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MINUTES February 26, 1998 3 BOARD OF HEALTH Mashpee would have much greater access to the providers that we have and be able to avail themselves of services in a much more organized and intimate action." "Right now those providers that we give to are very good providers." "They do see our people and we do know how many P P Y people the see but in lots of cases I think it's giving them the money for their coffer's and they would be serving our people anyway." "We would like to make Mashpee more of a place that people feel their needs are being met in the town." "We've met with the providers and we've gone to see ones that didn't come to us and everybody had great things to say about Mashpee." "They all feel that we have been very generous and they all say that Mashpee has a great many needs of the population, poverty needs, child care needs, abuse needs, violence needs etc.." "While we were talking we were thinking over and over if we only find office space and then we looked at the funding for each provider and we thought that if we could cut down some funds from some of the groups and we only give to groups in terms of their impact." Mr. Ball questioned Ms. Kumin, "Could you give us the names of the providers that you cut?" Ms. Caffyn responded, "We added a new provider "Fairwinds" and cut Sight Loss Services and part of the Legal Services budget"." Ms. Kumin stated, "I went to the facility and spoke with them." "This is a day program for schizophrenics." "They provide on the job training." "It is a transitional facility." Ms. Caflyn stated, "We had space built into the new high school for a human service office." "It's not workingthe don't want us there." "I understand, if out, someone needs help you can't make them wait until after school." "So what we proposed is if we have a space we all felt, and we spoke with all the providers, and we said if we have a space will you come serve our people in our town." "And they said yes, if you have space we will come." "What we were proposing is coordinating an effort with the Cape Cod Neighboring Coalition." `Between the two towns they receive $100,000.00 a year in grant money." "We have a women in the coalition who has looked at space at the Summerfield Park." "The location has 1400 square feet and is about $1,100.00 a month." "We would like to coordinate our efforts to have a couple of offices that would be available to Falmouth and our residents and we would like our own coordinator because the Cape Cod Neighboring Coalition is restricted to only working with children to a certain age." "What we were hoping is, if we could coordinate it they have a fax. machine, a copy machine and all the other expensive equipment." "What we had hoped was that if we can get the $10,000.00 which would cover utilities, telephone, rent and supplies and the $30,000.00 would go towards a coordinator, not one fresh out of college