COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Center for Arts & Humanity
1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236
April 15, 2015
SUMMARY
Welcome and Introductions Kathryn Shea
Kathryn Shea chaired the meeting. Kathryn welcomed everyone.
Discussion Items:
FQHC – Florida Quality Health Center in Northport
At risk of going away, dept wants to move away from primary care but may out source
Strategic Planning Session Kathryn Shea
Kathryn reported she resent the survey request for Bill so far 16 responded that completed the survey and 36 responded to the first survey. Hopefully Bill will leave the survey open until Friday. Per the request last month meeting Maureen sent out a survey reminder. Bill is ready to lead us into session two and if you have not ready read the leadership article please do so because we will have a discussion around it. Kathryn asked for feedback on the Strategic Planning Session and survey, so far Bill is a great facilitator.
Standing Committee and Work Group Updates:
Behavioral Health Stakeholders’ Consortium Chuck Henry
Developmental Disabilities Committee Sierra Lifsey
As an update for the Developmental Disabilities Committee, we met yesterday and have a new vice chair, Elizabeth Lewis from Oak Park. She will take the place of Mary Smith. We will also have an Oak Park student sitting in with Elizabeth and learning, so we are excited about that. I am meeting with Dan from Empire transportation tomorrow afternoon to discuss the possible changes with the companies that SCAT Plus contracts with. I have also put in a call to SCAT to try to get some answers about these changes. As a committee, we drafted a list of questions to ask SCAT. After hearing from both parties, we will present the information to the committee and vote on a letter of support and decide what our involvement will be. Again, I apologize that I will not be in attendance as an emergency situation has arisen.
Homeless Committee Paul Sutton
Paul reported that the next meeting is March 12th they agreed to do alternate meetings with the Focus Group originally the Homeless group. The group met yesterday and came up with their three priorities. 1st will be supporting the one cents sales tax on restaurants. We are estimating it will generate 2 million dollars per year. The idea is, if we want long term planning; we have to have long term financing. We are trying to plan on ending homeless in ten years. 2nd support triage shelter for the homeless, focusing on mental health issues and 3rd is affordable housing people are not at home, because they cannot afford a home.
Legislative Advocacy Committee Rose Chapman
The Legislative Advocacy Committee met just before this meeting six attended. The dates for the Legislative Summit/Breakfast - Summit is Sept 10th and the Breakfast is October 8th at the Salvation Army on Tuttle Ave. The committee will not meet in March. In April we will handout forms to the group asking for their input, if the form needs to be tweaked and by May the form will be ready to send out asking everyone what issues they want to bring to the legislative committee.
Nominating and Membership Committee Janet Kahn
No report
Sarasota Partnership for Children Mike McHugh
The Children’s committee met on February 4th at the Health Department at 9:30 on the 2nd floor. Mike reported they discussed the Legislative Summit and the Breakfast as well as the Strategic Planning process. We encouraged our folks to attend and participate in the planning. We discussed our goals and planning for the committee. Joyce Ramsay informed us there is a new group that deals with the issue of human trafficking she will keep us updated. Next meeting is March 4th
Stakeholders in Aging Consortium Lisa Voigt
Lisa report our groups continue to struggle, we ask our members to bring more people and we had a larger turn out last week February 13th. Bill Clark Executive Council AARP and Laura Cantwell Assistant State Director AARP they spoke about the legislative issues that AARP is following, it was a good turnout.
New Business/Announcements
Take a look at the way we do the meeting
Future Agenda Items
Paul Sutton to discuss Project Pride
Human Trafficking group
Steve Queior Chamber of Commerce
The next Community Alliance Executive Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 13th at 2:00 p.m. at the Center for Arts & Humanity, 1226 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota.
The mission of the Community Alliance is to advance communication, collaboration and advocacy of the health and human service needs of all citizens in Sarasota County through more integrated, effective and efficient delivery systems.