2.

(ACTION) Review and approval of July 21, 2004 meeting minutes 

The minutes were approved as written.
(public comments)

3.

Public comment on any matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Program Committee of the Juvenile Probation Commission
  SEIU 790 representative requested the Commission reconsider the cuts to the Huckleberry contract.

4

(DISCUSSION/ACTION) Review of final conclusions of the Ad Hoc Committee, with possible recommendations to the full Commission.

Bill Johnston commented that Donald Sanders was involved in a car accident, and was not available. The report may be coming next meeting

Liz Jackson-Simpson reported that the tennis courts at LCRS are being resurfaced.

Comm Queen reported that the Mayor will be appointing a blue ribbon committee to look into LCRS, and that he and probably Comm Ricci would be a part of that.

(public comments)
there were none

5.

(DISCUSSION/ACTION) Current status of Dept service contracts with CBOs, possible action to recommend to full Commission.

Comm Stiglich moved to remove the contract for Brothers Against Guns from this list of recommended contracts.  Comm Queen agreed. 

Liz Jackson-Simpson reviewed the process of bidding out the contracts, timeline and activities. She also explained that these contract amounts are made up of a combination of general funds and TANF funds.

Comm Queen asked if there were any sole sources contracts here.  LJS: no.

LJS: referred to a list prepared by her office in response to Comm Stiglich’s request for a list of all contracts given in the past.

Comm Stiglich raised the question regarding the major cut in funds to the Huckleberry contract.  L. Jackson-Simpson and L. Holmes reviewed that the amount of funds has been reduced, and there needed to be a re prioritization of funds to certain types of services (intervention vs. prevention).   Comm Queen recommended that the Commission and Dept look aggressively at alternative sources of funding for this contract, eg. MOCJ, also possibly revisit the scope and parameters of service Huckleberry provides the Dept to see how they may fit into future funding matrices.

Comm Queen expressed concern after hearing staff (Jackson-Simpson/Holmes) speak of the inadequacy of funding available from general funds, and asked if there had been any discussions among those CBOs who are served by SEIU 790 as to how they might work together to address the cutbacks in contracts.

LJSimpson stated that they have been in discussions with different govt. agencies (MOCJ/DCYF) regarding the need to keep these services covered.

Comm Queen asked Liz Jackson-Simpson and the Dept to aggressively search out alternative funding sources for those program services, explore what possibilities exist to expand on the types of services Huckleberry provides to be of more service to the Dept’s youth. He will make this recommendation to the Commission.

Comm Queen commented (after public comments) that there are several things occurring, not just the cut to Huckleberry.  Others are cut entirely, while efforts are still being made to add resources to services that are addressing more serious criminal activity.  He commented that there are other providers in various neighborhoods who do similar work as Huckleberry, who are not paid to do so, so there may be options available to take up the slack created by this situation.  They just need to be explored. He repeated his commitment to the three strategies he stated before.

(public comments)
Vicky (director of development, Huckleberry) reviewed the kind of work and youth served.

Bruce Rice, fiscal director, spoke in opposition to the cut to Huckleberry.

Denise Coleman, CARC, mentioned that some of its youth are referred to Huckleberry when they can’t release them to parents, so it is utilized by Dept youth.

6.

(DISCUSSION) A review of the history of Community Assessment Referral Center (CARC) referrals over the past few years.

Comm. Stiglich clarified that she wanted to review the processes by which youth are referred to and seen at CARC, to see if there were any opportunities to serve more youth that were not being taken advantage of.  Denise Coleman, CARC, explained that there were avenues of serving youth that were not consistently being applied, but in the main, they are catching those that are eligible to be served. There are situations that sometimes prevent youth from being referred and served by CARC; eg. warrants, violations of probation. G. Bieringer commented that a list of eligibility should be gotten around the police depts. so it is more widely known what can be referred to CARC.  Comm Queen said this would be forwarded to the next agenda for a wider discussion.

  (public comments) 
There were none.

7.

(DISCUSSION/ACTION) Review preliminary draft of implementation strategy for resolution on district planning.   Comm Queen tabled this.

(public comments)

8.

Public comment on any matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Programs Committee of the Juvenile Probation Commission
Jack Jacqua, Omega Boys Club, raised the issue again regarding non payment of contract services, this far into the fiscal year.  He said that in addition to the insult of not receiving any acknowledgement and recognition for the work done by CBOs, there’s the injury of late payments for services.  He said it wasn’t right.

L. Jackson-Simpson explained that they couldn’t prepare documents because of various interruptions (eg. the court decision against special conditions on contracts –minority and women---, and also delays on Commission actions due to it.

9.

(ACTION) Adjournment

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 6:35pm