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MEETING MINUTES & SUMMARY
Meeting: Partnership4Health Community Health
Board Meeting
Clay County
Attendees:
Clay County: Frank Gross
Wilkin County: Rick Busko
Otter Tail County: Wayne Johnson, Dan Bucholz
Becker County: Barry Nelson
Staff In Person: Kathy McKay, Carmen Barth, Ashley
Wiertzema, Jody Lien, Kristi Goos, Melissa Duenow,
Kent Severson, Kim Bredeson
Staff Virtual: Amanda Kumpula
Guests: Kristin Erickson, Lynne Penke Valdes, Maesey
Seals, Monique Erickson, Anthony Georgeson, Abigail
Laubenstein, Becky Schmidt
Community Representatives: Katie Vasey
Absent: Becky Tripp
Date: 2/16/2024 Recorder: Melissa Duenow
Agenda Item
9:00
Call To Order
Quorum Established
Approve Agenda
Approve Minutes
Commissioner Gross, Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:06 am.
Quorum Established.
Approval of Agenda
Motion by Wayne Johnson, seconded by Rick Busko. The motion carried unanimously.
Approval of Minutes
Motion by Rick Busko, seconded by Wayne Johnson. The motion carried unanimously.
Due to Commission Gross needing to leave the agenda moved around to accommodate
needs. See the time adjustments.
9:05
Introductions and
Welcome
Vote on New Community Member Katie Vasey
Introduction of new community member Katie Vasey- Katie is the Community Health
Specialist at Essentia in Detroit Lakes. She serves on several committees in the area.
Amanda and Katie are going to start meeting monthly to help collaboration between
Essentia and Public Health.
Motion by Barry Nelson, seconded by Rick Busko. The motion carried unanimously.
9:10 (10:41) Orientation
and overview of the CHB
Jody Lien and Kathy McKay presented a PowerPoint on the Overview of a CHB.
PowerPoint is included in the meeting packet.
9:25 (Continued after
Orientation) CHB
Governance Documents
P4H CHB Bylaws
Joint Powers Agreement
Melissa will include the Bylaws and Joint Powers Agreement in Board Packets for future
meetings along with having the hard copies available at the meetings.
9:35 (9:10) Program
Highlights
Environmental Health-
FPL Delegation
Kent Severson
Kent Severson presented a data driven PowerPoint as provided in the meeting packet.
The PowerPoint presented was not included in the packet. Stated took out extra
content that was not gone over.
Discussion was held based on slides of the PowerPoint.
Other areas of discussion were on: Vacation Home Rentals, Plan Reviews, Hospitality
fee, Revenue Differences between Clay and Otter Tail counties.
Requests and need for follow ups:
Jody will provide verbiage to Wayne Johnson to help with AMC and Hospitality Fee
Wayne Johnson asked for a follow up from Clay County Finance to provide more
detailed description on the revenue differences.
10:15 (10:30) Legislative
Session Updates
Kathy McKay
Kathy McKay reported out on Legislative Session Updates to include:
LPH is in the Bounding year, work being done around the Cannabis Bill, State Legislature
is supportive of Statewide Health Improvement Plan (SHIP). Working on information to
prepare the 2025 year for funding.
10:25 (11:00) Statewide
Community Health
Services Advisory
Committee (SCHSAC)
Wayne Johnson
Frank Gross
Wayne Johnson reported a high level overview of SCHSAC. Frank is our representation
on the Executive Board. Wayne will take over this representation after years on the
SCHSAC committee is met as stated in the bylaws.
10:40 (10:22) Finance
Update
Carmen Barth
Carmen presented the Environmental Health revenues as included in the board packet.
Audit will be happening in April by the State Auditors.
Next meeting will have an overview of actual budgets.
11:07 Other General
Updates & Discussion
Discussion was held around: Emergency Management, COVID Recovery, Mental Health
issues, Annual Reporting back to MDH.
Next meeting agenda item discussed: Per Diem for Board Members and County
Community Members.
11:30 Adjourn Wayne Johnson Adjourned the meeting at 11:27