Board of Directors Meeting
February 27, 2001 12 p.m.
Bremerton-Kitsap County Health District

Board Members Present: Susan Vitale-Olson, Dean Logan, John Lee, Claire Bradley, Ramalina Steiner, Denise Thomson, Debbie Brockman, Dayle Crane, Cheryl Graf, Martha Voorhees, Pete Ball, Dianne Juhl,Martin Knott, Marilyn Wandry

Board Members Excused: Sally Olsen

Others Present: Heidi Hoke (Administrative Coordinator), Sue Nolan (Financial Coordinator)

The meeting was called to order by Chairperson, Cheryl Graf.

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

II. Financial Report: The financial report from January was submitted and approved at the Board Retreat earlier in the month.

III. Committee Reports:

A. Program Committee: February's meeting was canceled. The next meeting will be March 21, 9 a.m. at the YWCA.

1. The February Network meeting will feature Harrison Memorial Hospital's SANE program. The March Network meeting may involve Dianne Juhl and the Faith Community. It is still being planned.

2. Nominations for the DV Community Awards close on March 16th.

3. Website Update: There is now a lot of information from the Faith Community Action Group now on-line.

4. Summit 2001 is planned for October 2 at Crossroads Neighborhood Church. Susan spoke with Mary Ellen de la Pena from the Substance Abuse Prevention Association (SAPA) about their interest in joining up with us for our Summit. Susan and anyone else is invited to attend the SAPA meeting on Tuesday March 20 at 8:30 a.m. at the Givens Center to discuss this further.

B. Community Education:

1. Speakers:

a. Multiple training are coming up:
March 6 & 7 - County training
March 15 - HMH training for Navy Prosecution, Defense, etc.
March 29, 30, 31 - Dispute Resolution Center

2. Training/Topic Specific

a. CPS: no report.

b. Bridging the Gap: Next meeting: March 22 in the Child Support mtg. room. They will now meet on the 4th Thursday each month. Claire is meeting with Judge Haberly to help plan the judicial roundtable.

c. Faith Community Action Group: Dianne is collecting lots of resources. She is talking to and getting support letters and is planning a letter writing campaign to get more Faith brochures into the Faith community. Heidi updated the DVTF database to include record keeping for the Faith brochures.

d. Substance Abuse Providers: no report.

e. Youth Violence : The February 16 meeting was canceled because of the snow. The March program will be focusing on community collaboration efforts.

f. Victim's Services/Perpetrator Treatment: The next meeting will be March 15 from 11:45 - 1 at the Probation office.

C. Membership: The committee is still taking names of prospective board members to fill slot #16. Anyone referring names need to get that information to Denise, membership chair.

IV. Old Business:

A. The notes from the Retreat were sent out and received. They are available on the website.

B. VINE - Pete hasn't been able to contact the guy yet to get more details about bringing this program to Kitsap County. There may be outside funds available. Pierce and King County already use the program. VINE is a telephone system that calls victims when their perpetrators are being released from prison.

C. Resource Material for our DV Library - it was approved by the board to purchase 2 copies of the abridged version of the Tough Guise video and one copy of Hidden Victims video.

D. Fundraising proposal/bicycle ride - At the Retreat, John proposed that the TF provide some seed money for a fundraising project that would benefit HMH and the YWCA. Cheryl reported that the project will probably be given to the Friends of SAIVS board for them to work on. The TF isn't really in a position to give away seed money but Cheryl will keep us updated as to whether the TF can help play a part. John says that the Rotary is/will be very supportive of Kitsap County projects.

V. New Business:

A. It was moved and approved that Heidi's hours go from 30 to 35 a month and that she and Sue receive a raise from $13 to $15 an hour.

B. Claire updated us on the recent case law (Washington State vs. Coria). This Court of Appeals decision says that it is not a crime for married couples to destroy co-owned property. This needs to be fixed legislatively and WAPA (Washington Prosecuting Attorney' s Association) are working on getting an emergency bill pushed through. This case and decision is immediately binding. Kitsap Co. is no longer filing these cases. Claire will keep us posted.

C. SAIVS Board - the Fleet and Family Support Center, which the Family Advocacy Treatment Center falls under, now has a non-voting position on the SAIVS board. The question was posed if the DVTF should too? After discussion, it was motioned that we request a formal non- voting board position. We will send a letter to them, from the Exec. board. If we get the position, Claire is interested in serving in that position.

D. Storage space for DVTF stuff - tabled.

E. Pros/Cons of adding workgroups/committees under our umbrella (Minority Services; Probation/TX. Coalition; others?). The Probation/Tx Coalition is already officially part of the TF. We need to ask the Minority Services group if they are interested and/or if there is anything we can do to help them further. Cheryl will talk to the chair of that group, Oudy.

F. Project Family is applying for a grant from the Washington State Coalition for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, to provide parenting classes to the Suquamish Tribe. It was agreed that we will write them a support letter.

VI. Updates

A. Dayle informed the Board that she has been serving on the Adult Protective Services Team staffing adult abuse cases. They meet once a month. There have been a lot of DV cases already. Pete mentioned that he sits on a Developmental Disabilities group/Task Force through law enforcement.

B. Sue mentioned that she will miss the March board meeting and will be attending the Children's Justice Conference. Martha may also be attending.

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,

Heidi Hoke
Administrative Coordinator

U P C O M I N G

Board Meeting Tuesday, February 27 at 12 p.m. Bremerton-Kitsap County Health District

Quarterly Forum - Community DV Awards Tuesday, April 24 from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Silverdale Lutheran Church