Call to Order- 12:39 p.m. by Chairman Joy Paeth. Present (or absent): PSA 01- Grant Nyhammer, 02- Lucia Jones, 03- Barb Eskildsen, 04- Keith Rider, 05- Susan Real, PSA 06- Lynn Niewohner, 07- Julie Hubbard, 08- Joy Paeth, 09- Tracy Barczewski (absent), 10- Shana Holmes, 11- John Smith, 12- Joyce Gallagher (absent), and 13- Jon Lavin.

Minutes- Holmes presented the Minutes for the last meeting. MOTION: To approve the Minutes as presented by Eskildsen and seconded by Niewohner. Motion APPROVED.

Treasurer’s Report- Eskildsen presented the financial report. MOTION: To accept the Treasurer’s Report as presented by Jones and seconded by Paeth. Motion APPROVED.

Old Business-

Item a) Slate of new I4A officers - Nominating Committee – Jones:
President – Joy Paeth
Vice-President – Tracy Barczewski
Treasurer – Barbara Eskildsen
Secretary – Shana Holmes
*A call to the floor for other nominations was made by Lucia, none responded. MOTION: Close the slate and the nominations. Officers stand as listed above.
MOTION BY: Hubbard, SECONDED BY: Lavin, APPROVED.

Item b) Community Reinvestment Act- Discussion: Introduction to legislation would need done in January 1, 2016. No action was needed.

New Business-

Guest Speaker- Jamie Freschi IDOA Ombudsman & Erin Davis IDOA Attorney – Meeting began with an introduction of AAA’s and how the Ombudsman program is administered in their area (providers or performed as a direct service), the tracking system, how many programs, counties covered and the pioneer coalition. After Jamie recognized the AAA’s, their regions and their role within the Ombudsman program she then educated the AAA’s how she became established into the Ombudsman program. Jamie was named the State Regional Ombudsman June 1, 2016 (Erin Davis is Jamie F’s Attorney). Jamie passed out a FAQS and ACL responses sheet. The role of AAA’s monitoring was discussed and Jamie stated she wouldn’t want to discourage the AAA’s from going on a monitor. At this time the AAA’s only have benchmarks on what to monitor right now.

Clarification: Jamie F was asked if AAA’s are expected to monitor the Ombudsman program, then more specific information needs to be given as a direct (policy and procedure template) guideline.

Question: AAA’s accessing Ombudsman records/notes?
Answers: The Federal rule prohibits (Effective July 1), clarified the issue and sets forth the responsibility and roles of the AAA’s, the Provider and the State Ombudsman office. Monitoring – AAA would be responsible for looking at overall numbers (visits for quarter, policies, human resource functions, fiscal with clarification from the Dept. as IDoA and the AAA will both be monitoring fiscal), but AAA’s don’t identify particular residents. October 1 begins the three year mark.

AAA’s will begin working together to develop an Ombudsman monitoring tool (common project).

Legislative report by Lavin. Jon passed out information in regards to N4A and what’s happening in the region. AAA’s discussed how the Veterans program (VIP) is a beneficial service for the veterans in our area (some of the AAA’s haven’t been included in VIP). It is an important program for our Veterans that perhaps may be phased out over time.

OASAC report by Real. None

LIHEAP report by Hubbard. None

CCPAC report by Barczewski. None

Government Strategies report by Terry Steczo & Maureen Mulhall- Discussion: a) A true problem has and will continue to arise when the AAA’s get money at the last minute. It becomes a problem if dollars awarded aren’t allowed to be transferred. If dollars are received too close to the acceptable timeline of budget revisions then spending the currency isn’t as effective or it’s listed as carryover which looks like the dollars aren’t needed when that’s not the case. Last minute spending without authority to move line items causes a lack of options to spend the money. b) Budget decisions will become a huge factor after elections are over in November. The stop gap budget was 8 billion under. COGFA (Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability) released a report stating they expect revenue to be down a billion taking it to 9 billion under. General Assembly will meet a week before and after Thanksgiving. Significant focus will begin in Jan. Interim Director Bohnhoff has yet to be approved by the Senate (didn’t take place in June/July).

Miscellaneous Discussions-

• None

Having no other business, meeting was adjourned at 4:25 p.m. (Motion by Jones and second by Eskildsen).