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Quorum:

Yes

Chair’s Report:

None

Minutes:
Motion made by Mary Bruno and seconded by Dr. Henry Martin to approve minutes of May 18, 2005. Motion passed.

Old Business:

Budget Sub-Committee Report:

BUDGET – 2005-2006
Dave Evans updated Board on funding recommendations for 2005-2006. A position paper requesting an increase in the per capita rate was submitted to the County Manager and approved. The budget sub-committee re-allocated funding based on per capita rate increase. In addition, new programs that had been locked into the 10% cap from the last two years were adjusted based upon their score. Donna Jensen, Executive Director from Grace House thanked the Board for their efforts in requesting additional funds. Motion by Mary Bruno and seconded by Deborah Denys to accept the funding recommendations of the budget sub-committee for 2005-2006. Motion passed.

EVALUATION ELEMENTS
Dave Evans presented recommended changes to evaluation elements for 2006-2007. The primary change is to give more weight to the monitoring process. Previously the scoring gave higher weight to the quality of the application and not enough weight to what the agencies were actually doing with the money. The total maximum score with the new criteria will be 5.0, with monitoring being 1.0, or 20%. 60% of the total score is given by the board and 40% is given by staff. The ratio remains the same. Staff will advise Board of monitoring scores for each program as monitoring occurs throughout the year. Sub-committee requests that each Board member attend one monitoring. Cost effectiveness/efficiency was calculated by using a cost per client basis which resulted in the highest cost per client receiving a low ranking and the lowest cost per client receiving a high ranking. This may tend to reward agencies who do less work for clients and penalize agencies that do more for clients. This issue is still being discussed and may result in considering multiple components to compute the score. Motion made by Deborah Denys and seconded by Essie Smith to accept evaluation elements for 2006-2007 as presented by the budget sub-committee. Motion passed.

Monitoring Tool for 2005-2006

Motion by Mary Bruno and seconded by Deborah Denys to accept the monitoring tool for 2005-2006 as submitted by the Budget Sub-Committee. Motion passed.

Agencies will be sent evaluation elements and monitoring tool for their review. The CFAB will hear comments on both items at the September 21 CFAB meeting.

New Business:

Sub-Committee for 2006-2007 application, funding criteria, and cost/effectiveness/ efficiency calculation
Dave Evans, Essie Smith, Deborah Denys, and Mary Lou Mirino volunteered to serve on sub-committee to review. Mary Bruno would attend if available. Committee scheduled to meet on September 6, at 10:00 am.

Christine Davenport of Children’s Home Society requested Board to re-allocate funding from Family Preservation program to the Family Transition program, which is an expansion of the Family Preservation program ($23,892). Motion by Deborah Denys and seconded by Essie Smith to approve re-allocation. Motion passed.

Public Participation: None

Advisory Board Participation:
Mary Bruno advised board that the partnership with the School Board for summer camp for three agencies was a huge success. Leap Pad computer systems were procured and provided which can be used during the school year as well as for the summer.

Adjourned: 10:35 am

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