I4A ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING

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Board members

Northwestern AAA, 01 (Grant)| Northeastern IL AAA, 02 (Marla) | Western IL AAA, 03 (Barb)| Central IL AAA, 04 (Keith)| East Central AAA, 05 (Susan)| West Central AAA, 06 (Lynn)| AAA of Lincolnland, 07 (Carolyn)| AAA of Southwestern IL, 08 (Joy)| Midland AAA, 09 (Tracy)| Southeastern IL AAA, 10 (Shana)| Egyptian AAA, 11 (John)| Chicago Dept. on Aging, 12 | Age Options, 13 (Jon L)

 

Minutes of the I4A Meeting

August 21, 2018

 

 

Meeting Date:  August 21, 2018

 

Location:   3100 Montvale Dr. Springfield, IL

 

Meeting called to order by __Jon L.__ at (time) _12:30_p.m.

 

Attendance:  See attached sheet for attendance and for recording roll call votes

 

Members Present: __See attached form__

Guests Present:  Terry S., Marureen M., John C., Diane S., Mike D., Vanessa K.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Committee Lists: (Chair is listed in bold italics.)

 

Executive

Jon Lavin - President

N/A – Vice-President

Barbara Eskildsen - Treasurer

Shana Holmes- Secretary

 

 Attend & Vote rec

 

Agenda Item Number

For roll call vote

 

 

 

 

 

PSA

First

Last

In Attendance

 01

Lisa

Naff

Ph x

02

Marla

Frocznak

 

03

Barbara

Eskildsen

x

04

Keith

Rider

x

05

Susan

Real

x

06

Lynn

Niewohner

Ph x

07

Carolyn

Austin

x

08

Joy

Paeth

x

09

Tracy

Barczewski

Ph x

10

Shana

Holmes

x

11

John

Smith

Ph x

12

Joyce

Gallagher

 

13

Jonathan

Lavin

x


 

 

Minutes of past meeting by:  Shana Holmes/Secretary

 

Minutes:  May 22, 2018

Motion: Accept minutes May meeting minutes

 

 [x] as presented                                    [ ] * as corrected

*corrected: 

 

MOTION BY:. Lynn N.                       SECONDED BY:  Barb E.

Discussion:

 

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i) Treasurer’s Report:  Barb-Report

MOTION: Accept the report as presented.

 

MOTION BY:  Joy P.              SECONDED BY:   Susan R.

Discussion:

 

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ii) Treasurer’s Report: Barb- Dues

MOTION: Adopt dues schedule for the year; revised slightly based on area plan recent census information.  

 

MOTION BY:  Keith R.                                   SECONDED BY:   Carolyn A.

Discussion: Chicago’s dues have yet to be paid, their rate has gone down. Formula for dues based on state funding formula. This may have to be re-visited at a later time.

 

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Officers and Directors Liability Insurance – Joy P.

 

MOTION: Renew our Director’s and Officer’s insurance.  A reapplication be continued. 

 

MOTION BY:  Barb E.                        SECONDED BY:   Susan R.

Discussion:

 

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 Attend & Vote re

 

 

 

 

 

Nominating Committee: Barb, John S., Lynn

 

MOTION: Slate of new officers FY 19, elect the slate as presented by nominating committee.

President-Joy P.

Vice-President – Marla F.

Secretary – Shana H.

Treasurer – Barb E.

 

Discussion: No nominations from the floor were stated.

 

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Committee Reports:

 

Issue: Legislative: Jon

 

Discussion: i) Future of alerts-continue educating legislatures of who and what the AAA’s are and do (how many people we touch them by service). The alert signal has been branded by I4a. Weekly was extensive, perhaps when legislatures assemble (veto session, lame duck, regular, etc.), roughly 5 or 6 times per year.  ii) Candidates’ questionnaire  iii) National advocacy-reassignment of Medicaid claims  iv) public charge v) citizenship census question.

_____________________________________________________________________________________ Issue: N4A: Jon

 

Discussion: Region 5 meeting October 22, 2018 at Metcalf conference center from 10-4. Lunch provided, cost = $40 per person. Review and evaluation was given about the recent N4a conference in Chicago (July-Aug.).

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Issue: OASAC:  Susan

 

Discussion: Chris (AgeSmart) presented on VIP. St. Louis VA (not Marion) is recognizing the tremendous cost savings. VIP clients have dwindled in some PSA’s.

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Issue:  LiHeap: Barb

 

Discussion: Haven’t met recently, no new updates. With a new state plan LiHeap is seeking public comments. LiHeap was increased a little with Congressional agreement.

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Issue: CCPAC:  Shana

 

Discussion: ADS Focus Group and Mandatory meetings – dates were sent out (June 25/26th)-Chicago and (July 17th/18th Peoria and Mt. Vernon). Vendor going to facilitate those discussions; from 3-5 is the mandatory meeting of HFS/OIG audit of ADS program. Critical Event – Demonstration at 5 p.m. 6/12/18. They did get approval of their 372 report on the waiver, done for another year. Regional DON training, we are going to have the first training in early July (2nd week). Russ (New CIO) stated Prior CIO said everything was close and he was way off. Russ also stated everything the prior CIO was using couldn’t be used with this system. Colbert system is being re-written. It will track how fast people are moving from nursing homes to homes. The call center is using a home built internal system someone wrote on their own, the call system uses and entire system, old data base, bringing in Sysco system. Handouts and minutes were sent out in June to ensure information was delegated in a timely manner to attend said mentioned events/dates.

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Government Strategies:  Terry/Maureen/John

 

Discussion: 1.2 million dollar structural deficit. Illinois is moving on the right track at this point and campaigns in full speed. Pritzker put 150 million into his campaign and Rauner is standing strong on his campaign dollars at 100 million.  Governor Rauner and Speaker of the House Madigan are not well liked. Sure bet this year, numbers keep growing and how different the face of the 101st general assembly will be. Control of the House and Senate won’t change. Two bills a) any licensee who has a continuing education requirement for renewals after Jan 1., 2020, will now require one hour of sexual harassment training b) General assembly schizophrenic about telehealth HB 5351 amends insurance and public aid code (specific carve out for diabetes and education for seniors. HB 4096-affecting Medicaid formulary vetoed this morning (managed care sought broader formulary than state). The state is refinancing variable rates today for 600 million. Issued under Wall Street- swap arrangements, state is finally unwinding the transaction. Questions for new candidates and a Q/A session was discussed and encouraged. It was sought best to be held by I4a only and ask approximately 15 questions (Y/N). Now would be a good time to be in contact with either of their campaigns and offer transitional assistance for Pritzker (potential Gov), or encourage (re-elected Rauner) with participation. Beginning January Terry will changing his status to Ameritas but John and Maureen will continue with government strategies.

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Statewide Initiative: Betsy Creamer-OAA IDoA

 

Discussion: Planning meeting in October, have additional meetings to flush out and firm up what to expect in the second and third year of the area plan and do that as a group. There could be things the AAA’s recommend that the Department take as leadership, activities, ongoing meetings and keep it going. Betsy had regret on statewide initiative (NWD), and felt like the Dept., and AAA could figure out ways to improve our NWD system. The Director had a conversation with AARP (Riderson) about their direction of social isolation.  Department is still intending to support the social isolation training. Jose recommended if it’s under a certain amount then a training contract with Rebecca be made.

 

Issue: Joy-stated the committee honed in on all the struggles. The initiative of development pertaining to social isolation is vast and specialists could be obtained. Orion Bell from Indianapolis-innovative things with social isolation. 1B’s sent out via Betsy to all the AAA’s for review of social isolation developments in their area plan; training/video/travel conferencing to assist in social isolation for our AAA’s.  Discussion occurred of November training for committee to regroup and discuss social isolation.

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Old/New Business

 

i: IDoA Leadership Changes

 

Discussion: Need a new list from IDoA of staff and their individual contact information.

 

ii: APS CMS

 

Discussion: Jon’s area hit the hardest with the system hiccups.

 

 

 

 

 

iii. IDoA Monitoring-Fiscal/Nutrition/Caregivers/Area Plan

 

 Discussion: IDoA found to be a bit picky in review. RC didn’t honor an AAA not having nutrition review completed and was wrote up. AAA’s had stated errors were found in their reviews. Some were to be revised and some were recommendations.

 

 

iv. Grants Management System Status

 

Discussion: System errors

 

v: Home Delivered Meal Portal for Managed Care

 

Discussion: I4A consensus to place on Age Options website.

 

vi: WRAP University of Illinois ACL Grant-

 

Discussion: Jon discussed participation in delegating information.

 

SET TIME AND PLACE FOR NEXT MEETING:

NEXT MEETING: The next meeting is scheduled for October 23, 2018. __

 

ADJOURN AT (TIME): _4:20_p.m.

 

MOTION: Adjourn meeting

 

MOTION BY:  Keith R.

 

SECONDED BY:  Barb E.

 

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MINUTES COMPLETED BY:    Shana A. Holmes, I4A Secretary