Illinois AAA
Association
Meeting Minutes
Area Agency on Aging for Lincolnland
Call to Order- 1:12 p.m. by Chairman Joy
Paeth. Present/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, 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
Jones and seconded by Eskildsen. Motion APPROVED.
Treasurer’s Report- Eskildsen presented the financial report.
MOTION: To accept the Treasurer’s Report as presented
by Niewohner and seconded by Lavin. Motion APPROVED.
Association Statewide Committee- Eskildsen
discussed telegen meetings. Oversight agency for the State of
Illinois. Can go to Telegen.com to view what this advocacy committee
is about.
OASAC- Real- Sofia G. will have had to approve the
appointment switch from Jon to Susan in order for Susan to placed in
Jon's seat. Jon sent an email to Jon E. stating he would be stepping
down. Susan will also inquire about the status and see if she needs
a letter from I4A.
Legislative Committee- Lavin- Protection of the
liability-CRP-what we are subject to- and this involved Terry S.
Today we received contracts to the beds (OMB) and it said the AAA's
could keep 2% administrative vs. what was presented at 10%, Betsy
had sent an email out after our discussion saying that the 2% is
what was allotted in 2015 and is going to be honored for this
contract as well. I4A Legislative committee needs to begin meeting
again on Mondays.
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.
LIHEAP- Hubbard- No report given. Need a new
I4A representative to sit in her seat.
CCPAC- Barczewski- Announced Anna O'Connell as
the new interim CFO. Director Bohnhoff was at this meeting
(Medicare/Medicaid fraud discussed). CCP and other handouts have
been sent out to everyone. Talked about vouchering 109 million
to the CCU program (Medicaid only) only paid out 25 million and
have instituted the expedited payment plan. October and November
would be even slower. IDoA was hoping December payment would
pick up. Expedited payment address was listed in Tracy's
handouts. Haven't vouchered any FY17 non Medicaid payments as of
yet. Jamie F- did a small update on the Ombudsman (change in
area 6, 7, 8) and a new Ombudsman (area 2). Conference for APS
was announced as 10/25/2016. The community home portion would no
longer be at the local level and were going to hire people at
the Dept. Morgan did present an update to the MCO transition and
most of the people have been transferred (about 80%), the rest
will be transferred in November and December. Participants
search screen is up and running (mostly for CCU/CCP providers).
This new search screen will reduce BEAM calls from 500 to day to
about 100 per day. AAA's can have seats on this new search
screen option. Open enrollment/SHIP had several handouts which
Tracy did scan and sent out in an email. Tracy has the
nomination sheet with CCPAC prepared and ready to turn in. Was
waiting for Shana to accept and she has. CRP was brought up and
Matt Ryan said there would be contracts, templates put out
(outside of core services) and done from the Dept. and the
providers would contract through the Dept. Phase 1 (emergency
response clients) would be implemented across the State and then
most vulnerable would be the last ones transitioned. IDoA didn't
think CRP would begin in January due to not having a budget.
Tracy will fill out a CCPAC application to renew her seat for
this committee filling two seats (Shana and Tracy). Next meeting
will be in Chicago (December 6th).
n4a- Lavin- n4a board meeting is in early
December 6, 7, 8th. New President is Kathy Boles (Michigan).
Issues are the same as what has been viewed in the alerts. MFP
is major in actions taken in order to keep the program- part of
the Affordable Care Act. Appropriations-December 9th will be the
end of the continuing resolution. Cuts including no hold
harmless will equal about 1 1/4% . Will see delays in the
Federal appropriations (FY16&17).
Government Strategies report by Terry Steczo &
Maureen Mulhall- Things haven't changed, but looking forward- the
Trump candidacy is tanking. The main focus of Clinton/Trump election
in Illinois is Legislature. We are looking at races for the House
and Senate costing in excess of $100 million. Governor and his wife
personally contributed $9 million to the House Republicans. The
consensus is the Democrats in the house will lose their 3/5ths
majority. In regards to the Governor, there have been 45 vetoes, 44
have been sustained. Jon and Terry had an opportunity to meet with
Rep N. about CRP, immunity, AAA's and their potential liabilities to
the CRP program. The Speakers legal counsel (Heather), was aware of
the potential lack of immunity in regards to CRP moving forward.
Heather indicated you can't immune by rule (to move forward with
rules process can be done, but defeating it at JCAR isn't probable);
and in terms to the AAA's to immunity, their advice was to insist on
it even to the point it's a deal breaker. A similar meeting with
Senate Chief Legal Counsel is being scheduled. The AAA's need
immunity rather than indemnification. Need immunity bill sponsor
during veto session and need HB-4351 dealt with.
Miscellaneous Discussions-
- AAA's will get the 1/12th up front but
not until there's a budget. The upfront money has always
been there but we don't have an idea of when.
- Dementia Friendly Communities – Sandra
Alexander/Betsy Creamer/Mary EK
Discussion: Riverforest is in the planning stages, perhaps
Elmhurst but may have additional communities interested.
This is to introduce the concept, perhaps a workshop next
Spring, sponsored by Illinois Cognitive Resource Network.
ICRN - A collaboration or network of partners meeting
together for several years on a call. The goal is to join
partners and bring together dementia clients and their
caregivers. A PowerPoint of the presentation was given and
also emailed out to those who attended via conference call.
This program could be looked at in the future as a statewide
initiative (Spring of 2017) if there's interest and would be
incorporated into the 3 year area plan.
- Funding for the AAA with providers in the
rural areas where there's less of the dollars to begin
programs, supports or even startups. Bringing them to the
table right now with even lessor funds at this time would
make the challenge that much more.
- Focused on planning this Statewide
workshop. A couple of AAA's are on the distribution list and
some at the Dept. on Aging were on that call. Questions can
be directed to Mary EK with an email address to follow.
- Community Reinvestment Program- Item b)
Community Reinvestment Act
Discussion: Introduction to legislation would need done in
January 1, 2016.
No action was taken - I4A is still standing neutral but will
await hearing what the Dept. has to say at our October 26th
meeting.
- Freedom of Information Act- MOTION: I4A
is asking IDoA to delete from the Area Agencies on Aging
(AAAs) Area Plan Agreements Paragraph 26.11 and replace it
with: Compliance with Freedom of Information Act - Grantee
is not a public body subject to the Freedom of Information
Act. 5 ILCS 140/1 et. seq. Grantee records are not subject
to the Freedom of Information Act because Grantee does not
perform a governmental function for Grantor.
Having no other business, meeting was adjourned
at 3:59 p.m. (Motion by Lavin and second by Niewohner).
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