Easy Does It Disability Assistance Services Board Meeting Minutes for Thursday, June 24th, 2004

 

ROLL CALL: Charles Pappas, Chris Hess – Treasurer, Hale Zukas – President, Jonah Markowitz – Secretary, Peter Trier, Winston Ching
Public: Susan Brown – note taker, Karla Thompson – interpreter
Executive Directors: Rose Acampora

PUBLIC COMMENT
PETER: Heard that clients are unhappy with services. Need to be very clear to clients (and staff) that it is absolutely intolerable to us
that any staff should retaliate against a client for lodging a complaint.
ROSE: Anonymous Questionairre. 20 Questions. We should have something to be approved by next staff mtg.
JONAH: I may not be here in July – speaking before the CIL Board
CHARLES: John Caines at Gran Mar has died. There is a wake Saturday. I propose to make him “Person of the Year”.
MINUTESJONAH: Move to table the May 27th Minutes.
WINSTON: SECONDS Motion Passes

PRESIDENT’S REPORT
HALE: The city has offered to contract with us to provide transportation through measure B funding.

EXECUTIVE REPORT
ROSE: Our contract manager, Kimberly, who also works for Berkeley Paratransit, drafted a contract for EDI for demand response.
This would be 8:30 to 4:30 M-Fri. for a total of 25K over the fiscal year. We haven’t determined the viability of this, 25k doesn’t go very far.
Reimbursement for collected vouchers doesn’t work well. If could get a grant it would likely work for six months. Our goal is to keep
transportation available as many hours as possible. (14 hours a day, 4 days a week).
PETER: Motion to authorize Rose, Peter, Hale, Chris and whoever they request , to negotiate with the city in regard to Measure B.
JONAH: SECONDSMotion Passes
ROSE: We have lost 2 male attendants, Steve and Paul. Paul Wright was with EDI four years. Both are welcome to come bac.
We hired two males and one female, Sam Bailey has ten years experience and John Tate Jasper has almost 2 years. The female is
Margaret Sloan. Jeffrey says a Worker’s Comp pool is not a good idea for us, because our record is good and will improve if we maintain
current status till next year. (3 years clean). Contract passed consent calendar. .3% increase was incorrect – we will get a 2.3 increase
‘Personal Income Growth’ as opposed to COLA. We have a one year contract renewed in March with a possible mini-evaluation in October.
The reason we have a one year instead of two is that some on the commission were reluctant to give EDI the contract.Kim also recommends
that EDI inform the community of changes and request feedback. Questionaire is a great idea. We may get a volunteer to help with this. Non-staff
person would be best. Kim also mentioned having another open house in the fall. A September BBQ?
PETER: It is important that we get a good evaluation.
CHARLES: The questionnaire supports this effort giving us a chance to improve any issues before March.
ROSE: The Ex. Committee called Felix requesting foundation information that is missing. He said he will locate, organize and get it to us by the end
of the week.The Fingerprinting Policy was approved by Doug.
PETER: Motion to adopt the Fingerprinting Policy with the addition of the word “California” Dept. of Justice.
JONAH: SECONDS
ROLL CALL: Peter – y, Jonah – y, Winston – Y, Chris – y, Hale – y, Charles – nMotion Passed

TREASURER’S REPORT
CHRIS: Current budget #’s for this year we are in good shape , in the black with 5K to spare. Saved due to Felix’s departure. We will pay for regular
Van Maintenance that would otherwise be deferred. We may spend 350$ on fragrance-free body products for staff to show our commitment to this
issue, in addition to office supplies. We are discussing a retroactive wage increase to bring dispatchers up to the living wage. I will have more detail
on van maintenance and the wage increase. Next year’s budget will be much tighter.10% reduction in our workers comp in 2006 will be 10K. If we can
maintain a perfect record this will be a difference of 80%, 50-60K. We are pursuing a refund of 5,600 from Lloyd’s of London.

SECRETARY’S REPORT
JONAH: Motion to table the May 27th Minutes.
PETER: SECONDSMotion Passes.

PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
PETER: Gina received calls from three employees and the committee met with each of them.
SUS:One client had two calls a day, he will get up to 35 this month. Another client has had 25 calls and we address this next week.

FUNDRAISING
JONAH: We need to meet between now and election time. I feel we need an outside consultant.
PETER: I’d like a status report on the letter that was approved.

INVASIVE CARE July Meeting.

SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS We need to start thinking about them, looking for members – via questionnaire and newsletter?

RETREAT Let’s pick a date this month. We need to talk about goals and vision. Sometime, a Sunday, in August.

NEWSLETTER
CHARLES: – ready to go out on Monday.

JONAH: Motion to go into Executive Session
WINSTON: SECONDSMotion Passes
PETER: Motion to leave Executive Session.
JONAH: SECONDSMotion Passes
PETER: Motion to Adjourn
JONAH: SECONDSMotion Passes