FMC Community Empowerment

Board Minutes, February 16, 2004

(Unapproved)

 

 

               Members of the FMC Community Empowerment board met Monday, February 16 at 7 p.m. at the Charles City Library meeting room.   Answering roll call were:

Cheryl Jahnel, Frank Rottinghaus, Virgil Pickar, Jr.; Larry Hicok, and Sandy Koch.   A quorum was available for conducing business.

               Board members reviewed the agenda.  Larry Hicock moved to approve the agenda; Virgil Pickar, Jr. seconded; motion passed and the agenda stood as presented.

No minutes were available from the January 12, 2004 meeting and as secretary Jennifer Bauer was absent, Laurie Kristiansen, FMC Facilitator, served as acting secretary.

              

Proposed Board Members Introduced:

 

               Board chair Frank Rottinghaus introduced two members of the audience as candidates for board members.

 

               Karla Kelley, Fredericksburg, was nominated to serve in the position of board member representing a Chickasaw County business.  Ms. Kelleyís family owns and operates Kelley Trucking of Fredericksburg.   A resident of Fredericksburg, she is mother to two adult children and has several grand and great-grand children.   Ms. Kelley told the board she had also had personal experience with the Head Start program and is currently employed as a secretary with the Methodist Church in New Hampton.

              

               Tami Hemann, an Osage resident, was nominated to serve on the board, representing Mitchell County citizen.   A mother of five, Ms. Hemann has four teens and one three-year-old, and is a stay-at-home mom.   Ms. Hemann told the board she has special needs children and is familiar with some of the services available to children needing services for them.   Ms. Hemann will serve in the board slot Jennifer Bauer of Osage is currently serving.   Ms. Bauer will move to the social services position, with board approval.

 

               Cheryl Jahnel made the motion to accept Ms. Kelleyís and Ms. Hemannís nominations to the board; motion seconded by Sandy Koch; motion passed.  

 

              

 

 

 

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February 16, 2004 minutes (continued)

 

 

Virgil Pickar, Jr. made the motion to appoint Jennifer Bauer the social services representative on the board, replacing Kevin Volk, formerly of Bremwood (LSI).  Larry Hicok seconded the motion; motion passed.

 

Chair Updates:

               Frank Rottinghaus, chair, updated the board on current projects, including the status of Families Together (FT) funding through Empowerment.

                A meeting had been held with Empowerment, represented by the Chair, along with Cheryl Jahnel, LSI, and the DECAT governance board.   Originally FMC had budgeted $22,600 in support of FT programming in the 0-5 age range in the FMC area.  The FMC Executive board had met recently and recommended to amend that figure to $18,000 which more correctly reflects the length of service FT will be offering the FMC area (October, 03 to June 04ó9 months of service).   The funding would be made directly available to LSI rather than through a lump sum payment to FT.  The change to 9 months support as opposed to 12 months support is because all payments to FT had been suspended by the FMC Board until such time as a supervisory agency took over the program.  Now LSI operates FT under their auspices.

               Mr. Rottinghaus asked the board to consider the Executive boardís recommendation and ratify the amended agreement submission.

               Cheryl Jahnel made a motion to ratify the action of the Executive Committee; Sandy Koch seconded that motion; motion passed.

               At this time, however, Rottinghaus noted that the FMC board was waiting to hear from the DECAT governance board regarding their acceptance.

 

Work Group Updates:

 

               Cheryl Jahnel and Sandy Koch representing the The Head Start/Heads Up work group reported they had met that evening prior to the board meeting and had discussed what it takes for a preschool to offer a quality Head Start-like program.  Jahnel told the board they had done some ìbrainstormingî about daycares and preschools meeting the same DHS requirements.

               Chair Rottinghaus reminded other board members that their reports would be expected at the March 15th meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 16th minutes (continued)

 

 

EXPO Reminder:

 

               FMC Facilitator Laurie Kristiansen reminded the group that Empowerment would be partipating in the Charles City EXPO March 27-March 28 and asked for volunteers to take two-hour shifts during that two-day period. 

               The next Empowerment board meeting will be held Monday, March 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Charles City Library meeting room.   An agenda will be forthcoming.

               Chair Rottinghaus declared the meeting adjourned and then introduced FMC Empowerment Advisory Forum speaker Sara Stewart, speech pathologist, who had a special presentation about speech therapy for the daycare provider offering care to 0-5 year-olds.

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

Laurie Kristiansen

FMC Empowerment Facilitator

Acting Secretary

2/25/04