WCDHHS Board Meeting Minutes

December 3, 2014

Waupaca County Courthouse

811 Harding Street, Room 1068

Waupaca, WI

Members Present:  Jan Lehrer, Jerry Murphy, Dona Gabert, Dave Neumann, Carl Kietzmann, Mary Kay Poehlman, Dr. Steven Goedderz

Members Absent:  Don Aasen

Others Present:  Chuck Price, Shannon Kelly, Lana Draeger, Christie Gonwa, 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:  Christie Gonwa shared a letter with the Board.  She emailed information to members. 

Motion by Neumann, second by Gabert, to accept agenda, with change the Board will not go into closed session.  Motion carried

Motion by Kietzmann, second by Poehlman, to approve minutes from November 5, 2014.  Motion carried.

Action Items

A. Personnel

1. Three retirement letters were received.  Gail Schley, Public Health Nurse, is retiring December 19, Kathy Tucker, Behavioral Health Nurse, is retiring January 2, and Ron Pehlke, AODA Counselor, is retiring January 29.  Motion by Lehrer, second by Poehlman, to accept the retirements.  Motion carried.

2. Employee Update was reviewed.  Interviews were held yesterday for CPS Ongoing Social Worker.  Interviews will be held Monday for ADRC Clerk and Public Health Nurse.  Interviews will be December 17 for Employment Specialist at WCI.  Currently recruiting for Behavioral Health Nurse and will advertise soon for AODA Counselor.  We are working on recruiting for Comprehensive Community Services Coordinator.  We will be coming to the Board next month to talk about an LTE Mentor. 

B. Finance

1.    Director Price gave an overview of the Income Statement.  We are on track for the budget through the end of October. 

2.    Payment Register was shared with the Board members.  Jan would like to go on record questioning IQ Resources.  IQ Resources is a company similar to DEN Services, providing workers for WCI.  Both companies are trying to recruit employees to help with WCI production.  Jan asked if a report could be provided that would show the number of employees provided by DEN vs IQ.  WCI is on track to have its best production year ever.  That is in part due to the employees that we get from the two companies.  Jan asked for information on BI, Inc.  We will follow up and report back next month.  Motion by Gabert, second by Lehrer, to approve bills.  Motion carried.

C. Other

1. Recommend Citizen Board Member.  We have a citizen member interested in joining the Board.  Chuck has had a conversation and is checking references.  It is hoped she can attend the January meeting.

Reports to the Board

A. Director’s Report

1.    General Update and Discussion

i. Heroin Summit held in Manawa was very well attended.  We’ve received good feedback on the presentation, as well as Kasey’s training.

ii. On November 12, Chuck was part of the Children & Families Leadership Summit, talking about key issues going on in the state.  Chuck was pleased with the direction the meeting headed. 

iii. Mental Health Plunge – on November 17 there was a follow-up meeting with presenters.  Chuck shared outcomes of that meeting.

iv. We were able to present at Fostering Futures Project.  Casey Family Programs Foundation from Seattle asked us to present.  We got great feedback and a standing ovation from our presentation.  We were able to make great networking connections across the country.

v. Tomorrow is the WCI Christmas party at the Manawa Masonic Center.

vi. Next month, Chuck would like to have Kasey Kaepernick and Lisa Grasshoff do Trauma Informed Care (TIC) training with the Board.  This will be a 1.5-2 hour training.  Chuck will provide pizza.  We will keep the rest of the agenda short.

vii. We have a few grants coming to us.  The Behavioral Health Partnership secured a grant to work on youth crisis, how to write crisis plans in the juvenile justice area.  We were approached to be a pilot county.

viii. We were informed we received a Trauma Informed child and parent therapy training.  It’s an 18-month training to work with families of children ages Birth-5.

ix. We received a technical assistance grant, partnering with Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, to work with families of young children.

x. Jan asked about the regional meetings in Green Bay.  Chuck has a Director’s meeting next week, with the group leaning toward not having Board members attend, but the final decision has not yet been decided.

2. Alternate Care – the trainings we are bringing in will help revamp our youth out-of-home care costs.  Jan questioned Kinship Care.  Kinship care costs are about 5% of the out-of-home budget.

3. Mental Health – we have been having on-going meetings to talk about how our adult service is structured to help work on adult placements.  We have been meeting with other counties on how they handle out-of-hours crisis calls and how to better handle those situations.

B. Announcements and Correspondence

1. Letter from Department of Health Services – Public Health Services Review was shared with the Board.

Motion by Lehrer, second by Gabert, to adjourn at 6:45 pm.  Motion carried.  Next meeting is January 7, 2015.

Submitted by,

Lana Draeger

Office Manager

Approved by,

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