Easy Does It
Board of Directors Meeting
Minutes for January 24, 2002

Present: Jonah Markowitz, Leslie Gordon, Hale Zukas, Jonathan Gold, Rose Acampora, Jesse Townley, Todd Groves (on telephone), Felix Knauth, Peter Trier (on telephone), Winston Ching (arrived at 6:50 p.m.); Absent: Dina Valicenti and Daniel Drake

Meeting started at 6:40 P.M.

Public Comments
Jonah:
Thanks Ingrative Arts people for designing tile piece; donated a charity box for Ken Crow fund and the low income subsidy fund; good luck to Jesse, hope he returns.

Jesse:
CNA program and CNA Home Heath Aid program being held at Berkeley Night School
Feb 26: Managing Attendant Care at Berkeley CIL
March 26; Self Advocacy at Berkeley CIL
Jonathan:
Filmed for InfoUse as a health care attendant for a video to be used as training health care professionals; Hale is one of the reviewers.

Minutes
Motion made by Jonathan to approve minutes of 11/29/01 with Jonathan's corrections; Peter seconds.. Motion passes.

Motion to approve minutes of 12/20/01 by Jonathan; Leslie seconds. Peter and Winston abstain. Motion passes.

December, 2001 Consent Calendar
Jonathan explains what a consent calendar is.
Motion to approve the consent calendar for December by Winston Ching; Peter seconds. Jonathan abstains. Motion passes.

January 24, 2002 Consent Calendar
Jonathan: rewrite Mandelstam letter and Steve Mantz letter; Item #7 in Directors Report; discuss actual # of hours in a month.
Jesse: #2 and #3 on Director's Report
Jonathan makes a motion to approve the consent calendar for tonight's meeting with above issues to be discussed; Winston Ching and Peter Trier second it. Motion passes.

Agenda
Add Charity Box to the first item under discussion.
Put SUS report in the Executive Session.
Case management/co-fund pay as Action Item A.
Jesse's benefits/bonus in Executive Session (Jesse will leave during discussion).
Executive session set for 8:30 p.m.
Motion to approve the agenda by Leslie; Peter seconds. Motion passes.

President's Report
Pre-approved; Peter will fill in for Leslie starting Feb. 7. Leslie will be Vice President.

Executive Director's Report
Jesse and Rose: explain #2 (Executive Pro issues)

Jesse: problems with insurance bill (which has been straightened out).

Felix: Liability Insurance appears to be in order; Workers Comp: went through past records to Feb. 1999 and could not find reasons why EDI's rates went up; Stanley Smith Agency researching further.

Jesse: #7 AB 524 explained what EDI is doing.

Jesse: explained letter to Donna Mandelstam
Jonathan made motion to approve this letter with language edits by Hale and Jonathan; Leslie seconded. Hale and Peter oppose; Motion passes.

Felix: #14 best estimate is surplus of $8500.00 for fiscal year, Feb 2002. Looks like positive cash flow through the next 6 months. Will update board members once or twice a month on budget. There followed a discussion on why expenditure on management, repairs and transportation are over budget and all other services are at 52% of what was planned.

Jesse: announced upcoming Alzheimer's training.

Jesse: working with city on parking permits for EDI attendants

Peter: Thanked Jesse for doing such a good job

Action Items
A. Date for Co-Pay Fund planning committee
A committee was formed, called the Case Management Committee, consisting of Felix, Hale, Winston, Erin and Leslie to discuss hiring another case manager with financial / legal / benefits expertise.

B. Plaque: Peter will work it out; Jonathan has offered to pay for.

C. Name change: Easy Does It Disability Assistance: EDIDA (disassociate us from AA); tells us what we do; was EDI Emergency Services; Felix suggests tabling name change to next month's meeting.

D. Mission Statement: tabled until next month's meeting.

8:39 p.m.: Jonah leaves. Board goes into Executive Session.