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Illinois AAA Association
Meeting Minutes
Area Agency on Aging for Lincolnland

Attending: Julie Hubbard(07), Joanne Thomas (04), Jan Stille,(03), Barbara Eskildsen (03), Grant Nyhammer (01), John Smith (11), Mike O'Donnell (05), Lucia West Jones (02), Jan Stille (03), Barbara Eskildsen (03), Yvonne De Knikker (10), Jonathan Lavin (13), Michael Nardello (12), Yolanda Cory (12), Lynn Niewohner (06)

Meeting called to order by Julie Hubbard at 12:20 p.m.

Minutes of March 2010 Meeting: Motion made by Lucia West-Jones to approve the minutes, seconded by Grant Nyhammer. Minutes approved.

Treasurer's Report: Lynn Niewohner presented the report. A correction was made to the report to remove the ESP bills from the report as these should go to IAS. John Smith made the motion to approve the treasures report as corrected. The motion was seconded by Mike O'Donnell. Motion was passed.

Group Purchasing presentation was made by Peer Lykke, Consultant for Illinois Purchasing Collaborative. Handouts were given to everyone.

Legislative Report: Mike O'Donnell and Terry Steczo

  1. $200 million has been cut from Medicaid by the legislators this morning.
  2. The cuts to education were defeated.
  3. Republicans are opposed to borrowing to pay for pensions. If the governor has money in January to pay for pensions they will be paid if not assets will have to be sold to pay off pensions.
  4. Tax amnesty programs are still on the table.
  5. The Bankers Bill has passed and phone calls should be made to urge the Governor to sign this legislation.

Budget- There is no concrete indication at this time as to how the budget will be settled. The governor may be given an emergency budget where he will be allowed to impose emergency rules as was done last year. More details may be available later today. There is a high probability that a budget will be passed as was passed last year. Call and urge all legislators to pass a responsible budget by the end of the month. The legislators will probably deal with budget cuts, borrowing and increased revenue after the elections in November. The following are vehicle bills for the budget:

  1. SB3660 Emergency Budget
  2. SB3514 Borrowing
  3. SB3662 Budget Implementation
  4. SB1211 Actual Budget

Probably nothing will be decided about the budget issues until after the election in November.

The Bankers Bill passed. Everyone should contact the governor's office and encourage him to sign this bill.

Medication Management: Loren Kroth and Patricia Glosner from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
They discussed the programs they provide in regards to health promotion and disease prevention and how they have opportunities to partner with difference local community organizations including Area Agencies on Aging.

They explained their ability to analyze programs statistically and have results from their analysis down to each zip code.

CCPAC Report John Smith gave report. $140 million will budget cuts were identified. They include:

  1. elimination of demonstration projects.
  2. CCP will be a Medicaid only waiver program. If this happens everyone who remains on the program must apply for Medicaid. Right now this is encouraged but not mandatory.
  3. Service Cost Max range will be eliminated.
  4. The homemaker insurance increase remains in the budget.
  5. CCP client co-pays will be eliminated.

The All Willing and Qualified procurement has discussed at the meeting. It seems to be going well.

John Lazell has retired from IDOA and Jody Martin is on leave from the training department.

Older Adults Services Advisory Committee must give a report to IDOA identifying the 8 top priority areas/issues.

IDOA will be publishing rules for Comprehensive Care Coordination and will then proceed with procurement for CCUs.

Money Follow the Person - Mike O'Donnell. The LTCOP was funded to identify potential residents for community transition. The state does not have the money for up front funds to move residents out to the community. This issued should be brought up at the IDOA meeting tomorrow.

Bylaws Committee Report: Grant Nyhammer. All of the bylaws will be reviewed and the committee will meet before the next I4A meeting and present recommendations for change to the by-laws at the next meeting.

NapisPak and Innovative Data Systems contracts were discussed. Each Area Agency on Aging should negotiate there own contract.

Legal Services Funding - Grant Nyhammer. Legal Services grants were discussed. 711 people were reported as being assisted with Title III funds of those only 350 were assisted solely with Title III funds. At issue is if Legal Service Corp. funds may be used as match. This discussion will continue at the next meeting to explore options in using Title III funds for legal services.

Maturing of Illinois - Mike O'Donnell. A survey will be posted on Survey Monkey for this state wide initiative and a state wide report will result from each Area Agency on Aging answering the questions posted. The only caveat is that the surveys must be completed in one sitting. They can not be saved and then go back and complete them. The survey will be open to be completed until the end of October 2010. There will be one community survey for each community that was surveyed by each AAA and there is one process survey. Both surveys will be posted on Survey Monkey at the same time.

The report from the surveys will be available at the October 2010 meeting. The outcomes reported will be statewide outcomes. Having outcomes by PSA is still being explored. IDOA will be asked if each Area Agency will have to complete a separate report or if the state wide report will suffice for everyone.

Meeting Adjourned at 4:15 p.m.


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