WCDHHS Board Meeting Minutes
April 4, 2012
Waupaca County Courthouse
811 Harding Street
Room 1068
Waupaca, WI
Members Present: Gerald Murphy, Jan Lehrer, Elizabeth Tautges, Joe McClone, Pat Craig, Don Aasen, Dr. Steven Goedderz
Members Absent: Donn Allen
Staff Present: Chuck Price, Lana Draeger, Rhonda Christians, Jim Fassbender
The regular meeting of the Health and Human Services Board was called to order at 6:00 pm by Chair Jerry Murphy.
Public Comment: None
Motion by Lehrer, second by Aasen, to accept agenda. Motion carried.
Motion by Craig, second by Lehrer, to approve minutes from March 7, 2012. Motion carried.
Rhonda Christians, Public Health Nurse, recently attended a National Contraceptive Technology Conference. The Board requested she give a presentation on the conference. Rhonda thanked the Board for approval to attend the conference. She said it was an amazing opportunity. Waupaca County has a high teen pregnancy rate, as well as STD rate. The conference gave us the opportunity to have tools to be on the cutting edge of providing services to the County. With Rhonda attending this conference, she feels we are ahead of the game to providing services. The clinic accepts private insurance and medical assistance, and they also have a sliding fee scale, as well as private pay individuals. Stats show that when the economy is bad, the pregnancy rate rises. They serve people from the younger women not ready to start a family, to the women going through menopause. They have a good relationship with all the schools and the nurses.
A. Personnel
1. Resignations/Retirements – there were no resignations or retirements.
2. Employee Update was reviewed.
B. Finance
1. Income Statement was reviewed. Nothing looks out of line at this time, but it’s early in the year.
2. Bills were reviewed by the Board. Motion by Craig, second by Lehrer, to approve bills. Motion carried. The Board will continue to receive these bills with the Board packet. Members should call prior to the meeting with questions.
a. At the last meeting, the board questioned payments to funeral homes. A breakdown of the payments was shared with the Board.
A. Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes
1. ADRC Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes of February 2, 2012, were reviewed. Jan will be serving on the Regional Long Term Care Advisory Committee, which has its first meeting soon.
2. W-2 Community Steering Committee Meeting Minutes of March 14, 2012, were reviewed.
B. Director’s Report
1. General Update and Discussion
a. Director Price gave the Board members an update on the Human Service Redesign. This is a statewide redesign effort. This redesign was presented at the 2011 Spring WCHSA Conference. Ideas they came up with are: 1) Shared Governance of many state governmental agencies; 2) Service Delivery Authority is more like the family care idea, working as a consortium. It was hoped it could get to the Governor prior to the next budget. Over the past months, there has been a group of directors to look at efficiencies and best practices going on within the counties. It was hoped to have a vote at the 2012 Spring May conference. Chuck will be attending a WCHSA meeting tomorrow and they will talk about redesign.
b. An Ethics and Boundaries training was presented to the Social Workers this morning from the NEW Partnership. The training was on social media. This committee may see additional information on a social media policy.
c. There will be secondary trauma training, focused on our CPS and Juvenile Justice staff. We will be looking at a similar training for our mental health staff.
d. A resolution was presented to the Board to eliminate an Economic Support Manager position and create an Economic Support Lead Worker position. Motion by Craig, second by Lehrer, to approve the resolution to eliminate the FTE Economic Support W-2 Manager Position and create an FTE Economic Support Lead Worker Position. Motion carried.
2. Alternate Care report was reviewed. We are moving children out of treatment care and Lincoln Hills, so the budget looks good at this time.
3. Mental Health report was reviewed. Clients were moved out of Winnebago and Mendota. This budget also looks good at this time.
C. Announcements and Correspondence
1. Overseeing the Health of the Public newsletter was shared with the Board.
2. WCHSA Eastern Region meeting is April 20. Lana will register anyone interested in attending.
3. WCHSA Spring Conference will be May 22-24 at Elkhart Lake. Chuck and Jerry will be attending that conference.
Motion by Aasen, second by McClone, to adjourn at 6:55 pm. Motion carried.
Submitted by,
Lana Draeger
Office Manager
Approved by,
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