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y <br /> MINUTES January 18, 1996 2 BOAIRD OF HEALTIA <br /> Board of Health is responsible for and that's where were asking for some sort of deviation <br /> tom that particular pmt of what the Board has hese res onssble for."' "The Coalition <br /> would consist of eine individuals i cll di a heal-ffi agent." "Nanous tOwns have p 3a.ced <br /> an article in town meet.ng to create the coalition. `'The comm j ttee would be the orale that <br /> would review and pay contractual agreements."' "The human services conuritte,'s <br /> oversee the human service rovide-s." "They put it out o; contra- t- Ut out bids d <br /> specs. and request human service providers to actually bid on their services. `ToNxi sY <br /> such as Orleans, are soliciting requests whdch act afly makes the human service .ro vid rs <br /> competitive with the amount of money the town agrees to have as a'b d, ." "Two years <br /> o I asked to see 1 we ou"d receive the Selectmen's support to have a human service <br /> director because I fe-It the town r Mly need somett ng." "They dick not feel that was the <br /> case so we expanded on the leisure service department and received more secreta al <br /> service and ars assistant for Mr. Frederick."' '"I sounds good, that you can expand leisure <br /> services and human services but it is really two different things."" "What you need is social <br /> workers." "If we can get this going then we may again ask the tovm to support a human <br /> service director because there are tremendous s needs xrl the town." <br /> Mr. Doherty relayed, "T • ically, when you go seekirk # to cortstmcrt a Zxetw" <br /> d art cr�t it is to fill void or .11 a need." "'eve are all tJ , ►� to * urL �e o w at teat voil t <br /> or need is."' "'Weave been administering the humwi se Aces co tiia is for quite sortie <br /> P-. <br /> turn-C.." "We do not have any-thing on the way of complxnts on recor%.-..I-) kq;W ars la KI-1111cbit b veil Bred as to if the need is out these for a new de aiinnent to somecificalty ad-r in '.st r <br /> these functions who is calfi c) for this need, what i's this need eca. s�. we haveA�'t <br /> about it.�� (-r-�elre trying to rationalize a"mo gst ourselves es what's among and ����.11 <br /> rotted this need for such a drastic change."' <br /> Ms. Cad-rn commented, "For the last two years we have one throucrh the PrOpCeli.s <br /> of "Together We Can7 vibi h is sitting down with a fil.i-1y large giroupto dis uos vihat sz <br /> nappl.m.,ning in the town,, what kind of social prioblems c -st and what- do people want <br /> serVices. "It brought out a tremendous endous am �amount o pi I�..r����. .o I� <br /> ftp. r�;rogr ._ � ." "We do not have a lot co k <br /> access to ha.-wito town h-s'calir, t .Ose <br /> se k c .a � to e #ovid .d outsideo own." "',cher is not wi office setup ;rl M " <br /> , <br /> r sock* services as th re is i almost every town. `� fit:t :a:��e ����l a <br /> Department of Social Serviceswith New <br /> ra.t F" "'You may have red something a opt h ere e <br /> got a $100:,000.00. "' ' e,re o e the nbers b �m grin ,s �ed�Mrd <br /> and Lowell as to our percent.ag%ems of low income single ppvenis, dm s, alcohol, dor otic <br /> abuse crime etc. all of them negative.", "In Mashpee,, vie have decided there are <br /> tremedos .out of robe -s that nc� -xv-1 <br /> od el i t sysc , . ati = e lora <br /> ��e goo <br /> the funds is now w are rec an n ndxng that they re the human s <br />