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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-11-08 Commissioner Minutes THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 The Franklin County Commissioners met Thursday, November 8, 2012, with the following members present: David S. Keller, Robert L. Thomas and Robert G. Ziobrowski. Chairman Keller presided and after calling the meeting to order, a Moment of Silence, and the Pledge of Allegiance proceeded with the business of the day. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved to adopt the agenda. There was no public comment On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved all bills presented and ordered paid. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the minutes of October 30, 2012 and November 1, 2012 meetings. Sean Crager, Chief Information Officer was present to provide more information on board action #9 to move from the current Novell GroupWise email and collaboration platform to Google Aps for Government. He said the current email platform is very dated and in need of an update. Goggle will provide email, calendars, contacts and some new features as well including disaster recovery. This is a cloud based system and will host nothing here. The County can get rid of 9 servers with this change. Google also is Federal Information Security Act certified. Mr. Crager highly recommends approving this and moving forward. There will be training of all staff and a three phase migration strategy with IT staff moving over to Google first, then will pick smaller groups and lastly the larger migration to include everyone else. The Board reviewed additional Commissioners Office matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved Resolution 2012-22 authorizing the transfer of four turtle top vehicles in the Transportation Department to the custody of Huntingdon, Bedford and Fulton Counties and that the attached resolution become a part of these minutes. The Board reviewed Children & Youth matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the budget amendment for Fiscal Year 2011-2012 for Children & Youth to properly allocate funding for Administration, In-Home, Community-Based Placement, and Institutional Placement. Amendment will not change Federal or State reimbursements, nor will the County’s share change. The Board reviewed Commissioners Office matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the 2012 Supplemental Appropriation in the amount of $427,000.00 for the purchase of the Wogan’s building. The Board reviewed Commissioners Office matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved for the Chairman of the Board to execute Change Order #5 from McCarty & Son, Inc. for the Franklin County Judicial Center Renovations Electrical contract to change two 3.6v battery packs to 12v battery packs at an additional cost of $607.60. Continued on page 2 The Board reviewed Grants Management matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the Grant Agreement between the County of Franklin and PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency to provide grant funds in the amount of $4,991.00 from the PCCD’s Act 111 Registration Support Grant for the period of December 1, 2012 through November 30, 2013. Beginning December 20, 2012 PA Counties must be able to register and update the state’s sex offender registry. In order to ease the burden of Act 111, PCCD is offering each county up to $4,991.00 to cover costs to comply with these new requirements. The Board reviewed additional Grants Management matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the Modification Request to PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency for the Drug & Alcohol Restrictive Intermediate Punishment Grant that provides intensive supervision, addiction case management and treatment for offenders participating in the Franklin County Drug & Alcohol Probation Program (DAPP). This modification is to reprogram money from underspent categories to supplement services and provide program enhancements. There is no change to the amount or term of the grant. The Board reviewed Human Resources matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved for the Chairman of the Board to execute the contract between the County of Franklin and Capital Blue Cross to administer the dental benefit coverage to County employees, retirees and Cobra participants for the period of January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. The Board reviewed additional Human Resources matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved for the Chairman of the Board to execute the contract between the County of Franklin and Capital Blue Cross to administer the medical, Rx and vision benefit coverage to County employees, retirees and Cobra participants for the period of January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. The Board reviewed Information Services matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the quote from SADA Systems, Inc. to move from Novell GroupWise email system to a hosted solution provided by Google at a cost of $70,977.90 on General Services Administration State Contract pricing. This new system will provide email, anti-virus, anti-spam, email archiving, simple office applications and instant messaging capabilities. This change will reduce IS staff maintenance time and eliminate the need for 9 physical servers within the County. The Board reviewed Juvenile Probation matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved for the Chairman of the Board to execute the Award Notice from the Juvenile Court Judges Commission for the Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission Grant-in-Aid funding from the State to support the operations of the Juvenile Probation Department in the amount of $106,677.00 for the period of July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013. The Board reviewed Sheriff Office matters. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the proposal from New Holland Ford for purchase of two 2013 Ford Utility Police Interceptors for the Sheriff’s Office at a cost of $66,564.18. These two vehicles will replace two vehicles with over 200,000 miles each. This company is on Co-Stars 13 State contract pricing. Continued on page 3 Chairman Keller said this is the second public hearing for the County’s Block Grant Plan and Process. The draft plan was submitted on October 31, 2012 to the State and due to the storm last week the State gave the county permission to reschedule the second public meeting to this week. Richard Wynn, Human Services Administrator provided an overview of the presentation that was presented at the first public hearing on October 23, 2012. Mr. Wynn said that he received one comment from the Mental Health Association and the commissioners haven’t received any comments other than what was mentioned at the first public hearing. After Mr. Wynn’s presentation Chairman Keller opened the floor for public comments. Charlie Morgan said he is a self-advocate and only he knows what he wants and needs, thank you. Sheri Morgan from Greencastle stated she was glad for the delay last week because this gave her a chance to talk to other people. She said it’s great that the committee suggested not making any changes at this point but she had the following seven suggestions: 1) accept the recommendations made by the October 2012 Planning Committee; 2) empower a legitimate planning committee that includes self- advocates and experts in the human services field; 3) study the best ways to utilize the funds by conducting a health impact assessment; 4) implement the recommendations found by the health impact assessment; 5) expose the true extent of the unmet needs in the county; 6) develop contingency plans to maintain adequate funding in the case the pilot block grant program is overturned by the Commonwealth or US Supreme Courts; and; 7) keep the citizenry informed. Ms. Morgan said that people don’t know the seriousness of the underfunding and when she has talked to people they were surprised to know how underfunded we are. Citizens are the ones who march on the offices and if they don’t know they don’t show up. The process has been described in this room as being overly burdensome which she takes issue with. Ms. Morgan said the process involved in determining this planning committee did not follow the beliefs and framework described in the PA Department of Public Welfare Office of Mental Retardation publications found on the Franklin County website, “Everyday lives” – she wishes everyone would go to that publication. Ken Wuertenberg, Mental Health Association said he is going to pick a fight with Commissioner Thomas because he is the biggest defender of how the County processes and is proud of what he’s accomplished so this will offend him. He said this process is flawed and started at the state level with inclusion when the process was proposed at the state level. He heard it will streamline the process and will knock out the red tape. Every advocacy organization was excluded in the discussion at the State level which was a purposeful and a planned move on the part of state government. Then they move the food chain to the County, where the benefit to the advocacy community has a much louder voice. It’s a benefit to having categoricals and money allocated but when get to local level there is no guarantee now. This county does a really bad job of inclusion. They are three white guys without a disability themselves who don’t understand what it feels like to have a disability and to be excluded from the process. Someone had time to contact all 20 people on the community but not enough time to contact one person on disability. There are many people with disabilities in this community that never received a phone call. This has been the attitude from County government for years and the Board doesn’t see it because they don’t live it. If he was to make a right to know request and ask for data for inclusion of persons with disabilities on all their boards it would be very low. Hiring practice of peoples with disabilities is very low. He may do a right to know request for that also. He has a whole list of exclusions as he doesn’t see anyone with color in this room? What needs to happen doesn’t Continued on page 4 happen. They don’t have the point of view and staff doesn’t have this point of view. He said they should include staff or providers but when excuse a portion of population, if receive service and have illness they have the perspective that other people don’t have. If don’t insure this happens in the future people in service will lose. This is a systemic issue that needs to change, not just during this block grant process, they need to look at the whole system. If he’s right please do something about it. Chairman Keller thanked everyone for input, questions and concerns. The Board will take everyone’s comments to heart and the comments from last hearing as well. The Board needs to make a decision today since there is a short time frame from the Commonwealth. He asked what’s the board’s pleasure with respect to the plan that has been described to them. Commissioner Thomas said there is no change, rest of the discussion was the process about the committee. He acknowledges there are concerns and in the future there will be inclusion of consumers but the committee was a good group of people and three were extreme advocates for people with disabilities. He sees no reason to not proceed. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved the Block Grant Plan. Chairman Keller appreciates the committee that has put this plan together and pleased that 100% of funding from the Commonwealth will go directly where it has gone without the block grant structure and can be restructured to put money where funds are short. Because of this more people will not be homeless, people will have drug & alcohol prevention and Human Service training days are legitimate use of funds. He can think of several people who have served on boards that are persons with disabilities and who have worked in human service offices and offices in the courts and they would be pleased with this plan that has been developed. Chairman Keller thanked everyone who has been involved with the planning process and who provided public comment. On a motion by Robert L. Thomas, seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski; unanimously approved to enter an executive session at 10:50 a.m. this date for the purpose to review Personnel matters. The Board reconvened into regular session at 11:59 a.m. No action was required after executive session. The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 a.m. with a motion by Robert L. Thomas; seconded by Robert G. Ziobrowski. FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS County of Franklin Resolution No. 2012-22 A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNTY OF FRANKLIN, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF VEHICLES WHEREAS, on or about October 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008, Franklin County was the recipient of four Turtle Top Vehicles in aid of its PwD Program; and WHEREAS, the vehicles were allocated through a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation(PDOT) grant; and WHEREAS, the vehicles no longer serve the transportation needs of Franklin County in its PwD Program; and WHEREAS, PDOT has identified Huntingdon, Bedford and Fulton as counties in need of said Turtle Top Vehicles; and NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of Franklin County authorizes the transfer of the following vehicles to the custody of Huntingdon, Bedford and Fulton counties, as directed by PDOT: Lift 21 1FTSS34S67DB39004 2007 FORD Lift 22 IFTSS34S87DB39005 2007 FORD Lift 23 1FTSS34SX7DB39006 2007 FORD Lift 24 1FTSS34S38DB35249 2008 FORD ATTEST COUNTY OF FRANKLIN J hn Hart David S. feller, Chairman County Administrator Board of Commissioners W �� Robert L. 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