Call to Order - 4:39 p.m. by Chairman John Smith

Present: PSA 02-West-Jones (absent), 03-Eskildsen, 04-Thomas (on phone), 05-Real, 06-Niewohner, 07-Hubbard, 08-Paeth, 09-Barczewski, 10-Holmes, 11-Smith, 12-Gallagher (absent), 13-Lavin.

Minutes - No formal minutes were taken for the meeting held May 26, 2015. Notes prepared by the Chairman have been posted to the website and were reviewed. MOTION: To approve the notes as presented was APPROVED.

Treasurer’s Report - A financial report covering the period from May 26, 2015 to present was distributed, reviewed and discussed. MOTION: To accept the Treasurer’s Report was APPROVED.

ESP Report - There was discussion of how the national, state-specific, Chicago and, PSA 01 records could be updated. AgeOptions would be responsible for these if they obtain a student Intern to help with it.
There was no update on the software to replace ESP.
It was decided by the group to continue to charge $34 per logon.
The contract for the ESP Management was approved and will be sent to AgeOptions.

Rush Hospital was the lead grantee for a three-year award from HHS to improve health care for older people. This grant includes a role for AAAs to help pay for their EBP programs as a part of the deliverable under the award. Training classroom leaders would be charged to this grant. A lead person from the AAAs needs to be identified for the grant.

The audit for FY2015 will be conducted by the same firm as conducts the audit for PSA #7. It will be conducted sometime after the end of the fiscal year. They also prepare the 990 tax reports for IAS.

There was discussion whether the previous financial transactions of IAS should be audited. It was decided to have an internal review of a sample of financial transactions dating back to the beginning of the organization in 2009. PSA #4, 6, & 7 volunteered to send representatives to Springfield to review a random sample of all financial transactions of IAS through FY2014.

The Collaborative asked IAS to be the financial fiduciary for their contract with Leading Healthy Futures work on health programs. They have already transferred $10,000 to IAS and IAS has received a bill from LHF for about half of that. Someone is needed to approve the bills before they are paid.

Adjournment - Having no other business, this meeting was adjourned by consensus at 5:00 p.m.