Health Care Center Committee Meeting Minutes


SAUK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

MEETING NOTICE AGENDA

COMMITTEE: Health Care Center COMMITTEE

DATE: Thursday, January 6, 2005 Time: 9:00 a.m.

PLACE: Conference Room, Sauk County HCC

S4555 Hwy CH, Reedsburg, WI 53959

REASON FOR MEETING: REGULAR

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION:

  1. Call to order and certify compliance with open meeting law
  2. Adopt agenda
  3. Adopt minutes of previous meetings
  4. Communications
  5. Public comment
  6. Update of electrical/gas usage - Bill McClary
  7. Discussion of rental property management - Leeck
  8. Review and Acceptance of monthly donations - Leeck
  9. Administrator's Report - Leeck
  10. Personnel Department Report - Pope
  11. Closed Session pursuant to Statute 19.85(1)(i) - Considering any and all matters related to acts by businesses under s.560.15 which, if discussed in public, could adversely affect the business, its employees or former employees.
  12. Reconvene to open session immediately following closed session discussion.
  13. Business Office Report - Buttonow
  14. Discussion of future of SCHCC
  15. Next meeting
  16. Adjournment

    COPIES TO:

    County Clerk Carlson Volz Endres Borleske Bychinski Pope

    Wiegand Buttonow McClary Web Liaison

    DATE NOTICE MAILED: December 30, 2004

    PREPARED BY: Jeanne Leeck, S.W., Administrator Sauk County Health Care Center

PUBLIC HEARING

DATE: December 2, 2004

PRESENT: Arthur Carlson; Larry Volz; Linda Borleske; Tom Bychinski, Paul Endres; Jeanne Leeck, Administrator; Lisa Buttonow, Business Office Manager; Katie Pope, Personnel Manager; Steve Pate, MIS Manager; Bill McClary, Chief Engineer and Ron Birdd, Environmental Services Manager, were present for a portion of the meeting.

1 . Called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Art Carlson. The open meeting law requirements were met.

2 . Motion by Volz, second by Borleske to adopt the amended amended agenda. Motion carried.

3 . Motion by Borleske, second by Volz to approve the minutes of the previous meeting. Motion carried.

4. Communications: None

5. Public Comment: None

6. Update on Melyx System . Steve Pate updated the board on the Melyx system used by the Business Office. Still some issues to work out however the company has assured us that these will be fixed by March. We are planning to look into alternative software sometime next year.

7. Discussion of wall/ceiling/floor repair. Bill reviewed costs associated with repairs to several areas of the building. Maintenance staff will provide labor and work on areas as they have time.

Motion by Borleske, second by Bychinski to purchase materials necessary to repair ceilings, walls and floors in the building at a cost not to exceed $9,500. Motion Carried.

8. Discussion of repairs/painting of resident rooms. Ron reviewed the areas needing work and recommended Rich Sorom to complete the project.

Motion by Volz, second by Borleske to approve the expenditure to contract for painting/repair of various areas of the facility. Motion Carried.

9. Discussion and Consideration of sale of pea viner. Larry sold the pea viner to LeRoy Lange.

Motion by Bychinski, second by Borleske to approve the sale of the pea viner. Motion Carried.

10. Discussion of farm/rental property management. Larry indicated that the Property and Insurance committee has discussed the possibility of moving the management/maintenance of the three rental properties from the HCC to the Housing Authority.

Motion by Endres, second by Borleske to support the resolution of Property and Management to move the management and maintenance of the three rental properties to the Housing Authority. Motion Carried.

11. Donations . November donations were presented by Jeanne.

Motion by Volz, second by Endres to approve the donations. Motion Carried.

12. Administrator's report. Jeanne had a very busy month gathering information for the Ad hoc Committee and compiling the report. We need to use every opportunity we have to correct the incorrect statistics which were presented in the Keefe Report. Discussed the expenses associated with having a locked unit. Also discussed the necessity of working more on the placement of the FDD clients. Some FDD beds will be converted to NH beds. Some of the residents would be appropriately placed in the nursing home. There will always be a certain portion of the population that will not be able to be placed locally. Sent four managers to a management training seminar. All reported that it was very helpful and informative so plan on sending more at a later date. Mr. Carrigan was officially notified of the Benefit Club Foundation not financially backing his book. All board members were invited to any resident activities in December, especially the Resident/Family Christmas

13. Personnel Department Report. Katie reviewed the status of job vacancies and employee recruitment activities that have occurred over the past month. Personnel staff person on FMLA is back part-time.

14. Motion by Volz, second by Endres to move to closed session pursuant to Statute 19.85(1)(i) - "Considering any and all matters related to acts by businesses under s.560.15 which, if discussed in public, could adversely affect the business, its employees or former employees." Motion carried by roll call vote. Committee convened to open session following closed session.

15. Review and Approval of Vouchers/Receipts Review. Lisa did not have the invoice listing for this month due to the early meeting.

Motion by Endres, second by Borleske to approve expenditures for the month in an amount not to exceed $200,000. Motion carried.

16. Business Office Report. Lisa indicated the business office staff are busy with AR and resident accounts. Have a part time staff person from Baraboo helping with some items in the office. Several projects are moving along well.

Paul and the board members thanked Lisa for doing a good job.

17. Next Meeting . January 6, February 3 and March 3 at 9:00 a.m. (February and March dates may have to be changed)

Motion by Volz, second by Borleske to adjourn. Motion carried.

Meeting was adjourned at 10:30

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Linda Borleske, Secretary