January 23, 2001 5 p.m.

Silverdale Lutheran Church

Board Members Present: Susan Vitale-Olson, Dean Logan, John Lee, Claire Bradley, Ramalina Steiner, Denise Thomson, Debbie Brockman, Dayle Crane, Sally Olsen
Board Members Excused: Cheryl Graf, Martha Voorhees, Pete Ball, Dianne Juhl,
Others Present:Heidi Hoke (Administrative Coordinator), Sue Nolan (Financial Coordinator), Martin Knott, Marilyn Wandry, Pete Hawk, and Sue Shultz.

The meeting was called to order by Chairperson, Dayle Crane.

I. Minutes: The November minutes were approved as written.

II. Financial Report: The financial reports from November and December were submitted. We were approved and received the following grants: Horizons Foundation ($6,000) and Medina Foundation ($4,500). Sue passed out information concerning the parameters of the grants. We will discuss more at the Board Retreat about specific purchases and ways to spend the money.

III. Committee Reports:

A. Program Committee: Notes were submitted from the 1/17/01 meeting. The next meeting will be February 21, 9 a.m. at the YWCA.

1. The Community DV Awards will be held during the April Quarterly Forum (4-24). There will be a dessert taste test - we are hoping to get dessert donations for the event. The fundraising aspect is still in the air.

2. The Faith brochure will be distributed in the same fashion that the DV Resource Guides are distributed. The first 50 are free with a holder and the any more will be billed at cost.

3. Website Update: Dayle let everyone know that the Board minutes, along with other workgroup minutes, local DV events, and so much more is available now at the site. If you are interested in having your email address linked up with your name that appears on the Board of Directors page, let Dayle know. This would allow someone to click on your name and send you an email.

B. Community Education:

1. Speakers:

a. Two local businesses called us about DV in the Workplace issues. At least one found us through the website.

b. Dean spoke to SAPA (Substance Abuse Prevention Association). They were interested in partnering our Summit with their annual conference.

c. The Dispute Resolution Center training is still planned for late March.

d. The Prosecutor's office will be holding their law enforcement DV training most likely in March. Trainings will run 5-6 weeks at least 2x a week, 8 hours a day. The purpose is to unveil the new protocols in Kitsap County.

e. The DV training for county employees will be March 7-8.

f. Still working on the format for the informational forum for the two new judges.

2. Training/Topic Specific

a. CPS: no report.

b. Bridging the Gap: The next meeting will be Thursday January 25 at 4 p.m. at the Public Works bldg. The last meeting was not well attended, but a lot was accomplished by those that were there. The Judicial training is in the waiting until the Law Enforcement training is completed.

c. Faith Community Action Group: no report.

d. Substance Abuse Providers: no report.

e. Youth Violence : The group met last Friday with Youth Eastside Services presenting. They have a very impressive program. Youth Eastside Services has a summit planned for late October. Barry Levy (sp?) will be the speaker. The group decided to set a regular meeting time/day, which will be the 3rd Friday each month from 9-11 a.m. at the new Jackson Park Community Center next to the B-KCHD. The workgroup is currently working on lessening the fragmentation in the county concerning youth/dating violence.

f. Victim's Services/Perpetrator Treatment: They met a week or so ago. The next meeting will be March 15 from 11:45 - 1 at the Probation office. An issue they are dealing with is how to track drop outs in perp. tx programs when the client goes into another program, best ways to share information, etc.

C. Membership: Prospective Board members who were in attendance were introduced. They took turns sharing information about themselves and why they wanted to be a part of the Board.

IV. Old Business:

A. Executive Board Elections: The following people were voted unanimously into office:

• Cheryl Graf (Chair),
• Debbie Brockman (Vice-Chair),
• Denise Thomson (Secretary),
• Susan Vitale-Olson (Treasurer).

B. Retreat Reminder:Friday, February 9, 12-5 p.m. at Long Lake in Port Orchard.

V. New Business:

A. It was moved and approved to extend the Board of Directors composition to 16 members. Sally will make the change to the by-laws (since they are on her computer) and will pass out to the Board at the Retreat.

B. Laptop purchase. Tabled for the Retreat.

C. Pros/Cons of adding workgroups/committees under our umbrella (Minority Services; Probation/TX. Coalition; others?). This was tabled for the Retreat.

D. Election of Board Members.

• Marilyn Wandry and Martin Knott were voted on the Board.
• Voting on the new 16th position will happen at the next Board meeting, in February.
• Pete Hawk will be a board/liaison with the Suquamish Tribe.

VI. Updates

A. SAIVS: no report. We'll talk about it at the Retreat.

B. John reported that the Sexual Assault unit at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital now has a $2,000,000 self funding foundation.

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,
Heidi Hoke
Administrative Coordinator