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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-04-30CounciCfor~(uman Services AGENDA ^ Call the meeting to order. ^ Review the agenda: changes /additions Approve minutes ITEMS I. lip-~ia;~es ~ In~.forrnation Sharing II. Focus Groups training SECHC proposal Discussion Meeting of April 30, 2007 2 Fairgrounds Meeting Room Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm ACTION(S) ~ DECISION(S) (15 miiutesj IiI. HS Updates: May 8t" Len Stewart, Losche May 11t" NHSC Project manager Bob i<ai^elitz visit May I7,1$t"Nantucket Housing Fgrum with MHP Set time ~ date ~ place of next meeting: • Agenda items: (30 minutes) (15 minutes) Motion to adjourn Council for Human Services April 30, 2007 2 Fairgrounds Road Attending: Nancy Sevrens, Nancy Funderburg, Alice McWade, Patty Roggeveen, Maryanne Worth, Ann Medina. Absent: Rachel Rosen, Mary Kendall, Cheryl Bartlett, John Belash, Michelle Meckler. Meeting was called to order. Updates /Information Sharing: There has been no word on the NaCo grant application. The Town has recently become a member of Naco which will bring some great benefits to our community. There are three openings on the Council, Nancy Sevrens has already re-upped. The other two openings are Nancy Funderburg and Cheryl Bartlett (who took over for Sheri Hunt). Nancy F. is debating whether to re-up. The forms have to be in to the BOS by May 14t" and the appointments will be made at a meeting in June. Patty is resigning form the NHSC board and she is going to be the BOS representative to the Contract Review Committee. Patty also stated that Michelle Meckler is probably going to resign from the Human Services Council because she cannot make it to the meetings. Patty does know someone who is interested in becoming a member. The council is mandated to meet quarterly however it has been meeting more frequently lately. Maryanne asked Patty if she would be interested in continuing chair because Nancy's schedule is more and more conflicted as her children become involved in after school activities. Patty will speak to Maryanne about this later. What about having someone from the immigrant population on the council? One of the requirements to serve on a Town committee is you must be a registered voter. Community Needs Assessment Survey: FinCom wants a presentation brought to them and Maryanne is working on dates for that. FinCom is paying for the family centered institute to come over. Possible dates are June 4t", 7t", 21~, or 25~' the meeting will be at 4:00, Maryanne will let everyone know exactly when the meeting will be held. The Helpline is currently being updated and will be on the town's new website in May. This Friday, May 4t" the director of Housing and Economic Development is coming to the island to meet with some folks about housing. There will be 30 people in attendance. This is not open to the public and was by special invitation only. Maryanne and Andrew Vorce will be attending as well as Patty and Michael Kopko who will be representing the BOS. Maryanne would like help with a speech for this meeting. Ali volunteered to help write something. Ali also attended an Affordable Housing Solutions workshop on the Cape that was very informative. There were examples of combined income level housing, small community village style housing, and there were a number of ways they received financing. Falmouth Housing Authority turned empty stores into housing units in cooperation with the town's financial help and the housing authority- public and private funding. Hopefully Mass Housing Partnership will come to the island soon. They can talk to us about affordable housing and how to create a housing partnership. Nantucket needs to look at a lot of different solutions to solve the housing problem. We also need to create a housing partnership for our community. Currently we have no housing plan or direction. Our neighbors on the Cape have been very successful and have found some creative solutions. The Housing Assistance Corporation was involved with Barnstable County in getting 50 habitat houses built. We need to learn from other communities on how to create affordable housing. Stephanie and Tracy from the South East Center for Healthy Communities would be able to offer a training to conduct community input sessions. Some of the council members have done facilitation in the past. Hopefully the training could happen in June so we can get started on our focus group meetings over the course of the next 12 months. On May 8th, Len Stewart, from Barnstable County Human Services, is coming to the island. s a region to give a workshop on a 211 information and resource system for health and human services on the Cape and the Islands. We are hoping to expand and update the existing data base that the Cape has had for a few years. Maryanne will ask agencies to send a representative to this meeting. The meeting will be an hour long possibly 2 sessions 12-1 and 1:30 to 2pm. There is a great LOHSC forum on Friday May 11th on Responses to Neighborhood Crime. If anyone is interested in going please let Maryanne know. The NHSC is looking for a project manager, someone to help coordinate the project. The project is starting to move along quickly. The lease will be signed with the Town this month. Neil Parent our architect has developed some preliminary plans. A preliminary coordinated review is being planned with local regulatory boards, Mass Historic Commission and the Wampanoag representative. The video will be out at the end of May to kick off our major media campaign this summer. Things are rolling along at a very fast pace for the NHSC group. We will schedule the next meeting after the new appointments are made in June. The meeting adjourned at 2:00. Respectfully submitted by y;