B020210
Ne,s-,, Hanover County
Board of Social Services
Meeting Minutes
Multi Purpose Room A
9:00a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The New I Ianoycr County Board of Social Services met in open session on 'I,ueulay.
February 2, ?010 at 9:00 in 'Multi Purpose Room A of the Ne« I lanoyer CountN
Department of Social Serv ices.
AF IT'NDING: John 0-a I(-,. Chairman: '\lincrya Glidden. Vice-Chairman: 13111 Caster Lind
Patrick Rilcy
ALSO ATTENDING: LaVau~~hn Nesmith, Secretai'v to the Board: Stephanie \~Iontcath,
Administrative Support Specialist
The Chairman called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. 'vls. Glidden moved for approval
of the agenda. The motion vvas seconded by Mr. Caster and passed unanimously.
Mr. Caster led the invocation. Mr. Glidden led the pled,(~e of alle-giancc.
CONSENT AGENDA
Nis. Glidden moved for approval of the consent agenda. The motion vvas passed
unanimously.
INFORMATION AGENDA
Personnel
Stephanie Monteath 1,eco01lized Mare Cantu. Family and Children's Medicaid
Case~yorker and Maria Dodge Food and Nutrition Cascworker, both moving from
temporary to rcutilar positions.
Promotions
Flizabetll Currie \\as promoted From Social NVorker Zonc ? to After-hours Social Workcr
Zone 3.
Service Awards
Wcnda Rcyroad celebrates hcl- 20 year- scl'v ice annivcl'sal'N' and Linda Mitchell celebrates
her 2>th.
Drank Dcmeter \\as asked to share some vyords of vv isdom vv ith the board. The board
thanked Mr. Demeter for 37 years of scn ice and wished him luck in his retirement.
SSDI
It \\as noted that the number of people requesting food and Nutrition services continues
to Ilse.
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Wanda Nlanno shared that Adult Services has been inundated vy th requests to se1-ye as
ouardians for disabled adults. Ms. Marino Csplaincd the Adult SCryicC unit is educating(
the public about the role of-a guardian and asking families to scrvC as uardiLill. Most al-c
Llll\\llllll,,_, to do so.
VIs. Marino tallied about the increase in child welfare on-going treatment cases. The
increase is due to our commitment to try to keep families in crisis intact and the loss of
the prevention unit due to a reor(uanization needed to address staff retirenlcnts and frorcn
posltlolls.
Christine ~1cNamee notified the Board that a letter has been sent to the Division of 'hild
Development rcquestin(, an additional allocation of child care subsidy funds. Funds vyCI-C
I-cclucsted to kCCp tls from tct-minatlll, se1'viccs to families dLIC to lack of fLindill"
Ms. McNamee also discussed a process improvement project initiated vyith County I'l
alld food alld N Llt1-itlon Staf f t0 Stl-CalllhnC p1-occsscs to hettct- addi-css the gl'o\\l ll~~
demand for Service.
Mi-. Nesmith noted tvvo indiv iduals in the nursima home under iMCSti(_1ation aFC vvM'ds of
DSS. DSS is in the proccss of mov illo them to a nCvv facility hill the 1)1.occs,) is
Ms. Glidden asked ifthe ARRA stimulus funds assisted vyith the Child Cat-C Subsidy
deficit. Ms. McNamee explained that ARRA funds replaced non-recln-ring State funds
rather than increase available funding.
County Budget Expenditures
Thet-e wci-c no questions about the Budget Expenditures.
Director's Executive Report
Ms. Glidden asked vyhy there is not a Medicaid staff person stationed at WI1AT.
Nesmith Csplaincd that Chris McNamcc is ill 11C(,?otlatlolls vvlth the Ilevv dli.cctol- of
Wl IAT to replace the Economic Services casevyot-ker ho had been stationed at the
Oleander site.
\h-. Caster asked about the lobby renovation. Mr. Nesmith said the contract was in
proccss and demolition should start within the month.
STRATEGIC ACTION AGENDA
Communication and Outreach Efforts
Anuclina Bernard -avc a presentation of the marketing efforts ofthe department to
CducatC the conlnlunitv 01'0111- set-v ices. Ms. 13Ci-nard has worked on several commercials
recently airing on Gov~eniment TV and WELT for Sharc the N arnlth and foster
al-C"AdoptIon. Outreach was also made throL,li bl-ochLll-CS and flycl-s dlstl-lbllted to
diverse locales, presentations by staff at ev°ents and civic and church groups. Wot-h I first.
Food and Nutrition and Medicaid staff hay°C worked vyith Enlploynlcnt Secunty
Commission to pi-o% 'ide 111f01.111at1o11 at local bLISll1CSSCS expencllclllg Iav'-offs rCgat-dll1(_1
set-v ices tht-ou,h the DSS Rapid Response [cam.
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Angelina Bernard reviewed the 2008-2009 Annual Report noting it will be passed out to
different people in the community and the State.
Ms. Bernard agreed to contact Government TV to ensure that information publicized
about the DSS Board is current.
Additional Items
The Board Retreat will be March 2. 2010 at the Cape Fear Museum at 9:00 a.m.
Nest ;Meeting Objectives
Board Budget Retreat
Board Self Evaluation
The Board completed self evaluations.
As there were no further items to discuss as provided in G.S. 154A-98 to consider
information that is confidential pursuant to G.S. 108A-80 and or G.S. 1-54A-98. the board
by consensus adjourned at 9:35 a.m.
Respectfully ubmitted.
LaVaughn Nesmith,
Secretary to the Board
John E. Crai<o.
Chairman