Meeting Activities
August 26, 2014
Planning and Grants (P&G) Committee
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ISSUE
2:30 PM Welcome and introductions K. Grange
2:45 PM Approve minutes from 6/24 and 7/22 Planning and Grants Committee
3:00 PM Budget Update M. Helton
3:15 PM Update on Civic Engagement ALL
3:30 PM Discuss Self-Advocacy Options M. Tewell/M. Helton
3:55 PM Update on Seclusion and Restraint M. Helton
4:00 PM Project LEAD Presentation Y. Plummer-Burkhalter
4:30 PM Adjournment K. Grange
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DISCUSSION:
1. Meeting convened at 2:40 PM
2. Minutes: Minutes from 6/24 and 7/22 passed.
3. Budget Update: Mackenzie Helton disclosed that the new CORE system would not allow him to
create the budget.
Payments to all vendors are about two weeks behind.
4. Civic Engagement Discussion :Since the last meeting, Procurement was on vacation so no groups had
been contacted.
Mackenzie recommended that the Committee start a Request for
Proposal (RFP) before 9/30, to lock in the $82,500.
The simplest way to do this would be to re-issue the civic
engagement RFP.
5. Self-Advocacy Options: Under the DD ACT, all Councils support self-advocacy, and in Colorado
the CDDC supports one project, Watch Our Words (WOW).
Many Councils support more than one project.
Marcia Tewell explained the Autism Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and
their leadership training model as a potential Council project.
Tennessee is in the midst of the week-long training and staff will get feedback
from the Executive Director once completed.
Ari Neiman, of ASAN, will be presenting at the Coleman Institute in October. He would be happy to come to CDDC, in the future, to train on self-advocacy in employment, the legislative process, or any other area the Council would like to address. If the feedback is positive, Marcia urged the Committee to recommend to the Council to pursue this training.
6. Update on Seclusion and Restraint: Mackenzie said staff had met with Randy Boyer of the Education
Department to finalize the RFP for Seclusion and Restraint.
Procurement is working with Staff to prepare the RFP for release.
7. Project LEAD: Yvette Plummer Burkhalter presented her report. Committee and Council
members are very welcomed to attend their open meetings. (see handout)
At present, four languages are in the program and next year a fifth language, Somali,
may be added. All participants are leaders, and the facilitators are learning from them!
The LEAD program is flexible because the attendees are different, with their own
personalities.
Guest speakers, Barry Rosenberg and Kathie Snow, in Years two and three, were
extremely powerful personalities and their stories revealed that disabilities are
natural.
Participants used the program for networking. The interpreters for the various
nationalities became strong advocates for people with developmental disabilities.
8. Adjournment: 3:45 PM.
The Next Meeting is: September 23, 2014
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ACTION/MOTION/CONSENSUS:
1. Melissa Mannix moved to accept the minutes from 6/24; Scott LeRoy seconded; minutes passed
2. Scott moved to accept the minutes from 7/22; Sarita Reddy seconded; minutes passed.
3. Melissa moved that the RFP for Civic Engagement be re-issued to lock in the $82,500. Scott seconded and the motion passed.
4. Lionel will email Yvette the Council link to the YouTube Legislative Weekend.
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Present: Katherine Carol (GTM), Katie Grange (GTM), Scott LeRoy (GTM), Melissa Mannix, Sarita Reddy (GTM), Corry Robinson (GTM), Dana Wedlick (GTM)
Guests: Yvette Plummer-Burkhalter
Staff: Mackenzie Helton, Lionel Llewellyn, Marcia Tewell
Absent: Jeanette Cordova, Mary Anne Harvey, Karen von Phul
I: FINAL/Planning and Grants/Meeting Activities/2014/August 26, 2014