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
- $200 million has been cut from Medicaid by
the legislators this morning.
- The cuts to education were defeated.
- 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.
- Tax amnesty programs are still on the table.
- 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:
- SB3660 Emergency Budget
- SB3514 Borrowing
- SB3662 Budget Implementation
- 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:
- elimination of demonstration projects.
- 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.
- Service Cost Max range will be eliminated.
- The homemaker insurance increase remains in the budget.
- 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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