants Committee sent to the MCC, and
to talk with the committee about the recommendation Planning and Grants will
make to the Council not to fund the third year of the conference. The will talk
with the MCC about ways to address P&G concerns about needing broader
outreach for the October 2009 conference.
3.
Project SEARCH
a.
Bob Lawhead’s salary is a pretty significant part of the budget.
What about sustainability? Sustainability is built into the (trademarked)
model of Project SEARCH. Bob Lawhead’s role becomes increasingly less
necessary as the project takes hold and all entities have bought into the
project.
b.
This committee needs to talk with grantee about needing to see evidence
of preparation for alternative sources of funding and finding other entities to
replicate the project.
c.
Executive Committee has discussed having Council grantees come to the
Council’s retreat.
4.
PEAK
a.
Katherine and Katie attended the Advisory Council meeting last Saturday.
Katie’s son was in year one of the Taking Charge sessions. Katherine saw
evidence that input from her and Sheryle was incorporated in the second year of
the project. Katherine and Katie challenged the group to see how they could
expand into rural areas, and contributed the idea of the need to enroll other
communities, the more general population, e.g. instead of having segregated
gatherings, bring in kids without disabilities.
b.
Concern is that having to cut funding has led them to propose cuts to the
program, such as reducing the number of sessions for Taking Charge.
c.
Recommend that they seek other funds in order to maintain the program.
5.
Access & Ability
a.
Project meets its objectives and has support of all committee members.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Ben
Sutton moved, and Katie Granger seconded the motion not to recommend funding
for Year Three of the CC&R. Motion passed with no objections.
- Katherine
Carol moved, and Todd Coffey seconded motion to recommend funding for
Project SEARCH. Motion passed with no objections.
- Todd
Coffey moved that funding be recommended for PEAK with the provision that
the service levels from year two are continued in year three, and additional
funding needed is received from other, non-Council, sources. Betty Henderson
seconded. Motion passed without objections.
- Katherine
Carol moved, and Todd Coffey seconded the motion to recommend funding for
Access & Ability. Motion passed.
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
1.
Katherine and Betty will meet with the MCC on July 15 to discuss P&G
committee recommendations.
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey, Katherine
Carol, Betty Henderson, Katie Grange, Ben Sutton, Shari Repinski (by phone)
Staff Present: Marna
Ares, Mackenzie Helton
Meeting Activities
Date:
May 19, 2009
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from April 2009
- Legislative
Update
- Discussion
of CC&R conference and workshop
- Big
9 recommendation for 2010
- New
Business
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes for April
2.
Legislative Update:
i.
Bills
3.
Discussion of CC&R
conference and workshop
i.
Discussed the medical model being more prevalent in conference and
workshop than community living perspective of the CDDC.
ii.
The committee will send a letter to the MCC about the need for conference
break-out sessions to specifically address the areas of emphasis in the
Five-Year Plan, such as employment, community and school inclusion, and
person-centered living and delivery of supports.
iii.
The committee could recommend some additional follow-up with conference
attendees to take the place of what was intended to occur at the workshop. A
standard list of questions would represent the learning objectives, and spell
those out.
iv.
The letter should have a prefacing paragraph describing the P&G
Committee and its role on behalf of the Council.
v.
Sheryle suggested that the certificate of attendance and/or CEU’s
should only be granted after attendance at the conference and the workshop.
CEU’s may take the conference out of the realm and area that the Council is
interested in, i.e. attracting people with disabilities and family members.
Sheryle and Katherine offered that the CEU’s might be a valuable thing to
offer teachers, voc rehab counselors, for instance. Try approaching CTAT to see
if the process to offer CEU’s would be easier through them.
vi.
Committee will work on the wording of the email to the MCC and have
something ready for the MCC meeting on June 2, 2009.
4.
Big 9 recommendation for 2010
a.
Katherine raised the question of funding the Big 8 given the competing
priorities of the Council within the Five Year Plan.
It is recommended to create some flexibility within the budget by cutting
back on the funding for the Big 8. Todd
and Betty concurred with comments on the use of funds and setting priorities
within the Plan.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Betty
will compose a draft of an email/letter to the MCC concerning the conference
and workshop for year two.
- Next
meeting has been changed due to voting on funding of grants to get more of
membership present.
- A
motion was made to no longer fund the Big 8 conferences by Todd with a
second by Katherine. All were
in favor. The votes is in part based on the difficulty of gathering
performance targets and the current budget requests for funding of a
multitude of projects.
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
1.
Betty will get an email to everyone by next week.
All committee members are asked to work on the final product.
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey Sheryle Hutter,
Katherine Carol(by phone), Betty Henderson
Staff Present: Marna
Ares, Mackenzie Helton, Marcia Tewell
Those absent: Ben Sutton, Shari Repinski Penny
Gonnella
Meeting Activities
Date:
April 21, 2009
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from March 2009
- Legislative
Update
- Grant
review sheet and grants update
- New
Business
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes:
2.
Legislative Update:
a.
Bills are being introduced late into the session, many bypassing
committees and going to Appropriations.
b.
HB 1001: income tax credit for job growth is moving forward, will likely
be signed by the Governor. Gov. has
not responded to letter requesting to reinstate the tax credit for employers who
hire people with disabilities. Council Committee is getting support fro the
Legal Center and the Center on Law and Public Policy to, if the bill is passed,
to have the Governor reinstate the policy he pulled, or to institute the federal
rule that requires that 10% of an employer’s workforce be people with
disabilities.
c.
HB 1281: LaBuda’s bill: has been sent for the Governor’s signature.
She has requested a signing
d.
SB 103: Morgan Carroll: insurance ethics bill.
The bill was PI’s in the House Health and Human Services Committee.
e.
SB 228: Sen. Morse was at the rally against Medicaid cuts and said
support is critically needed for SB 228. Was rescheduled for Thursday in House
Transportation Committee.
f.
Other bills Sheryle is
i.
SB-263:Medicaid nursing facility payments to put control on nursing
homes. Provides for supplemental payments rather that rate increases. It has
passed through both houses.
ii.
HB 1273: Kafalas’ bill on health care reform: he layed the bill over to
July 5 for lack of support from leadership and from the Governor.
iii.
HB 1293: Medicaid hospital provider fee: could pull in federal match
dollars. It will be signed. It will be important to see what happens with the
implementation.
iv.
HR introduced yesterday by Rep. Acree asking for another interim
committee to study how we get money to eliminate the waiting list.
v.
Rep. Rice intro health care bill (HB 1358)
“Create Healthcare System for Colorado,” would make health care
mandatory, similar to the Massachusetts model. Marcia and Sheryle will be
testifying against the bill tomorrow; Marcia for CDDC and Sheryle for CCDC
3.
Grant Review Sheet and
grants update
a.
Discussed the pros and cons of continung to fund the Big 9 conferences at
$5000 per year.
b.
Grant review
i.
Sheryle went to a session of the Life Building project (part of PEAK’s
grant). She was impressed with the number of people in attendance, the focus on
independence and inclusion.
ii.
Project SEARCH: everyone who
went on site visits is excited about the project (Sheryle and Marcia in Denver,
Mackenzie in Fort Collins).
iii.
Cultural conference and workshop: the committee wants to ask questions about what the expected
outcomes were and if they were realized. The
workshop seemed not to implement the expectation that the workshop would be a
review of what people learned from tying to implement information they gained
from the October conference. Sheryle attended the workshop and found that
disability culture was not an important or highlighted part of the discussion.
The CLAS standards didn’t mention disability.
The MCC needs to be invited to talk about the expected outcomes, in terms
of the outcomes the Council must report on. If CEU’s are available, then
attendance at the workshop can be a requirement to receive CEU’s.
iv.
Mackenzie reviewed the grant status update sheet with the committee.
4.
New Business
a.
Katherine reported on the focus groups she conducted over a period of two
weeks in Wyoming, though the Wyoming BLN.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Betty
will compose a draft of an email/letter to the MCC concerning the conference
and workshop for year two.
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
1.
Betty will get an email to everyone by next week.
All committee members are asked to work on the final product.
2.
Sheryle will provide feedback on the usefulness and where changes can be
made to the site visit form to make it easier to use and to reflect site visit
outcomes.
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey Sheryle Hutter,
Katherine Carol, Betty Henderson
Staff Present: Marna
Ares, Mackenzie Helton
Those absent: Ben Sutton, Shari Repinski, Penny
Gonnella
Meeting
Activities
Date: March 17, 2009
Planning and Grants Committee Meeting
ISSUE:
1.
Minutes
2.
Project SEARCH
3.
PEAK’s Enhanced Person-Centered Planning Project
4.
Review of Legislative & Public Policy Committee
activities
DISCUSSION:
1.
Bob Lawhead presented on Employment Link’s grant and
Project SEARCH. Updates were provided regarding two current sites in Ft. Collins
(Columbine Healthcare) and Denver (Children’s Hospital) as well as potential
school district participants in the future. Erin Riehle provided technical
assistance at both sites this past week. Children’s
has hired a full FTE and Columbine is starting with four participants this
spring. Bob has approached DDD for
some funding to provide the long-term supports necessary to individual employees
but has not heard back at this time. There
is a national meeting of all Project SEARCH groups on July 8-10 in Atlanta.
Currently all of the monthly visits to Children’s in Cincinnati are
booked. Potential
participants from Greeley are attending the July meeting.
Questions arose around the number of future sites with discussion as well as the
dollars and process used to access VR and DDD support dollars.
Other questions around participation of individuals older than 21 were
posed. The only way someone of that
age could participate would be if a current participant becomes employed during
an internship and an opening occurs. Many
parents are interested in the model and have inquired about the above. Shari
will talk with Mike Davis to determine communication lines between his role as
DDD rep. to the Advisory committee and her role on planning and grants.
2.
Marna handed out the PEAK report but there was little
discussion as it had not been available for review earlier.
The committee will review it and discuss at the next meeting.
3.
Marcia gave a report on legislation related to the Five Year
Plan on behalf of Sheryle. Report
included #228 the 6% A-B legislation, #103 regarding insurance companies and
incentives for denials, #1273 Comprehensive Health Care, Nothing About Us
Without Us (p/w/d being on boards that make decisions about them), as well as a
letter to the Governor regarding reinstating tax credits for employers from a
2008 piece of legislation the Gov. did not include in the budget.
Discussion occurred around who will present what on #228 at the upcoming Council
meeting. There is no PowerPoint.
Expected, just information about the legislation and impact on citizens with
disabilities in the state.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Betty
Henderson may be able to attend the PCP training on Sat. for part of the
day.
- Marcia
will deliver Council monographs, newsletters and employment articles to
staff at Children’s Hospital.
Those in attendance: Betty Henderson, Todd Coffey, Shari
Repinski
Guests: Bob Lawhead
Staff Present: Marna Ares, Marcia
Tewell, Mackenzie Helton
Those
absent: Katherine Carol, Penny Gonnella
Meeting
Activities
Date:
February 24, 2009
Planning and Grants Committee Meeting
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from January 2009
- Grant
review sheet and grants update
- Legislative
Update
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes: no corrections suggested
2.
Grant Review Sheet and grants update
a.
Review sheet for quarterly reports:
Katherine suggests sending ticklers to grantees before quarterly reports
are due. The other site checklist could be used by grantees upon award and as
they approach the end of a grant year.
The grantees could also be encouraged to gather information on outcomes in
preparation for giving a presentation to the Council or this committee.
They could be encouraged to keep a file of monthly grant activities as a
source of stories that they and the Council can share to illustrate the
effectiveness of Council grants and initiatives.
b.
Current grants update
i.
Project SEARCH: first billing has been submitted, without a
report. The role that Voc Rehab will or will not play was discussed. The
Employment Ad Hoc committee meets tomorrow, and the role of VR may be discussed.
The committee wants Bob Lawhead to come and make a presentation to the Committee
as soon as possible.
ii.
Sheryle and Katherine will attend the March 7 Life Building
Session (through PEAK’s Enhanced PCP Project).
iii.
Discussion of the Big 8:
the committee would like to be able to get information from recipients of
scholarships, especially a certain number of months after the conference.
Sheryle talked about the usefulness of pre- and post-evaluations. For any of the
Big8 recipients haven’t had their conference, we could ask for the contact
information for scholarship recipients so that we can survey them. Phone surveys
seem to be the most effective way to get information.
This committee may decide to make the B-8 process competitive, and prepare a
proposal for FFY2010 budget.
People are feeling that the information isn’t getting out about the Big 8 and
other conferences. One strategy discussed was to include a tear-out sheet in the
newsletter at the beginning of the year to announce conferences, etc.
3.
Legislative Update:
a.
Bills followed: HB
1048 (LaBuda) was PI’d (postponed indefinitely). It has been replaced with HB 1281. It has to do the boards of Housing, Health and Human Services
being encouraged to include people with disabilities, family members and
advocates on the boards.
b.
HB 1273: Colorado Health Care bill will be coming up on March
4. Rep. Kafalas is the sponsor.
Sheryle will send out the talking points for the bill, and encourages people to
testify on the bill.
c.
SB 103: Insurance ethics act: would restrict insurance
companies from giving incentive pay to adjusters or staff to either reduce or
deny claims. It will be coming to the floor, probably next week.
d.
HB 1001: tax credit for employers that create and fill 20
positions in a calendar year has been challenged because the tax credit for
hiring people with developmental disabilities had been tabled due to budget
restraints. Sheryle thinks that the
tax credit may be reinstated. Sheryle is pushing to have small businesses
included (there are 360,000 small businesses in Colorado) because a tax credit
that would include small business would probably provide more opportunities for
employment of the people with developmental disabilities than big business that
will be creating highly skilled, high paying positions.
e.
SB 228: Rescinding the 6% Arveschoug-Bird limit on stage
agency budgets.
f.
The following update impacts the DD community however are not
part of the L&PP group of bills to be followed:
i.
HB 1095: driver-license competency, assigns a third-party
person to assess individual’s competency to drive. Rep. Acree is the sponsor,
and has pulled the bill as we could not come to an agreement on language that
would impact the disability community.
ii.
HB 1097, sponsored by Acree. State recovery, giving up a
certain amount of Medicare funding to keep possession of your estate. Ultimately
this bill could have been negative to Medicaid/Medicare recipients and so
Representative Acree has PI'd the bill.
iii.
SB 166: (Morgan Carroll was the sponsor.)
Would have required ethical practices, reduce amount of vendor buy-out.
Bill was killed. Pharmacy Ethics are critical and hopefully Senator Carroll
will carry this kind of bill in the future...if she or someone else does CDDC
should review for support.
iv.
Voting registration on line: HB: 1061 (?) A problem that a CO
photo ID would be required, and security is another issue. Following and will
report.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Minutes
from October: Todd motioned to approve the November minutes, Ben seconded.
Minutes approved.
BY WHOM/ BY WHEN:
1.
Marna will contact Bob Lawhead to see if he can attend the
March 17 meeting.
2.
Marna will post a summary of all the grants on the website.
Those in attendance: Todd Coffey, Katherine Carol, Linda
Dunn, Ben Sutton, Shari Repinski
Guests: Don Hutter
Staff Present: Marna Ares
Reporting: Sheryle Hutter
Those absent: Sharisa Kochmeister, Betty Henderson, Penny
Gonnella
Meeting
Activities
January 27, 2009
Planning and Grants Committee Meeting
ISSUE:
- Minutes
from November and December 2008
- Review
of December 16 meeting
- MCC
Proposal
- Budget
and grant review
DISCUSSION:
1.
Minutes: November minutes In the discussion there needs to be
a clause added to clarify that the meeting with Karen Beye was with the Colorado
Cross Disability Coalition. Discussion of the December 16 minutes: the committee
that was mentioned in the Action Plan (to plan a retreat) has not met. The
problem with the retreat is that it serves as training for new members, and the
Council still doesn’t have any appointments from the names that were submitted
last May. Correct the typo in Todd’s remarks.
What is the role of people who are on the list to be appointed; how do they have
input? Penny thought that both the
current members waiting to be replaced and the prospective members should be
encouraged to join in the discussion. The
only limit on their participation (prospective members) is that they can’t
vote. Mackenzie noted that only those who hold governor appointments can be
counted toward quorum.
Discussion concerned the process that is required in order to get nominations
into the Governor’s office.
2. December 16 meeting
a.
Outcomes
i.
One outcome is the of retreat planning is postponed until new
members are appointed. Betty will update the Council on this, and ask the
Council to discuss whether or not to go ahead with a retreat.
ii.
Mike McCarty wants more visibility at the Capitol. Betty is
concerned that increased visibility is difficult given the limited number of
Council members. Sheryle offered to take newsletters to the Capitol to add them
to other publications that are down there, such as The Statesman. Sheryle
suggested increasing publicity, such as posting in local newsletters, or sending
out press releases to local media.
b.
Review of legislative session and L&PP activities
i.
A group of advocates met with Joan Henneberry and Dr. Wadwah
concerning potential budget cuts. Budgetary cuts are coming through Medicaid,
and advocates are emphasizing that programs need to examined for their
effectiveness before cuts are made.
ii.
Sheryle reviewed HB – 09 -1048 (the “Nothing About Us
Without Us”). The bill is being rewritten, after being passed out of the House
Health and Human Services Committee last Wednesday.
iii.
Other bills discussed: Driver’s license competency bill:
Rep. Cindy Acree, IEP training for foster parents, need for photo ID for
controlled substances and for voting registration.
3.
MCC proposal: Penny reviewed the
decision by the MCC to require payment of registration of $35 per person, given
the fact that the people who registered and did not show up had not been
required to pay registration, and that fact that professionals and their
agencies could not pay the $125 registration fee required for the first
conference.
Penny reviewed with the committee the content of the conference and the purpose
of the follow-up workshop. The
increase in the line item for the conference planner is intended to help pay for
better publicity and marketing, and for conference planning for the follow-up
workshop.
Katherine suggested using the Internet for posting information and allowing
comments/blogging.
4.
Grants and budget: grantees will
be notified that proposals will be due on June 9, 2009, and that they must
demonstrate concrete efforts to sustain supplemental funding. They will be
granted a certain percentage less than the original amount.
ACTION / MOTION / CONSENSUS
- Minutes
from October: Todd motioned to approve the November minutes, Betty seconded.
Passed unanimously. Linda Dunn moved that December minutes be accepted with
the one correction, Todd Coffey seconded. Minutes approved.
- Todd
moved to approve the proposal for the MCC conference, Linda seconded. The
only change requested is to change the $27k figure to $19k. Approved.
Those in attendance: Betty Henderson, Todd Coffey Sheryle
Hutter, Katherine Carol, Penny Gonnella, Linda Dunn
Staff Present: Marna Ares,
Mackenzie Helton
Those
absent: Thom Miller, Karl Valdez, Sharisa Kochmeister, Ben Sutton,
Those in attendance: Betty Henderson, Laura Thompson Perkins,
Jo Perkins, Todd Coffey, Mary Russell (by phone), Don Hutter, Sheryle Hutter (in
person and then on phone)
Staff Present: Marna Ares,
Mackenzie Helton, Marcia Tewell
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Those absent: Thom Miller, Karl Valdez, Katherine
Carol, Laura Thompson
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