Approved May 17, 2004

The meeting was called to order by Frank Rottinghaus, chairperson. Members present were Virgil Pickar, Jr.; Frank Rottinghaus, Cheryl Jahnel, Karla Kelley, Tami Heman, Deb Freeman, Sandy Koch, and Jennifer Bauer.

First order of business was to amend the agenda. Administrative costs were added after the Families Together item. Term ending questions and a proposal from CCR&R. J. Bauer moved, S. Koch seconded. Motion carried.

The minutes from January and February were approved with a motion from C. Jahnel and a second from Jennifer Bauer.

There was discussion about the Families Together program. They have received our proposal to pay $18,000 to LSS. FT would like it to be paid to the DECAT governance board. C. Jahnel moved to change the payment to the board. J. Bauer second. The motion was amended that the chair will negotiate that the 3% fiscal agent fee wouldn’t be charged to Empowerment monies. Motion carried.

Discussions regarding administrative costs added on the Public Health services. Floyd does not currently add administrative costs. It was decided that Mitchell and Chickasaw counties would no longer add those costs on to their bills to Empowerment. This will then be consistent with other groups that are funded through Empowerment.

Discussion on term limits. K. Kelley moved to let Laurie write up the expirations and present at the net meeting. C. Jahnel seconded. Motion carried.

EAGLE gave their report.

CCR&R report: Cori proposed that the training money that was marked for Welcome to Childcare training be used for another training. There were not enough people signed up for the Welcome to Childcare training to hold it. C. Jahnel moved to approve the money for “What to do with the Mad that you feel?”. D. Freeman second; motion carried.

Dianne Halverson gave a report on Head Start.

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Work group reports:

Executive group—had done by-laws; working on next year budget; will meet prior to the next meeting.

Head Start/Heads Up—met with Janiece Kuecker. Discussed how the money is working in her classroom. Talked about transportation needs in the future. Possibility of money used for that? Asked what the board needs for data from the program. The goal of the program is to expand to other counties so that children don’t have to transport to another town to the Head Start program.

Education/Preschool—Thursday at 3:30 is a meeting to discuss similar rates across all the preschool.

Public Health gave a report on what they have used money only.

D. Freeman moved to accept the amendments to the bylaws. V. Pickar, Jr., second; S. Koch moved to amend the motion by not accepting the change to bullet #5, instead to add an “or” to the original bullet between the words “member”and “their”. C. Jahnel second; motion carried.

V. Pickar, Jr. moved to accept the changes to the meeting section of the bylaws; S. Koch second; motion carried.

J. Bauer moved to change the Liability Insurance section to: FMC Empowerment Board will purchase and provide liability coverage with adequate liability insurance for the members of the board and the board’s employee(s). S. Koch seconded; motion carried.

Appointment of nominating committee: J. Bauer is in charge of getting together a couple other board members. Need to find nominations for two positions: Faith, citizen of Floyd County. Report back to Laurie.

Next meeting May 17 at 6:30 p.m.

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Jennifer Bauer, Board Secretary

5/17/04