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Posted:02/13/2009 6:47 AM |
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Meeting Summary
Date: Feb. 3, 2009
1. Work group activities and accomplishments since the last meeting:
Texas Disaster Relief Fund awarded United Way $500,000 for the LTRC.
Earnest Dyer, St. Vincent de Paul, referred the McCormick Foundation to Jennifer Posten who provided them with a list of LTRC members. The foundation will invite proposals for funding.
Overall assessment of work day was good.
Repair & Rebuild work group will start using its meetings like an unmet needs table for R&R cases.
LINC Houston now has a full-time estimator.
Jennifer P. sent a letter to several disaster relief organizations on behalf of the LTRC requesting volunteers.
2. Highlights of meeting discussion:
In the coming months we will be reaching out to funders, and will need information from LTRC members to make our case.
It was affirmed that an organization must be a member of the LTRC to access LTRC funding.
Spiritual & Mental Health Work Group will discuss limits on what types of services can be funded.
We learned from the Jan. 24 work day that: volunteer coordination worked and we will continue with this model; project managers always need to be on site; there are plenty of tasks for unskilled volunteers; we need to look at ways of sharing equipment across work sites; we can run as many projects in a day as we have project managers for; if a project requires more than one day, we might need to use more than one team of volunteers; we should consider training that would bring semi-skilled volunteers to a higher skill level; we need to schedule volunteers weeks or months in advance.
3. Support and/or action needed from another work group, Steering Committee and/or Long Term Recovery Committee:
LTRC service providers are asked to provide Linda O. with the following data in order to make our case to funders: 1) # of houses repaired, # individuals in case management, # of volunteers, # of donations.
LTRC will develop an ongoing resource list.
R&R work group will provide Case Management work group with guidance on how to refer clients for home repair assistance.
Mark will create a Google spreadsheet to capture R&R projects that are either completed or in the queue.
Peter will advise committee of dates and times of H-GAC hearings on CDBG funding and supply talking points for comments. All members are invited to attend the hearing in Houston on Feb. 12.
4. Barriers and/or concerns:
5. Action Items:
Jan. 13, 2009, meeting minutes approved with revisions.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 9:00-10:00 am at United Way, Room 201
Attendance: Amanda T., Dave D., Linda O., Carol F., Jennifer P., Najah C., Carrie M., Henry N., Eddie H., Mark J., Ruama C., Saliha B., Reagan J., Stefanie L., Peter C.
Scribe: Peter C.
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