January 14, 2019 at 2:00 PM - Finance, Audit, and Budget Committee Meeting
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1. Call to Order
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Committee Chair
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Call to order at 2:06 PM.
Staff: David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana, Beth Kabes, Craig Peterson. |
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2. Roll Call
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Committee Chair
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3. Agenda Item
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Committee Chair
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3.1. Approve Claims, Financials Statements, and Assets for Month of November and December
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair
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Discussion:
Committee Chair shared the reports for claims, financial statements and assets for the months of November and December. Discussed concerns for Coop budget were discussed in the Monthly Budget meeting.
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3.2. Approval of November/December Expenses to be paid in December/January.
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair
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Discussion:
Committee Chair shared the expensese to be paid from December and for January.
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3.3. Long Term Fiscal Goals
Speaker(s):
Executive Director
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Discussion:
Executive Director shared some long term fiscal goals. the Innovation Grant goes away the end of the fiscal year. Reviewed goals to help move us into future. NROC to be moved under the NDE/ACT budget line. Some salaries to also be contracted with NDE. MOU is outdated and KSB is working on a draft MOU that will be a two tiered system. Possible to create a MSA between NDE/ESUCC. Draft to be done by next month committee meetings. Continue to think about working from home concept for staff. Back-up software and hardware continue to work on sustainability.
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3.4. Monthly Staff Budget Meeting
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair
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Discussion:
Committee Chair shared some discussions in budget meeting.
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3.5. MSA 2019-2020
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Committee Chair
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3.5.1. SRS Tier Structure
Speaker(s):
Executive Director Ludwig
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Discussion:
Executive Director shared that looking to invoice ESUs for tier structure because we are not a service provider. The SRS Advisory/Special Populations committee will continue to look at tier structure.
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3.6. Biennial Budget/Medicaid Expansion
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair
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Discussion:
Executive Director shared the bienniel budget is this legislative session. Commissioner is looking at a 3% increase for ESUs. Medicaide Expansion is roughly $40 million that the state will need to find the funding source. This will be a big discussion/decision made in the legislature this session. The Forecast Board is predicting a 95 milion shortfall. They are predicting 17 million and 45 million for second year for the medicaide expansion.
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3.7. KSB Budget Breakdown
Speaker(s):
Executive Director
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Discussion:
Executive Director shared the breakdown we used with KSB. ESUCC and Coop carry the bulk of the legal fees. SRS, IMAT, DEC was decided by the size of their budget, not as big of budgets. When special circumstances arise the we invoice the approriate area of need. ie: ESPD, NOC, Coop litigation.
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3.8. Coop Admin Fees Review
Speaker(s):
Executive Director Ludwig/Peterson
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Discussion:
Coop Director gave an overview of admin fees. Continue to look at bringing other states onto our annual buy system. Project the cost if we go with multi-states and what it will cost us. Coop team will be meeting on February 26, 2019 to discuss and will also meet with Equal Level and legal.
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3.9. ESUCC State Audit
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Committee Chair
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Executive Director discussed the state audit which began last week. |
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4. Next Meeting Agenda Items
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Committee Chair
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5. Adjournment
Speaker(s):
Committee Chair
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Discussion:
Meeting adjourned at 2:48 PM.
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