Board Attendees: Hale, Jonah (by telephone), Winston, Leslie, John (7:07), Charles, Stephanie, Lewis

Other Attendees: Gina and Rose, EDIDA Executive Directors, Karla (Voicer for Hale), Don (Voicer for Winston and Minute taker), Mark Sing (public)

The meeting came to order at 6:45 P.M.

Public Comment

Mark Sing is an EDI Board applicant who was on the first EDI Board. He now has time and would like to get involved again. He would like to be on the Personnel Committee.

Approval of April 28th Minutes

Charles asked that in future minutes the maker and second of each motion be named.

Karla is spelled with a ‘K’. Don made three other corrections.

Jonah moved to accept the minutes and Stephanie seconded. The motion passed by acclimation.

Approval of Agenda

Jonah moved to approve the agenda and Winston seconded. The motion was passed by acclimation.

Discussion by Sabrina Klein Regarding Board Processes

Charles reported that Ms. Klein would be unable to attend until June. He stated that she would speak for 20-30 minutes on organizational structure.

President’s Report

No President’s report.

Executive Director’s Report

One female attendant was terminated, one former male attendant, Aaron Nelson, was rehired.

Safety films by State Fund were shown at the last staff meeting giving information and tips on safety, transfers, and the spine.

The City of Berkeley is still working on their EDI evaluation.

Over 20 green vouchers were collected last month.

EDI was contacted by the Marin County IHSS Governing Board of Authority to discuss starting a program there modeled after EDI.

EDI supplied the food and drinks for the successful Peter Trier memorial.

Gina went to a Skills for Women management training class.

An Aflac representative will be speaking at the next staff meeting about supplemental insurance benefits.

EDI would like to celebrate its 10th anniversary, July 1, 1995, with a picnic, possibly at Rose’s courtyard. Charles said he would speak to Kris Worthington about getting recognition for the anniversary from the Berkeley City Council.

A major discussion took place over awarding EDI employees a bonus as the fiscal year ends in June. The discussion branched out into other EDI needs. Charles proposed taking a projected $15,000 in under budget funds and splitting it equally between bonuses, a new computer setup for Rose, and emergency preparedness trainings for the staff. Charles moved that the Executive Directors come up with a plan to spend $5000 in under budget monies on employee bonuses. Winston seconded. John and Stephanie recused themselves and the remaining Board members voted in favor.

Stephanie made a motion to give equal bonuses to everybody, including administrative staff. Charles seconded. Rose said she wanted to see performance taken into account. Stephanie withdrew her motion.

Stephanie made a motion that Hale assign a nominal amount of money, like $1000, for an equal bonus to each administrative staff. Charles seconded. Charles made a “friendly amendment” to change the nominal amount to “up to $1500.” The motion passed 4-2.

Lewis said that the bonus discussion should have been planned in advance and that complex proposals should have greater advance consideration.

Hale said that he wanted to see the ED’s new proposal for staff bonuses at the next Board meeting, but since there were time considerations in making the bonuses before the end of the fiscal year June 30th, he agreed to meet privately with the ED’s before they issued the employee bonuses to go over his concerns.

Lewis said that in the future, bonuses for the ED’s should be handled in Executive Session.

Hale said that most of his concerns were minor except for the ED-proposed penalty for employees putting clients on their refusal list. He also said that the refusal list, itself, might be a problem and he would discuss it when he met with the ED’s.

Jonah moved that part of the under budget funds over and above the bonuses be used for capital equipment and training. Charles seconded, and the motion passed unanimously.

Secretary’s Report

Regarding the situation that there was no Board policy to approve Executive Session minutes, Stephanie moved and Winston seconded to approve Executive Session minutes in Executive Session. The motion passed by acclimation.

Winston’s second item was intended to inform the Board of the additional expenses that were being incurred by his acting as Secretary, primarily the necessity of using Don to assist his actions. Since money was in the budget for Board accommodations, the Board did not feel this was a significant issue. However, in the course of the discussion it came out that Don was charging $10 per hour for all his work with Winston for EDI, and this was potentially a conflict with the $50 flat rate that was being paid for Board minutes. Rose observed that this had been a problem before and cautioned against paying an hourly rate for the minutes.

Stephanie moved that Don be paid $10 per hour for his work with Winston and $55 for the Board minutes. Jonah seconded. Don insisted that he did not want to bill the minutes differently, particularly when he felt he was giving EDI a decent rate for his work. Don stated that he would not accept the $55 for Board minutes and would quit doing the minutes if this was approved. [I have no note that this motion was withdrawn or voted on. Don.]

Jonah made a motion that Don be paid $10 per hour for all the work he does for EDI. Stephanie seconded. The motion passed unanimously.

Jonah made a motion that $60 be paid for anyone doing the Board minutes other than Don. Winston seconded. The motion passed by acclimation.

Treasurer’s Report

Lewis said that he did not have a report but that he would have a report the next meeting. He also asked for a replacement for the Treasurer position if anyone had the time.

At 8:57, Jonah moved to go into Executive Session, inviting Karla and Don. Winston seconded, and the Board approved the motion by acclimation.

While Gina and Rose were leaving, Stephanie spoke on the work of the Fundraising Committee. She said the Fundraising Committee was looking at pursuing several different grants and also looking at where additional funds could be used. She feels EDI needs a grant writer. Leslie asked if it might be possible to obtain a loan to be used as seed money.