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Home My WebLink AboutCouncil on Aging-Disabilities 08-17-06 NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA ST. CROIX COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING Thursday, August 17, 2006, 8:30 am County Board Room, St. Croix County Government Center 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin 54016 CALL TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING — Thursday, September 21, 2006 OLD AND NEW BUSINESS 1. Old Business: St. Croix County Fair Brown Bag Lunch Sessions CWAG Medicare —August 16, 2006 SCAN Revision Nutrition Program Manager Regional Training — September 28, 2006 Staffing Updates 2. New Business: 2007 Budget Preliminary Aging Unit Plan Discussion Hatch Act Volunteer Report 3. Staff Reports 4. Nutrition Program/Senior Center Updates 5. Possible Agenda Items for next meeting ADJOURN (Items may be taken in different order) ** Additions /Changes /Corrections SUBMITTED BY Kjersti L.O. Duncan, Thursday, August 3, 2006 COPIES TO County Board Office County Clerk News Media/ Notice Board Committee Members Items for County Board approval must be submitted to the County Clerk's office by Wednesday morning preceding a County Board meeting. 8/4/2006 3:45 PM NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA ST. CROIX COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING Thursday, August 17, 2006, 8:30 am County Board Room, St. Croix County Government Center 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin 54016 CALL TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING — Thursday, September 14, 2006 OLD AND NEW BUSINESS 1. Old Business: St. Croix County Fair Brown Bag Lunch Sessions CWAG Medicare —August 16, 2006 SCAN Revision Nutrition Program Manager Regional Training — September 28, 2006 Staffing Updates 2. New Business: 2007 Budget Preliminary Aging Unit Plan Discussion Hatch Act Volunteer Report 3. Staff Reports 4. Nutrition Program/Senior Center Updates 5. Possible Agenda Items for next meeting ADJOURN (Items may be taken in different order) ** Additions /Changes /Corrections SUBMITTED BY Kjersti L.O. Duncan, Thursday, August 3, 2006 COPIES TO County Board Office County Clerk News Media/ Notice Board Committee Members Items for County Board approval must be submitted to the County Clerk's office by Wednesday morning preceding a County Board meeting. 8/4/2006 8:44 AM COUNCIL ON AUGUST 17,2oo6 CALL TO ORDER: Council Chairperson Ralph Bader called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Pledge of Allegiance was said. ROLL CALL: Members present were: Gerald Peterson, Charles Grant, Judy Harrison, Carolyn Wiesenberger, Bette Norman, Art Feyeriesen, Rich Peterson, Al Schrank, Ralph Bader, Irene Burch, and Jeanette O'Connell. Also present were: Kjersti L.O. Duncan, Tracy Davis, Renea Aeschliman, Sylvia Heller, Julie Hillstead, Donna Lamson, Jan Thompson, Sallie Dull, Marcia Chandler, Lori Sather, Lorraine Jacobs, and Vivian Kemling. Excused was John Mortensen. ACTION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES: A motion on the minutes was made by Rich Peterson and seconded by Gerald Peterson to approve the minutes; motion carried. DATE OF NEXT MEETING: The next meeting will be held on Thursday, September 21, 2006. 1. Old Business: St. Croix County Fair: This year's fair was very well attended. Ashley Ritter, Student Intern, made over 400 buttons which highlighted the theme "Everyone's Goin "'; the buttons had pictures of celebrities age 60 and older. By Saturday, all 400 buttons were handed out at the Senior Citizens' building. Popcorn /juice and Faith in Action sales increased slightly this year. Some of the Senior Division grand champion and blue ribbon winners have displayed their work at the Department on Aging during the month of August. This display is the first in a rotation of artwork to be featured in the Department on Aging office. Brown Bag Lunches: The Brown Bag sessions are still taking place. Numbers in attendance is still small, however we're received positive feedback and, through word -of- month, anticipate numbers will increase. CWAG Medicare: Tracy visited the CWAG Medicare Integrity Training meeting that was held on Wednesday, 16` at the Hudson Senior Center. Paula Gibson and Elizabeth Conrad of CWAG presented information to the attendees regarding how to read a Medicare claims. Handouts on basic Medicare information were distributed and the information shared was very interesting. SCAN Revision: The SCAN revision, which was voted on during the July meeting, was not correct in the August SCAN. It will be corrected in September. Nutrition Program Manger Regional Training — September 28, 2006: The agenda for this training (to be held in Rice Lake) was distributed to the Nutrition Program Managers. This training is mandatory for all Nutrition Program Managers. There is ample time to find volunteers to cover for the day. More information regarding transportation will be made available at the next Council meeting. Staffing Updates: Kjersti updated the Council that interviews took place for the Nutrition Program Manager position in Roberts, however a suitable candidate was not found. Applications are again being accepted for the Roberts Nutrition Program Manager position. 2 New Business: 2007 Budget & Preliminary Aging Unit Plan Discussion: Kjersti gave a Power Point presentation to the Council to outline the 2007 budget. The full 2007 budget increased 5% compared to 2006's budget. This increase is mainly due to the increase in the DOT grant. The increase also includes the Alzheimer's Family and Caregiver Support Program money from the State that has been awarded to St. Croix County's Long Term Support Unit in the past. A motion was made, for the Department on Aging to become the lead agency for the AFCSP monies instead of Long Term Support, by Irene Burch and seconded by Carolyn Wiesenberger; motion carried. The Benefit Specialist position is still a contracted position. The Department on Aging proposes it be become a County position with the 2007 budget. Letters of support and statistics on the increased member of clients and the cost savings this position creates for the county and state will be outlined for the Finance committee to approve. Council member Gerald Peterson questioned the position's current number of hours and the proposed number of hours. Kjersti clarified the current contracted position is 40 hours per week. The county position proposal would be for 37.5 hours a week. After Kjersti finished presenting the budget to the Council, council member Gerald Peterson stated that if negotiations exceed the 2.5% salary increase (which was used, as instructed by the Finance Director, to figure the 2007 budget) that Kjersti lobby that the increase not come out of the Department on Aging budget. Gerald Peterson motioned that the budget and outlined Aging Unit Plan goals, as prepared, be approved and brought to Finance. The motion was seconded by Jeanette O'Connell; motion carried unanimously. Hatch Act: Kjersti handed out a memo from Jim Schmidlkofer, Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources, regarding appearances of political candidates at elderly service settings, along with a copy of the Department on Aging policy regarding this issue as outlined in the Nutrition Program Mangers' Manual. Volunteer Report: Please see attached. 3. Staff Reports: Kiersti's Report: Kjersti informed the Council that the Faith in Action inventory sale will be Friday, September 22nd from 9:0o a.m. — 5 :00 p.m. and Saturday, September �3ra from 9:0o a.m. to 12 noon. The sale will be held in the Community Room located in the lower level of the Government Center. Vans will be available to Senior Centers that would like to use the day as a special shopping day. Kjersti informed the council that September is "Food Safety Month" and that educational packets will be mailed out to each Nutrition Site to review with Nutrition Program staff and volunteers. Tracy's Report: Tracy completed and handed -in the six month report to the DOT for 2006. The number of one -way trips slightly decreased; due to the cost of gas, expenses have increased. Tracy handed out a summary compiled by Don Kush, West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, after the Public Transit and Human Service Transportation Coordination Workshop on June 21st. The summary stated that each agency is doing what is possible within their realms. 4. Nutrition ProEram/Senior Center Updates BALDWIN A baby picture guessing contest was held and enjoyed by those that participated. Bands and entertainment has been planned twice a month. Sallie is going to focus on more advertising for the congregate dining program. The number of participants increases weekly. DEER PARK Cards were held the other day. A nice amount of veggies have been dropped off by the master gardeners. Hat day was celebrated by all of the participants and others enjoyed apron day. Next month participants will celebrate their heritages. GLENWOOD CITY: The Soup & Salad Luncheon is slotted for October 20 HAMMOND: Very happy to have Irene Burch back. A fun time was had by those that attended the Senior Nite Out at the Roberts Senior Center. Good food, conversation, and many different games were enjoyed. Lunch at the Red Barn is scheduled for September 23 The Roberts Ribbon Reapers 4 -H group served lunch. A volunteer dinner is going to take place some time in September. ROBERTS Apple pies were baked yesterday at the Senior Center for lunch. Individuals enjoyed pealing the apples and surprisingly made enough pies to freeze a couple to serve at a later time! Pumpkins were painted and gift bags were made. Everyone is having a good time. Lori enjoyed her time at the Senior Center and will miss everyone. HUDSON Everything is going well at the Senior Center. Exercise is taking place twice a week. There have been nice sized groups of diners for lunch. Tap dancers from Stillwater entertained for the birthday party. A trip to Como Park is planned for Monday, September 11 to NEW RICHMOND The Senior Center is going to be busy in the month of August with Share a Smile Day, Liza Gibson will be at the Senior Center talking about Medicare, and the Polka Picnic will wrap up the month. In September a trip to the Amery Fall Festival is planned. A Foot Clinic will start up and Laura Plumer and Margaret Ann Bosman will present on adaptive equipment and the Hard of Hearing program. RIVER FALLS: The Foot Clinic had 18 people attend. The Share the Bounty program this year has been plentiful. Members of the United Hospital, River Falls Hospital, and the River Falls EMTs will be at the general meeting to present on 911 and when to call. Bette Norman donated a check in memory of Ruth Boughton to go towards SCAN and VIOP. SOMERSET Participants are planning on attending the Soup and Salad Luncheon that will be on September 15" at the Woodville Senior Center. WOODVILLE Currently some of the activities are being cut back. They have found that more people participate when there are larger activities planned sporadically. The Hat Lady from Cameron will be at the Senior Center on September 12 and she has a story for every one of her hats. The soup and salad luncheon will be September 15 that all are invited to attend. Julie would like a plan a trip to Hudson for the Faith in Action sale on September 22 There is also a trip to Como Park in the works for some time in September. VAN TRIPS: Woodville to Como — September Hudson to Como — September 11 th New Richmond to Amery — September Baldwin to Siren — September A motion was made by Rich Peterson and seconded by Al Schrank; motion carried. ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE Tracy shared a thank you from the St. Croix Disability Coalition for the use of one of the Department on Aging vehicles for their camping trip and for the upcoming dance to be held in Baldwin. The St. Croix County picnic will be held on Thursday, August 31 at the Highway Department in Hammond. The picnic will be from 2:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: A motion to adjourn was made by Irene Burch and seconded by Art Feyereisen; motion carried. ,5