CSC Backup 01/17/1992 Children ' s Services
Council of Collier County
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OFFICERS
Chairman:
Bea Harper
Vice Chairman:
Richard Shanahan
Secretary-Treasurer:
Mary Ellen zumFelde
COUNCIL MEMBERS -
Judge Ted Brousseau
Alma Cambridge ATTENTION: CHANGE IN MEETING SCHEDULE
Delores G.Dry
Nelson A.Faerber,Jr.
Lavern Gaynor
John Passidomo
Dr.Thomas Richey
The Children's Services Council of Collier County
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paul C.Pinson
will hold its regular monthly meeting
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Friday, January 17, 1992
9:00 AM
County School Board Room
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"Children... Today's Dream - Tomorrow's Reality" GRAND CENTRAL STATION•SUITE 366
GOODLETTE ROAD,NAPLES,FLORIDA 33940
TEL (813)649-8222
OFFICERS
Chairman:
Bea Harper
Vice Chairman:
Richard Shanahan
Secretary-Treasurer:
Mary Ellen zumFelde
The Children's Services Council
COUNCIL MEMBERSOf Collier County
Judge Ted Brousseau Regular Board Meeting
Alma Cambridge Friday, January 17, 1992
Delores G.Dry
Nelson A.Faerber,Jr.
Lavern Gaynor AG$NDA
John Passidomo
Dr.Thomas Richey
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paul C.Pinson 1. Invocation
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Roll Call
Q4. Approval of Minutes
5. Treasurer's Report
6. Report of the Executive Director
7. New 'Business:
a. Elaine Alvarez, past chairman, Children's Services
Council of Palm Beach County.
b. Funding Priorities
c. Projected Budget
8. Community Comments
9. Adjournment
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The Children's Services Council of Collier County
Special Meeting of December 2, 1991
Council Members Present Council Members Absent
Alma Cambridge Judge Ted Brousseau
Nelson Faerber, Jr . Delores G. Dry
Bea Harper John Passidomo
Lavern Gaynor
Dr . Thomas Richey
Richard Shanahan
Mary Ellen zumFelde
A special meeting of the Children's Services Council of
Collier County was held on Monday , December 2 , 1991 , at
1 :00 pm. , Gulf Terrace Room, Naples Beach Hotel and Golf
Club.
The meeting was chaired by Bea Harper .
4C) Paul Pinson, executive director , stated the purpose of the
meeting was to update members on the needs assessment study
and referred to to the "draft copy" of the study which he
had received from Florida State University , Sunday , December
1 and was distributed to the Council members Monday ,
December 2 , 1991 .
A general discussion of the study began and the following
comments were made: the title name of table 1 should be
changed; table 1 should state it is updated data; and, items
on page 26 should be grouped into various categories . It was
also noted all agencies are involved with crisis
situations and doing the best they can; they function as
service providers , fund raisers , and advocates and are
greatly concerned with the privacy issues they must deal
with; they do not have the time or funds to maintain
follow-up data; the public lacks knowledge about the
agencies-- ie, agency names other than HRS, David Lawrence
Center , Youth Haven and the YMCA have little or no meaning
to the public .
The general consensus was the study is a beginning --
there still remains work to be done -- the Council is
committed to the needs assessment study -- it is an
acceptable package and the Council ' s program was winnable.
Further discussion was given to consideration of requesting .
1/4 mill rather than 1/2 mill . A motion was made by Mary
Ellen zumFelde to petition for 1/4 mill rather than 1/2
mill , seconded by Lavern Gaynor . Passed unanimous .
Mr . Pinson reported the final report with additional "'
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graphics would be received on Tuesday and distributed to the
Council for the Wednesday, December 4 , 1991 meeting.
There being no further business the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
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The Children's Services Council of Collier County
Meeting of December 4, 1991
Council Members Present Council Members Absent
Judge Ted Brousseau (Tardy) Delores G. Dry
Alma Cambridge John Passidomo
Nelson Faerber, Jr . Dr . Thomas Richey
Lavern Gaynor
Bea Harper
Robert Ritz
Richard Shanahan
Mary Ellen zumFelde
A meeting of the Children' s Services Council was held on
Wednesday, December 4 , 1991 , at 7 : 00 PM, Collier County School
Board Room.
The meeting was chaired by Bea Harper . Chairman Harper gave a
brief resume of the Council 's history and stated that completion
of the needs assessment study was another step in the council ' s
progress and expressed sincere thanks to everyone in the audience
for their interest and support .
Minutes of the previous meeting held November 1 , 1991 were
approved as presented. Motion made by Commissioner Shanahan,
seconded by Lavern Gaynor . Passed unanimous .
Mary Ellen zumFelde treasurer, $23 , 430 cash on hand as of October
31 , 1991 ; plus interest $56; less expenses of $6,087 ; with a cash
balance of $17 , 399 as of November 30 , 1991 . Motion made to accept
the treasurer ' s report by Richard Shanahan, seconded by Alma
Cambridge. Passed unanimous .
Paul Pinson, executive director , reported on two important dates;
December 17 , 1991 , the date the Council would appear before the
Collier County Commission to place the referendum question on the
March 10 , 1992 , and March 10 , 1992 , the ballot date.
Mr . Pinson reported the final approved version of the needs
assessment study before each of the council members had been
received that morning and was , in essence, basically the same
document as the draft document reviewed by the council on Monday,
December 2 , 1991 , the only exception being his rewrites and the
addition of graphs , charts and trim-lines which will be of
extreme importance to the council as the campaign goes forward.
Mr . Pinson made reference to the trends of unmet needs in Collier
County which are all going up rather than down, as reported in
the study, and that the Council basically needs to vote this
evening on the acceptance of the study which will then give the
Council the opportunity to begin its deliberation. It was
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pointed out that under the HRS reorganization plan, there is a
movement underway to develop matching funds for counties who have
Children's Services Council in place .
Mrs . Harper referred to the December 2 , 1991 meeting in which the
final draft had been reviewed and admitted it is going to take
time for the council to digest all the data. For the benefit of
the audience, she commented on certain areas of unmet needs and
trends . Commissioner Shanahan moved to accept the study, seconded
by Alma Cambridge .
Nelson Faerber shared his concern about the study -- that , the
report is a statistical overview only of available services . A
thorough discussion was made by the council . The general
consensus was the study , from an outside objective viewpoint ,
substantiates and documents the unmet needs of children and
families in the county; it does not give all the funding
priorities nor advise how to spend every penny; the level of
specificity the council will finally arrive at, is the
responsibility of the council ; the study is not the final end
product the council needs to accomplish its goal ; a considerable
amount of work is required by the council ; the council should
accept , not adopt , the study . The council voted 6 to 1 to accept
4:) the study , Nelson Faerber voting nay .
The chairman then introduced the March 10 , 1992 referendum and
read the ballot language . The need for specificity of issues
was emphasized by Robert Ritz to which all council members
concurred. Mrs . Harper stated even though the statute allows up
to 1/2 mill , it was decided at the December 2 meeting, it would
be more advantageous at this time to ask for 1/4 mill . Richard
Shanahan commented since the council has met all criteria that
March 10 , 1992 be established as the choice for this referendum.
Nelson Faerber shared his concerns on the wording of the ballot
f language. After a brief disussion, it was agreed the language
I should be improved upon. A motion was made that the council
petition to appear before the Collier County Commission on
December 17 for approval to be on the March 10 , 1992 ballot .
Motion made by Richard Shanahan and seconded by Alma Cambridge.
Passed unanimous .
Barbara Hattemer, president , of the National Family Foundation
reported on "Children in Relationship to Parents" and also voiced
her concerns about the accountability of the council . Paul
Pinson responded it was very instructive for the council and
community to understand the many concerns which will be aired
and be willing and able to respond to the issues as they arise .
He then referred Mrs . Hattemer to the 3-page report on
4;) accountability and powers of the council .
Dr . Denise Heineman, resident faculty member at the University of
South Florida College of Nursing, Ft . Myers , put aside her
prepared comments to address the the earlier suggestion to remove
the word health from the ballot language. In her opinion,
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removal of the word health would emasculate the ballot and she
asked that the council think about the implications for future
funding should the word be removed. She supports the council and
its goals because, ethically speaking in terms of justice, the
public owes our children the best we can give them.
Joe Cox, co-chairman of the campaign, committee reported on the
organizational structure of the committee and the formation of a
Political Action Committee and encouraged everyone to participate
in the campaign process .
There being no further business , a motion was made to adjourn the
meeting. Alma Cambridge , seconded by Lavern Gaynor .
Respectfully submitted,l��
Mary El en zumFe de,
Secretary
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OFFICERS
Chairman:
Bea Harper
Vice Chairman:
Richard Shanahan
Secretary-Treasurer: Cash On Hand: 11/30/91 $ 17,399.03
Mary Ellen zumFelde
Income:
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Judge Ted Brousseau Pledge Payment $1,000.00
Alma Cambridge Interest 53.34
Delores G.Dry
Nelson A.Faerber,Jr. Donations 300.00
Lavern Gaynor Miscellaneous 28.07
John Passidomo $ 1,381.41 1,381.41
Dr.Thomas Richey 18,780.44
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paul C.Pinson
Expenses:
Salary $4,875.00
FICA 372.90
Rent 250.00
• Office Supplies 658.07
Postage 127.65
Electricity 26.29
Telephone 100.48
Public Relations 53.00
$6,463.39 6,463.39
Cash On Hand: 12/31/91 $12,317.05
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THE CHILDREN' S SERVICE COUNCIL
OF COLLIER COUNTY
Suite 366, Grand Central Station
Goodlette Road, Naples, Florida 33940
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS
Scheduled meeting of the above-noted Board, commencing
at 9 : 00 a.m. , Friday December 7 , 1991, held at the YMCA
Auditorium, corner of Airport Road and Pine Ridge Road, Naples,
Florida 33942 .
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PRESENT:
Ms. Bea Harper, Chairman
Mr. Richard S. Shanahan, Vice Chairman
Ms. Alma Cambridge, Council member
Ms. Delores G. Dry, Council member
Mr. Nelson A. Faerber, Jr, Council member
Ms. Lavern Gaynor, Counci imember
Mr. John Passidomo, Council member
Judge Cindy Ellis, Council member
Ms. Kay Campbell , Council member
Mr. Paul C. Pinson, Executive Director
Reported by: Connie S. Potts, Notary Public
State of Florida at Large
Deputy Official Court Reporter
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1 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Would everybody please take their
2 seats so we can call the meeting to order. Please.
3 (Meeting called to order at 9 : 00 a.m. ,
4 on December 7 , 1990. )
5 CHAIRMAN HARPER: The meeting is now called to
6 order.
7 Reverend Howard Brown is going to present our
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8 invocation. Reverend Brown is the minister of Lely
9 Presbyterian church. He also serves on the board of the
10 YMCA.
11 REVEREND BROWN: We certainly welcome you to our Y
12 and we hope that you will come back and perhaps play a game
13 of basketball and step over there and work off some of the
14 Christmas cookies.
15 Let ' s bow our heads and give thanks.
16 (Invocation presented. )
17 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
18 If we could please stand and make a Pledge of
19 Allegiance?
20 (Pledge of Allegiance recited) .
21 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Ms. Campbell, would you could the
22 roll call?
23 MS. CAMPBELL: Ms. Cambridge. Mrs. Judge Ellis. Ms.
24 Dry. Mr. Faerber. Mrs. Gaynor. Mrs. Harper. Mr.
25 Passidomo. Doctor Richey, not present. Mr. Shanahan. Mrs.
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Si zum Felde, not present. Kay Campbell , present.
2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: We all have a copy of the minutes
3 of the last meeting. They were given to you beforehand.
4 Are there any corrections or additions?
5 If not --
6 MR. SHANAHAN: I would make a motion that we accept
7 the minutes as presented.
8 CHAIRMAN HARPER: All in favor?
9 (Affirmative responses. )
10 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Incidently, anyone on the Council
ii who wants a verbatim transcript of it, it is available at
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I i 13 Paul Pinson.
14 MR. PINSON: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Just a
15 couple quick comments.
16 As Mary Ellen zum Felde could not be here, I thought
17 it would be very -- has been Gulf Life magazine and written
18 about and listed as one of the movers and shakers in the
19 area of child advocacy. So that would be an interesting
20 article for all of us to have and read.
21 And welcome Dee Dry from Fort Myers, and we
22 appreciate your attendance today.
23 Because Judge Brousseau, has been ill, there has been
24 an a vacancy for Judge Ellis to represent the judiciary.
! 25 We 're sorry about Ted, but we 're welcome to have you here
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2 JUDGE ELLIS: Thank you, Paul .
3 MR. PINSON: And Kay is now secretary to the Council ,
4 and she is one -- is the one who does most of the behind the
5 scenes work. So we 're happy to have her with us here.
6 Congratulation to the newest celibrity on the
7 Council, Nelson Faerber. It ' s now presiding as president of
8 the School Board.
9 I really thank the YMCA. It' s nice of them to host
10 us today. They went to a lot of trouble.
11 And especially like to issue condolences to Gale
12 Sever (phonetic) . His father has passed away, and for that
13 reason, he couldn' t be here.
14 And we ' re really happy to be here.
15 Also, Ralph Carrothers has sent a key employee here
16 to transcribe this meeting, and much appreciation goes to
17 Mr. Carrothers and his agency for doing that.
18 Three months ago. Three months ago, there was
19 wide-spread general concern about the issue of whether or
20 not this Council could perform, could contribute to, could
21 do anything of substance over the next year and a half
22 without the funding mechanism in place. That special
23 accreditation that we all know is critical for a long-term
4111) 24 solution to do a lot of the programs. I think that concern
25 was amongst the Council. I know it was among the community,
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1 and I 'm happy to say and I 'm happy to reflect as I look upon
2 the agenda this morning that my personal concern has been
3 alleviated.
4 When I look at the issues you will be dealing with
5 today, the options, we were concerned that we would not have
6 any opportunities nor options just a couple months ago, and
7 we ' re a three-month-old organization, and what I 'm proud to
8 see this morning, and what I think you too should be
9 especially proud of, is that we have considerable options
10 and opportunities for your consideration today. And I think
11 a large part of that is due to the fact that you Council
12 folks have been out in the community talking it up, opening
13 doors.
14 So, much congratulation to us, and I think you
15 deserve to be proud of that fact.
16 You also should be very aware that we, the Children' s
17 Services Council of Collier County, are getting a
18 substantial number of contacts and calls from other counties
19 asking us, "What is it that you' re doing right? We want
20 information and guidance from you. " They' re in the process
21 of setting up Council, they' re hearing the fact that we have
22 tremendous community support and they' re trying to find out
23 what we ' re doing, and I think a large part of that success
(:r 24 is directly due to the effect of Bea Harper' s leadership.
� 25 And as you 'll note, the first item under the agenda, under
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3 So with that, thank you.
4 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, Paul.
5 The first item on the agenda of Old Business is our
6 by-laws.
7 Nelson. Nelson, can you hear me? Any problem?
8 Good.
9 MR. FAERBER: I have presented the Council with what
10 I presume will be the final draft of the by-laws, making the
11 changes that were suggested at the last meeting.
12 Those changes dealt with the type of vote necessary
13 to approve a budget. They dealt with some changes to the
14 chairman as far as signing checks and the -- I think it ' s
15 the executive director, to comport with the state law, and
16 basically that has been the primary change to be made.
17 There is, you ' ll note, a new statement of mission
18 that -- I 'm not responsible for it. That' s a later agenda
19 item. That needs to be discussed by the Council , and if
20 approved, it will remain as it ' s written here in the final
21 draft. If not, I ' ll move to approve that first paragraph.
22 Are there any questions about the by-laws?
23 MS. DRY: I have a couple of editorial changes that
24 need to be made. That' s all.
25 MR. FAERBER: Go ahead. Just tell me where you are.
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1 MS. DRY: Page two. The last paragraph. In fact
'-— 2 line three. Where it mentions that -- the third line from
3 the bottom -- special meeting.
4 MR. FAERBER: Yes.
5 MS. DRY: I believe "Emergency Meeting. "
6 MR. FAERBER: Okay.
7 MS. DRY: Page five, Article IX: Executive Director.
8 Item Number 2, Power and duties. My copy has "the
9 President.,"
10 MR. FAERBER: Yeah. That was supposed to be
11 Executive Director.
12 MS. DRY: I believe that ' s supposed to be --
13 MR. FAERBER: Yes. It was before we met last.
14 MS. DRY: And Item 2 (e) , countersign checks signed by
15 the -- for semantic purposes, Council chairman or chairman
16 instead of chairperson, if they are to be grammatically
17 correct.
18 MR. FAERBER: Anything else?
19 MS. DRY: Perhaps I should ask the question, too.
20 On page three, under Article V, (A) : "The Chairman
21 shall. " I don' t know if that should be -- I know chairman
22 will sign the checks; but should that be countersigned too
23 since we're having the Executive Director countersign?
24 Or, I don' t know. I 'm just asking that.
25 MR. FAERBER: I think, he -- I ' ll check on that.
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2 MR. FAERBER: But I believe I took that right from
3 the statute. I 'm fairly certain. If not, I ' ll make it
4 comport with the statement.
5 Brenda, did you have some comments?
6 MS. WILSON: Only to say that the president was used
7 in two locations on that.
8 MR. FAERBER: Where was the other one?
9 MS. WILSON: Page five. Under -- two under Budget
10 and two under Powers and Duties. Page five.
11 MR. FAERBER: Page five. I 'm looking.
12 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Under the Budget.
iLw 13 MR. FAERBER: Oh, I 've got you. Okay.
14 Are there any other questions or observations?
15 JUDGE ELLIS: One more time. President was used in
16 Article IX, Selection, third line down.
17 MR. FAERBER: Right. I got that.
18 Madam Chairman, if those are all the questions or
19 observations on the by-laws, then I would move approval of
20 the by-laws, less the statement of mission, and including in
21 that motion the changes and corrections that have just been
22 suggested by members of Council .
23 MR. SHANAHAN: Second that motion.
24 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Any discussion?
25 Further discussion?
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2 (Affirmative responses. )
3 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Opposed?
4 (No response. )
5 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
6 Where is Paul? Oh, there he is.
7 Paul , could we have a report on the Needs Assessment.
8 MR. PINSON: Thank you. A report, very quick report,
9 is the final draft of course was completed and announcements
10 were placed in the local papers. Interested parties on our
11 list that we had previously compiled were sent copies of the
12 RFP Needs Assessment as well as a more comprehensive list
13 that we developed.
14 So now we have had this -- had contact with six
15 different organizations and entities that have expressed a
16 strong interest in bidding on that. We set a date of
17 fifteenth of January to hear back on that RFP Patrol .
18 And just quickly, a quick comment about one
19 organization. Florida State University, which has a
20 world-renowned Needs Assessment Department. They are headed
21 by Doctor Roger Kaufman (phonetic) .
22 Doctor Phillip Greasy (phonetic) , the head of that
23 particular subsection of that department called me. We
24 spent about thirty minutes on the phone. He had some very
25 good, substantial issues. They have a real strong interest
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2 So we have real good, good interest, wide-spread
3 interest.
4 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Are there any questions from the
5 audience about the Needs Assessment? Please feel free to
6 join in.
7 All right.
8 MS. BONNESS: Yes.
9 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Yes. Sharon.
10 MR. FAERBER: Why don' t you step to the microphone.
11 MR. PINSON: And identify yourself.
12 MS. BONNESS: Sharon Bonness, and I 'm doing some work
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14 planning.
15 I have had a consultant ask me, a consultant that is
16 planning on doing a proposal asked me about the consultant ' s
17 liability and whether or not that was something that was
18 needed in the circumstance, because of the fact that that
19 will impact on the overall fee that you will have to pay for
20 your consultant, and what the purpose of that liability
21 insurance is that you ' re requiring that they have liability
22 insurance.
23 So I thought that I would bring that up before the
24 Council to let you address it, to see what the liability is,
25 what it ' s supposed to cover and what the risk is in this
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1 particular case and for this Needs Assessment.
2 Thank you.
3 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, Sharon.
4 Well, since Doctor Richey is our chairman in charge
5 of the Needs Assessment, I 'm not sure we can address it at
6 this point. Paul .
7 MR. PINSON: My only response is that we do have two
8 attorneys sitting on the Council today. If they want to
9 comment, great. If not, then we certainly I think should
10 let Doctor Richey follow up on that particular item.
11 MR. FAERBER: I don' t have any special expertise in
12 that area. Do you, John?
13 MR. PASSIDOMO: I don' t know.
14 MR. SHANAHAN: Or you, Cindy, or Brenda.
15 We have a number of attorneys, a number of choices.
16 MS. WILSON: Unfortunately, I haven' t had the benefit
17 of seeing the R -- specifically to see what the requirement
18 is that you 're referring to. But in Collier County
19 government, it ' s very typical to ask for a professional
20 liability insurance and most professions that are providing
21 these type of services carry professional liability
22 insurance.
23 I would be surprised if they didn' t have a standard
24 policy that they were carrying for their own benefit, and in
25 most situations that is sufficient.
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, 1 MR. PINSON: And, Madam Chairman, I will follow up
4:: 2 with Doctor Richey when he returns, on that.
3 CHAIRMAN HARPER: All right. Thank you.
4 John, could we have a report from you.
5 MR. PASSIDOMO: Thank you, Madam Chairman.
6 Paul Pinson and I met recently with the grant-writing
7 committee of the Community Foundation in order to elaborate
8 on your request for financial support and specifically to
9 address our Needs Assessment. And we recognize, or
10 certainly I recognize in doing so, that the chairmen and the
11 executive directors and others had laid a substantial
12 foundation over a long period of time in working with the
13 Community Foundation in a coordinated effort.
14 In doing so, I also recognize that the Community
15 Foundation shares with us a sense of a compelling need for a
16 community response and a coordinated response to the
17 critical needs for children' s services. They recognize, as
18 we do, that local people using local resources to deal with
19 local problems is the way to most effectively address an
20 issue like this.
21 I would like to introduce Barbara Sentz (phonetic) ,
22 Executive Director of the Community Foundation, to address
23 the Council and to make an announcement to us. Barbara.
IC) 24 MS. SENTZ: Thank you, John. I 'm very happy to
25 announce that the Community Foundation of Collier County,
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1 along with the McCloud Stewardship Foundation, has awarded
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2 the Children' s Services Council a $35, 000 grant to
3 underwrite the cost of the Children' s Services Needs
4 Assessment.
5 I speak for the Foundation board and for Mr. McCloud
6 when I say that we ' re very proud to be a part of this most
7 important work that you have begun.
8 Mr. McCloud sits on our grant-making committee and he
9 felt, as did all the of the members of the grant-making
10 committee, that the Children' s Services Council was a very
11 positive step in improving the quality of life of the
12 children here in Collier County.
Clo 13 I personally am very pleased to make this
14 announcement because I worked in children' s services prior
15 to coming to the Community Foundation.
16 I worked with Banyan Project at the David Lawrence
17 Center and was a member of the Juvenile Justice Task Force
18 since its inception, so I was very pleased when the board of
19 the Foundation unanimously voted to give you support.
20 We wish you well.
21 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well , if I can just add a little.
22 We 're so grateful to the Community Foundation. And
23 as Barbara and I were talking the other day, I feel so
24 strongly about the Children' s Services Council and the
25 funding that will hopefully eventually come from it that
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1 long after a lot of us are gone, the children in Collier
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2 County will be benefiting because of what the Community
3 Foundation has taken as a step to do for the children in
4 Collier County.
5 Paul -- those of you who were at the last meeting
6 remember that we had an item that came up regarding
7 endorsements for various projects in the community, and I
8 would like for Paul to address that.
9 MR. PINSON: Well, thanks.
10 After -- Madam Chairman, after researching every
11 other county in the State of Florida that currently has an
12 operating Children' s Services Councils or Juvenile Welfare
13 Boards and examining in detail exactly what their
14 motivations and policies were regarding endorsement, and
15 after reflecting considerably and talking with many others
16 regarding this particular issue of endorsements -- in
17 particular, in regards to our Council which basically has
18 three months of history under its belt, is a flegling
19 institution, just getting up and running, and we are really
20 in many ways still groping for our identity, still searching
21 for that direct path as to where we want to go -- it ' s my
22 strong recommendation that the board, that the Council here
23 adopt a policy at least in the interim, at least on the
24 basis until we have our funding in place, of not endorsing
25 any particular program nor organization.
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1 And I think a comment is in due -- is due, if in fact
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2 it would be appropriate, from Pinellas County, Jim Mills,
3 Executive Director of the Pinellas Council Children' s
4 Welfare Board, firmly stated to me that the best endorsement
5 this Council can give to any entity or organization that
6 seeks that endorsement is the funding, so that he has a
7 policy of not endorsing, a' la endorsings, but rather when
8 they come in front of him, if they deem it necessary and
9 feel it appropriate, they fund the program.
10 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Is there any discussion from the
11 Council?
12 MR. FAERBER: I feel comfortable in what -- Paul ' s
13 recommendation.
14 In that last situation, I was put into a position
15 where I was being asked as a member of this Council to
16 endorse the project, which I did, and then found that a week
17 later it was before the School Board for approval . It was
18 not approved. Debbie Cook and I -- again I voted to approve
19 it, but it was not approved by a majority, and I felt a
20 little comfortable about that.
21 But I really think we 're getting our feet wet here,
22 and it' s a bit premature for us to be asked to endorse
23 things when we haven' t completed our Needs Assessment, but I
24 would like to hear from the Council and the audience because
25 there is a lot of representatives and providers here in the
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1 audience with us.
2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: If there is anyone in the audience
3 who would like to address this, please feel free.
4 MR. FAERBER: There may be on your Council .
5 MR. SHANAHAN: I feel the same way. I felt that it
6 was a bit premature for the Council to approve at this time
7 at this point in time.
8 As we mature, maybe at that point in time we could --
9 maybe we could consider specific endorsements that relate to
10 the challenge and to the charge and to the mission that this
11 Council has. So I took the same position.
12 MS. DRY: Madam Chairman, I also concur in the
13 posture.
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Then could I have a motion that
15 we --
16 MR. SHANAHAN: So moved, Madam Chairman.
17 MR. FAERBER: I second it. But I would still like to
18 know if there is anyone from the audience.
19 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Any participation from the
20 audience? Dave.
21 MR. ENDING: I am -- I 'm of the same thinking, purely
22 in the interest of this Council .
23 MR. FAERBER: Could you identify yourself. We have a
24 court reporter here, and we need to keep official minutes.
25 Anybody who needs to address it should come to the
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3 MR. ENDING: Good morning. I 'm Dave Ending
4 (phonetic) .
5 My personal thinking is that that would be in the
6 best interest of the Council at this time. I think any
7 endorsement that would seem appropriate at this time would
8 stand the test of time anyway, and when your own position in
9 the community becomes more and more clear that that
10 endorsement could always be made at a later time.
11 So I support the thinking of the board.
12 MR. SHANAHAN: Thank you, Dave.
13 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Anyone else? If not, we did have a
14 motion, did we not?
15 MR. SHANAHAN: A motion and a second.
16 CHAIRMAN HARPER: All in favor?
17 (Affirmative responses. )
18 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Oppossed?
19 (No response. )
20 CHAIRMAN HARPER: We have another recommendation from
21 our Executive Director.
22 MR. PINSON: Thank you. Okay.
23 The packet of information that I left on your -- in
24 front of you before you arrived, you ' ll see a listing of
25 suggested locations for future Children' s Services Council
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1 meetings. I 'm sorry that did not get to you earlier, but it
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2 shouldn' t take you long to look that over.
3 In spite of the fact that we are indebted, I believe,
4 to the YMCA in hosting us today -- they went to an
5 extraordinary length to make this meeting possible -- you
6 can look around and quickly discern what they had to do to
7 put this meeting together.
8 It ' s my recommendation, after researching, to go with
9 a designated monthly meeting location at the same location
10 which would be the School Board, School Board off of Estey,
11 and that we have a minimum of four outreach meetings in
12 various locations throughout the county, including
13 Immokalee, Everglade City and north Marco, at various
14 designated times in that particular calendar. And you can
15 see that those outreach meetings are primarily spaced
16 throughout the quarters.
17 So my recommendation is to adopt this particular
18 schedule.
19 MR. SHANAHAN: Paul, these are all Friday, the first
20 Friday of the month in every instance?
21 MR. PINSON: Yes.
22 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Paul, what about East Naples?
23 MR. FAERBER: What about it?
24 MS. CAMBRIDGE: I 'm looking in terms of distance, .
25 MR. SHANAHAN: When you say distance.
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1 MS. CAMBRIDGE: You know, the probability of getting
® 2 representation all the way out there from the East Naples
3 area and then the other extreme, North Naples.
4 Are you saying we ' ll go into in depth publicity to
5 draw as many of the citizens from, of the areas?
6 MR. PINSON: A real good question, I think, and in a
7 general philosophical way, I ' ll answer this.
8 I think it 's encumbent on us as we go through the,
9 this next year to enlighten the community as much as
10 possible to enlighten it as to mission and goals that we 're
11 dealing with; and it seems to me, just as we have a
12 tremendous level of support today we need to do the same
467 13 thing for every meeting, including those outreach meetings.
14 And, Alma, a lot went into publicizing this meeting
15 today, so I would recommend those outreach meetings to have
16 that same level of high profile publicity.
17 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Thank you.
18 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well, Paul did a great deal of
19 work. He really went around looking at every place where we
20 could appropriately meet, and we just could not find it
21 here.
22 So, is there any input from the community that you
23 would like to put in?
24 MR. SHANAHAN: That being the case, Madam Chairman, I
25 would like to make a motion that we approve the meeting
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r • 1 schedules for the first Friday of every month, and outreach
2 meetings -- I think it ' s extremely important to reach out to
3 every part of the community, North Naples, all the way to
4 Marco Island.
5 I don' t consider that quite far, by the way --
6 MS. CAMBRIDGE: I do.
7 MR. SHANAHAN: Because I live there.
8 We are very much a part of the community and want to
9 participate very much and very badly.
10 Make a motion that we approve the schedule.
11 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Is there a second?
12 All in favor?
13 (Affirmative responses. )
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Oppossed?
15 (No response. )
16 CHAIRMAN HARPER: The next item on the agenda is
17 about the Florida Association of Children' s Services
18 Councils and Boards. I ' ll just give you a brief description
19 of what has happened and what has taken place.
20 We have received a letter -- well , first I ' ll
21 identify. A lot of you know Hugh Glickstein, who is an
22 appealate judge over in West Palm Beach, and it really was
23 Judge Glickstein who began asking questions over in Palm
24 Beach, why Palm Beach could not do for its children what was
25 being done in Pinellas County that spearheaded an interest
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r . 1 in, and is an advocate of, and -- a special statute simply
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2 for Pinellas County, to become a general statute which could
3 apply to all sixty-seven counties in the State of Florida.
4 So Hugh has been involved at the very beginning, and
5 a lot of you will also remember that we brought him here on
6 several occasions to talk with the judges, to talk with the
7 Florida -- the Collier County Bar Association, the Rotary
8 Clubs, to talk to them about the Children' s Services
9 Councils, and the -- well , what we could do with a
10 Children' s Services Council here in Collier County. And a
11 lot of Hue' s activity in our community is what made the
12 Children' s Services Council possible.
13 At any rate, I have to also inject this. Hugh
14 Glickstein and I were brought up in the same community. I
15 was seven years older, but, anyway. But we see, we see a
16 lot of things alike. He' s a third generation Floridian, and
17 I still say I 'm a fifth generation Floridian.
18 I had a letter from him about ten days ago in which
19 he wrote and said: I have had an idea, and I wonder how you
20 feel about it. What would you think of having
21 representatives from all the Children' s Services Councils
22 either that have passed a referendum or who have not passed
23 but who have been active in their community, meeting and
400 24 forming a Florida state-wide task force for Children' s
25 Services Council .
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1 And when I opened the letter, I put it over on Paul ' s
2 desk and I said, "It ' s got to be ASP because that is what I
3 have been dreaming of. " And I called Hue and said, "I think
4 this is the most wonderful way, because we can get -- if we
5 have communication, we can do that all over the State of
6 Florida. " And he said, "Fine, send me your recommendation
7 on things you think we could accomplish. " And I see that
8 this Council would be very effective in state-wide
9 legislation to help Children' s Services Councils.
10 But at any rate, we have had a telephone call back
11 from Hugh, and he said, "You know, I 'm not female, Bea, but
12 I really feel like I have given birth. " He said, "I had
417 13 telephone calls from all over the state saying 'Let' s go, '
14 'Let ' s do it. '"
15 So the first meeting will be on January the 11th, in
16 Tampa, at the Hillsborough Children' s Services Council which
17 most of you know has their Council in place, and the
18 referendum for, was passed over a year ago.
19 We will have several from our community who are going
20 to go for the organizational meeting, and Hue has written
21 and asked that I present this to the Council, have their
22 approval for our participation. And I would like an idea
23 from you how you all feel about this before we go ahead.
24 Any comment?
25 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Is this just to organize at this
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IIE1 particular time or just to get together and discuss it?
2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: My understanding is that the
3 January 11th will be the first organizational meeting, and
4 it will be to discuss what our goals will be.
5 MR. PINSON: One of the issues that Hugh is going to
6 present to us, at least at this Council level , is to
7 consider the payment of a minimum amount for dues for this
8 organization, to support it.
9 So you're being asked not only to support the issue
10 that Bea is very interested in, but to consider -- and, of
11 course, we don' t have those amounts yet, they haven' t had
12 the meeting yet -- but there would be some dues involved.
13 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well, there will probably be some
14 minimum fees available. But in order to do, you have --
15 usually you're going to have mailing money and copy money.
16 You know, it just doesn' t run on nothing.
17 But I feel so strongly that this can be a very very
18 powerful tool in going to our legislature and saying --
19 MR. FAERBER: Madam Chairman, I see this more of an
20 informational thing. As far as this agenda, that really
21 doesn' t require that we have any formal motion or approve
22 anything.
23 I would just see it that you would go to Tampa and
411) 24 report back to us what their plans are and then at that
25 time, when they have been formed, request approval to join
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4111 1 that organization. I mean, I don' t see that we have to do
2 anything right now.
3 MR. SHANAHAN: I don' t think that we have to take
4 formal action, but I would encourage you and I would
5 encourage the Council to look upon this activity with favor
6 and to send you with Tampa with that feeling.
7 MR. FAERBER: Yes.
8 MR. SHANAHAN: That this Board encourage the
9 formation of this kind of an organization, and obviously
10 dependent upon the information that you would bring back,
11 that we would be looking favorably upon participation.
12 So I would move in that direction.
13 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well, thank you, Dick.
14 I think as chairman of this Council, this is a very
15 new experience to me, to be on a board that I 'm in the
16 sunshine, and that -- I 'm always afraid of what I 'm saying
17 and what I 'm doing because that ' s my nature.
18 I mean, if I want something done, I like to go right
19 ahead. My board of Naples Alliance will tell that you. And
20 that' s not too difficult in a non-profit organization, but I
21 don' t want to get myself in trouble, and I have also said,
22 you know, I didn' t -- I wanted to serve on the Council, but
23 I 'm not real comfortable with being the chairman, because of
24 my nature.
25 And, you know, so I really, that is why I 'm bringing
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1 it up. I want everyone to know what I 'm doing so that it
2 can' t be said, "Hey, wait a minute, we didn' t know anything
3 about this. "
4 So we will take it, then, as a point of information.
5 Thank you.
6 MR. SHANAHAN: And leave here full well knowing that
7 there is support for this kind of action.
8 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
9 Judge Ellis, the next item on the agenda is the
10 mission statement.
11 JUDGE ELLIS: Yes. At the last meeting, a committee
12 was established to try to develop a mission statement to put
13 into the by-laws of the Council . I had the pleasure of
14 chairing that committee. Other members who participated in
15 drafting the statement were Paul Pinson, the Executive
16 director, Gene Redlin (phonetic) from Monte Christo Migrant
17 Association who was present, Connie Kay, Step By Step,
18 (phonetic) who was also present, and Sandra Grover
19 (phonetic) with the Child Protection Team. And she may be
20 here, but I don' t see her. And we met and -- in drawing up
21 a mission statement, and what I would like to do is read it
22 and then explain how we arrived at the statement.
23 "The mission of the Children' s Services Council of
24 Collier County is to deliver a comprehensive plan to provide
25 needed services that enhance the quality of life for the
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ilk1 children of Collier County, with special emphasis on
2 prevention and early intervention. "
3 "The mission is to stimulate, coordinate and fund
4 comprehensive quality services in an integrated, cooperative
5 spirit with the family and the community. "
6 In drafting that mission statement, we did review the
7 mission statements from Hillsborough County, Palm Beach
8 County and also the preamble that Mr. Faerber had written
9 into the by-laws.
10 The whole idea was that we did not want to be too
11 restrictive in what we put in the mission statement because
12 as we are a new organization, we want to be able to react
13 and address every situation that comes before the Council.
14 So we wanted to the allow for flexibility.
15 We also wanted to provide some direction for the
16 Council in the hope that in coming months and years when
17 funding requests are or proposals are made to the Council
18 that the Council in fact would look to the mission statement
19 and say is this part of and in coordination with the mission
20 statement that has been established for the Council .
21 And that, lastly, this -- our hope was that the
22 Council itself would establish the actual goals and how the
23 Council could carry out the mission that is included in the
24 mission statement.
25 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, Judge Ellis.
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1 Well , I read it and I love it, but then that doesn' t,
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2 you know, mean anything, I guess. You all might not.
3 MR. SHANAHAN: I read it and I certainly approve of
4 it.
5 JUDGE ELLIS: Madam Chairman, we did send a copy of
6 this statement to all of the Council and to the committee
7 members who were on the committee and four who participated
8 and did ask for their re-review today.
9 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Would the audience like it read
10 once more? Would you do that?
11 JUDGE ELLIS: "Is to deliver a comprehensive plan to
12 provide needed services that enhance the quality of life for
www 13 the children of Collier County, with special emphasis on
14 prevention and early intervention. "
15 "The mission is to stimulate, coordinate and fund
16 comprehensive quality services in an integrated, cooperative
17 spirit with the family and the community. "
18 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I think it' s beautiful.
19 MR. SHANAHAN: Madam Chairman, I would make a motion
20 that we accept the mission statement as presented by Cindy
21 Ellis.
22 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Do I have a second?
23 MS. DRY: At the --
24 MR. PASSIDOMO: Dee has some comment.
25 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Sorry.
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1 MR. DRY: With all due respect to Judge Ellis, since
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2 I was not privy to the input there, should we not in the
3 first paragraph be a little more specific with reference to
4 the special emphasis on prevention and early intervention?
5 That to me, it leaves it dangling. Should we not say
6 on programs or something?
7 JUDGE ELLIS: Okay. This was also a concern that was
8 raised by Doctor Richey when he reviewed the mission
9 statement. And I believe Paul has done some checking on it
10 as well, as far as checking with other Children' s Services
11 Council .
12 We did have quite a bit of discussion during the
13 committee meeting as to whether we should include "with
14 special emphasis on prevention and early intervention, " but
15 it was our feeling that there has been so much research
16 done, that that is where the focus needs to be, that we felt
17 we did need to include that.
18 We also felt that basically people do understand what
19 the focus of that means in terms of prevention, early
20 intervention, and to try to define that would become very
21 cumbersome and maybe even too restrictive in terms of the
22 mission statement. But I would like Paul to address the
23 research that he has done today.
24 MR. PINSON: Thank you, Judge Ellis.
25 Dee, with your normally perceptive eye, you have
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1 isolated the only concern that anybody has expressed with
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2 this particular mission statement. And Doctor Richey felt,
3 again, that it dangled, that there needed to be some
4 description after that alluding to emphasis on prevention
5 and intervention.
6 What I did was try to find as many, quote, mission
7 statement verbiage that there was in the literature to --
8 alluded to, to see how they finalized that particular
9 sentence, and more often than not, they basically used this
10 same type approach. I think the general assumption, and
11 correct/indirect assumption. But the general assumption is
12 that most individuals understand prevention and what
13 prevention is intended to be.
14 Now, there may be some need to really address that,
15 but what we found out is that this is basically the same way
16 that it has been used in other counties.
17 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Judge Trettis.
18 JUDGE TRETTIS: Tom Trettis. With all due respect to
19 the board and my colleague on the juvenile bench, I think at
20 this time to adopt that statement or that mission statement
21 would be a mistake, especially before the study is done.
22 I 'm not sure what the statute reads, but if your --
23 we' re going to lock ourselves in with special emphasis on
24 those things, I think some will perceive it as a primary
25 mission perhaps. And I think before the study is done,
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1 before the community has its input as to other areas, locked
2 into early prevention I think is a
mistake.
3 MR. PINSON: Let me respond to that, if I could, Tom.
4 A couple things. One is the actual state statute
5 does in fact allude to prevention. One of the intentions on
6 the creation of these Children' s Services Councils was, in
7 fact, to be able to direct resources to the forefront of the
8 problems, not after the fact. But I think as we ' re going to
9 hear today, when the Juvenile Justice Task Force makes its
10 appearance in front of this Council, they are going to show
11 the connection also between --
12 JUDGE ELLIS: Addressing the issues of delinquency is
401) 13 the way that we intend to do; perhaps as a preventive way
14 also.
15 JUDGE TRETTIS: I 'm sure that can be done. I just
16 feel that before the study is done I think -- I think we're
17 supposed to address the needs of Collier County, by the way
18 -- for us to adopt such a statement because other counties
19 are doing it, I don' t think.
20 MR. PINSON: I argued your exact same position.
21 JUDGE TRETTIS: I knew you would. You 're very
22 astute.
23 MR. PINSON: I argued a position on that. With needs
401) 24 statement is done before we adopted a mission statement.
25 And I believe their -- that the position of the Council was
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F 1 at that time, and is, is that the Needs Assessment would
2 strive to be driving force rather than the needs driving the
3 focus on the Council.
4 So there was no adoption on that particular motion on
5 that, but that was a general concensus on the issue. But
6 that ' s a good issue.
7 CHAIRMAN HARPER: What you're saying, then, is, Tom,
8 instead of -- you know, you could just put a period after
9 Collier County, and leave off the "with special emphasis on
10 prevention and early intervention" until -- the needs is the
11 issue. That' s why you're vetoing it at this time?
12 JUDGE TRETTIS: Yes.
13 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Is to deliver a comprehensive plan
14 to provide needed services that enhance the quality of life
15 for Collier County. Period.
16 JUDGE TRETTIS: Yes.
17 JUDGE ELLIS: Judge Trettis, do you believe that we
18 should still wait in adopting a mission statement?
19 JUDGE TRETTIS: Do we have to adopt the mission
20 statement today?
21 JUDGE ELLIS: No.
22 JUDGE TRETTIS: Then that would be, with all due
23 respect, my recommendation.
C24 JUDGE ELLIS: There had been some conversation, as
25 well, that mission statements do oftentimes take months to
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1 develop to get a real feel for the purpose. And there had
2 been some discussion, and there was some statement that we
3 were moving very quickly in adopting the mission statement.
4 JUDGE TRETTIS: Thank you very much.
5 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Any other comments from the board?
6 MS. DRY: I have a question.
7 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Dee has a question.
8 MS. DRY: Again, I was not advocating deleting the
9 words "special emphasis on. " I just needed -- we needed to
10 specify on what.
11 And then just for my own information. In the second
12 portion of the mission statement, it says: "In an
13 integrated, cooperative spirit with the family and
14 community. "
15 Could I have an interpretation on what the group
16 decided "with the family" is? Because so often -- to me, as
17 a layman, I am interpreting there that we are going to have
18 family involvement in, you will, in coordinating and at
19 least funding comprehensive quality services. And maybe
20 that' s an erroneous interpretation.
21 JUDGE ELLIS: And if any of the other Council members
22 wish to address these, feel free to come to the podium.
23 But, again, it was our feeling that children are not
1E, 24 an entity in and of themself; that they are affected so much
25 by the family; we did want to leave an option in the mission
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1 statement so the Council could address services and programs
2 that which directly affected the child might also indirectly
3 affect the family in terms of providing some services for
4 family, such as family counseling, and we felt very strongly
5 that somewhere in the mission statement we wanted to address
6 the issue of family in the terms of a healing process of the
7 whole intent.
8 MS. DRY: I agree. Family should be involved. And
9 that' s my concept.
10 But I 'm saying "with the family. " "With" is the words
11 that I 'm having trouble with.
12 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Do you want to change it to "for"?
13 MS. DRY: I was thinking in terms of changing it to
14 for. In an integrated, cooperative spirit for eligible
15 and/or families in the county.
16 MR. FAERBER: I don' t have any problems with
17 understanding exactly what that means, myself.
18 MR. SHANAHAN: It seems that we need to continue this
19 item, based on the input from the floor as well as here, so
20 I ' ll withdraw my motion relative to approving this
21 statement.
22 I don' t think it will substantially change. I am in
23 support of the mission and the statement, but I will
4;) 24 withdraw the motion.
25 MR. FAERBER: I think that would be a good idea. I
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1 would like to say I have a gut feeling that early
2 intervention and prevention is where it should be. But if
3 Judge Ellis has some concern about that, and Judge Trettis
4 -- no one has at this time longer service as a juvenile
5 judge than he has.
6 Let ' s see what the Needs Assessment is and bring it
7 back at that time.
8 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Then may I have a motion to table
9 it?
10 MR. SHANAHAN: We don' t need it.
11 CHAIRMAN HARPER: We just forget it?
12 MR. SHANAHAN: We don' t pursue it, and get the Needs
417 13 Assessment and then the mission statement and bring it back
14 to the board and the people that are over there.
15 CHAIRMAN HARPER: That is the way it will be, then.
16 We have an attorney with us. You all will remember
17 that at the last meeting, the subject was brought up as to
18 501.0 -- 501 (3c) applies for the children' s organization,
19 Council , so that we have been accommodated by consultation,
20 who so often require that in their by-laws.
21 We have asked Joe Cox --
22 MR. SHANAHAN: He' s here.
23 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I saw him. To research this, and
24 Joe will tell us what to do.
25 MR. COX: Joe Cox.
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1 I ' ll start with my conclusion first. I don' t
2 recommend that you form a separate 501.C3 organization. The
3 reason why is the Florida statutes authorize the creation of
4 a Children' s Council .
5 The county commission has created a political
6 subdivision, in essense, your Council, by ordinance.
7 Therefore, you are a subdivision, a political subdivision of
8 the state, the county.
9 Section 170 of the Internal Revenue code authorizes
10 deductions to subdivisions of political entities, state,
11 county, city; and the ordinance that creates you, that makes
12 you a subdivision, so donations to you are deductible,
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13 foundations can give -- so you don' t, in effect, need a
14 separate 501 (3c) entity.
15 And we ' ll write a letter in so stating and outlining
16 this thought process.
17 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you very, very much, Joe.
18 MR. PINSON: Let me add. Joe Cox is I would like to
19 say one of the busiest and respected.
20 So our thanks to Joe. And I would like to put an
21 addendum and thank you for supporting us, Joe.
22 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I don' t know if I have to apologize
23 or not, but I have been around so long that I know most
24 people by their first name. And it' s just the most
25 wonderful experience in the world to pick up the telephone
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1 and call some of your busiest people and tell them a problem
2 or something that we need, and invariably they say, "I ' ll
3 get right on it and get back to you. " And I think that
4 tells you something about our community.
5 Who is next?
6 John, you're on the agenda next. The Volunteer
7 Lawyers Program.
8 MR. PASSIDOMO: I think we have all come to recognize
9 what Mr. Cox has alluded to. We are, in fact, a political
10 subdivision and a community. A normal community. And we
11 have all recognized through our first couple of meetings
12 that substantial legal issues present themselves on an
13 ongoing basis and they will continue to present themselves.
14 Brenda Wilson and the county attorney' s office has
15 been kind enough to provide organizational source and
16 transitional to or for us to get us up and going.
17 The county attorneys recognizes, and I think we as a
18 Council agree, that there is a potential conflict of
19 interest between the County Attorney' s Office and the Board
20 of County Commissioners and the Children' s Services Council,
21 and in recognition of that fact and in appreciation for the
22 services that have been rendered by Brenda Wilson already,
23 we realize that we should start exploring a more
I24 comprehensive way of dealing with this issue of legal
25 services. And in fact, the bar association has a mechanism
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1 to do just that, to address that issue.
2 The -- six years, the Volunteer Lawyers Panel of the
3 bar association was formed in order to provide poor people
4 with legal services in routine civil cases. Now, of the
5 three hundred and fifty or four hundred lawyers that belong
6 to the bar association, one hundred and fifty are members of
7 the Volunteer Lawyers Panel and agree to provide free legal
8 services on an as-needed basis.
9 We approached the Volunteer Lawyers Program and asked
10 if they and the bar association would be in a position to
11 provide legal services to the Children' s Services Council ,
12 and they responded enthusiastically.
13 And we also realize, and I think Mr. Cox'
14 presentation emphasizes it, that we need a broad range of
15 services. We need not only the services of counsel here
16 with us on an ongoing basis to regularly respond to
17 day-to-day activities, but we need the services of a tax
18 lawyer like Mr. Cox, a family lawyer, a governmental lawyer
19 who will help us with strictly governmental issues, a
20 litigator should the need ever arise, and perhaps even a
21 corporate lawyer.
22 We have circulated a memo, and you may or may not
23 have yet had a chance to review it, but we have approached
24 the Volunteer Lawyers Project, we have approached a panel of
25 lawyers who have agreed to provide those services to us, and
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1 included within that group, I 'm happy to report, are Mr. Cox
2 from Cummings and Lockwood as the tax lawyers, Victoria Ho
3 from Cummings and Lockwood as a family lawyer, and the other
4 lawyers who have agreed to provide those services are listed
5 in the memo.
6 It seems to me that this is just another example of
7 the community coming out and supporting our effort. The bar
8 association in an organized way want to show their support,
9 and we get all of the expertise in the world available to us
10 on an ongoing basis, and certainly it is my recommendation
11 that we accept this offer.
12 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I don' t think that takes a motion,
13 do you?
14 MR. SHANAHAN: I don' t know that it doesn' t.
15 It' s a million-dollar panel, John, and I think it
16 deserves a motion.
17 I also think that Brenda Wilson deserves additional
18 recognition because she is truly a great -- responsive
19 person and a great lady to work with. So I want to thank
20 you personally.
21 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Could I have a motion.
22 MR. SHANAHAN: Yes. I will make the motion that we
23 accept that million-dollar panel.
401) 24 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Is there a second to that?
25 MS. DRY: Second.
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111 1 CHAIRMAN HARPER: All in favor?
2 MR. FAERBER: Madam Chairman, while we 're on that
3 issue, then, I know that Tim Parry is the corporate lawyer
4 and I would like perhaps just refer to him the employment
5 contract of Paul Pinson, our Executive Director, with
6 instructions that he not do anything real complicated, just
7 a simple employment agreement.
8 Will you take care of that, John?
9 MR. PASSIDOMO: Yes. I would be happy to.
10 MR. FAERBER: Thanks. You break the news to him.
11 CHAIRMAN HARPER: One of the things I really want to
12 point out, and perhaps it' s appropriate; but if it isn' t,
13 that' s too bad too.
14 I keep being told that we are now a government
15 entity. I have a problem with that. And the one thing that
16 I do not want this Council to become is something that the
17 community looks at as a government.
18 I want the Children' s Services Council to be looked
19 at as yours, that the community has a part in this and that
20 we need your support, and I want everyone to always feel
21 that, that you are a part of it.
22 So if my laid back chairmanship is not agreeable,
23 well, then you can replace me, but I really want this an
24 informal council , not a formal government council. And I
25 hope my fellow members will bear with me.
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-1 1 MR. PASSIDOMO: Madam Chairman, I certainly respect
2 that point of view, but as one who is very proud to serve
3 in the local government and recognizing that local
4 government --
5 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I know.
6 MR. PASSIDOMO: It ' s controlled by the people and we
7 serve only at the will of the people. I think it ' s
8 important to recognize that we have responsibilities, we 're
9 meeting as a public entity.
10 I ' ll try if avoid using the word government because I
11 know the connotation that it has, but I 'm proud to be a
12 member of the local government and I think we should go in a
13 more positive direction.
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I don' t think, John, that I 'm
15 getting particularly at that. Yes, I 'm proud of our local
16 government too. I have nothing -- you know, I have --
17 MR. SHANAHAN: You're surrounded by it.
18 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I 'm surrounded by it so I certainly
19 don' t want to get on the bad side of it.
20 But what I 'm saying is I want people to feel
21 comfortable in coming to these meetings and to feel that you
22 are a part.
23 I can remember once, John, that I went before the
r> 24 city council because I was incensed that they had done a
25 comprehensive plan -- and John will remember that because he
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1 was there -- and I felt so intimidated that you could hardly
2 hear me because my voice was shaking so, and I don' t want
3 that here.
4 I want everyone to feel, look, this is our Council;
5 we ' re here because we're committed to children and families
6 and I can get up on that podium and say anything I want to
7 and not be all emotional and shaken up.
8 So that ' s what I 'm really trying to get at, John.
9 MR. PASSIDOMO: It ' s a good point.
10 CHAIRMAN HARPER: And if I can get real nervous, as
11 long as I have talked to people, you know, think what the
12 ordinary person may feel who has never -- who does not know
13 the community.
14 MR. FAERBER: There is no need for government to be
15 unfriendly. You can have a friendly government.
16 God knows they can can us anytime too, but it' s hard
17 to feel intimidated in a gym.
18 MR. SHANAHAN: I 'm from the government, and I 'm here
19 to help you.
20 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Yes. Dick has proven that.
21 We' ll pass this on.
22 Yes, Dave.
23 This is Dave Ending again, and in case people don' t
24 know, David is Executive Director for Habitat for Humanities
25 in Immokalee.
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1 MR. ENDING: Thank you, Madam Chairman.
2 If it doesn' t take too much time, I sure would like
3 to know who the remaining lawyers who have volunteered to
4 support this Council . I think several were read.
5 If it ' s not an extensive list, I would sure like to
6 hear the names and the firms that they're with.
7 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
8 MR. PASSIDOMO: Sure. Be happy to share that with
9 you. The group is a group of six right now.
10 Mark Pricer (phonetic) with the Frost & Jacobs law
11 firm has agreed to take on day-to-day responsibility. The
12 five lawyers that have specific expertise are Joe Cox, from
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13 Cummings and Lockwood, as tax lawyer; Victoria Ho from
14 Cummings and Lockwood as a family; Tim Parry, a partner with
15 Harter Secrest and Emery, as a corporate lawyer; Naples city
16 attorney, Dave Reiner, as the government lawyer; Jeff
17 Fridkin, who is a partner in at Mershon and Sawyer Johnston
18 Dunwody and Cole as litigator; and, of course, Assistant
19 County Attorney Brenda Cook Wilson will continue to provide
20 us additional support as we deal with the county government.
21 MR. SHANAHAN: Dave, now do you understand why I call
22 that the million-dollar attorneys panel?
23 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
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24 The next item on the agenda is the Juvenile Justice
25 Task Force. Paul .
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1 MR. PINSON: Well , to set the tone. At the first
2 meeting of the Children' s Services Council several months
3 ago, the Juvenile Justice Task Force, represented by Doug
4 Nichols and Jim Hansen, made a formal presentation primarily
5 for information dissemination to the full Council.
6 At that point in time, the Council was not asked to
7 approve or adopt any particular motion or program associated
8 with that. They are now approaching the full Council to
9 consider the adoption of this specific issue called the
10 community staffing board idea, which Jim Hansen, as well as
11 several other members of that Juvenile Justice Task Force,
12 is -- are here today to answer -- to primarily answer
13 questions from the Council .
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Where is Jim?
15 MR. PINSON: Jim, you' re on.
16 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I would assume that everyone on the
17 Council has read the paper presented by Jim.
18 Any questions?
19 MR. FAERBER: Well, Jim, we have had the benefit of
20 it, but the people here have not. The people in the
21 audience have not. So if you could give us an overview so
22 that everybody has an understanding of what we're talking
23 about, I 'm sure it would be appreciated by everyone.
24 MR. HANSEN: Okay. Bea, I know exactly how you felt
25 when you went to the city council . Being an ordinary
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1 citizen, I hope my voice holds out.
2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: But I don' t think we should do that
3 to you.
4 MR. HANSEN: That ' s right. I want to thank you all
5 for this second opportunity to be a nervous wreck.
6 But basically in the studies over the three years
7 that the Juvenile Justice Task Force has done, we have found
8 that a focal point for deliquency and true at-risk children
9 happens to be the second time that they are arrested. If
10 they are arrested a second time, they have shown the
11 propensity for being arrested continuously.
12 Many of those kids go on to have twenty or thirty
13 arrests in their young careers, and ninety-nine point nine
14 percent of those kids, according to the Office of Juvenile
15 Justice and Delinquency, go on to be career, adult
16 criminals. These kids are normally arrested at ten, eleven
17 and twelve years old. Their first arrest.
18 Sixty-five percent of those kids are not arrested
19 again, and the common denominator that they have is they
20 come from a fairly functional family that re-groups.
21 The balance of the children do not have functional
22 families. They' re angry, they're frustrated, they grow up
23 without a conscience and they have a totally different set
24 of values than we do.
25 We believe it ' s encumbent upon us, the community, to
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1 take care of these kids, to provide for these kids what
2 their homes and their families are not able to provide.
3 That is why we have targeted the second-time-arrested
4 child. Collier County averages between seven and eleven of
5 those children per month.
6 What we are trying to do is institutionalize and
7 systematically set up what we have called the juvenile
8 staffing board or a community parenting board whose
9 responsibility it will be to coordinate and customize a
10 tailor-made treatment plan for each child that will
11 coordinate all the resources available that are in the
12 community and that will also try to develop other
13 resources.
14 We can do this now because of the grant that the
15 Sheriff ' s Office received a couple years ago that gives us
16 the capability of doing a complete background on each child,
17 and we ' ll know about the child' s drug use or non-drug use,
18 the family' s history, the family' s dysfunction, all those
19 kinds of things, whatever particular trauma the child is
20 dealing with, and we think that that' s unprecedented.
21 We have never heard of anything like that being done
22 before. The staffing board will be privy to this
23 information and from this, information will be available, as
24 I said, to develop a treatment plan that is going to make a
25 difference to this kid.
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1 That ' s it, basically, in a nutshell.
2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I have read it over several times,
3 and I 'm not all that bright, so the one thing that came out
4 of here, to me, that I wanted answered -- I think that the
5 Council might, you know, we certainly have the capability of
6 forming professional panels or finding professionals who
7 will be willing to volunteer and donate, say, I don' t know,
8 four or five hours a week or whatever it would take to do
9 the evaluation.
10 But I 'm concerned about then how do we fund. You
11 know, it ' s all well and good to find out what this child
12 needs. I have lots of them, and I 'm sure that Dee Dry can
13 address that. You know, we know what they need, but we
14 don' t have the funds with which to provide those services.
15 So I 'm wondering, you know, once we do the evaluation
16 is it just going to be paperwork that we have asked our
17 volunteers to do and then they feel frustrated because they
18 really cannot do anything about the problem?
19 MR. HANSEN: Bea, I don' t think at this point in time
20 money is an issue for these children. I think it ' s a
21 coordination of services. That' s a primary issue here.
22 There are services out there. There are services
23 that can be created from within the community, involving the
24 business community, the chamber of commerce, and have a
25 comprehensive involvement in this particular child and try
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IIE1 to instill the values that are needed.
2 I don' t think it ' s a money issue anymore than it is
3 -- more, it is a stopgap measure that ' s going to coordinate
4 everything we have for this kid. I don' t think we 're
5 calling for any real financial.
6 And anybody else that ' s on the task force, feel free
7 to stand up here and take over for me if you want.
8 MR. FAERBER: Jim, I have a question.
9 This relies upon our judges to refer the children
10 into this program. Correct?
11 MR. HANSEN: Not necessarily, Nelson. The --
I 12 primarily, referral source is going to be HRS.
13 It ' s rare that a second-time-arrested child will see
14 a judge. If fact, it only averages about four to seven
15 arrests before they see a judge if it ' s not a really
16 exceptionally violent crime. So it' s going to be where --
17 we ' re looking at, and working with Larry Rab (phonetic) and
18 Ann Jackson.
19 It ' s going -- seeing this Children' s Services
20 Council, which also recently is authorized under the new
21 Juvenile Justice Reform Act. They call for this formation
22 of a community sort of council to work with the second-time
23 offenders.
24 It ' s going to be primarily a referral from HRS, the
25 condition of that voluntary probation that they abide by the
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1 plan that the staffing board would create for them.
2 MR. FAERBER: Is this a judicial plan? That is, the
3 plan that' s worked out between the state attorney and the
4 HRS and then the judge signs off on it, generally?
5 MR. HANSEN: Cindy, maybe you could help me with
6 this.
7 I think initially it ' s a voluntary kind of plan, and
8 then if it ' s violated, it ' s referred to the judge.
9 Is that how the process is, basically? Or is it
10 right off the get-go a judicial plan?
11 JUDGE ELLIS: I think first you would have to get it
12 into court, and maybe Judge Trettis can help as well on
13 this.
14 But once you 're in the court and you refer into the
15 plan, then you would have to order the child to participate,
16 as directed, to the staffing board. And then if they don' t,
17 you violate.
18 But you ' re talking about before it even comes into
19 the court.
20 MR. HANSEN: Right.
21 JUDGE ELLIS: And I 'm not sure then what kind of
22 judicial sanction would be available.
23 MR. HANSEN: And the thing is, you know, those kinds
24 of factors.
25 Really what we're looking at doing -- as this
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1 staffing board, we have sort of the broad concept that we
2 want them to do, but they could work out a lot of these
3 details with --
4 MR. FAERBER: I guess my point is this, then. And I
5 have to say that in my office, I have not handled the
6 juvenile matters for a couple of years, so I may be out of
7 touch. But when I left handling those matters to other
8 lawyers in the firm, it seemed like there were more
9 referrals from HRS to the courts than there used to be when
10 I first started practicing.
11 But my point is, has -- I know Judge Ellis has had
12 the opportunity to review this. It looks a little bit
13 similar to what we used to call Naples Wilderness and then
14 Naples Leadership School. And I 'm wondering if Judge
15 Trettis has had an opportunity to look at this, because he
16 had a lot of experience in that type of community
17 involvement in putting a kid into a specific plan.
18 Judge Trettis, have you read this?
19 JUDGE TRETTIS: No, I did not.
20 MR. HANSEN: Judge Trettis did attend one meeting of
21 the Juvenile Justice Task Force, and we had discussed this
22 issue with him when we were developing, and he was
23 supportive of us at the time.
24 The difference between I think the Leadership School
25 and Outward Bound focuses primarily on a particular market
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r1 kid. You know, a pregnant teenager might not be appropriate
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2 for Outward Bound. A handicapped child might not be
3 appropriate for Outward Bound. Et cetera. Et cetera. And
4 Outward Bound I think does an excellent service for a
5 particular kind of kid, but there are some inherent gaps, I
6 think, in there.
7 We want to be able to customize everything for every
8 kid. And Outward Bound provides certain things, but it
9 doesn' t provide a lot of the other things as well .
10 MR. FAERBER: It has enough similarities for me to
11 feel comfortable in saying that since that program was so
12 successful -- until the funds were cut by one of the
%taw 13 governmental entities -- that this could also be very
14 successful or has the potential for being successful because
15 you have a quality group of people in the community
16 structuring a plan for the child.
17 And I can tell you from Naples Wilderness and Naples
18 Leadership School -- first called Naples Wilderness and then
19 Leadership -- that the repeat rate was much less,
20 significantly lessened by that experience.
21 So that ' s my input into this whole thing. It looks
22 like it could be a very good idea.
23 CHAIRMAN HARPER: What you're really asking for, Jim,
24 in the proposal is the Juvenile Justice Task Force would
25 suggest that a member of the Children' s Services Council
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r , 1 appoint one of its members to chair a committee to develop
2 and create the juvenile staffing board. The task force
3 stands ready to advise and assist this committee in whatever
4 manner needed.
5 And what you're really asking, then, is that we
6 appoint one of this Council as a chairman of that committee
7 to work with you in establishing a juvenile staffing board.
8 MR. HANSEN: That ' s correct.
9 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Is that right?
10 MR. HANSEN: Yes, ma' am.
11 MR. FAERBER: Does it have to be one of our number or
12 can it be an appointment from our number, an appointment
13 that we make from outside of our number?
14 MR. HANSEN: Paul, what is your thought on that?
15 MR. PINSON: There are two significant issues.
16 One is simply that for the three years that the
17 Juvenile Justice Task Force has been in operation in
18 developing this concept, they have lacked -- and correct me
19 if I 'm wrong, Jim -- but they have lacked --
20 MR. HANSEN: We have lacked.
21 MR. PINSON: Don' t correct me if I 'm wrong.
22 We have lacked the legal entity under which to
23 operate. So that what they're asking in one sense is that
24 we, the Children' s Services Council, who are in fact a legal
25 entity, become that umbrella for them.
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1 Secondly, they're asking for us to complete this
2 development -- and the completion of the development would
3 be in fact to appoint one of our members to chair a group.
4 Certainly, hopefully, that Juvenile Justice Task Force would
5 be a part of that. Complete the development by finding the
6 nine individuals or ten or twelve whom will sit on that
7 particular staffing board.
8 And in concept, this is, in my opinion, a tremendous
9 idea.
10 It ' s a way of providing a tremendous service to the
11 community, primarily self-funded.
12 It ' s also a way for the Children' s Services Council
13 to establish a positive track record in the community,
14 something that we need to do over the next year and a half
15 if in fact we ' re going to win any polls in March of '92.
16 But the consideration and the flip side that I think
17 this Council needs to give it is: Exactly what does it
18 entail on the part of the Council; can we in fact live up to
19 the expectations that Jim has for us?
20 If we can, I vote that we go forward. If we cannot,
21 then I think we need to further study it.
22 CHAIRMAN HARPER: You don' t have a vote.
23 MR. PINSON: Thank you, Bea.
24 MR. SHANAHAN: You suggest a vote, right?
25 MR. FAERBER: My concern is this -- and then I ' ll
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1 quit dominating this. I just had an experience in a similar
2 organization.
3 If one of our number is to chair this task force,
4 it ' s a major commitment in time. Okay? And many of us here
5 have chosen the Children' s Services Council as another major
6 commitment in time.
7 There are people in the community that I would feel
8 more comfortable or as comfortable appointing to chair it,
9 recognizing that it comes under our umbrella, that we ' re the
10 legal entity that controls it, and I have no problem with
11 that.
12 But, you know, I see this as a chance to reinstate
f 13 the leadership and broaden it out to what you have
14 envisioned it to be, and I know that there are people
15 involved in that former organization or what' s left of that
16 organization that could take this on and do an excellent job
17 with it.
18 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Madam Chairman and Jim. We have
19 quite an adequate volunteer list that probably would be a
20 good resource for someone to become involved in, you know,
21 working to pull in people that would adquately fill those
22 spots. I suggest that we peruse that.
23 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I agree there, except that I do
24 feel that one member of this Council should be, quote, the
25 chairman.
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2 the work, as you 're talking about, Nelson, but that there is
3 the legal, you know, control by a member of the Council .
4 MR. FAERBER: Well, why can' t the executive director
5 be our representative on that Council, and then allow the
6 Council or the task force itself to select their own chair
7 or we can appoint the chair from outside of our number.
8 Is anybody here feeling left out that I don' t want
9 one of us to have to devote some more time?
10 MR. SHANAHAN: Frankly, I think it would take a great
11 deal of time to chair that particular reponsibility, and I
12 don' t know that anybody on this board has that kind of time,
"`" 13 other than maybe Mr. Pinson.
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Oh, my word.
15 MR. SHANAHAN: And obviously I am supporting your
16 view that we appoint Mr. Pinson to be that representative
17 and do let that staffing group select their own chair.
18 Jim, I don' t know how you feel about that, but it
19 certainly seems to me -- we would be totally involved,
20 obviously, working with Paul, and certainly have excellent
21 representation and would certainly be able to formulate a
22 juvenile staffing board that would certainly represent all
23 of it.
C24 So I certainly support that recommendation.
25 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I 'm agreeable with that, except
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1 that I work right at the next desk to Paul and I know how
2 Paul ' s days are filled.
3 So, you know, the one commitment or the way I see
4 this Children' s Services Council is that we bring the needs
5 of our kids before this community and that we go to
6 referendum and win the funding for the Children' s Services.
7 And I don' t want us to get detoured by our executive
8 director, and we 're very limited in funds and how we can,
9 you know, staff. We have two staff, and they really work,
10 and I don' t want to see Paul pulled away from getting this
11 challenge completed by doing something else.
12 So I think Paul should address this and how he feels
13 about it.
14 MR. PINSON: Thank you, Madam Chairman.
15 My response is that I don' t fully understand the
16 total implications of the time commitment.
17 I would suggest -- I would suggest for your
18 consideration since there seems to be a general feeling that
19 the idea is a good sounding idea, but the hangup seems to be
20 who is going to do the work.
21 Is it -- Jim and I come together very clearly on that
22 issue, that we spend, between now and the next meeting,
23 enough time for me to have a very clear understanding of his
24 expectations and mine and my workload, and if in my
25 opinion. After that, I can make my recommendation for your
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2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I think that ' s a good idea.
3 MR. PASSIDOMO: May I make an observation here? A
4 little bit different tack, and I think the executive
5 director was headed in this direction.
6 It seems to me that we have to find a way to define
7 issues here.
8 We need a staff input and a staff report, and we need
9 the input of an advisory Council . I have a lot of
10 questions.
11 This seems to be labor intensive. The objective is
12 obviously commendable and a very generous offer to the
13 Council, but it ' s obviously labor intensive, it obviously
14 needs generation of support from many different disciplines
15 in the community.
16 We have to find a way to measure its progress. We
17 know what the goal is, but we're not sure what the policy of
18 the program and even what objectives are that will implement
19 that goal, and it seems to me -- I 'm not sure what goal the
20 Children' s Services Council plays in this concept.
21 But it seems to me, if we can start to defining that
22 and then find a way for the executive director to give input
23 to an advisory board which will then join with the executive
%0110,. 24 director in making recommendations to this board, we can
25 have issues defined by the time they get here.
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2 director to be chairing this group. I don' t know that ' s his
3 responsibility at all.
4 MR. FAERBER: I don' t think he should chair it
5 either. I just think it is an idea that he could be your
6 representative.
7 You 're looking at a minimal monthly meetings where
8 these children come before you, and somebody has to be
9 responsible for going out and finding that engineer or boat
10 captain or whatever that the child has an interest in, and
11 in lining that up. And I have an idea, a good idea what the
12 time commitment is going to be.
13 JUDGE ELLIS: That was my question.
14 Once it, it does seem to involve some clerical staff
15 in terms of having all the parties noticed and the children
16 there and then the follow-up, and that always seems to be
17 the problem, if we can identify problems. But it' s hard
18 having that person there to be right with the child for
19 follow-up.
20 MR. HANSEN: I think what we 're looking at, though,
21 is actually you or whowever is involved in it, in whatever
22 manner they're going to be involved, is going to be
23 assisting in establishing this board. Just establishing it.
4:) 24 Once it ' s established, it ' s going to be off and
25 running on its own. His involvement will be minimal after
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2 MR. FAERBER: I agree.
3 MR. HANSEN: And once the infrastructure is in place,
4 it ' s going to be ongoing. And in terms of measuring, you
5 know, in the brief that I gave you, I wanted to keep it very
6 brief so all of you would read it. You all get stacks of
7 proposals that are this thick. And we can' t easily measure
8 the productivity by the number of children who are now going
9 from second-time arrested to multiple arrested to the number
10 -- the reduction. Hopefully, this number that won' t be as
11 great after the program is implemented.
12 Some evaluation of the program is going to be very, I
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13 think, quite easily done, and the objectives are clear.
14 It ' s to reduce crime, it ' s to reduce the number of at-risk
15 children that are going to grow up dysfunctional and in need
16 of future services.
17 MR. SHANAHAN: Jim, my feeling was -- if I didn' t
18 express it clearly a moment ago -- is to use Paul to
19 formulate the staffing group, not for him to delete his
20 attention to the Children's Services Council. And I believe
21 he can do that.
22 I believe he and you can work together and with us in
23 support of that action in formulating that group, and then
401) 24 he steps aside and gets back to his normal duties and
25 reponsibilities. I don' t think there is anything wrong with
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2 MR. FAERBER: I agree with that.
3 And at the risk of being held in contempt -- you' re
4 standing next to the guy who knows how to do it -- Judge
5 Trettis has done this before, and it could be expanded
6 beyond what he did. And so I see it can be done in starting
7 with minimal work from our board.
8 I think it ' s worthwhile doing, in fact, but I don' t
9 see that we need to chair it.
10 MS. CAMBRIDGE: I 'm getting a little bit lost.
11 MR. HANSEN: Me, too.
12 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Because as I read -- I thought that
13 you initially were looking for someone to help all the --
14 MR. HANSEN: I was.
15 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Of staffing committee. Right?
16 MR. HANSEN: That ' s correct.
17 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Now let me ask you this.
18 Will the makeup of this committee change with each
19 youngster that will probably be recommended or are you
20 saying that this will be a staffing group that will work
21 from, say, ' 91 through ' 92?
22 MR. HANSEN: That ' s the division, Alma. That group
23 would maintain it' s --
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24 MS. CAMBRIDGE: That group will maintain?
25 MR. HANSEN: Right. And then changes would only be
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1 by, you know, if the person has to leave the group for
2 whatever reason or the committee for whatever reason, we ' ll
3 try to get a replacement.
4 MS. CAMBRIDGE: So you 're simply looking for someone
5 from our board to help you.
6 MR. HANSEN: Right. To help your task force.
7 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well , I think what John suggested
8 -- Mr. Passidomo suggested is a good idea, that we turn this
9 over to Paul and then use our review board, advisory board,
10 to come back to us.
11 Is that agreeable with everyone on the Council?
12 MR. FAERBER: I 'm not sure I know what you mean by
13 advisory board.
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: We have a long list of people that
15 we have but are not using who have volunteered and said we
16 are available, really anxious to become involved in
17 children' s activities.
18 So I assume that ' s what you 're talking about, John,
19 and we certainly -- Paul would be the natural person to form
20 that advisory board and then get with Jim and go from there.
21 MR. SHANAHAN: Well, frankly, I think that this
22 Council ought to participate in the selection of that
23 advisory council .
24 MS. CAMBRIDGE: I do, too.
25 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well, that' s all right with me.
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1 MR. SHANAHAN: I think it ought to be an agenda item,
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3 be very careful in making sure we have a balanced selection
4 and accept it. I think that that' s a responsibility of this
5 Council.
6 MR. PINSON: Absolutely. I think Mr. Darling is a
7 perfect example of someone from the community whom has
8 agreed by letter to sit -- should he be nominated and should
9 this board accept his nomination -- to sit on that advisory
10 board council.
11 Roughly thirty to thirty-five individuals have
12 indicated a strong interest, and we ' re certainly always
13 interested in seeking other good community input into that.
14 So there are -- there ' s a good list of volunteers at
15 this point.
16 MR. FAERBER: Can I ask you a question. Do you want
17 to tie in the advisory board with this particular issue?
18 MR. PASSIDOMO: I think any substantial issue that
19 comes before this Council has to be defined, as far as
20 that ' s concerned. And I think we need the input of our
21 staff and we need the input of an advisory council.
22 I 'm not sure -- I think what Mr. Shanahan said has a
23 lot of merit, though. We're kind of putting the cart before
4011) 24 the horse. We have to constitute this Council .
25 We talked at our last meeting about defining its
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2 pick the task force and Judge Ellis chaired the mission
3 statement task force.
4 So maybe this could be a task force that could evolve
5 into an advisory council.
6 MR. FAERFER: I personally don' t want to see an
7 advisory board render an opinion to us on every single issue
8 that comes before us. I mean, that gets real cumbersome;
9 and then there are two councils already.
10 MR. PASSIDOMO: I agree. But of all the issues that
11 are on the agenda today, I think this was the only one.
12 It' s a new proposal and we have to define what we're
13 being asked to do on an ongoing basis. So of all the ones
14P we have on the agenda, this is the only one that I think we
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(, 16 MR. PINSON: And frankly speaking, I think John's
17 proposal has a heck of a lot of merit. Because within that
18 thirty to thirty-five member advisory board, should you so
19 choose to constitute it, are just a top notch group of,
20 quote, the kind of professionals that Jim is looking for to
21 serve on that particular advisory council. They may turn
22 out to be those nine members of that community staffing
23 board.
ID24 MR. FAERBER: Do we have time restraints?
25 MS. CAMBRIDGE: May I ask one question? We ' re using
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1 terms interchangably, an advisory board and then a volunteer
2 list.
3 What is going to be the action taken to get a clear
4 title involved there?
5 MR. FAERBER: I think the idea was the advisory board
6 would come largely from the volunteer list.
7 MR. SHANAHAN: And then selected by this Council .
8 MR. FAERBER: That voluntary list has just been
9 arbitrarily formulated by people calling in here and there.
10 We have not solicited volunteers to that list. I 'm sure
11 there are many, many more that aren' t even on the list.
12 Let ' s -- let ' s -- do you have a time constraint?
13 MR. HANSEN: No, sir. We ' re continuing to produce
14 habitual offenders as we talk. They won' t go away.
15 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Oh, Jim.
16 MR. FAERBER: I understand your frustration.
17 Why don ' t we -- why don' t we just have you work it
18 out with Jim and bring on an agenda item next the advisory
19 board that we envision -- I hope it ' s not going to be
20 thirty-five people, personally; you just can' t get anywhere
21 with an advisory board that large -- and then you all work,
22 once we appoint that board, and we' ll take recommendations
23 from staff and you and advisory board, because it ' s a great
411) 24 idea.
25 But I agree with Mr. Passidomo that there has to be
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3 MR. SHANAHAN: You're welcome.
4 JUDGE ELLIS: On a related issue, could we possibly
5 have a list of the proposed advisory board members to vote
6 on at the next meeting so that we can get that group
7 defined?
8 CHAIRMAN HARPER: We have that in the office. So we
9 can see that everyone gets it.
10 JUDGE ELLIS: And put that on the agenda for next
11 meeting?
12 MR. PINSON: Yes.
13 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you very much, Mr. Hansen.
14 The next item on the agenda is the celebration of the
15 child, the Year of the Child, by our steering committee.
16 MR. PINSON: As a preface, the Council , as you may
17 recall , gave me the green light to go forward at our last
18 regularly scheduled meeting to develop some plans to develop
19 this initiative that we ' re calling the Celebration of the
20 Child event. We, I think, have moved fairly rapidly in the
21 direction and hopefully of our finalized plan.
22 We have several members of our steering committee
23 here today to make a formal presentation for this Council to
100 24 adopt. Included in that committee are Gene Vacarro, who is
25 -- shortly will be addressing you, along with Sharon Eionness
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1 who did the majority of the organization and the
2 coordination, as well as Cookie Pinson and Rich King.
3 I see you back there somewhere in the back. So if
4 you four folks would come up and take it. You 've got it.
5 MS. BONNESS: Madam Chairman and the rest of the
6 Council members.
7 My name is Sharon Bonness, and what we did in this
8 effect is -- well , Paul did a great job in rounding up a
9 group for a steering committee. We sat down for a couple of
10 nights and did some great brainstorming and kind of changed
11 the whole idea.
12 That was -- it was going to be a festival type thing,
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13 and we have really come around full circle with an entirely
14 different idea for the kickoff event to celebrate the Year
15 of the Child. And what I did in my role was mostly just to
16 coordinate the information and to compile it into the plan
17 that you read. And we have -- since forming the group, we
18 have subdivided it into committees, and there is a committee
19 chairperson here from each group to answer any questions
20 that you may have about the event.
21 To start off, because the rest of the people in the
22 audience don' t really have any idea what the event is going
23 to be, Gene Vacarro has a presentation for you that kind of
24 describes what this unique event is. It ' s just a real
25 exciting idea. I think the group came up with a unique idea
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1 that will be fun for the entire community to take part in.
2 It' s a real good idea, and I hope you ' ll enjoy it as
3 much as we are. Anybody who wants to take part in it, it ' s
4 just great and I really -- I 'm so excited.
5 But as soon as hopefully you endorse this, we can get
6 to work on it because it ' s coming up real soon. January
7 19th.
8 So with that, this is Gene Vacarro, and he is the
9 person who is doing most of the work on this event. He ' s in
10 charge of the media and the presentation and the video
11 tape. He ' s just done a great -- he' s our creative
12 chairperson, and he has done a great job, and I ' ll let him
13 take it from here.
14 MR. VACARRO: Thanks, Sharon.
15 To preface what we 're going to do next, I really need
16 some input.
17 Paul, is -- is this group or the Council either in
18 general aware of the Year of the Child proclamation that
19 will be forthcoming in January nationally?
20 MR. PINSON: Yes and no.
21 The Council certainly has had the opportunity to
22 study the materials. They are aware. They have read the
23 proclamation, and my guess is the majority of the audience
24 has not.
25 MR. VACARRO: Basically what we ' re trying to do is to
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1 coordinate an event to take place on January the 19th.
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2 Paul, I believe the national proclamation of the Year
3 of the Child is on the 17th. Is that correct?
4 MR. PINSON: That is correct.
5 MR. VACARRO: Okay. Bill Moyers with PBS will make
6 televised -- nationally televised proclamation on January
7 the 17th, which I guess is a Thursday, declaring 1991 as the
8 Year of the Child.
9 Through Paul ' s leadership and some others on the
10 steering committee, who I would like to acknowledge here in
11 a minute, we have devised an event -- designed an event to
12 take advantage of the national exposure that children will
13 get starting, like I say, on the 17th of January.
14 Our event is designed to take place on Saturday,
15 January the 19th, for the obvious reason that we want kids
16 involved, they're out of school on Saturday, and we hope we
17 can draw a lot of media attention.
18 Now, an overview of the event itself. We call it a
19 challenge. What we ' re asking is the kids of Collier County
20 to challenge all the citizens of Collier County to
21 acknowledge 1991 as the Year of the Child. And not only
22 acknowledge it but to actually do something about it. Don' t
23 just make a token acknowledgment, but to get involved.
24 You have twelve months. Take advantage of that
25 calendar, commit yourselves personally and individually to
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1 doing something every week or every month. Make it a
2 year-long event.
3 Brief description of the event. We hope to attain a
4 group of kids ranging from anywhere -- I don' t know what age
5 groups -- eight through fifteen, maybe. Thousands. We ' ll
6 take all we can get.
7 We would love to have every kid in Collier County on
8 the beach on January the 19th, arm in arm, linked, up and
9 down the beach. This is for a video presentation that we
10 will pursue that day. Hand in hand along with that, we will
11 have a children' s choir on the Naples pier singing a theme
12 song called Today' s Dream that has been developed. We ' ll
417 13 play that for you in a minute.
14 As this is going on, the theme song will break, we' ll
15 have some kids actually challenge the community and, in
16 fact, the world because we expect to get some national press
17 from this, to again be aware of the Year of the Child.
18 To confirm all of it, we' re going to ask every kid in
19 Collier County, those that are there on the beach that day,
20 which we hope may be in the thousands, and those that are in
21 school the following week. Those that don' t sing will sign
22 the following week.
23 We will pass through the school system, with the
24 school system' s approval, a -- this proclamation and ask
25 every kid in Collier County in 1991 to sign his name to it,
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r 1 challenging the citizens of Collier County to be aware that
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2 this is the Year of the Child and to in fact get involved.
3 This is all through the leadership of the Children' s
4 Services Council . When this is all said and done -- over a
5 period of maybe thirty days as we acquire all of these
6 signature and produce this song and produce this video tape,
7 when it ' s all said and done, we hope to more or less -- I
8 don' t know the proper word -- immortalize doesn' t sound
9 right. But somehow make this event, do some kind of
10 permanent structure or permanent recognition of this effort,
11 and that every kid ' s signature, which -- I don' t know how
12 many kids -- somebody can help me. How many kids have we
13 got in Collier County?
14 It ' s twenty something thousand, right?
15 MR. FAERBER: Well, there ' s twenty-one thousand in
16 school, eight through twelve.
17 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Jim.
18 MR. VOCARRO: Or however many we can get that can
19 sign their name. Over twenty thousand signature, we hope.
20 And these would be permanently cast in bronze or aluminum or
21 some kind of structure that we would like to remain in place
22 ultimately at the Children' s Services Council offices or in
23 some park or some location maybe to be determined later.
24 But this is an effort to say to the community and, in
25 fact, to the world and take advantage of Bill Moyers ' input
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1 and the fact that this is the national Year of the Child,
2 that Collier County was first jumping on the bandwagon
3 immediately after this national proclamation with a major
4 event that we hope would really attract some media
5 attention. We want to be first and we want to have more for
6 the buck.
7 We're not looked at as a kids ' county, we' re looked
8 at as an old peoples ' county, and we want to change that
9 image immediately, and I think we can. The impact of you
10 seeing kids linked arm in arm from one end of the beach to
11 the other, passing a document from one end of the beach to
12 the other for their signatures; all of that going down on
13 the video presentation with a theme music that has been
14 developed, and all of that being packaged into a -- I didn' t
15 realize I had so much to say. This is only going to take a
16 minute or two; but as I get into it, there really is a lot
17 that we have done in the steering committee, now that I
18 think about it.
19 Another aspect of this is to put together a
20 three-minute music video and use that as a marketing tool to
21 maybe help as a fund raiser. All these kids that appear in
22 there, I 'm sure they would want a copy of this video.
23 Basically it would be a music video, a three-minute
24 video. Many other variations of the video would be
25 available, a thirty second for television or audio, and
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1 these visual aids and audio aids would be available not only
2 to the Children' s Services Council but other agencies
3 throughout the year to use, a promotional effort for their
4 own effort to do something for kids.
5 We ask that the community get involved and make this
6 the Year of the Child. Not just the weekend of the child,
7 but every week. Plan something and put it on the calendar
8 and make it a twelve-month event. And all of it culminating
9 in March.
10 So without getting any more in depth, I would ] ike
11 the other steering committee folks to come up.
12 Cookie, Would you come up?
13 I would like to have them all up here so that when I
14 get through, if you've got any questions, you can shoot them
15 at them because I 'm going to dodge them.
16 Rich, are -- where are you? Richard King. He' s the
17 event co-chairman. Cookie. Elaine Vacarro. Cookie
18 Pinson.
19 Who else have I got here?
20 Sharon Huff. Sharon, you have to stand right over
21 here.
22 Is Roy in here?
23 Any other steering committee members that I have
24 overlooked?
25 Where did Randy go? He ' s not around. Okay, Randy
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2 Yes. And Alfredo Santos. He apparently had to
3 leave.
4 Carolyn Bronson said she was going to hide behind
5 that column over there because she ' s the author of this song
6 that we 're still working on.
7 What we're going to present to you now is,
8 understand, only a rough idea of what can be done or what we
9 think would be very effective as far as creating some
10 excitement in the community. Understand, these are just
11 rough drafts of the -- draft of the song. We have a lot to
12 do on it, on lyrics and things.
13 But let me introduce a couple things, and when I get
14 through, direct them to these various committees.
15 Richard is the actual coordinator of the day of the
16 event.
17 Sharon is the overall coordinator for the whole
18 project, making sure everything is getting to the right
19 place at the right time.
20 Cookie and Elaine are with the child and parent
21 coordinator, getting all of these kids safe and sound on and
22 off the beach that day.
23 Sharon is with the adult volunteers program. Right.
24 She ' s coordinating that effort.
25 So any questions that you have after we make a little
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1 short presentation, please direct them to them or myself.
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2 We would be glad to help you.
3 First of all , I would like to show you what we
4 propose maybe as some kind of a plan or briefly I want to
5 read the proclamation that we' re going to ask you to -- that
6 we 're going ask the kids to endorse with their signatures.
7 And I think Council has seen copies of this, and probably in
8 their little book.
9 Basically 1991 is the year of the child. That ' s
10 coming from Bill Moyers, and that will be proclaimed on
11 January 17 . What we ' re proposing is a proclamation, using
12 our slogan here, Children' s Services Council, that kids are
13 in fact today's dream and tomorrow' s reality. Using that as
14 a general overall theme. And we have some sub-themes that
15 we will weave in and out.
16 One of them: They will be -- Richard came up with
17 that, just two simple words. Kids count. You 're going to
18 hear a lot about that, too.
19 Let me read you the proclamation that the kids are to
20 endorse and everybody here to get besides.
21 We the undersigned, all being of Collier County
22 hereby challenge the citizens of this Council, under the
23 guidance and direction of the Children' s Services Council of
24 Collier County, do acknowledge that 1991 as America' s Year
25 of the Child and to use that awareness to generate a new
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1 understanding of critical children' s issues and to use that
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2 understanding to initiate a county-wide, year-long intensive
3 search for solutions and resolutions. We say as a body
4 understand us, care for us and with us, for even as we are
5 today' s dream, we are tomorrow' s reality.
6 That ' s the proclamation we 're asking all kids in
7 Collier County to sign. Basically this is a challenge.
8 This is the kids of this community saying to the
9 adults of this community: Care for us; care with us about
10 children' s issues; we challenge you. And it ' s up to I think
11 the Council and the general community to accept that
12 challenge and make something of it.
13 During the course of the year, why we will, like I
14 said earlier, search for a way to make this document remain
15 here forever as a permanent structure in Collier County as a
16 living testimony to the year that started a real children' s
17 conscience in Collier County.
18 It' s a bit of a negative connotation, but right now,
19 we 're thinking in terms of a -- something almost like the
20 Viet Nam memorial in Washington in that these signatures,
21 rather than etched in marble, we would have actually every
22 kid' s signature in Collier County cast in bronze or aluminum
23 and put in some kind of permanent structure.
Q. 24 And understand, again, these are just rough
25 sketches. This is what could simply be a concrete structure
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1 with what you have seen here in the middle cast in bronze,
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2 with the proclamation in it and with every kid' s signature
3 in Collier County there. So that when years from now, they
4 can come back and show their kids the kind of example they
5 set in 1991, to coordinate with the national proclamation.
6 It ' s a lasting testament to all of the effort that
7 has gone in into the community and the Children' s Services
8 Council .
9 At this time, let me describe a little bit about the
10 video. We are in the process of assembling and organizing a
11 children' s choir. Carolyn Bronson -- is she still hiding?
12 She ' s still hiding. Okay.
13 Carolyn is working with some of the music departments
14 in some of the schools, putting together the music that will
15 be on this video. I see the -- a kid singing on the pier, a
16 tight shot. Singing our theme songs. And pan. And as the
17 camera pans back, actually a helicopter shot, all of the
18 kids singing, and you' ll see all of them on down the beach
19 and into infinity. But it should be a very moving and
20 inspirational video, and one that -- we ' re going to make it
21 that. One of the key themes is that you will hear on PA's
22 and radio and television. We 'll keep pressure on them all
23 yearlong to put it on.
24 Kevin, if we can ask you to speak.
25 KEVIN: We -- Carolyn Bronson did that, and we 're
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1 still working on some lyrics, but here' s the lyrics of the
2 song.
3 MR. VACARRO: But again, like I say, it ' s not a
4 finished version.
5 KEVIN: So much ahead of us we have a lot we would
6 like to say. Yes, we are the candles and you are the
7 lights, with love and understanding. Look of hope will
8 shine on bright. Shine on bright. We are every boy and
9 girl, what a future really means. We' re what the -- today' s
10 dream, tomorrow' s reality. Today' s dreams, tomorrow's
11 reality.
12 MR. VACARRO: Thanks, Kevin.
13 Now if you can imagine that music going on and with
14 this choir singing this song, and break into what I guess is
15 called a donut. Right after that lyric just a hundreds of
16 backs beyond and maybe the kids humming along. Have a group
17 of these kids step forward right at that moment, maybe a
18 cross-section of the county, a black, Hispanic, an Indian or
19 whatever. And they read and -- read this as a proclamation
20 in the background, and then the choir comes back and sings
21 the chorus again.
22 And we 're looking for something that starts with the
23 kids, and they're saying: Hey, it' s the Year of the Child;
24 look at yourselves, Collier County; this is not just an old
25 folks home. They are saying: We ' re here too; there are
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1 over twenty thousand of us, care for us and care with us
2 about children ' s issues.
3 And we think that will draw not only local excitement
4 to a year-long schedule of events, but also international .
5 At this time -- I have rambled on. This committee or
6 Paul Pinson will be able to answer questions, or I ' ll be
7 glad to if I can.
8 MS. BONNESS: If you have any specific questions on
9 the plan that I gave you, I ' ll direct you to the correct
10 person to answer that question at this time.
11 Otherwise, any comments that the Council has, because
12 we ' re really here to serve you and we hope that this is what
13 your emotions are saying also and the way -- we want to know
14 whether this is a good idea and is a --
15 MS. GAYNOR: Lal Gaynor.
16 I 'm really impressed, and I want to congratulate
17 you.
18 MR. SHANAHAN: Very well done.
19 JUDGE ELLIS: Very exciting and very inventive.
20 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I get weepy and goose bumps. Very
21 good.
22 MS. CAMBRIDGE: Your creativity is quite outstanding.
23 MS. BONNESS: Does anybody -- anyone from the
24 audience have any questions?
25 And Cookie and Elaine Vacarro have both worked very
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1 hard in coming up with a good plan for that. And so if
2 you ' re considering how are we going to do this, we can
3 answer those questions hopefully.
4 MS. DENNING: Linda Denning. I 'm with the
5 Agriculture Extension Office and I coordinate the 4-H
6 program, and I 'm all for visible kids and I see the
7 tremendous work and planning.
8 By biggest question is how -- how set you are in
9 going with that date because that' s the last day of the
10 Collier County fair, and I would hate to be drawing from
11 that. It affects families that might want to wait until
12 after, to go to the fair on the last day, and school
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13 children who might be performing with the bands, with other
14 activity.
15 MS. BONNESS: We did spend considerable time in
16 addressing what day we would have this event.
17 I would like you to know that we did have
18 representatives, school principals and various
19 representatives from the school system and as many people as
20 we could that were participating with the event in January,
21 to help us with that.
22 I would like to have some of the people on the
23 steering committee and possibly Paul address this question.
24 But one of the things that we 're hoping -- we are
25 aware of the fair and we are hoping that the -- that the
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1 fact that this would be taking place very early in the
2 morning, that the fair wouldn' t have anything at these hours
3 in the morning. But that was the only day we could come up
4 with that, did juggling with everybody else on the day.
5 And Richard King, the day of the event -- he ' ll
6 address this issue.
7 MR. KING: We did check a number of other dates and
8 came to the determination that, as Sharon said, we would be
9 pretty much involved in early morning hours, and we hope to
10 have the children out of there at a time when they would
11 have plenty of time to get to the county fair.
12 The other thing we thought of was that the county
0 13 fair is an event over a period of days rather than just a
14 one-day event. So it was our feeling, after checking
15 everything else, that this really was the day that we needed
16 to do this.
17 We also had the interest in having our event as close
18 as possible to the proclamation by Bill Moyer on PBS. A
19 little national publicity would not hurt us, although it 's
20 not the major thing. That is the reason we went to -- with
21 that particular date. And our plans at this time are from
22, nine to ten in the morning, so we are getting the children
23 there early. Hopefully we'll get them out of there early.
24 And one other thing relative to the day of the
25 event. Obviously, Gene has very effectively addressed the
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1 purpose of the event as related to the Children' s Services
2 Council. But logistically we are tremendously concerned
3 with a couple of things.
4 One is the safety of the children. I think maybe one
5 of you would be bringing it up anyway. The other is
6 cooperation with city and county official. We have a
7 meeting next week with city and county officials who have
8 indicated we would have their officers, sheriffs deputies.
9 We have been involved in a tremendous number of
10 affairs of this nature or related affairs where there have
11 been large crowds, and the important thing is to have enough
12 volunteers and to have the resources, help of the city and
13 the county. And to take -- so that all the -- all will
14 reflect well and positively on the Children' s Services
15 Council .
16 MR. SHANAHAN: What time is the opening time of the
17 fair that day?
18 MS. DENNING: I don' t -- if there is anybody else
19 here that does, but I believe it opens early Saturdays.
20 MR. SHANAHAN: Like ten o 'clock?
21 MS. DENNING: Children who are exhibiting animals
22 need to be out at the fair early in the morning because they
23 have the responsibility to take care of their animals.
24 Also, there ' s just so much that people can do in one
25 day, and if they are involved in a band or involved in the
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1 fair in some way, it ' s just going to draw energy in a lot of
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3 CHAIRMAN HARPER: The only thing that I would say is
4 after twenty-six years in this community, during the season
5 it ' s very difficult to find any day that does not conflict
6 with something else.
7 And, you know, if we put it off because of the fair,
8 the next Saturday, well, we have the, you know, you have all
9 kinds of golf games and, gosh, I don' t know what all goes on
10 in the community.
11 So I 'm not sure that this is a valid reason to change
12 the date. That would be my opinion.
13 MR. ENDING: Dave Ending.
14 One of the areas, and the committee has most -- in
15 all likelihood has checked this, but it ' s always helpful to
16 check with the police departments and the people who really
17 would be expected to handle all of the traffic and all of
18 the safety on the streets on that date, because we 're
19 talking about somewhat both ends of the county. And as I
20 hear the numbers and I think of parking, the logistics of an
21 event of this size on the beach, and the limitations of the
22 roads would seem to me to be quite a responsibility on those
23 responsible for moving the people safely in and out.
24 I can see this event taking a considerable time
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1 move traffic away. So to really understand the extent of
2 that and to work with the local law enforcement people so
3 that they truly support both of these activities on that
4 day.
5 MR. SHANAHAN: I believe that has been done, Dave. I
6 believe that one of the speakers spoke to that, that they
7 have worked with the Sheriff ' s Department and to determine
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8 the extent of their participation, because it is going to be
9 tremendous logistics.
10 When you talk about putting thousands of kids between
11 eight to fifteen years old on the beach.
12 MR. FAERBER: I don' t know that funding is available,
13 but you may want to approach the School Board and use
14 central locations --
15 MS. BONNESS: I have --
16 MR. VACARRO: Yeah.
17 MR. FAERBER: For bus transportation.
18 MR. VACARRO: Excuse me. We do have an answer to
19 each of those questions. And they have been addressed.
20 MR. FAERBER: Beverly is trying to -- is behind you.
21 MR. VACARRO: Can you -- are you resigned to that.
22 MR. FAERBER: No, she wants --
23 MS. BONNESS: Before Richard gets up here and talks
24 about that, this puts the emphasis back where we want to
25 place it, on the Council. And this is -- if we do have your
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1 endorsement, you all represent our government basically, you
2 represent everybody in this commnity that has any ability to
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3 coordinate people or the event that is taking place, and we
4 do need your endorsement and we need your work too.
5 Tom Richey serves on this board, and superintendent
6 of the affairs, and Nelson Faerber, the School Board. And
7 these are critical to the event, and that ' s one of the
8 reasons that we need your endorsement and your joy.
9 And Richard and address the supply.
10 MR. SHANAHAN: I don' t think there is any concern
11 about the endorsement at all, at least from my viewpoint.
12 I think we ' re concerned, obviously, about the things
401) 13 that we have discussed, and frankly I 'm concerned about the
14 fair situation.
15 It ' s unfortunate that we would be conflicting with
16 the fair, but I don' t know that that ' s a better alternative
17 to that but to recognize and try to work as best we can with
18 the fair and encourage the fair along with this particular
19 situation.
20 So, you know, I don' t see anybody having any great
21 concern about the endorsement, but I think there are
22 probably others that share the view that conflicting with
23 the fair is unfortunate. I think we need to move ahead,
24 frankly, and to endorse the extra terrific plan for 1991 as
25 the World Year the Child challenge is certainly the thing we
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2 But, anyway, they are -- there are more speakers.
3 MR. ENDING: Please advise me if I 'm out of order
4 with a broader question that moves a little away from the
5 specific day, and that would be to understand the extent and
6 to define ahead of time.
7 What is the effect that we would want and this
8 Council would want, and this -- that is, what effect would
9 we -- what effect would we want to have on the people in
10 this community, and to anticipate the reaction of the people
11 in this community and to plan for their reaction in guiding
12 their community to support the overall views.
13 My reference frame is I participated, as possibly
14 some others here, in the Hands Across America event, and my
15 other point of reference is -- in saying this is the Billy
16 Graham events. The day is a massive event, and yet a
17 tremendous amount of time and planning ahead of time in
18 understanding and anticipating and planning for the effect
19 that that would have on the life of the people in the
20 community.
21 And so I think this, for example, would be an event
22 to really set up many volunteers, be able to staff many
23 programs and to plan for that and anticipate and have people
24 in place to take the responses of the community to that
25 event.
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1 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, Dave.
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2 Beverly, did you have something you wanted to say?
3 MS. HORTON: Yes, I do.
4 I 'm a bit nervous about this because I 'm feeling
5 something like a grinch. But maybe some of my ideas can be
6 included in what ' s being done, especially with the video.
7 And I thought Dave was going to hit on my concern, and that
8 is the results for the -- or the impact on the community and
9 how they feel about this whole thing.
10 I see it as a lot of show and not very much substance
11 at a time when the Children' s Services Council is very
12 concerned with the state of the child in Collier County.
13 And I know that I am.
14 We 're showing a video of probably very healthy
15 children singing, standing along the beach, and I think that
16 it might be more effective if in between a shot of a child
17 singing weaved into that we had a shot of a child crying or
18 a shot of a child in tattered clothes or a shot of a child
19 in jail, because this is what we ' re all about.
20 And we ' re spending some money, and it looks like a
21 lot of money, on a memorial for -- like for this event, when
22 in our community -- we have a lot of tax curmudgeons who
23 look to see how money is spent and who are very critical.
4101) 24 We are going to be asking them for money at some point, and
25 I don' t want them to point to a memorial or something else
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1 and saying this is the way we 're spending our money.
2 I would -- unfortunately, I think the Children' s
3 Services Council is too much in its infancy stage to present
4 a program that I would like to see being presented in
5 coordination with this day, starting the Year of the Child,
6 and that is what we are going to do this year to help the
7 plight of the child.
8 We don' t have very much money right now. But some
9 things are being done without money, I and think we can
10 join, support more things.
11 I 'm involved with the mental health program in Naples
12 High School, and I have found several organizations who are
13 endorsing and promoting and helping with mental health
14 programs at the high school and at the kindergarten level .
15 The budget is zero, but the growth is zygometric
16 (phonetic) . We started with ten mentors at the high school
17 last year; we now have twenty-five. We project going up to
18 a hundred, and we don' t need money for this. We just need
19 volunteers.
20 I see something about a Big Brother and Sister coming
21 up. That also can be a very effective organization and a
22 way of -- we have of having a meaning to children in this
23 area. I don' t know, you know, how much money they spend on
24 it, but I don' t think very much needs to be spent.
25 And I think we as a Children' s Services Council needs
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1 to be known for some results that we are getting so that we
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2 can say they have achieved all of these things without
3 spending much more money. These are some other things that
4 we can do if we have some money, and then the community
5 would respond to our desires for taxes.
6 Thank you.
7 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you. Thank you, Beverly.
8 Anyone else have anything? Paul .
9 MR. SHANAHAN: Do you want to address that issue at
10 all?
11 MR. PINSON: Yes. Thanks. We can take it step by
12 step.
401) 13 I think Bev raises all of the critical, important
14 questions that the Council needs to consider. Fortunately,
15 the committee, the steering committee has considered those
16 same various items.
17 Example: Bev' s concern about the Council being
18 perceived as wasteful perhaps in building a monument. The
19 monument idea is an idea that came along secondary to the
20 event idea.
21 The way that ' s projected to be funded is it will be
22 presented to a group of five bank presidents whom will take
23 it on as task, a corporate action not associated with the
24 Council funding in any way. And there is also one bank
25 vice-president who has agreed to do that, to form a group
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1 with four others. So we saw that as an independent forum
2 forhilanthro
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3 pursestrings; is it not really directly concerning the needs
4 of the Children' s Services Council .
5 But I think we have to take a longer term vision,
6 where they cannot say if we ' re going to spend five or
7 $6, 000, it ' s for -- this is something other than a Band-Aid
8 approach of kids with five or six thousand dollars.
9 The vision is to pass the tax in March of 1992 . This
10 is not a singular event. This is going -- being designed as
11 a package of events to be done throughout the year to
12 dramatically increase the awareness of children throughout
13 our community. We have asked and gotten a group of service
14 providers here in Collier County to meet with me directly
15 after this meeting to help begin the process of planning
16 those other many events.
17 It ' s a tremendous way of bringing the service
18 providers throughout the community together. Their
19 vocations, their talents, their skills, their initiatives,
20 and as well as the most important thing that we're going to
21 have to do to get that March, ' 92 vote, and that is to
22 create a positive awareness of what our Council is all
23 about.
/A, 24 So I 'm very supportive of it, and I 'm very aware of
25 Bev' s concerns, and I think they' re really ligitimate
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1 with four others. So we saw that as an independent forum
2 for philanthropy, if they chose so to do. It ' s their
3 pursestrings; is it not really directly concerning the needs
4 of the Children' s Services Council.
5 But I think we have to take a longer term vision,
6 where they cannot say if we ' re going to spend five or
7 $6, 000, it ' s for -- this is something other than a Band-Aid
8 approach of kids with five or six thousand dollars.
9 The vision is to pass the tax in March of 1992 . This
10 is not a singular event. This is going -- being designed as
11 a package of events to be done throughout the year to
12 dramatically increase the awareness of children throughout
13 our community. We have asked and gotten a group of service
14 providers here in Collier County to meet with me directly
15 after this meeting to help begin the process of planning
16 those other many events.
17 It ' s a tremendous way of bringing the service
18 providers throughout the community together. Their
19 vocations, their talents, their skills, their initiatives,
20 and as well as the most important thing that we 're going to
21 have to do to get that March, ' 92 vote, and that is to
1 22 create a positive awareness of what our Council is all
23 about.
24 So I 'm very supportive of it, and I 'm very aware of
25 Bev' s concerns, and I think they' re really ligitimate
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2 CHAIRMAN HARPER: If I may say one thing about it.
3 My attitude is strictly upbeat because I think that our goal
4 is to create community awareness within our community.
5 That is, this is not a community of old people, but
6 we are a community of children and families. And I can tell
7 that you we can keep on using every five or $6, 000.00 we get
8 to put on another Band-Aid, and we are never ever going to
9 be where we want to be. And the goal is to get our
10 referendum passed and to have the means in this money to do
11 things for our children, and I don' t think we' re going to be
12 successful until we have community awareness.
13 MR. PINSON: Let me address the issue no one has
14 brought up yet.
15 How are we going to get the money, since the
16 Children' s Services Council has no money, to fund this
17 particular event?
18 That ' s exciting -- in my opinion, that ' s one of the
19 most exciting aspects of this entire process.
20 We have funding in hand already to do this. We have
21 a commitment of $10, 000, which is more than we' ll need, from
22 Jim Kessler to do this. One of the most vocal opponents to
23 the community of the creation of the Children' s Service
401) 24 Council, so he has not only turned a hundred and eighty
25 degrees but is super supportive of our effort to help the
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1 kids.
2 MR. SHANAHAN: I might encourage, that ' s dramatically
3 creditable. If I had any doubts about being individuals --
4 and Bev is right on the mark. Forewarned is forearmed.
5 I think we have to communicate to the community how
6 the funding is coming about because we will be labeled as
7 this is an organization who is clearly exhibiting a
8 disregard for how this spend their money. We ' ll have that.
9 And I -- I endorse this, and I would like to make a
10 motion that the Council endorse it as well.
11 MR. FAERBER: Second.
12 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Could I have a second?
13 MR. FAERBER: Second.
14 CHAIRMAN HARPER: All in favor?
15 (Afirmative responses. )
16 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Oppossed?
17 Oh, you have a question.
18 MR. CAMBRIDGE: I would like reaction from the
19 presenters regarding the suggestion that you, your
20 presentation being interspersed or the transition with the
21 child and with the other shots.
22 MR. SHANAHAN: Good point.
23 MR. VACARRO: Rich is going to address that very
24 issue. He -- I wanted to throw another phrase out here to
25 you.
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1 What we 're producing on January 19 is not going to
2 heal all of the ills of Collier County and it ' s not intended
3 to, and what we ' re going to do on January 19 is to create a
4 tool whereby the -- every service agency in Collier County
5 can use that tool for the whole calendar year to generate
6 enthusiasm for their programs that will get down to the
7 bottom of this issue and benefit kids directly.
8 Walking them out on the beach and taking their
9 picture is not going to heal anybody' s problems, but what we
10 will do is create an exciting tool . We will create
11 community awareness, and we ' ll build on that day an umbrella
12 whereby all of these other service agencies will come up --
I13 come under it and organized with everybody in the community
14 and in unified work.
15 And with twelve months of unified work, we ' ll be
16 successful . I can promise you that.
17 And before we go on, I would like Rich to go --
18 MR. SHANAHAN: You know we have a motion and a
19 second. I think we're entitled to vote.
20 MR. VACARRO: We had been asked a specific question.
21 Should we address that right now?
22 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I believe so. Go ahead.
23 MR. KING: About fifteen seconds. Relative to the
24 issue of the children who will be attending.
25 We are very sensitive to what you brought up, and
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1 this is not just for healthy children. We will make a very
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2 special point, particularly since you have brought it up, to
3 make this available to handicapped children too.
4 Our committee will make every effort to see that
5 there is access for those children, and we will want this to
6 be for all children.
7 Relative to the issue of the importance of the event
8 and the possible frivolity of same, what I have determined
9 in talking to many of the children in the community and the
10 rest of us is this: That is something that really turns the
11 children on, being involved in this type of a -- kind of an
12 event. Sure they want to do it, excited about doing the
13 video.
14 I have talked to a number of community leaders who
15 are all very excited about the event, and I think we can
16 pull it all together and it would have a very good effect to
17 kick off the Year of the Child.
18 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, Rick.
19 We do have a motion and a second. Do we have --
20 could we have a vote?
21 Shall I call the -- question?
22 MR. PASSIDOMO: I want to vote yes. But these are
23 thought-provoking issues, and I think as we go through an
401) 24 event, we've got to think about where that event is taking
25 us.
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1 I 'm comfortable with the fact that the organization
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2 is sensitive to the issues that she has raised, but they go
3 right to the heart of what the Children' s Services Council
4 is all about. And certainly we should be cognizant of what
5 we want to accomplish in 1991.
6 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, John.
7 May I call for a vote?
8 All those in favor, please say aye.
9 (Affirmative responses. )
10 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Opposed?
,11 (No response. )
12 CHAIRMAN HARPER: The next item on the agenda is we
13 have just a brief, brief comment from Mary Alice Ruth
14 concerning Big Brothers and Big Sisters.
15 MS. RUTH: Thank you very much. I thank you for the
16 opportunity to be here today. I would like to -- just to
17 give give you briefly a run-down about Big Brothers and Big
18 Sisters .
19 I have been with the program for -- with the program
20 for ten years in Lee County, and the program has been in
21 existence for fifteen years. What Big Brothers does is we
22 match adult volunteers, eighteen and over, with no maximum
23 age, with children who come from single parent families who
411) 24 are at need or at risk and need an adult friend in their
25 life for various reasons.
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1 Over the years with BB, WHAS produced a segment
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2 called Big -- and as a result, we had many calls from
3 Naples, particularly from Naples area, asking for service,
4 both on the part of the volunteer as well as the families,
5 the mothers or guardians of children. School personnel have
6 called us as well , and we have referred them to an adult
7 guidance program that I believe is in existence here.
8 Over the past seven months, we have received probably
9 at least four calls a week from Naples asking for service.
10 So we have at this point in time, one Big Brother, Big
11 Sister match. One of each. One Big Brother match and one
12 Big Sister match in the Naples area. But we simply cannot
1416, 13 continue to do this, both in time and money. Some of the
14 case workers -- it ' s time consuming coming down and also the
15 mileage involved in coming from the north Fort Myers area.
16 So I have spoken with several of the community people
17 that I know in Naples. I am not from this area nor familiar
18 with Collier County. I spoke with Paul recently, and he
19 graciously agreed to let me speak with you.
20 What we're trying to do is form a Council for Big
21 Brothers and Big Sisters in Collier County. We have
22 everything in Lee. It' s just a matter of did the community
23 want this in the area, and we 're willing to help and give
24 you our expertise and not to service the area. We would
25 need someone from the Collier County to begin this.
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1 MR. PASSIDOMO: We want to begin this not in a large
2 way.
3 MS. RUTH: But the reason I 'm coming here is to ask
4 the Council, whom I applaud, to help me or to point out or
5 identify leaders or people who will be interested in serving
6 on a small advisory council which would serve about seven
7 people.
8 We do have two people in the area who are interested,
9 and that ' s really my concern and my interest in addressing
10 you all .
11 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
12 MS. RUTH: Thank you very much.
13 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you. I don' t think that
14 there is any action on this.
15 JUDGE ELLIS: I know we have that list of volunteers.
16 Is there any way we can possibly match those on the advisory
17 committee other people who are interested in the program?
18 Because I know that that has been discussed and that
19 there is a need in Collier County.
20 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Paul , you can take care of that for
21 us.
22 MR. PINSON: (Nodded head in the affirmative. )
23 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you.
4110 24 The last item on the agenda -- are there any other
25 comments by the Council members or by the community?
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1 Yes.
L 2 MS. WHITE: Theresa White. And I just wanted to
3 comment back on the Year of the Child.
4 If we are going to, or if you are going to go through
5 with the Year or the Day of the Child and proceed through
6 the year, the community, the people in this audience that
7 represent a lot of children' s services come out with a
8 calendar that can go hand in hand with this day so the
9 community knows that we ' re not only making a production but
10 -- which I think is a great PSA for you, but also we do have
11 a calendar and this is what we have to go along with it.
12 I think a calendar is very important because there is
13 not much information provided to the community about
14 children' s services. That ' s my only reason.
15 MS. PINSON: I just wanted to comment on what Bev had
16 to say about feeling that some children might be left out.
17 But in our coordinating effort to try to involve all of the
18 children of Collier County, I anticipate we will have every
19 type of child there. Rich, poor, clean, juvenile
20 delinquents . You know, every segment. Handicapped. All
21 the types of children is our aim to be at the gathering.
22 You can' t always tell that a -- whether this person
23 is rich or poor by looking at them, or the troubled person,
24 and you can ' t, you know, tell a juvenile delinquent just by
25 looking at him. So I anticipate all of the children will be
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A 2 MS. HORTON: I meant that we might have shots of
3 children in everyday life, not just all shots of children in
4 the chain.
5 MS. PINSON: I guess I was perceiving.
6 MS. HORTON: So you see a child in the chain singing,
7 and then we would get a shot of a child in Immokalee who is
8 underfed and underclothed. And then another shot of a child
9 singing and a shot of a child who is in jail . That sort of
10 thing, to show the problems.
11 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Well, I think that Gene Vacarro
12 certainly is going to address that issue, and I have to
13 comment, Bev, that the child who is underfed and
14 underclothed is not necessarily in Immokalee.
15 MS. BONNESS: I might comment that the video is not
16 going to be done, completed that day, and various types of
17 things that we can add to the video can make it different if
18 for -- different reasons for different types of
19 commercials.
20 And Gene is so good at putting that -- the type of
21 things in to get the effects and trying to sell or trying to
22 get them funding; for a certain child program, to
23 specifically put pictures of that type of children in that
4C) 24 video promotion is possible.
25 So we can really take in all of these comments right
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1 now, and we're not limited to what we ' re going to do that --
r -' 2 this day because it ' s a video effect production, and we can
3 take it back and add things that are necessary to get the
4 flavor of the community.
5 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Thank you, Sharon.
6 MR. PASSIDOMO: I appreciate your indulgence, Madam
7 Chairman. Just one comment about the goal of the Year of
8 the Child.
9 The first one is the power and one is tax. And it
10 seems to me that they should -- we should be sensitive to
11 the language in the goal and that we, I think, want to --
12 when I think of the Children' s Services, I think of the word
13 power, not the word tax. And I think we can convey the
14 power and the goal behind our efforts to communicate to all
15 for the enpowerment of the Children' s Services Council .
16 We start being -- identifying with tax, and we're
17 heading down the wrong road; and if so, you're -- your very
18 first sentence says tax, we're heading down the road.
19 CHAIRMAN HARPER: I agree.
20 MR. SHANAHAN: We can word it the way John said, very
21 apropros and says everything that we need to say at this
22 time.
23 CHAIRMAN HARPER: John.
24 CHAIRMAN HARPER: Any other comments?
25 Can I entertain a motion that we adjourn?
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3 MR. SHANAHAN: Who did that?
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3 I, Connie S. Potts, Notary Public and Deputy
4 Official Court Reporter of the State of Florida, and the
5 20th Judicial Circuit of Florida, do hereby certify that the
6 foregoing proceedings were taken before me, at the time and
7 place as stated in the caption hereto, at Page 1 hereof;
8 that I was authorized to and did attend said proceedings and
9 report the same by computer-assisted Stenotype; that the
10 foregoing computer-assisted typewritten transcription
11 consisting of pages numbered 2 through 99 , inclusive, is a
12 true and accurate transcript of my Stenotype notes of the
401) 13 transcript of proceedings taken at said time.
14 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto subscribed my
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Vice Chairman:
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Secretary-Treasurer:
Mary Ellen zumFelde December 11, 1991
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Judge Ted Brousseau
Alma Cambridge . .
Delores G.Dry
Nelson A.Faerber,Jr. Mr. W. Neill Dorrill
Lavern Gaynor
John Passidomo County Manager
Dr.Thomas Richey 33.01 E. Tamiami Trail
Naples, FL 33962
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paul C.Pinson Dear Neil:
Please find enclosed the revised question as we would
like it to appear on the March ballott.
Please note there are a few minor changes from my letter
of December 2, 1991.
• If there are any questions, do not hesitate to call me.
Kind regards.
Sincerely,
pcp:kmc Paul C. Pinson
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FUNDING AUTHORIZATION
"Shall the Children's Services Council of Collier County
be granted the authority to fund the early intervention and
J prevention, developmental, treatment and other services by
the levying each year of an ad valorem tax not to exceed one-
quarter (1/4) mill for services for children in Collier County?"
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NO Against Children's Services Funding
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RESOLUTION CALL
TO BE HELD MARCH 10, 1992 , THROUGHOUT COLLIER
COUNTY TO DETERMINE IF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS
RESIDING WITHIN COLLIER COUNTY APPROVE
AN AD VALOREM TAX LEVY NOT TO EXCEED
ONE-QUARTER (1/4) MILL BY THE CHILDREN'&
SERVICES COUNCIL TO FUND SERVICES FOR THi
CHILDREN OF COLLIER COUNTY.
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QB ECTIl : That the Board of County Commissioners consider the
attached Resolution calling a referendum election to be held
county-wile on March 10, 1992 to determine if the qualified
electors within Collier County approve an ad valorem tax levy not
to exceed one-quarter (1/4) mill by the Children's Services
Council to fund services for the children of Collier County.
CONSIDERATIONS: The Board of County Commissioners on July 31,
1990 adopted ordinance No. 90-64 creating the Children's Services
Council of Collier County, pursuant to Section 125.901, Florida
Statutes.
The Children's Services Council of Collier County has determined
funding needs for problem areas concerning children as a result of
a needs assessment study. On December 17 , 1991 the Council made a
presentation and request to the Board of County Commissioners
regarding a referendum for funding authority up to one-quarter
(1/4) mill for each year.
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+ IMPACT: SinCe March 10, 1992 is the NC853uertial primary,
the cost for this referendum election will be very nominal.
gROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: None
RQQ ipATION: That the Board of County Commissioners consider
adopting the attached Resolution calling a county-wide referendum
electi,11- to be hed on March 10, t9S' to determine if the
qualified a ie ,c::' 10 ;`•heir. C 13 U a:" Co y approve an ad valorem tax
elevy not to exceed one-quarter (1/4) mill by the Children's
Services Council to fund services for the children of Collier
County.
Date: /07 9/
Approved by: _- 0. 01------
Kenneth B. Cuy
County Attorney ,NGpsQ�►}'r
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RESOLUTION NO. 92-
A RESOLUTION ORDERING AND CALLING A REFERENDUM
ELECTION TO BE HELD MARCH 10, 1992, THROUGHOUT
COLLIER COUNTY TO DETERMINE IF THE QUALIFIED
ELECTORS RESIDING WITHIN COLLIER COUNTY APPROVE
AN AD VALOREM TAX LEVY NOT TO EXCEED ONE-QUARTER
4 (1/4) MILL BY THE CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL TO FUND
SERVICES FOR THE CHILDREN OF COLLIER COUNTY.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
Florida, adopted Ordinance No. 90-64 on July 31, 1990, creating
the Children's Services Council of collier County, pursuant to
section 125.901, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the Children's services Council of Collier County
has determined priorities of funding needs for problem areas
concerning children as a result of a needs assessment Study; and
WHEREAS, the Children's Services Council has requested the
Board of County Commissioners to approve a referendum question for
the March 10, 1992 election as more particularly described herein;
and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Board of County
Commissioners to place a referendum question on the March 10, 1992
ballot for the qualified electors in Collier County to determine
if the Children's Services Council should have the authority to
levy each year an ad valorem tax not to exceed one-quarter (1/4)
mill to fund services for the children of Collier County.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:
SECTION ONE, REFEREi7_D__ C L.UP
A referendum election be and is hereby ordered and called to
be held on March 10, 1992, for the purpose of submitting to the
qualified electors residing within Collier County the following
4 question:
Shall the Children's Services council of Collier County be
granted the authority to fund the early intervention and
prevention, developmental, treatment and other services by
the levying each year of an ad valorem tax not to exceed
one-quarter (1/4) mill for services for children in Collier
County?
SECTION TWQ, PERSONS ENTITLEDM__VOT
The persons entitled to vote in the referendum election shall
be all the qualified electors residing within collier County, AGEND6
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The election shall be held at the polling places designated
in each precinct in Collier County, Florida. The election shall
be conducted by election officials appointed by the Supervisor of
Election pursuant to applicable general law. The polls will be
open at the voting places from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on the day
of election.
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A) The ballots to be used in said election shall be in
substantially the following form:
OFFICIAL BAL .QT
CHTLDREN'S SERVICES COUNCTI, OF COLLIER COUNTY,
FUNDING AUTHORIZATION
Shall the Children's Services Council of CollierCounty
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be granted the authority to fund the early intervention by
prevention, developmental, treatment and other services ��
the levying each year of an ad valorem tax not to exceed
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YES For Children's Services Funding
NO Against Children's services Funding
B) The Supervisor of Elections shall include on all ballots
and absentee ballots such instructions to voters as are necessary
and required pursuant to general law.
cT1414FIVS,. IiQTI.CF OF.ELECTION,
The Clerk of this Board shall publish a notice of the
referendum election in the Naples Daily News, a newspaper of
general circulation published in Collier County, Florida. There
shall be at least thirty (30) days notice of said election, with
publication to be made at least twice, once in the fifth week and
once in the third week prior to the week in which the referendum
is to be held. Said notice shall be in substantially the
following form:
(OILCE_O.F .REFERENDUM ELECTION
NOTICE IS NEREHY GIVEN, that a referendum election will be
held on March 10, 1992, within Collier County, Florida to
determine if the qualified electors residing within Collier County AG£NNo.
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approve granting authority to the children's Services Council of
collier County to levy each year an ad valorem tax not to exceed
one-quarter (1/4) mill to fund services for the children of
Collier County.
The polls will be open at the polling places on the date of
maid referendum election from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. on the day of
the election. All qualified electors residing within Collier
County may vote in said referendum election. Absentee voting may
be permitted upon compliance with applicable provisions of State
law.
JAMES C. GILES, CLERIC
BY:
Deputy Clerk
This Resolution adopted after motion, second and majority
vote.
DATED:
ATTEST! BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
JAMES C GILES, CLERK COLLIER COUNTY. FLORIDA
BY: _
CHAIRMAN
Approved as to form and
legal sufficiency:
Kenneth B. Cu
County Attorney
AGENNo. 91
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Nelson Faerber,Jr.
Lavern Gaynor
John Passidomo
Dr.Thomas Richey
The following transmission will consist of 2---- pages including
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR this cover sheet.
Paul C.Pinson
The FAX number is (813)263-1242. If there are any problems with
receipt of this transmission, please call us at (813) 649-8222.
Message as follows:
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Chairman:
Bea Harper
Vice Chairman:
Richard Shanahan
Secretary-Treasurer:
Mary Ellen zumFelde PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM: PAUL C. PINSON, EX. DIR. , JANUARY 31
Judge Ted Brousseau1992
Alma Cambridge
Delores G.Dry
Nelson A.Faerber,Jr.
Lavern Gaynor
John Passidomo The Children's Services Council of Collier County is
Dr.Thomas Richey
seeking applications from the child advocates within the
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paul C.Pinson community who wish to serve on the Council.
The Children's Services Council is composed of ten indi-
viduals and comprise the governing body of a countywide inde-
pendent special district created by county ordinance, and funded,
upon approval, by a majority of the electorate, with ad valorem
taxes not to exceed one-quarter (1/4) mill. The term is for four
years.
Members of the Council must be residents of the county for
the previous 24-month period. Persons interested in serving
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should call the Children's Services Council, 649-8222 for an appli-
cation. Deadline date for return of application is March 1, 1992.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF COLLIER COUNTY
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9-8222 NAPLES,FLORIDA 33940
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OFFICERS
Chairman:
Bea Harper
Vice Chairman:
Richard Shanahan
Secretary-Treasurer:
Mary Ellen zumFelde PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM: PAUL C. PINSON, EX. DIR. , JANUARY 31, 1992
Judge Ted Brousseau
Alma Cambridge
Delores G.Dry
Nelson A.Faerber,Jr.
Lavern Gaynor The Children's Services Council of Collier Countyis
John Passidomo
Dr.Thomas Richey
seeking applications from the child advocates within the
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Paul C.Pinson community who wish to serve on the Council.
The Children's Services Council is composed of ten indi-
viduals and comprise the governing body of a countywide inde-
pendent special district created by county ordinance, and funded,
upon approval, by a majority of the electorate, with ad valorem
taxes not to exceed one-quarter (1/4) mill. The term is for four
years.
Members of the Council must be residents of the county for
the previous 24-month period. Persons interested in serving
• should call the Children's Services Council, 649-8222 for an appli-
cation. Deadline date for return of application is March 1, 1992.
CHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF COWER COUNTY
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PRESS _ LEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -/
October 10, 1991
The Collier County Board of Commissioners i 'seeking applications
for positions on the Lely Golf Estates Be ification Advisory ?
Committee.
This committee is composed of five members who assist and advise the
Board of County Commissioners in handling the matters pertaining to
the Beautification Taxing Distritt. The District was created by
referendum vote on November 4,,-1986, for the purpose of beautifying
and maintaining the median strips of the streets and other public
areas within Lely Golf Estates. Members must reside within the
boundaries of the municip, 1 service taxing unit. Terms are for 4
years.
Members of the ;idyls 'y committees must be residents and electors of
Collier County. Re idents interested in applying for the advisory
committee possitio are requested to submit a letter and brief
resume to the at ntion of Mrs. Sue Filson, Administrative
Assistant, Boar of County Commissioners, 3301 Tamiami Trail. East,
2asple6, t•'lari 33962 . The deadline for acceptance of resumes is
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