MINUTES OF THE JULY 9, 2012 - Inland Regional Center

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posted? 3) Regarding Progress Reports. During a meeting with her son’s caseworker and ABA provider she was told by accident by ABA provider that she can no longer receive progress reports. As a parent, she is entitled to receive progress reports and it is her understanding that it is an IRC’s management decision not to provide these reports. Ms. Mendoza is asking the Board to look into this to see if there is any truth to that. 4) A regional center person has determined that ABA services cannot be provided after two years. Once the child received ABA service for two year they need to be transition out. Ms. Mendoza is requesting to see how many people have been exited out since 2010. She is asking for the Director to gather this data and either justify it or issue a plan of correction. 5) Ms. Mendoza stated she was advocating for consumer that was an immediate danger to himself and to others. He was taken down to Loma Linda Behavior Health Center – Psychiatric Ward. Loma Linda did not want to deal or know how to serve this child because he had a developmental disability. Each regional center has to be contracted with certain entities that can meet the needs of people who have a mental illness and a developmental disabilities. The regional center is contracted with Loma Linda as an Emergency Housing Option. Ms. Mendoza is asking the Board to instruct the Director to look into this so that proper training can be provided to Loma Linda Behavior Health Center. 2) Kirstie Burchit stated she echoes Ms. Mendoza’s comments regarding the full agenda packet being posted on the website. She commented that a financial report was not included in this meeting’s packet. The agenda listed Committee Reports but only some reports were included. Ms. Burchit is again requesting the Board to consider the possibility of a Parent Advisory Committee and is asking that it be placed on the agenda as an action item. This is especially important with the insurance issues Ms. Mendoza mentioned on her report. Each regional center is responding differently to ABA services in regards to the new insurance requirements. There are no clear guidelines and having a Parent Advisory Committee would be helpful in this area. Ms. Burchit wanted to remind the Board that she has asked to be interviewed for a Board position. She submitted her application and has not heard from anyone. She has also offered to serve on the Business Committee with Mr. King and has not been contacted. 3) Gill Navarro, member of San Diego County Board of Education, presenting himself as an individual. Is here to support of Ms. Burchit’s request for a Parent Advisory Committee. An agency that is serving the children, families and parents can benefit from a committee like this. Their input would be important as the PTA is to the school. IRC would be receiving advice from people of the community that have a vested interested. It would be at an advisory capacity and IRC is not mandated to follow their recommendations. If they are not included, there would be the perception in the community that there is no transparency. He strongly recommends that IRC considers it and implements it fairly soon. Mr. King asked if the IRC’s afterhours contact is posted on the website and if it would be possible to add the Parent Advisory Committee on the next agenda for discussion. Ms. Fitzgibbons responded that afterhours contact is posted on the website and the topic of a Parent Advisory Committee will be added to the agenda. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORT: Ms. Field reported the following: 1) Nominations Committee interviewed two candidates and will be tabling a decision until the recruitment ad is placed. The Board is seeking individuals to present Riverside County and the notice will be placed in the Spanish and Asian 2
community papers. 2) Fiscal year 2011-12 Operations closed with a small surplus and POS will have a $6 million deficit. 3) Committees are in the works with the Business Committee having their first meeting on July 12 at 3:30 p.m. Nominations Committee needs one more Board member to serve on the committee and the Audit Committee will be combined for both IRC and Master Trust Committee 4) The Board had their first training tonight on Conflict of Interest and forms were completed. The training schedule will be reviewed and items may be added as we go along. 5) Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Service Act was discussed and Ms. Fitzgibbons will provide more information in her report. 6) Frequency of Director’s and Committee’s Board reports were discussed. The Board decided staff reports should be submitted on a quarterly basis. 7) Prior authorization for Ms. Fitzgibbons legal expense on a matter related to regular job responsibilities was approved for reimbursement. 8) 40 th Celebration and upcoming events was discussed. 9) Response to Public Input, Ms. Fitzgibbons will incorporate as much as possible in her report to the Board and will update as appropriate. Board member can request that staff follow up on a particular item. 10) Board needs to reconvene after Executive Session and state any actions taken and then adjourn. 13) Contacting Legislators was discussed so that elected officials know IRC is trying to turn things around and ask for help with Board membership. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Ms. Fitzgibbons reported the following: 1) As of June 30, 2012 IRC reported a total of 26,537 active consumers. That is an overall 3.5% growth with a flat budget. 2) Gustavo Rodriguez and his team accomplished the major tasks of closing the books at the end of the fiscal year. He will be reporting more on that in his report. 3) Solon Escobar worked with Resource and Development, Vendorization and Purchase of Service units to prepare the service agreements for the 2012-13 fiscal year. Most of the agreements and contracts have been signed and processed. 4) Governor Brown signed the budget on time. This year there was legislation that passed requiring insurance companies to add ABA services to insurance plans. Lavinia Johnson is working on developing a procedure to implement this requirement. 5) Margie Henderson has worked with her team to add the needed people onto the Medicaid Waiver program. There were some additional changes for adult services in the Trailer Bill Language that will be discussed with the Board as these changes are finalized. 6) The new contract was received in May and is on the agenda for Board approval. There will be some contract addendums due to the new Trailer Bill Language. The Department used last year’s language so that regional center allocation could be released on time. In the budget bill there is quite a bit of language that addresses assisting people to remain living in their family home, along with a strong push to avoid placing people into State Developmental Centers. There are a few people placed out of state and the goal is to have them return to their community by June, 2013. 7) Rate reduction from 3 years ago for regional centers and providers totally 4.25% rate reduction. 3% of that reduction was eliminated leaving the net reduction to 1.25% for fiscal year 2012-13. This applies to both vendors and regional centers; Vendors will see the rate restored in payments made in August for July services. 8) IRC’s probation response was submitted to DDS on time and are waiting for DDS’ reply. 9) In responding to the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Service Act that was brought up during Public Input at the last Board meeting. This piece of legislation does not apply to non-profit corporations. There is nothing in the Act that talks about reimbursing staff for that particular skill. Research was done throughout the State and results show agencies recognize this skill while some provide a stipend and others do not. Our contract states that we need to have employees and written information available in families and consumers people’s native language so they can read, hear and understand what is being said. The Lanterman Act also states that information needs to be available to families in the appropriate languages. Mr. King asked if ABA Services can be placed on the next agenda for discussion. Ms. Fitzgibbons responded that some basic education on ABA Services and implementation of co-pays will be provided. 3
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