I4A ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF AREA
AGENCIES ON AGING
1048 Lake Street, Suite 300
Oak Park, IL 60301
PH: 1-800-699-9043 or FAX: 708-524-0870
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
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Lisa |
Naff |
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Marla |
Frocznak |
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Barbara |
Eskildsen |
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Keith |
Rider |
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Susan |
Real |
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Lynn |
Niewohner |
Ph x |
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Carolyn |
Austin |
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Joy |
Paeth |
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Tracy |
Barczewski |
Ph x |
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Shana |
Holmes |
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John |
Smith |
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Joyce |
Gallagher |
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Jonathan |
Lavin |
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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:
[] VOICE VOTE [ ] ROLL CALL VOTE #
[x] APPROVED [ ] NOT APPROVED
i) Treasurer’s Report: Barb-Report
MOTION: Accept
the report as presented.
MOTION BY: Joy P. SECONDED BY: Susan R.
Discussion:
[] VOICE VOTE [
] ROLL CALL VOTE #
[x] APPROVED
[ ] NOT APPROVED
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.
[] VOICE VOTE
[ ] ROLL CALL VOTE #
[x] APPROVED
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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:
[] VOICE VOTE
[ ] ROLL CALL VOTE #
[x] APPROVED
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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.
[] VOICE VOTE [ ] ROLL CALL VOTE #
[x] APPROVED [ ] NOT APPROVED
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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