Recent overturning of Roe v. Wade has sparked concerns that access to contraception and gay rights could also be in danger, and we all know that, but are Republicans themselves in danger of overplaying their hand by moving too far to the right too fast, and possibly alienating moderate voters? What we're seeing in Florida, I can't even comprehend. This is a state where we have a housing crisis, this is a state where we have an insurance crisis, this is a state where we have a climate crisis, and instead Ron DeSantis is focusing to focusing on drag queens. And so listen, yes, do I think a five-year-old should be at a drag show? No.  Well, that's true. Listen, I looked at the top causes of endangerment for children, of children's death. It's firearms. It's car accidents. It's drowning. It is not drag queen. I'm here to see a kid who dies from being a cop for drag queens. That was a clip from the August 1st episode of The View, shared by the Deputy Press Secretary of Ron DeSantis, Brian Griffin. And he says, The View emailed our office on Friday asking for us to arrange an appearance from Governor DeSantis on the show. We would be honored. They wrote thoughts. Now, the reason why he shared that particular clip was because obviously they were criticizing Ron DeSantis in said clip. So the juxtaposition with them criticizing him and also extending an invite is supposedly going to make The View look bad. But I mean, they're obviously critical of him. So does Ron DeSantis want to face some of his critics? And the answer, ultimately, is no, because as you'll learn, they declined The View's invite. Now, we'll talk about their reasoning in a moment here, but it's just interesting that this like big, strong, tough guy doesn't want to go on a program because they were big meanies and his feefies were hurt. Yeah. And what they were saying was not uncharitable. I rarely agree with Anna Navarro on anything. But what she said there was factually correct. As Axios reports, last week, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz told school districts to ignore federal guidelines aimed at protecting students and teachers from discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. And that guidance was issued following an executive order signed by Joe Biden, which creates federal standards when it comes to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Ron DeSantis is saying here in the state of Florida, we discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Yeah, so how can you say that their criticism is somehow bad when it's accurate? On top of that, he's going after small businesses who are LGBTQ plus inclusive. As HuffPost explains, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation filed an administrative complaint for disorderly conduct against our house restaurant citing the state Supreme Court ruling against men impersonating women. According to the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News, the video shows what appears to be a transgender dancer leading a young girl by the hand and walking through respondent staining area. The dancers buttocks were fully exposed and his G string style bikini bottom was stuffed with dollar bills. The dancers breasts were also fully exposed noted the complaint. The complaint alleges that our house violated state public nuisance law by becoming manifestly injurious to the morals or manners of the people. The department cited the 1947 Florida Supreme Court decision that found that men impersonating women in a suggestive performance constitutes a public nuisance. LGBTQ activists view the action as the opening of a campaign to shut down all drag shows and go after trans people. Now the whole reason why Ron DeSantis claims he is against CRT and had to sign the don't say gay bill into law was because he believes in parental rights. Parents should have the autonomy to raise their children without the state or federal government indoctrinating them into their values. But here he is doing the opposite saying actually I get to decide the state gets to decide what is and isn't appropriate for your child. Now I watched the video in question. It was shared by Libs of TikTok. And while I think that family friendly LGBTQ plus events and drag shows are generally fine for children assuming that their age appropriate for this particular event. I probably wouldn't feel comfortable personally taking my nephews or my niece to that event. But I also wouldn't feel comfortable taking my nephews or my niece to an NRA event. I didn't let my nephew play you know M rated video games when he was 12 years old and he wanted to. But there are different levels of comfort for parents. So you know when I worked at Walmart I was in the electronics department and I would warn parents that the game that they're purchasing for their prepubescent child was rated M and it had violence and GTA 5 there was torture in it and many of them were fine with that. So it just depends on what the comfort level is. But what's important is that there's no harm being done here. That child in that particular video is not being abused perhaps it's a little bit inappropriate based on your comfort level. Right. But what matters is what the parents want. And if a parent thinks that that's fine who is Ron DeSantis to tell them that it's not OK. You know does Ron DeSantis go after kids at NRA shows does Ron DeSantis go after you know Hooters or any supposed sexualization of children when it comes to heterosexual things. Well of course not because he's trying to go after LGBTQ plus people exclusively and in particular with this business he wants to get their liquor license revoked which would be catastrophic for their business. And he knows that there's no harm that's being done hence why he had decided a 1947 state Supreme Court decision alleging that this event was injurious to the morals and manners of the people. So in other words it's indecent and that's why he's against it. OK. Well don't take your kids to that event. Don't do things that you view as indecent. So long as there's no abuse nothing illegal going on there. No harm being done.  But Ron DeSantis is using the power of the state to crack down on parental rights to crack down on small businesses. So I'm sorry when you've created this statewide witch hunt against LGBTQ plus people and you don't apply the same standard of outrage when it comes to heterosexual equivalent events. I mean people are right to criticize you considering that Americans are more accepting of LGBTQ plus people than ever before. But yet he doesn't want to face his critics. And because the view had the audacity to criticize him he ultimately decided to reject their invite. And his deputy press secretary shared this press release citing times that they criticized Ron DeSantis on the show. So Joy Behar in August 2021 said you're just short of calling DeSantis a negligent homicidal sociopath because that's what he is. She added what is he doing. He's risking the lives of children children's parents their grandparents anyone they may come into contact with. So he can appeal to his white supremacist base so he can continue in his career and get reelected. They're presumably talking about his COVID policies which were catastrophic. Sonny Hauston in June of 2022 death Santis.   And for some reason the Republican base responds to it and it's anti American. It's what happens in Venezuela. It's what happens in Nicaragua. I agree with her although I think that the comparison to Latin American countries is unnecessary. Sonny Hauston in February of 2022 with his policies. It started with CRT. Let's remember that.  She said if you start coming after black people what comes next right. Of course the LGBTQ plus community and then women and then other marginalized groups. And let's be clear what Sonny Hauston said there in that last quote was one hundred percent accurate because it started with CRT panic last year in 2021. And then this year they've moved on to LGBTQ plus people.  And now we're seeing reproductive rights of women being taken away by the right. So what they're saying about Ron Santis these are accurate criticisms. They're harsh but nonetheless they're accurate. And even if they were uncharitable don't you as a public figure feel the need to defend yourself. Well no because Ron Santis views this as a sort of power move.   Now his actual press secretary Christine Pusha tweeted this liberal media wants to interview Governor DeSantis because his popularity draws ratings. But Governor Ron DeSantis will not assist failing legacy media outlets and growing an audience for their smear pieces and biased reporting laden with contempt for Americans. OK. First of all they're not reporters they're commentators. So they can be biased in their capacity as political commentators. They might have dumb views and informed views sometimes I often criticize you know hosts on the view. But they're not reporters so to claim that they're like inaccurate and biased really is not applicable to this particular situation. But I mean this is a fascist move right out of Trump's playbook. Let me remind you of this 2016 article from Vox. Trump will skip Fox News's debate because of Megan Kelly.  They actually believe in letting the media criticize politicians people in power even if you disagree. You know this is a job of the media. They're supposed to hold elected officials accountable and oftentimes they fail but in the instance of criticizing Ron DeSantis the ladies on the view have been pretty accurate. So if you don't want to face them that says more about you than it does about them. But they're trying to flip this and make it seem as if oh well we won't give in to your bias. We won't legitimize your new show.  He doesn't want to defend his covid policy that led to thousands and thousands of people dying unnecessarily.  So even if he tries to spin this and his team tries to spin this as a power move in actuality it makes him look weak. But this is what fascists do. They don't like criticism. They try to ignore and eventually shut down their critics somebody who Ron DeSantis has taken cues from Victor Orban the dictator of Hungary. He claims that you have to control the media. That's the way that you consolidate power. I'm paraphrasing of course but you know if he already copied don't say gay from Victor Orban perhaps he's copying that same media policy or you know guideline for himself. So you know that's where we're at. Ron DeSantis is too afraid to face critics on the view and I don't blame him because with how terrible of a governor he's been actually facing your critics when they have legitimate criticisms isn't going to end well for you. So the best move for him politically would be to just dodge this appearance altogether. But it makes him look weak even if he thinks that this is going to make him seem really strong and disciplined.


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Felly, oeddwn i'n teimlo i'r TV, mae'n rhaid i mi ddim. Ebbaton 3, benlyniad 1 o Gwddysun Park i ni. Rwy'n gweithio'r gweithiau i Ebbaton, ac mae'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio yn ymgyrch. Mae'n gweithio'r gweithio, mae'n gweithio. Nodd gweithio'r gweithio, nid o'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio, ma'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio ar y Prêmio Lleig, yn 10 gynhyrch â gweithio'r gweithio am gweithio'r Gwddysun Park. A gynhau'r gweithio'r gweithio'r Gwddysun Park. Efallai y gallu ceisio yn cael ei gweld i'r Gweithio A'r Marigraeth, tone'r hoffi'r gwirio, mae'n ddif wedi gweithio, yn ddaf yn cael josau, yn gweithio'r erbyn, na ffordd, mae'n bwysig mae cychydigiau, i'r cyfeirio cyfans. recipes yng Nghymru yn ymdawol yw'r cyflwynt yn y gweithio. Rydym yn dweud yn ddigonio. Mae'r cyflwynt yn dweud. Mae'r cyflwynt yn dweud yng nghyrch gyflwynt yn y sumer ac yn ymddangos i'r dylau'r cyflwynt. Mae'r cyflwynt yn ymdw i'r ysbryd. Mae'r cyflwynt yn ddod i fynd i'w wneud. Mae'r cyflwynt yn ymdill, ac mae'r cyflwynt yn ymdill, mae'n ddwy i'r cyflwynt yn ddwy i'r cyffan. ac mae'n cael ei gael cyngor i'w ran. Mae'n gael y gogol, mae'n gael gwybwysgol o'r rhan, gwybwysgol o'r gael gwybwysgol o'r rhan, a mae'n gwybwysgol yn gyfnodwch i'r dŵl o'r gweithio hwnnw, a mae'n gwybwysgol i'r ffa'nstai'ch asyt o'r llefyn. Wel, mae'n gwybwysgol i'r gwybwysgol i'r dŵl, mae'n gwybwysgol i'r fan i'r gwybwysgol a wedi'u gwybwysgol here and I think he's delighted he's got this opportunity at a big club to really you know get in the team and make it his own and he's got good players around him and because of that he's providing everything with a real threat but he looks like he's really enjoying his game as well and that's massive and the fans appreciated everything he did tonight and he went off just before the end to a stand innovation and rightly so as well thought he was brilliant but you know to get him for £1.6 million fantastic piece of business we all do as fans we will do we look at signings evident and have made and criticise it because they've not worked out and we spent a lot of money for no return this summer's been quite different evident i've had to be quite frugal we know that but when you're paying out £1.6 million pounds for players 25 just turn 25 going into his peak years quick get goals tricky feet can offer you something on the break then you've got to be delighted with it you know if ever mother paid 20 million for it a winger he's coming with a coming and got three goals in four Premier League games and really offered us you know a real threat on the counter attack and given us what the marigrae is we've all been waxing lyrical about it and been really excited the fact he cost £1.6 million is fantastic for everton and i guess it give him the opportunity to start at a new club with low expectation just because of the feet but he's over delivering at the moment and this is what we want and he was just brilliant tonight and a huge reason why everton were able to come from a goal behind and he scored the the goal i put the icing on the cake i guess they'd need the third goal so delighted with him wanted to just give him that little bit of praise second thing when i talk about is um from football that we saw from everton in the final half an hour i don't know why raffybonitas went with three at the back today listen he's a he's a manager who likes to to yet use tactics and and he will have looked at the way ben he played and and he's come up with that plan to combat them frankly i don't think it worked i don't think it worked at all i think it was our worst performance of the season for an hour uh we just we couldn't get out we couldn't break their press uh we and when we were in possession we were sloppy there was no intensity they defend very well we know that i think what approved to me was that the charleson is better in a witter own role and he's playing right up front tonight and he was getting battered and he's not as good in the air as dominical that louin is back to goal place not as good as dominical that louins he's a threat running he's a direct runner and i think that's why when he plays just off a target man he's really effective or he plays from wide areas but i want to see from for football and that's exactly what we did see in the final hour raffybonitas went back to a flat back four uh he got andre gomas in there which he was again you know this is it's very early and you know we don't want to go overboard of course we don't right but it's very early but what we're seeing and what we've seen from what raffybonitas has been able to do so far and listen long make this continue is players who kind of weren't contributing the way we wanted them to he's been able to get a tune out of them so far a wobi has looked like a different player andre gomas is now becoming that player that can come on and affect it and i think he did affect it tonight but evident did when he made the change evident got on the front foot got the equaliser and then once the equaliser the the crowd carried them through and they were pressing quickly and nicking the ball and going again and we've seen that because of demari grau we've just been talking about and because we're trying to play on that front foot exciting fast football we're able to score goals and really unsettle teams and the team is looks totally different but but i am remembering that it was a game of it was almost the game of two hours but i think it was a game of a very poor hour from both teams and a very good last half an hour from evident but i want to see that fast attacking football and finally i want to talk about andross tans and who i give man of the match to in my match reaction i thought he was he was he typified the the 60 30 that i've just been speaking about for two thirds of the game i don't think he was having his best game in an evidence sheet he was working hard i don't i think i'm not sure i'll ever sit here and criticise andross tans andren's work rate um i think he works his socks off for you i just don't think he was getting into the game what we needed him to do he wasn't cutting back in and whipping deliveries in with his left foot you know he made a nearly run on the right and cold and didn't give him it and then that seemed to stop him making them runs but what he did do in that last half an hour when we went back to a flat back four was he was able to get on the ball more and once he got on the ball he showed his his quality come back in on that left foot with the fantastic delivery and a michael keemer a great editor is another one funnily enough who i dyddo i ddim yn gweithio'r hynny yn fod frustre i'r abb, dwi dwi ddod yn edrychwch ASMR, gallwn ei ddag hynny'n bod gennym i'r hynny a'i gwangelladau, yn gweithio'r hynny, mae'r cystadoedd hefyd yn'n dd Dickon a'r gwahanol yw fyrdd yn fwyllgor ychydig ei soc o'n gweithio'n gweithio, ac mae'r cyflawn yw hefyd wedi bod yn cael ei fod yn chi apio'n gweld yn gweithio iawn i ddod yn ni. Ond oherwydd a oedd yn gweithio'r gwahanol fod yna, yw'n gwybod i'r panffart yn ffordd, mae'r adegau rhai dda wedi'u cyfrifio, ac mae'r ffeilio yn cael ei ffordd. Mae'n gwybod i'r ddweud. Felly mae'n gwybod iawn i chi, felly mae'n gwybod i'r prif ag oed arall, ac mae'n gwybod i ni'n ddweud. Mae'n meddwl i chi'n gwneud i'r hyn, yma. Mae'n meddwl yma. Mae'n ddegau, mae'n ffordd ond yn mynd yn gweithio. Mae'n meddwl i chi, mae'n meddwl i chi, ond mae'n meddwl i chi. pen yw'r gweithio ar y dyne oherwydd yn newid gwybod amddangos hwylio a gweithio a'n nhw'n ddweud os angen i'ch malu ddarparu. Dwi'n mynd i'n ffwg am yr un o'r amddangos i gynnig cymdeithasol gan dddwn i ddim yn ein bod yn ychwanego'ch meddwl, meddwl i'n hyn yn cyfryd mwy o'r cyfrifoedd yn gweithio'r newid. Dwi'n mynd i'n mynd i'n gweithio'r ysgolio a bod y maen nhw wedi'u gynlliannol yn ceisio arfer. Felly er fawr ar y blaen, mae'n fawr bod hyn yn dd teknol cynhiddi'r cyffredinur i gyd.  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all the meeting to order. Okay. And so, oh, there's Matt. Hi. I think I went through the numbers and everything seemed to accord with what Julianne pulled together yesterday during our meeting. And I think we just need a formal vote. Well, first of all, we need to approve the minutes of the last meeting. I'm sorry. I'm getting ahead of myself. Which I send out. Did you all have a chance to read them thoroughly? I'm so long. Yeah. Jenny did a great job on the accessibility discussion. I think that's great. And we did well. So do I have a motion to accept the minutes? Motion to accept the minutes. Thank you. And a second? I'll second. Any comments about them? Changes? Corrections? Hearing none. All in favor of approving the minutes? Raise your hands. You can't do raise hands. You have to do a roll call. I'm sorry. I have to do a roll call. Okay. Gigi, yes. Jenny? Yes. Sandra? Yes. Julianne? Yes. Cole? Yes. Okay. Matt? Hi. And Rachel? Yes. I think I have all the voting members, right? Okay. Thank you. Have all the votes. So next we vote on the allocation of funds. And I guess, does anybody have any questions about them? We need to read them one more time or are we, we're good? Well, numbers are all good. The numbers are good. I'll be happy to read through it if anybody wants me to. I do not want you to read through the numbers. Okay. I won't read through the numbers. Just clarify our bottom line number. Bottom line number is not the number itself. We've allocated $43,255 plus the $2,500 for the accessibility initiative. Right. So what I wanted to verify was the carryover admin funds that are, or not admin, the carryover funds from previous years, have those been touched or have they been added to the total? So traditionally we wait a year. So this, this amount includes about $5,000. It's a little more than that from fiscal year 2019. Okay. And then how much does that leave in the reserve? Oh, we still have like $9,000. Okay. All right. Thank you. That's great. Yeah. No, it's fiscal year 2019 is two years ago. Right. Yeah. We're in fiscal year 21. I don't know where the time goes. It took me about four years to realize where the extra money came from each fall. The treasurer never, I don't know. We just never talked about it. It was like this magic amount would appear out of nowhere. We'd have to use it. Okay. So I guess I would accept a motion to approve the allocations that we've made for fiscal year 2021. All right. I'll motion that we vote on our allocation for fiscal year 2021. I'll second the motion. Thank you. Okay. All in favor, I will call the roll. Gigi, I say yes. Jenny? Yes. Julianne? Yes. Yes. Sondra? Yes. Cole? Yes. Good. Uh-oh. It just, okay. Matt? Rachel? Yes. Okay. Did I forget anyone my list just shifted in the middle? Sondra, did I get you? Yes, you did. Yes. Okay. Good. So that's great. And the next step is tomorrow I'll try to get the denial letters out. We do this by email. And then we wait two weeks, which is the length of time that the people whose grants were denied have to appeal to the Massachusetts Cultural Council. And then after that, Jenny and I will send out the letters to the, our winners of our grant round. So what is a process if anybody does appeal, Gigi, because you're saying that they would appeal directly to the Mass Cultural Council and then does that filter back? And then I guess they get back to us. I've never gone through it. Okay. So I really don't know what the process is. I would assume that it's something that MENA would talk to me about. And if need be, we'd get you all together to hash it out. But I, as I say, I've never gone through the process. So I don't know. Sondra, do you remember ever? I don't think we've ever had one. See, Sondra's memory goes back. I don't know how many years you were the representative of the library on this. Long time. Long time. So I really don't know. So that is really what we needed to do this this evening. But since we're kind of together, do people want to talk more about the accessibility project? I just have a quick question first. There was an email from the Mass Cultural Council mentioning all these other grants that are available, like for festivals and all these other activities. Does that mean that people who want to do them on a local basis would just apply directly? That does not go through us. Okay. All right. And I think that all of the people who apply to the local cultural councils got that mailing. I think the MCC mailing list has got to be huge. So we don't have to, you know, feed information like that to our applicants. So they must just be starting their their cycle then. Yeah. Yeah. And did you notice that Governor Baker submitted next year's budget yesterday? I didn't know. I didn't know. Yeah. I mean, that was in the newspaper this morning and it's like, wait a minute, the legislature just approved the budget last November or December. So it's a quick cycle. So who would like to be on the accessibility project? Robin Thompson does. Yeah, I would. I would imagine. He's very eager. Matt would. I would love to work on it as well. Yeah. I think it's going to be really important. And I would I would think going forward when it's time to look at our guidelines again, you know, maybe accessibility ideas should be part of people's proposals to us when possible. But I think this will be a good a good experiment to see how it goes. Go ahead, Jenny. I just I would like to join as well. Okay, great. Okay. That's nice. That's three people. So that's okay, right, Cindy? Sorry. All four people, four people. Is that okay, Cindy? Yeah, it's under five. So we're good. Okay. But I mean, Gigi, you can't go. Is that fine? That's fine. Okay. This is my last few months on this group. I mean, and then this spring, this book thing, I, I feel like my time is quite limited. Um, so that's great. And I think, you know, when the dust settles and the four of you get together, that'll be great. Matt? Oh, I just wanted to say just like our previous subcommittee, you know, we have four voting members. So that's myself, Jenny, Cole, and Robin. Yeah. Right. Okay. So just like our last subcommittee, if we are able to have non-voting members and they wouldn't tip the quorum balance, I would imagine. I would love to invite all three of our Amherst High folks. I think, you know, you guys would have a great voice, great part of it. So we'll send you be facilitating the subcommittee meetings as well in terms of Zoom links and all. I forget. Yep. Okay. So with glee, with joy. So anyway, I just so good. Like, it's okay to share and share a note about Cindy's dedication and helpfulness for this. Well, you're right, Gigi. We should, we should do that as a, as a group, actually. It's a great idea. Yeah. But anyway, I would love to have our, our. That would be great. Representatives, uh, participants. I think it'll be a good learning experience too, actually. That's why I want to do it. Just, just to see what's out there and understand the accessibility world in our area. I know I didn't jump to join. I'll join other things. But one thing, I mean, I think that might be worth looking into aside from our money and our donations might be if anybody wants to learn about what grants are available in addition, there must be all kinds of grants. Other than, you know, us that we could point people to might be great to just especially as we kind of roll into the next year and we add more of this to our own requirements. It doesn't hurt as a general thing to kind of publish a listing of resources and potential other sources of funding on our Facebook page. Arts Extension Service has any of this as well. I could, I could check in because I think they, they have, they have all kinds of resources anyway, but they may have some accessibility for arts. Right. I'm going to write that down. So what would be the timeline for this? Like when we'll be like the next or the first update or periodic check in? Yeah, I think that's what I was kind of hoping maybe a little further discussion from the larger council in terms of, you know, setting out what the, you know, what the tasks are or the, you know, the general direction is for this subcommittee. And I think Rachel to that point, you know, if we have a, if we have a full council meeting on the books for whatever March 15th or something, you know, then I think the smaller committee can pace itself to that date, you know. Right. But, but I'm also just, I mean, the things that were discussed last night were obviously, you know, just literally distributing the 2500 in the best most equitable way to, you know, for closed captioning ASL and just starting that, just getting that process started. So I would actually want to explicitly know that, you know, this council had sort of empowered the subcommittee to make those arrangements with people and, and, you know, for them to, I guess they would send their bills to City Hall is, is how that would work, I guess. Well, I think they'd have to go to the treasurer who then takes them to City Hall. Okay. So, so when we, when we set up with the vendor, we would literally tell them, hey, you know, reach out to the Amherstown treasurer and that's bill arrange payment through there. Or would we pay straight ahead? Would we be paying for them? They'd need to reach out to Robin, the ACC treasurer. Our treasurer. Yeah. Okay, to Robin. And I would assume they could use the same MCC reimbursement form that they use for the project grants. And then they, the person who's getting the money has to submit invoices from their vendors. And then they get reimbursed. So it's all on a reimbursement. Okay. Well, now, that's actually, that raises a question. So, my thinking was that this for, for this year, at least, it makes more sense for us as a council to find the, learn the dates from our grantees, give those dates to the contractor, to do the accessibility work, and for us to pay the contractor directly, as opposed to trying to run it through the artists and sub-subcontract through them. And maybe in the future, you know, we can, we can ask artists to do this on their own. But this year it feels a little, it's already, it already feels a little wild and woolly just to make it all happen. Well, it is pretty wild. Introducing, yeah, I wouldn't want to send a letter that says, hey, we want you to do all this accessibility stuff. And hey, you get to pay for it up front. Yeah, you get to fork over all the cash. Yeah. So, so the process would be one of our committee members approaching, I think it's, it's better one-on-one and maybe a phone conversation to really explain what's up. Yeah. And then, and then go to writing so that things are documented. But so the process would be one contact. And then, you know, there's probably no real reason to find multiple providers of these services beyond what you've done already, Matt, unless you really think there's a lot out there. Well, there are a lot out there. And I also am sensitive to procurement rules. And I don't know if there is anything within that domain. I hate to even say it without Robin here, but you know, I can answer that would be a service. You can answer that. Of course you can. It wouldn't fall under the procurement is, is it would have to be above 2500 for any one vendor. So we'd be fine. And also, I think that there's a way that we can have the vendors submit their invoices to us and the town can pay them so that the council doesn't have to do it. But I will double check that and find that out. Oh, that'd be great. That would be great. So then the other piece, the other piece that I just wanted to check in on was, you know, I think I'm not sure who it was. I think it was either Leah or Sydney yesterday said, well, if we're doing this, you know, we should, we should, we should get some press. And if we get some press, we should be able to get some money. So I'm bringing us back to the conversation of, you know, are we ready to take donations yet? Right. So I wrote to Paul Backelman and he has not answered no. Which is a good thing, right? I think usually he's very proactive, but this vaccine rollout has been so bumpy that I think Town Hall is on the skids from it. Did you ask about the, you mean the property tax checkbox? I asked about, I asked about GoFundMe, I think, and the property tax thing, or a slip of paper that went out with tax bills, but somehow getting something started. I have a quick question about all of this. We are not a, we're a non-profit, right? We're not really incorporated in any way. Right. So a lot of the things I could find, I looked into this briefly, the ones that are geared towards charities require you to have, to be registered with the IRS. So you wouldn't be able to use most of those. And I think that rolls out Facebook and GoFundMe charity, but not necessarily the GoFundMe for individuals. I don't know how that would work though. Can I speak to that again? So I can get the IRS information so that we can use that, if that's an avenue you want to go. Cool. The one thing I thought, and it may have been you, Cole, at a last meeting, somebody raised the concern that, you know, are we doing this on a project, are we treating it as though it was a project? And personally, I think we should. I think we should treat, you know, FY22 as a project, a GoFundMe project and set a goal and say, we want to match, we want to locally match the state award in FY22. And that's, or whatever, you know, some kind of ambitious fundraising goal and use GoFundMe that way.  So that's that for me, that's where kind of the decision point lies. I don't really know what my preference is, to be honest. And is that going to be rolled out at a later stage after the grants have been made? Or is that going to happen simultaneously? I guess my question is, is the accessibility fund that we have set aside, is that going to be made available to the entire group of people who have, whose grants applications have been accepted, right? Is that here we have this pot of money for accessibility? Or are we targeting specific projects that might be most suited? So I guess I don't understand, like, you know, if the subcommittee is going to be targeting specific projects. The cart and the horse there is that this accessibility work is something that can drive public relations. So maybe some new, it's just a nice thing to highlight. And then when we highlight that in the public, it would be nice once we have people's attention to then ask them for money. So, so really, the, the donations are not in any direct way connected to the accessibility funds. It's just that this is one more way in which we can solicit, you know, I don't know, motivate the solicitation. Okay, so that's kind of like a part of the process. Then I guess the question still is, would you, as the subcommittee approach specific targeted grantees for the accessibility, or is it going to be a blanket blanket, you know, we don't have enough for a blanket. So I think the subcommittee should take a look at the funded projects as Matt has already done and pick the ones for which you think the accessibility would be best. And target create a list of preferences and start at the top and work down until you've used up approximately $2,500. And if you go over a little bit, that's, that's all right, because we have about $9,000 in an account. I guess what would be great is if, so I can't, we can't really announce any grants until the letters have gone out, which means they and they can't go out until this two week denial period is over.  And if, and then in that, in that kind of PR piece, I can mention that we've allocated $2,500 to support closed captioning and, you know, signing for certain projects and see what happens. I was actually thinking, I mean, the press, we put the time into the press release, and for some reason it didn't get in. I was going to say that we might want to just track down, not Mezback, but there's another, somebody at the Gazette who just wrote a piece on the Mass Cultural Council distribution of grants. I would just say calling him or emailing him. Steve Fart. You know, I mean, sometimes the first I forget the name, I would have to go look it up. But, but my point being, you know, that not sometimes reporters just prefer to sort of find their own story and as opposed to giving them a press release on something.  It doesn't go anywhere. I know that's. But in any event. Another idea would be to reach out whatever local chapter we have for Americans with disabilities, the ADA and let them know that we're, you know, trying to nurture this in the community. And it might be that their PR group actually co-authors a press release and that they issue it and it gets more attention. Is there such a group? I mean, do they are there? That's a lot. I don't know if they do local stuff. Because they already have all the press contacts in their system. So it would just be a lot more straightforward. So no, I totally agree with that approach. Okay. So in any event though, can we, can we figure out the fundraising vehicle itself? Like how are we going to get the money?   What, do you know what's possible with the town or not? We've kind of, I don't, but I can find out. I mean, I can easily find out what we can do. Okay. So I mean, I could write a check right now and send it to town hall care of the council, cultural council and make a donation, you know, like we're already able to make people's money. It's just all I'm looking for is a link. Because, you know, that's simple. Yeah, I don't want to complicate.  Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. The town is very, a little bit behind on the, on the technology of that. So, but I think that because of the COVID, they've moved more online. So I'm pretty sure I can get you an answer. Okay, well, they already said we could do a GoFundMe page. So, I mean, we know that they're willing to do this. So, I mean, that we could do that now. And if we prefer to Venmo or PayPal, we could do that instead. But Yeah, I don't know that Robin talked about to Holly about the GoFundMe. So I don't know the details of that. I don't either. Yeah. But she said yes.  Right. But nothing's been paid yet. We don't have a page of GoFundMe page yet. No, okay. No, we don't. Okay. And we might as well just use that vehicle if, you know, if it's already approved. I mean, ultimately, this money is just going to go to the town, to the town's account for us to use in the next cycle. It's not anything fancy. Right. So in terms of timeframe, do we have our high school, our student council members beyond the summer? What is it? Yes, they have three-year term. Oh, good. It is three years. Okay. No, they're sophomores. Okay. And if any of them stay in Amherst for college, they can keep on trucking or work because they can have two three-year terms. Great. Okay. Excellent. Yeah. No, we've got them. Well, actually, could they be voting members when they turn, you know, on their second term? Could they come back as voting members? Well, we have a limit of nine, don't we? Well, I'm sorry, they could apply to become voting members. They could apply to become voting members. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I could, I mean, when you and Sondra are, I think term ends in June, there'll be two vacancies there. Yeah. Well, is there? So, froze again. Did I freeze? No, I think Matt did. Did you have a question, Matt? Oh, I don't know. I was going to start asking questions about, you know, is there a certain age at which you, you know, you have to be a certain age to become a voting member? But I'm going to go ahead and guess the answer is no. I don't know. But anyway, I would say that it sounds like if Robin's going to be on the accessibility committee, you know, she can, she can take this kind of over the finish line and we'll get a mechanism set up. But just, you know, just so that when, when we announce the awards, if we get press about, for any reason, or no, no reason at all within our person, I can ask my grandmother to, you know, donate some money, although she would write a check. So that's a bad example. I can ask my wife to donate some money. And we have a mechanism to do so. That's all. Yeah. So the earliest that the award letters actually go out and become publicized would be the second half of February, is that correct? That would be the soonest, right? Okay. Yeah. What is your target, like target notice date for getting the letters out beyond the two week? A pure period. So let's see. Today's the 28th, 29th, 30th. If I get them out by February 1st, that means the 15th, Jenny and I can start cranking out letters. But my book manuscript is due at the press on February 19th. And, and if, if I'm woefully behind on stuff, then I won't get the letters out until after that date. So we're talking about the, really the third week, fourth week of February. Yeah. So you have a lot of time actually for the disability committee. You know, if you could set up a meeting in the next week, you could get some decisions made, you could figure out which, which proposals you think are most likely to work well. You could assign, you know, contacts for each person. So you can figure out what mechanism is in place at town hall to accept contributions. The one question I would have for the full council maybe is, if we should meet in late February, you know, after the letters go out to continue the discussion of, of having a showcase for our artists. Right. Because I think that's something we'd want to set a date for and start to, you know, lay out some of that, that thinking. Yeah, I agree. It sounds like we have just enough going on in general that, you know, we could continue with monthly meetings, just one, you know, once a month, with the whole, whole group. So we're talking about the last week of February. Yeah. So the week of February 22nd. But it sounds like there would be several topics. So there'd be whatever the accessibility committee is reporting back on. We'd want to update social media. We'd want to talk about fundraising, press releases with the general Pecha Kooch if it ever could come back. Yeah. The other thing, Julianne is, I don't know, I said, but the other thing is that we, we had our outreach committee meet a handful of times. Right. Several, several folks did a ton of work on this, especially Leah and Cole. But, but I mean, everybody contributed and, you know, have started to build, I think, a really strong social media footprint. And so I just, I want to make sure that when the grants go out, I know, I know they're ready.  But when the grants, you know, when those awards letters go out, we want that list, you know, we want to really take advantage of our, of our growing network and, and grow it further. But, but, you know, that timing, I think will be really, really crucial too. So I don't, I don't personally think we want to have too many subcommittee going at the same time. I feel like that's, that's a little bit of a stretch for all of us. But so I like the idea, Julianne, of just having, you know, having our social media folks report to the whole council at the end of February. And maybe, I mean, I'll just say right now that when Gigi, we would post a list of all of our awardees to the public site as well, correct? At the same time as the letters? To the, which public site? Well, like the, I guess it's a mass cultural council site, has a list of awardees. Oh yeah, they have them for each of the LCCs. Yeah. But that, does that happen at the same time that we send the letters or? Well, it's, it's, it's called the annual report. And it, yes, that's, it all happens about the same time. Okay. Yeah, because once the due date may be March 1st or the 15th, I have to go back and check. Okay. I was just going to say once that list is sort of up and in one place, that's a nice thing for us to point social media towards and, you know, build, build excitement and enthusiasm. Well, there could be some way to post the list on our town website, right? I'm sorry, I have to go right now. But if there's anything, because me and Leo were working for Instagram on the social media, that kind of thing. So I mean, you said we're meeting in February, so we can talk about it then. Okay. I'm totally open to working on that. Great. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. See ya. Bye-bye. Yes, the, the list can go on our, on our website, the town website if you want. Yeah. Cool. I have a question about, I, there was someone, I think it was Julianne, was talking about reaching out to programs with accessibility. If we're like doing all this work about accessibility, it might make sense to like reach out to people who know more about like, what like would benefit like, would like maybe closed captioning or ASL, like what would benefit that more. So is this council allowed to reach out to other groups and meet with them? Okay. In fact, I mean, I'm, I mean, Minna Kim at, at the MCC is interested in Matt's spreadsheet that he prepared. So I've sent that off. I mean, you know, she may look at it and say, Oh, well here we have a list of all of these groups that provide services to cultural organizations. I mean, there, there may well be a mother load. Well, one of the more exciting things about it, in my, in my opinion is most of these folks, when you talk to them, what they want to do is they want to bring in people who are visually impaired as user testing and pay them, you know, to do the testing and to do some of the work, bring in people who are deaf and, you know, have them review closed captioning, for example. So, you know, I think the one thing I want to really, I would like to do, I don't know if we can do it this time, but as much as we can keep the funding local and grow the local network of, you know, people with disabilities and bring them into it, that, that I think is, is one of my pri, and it's, I don't know how feasible it's going to be in a short notice, but, but that, you know, that I think should be part of our goal and, and in term, yes, absolutely tapping into other networks as well. There should be some around, I can't believe we have to invent the wheel. Well, I mean, I personally don't think Mina Kim was, was asking for that list because she had wanted to compare it to hers. Who knows? Who knows? We also have a lot of academic resources we could tap locally in terms of connecting, you know, and cultivating talent, because we could actually help, you know, build a pipeline, right, for these services, right? Hey, Rachel, you sparked an idea to me when you said academic, one local resource and a group to interview might be UMass is, what's it called when, when students have, have disabilities. It's disability. Yes, they, they have, they, they have a whole group there and they might have some ideas for us. One thing we can, I agree with Matt about trying to, if there's income opportunity for people to make locally doing this, we should support that locally, but there might also just be technology resources that we could pass along.  Yeah, and I imagine they would have a lot of people there training to work in that. Yeah, so I think those are all things that we can just keep our eyes open.  It wouldn't surprise me if at one of the colleges, there aren't dance courses to do that, right? I, I know, um, one of the faculty members at UMass, um, through Amherst Ballet, and I can, I can email him, he's been pretty busy, got a big grant, but I could just ask him about that or he knows for, for interest. Yeah, I think it'd be interesting. He'll know like the whole five college consortium involved. Exactly. Yeah, so I can ask the director of five college dance too. And so it's interesting because when that idea came up as doing interpretive dance for a piece, because interpretive, that's arguably its own work of art, isn't it? Yeah. So I think and you're actually, we'd be hiring another artist to interpret the work of, yeah. Just to, just to clarify, and I, and I completely, you know, we do need to tap into those university networks. I reached out to them. I use them a lot, um, professionally as interpreters for multi-language and they did not, UMass does not employ any sign language interpreters, which was very surprising to me, but, but, you know, that's not to say that, you know, various professors networks won't uncover all kinds of people. So please do, you know, please do those research. I do want to say that. We also have the Clark School up in North Hampton, right? But they don't do sign language at all. They don't anymore. They never have. They're, they teach kids to speak only. Speak. Okay. So we don't have the Clark School. It has a resource. My neighbor who lives down the street used to teach ASL at, at, oh God, where my kid went to school to, um, Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School. Oh, yeah. She just retired. Did you know Ava Fradkin? No. No. Um, she's just retired and I could ask her as well. She's very hooked in with ASL. Yeah. So, so the resource that, um, for, in terms of size of network and bank for your buck, but the, the interpreting resource, um, through the Massachusetts commission for the deaf, you know, somebody who knows ASL and who is a certified interpreter, they just get their name on there. You know, that's really all it is. And then commission for the deaf is a really great network. Um, I want to make, I just want to make a point because this is, I think, interesting to me and it's something that I, I had a friend who did it years ago. Um, so, so when we talk about sign language interpreting for music and, and incorporating the dance and movement piece of it, I just want to be, it's not interpretive dance. And I, and I think it's, it's important to say what we're talking about are people who are professional ASL interpreters, sign language interpreters, um, who will, who will demonstrate the music. But I think interpretive dance and, and, you know, that's something, that's an art form that artists do. This is interpretation. So really their goal is to not interpret in the same sense of, you know, putting their own stamp on it, but to, but to be a flow through for the, which is maybe semantic, but I, I think this group can appreciate the, the, you know, the nuance. Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes sense. That's right. Yeah. Um, so looking at the last week in February, Cindy, what night, what late afternoon five to six 30 ish? Um, if it could be start at five 30, that would be easier for me, but I, I'll make whatever you need work. Okay. Well, five. What about you getting kicked out of the building? So if it's five 30, then I can leave and get home for the meeting. I see. Yeah. So any night of the week better, worse for people.  Wednesday can sometimes be a problem for me, but I really don't know. So how about Thursdays in the 25th? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We'll work on that. So that's the next full council. That'll be the full. Yeah. Okay. Are we looking at starting four 30 or five? Or is that to be determined? I think five 30 to seven is what we. Oh, okay. And should we determine a few dates for the setup committee over email? Would that be easier? Why don't you set up the four of you set it up over email and link Cindy in because she'll have to be part of it too. Yeah. Yeah. We just, since we don't have Robin and Robin, you don't have here, but five 30 on the 25th for the whole. Yeah. Yeah. Great. I apologize for multi-passing during this. Yes. There's something going on over there, isn't there? It's my big, huge monitor. That's okay. That's okay. You're wonderful to be, to be with us. Leah, Nandi, and, and I'll ask you to speak for, can we invite you all to the subcommittee meeting? And then if, if any of you can come, you're welcome. And if you can't make it, then that's okay. I would definitely love to be there. Yeah. Hey. Okay. Let's adjourn. I have to go cook supper. All right. I'm going to email everybody again about Patrick Kuchia. I like your radish idea. Did you like the radish idea? It doesn't have to be anything other than just something that you love. And I have a question before. Go ahead, Julianne.  I'm done. Okay. When I just want to raise this so people can think about it and we don't need to make a decision right now because the spreadsheet that we all use to evaluate the grants was something that I kind of created not having ever gone through the grant cycle. So I think, I think at some point it would be really useful. I, you know, would be happy to set up or tweak something that might be better for next round. So at some point, you know, it'd be really great to get people's feedback on how this went and what should be improved. So I just want to put that in the agenda at some point. That's a good way. I did not know you did that. Thank you very much. The template, I just kind of like pulled out of my, you know, based on talking to everybody. And thank you so much, Julianne, for doing all the number crunching between then and now. So I think we worked really well on that from, but I think it was just something me, Matt, not knowing how did the process work to say, okay, well, if these are the criteria, how would this template work? So I think, you know, just please, maybe in February we can discuss what's going to evaluate for a better process going forward. And thank you, Matt, for doing the accessibility spreadsheet. I think that was really useful. So thank you. Okay. Meeting adjourned. Bye. Bye, everyone. Have a good week. You too. Thanks, Cindy. Take care of all. Thanks, Indy.


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Why can't we go ahead open testimony? Let me in purchase Pikachu pet Wait, it says I have it but where is he I don't see him anywhere Wait, so let's go over here go to the campaign and then we'll do one of the backstories Hey, dude, what's up, man? I'm sorry guys. I'm not chatting Okay, so let's go back here Rework brothers the time for justice. Oh a time for justice. That's with the dad. Let's check this one out. Oh my god. Wait What this is my fault? Oh My god, so he's back in the cemetery be careful. We don't know what he is capable of he's around the corner How can he cause this many deaths? Your next old work back to this site where it ended remember where that story ended it was here Okay, so the cops seem to show up here put your hands up dad, but I didn't do anything Oh, no that that thinks he killed a friend. Oh my gosh. Okay now behind you.  What is this thing? That looks like the blinky character from that blink game. Okay, there's no way. Oh my god. He just appeared out of nowhere Okay. Oh, hey, and you don't have the screen mask. Oh my god. Okay, wait Wait, where's the dialogue at man? It's so many people here. Okay, so there's no dialogue Okay, whatever. So Sonic EXE showed up. Okay, so like I said remember hi if you guys read every story They're connected in a way, so that's why Sonic is here and then that blinky one he had a story too But we skipped it But the dad is here and what happened Okay, so they're all just shocked I guess because the Sonic I guess the evil squad came over and took over the whole thing Okay, oh my god, we're those eye holes. I want to try those. Oh my god. It was like I socket cereals That is disgusting man. I've never seen such a thing. All right, you guys So thank you guys for watching. 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Welcome to Sheboydon County Government, working for you. My name's Adam Payne, County Administrator and co-host of this program with Chairman Roger Distruty. And as you know, every month we strive to focus on a different department and bring a different guest. And today, we are very pleased to have the leader of the five-star facility at Rocky Knoll Administrator, Rochelle Valesky. Welcome. Thank you, Adam. Thanks for having me. Rocky Knoll is one of our 19 departments. It's one of our larger budgets. A lot of very important work going on there. A lot of history associated with Rocky Knoll. And today, we'll give you a little snapshot about some of the roles and responsibilities, but let's start with Rochelle and simply ask, please tell our viewers a little bit about yourself and when you started at Rocky Knoll. Well, last September marked three years that I've been there now. So just a little over three years. And I've been a nursing home administrator for the last 13 years, though, and a registered nurse for a little over 20. All of my work as a nurse and a nursing home administrator have been in the long-term care industry. I took a little hiatus and worked for a hospital setting for Roar Hospital in administration there for about five years just before I came to Rocky Knoll in a role of director of quality. So I was happy to be able to bring some of those skills too. But I have always worked in a nursing home. Even from the time I was in nursing school, I was working as a CNA and then became a nurse. I was a director of nursing for a few years and just kind of grew up in this system. It's been your career? Yeah, it's been my career. Is this where you're going to end it with us at Rocky Knoll? It is, definitely. This is being taped and we'll be put in the vault. Well, very nice. I like the fact that you have that registered nurse background. Roger and I both married registered nurses, so we're very fond of them. And I think it really helps you be successful in your role. Not only do you have the importance of the administration and all the stresses that can go along with that, but you really can relate to the nurses and the importance of quality care to the residents. So I don't know how many nursing administrators, if that's a norm for them necessarily to have a nursing background or not. It's not a norm. What I find is primarily either social workers or folks that have a healthcare administration degree. But there are a few of us. Because we've certainly had a number of administrators over the last 20 years when we had Comprehensive, Sonny Ridge, and of course now just owning Rocky Knoll, but I don't recall an administrator that was a registered nurse. Maybe Linda Martin from 17 years ago, but I'm not even certain of that. I also was a CNA instructor at one point, so I think that really helps me to understand the role that they play too. And that's our biggest body of workers with the nursing assistants and nurses. So I agree with you. It helps to know what they're doing. And of course all the positions are tremendously challenging. Whether you're a CNA or a registered nurse, all of the positions at Rocky Knoll are important, but shed a little light on the challenges or what are some of the most challenging aspects of being a nursing home administrator. I'd say the biggest challenges that I've had since coming to Rocky Knoll have been I'm sad to say, to quality of care. And it's not for lack of people wanting to do a good job and loving the residents, because they certainly do and did. But we had some hurdles to overcome early on where we had some, a couple of bad state surveys that really helped to point out our flaws and show us what we needed to work on. And that took a tremendous amount of effort on everyone's part. And hopefully I was able to bring to the table some of my background in quality and performance improvement to be, I think it was process issues primarily that where we were failing. Again, not that people didn't want to do the right thing, but just being shown a better way perhaps. And it's worked like you said, we're a five star facility and that took quite a bit of effort and time to grow from at what point, or one point was at one star back up to five. So we're very proud of that. We'll have to maintain it. You can't let your guard down for a moment, but always looking to improve your quality is certainly the biggest challenge I think. And it's the most important aspect of running a nursing home. Obviously quality of care is critical. I agree, the people deserve it. It was an eye opener I think for Roger and I and members of the board that we've always taken pride in our facilities. We know there's been a lot of appreciation for the county owned and operated facilities. We know we have a lot of wonderful staff, a lot of very senior or seasoned staff with tremendous experience. So I don't think quality was ever on the mind to us. There was just kind of a strong assumption that's got to be good. Then for a number of years the focus was all on the bottom line and how are we going to continue to own and operate these facilities with the tax levy going up as high as it did. And of course I think as many of our viewers know over time we went from three facilities to two facilities to one. And then of course when we had the pleasure of hiring you and you focused more on that quality it was disturbing to see that jeez you go online and you saw we only had one or two stars and thank goodness you and your management team and everyone involved stepped up and you turned that into a five star which is as good as it gets. Thank you for that. Certainly the reporting is more transparent so it's not unusual for folks to say oh I didn't realize where we were at because it wasn't as well reported as it is these days and I think that's a good thing that people need to know when they're making comparisons and making choices of where to live or place their loved ones that they're able to see what's going on there. Right. So in addition to quality care and maybe you want to focus more on that but what have been some of the key enhancements that have been made during your short tenure of three years? Quality food satisfaction has been a big one. You and I have talked about that before but food's important to everyone but I think particularly when you live in a setting that can be somewhat institutional and you look forward to that next meal and check on the menu and what's on there and we were getting some reports that the quality of the food, the taste of the food, the temperature of the food just a variety of things was not really where it needed to be and I really took that to heart and so did the folks in the kitchen and we made some great efforts on improving that quality bringing in menu changes, fresher food, even the way we serve the food, the way the food's prepared, from top to bottom there's been a complete change over and the food satisfaction is just off the chart now. You can just see the survey results have really gone up. It just makes me feel good that people like the food and they comment so much on it now. I guess in addition to that would be aesthetically the place just looks nicer. It was starting to get a little institutional and older looking a lot of beige color and just you know really needed to be spruced up and I think intentionally the effort for a little while was to focus on the short term rehab unit that's called Woodland Village so that area is beautiful but the rest of the building in comparison was really kind of drab and we have worked very hard over the years to do things that low cost but great return on our investment and it just looks so homey and nice and everybody's really appreciative of everything that's gone on there. I would agree I'm not there every day like you but every time you go there the landscaping on the outside looks very attractive and on the inside it's a market difference. It's very very nice. You also made an improvement or enhancement for our employees. Exactly. Their work environment is greatly improved. What I'm thinking of is that employee break room. I mean that's the nicest break room that we have in county government of all 19 departments and of course that was a generous donation but it improves the work environment in morale does it not? Absolutely. It's a beautiful space with massage equipment and nice place to heat or cook their food. It just feels good. You take a break and you really truly can refresh and relax and be ready to go back at it. At the county board meeting this week there was a focus about you know we've got 4,000 maybe I'm exaggerating 2,000 or 4,000 jobs available in the county what was the number? 2,400. 2,400 okay there's the two numbers 2,400 jobs available and not enough people to fill them and so of course we're looking to attract people to our area. County government needs to fill key positions as well whether they're CNAs or nurses or what have you and when you have a facility as attractive as Rocky Knoll providing outstanding quality care, great meals and a nice work environment not a bad place to start a career or end a career. I agree. What about future enhancements? Anything on the radar that you're looking to continue to improve or further improve? A few things we're working on for this year. One of them is to expand our memory care unit or the dementia unit. It's currently 19 bed and we'd like to expand it. There's kind of a simple way to do that to add on another wing or another hallway to make it 28 beds. We're finding that that unit stays full so there's definitely a need in the community for more dementia beds so that'll be one is to expand that unit. Outside of bed another thing we want to do is to take and create hospice suites. So we have some rooms in the building that are a little smaller in size and they're connected by a shared bathroom. Some people call them like a Jack and Jill bathroom so the bathroom's in the middle to these two smaller rooms. We want to create one suite out of that. I think it'll work really well for hospice because then you can have the person who's in the end stage of life have their bedroom setting in one of those rooms and have an area for visiting family members who maybe want to spend the night or just spend time to be able to relax and take an app watch television or whatever the case may be and still be right there very close to their loved one. And what that'll allow us to do is to de-license eight beds because we're still looking to bring the total number of the beds at Rocky Null down a little bit. So that would allow eight de-license beds and create these terrific suites. So we budgeted for that this year and I'm really looking forward to that and our healthcare committee, the county board supervisors are in full support of that. They agree that that would be a really good way to utilize those rooms. And if any of our viewers are wondering why would we want to de-license or reduce our bed count, why don't you just give a little explanation on that. It's been kind of the trend throughout all skilled nursing facilities or nursing homes is just to have less and less of a need of so many beds in the county or the state or the nation quite honestly because there's so many options available to people. So coming to a nursing home isn't the only alternative. People stay in their homes longer. People go to group homes or assisted living. There's just such a wide complex of services that are available, home health care etc. Which is a good thing. It is a wonderful thing absolutely. You know there's still going to be a need for long-term care because the acuity level, we have 24 hour nursing staff on board so it sets us apart in that regard and some people still need that level of care just not to the extent that it had been in the past. Don't need a lot of empty rooms and the state also charges a tax associated with those empty rooms so you're almost penalized for holding onto that space. That's correct. So great one we can diversify. I love the hospice room idea. Just to also one final clarification, I'll turn it over to Roger. All the rooms right now at Rockino are private rooms. They are private. So every room is private but in the situation that you described it would add kind of a suite or a wing to a private room so when family members visit there's a little more privacy for all involved. That's correct and the rooms that I was talking about are the only ones that are designed like I said. The other ones are private and they're large and they're really really nice rooms but these particular eight of them, they're 16 but they would become eight are the ones that we would be looking to make that change. Excellent. Over to you Roger. Thank you and great to have you with us today Richelle and your staff and you do some fine work at Rockino. It's much appreciated by the county citizens. And as you know that not a lot of county owned facilities in this state we're, I'm not sure, 10 or 15 of the counties in the state have facilities something in that order but we do have a lot of people that go there and much appreciated but what is the tax levy that in 2016 that goes toward supporting Rockino and compare that with a few years ago or even as much as 10 years ago how much does it compare 10 years ago we still had two facilities. Correct. So this year for 2016 it's about $828,000 for tax levy for Rockino and that represents just under 2% of the whole for the entire county and if you look back in the last three years it's been running just under 2% so it's been kind of at a plateau in that regard but if you back up a few years behind that like you say when there were two facilities saving the year 2006 I believe it was it was over $6 million for tax levy. So it's definitely been going the right direction and it's certainly something that's important to not only the community but to me as well and we continue to need those dollars for some of the great enhancements that we were talking about and it's always my aim to continue to go on a downward progression with that and do what we can to reduce or eliminate our need for tax levy and the other county homes that you mentioned in the state of Wisconsin I don't know the exact number but I know it's in the 30s and we have a networking group amongst those county homes and we talk quite a bit so I had challenged the group in asking who's been successful in reducing their dependency on tax levy and what has been successful for you and able to do that some are even at zero but very few and what I've heard back just a resounding number is people who are able to offer a continuum of care on their campus meaning not only the nursing home setting that we have but an assisted living or senior apartment so it's something where you can follow kind of the trajectory of life's course as people and they have less needs more needs you know through there to capture that so in some regard we're a little bit stilted that way because regulation will not allow us to convert to any portion of Rocky Knowles existing structure to an assisted living which was something that we had hoped to do but we're just prevented by regulation to do that but that would certainly help so it just means that we need to always be watching our expenses and look for other revenue opportunities and what different kinds of services do you offer and how do we compare with other homes in our county okay well Rocky Knowles is of course one facility but it's much like having five different nursing homes under one roof because there's five really different culturally different population different units in Rocky Knowles so one of them is the short term rehab unit which is primarily folks who are coming to say on an average of four weeks they're coming to us directly from the hospital generally they've either had overwhelming illness or a recent surgery and they come to us and they just need to be built up again and go through therapy and get stronger and those people tend to leave us then and go back to their homes or whatever setting they came to us from so that's that's that unit there is another unit that is for behavioral health and that unit houses people with chronic mental illness typically you know around 60 plus years age are the folks that are living on that unit quite stable but have been institutionalized for a greater part of their life we have quite a few veterans there who've suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome or we have people with diagnoses of bipolar or schizophrenia just a variety of things that brought people to that place but that makes us unique from the other places in the county to have that behavioral health unit we have a unit that is strictly geared for folks with dementia any gamut of the Alzheimer's umbrella they call it but that's a secure unit so the people on there aren't at risk of getting out of the building or eloping and that's the unit I was talking about earlier we want to expand the services because there's a greater need than what we have beds for on that unit and then the two remaining units are similar to some degree probably more what you would consider a traditional nursing home long-term care people with chronic illnesses and they're probably going to stay with us for the rest of their lives but of one of those units it's a little higher acuity where we're able to take people who have needs for tracheotomies or they have IVs running or respiratory issues we have one room on that unit which really sets us apart from our competitors in that it's a negative pressure room or reverse isolation so we can take active TV cases or we can take people with a respiratory illness that's highly contagious because we're able to keep them and our staff and everyone else safe in that room so that's really something that's a standout for us and what are some of the advantages and disadvantages that Rocky Noel has compared to our competitors? I would say not only the diverse population that we can serve but our staff their tenure has been terrific when I first started the average tenure was 25 years we've had some retirement since then so I haven't asked HR to run that for me I'd be curious but it's still pretty high people who have been working there for years and remain dedicated and there's something to be said for that they know their stuff and they want to be there to continue to come after all those years the setting where Rocky Noel is is beautiful and that really is an attribute as far as disadvantages I would say sometimes that setting can be a blessing and a curse because it's a little bit further away so for someone who might want to stay in an area that's close to either their spouse or their family or their friends being at Rocky Noel and away from them you know we have lost a few admissions based on that because it's a little difficult because typically we'll take an aged person and their spouse is aged as well so it might be difficult to make the haul out there other disadvantage is probably the age of the building we're competing right now with some nursing homes who have built brand new facilities and some people like sparkly pretty new things our care is outstanding and once we get there we win them over but to get them in the door there are always going to be certain people who want to go to the new place so that's one the other disadvantage I could think of would be not having that assisted living option because as people come to us and they have rehabilitated and they're in the nursing home maybe they haven't quite gotten to the state that they were at before where they could go back home and now they need an assisted living so they've improved but not to the point of complete independence we don't have that option available for them and many people have said I wish you had assisted living I would like to stay here and how many beds do we have at Rocky Knoll and what's our current census there's a total of 154 beds again they're all private today's census is 136 and the rehab unit that particular unit is 37 beds and right now there's 32 people living there we've got three more coming this week and we're going to be really close to full there which is a nice problem to have but an unusual one because we tend to run in the 20s there so we've really had quite an uptick there in that rehab area and it seems like word of mouth has been just so much more positive about Rocky Knoll we've discussed this before and I've just heard from different people throughout the community that you know right now Rocky Knoll has an excellent reputation and I've got to believe that's why our census is higher than you projected as budget and higher in the rehab area just fantastic I'm so glad to hear that we right we had budgeted for 128 residents for the year that was the same as last year and we had done a prospectus looking back several years and it looked like that was right on target but we have gratefully been running into the high 30s 130s towards the tail end of the year it dove down a little bit and sadly we lost some of our long term people who had expired and it takes a while to recover from that we're used to a revolving door in the rehab unit it fills up and it empties out and it fills up and it empties out and that's typical that's just the name of the game there but to lose some of those long term care people that have lived there for so long it not only hurts your heart but it's tough to replace but we've done it we're back up there so in the long term care portion there's 117 beds and now we're at 103 for occupancy and that's pretty good and how many people, how many staff do we have at Rocking Hole to provide that service the last number I got from the human resource department we're at 190 we do have a few open positions so we generally run right around 200 employees at Rocking Hole and of that 190 there's 83 part time people in 107 83 full time 107 part time employees Thank you again for you and your staff doing great work out there Thank you. You touched on earlier the budget and that our tax levy now is under a million, it's been under a million for a while when Chairman Distruti and I were working with our advisory committee that was looking at the health care centers years ago and the $6 million tax levy associated with subsidizing it we've got to downsize, we need to right size and at that time the goal they laid out there was if we can keep that tax levy and a million dollars or less I mean that's fantastic and of course that's been accomplished but as Rochelle knows better than any of us we don't have a lot of control over the funding sources necessarily you rely on federal and state funding Medicare, Medicaid could you give a little snapshot of what those funding sources are and why we don't necessarily can control how much we're going to receive I sure can. The largest percentage of people that live at Rocky Knoll are being paid through medical assistance or Medicaid and that figure bounces around but typically runs about $160 a day reimbursement and that's determined by that $150 a day who makes that decision what they're going to pay is that state the feds? Unfortunately I don't get to decide that. Yeah we don't. Right. It's decided at a state level and the average cost of us providing care for a resident a day is closer to $280 so we lose money on those folks and you hope to recoup it on the other payer sources which ranges from Medicare, Medicare Advantage programs managed care organizations, family care, private pay we are also contracted with the Veterans Administration so we've got them as a payer source as well and quite a few veterans live at Rocky Knoll so there's a variety of payer sources but again Medicaid tends to be our primary one so we run a little deficit there to make up with the others. Yeah so it makes it challenging. It does. And if you just think of your staffing $160 a day if you have to have staff there 24-7 it doesn't take long to do the math and recognize there's not a lot to spread around there though obviously the more residents we have and then the more diverse the payer sources the better we do unfortunately we've been doing our right so as you think about the budget today and you said you talked to some of your peers with other county owned and operated facilities what do you think is the best means to continue to achieve that objective of reducing property taxes or if not reducing them at least holding the line for as long as we can it all goes back to quality of care in my mind you know if you continue to do a good job and your reputation is high and people want to come to your facility you'll be able to make up for those dollars particularly in the short term rehab stay which is the highest reimbursement that we have through Medicare and people come and they have good results and they're able to get back out the door quickly then it's a win all around yeah I'm with you 100% and that's why we both are so proud we're also proud that we've got five stars and that anyone going on the internet can see we're right up there with quality of care you have the word of mouth you have the doctors and people living in this community knowing the quality of care is good and as you said though our facility may be a little older if I have a choice of going to a brand new facility it just looks beautiful but doesn't necessarily have the same quality of care reputation or doesn't have the longevity with staff with you know they just don't have the same experience that we have you want your loved one to be where they're going to get the best care and so I really appreciate the work that you and your staff do speaking of good work you also have a rocky no foundation and here's some volunteers that come together and they raise funds to do some beneficial projects for the facility could you give an example or touch on a little bit what they do here that's a terrific committee of really dedicated people who just love rocky no there's eight members they meet monthly they focus on receiving donations and also doing fundraising and every dollar that they spend has to go towards a resident to enhance their quality of life and they look to things that are not operationalized but would be just an enhancement above and beyond they've done so many things we just recently did a look back over the past five years to $140,000 buying just fabulous things for the residents between the outdoor grill area they call the bistro I know you've seen it that's fantastic right now they're looking towards this year of creating a scholarship program for staff members who want to continue their education to purchasing blanket warmers the hospitals have them they're so nice lazy boy chairs they do something with quite a few recliners they just yes really nice stereo systems big screen televisions just I could go on and on with the things that they have done for the residents really really good we could go on and on but unfortunately our time is up that was a very quick 30 minutes and I hope it gave you just a nice snapshot of one of our most important departments providing outstanding quality care to residents in this community so if you want to learn more about Rocky Null don't hesitate to contact Rochelle or one of her staff don't hesitate to stop out at Rocky Null and check out the facility we welcome your interest and we certainly appreciate your support Rochelle thank you so much for being here today we appreciate your time and the good information and thank you for joining us next month Laura Henning Lorenz our county treasurer is going to be here to talk about gathering those property taxes and how she administers that the important work she does so until then stay warm and thanks for joining us


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