All right, it's 4 o'clock. We want to welcome everybody to I don't know if we want to call it a special meeting. I think it's what we had to call it last week. We did not have a poem So now we have an immediate today. We welcome and we call this meeting to order We're looking We have the agenda before us. Joseph, do you have the agenda, a handy? Just making sure? I do. All right. So we have the agenda. I'd like to call for a motion for that we adopt the agenda. I'll come in. Second. I have a motion. Second. Have a motion, second. Any discussion? Call for a vote. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Caries, the minutes have been sent out previously. You had the ones from back in July and then you had the brief minutes from last weeks that was sent out also. Hope everyone's had a chance to look over that and review it. I'll call for a motion approval. Second. Second. Is there any discussion? Call for a vote. All in favor? Aye. All in favor? Aye. Are you here tonight? All in favor? Hi. Oh, let me pause for a minute. Mr. King, Vice Chairman King is in the building, but there was a little conflict. He had another meeting scheduled at the exact same time. And so he's not going to be able to physically attend this meeting right now in person or by electronic means. But if he gets through with his current meeting, he will come over to our meeting. So I want to excuse him from this meeting. Do we have any public comments? No, that would come. Do we have any nominations for our fifth board member, excuse me, to fill the vacancy that would be caused by Joseph M. Moni, his term actually ended on June 30. Do we have any nominations to bring forth. We don't, but just to let the board know, it is on our website. Right. So it is the application for a potential board member to fill the vacancy for Mr. Mimoni is on the website. It is being advertised. So also with that being said, until this position is filled, thank you Mr. Williams and thank you Director Hunt for your insight and research. Mr. Mamoney is able to serve in a hold over position until this position or this vacancy is filled. With that being said, he still has the full rights of a full voting rights of a DSS board member. Per the rules that's been published and presented, we can't hold this position open forever, so as soon as we get applications, we will bring them before the board. We will now recognize Director Hunt for the personnel report. All right, so before we do that, we'd like to introduce you to one of our new employees. All right, what do you stand up and tell everybody who you are? I'm Kelly Karing. I'm a software director here in Boston here. And we're here for weeks. I'm a little bold. Nice to meet all of you. Any questions for him? Welcome, sir. We want you to work here for 40 more years. All right. I'll work on my agenda. Thank you, sir. Did you work as a social worker somewhere else? It's all coming here. I was working as a therapist at Moorichoke in Overgown. Oh, welcome. That was my corner. Glad to have you sir. Glad to have you sir. Yeah, glad to be here. Okay, welcome. And if you are certain, welcome to stay and see what we do or you can exit. You can take your choice. Come up the help of each other. Nice to meet you all. Thank you, sir. Thank you for coming. Thank you, everybody. Bye-bye. All right. And so if you go ahead and just look at the first nail report before you, for July. And let us know if you have any questions. Director, I want you to a little bit difficult for me to hear you, so I'm going to go. Okay. That's a lot better there. Thank you. I'm fine. I'm sorry. Thank you. I need to be, keep myself cognizant that we do have someone on the phone. I'm sorry about that and I will speak louder. We are now looking at the personnel report for July. And if you have any questions, just let me know. We have the managers here that can help answer some or I can answer them. See, like, or appears that Compton is coming down drastically? Are there any other questions? I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a question. I think we're going to have a like a okay. So we we pay the attention to that. Also vacation time. The epsilon. Great point. So with helping them I know some people like to work a lot to keep comp time built up. Does it kind of help with morale that okay we see that you're you're working a lot you build a lot of comp time I need you to take some time off. We had a meeting in I guess it was the court meeting with a dogwood health trust and they put this groups, and they were asking the social workers what they thought their strengths were with the organization. And one of our workers said it is because if, you know, they just know how to say, hey, take a day off, it's okay. You know, so whether it's about comfort or not, but they appreciate it, and that's that was one of the ones that they presented to group. With your contract workers do you have a list of contract workers and you just contact them when needed? And we have what you know what they are what aligns with them. You know if they if they know foster care or like for example we have kids that are placed out of the county as you know and so if there is a particular case that may be say in Greensboro and one of our contract workers lives in Concord or Cabarris County then we would use that person to go and see the child rather than taking hours all the way to Greensboro that saves us money, that saves wear and tear on our cars, and it also saves the social worker. So does that have more time here in the office? So how do they get to be a contract worker? Is there an application? Yeah, let's let Pam and Tiffany answer that question. Yes, so they would submit an application to be a contract worker just as you know anybody else would and then they would have to have the qualifications in order to be able to do like a social worker, they have to be a social worker and they have to be able to go through the pre-service you know to be able to have contact with families. So they still have to go through steps, you know, and then you would pay them, we run background checks and things like that, we would pay them and work with their contracts. Most of our workers already have already worked with us. Right. You know, you get another job and it's makes your money. So we know them already and we write. You know, it's not like a brand name. First and then. Yeah, so they already, they're retired or are there other jobs or? And it's very helpful, very helpful. I'm sure it would be. We just kind of use some laps out. I wanted to take care of that. Anything else on the question that you're quote, do you have? I'm going to recognize Ms. Pam Price for a budget discussion. have your budget report and your report ending for the first month of the new year, July 31, 2024. We look on page two. You see your contribution from General Fund for your administrative side is at 6.8%, which is about 1.5% under budget. Page four. page 4, bottom of the page, your contribution to general fund for your program site, is 11.89%, which is 3.56% over budget. Total budget on the very last page, well actually, it's on page 8, I think, is at 8.67%, which is 0.34% over just a little bit over budget for the month. So we're still in a right on budget for the month even though we're over on our program side. I won't go through every line by line because most of these lines there's one invoice paid for the year and we paid that invoice in July so that's really why most of them are over budget. You have any questions on any of those? I can, any of those that are as your report highlighted? No? I don't know. Oh, is it okay? Yeah. Any of those that are highlighted, all of those are over budget but like I said most of them are one invoice is paid for the year and especially by insurance, our workers comp, all those in, we pay those one invoice is in that's why they're pretty much over budget. That salaries over time line, that's where these, that we paid for, some other contract workers out of that salaries over time line on page four the second one and we also pay for any the sitting time for children that our workers sit with any children after hours or that's what we pay out of that one. So we'll just we're already over budget. We only budgeted a thousand dollars in the over time lines of whatever budget already but we'll just move money out of the regular salaries to cover that at the end of the year. So we just just deal with how much to put in there. So that's why we only put that thousand. So going into programs, just bringing your attention to page six, foster care, and to page seven, state foster care, kinship foster care, and for e foster care, already ever budget for. State foster care, Ken ship foster care and 4E foster care already over budget for them. Just in one month, you see we're already 18% spending in state foster care and so that's already 10% over. Ken ship is like 3% over and so it's 4E. So I'll be holding that issue again this year with foster care unless we get a lot more DSS homes license. begin this year with foster care, unless we get on a lot more. The SS always, um, license, so what which we're trying to do, and I know, do you know, probably got more about that to be in. So, um, just, contact down the contact. Thank you, Pam. You see, we're always, always singing that song. Where when we go? Other than that, I don't have anything else. Unless you have questions that you saw something that looked odd. I did show on here that the live walk is over a budget. It's not over a budget because we're not, and I just lived out on there from last month. So that very last line should be taken out. But I've done my walk anyway. I don't even do that. I need to do the whole thing. That's the water program. That's the water program. Yeah. And it's not even, I just, I did not take that line off from last, but I just used the same report from last month and just took lines off and redid them and I just did not delete that line. I said, it is a chemical issue. Yeah, and they're, yeah. We would look doing the annual report. I was like, what happened? And then it's like, oh, that's a good idea. I'm just thinking about what's done. So. Any questions? OK. Thank you, Ms. Christy. Thank you, Ms. Price. We'll recognize again, direct a hunt for the service report. All righty. So Joseph, if you have your services report date at July 2024 and everyone else, just review those. And CQC, you know, there are some things that you will notice that it was from 2023 to 2024. There are some differences and if you have any questions about that, just let us know. But just review those. And if it goes over into questions that's going to relate to the social work and economic services, I will lane on them to answer. Yes, I did a question of the intake and acceptance of crisis intervention applications at an exponential increase though. If Dr. Holm to work or we thought you could address that Which one is it under? Yeah, that sounds like yeah, the last change Yeah, yeah, okay the reason for that is Last year there was a heat well this year there was a huge policy change in that program so during typically before that program change during the hotter months you had to have a medic a doctor's note before we could give you crisis due to heat and they removed that from policy so basically it's become a year around program and basically clients can come in if they have a past you notice on their heating or cooling Then we have to take an application and provide funds for them if if eligible So that's why that your rise is absolutely going up a lot The only bad thing about that is it's stilled them of $600 for the year per client. So we're trying to educate our clients when they come in. If they spend it now during the harder months, we may not be able to assist them in the Thank you. Any other questions? Under the child protective services assist. I see that numbers up there. Okay. Tiffany. So in regards to a SIS, that means we accepted reports from other counties to go out in a system in some manner. I understand on that. We're still at 187 kids and foster care, we hire. I'm sure we're higher we just to three I'm sure we're higher we just to three I guess today oh wow I don't know would they like to talk about Medicaid transportation move on the tailored okay so I did want to point out under Medicaid transportation you can see that there's a decline in that in July. And that's because we moved over to our tailored plants in July. Remember a couple years ago we moved to Manage Care, which was the insurance companies. And then in July this year we moved to tailored plants, which our LME is partners. And so a lot of individuals with behavior health issues and for the transportation a lot of them is chronic ailments or substance abuse and you can see that number has dropped dramatically. So the person has to get their non-emergency Medicaid transportation through partners now instead of going directly through us so that that should level off and kind of stay around that same amount. This may not be the right time to ask but I got to ask because you brought up mental health. Are you all seeing an increase of folks with that those type of behavior showing up, looking for services possibly causing issues, safety concerns at the SS? Thank you. I will test to it, but I think you've had the most issues. Yes. What we kind of talked about, thank thank you before we came on the board. We've seen an increase with the homeless population. Take in favor, char building. But yeah, we have had some that we've had to get all enforcement involved. And we try not to. We try to help them as much as possible but sometimes they're just, they're so our writer or they're tweaking or we just can't get through to them. So, in probation it's right there so that is a great asset that we have over all my side but we have seen an increase in the head. And I think these got me keep in a spreadsheet when we have those situations that we're trying to monitor it and get some data for her for future reverence. Don't be afraid to make the call. If you've dated like that that you possibly share with Sheriff Allen murdering his guys. I think that's why she's going. I can tell you I've worked at different times of the night and I've looked at the call logs. I do know that the sheriff's deputies are stopping by there. They are walking in that breeze wave. They are getting out with people. It's true. I mean, even if they're not going to get fuel. So, yes, please keep a track on that, because we've got to keep y'all safe like that. We do have one individual. He frequents. Yes. And we actually have a plan to try to take care of him when our son we actually met last week. You know, he just, he does and we really feel bad for him. He really needs some help. He has these good days and he has these bad days but we're all kind of used to him and we just try to provide the services in which we can and help him the best way that we can. How much is it going to save? We had a lot of homeless people in our church area, the abandoned house beside us. That's following them. We cut on camera homeless people going to the area to stay. So the sheriff's department is aware of it. They broke our electric box on the side, they took the cord from there to the abandoned house that's fallen in. So they were running power there. And then they also broke the water lock. And we got one camera doing that. And the police looked at it and said, it was homeless, gone. So I don't guess they can do anything about that. Here, Joseph. That would be for a different discussion, not for this particular board. Well, yeah, I can talk to you that. Yeah. The biggest thing about that, because like you say, when you're talking about workers possibly having to check on folks at different hours taking in these kids please keep a check on that because I think when director Hunt reached out to the sheriff's office they heard her plea and I know that Captain Ellis and his guys have been on top of it but Sheriff Ellenf Ellenberg, like you always said, they can't do anything if they don't know. That's right. And they will do their best. And Mr. Chair, when I have special task to do like writing reports, annual reports, I do it when people are gone at night because it's too distracting and I can stay focused but that's how I was able to determine that the activity was going on in the breezeway. I could hear them and I could hear all kinds of stuff that I know that they shouldn't have been doing out there and so I started calling and that next day I walked around and found the joint paraphernalia that there and I don't know if I would have even thought to look in that little spot because it's kind of off into an area where you just don't look yes out of sight so there was a little cot where they were sleeping and everything because I was like I don't know where they were sleeping and everything. Because I was like, I don't know where they were. And that's what made me look. But they jumped right on it and they had been coming over and checking it. And if I'm there after, you know, when it gets dark, they'll come and check on it. Let the Nova child are keeping that up on that. And they're going to go miss Georgia wherever they can. Oh, I know. Just me. And a lot of wondering going on everywhere. Oh, yeah. And then the Lord. Oh, sorry, yes. They were able, one of the recommendations From sheriff not sheriff captain, and Ellen and myself was to put out no watering signs The management here they're excited about it. That's what candy was just saying it just says no watering But it's in vinyl so it doesn't look Terrible on the building. They're very nice, but it says no ordering after five because we had to be in compliance with what the federal and state government tells us to do. We have to be open ready for business between 8.30 and five. But after that, they don't need to be there. And because nobody's there during the night, that's when they come in, but we are there sometimes, like I was there, and some social workers are there, the ones that do the uncle, they're there. So that's the danger in it. I was psyched for all of them. Right, exactly. So, but thank you for your helpful, Nat. Mr. Chair. So if it gets, become any any type of issue, thank you. Then thank y'all and your staff for even, like I say, the one person that need help, y'all not trying to push him away, you're saying, this is why we're here. Right. Why we're here. We just kind of got together and there's certain people that handle those individuals better than others. Yes. And so, you know, it's just the kids that God's given us. Right. And so we established a plan that this person will always see, you know, because it doesn't upset that individual if he has a rapport with that same person over and over. And they were okay with that. And so we had that okay. Director Hunt, if you just have to answer your question, I actually hear the conversation. Okay. Well, very big one. That's all your hard work. You know, I don't know how much is going to control. It's always been, I don't know if that's the right word. But I really, you know, want to make sure that our resources are going to our citizens, that might mean citizens that are experiencing homelessness, but as we ask finite resources, especially with the nature of the job, I really want to be mindful of. Added burden, if folks are, let's say, being sent to our county from other places, if they don't want to deal with them, then we need to have some sort of plan in mind. And you know, to send them to Laura, to tell us, you know, and yeah, that's, you know, want to make sure that resources resources with county are going first reportman to visit the governor's county. Yes, thank you. Any further discussion on the service report? I don't have anything else. We'll move on to program updates. We'll recognize Miss to program updates. We recognize Ms. Dodd. All right. So I do want to piggyback out Joseph and say that I work as a working really hard. The work is really, really hard. It's getting harder, but they continue to show up and do a really good job. Adult services, they're really, really busy helping out girls in the community. Better recently also had another review and had a really good review showing that they aren't out in the community doing what they are supposed to do and following policy and law. For children's services, as Pam said, we were taking cues in the custody and we're spending money. and money and so excited about some things that's in place that are for DSS. We got prefer a choice through the grant that's doing some in-home services with families to try to keep kids out of foster care. And then we also have home builders who is a very intense program that so intense that they only take two referrals because they are in the home like they are like okay we have no other options these they basically live in the home. Like they are like, okay, we have no other options. They basically live in the home, but they do leave, but they have a plan for wind. So that's another thing, hopefully, that keep kids in their homes. And also work with physical legal services to the Duke Endowment. You know, if they can't get what, like what Kenny was saying to regular, I say they're running out of $600. Maybe this will be more service than Lincoln up with something. So having that in place is also good. We are most definitely out in the community. You know, talking about our pop, our resource fair and outreach program. We got some other things coming up. We'll be we was at the cool ride, hot nights out. Probably said wrong, but we was at the cool ride top night top. Probably said the wrong, but we was definitely there. It was hot, but we was there. Pan, you said it's good. We got a nice tent, some nice chairs with a cool on it. Look at that. So we are out in the community. And we're talking, people are all free still, so they'll come by and want to shirt. And we will talk to them. So we are definitely out in the community so trying to keep you know either keep kids out of custody if they have come to custody You know recruit So that's pretty much what we got going on my side Thank you for the time and it was good to see you out between the people you need to know I've got that YouTube it was And that is definitely thinking outside the box going to a car shop. That's right. You can do that. Just thinking outside the box again and maybe with my football games. Just throwing it out there. Right. Well, that is a great idea. If they will allow us to set up a tent, we would definitely there will be an Eleanor Fair. We'll be at the October Fest. We'll be at Stendell. First Stendell. will be a first-end deal, will be a first-city housing event, Elevator Fair, Elevator Fair. So anywhere we can be, will be. I mean, you just phone call, but I'm just thinking that maybe some legalities with the school system, but we don't want to overwork the workers, you bringing comp time down, we don't want to put it back in. Right. But it comes live when they're in the community, we bring in comp time back. We don't want to put it back in. Right. Because they get comp time when they're in the community. We give them comp time. Yeah. But thank you and all everybody associated with that for what you're doing. Anything else from it's done? Yeah. And then I can think of, do you want to give them a report on the house? Is there just a button in the bids are waiting on our DSS house. Just to be clear, money's in the bank, right? It's there. We can't say that enough. It's not like we're going to have to go out and try to find it. It's there waiting once we win. Yes. Yes. And how many children again? So we probably, probably about 192, if not more than it, and the house, the house will accommodate. Oh, so the house is, it's not a long term house. Right. It's for kids without placements. So we have three bedrooms, and then we'll have, I think one bedroom, we'll have like two sets of bunk beds and you know maybe a sibling group can go in there and then we have a laundry room and we have a common space area and places where workers can you know be observant and working you know so it's a three-bable house. We started, I can't even remember that we started like a meeting process on that or anything. We did. All of that went through Danny. Yeah. But this is great. It was written in December 2022. We got it in July 2023. And so all of that's just happening. So yeah, so Danny said that the last piece is completed and we're just waiting on them to, we're just waiting to see a truck pulling up that's gonna start digging into the ground. That's what we're waiting on. And just the house is actually going to be maintained and up kept by the county? But I would say the county, yes, by the county because it was, the grant was given to the county? I would say the county, yes, by the county, because it was the grant was given to the county. So that is true, although we are responsible for it, and we already have a plan. Good deal. We'll go on to economic services, Ms. Bridges. I'm sure you've received your Medicaid expansion monthly We'll go on to economic services, Ms. Bridges. I'm sure you received your Medicaid expansion monthly update. For you, we're just going to have some vacancies. We're back to not getting the best of applications or a lot of applications. So we don't know what's happened. And for a while, we're getting a lot out of your seeing that too, Tiffany. We'll just slam pickings. Keep threatened to put the nail higher and sign back out. But anyway, I did want to report. We were projected to have 4,000. And 54 Medicaid, it spent your recipients within two years. We're not even out of year yet. And we've got 4,000 and seven so we expect to see that within our year So that's Good for our clients. Yeah, we've been ever served that meeting within a year and They wanted us to have that meeting within within the two years the good thing that's happening is we have boots on the ground the health council In the two years, the good thing that's happening is we have boots on the ground. The health council, they also have people that are on the ground completing applications and Medicaid expansion made it so much easier. Do you mind telling them the ways that people applied for Medicaid expansion? Well, a lot of them are planned for the federal marketplace. So we get applications through them, which is a vormacare. And so they did a big push for that. So what they did, they looked at the poverty income limits. And they sent so many of those applications to the county at first. That was in my favorite area in March of this year. So that was the way that we got a lot of applications. We had a lot of our individuals already on a program that was called Family Planning, which only covered certain types of coverage, such as yearly physicals, birth control, things like that. So we had a lot of clients that were already on that program. That seamlessly, if they were the under-the-income limit that moved over to our medicated expansion group. We've got a collaboration with the jail now that we've got physical care with Piska. She's working with the jail. Someone's about to get out of jail. They're going to send us an application to get that rolling. There's just a lot of collaboration, I think, within the community. And with the state, I'm getting the word out about this, Vangin Group. And brother for help, I just wanted to help people for the minutes. They are also helping with our application process. So it's been a collaboration and it's gone very well. And thanks to Candy and her unit for working two to make that happen. Just remind me of the reimbursement for the expansion. Are you getting total reimbursement from the state or the county has to put in some much? I have $200,000 for over $200,000. I don't even know this this year so far. I said it could be more. But then after that we get 75% of the person. Anybody else? Let me state. Let's federal state. So it's, yeah. What percent is federal change? I think, I don't even know. I don't know yet. It's more federal than it is state, because the state doesn't put much in. I want to say that all the Medicaid's major is not a federal. I thought it first. It was federal up to so many years. I think after the third year it becomes some state portion that I know. Second, it's not much at all the state puts in. The state is the county. 25. It's 25. It's always going to stay 25. Yeah. Yeah. Unless they take it away. Yeah, that $200,000 is up front first. 100% of that. All right. And then after that, anything else? Probably over half of it's federal funding. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But the county had to absorb, you know, they couldn't give you just endless positions. So the county had to absorb whatever they approved. Right. So, and I think the 75% reimbursement came with the bomb of care. Well, you see, 50% reimbursement for Medicaid. Oh, it's just wondering what the increase in numbers by the county is feeling about that. When they projected, did they project right on the work? For the county? For the county. For our county number, I think we were all so in one more. For the. For the. For the. For the. Yeah. For our county. I think we will. You're talking about the eligible. Yeah. I'm sure you all had an assortable projection. We did. To turn into somebody. And then they. Are you talking about for William Burstner? Or are you talking? Okay. Yeah. For the budget. Yeah. At first, I said they were going to give us more than what they did. And I could say that it was higher than the 200,000. Yeah. But we did. And then they said they could give us more than that this year. So we just have to wait and see. So yeah, a front was supposed to be more than the 200,000. I guess that's too big. Is there any additional information that you would like first to gather for you? Okay. That's hard to project sometimes. Yeah, it is. It is. They have found other money for us too and they'll, you know, they let us know, okay, you're going to be getting more money here So that has happened to six Anything else for this bridges We're not recognized direct to hunt again for the directors report All right, there's you probably have a lot of stuff there, but I'll go ahead and start with the The page that says directors report to the board Because of Senate bill 625 this has not happened yet, but I just need you to be aware that It is now of course And House and Rules Committee, but it's requiring, because it's about the board, I want you to know that they're making it, or they're trying to make it law where you have to have certain types of training and that it is due by March of 2025. So we will keep you updated. We don't know if this will pass yet, but they think it will. And we have already started updated. We don't know if this will pass yet, but they think it will. And we have already started, though. We've had our first training, our first board training, and we will have some more. So I think we're going to be fine, but I wanted you to know that Senate Bill 625 is going to mandate that. Also we have been working on the annual report. And what we're doing is we're comparing numbers for the last two years. All of us have been working on it. But Kim and I mostly, so it's taken some time to pull all that data together and do all that writing. But we are close. When you say Kim, I would say that we're at 90%, probably 95% finished with it, and we'll have it for you at the next meeting. But what we'd like to do is include pictures of the board members in our annual report. If you don't mind submitting that to Kim by the 31st, that is, I think this was sent to you a little bit earlier because it was for the meeting. Yeah. But if you could just send a picture that you don't mind us putting out there for the annual report, we would really appreciate it. So everybody plans to do that right? Okay, nobody say anything, right? So you're basically asking, you need a head job. Yes, we need a head job. We don't have a picture of everybody together. Yeah, just Kimmery. Okay, thank you so much. And the last thing is that I think you guys will be proud because we are part of Region 2 and we do those performance measures. Now the performance measures have all to do with the MOU that we had to sign. So our director who is Donna Faco up until the 19th of this month, she's now, they moved her to work with the state, but she did a comparison snapshot of all of the reach into counties and I'd like you guys to just take a look and see where Rutherford County is. First of all, we passed, but just so that we're doing well, but I just wanted you to see where we are. I believe overall fun looking at this. There were only like two areas that we fail lower than some counties. But yeah, but the most part we are, we took pretty well. Up on top of the street, present how much that will do. Yep. up on top. Yeah. Yeah. Excuse me. Have you made your employees major in two of these employees? I'm sorry. Measure in two of these employees. Oh, yes. Exactly. Yeah, we appreciate that. And everyone was coming low on that rear. And if you get anything at all, these are just the rear things that back money. It's hard to get that. That's why you see that number that way. And we don't have any yellow lines, which means pay attention. So, what you do know that? Okay, we get about us now. We get about us now. Maybe the board members can talk to the commissioners about that. Also the next thing that you will see is, um, can be. This is just a sure you want to talk about that. Okay. So last year, I think I reported during our, it's called a Rita Aras. It stands for, um, recipient eligibility determination audit. And they've always got to put acronym with everything. Uh, so we have these Aras every three years. And the state will come in and they will call 200 cases and Medicaid and we have to fare at 96.4% is what the standard is and we ended up at 98% in our areas and so we did pass that audit so we're very pleased for that and we did have if you can see on page one, the overpayment, we did have a couple overpayments, but that only equal $140 and 30 if I was saying it. Whew, ain't good, no. I mean, because we don't know when we have the error, until they get the vehicles from the providers on how much that would be, it could be an open heart surgery. You know, so thank you for that. But anyway, so just going to brag on our staff, the it could be an open heart surgery. So thank you for that. But anyway, so just want to brag on our staff. It's a very detailed, complicated audit that really takes up a lot of time of uploading, going back and forth. And they'll ask questions and you'll have to, if they can find something, it's just a lot of back and forth but 200 cases that's a lot of cases yeah you have to make someone retire don't say that it works as well but we're really proud of the staff and I mean not so we did have some errors and it was a warning that's pretty much it always is when you have a audit but I think we fare pretty well. The two and thank you for your hard work and 50 you and the services units. And Pam is well, Pam did we when did we get the information on my link that off the director's report when we get the information that you that our audit was passed. Is that this is the last four years? Yes. Did I report it in the last four years? I'm excited. Okay, all right. Would you please report your, we have fiscal monitoring in May, which we have every year. The state, the CNN monitors, that's our 1571, which is the reimbursement. Looks at all of our computer acquisition plans, all of our appreciation schedules, everything that we did pretty much. And so we didn't have any errors. But I'd pull only two months out of here, which, you know, that's a good thing. Two months out of here. You know, so you could be wrong too much. You know that? Thank you. But we didn't have any errors. So that's another year. could be wrong too much. Thank you so much. But we didn't have any errors. So that's another year. Kim was basically doing 15-71 stuff. So that's the job. Kim and Branna and Maine, now Christy since Kim's new. But I was glad for another year of no errors. And that's good. Congratulations, Lord. Mr. Memorial, are you there? Yes, there is that. All right, thank you. Congratulations. Mr. Memorial, are you there? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Congratulations on your. We're under the directors' reports, sir. Yes, thank you. Yes, sir. I'm very close to this. I'm glad. All right, sir. Thank you. I think that's, oh, I do want to make one more announcement. We just got word that we have been offered a grant, another grant. But we don't have to keep up with it. We don't have to keep up with it. But it's through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and what they do in this through legislation, what they do is they offer a team, a scholarly team, from a university to come in and to actually evaluate whatever issues that we think that were having. So they were asked me to come up with three things. And of course, listen to the managers that was not hard. And one was workforce development. How do you keep good workers? And then foster parents, how do we do that? And then keep in the number of foster children down. So those are the three things that that that were presented and we were recommended by someone from benchmarks and so They're going to get started. I already have the first conversation and as we begin to see it fades out we will keep reporting on it. We don't know yet. They know but they haven't told me what it was until they choose the team that's going to do it and then they will let me just know. So this is in the beginning stage. So much in the beginning stages that I don't think all of them know yet. No yet. Yeah, it is. And I mean anything that they can help us with that will help us do anything possible to try to mitigate the issues that prevents workers from well, to help with retention. And to keep kids from coming out of foster care, I mean, coming in foster care, there's just, it's tough. So we're hoping that that will help. And so we will see, anything we can do to help this. Is there a whole new way to stay in jail? Yeah. The job I've been seeing in knowledge, pretty bad. The last thing is the strategic plan. Now it's a lot, so you definitely don't have to look at all of that right now. But basically we came up with 10 things, and it's based on our values and our goals and what we need to do to make sure that we move Rutherford County forward and that we help the citizens of Rutherford County. So that strategic plan has goals and what we plan to do in each manager were tasked with developing the plan for their units. And so in there, you will see everything that they are doing and planning to do to make sure that they are meeting their goals that will help accomplish the goals of the strategic plan. So that's what we're working on for the next four years. We are, we're going to be reviewing it from time to time because although it's for four years and that's what we're looking toward, if we need to change anything or we see that things are changing, it's our plan, we can go in, we can update it, we can change it, we can add to it. But for the next four years, those are the things that we're working on. And if you guys want to check it out and have any questions, but at least you can look at it and see by departments what we're doing and what the plans are. Is this shared with staff? This staff had to help them come up with that. It's very good. It's impressive. Thank you very much. Thank you very much because Thank you very much. Thank you very much because they did their own. We designed it. Kim was very helpful with the strategic plan because a lot of the stuff she had to put together in terms of the type and part of it after the type and part of it. That's probably what I was doing late at night, but anyway, but yes, we put this together and put a lot of time in effort in it. I think they came in one morning and they said, what is this? Is that what happened to you? I was like, that's good. But they got it done and got it submitted. So I feel like now, you know, did you speak with these? Like did your supervisors help or how are you guys doing? If you want to, can you just explain to them what how you guys are doing? So when I'm tasked with doing, I send it out and I feel like, hey, come on with a plan. So they give us some plan and my two HSPE people, my human service planners will put it together and make it make sense and send it. Yeah. Because you can have the best laid plan, but when you involve the Blue Town Grand, they can give them a buy-in. That's right. Instead of you just taking a long ship. Taking ownership. And that is why each department has what they're going to do and everybody will have a copy and only it. I'm a big believer in that, like, even with social workers, you're the expert of your case. You're in the field. You know, and I appreciate it that my would have been so I heard that they just good with it. You know, everybody in a hand sitting. So you come back and look at it maybe quarterly or, oh yeah, quarterly. And you know, we'll be doing that with the managers. Another thing that we're doing that we're excited about is making data driven decisions. Our kind of task can be with that because she just, she loves data loves data so she loves data so we are also came one other thing that we have to tell them that we're very excited about and that everybody said that this table is going to turn it over. Would you tell them a little bit about Donna Feco and about our data dashboard? We're building the data dashboard to keep up with and make sure that we are meeting our benchmarks for our MOU and Donna has been working with me to set up the dashboard and make it make sense. Right. Yeah so that's that's the data driven decision making and of course all of us will be part of that we'll be feeding that data in. Donna Fayeco is the regional director that that works for the state and she's a regional director for region two up until August 19. So when she first came I know who she is because I helped with her and some other duties that I was doing but she was a director at New Hanober County as well as Rowan County and I knew that she was good at data. So I called her and I said are you willing to help us build a data dashboard? And she said, yes. She came in, she's at a conversation with this team, she's also met with Candy. And so she has got us pretty close to the dashboard. That basically means because the state gives us reports, but they're just so hard to read. And everybody should understand what our data is. Yes, to make it more useful. That's what it is. It's going to be able to chart things so we'll be able to look and see where we are. It's going to do things more in real time. You've got a pinpoint on all that. And, Candy, what job did I give you? I told you you were keeping up with the data somehow. Well, we were just talking about training on data. Oh, yes. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah. So it's just, you know, I just feel like you can rely on data when you address individuals, you know, accuracy rates, things like that, and it takes out that personal opinion. It does. So it's your own sub-dead. and it takes out that personal opinion. It does. That's the issue. Well, that's for all right. That's the second. Joseph, you still there? Yes, you. I did not work my name to this. I did not have a thing, I guess, just to tell you, that's your work on a direct result. The day just 30 and 31 was the bottom. The day the bridge unit was 23 and 4, They just 30 and 31 of the bottom say the 224 because that's the kind of, you know, 25 of them in there. The panel requires self-reducing ages. Resorting of action sets were aged 27. But now I'm having two babies. And they know it's a work of progress, but they can jump down to me there. I can just run it down to the floor. Okay. Okay. Give me those page numbers one more time. Sure. 3031, but just a slide for us. The bottom is like a footer. But the thing is, is that it says 302, please. Oh, I see. Yes, I see exactly what you're saying. Yes. Yes. it says June 2024. OK, thank you. And I think I've got to be credit for this, but I should give kind of credit for doing it. This was a lot of work. We're putting it together. So sorry about that. Yes, Joseph, thank you. He's not the wrong date. Yeah, it's just the wrong dates on there. Thank you, Joseph. I appreciate that. We will get that reviewed and try to fix those things. The Josie, what he was talking about after page 27, there's nothing in the results column. Oh. Just mess over there. OK, so the results column, thank you for saying that, because I don't think I heard that. The results column is what we will start putting in there as we start reviewing. Some of them already have results that are outcomes, and that's probably some of Candice Unit that has some of the things that are already doing, that started happening in 2024, that she could already put down. But for of them they're they're working on it and as they begin to work on it and it's it's reviewed that will be updated with the new date to you know to show the results of what they've been doing based on what they have put in there for the action and the activities. Does that make sense? We all do that. Yeah, monthly, quarterly. Okay, thank you. Yeah, quarterly. Quarterly is the norm. Anytime you've got a plan, the norm is quarterly. This is based on research. That's right. So this hasn't been published anywhere yet. This has not been published. So it's easy to fix that. Yes, because we don't want to publish anything before our board sees it. So that is why, as one of the things that Don Baco taught, yeah. So no, it has not been published. So we've got time to fix it before it's published to go anywhere. That was good for you. That was good for you. I was good in training. Oh absolutely. Absolutely yes. Do you usually have a strategic plan for four years? Yeah you can have five years. Now the reason why we're doing four years is because we're mimicking the state because the state supervises. And so that plan is, the MOU is for two years but the state's, their plan is, the MOU is for two years, but the states, their plan is before. Yeah, and we're just trying to be consistent with the state, the only reason. Yep. Director, I'm just saying, the assignment is a good, but I did access the agenda to put it inside it and they the link on the website. So if I want to just make sure that link is made in access to the existing agenda, we're not deep public. I need to hear it. Oh, OK. You're right. So you've got a point there. Thank you. See, that's just good information. Thank you very much because if it's on the link. And I think the reason why it was on the link, although I didn't make that connection is because of you guys having it before the meeting. But I guess we could do it by email. We could do it by email. We could do it by email so that that makes total sense. Still long is this an easy fix? Okay. Then once it's there. Right back there. Thank you thank you thank you. Anything else for Rick? No I have I think I've taken up enough of your time. Does any of the board member has any announcements? Mr. Mimoni Mr. Steve. be fine. Please. Mr. Steel. Thank you. Mr. Herndon. Just like to ask, is the board members that send attendance right now? Our next board member, board meeting is September the 8th. Will everybody be able to make that meeting? That's on the 8th. Excuse me, the 18th. I'm sorry. The 18th. September the 18th. The reason I bring it to your attention on September the 18th, I'm at a conference all that week and I am not available. Will everybody be able to make it? We want to try to make sure that we have a quorum in attendance. Kind of said it now. Hope we can get it on everybody's calendar and everybody's mind. And maybe the only one that's not going to be in attendance myself. And like I say, Mr. King, his conflict was he made the last meeting, but he already had this standing meeting, which the reason he couldn't make this meeting. So it sounds like everybody will be able to make the meeting. We'll have a quorum for the September the 18th meeting. I'd just like to say personally, I know that Director Hunt is at different times because sometimes she calls me early or text me early. Just to share, I know you're coming in early. You're staying over late because you find folks doing stuff in, got no business there. Commend you for your leadership, but I can't just give you all the credit because you're not a good chief if you ain't got some good workers. Better know it. I tell them all the time. Yeah, and so y'all gonna take some hits, folks gonna, y'all DSS. Folks gonna say good things, they gonna say bad things about you, but you know, for the bottom of my heart, I personally appreciate everything that y'all hard to do. Yeah, it's hard job. There's no other thought you could do. It's probably because you get any harder. It's gonna get harder. And I believe if it's not daily... But you're not gonna have staff that it was. And I believe if it's not daily, if it's not daily, Kayla is sending out job openings at DSS in some form or fashion. So thank you, keep leaving, y'all keep working, keep collaborating, keep seeking the grants that you're seeking because it only batters the citizens of Rutherford County. Right. Is there anything else to bring before the DSS Board? Thank you, Board, for your support. This work is hard and to have you, your support just makes it so much easier to deal with. Thank you very much. That's all I call for a motion of adjournment. I'll make a motion that we adjourn. Okay, second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Meeting is adjourned.