Health & Human Services - Regular Meeting

Hello everyone, welcome to the September meeting of the Health and Social Services Service. Service of the Third Age, it's up to you. I'm not asking for an order. It's done. Everyone has taken knowledge of the verbal trial. Please propose its adoption if you want. Girling proposal, supported by Charlie. Discussion? In favor? Come on, it's up to you.

Hello everyone. I just have a few points to submit to the committee. The first is the autumn festival that is approaching. I will circulate this. Here is our prospectus. Thank you. étudiées lors de la préparation budgétaire afin de réexaminer notre budget. Nous avons décidé pour 2026 de combiner notre pique-nique des seniors avec notre festival d'automne annuel. Cette année, nous lançons donc cet événement nouvellement structuré. Ravie de vous voir. Le vendredi 2 octobre, à partir de 10h00 et jusqu'à environ 14h00, nous organiserons notre festival d'automne. Cela ressemblera énormément au pique-nique des seniors. Cela se déroulera au parc des expositions du comté de Washington. Nous aurons des jeux, comme par le passé. Nous recherchons donc à nouveau des équipes de 5 personnes. Nous aurons des stands d'information, comme nous en avons eu par le passé. Ce sera vraiment très proche du pique-nique des seniors, mais avec un thème de festival d'automne. Si vous pouviez donc nous aider à partager le prospectus sur vos réseaux sociaux ou vos sites internet pour faire passer le mot, nous vous en serions reconnaissants. Nous avons commencé à vendre les billets la semaine dernière.

Je crois qu'à l'heure actuelle, nous n'en avons vendu que 8.

As a reminder, we usually reach between 300 and 400 participants. We simply hope that organizing a single event later in the year will also be as successful as our picnic and the previous festival. The reason why we chose October 2nd is that Medicare regimes can talk about their changes for the coming year. After the first of October of each year, they can indeed communicate on the changes brought to their specific plan for the following year. That's why we opted for the 2nd of October. On the prospectus, you will see that we will serve a meal of pork and filoche. And again, the same type of activity, exhibitors, games, entertainment, etc.

Can you share this prospectus with our municipal secretaries or by email?

We have it on our website. If they could download it from the website, it would be perfect. We have also published it on our Facebook page. So if you have a Facebook page for the city and you can share it, you can. If you need printed copies, we can send them.

It's for the lords, yes.

Any other questions? J'espère voir tout le monde ici. Le point suivant que j'ai est... Nous appelons cela notre dépliant d'innovation. Elle ne le fait pas. D'accord. En partenariat avec le Bureau pour les personnes âgées de l'État de New York, nous bénéficions de plusieurs programmes et services gratuits pour nos résidents du comté de Washington âgés de 60 ans et plus. Et comme nous avons reçu de nombreux programmes et services gratuits, nous avons pensé qu'il serait utile all grouped together in the same place. That's why we created this unfolder. So today I'm sharing this strictly as an informative video. I know that many of you have a lot of questions from your administrators, so this could help you answer them. As we always say, if you have questions from your administrators, please direct them directly to our office. We don't expect everyone to know all the answers. So come and see us. We can help you. This program offers a variety of programs and services that we offer and I'm just going to go through them briefly. Everyone knows our company animal program that fights against social isolation and loneliness. Our Archangels program helps the helping. The Silver Shield program is new in 2026. Many of you have heard of people exploited financially by various scams and frauds. We propose SilverShield, for which we currently have 20 free licenses to distribute. Once these free licenses are exhausted, residents of the Washington County of 60 and over will be able to register for a reduced monthly fee, which I believe is less than $5. Le Bidet d'hygiène Intelligent, le comté de Washington, participe à un programme pilote avec les comtés d'Essex, St. Lawrence, Warren et Hamilton pour un dispositif aidant à lutter contre les infections urinaires. LQ existe depuis un certain temps. C'est également un appareil électronique pour aider à lutter contre l'isolement social et la solitude. Get Set Up est une plateforme en ligne assez incroyable. Elle offre tout ce qu'on peut imaginer. Ils ont des programmes de santé de bien-être. Ils ont des activités physiques. Ils proposent différents événements. Ils offrent également des rencontres sociales. Je sais que quelqu'un m'a dit avoir récemment participé à un événement virtuel en ligne de dégustation de vin, ce que j'ai trouvé intéressant. La technologie de code QR médical est quelque chose de nouveau que nous avons mis en place en 2026. Once again, we have about 1,500 of these devices in our office. It is a scanable device, whether it is a pendant or a bracelet, and it displays medical records of a person, his emergency contacts, his medications, and even more. The virtual center for seniors is quite recent to participate in it.

And on the right side, there are other services listed, such as MyRosalie, 3Go, Grandparent, Blooming Health.

As you can see, there are many programs that we have the great advantage of benefiting from within the office for the aging of the state of New York, where we can offer them at a cost.

How many pet companies have we distributed this year?

Oh my God, we launched pet support companies during Covid, didn't we? Hundreds. They know a crazy success. For example, we were presented on Spectrum News ABC News in New York for the animal program of support companies. Hélène Makura, who will be 104 years old this month, so to speak, is a resident of Granville and she was interviewed directly and talked about the great pleasure she takes from her dog of company. Je pourrais vous sortir les chiffres, si vous le souhaitez.

Eh bien, c'est incroyable.

Nous suivons tout cela dans nos données.

C'est vraiment en pleine croissance, c'est très... D'autres questions pour Gina ?

Merci beaucoup. Prochaine victime, je veux dire prochaine personne. I have eight, but I use them in all security. The first thing I have is a request, a resolution request to recognize revenues of $1,350. This comes from the North Country Healing Heart Network and concerns our diabetes self-management program. This is a resolution request to recognize this revenue.

Secondly, is there a discussion or a favorable opinion?

The second request I have is actually a replacement request for a graduated nurse. We had a graduated nurse who resigned. To see this position is crucial for our service. This nurse in particular managed our prevention program against intoxication in the plan to take care of the vaccination clinics at Dale. They organized them in our office, they put them in place in the community and also did the follow-up of the 4 grids and that kind of thing inside the office. I therefore ask for permission to replace this position of nurse. Press, adopt, discussion or favorable opinion.

Can you just ask me if you have... a real opportunity to see this post quickly.

No, in fact, this is our second vacancy nurse post. We had a nurse who resigned last April. So this is our second vacancy post. We broadcasted it. We also broadcasted it on social networks. We hadn't done it in the past.

So no one works with us to broadcast it this way.

We can also work with some, we have good contact with some universities when our students come, so we can also, you know, bring this track. So I think there are other ways to try to recruit for this job.

Yes, some have just obtained their diploma, but the good news is that some will realize that what they thought they wanted to do does not work and that it could be convenient for them. Is that true?

Yes. Good luck!

All the motion has been adopted, and that's it.

So my next request, we would like to ask for the authorization for a night for KALISA ASSIST to the Healthy Alliance Social Care Network 2026. It's actually in Saranac Lake. We did not know that this was going to happen this year. So we had not planned it in our initial travel plan. It is funded 100% by the public health infrastructure subsidy and it would only be for one night. It starts early in the morning, on the 15th of October. So I ask for permission for this night. Thank you. And then just a few updates on the program. I don't know if you saw in the media that there is an epidemic of measles in the state of New York. Fortunately, we don't have any in our county. For now, it's mainly centered in the center and west of the state of New York. On Friday, we had a call with the Department of Health. At that time, there were 33 cases in the entire state, 6 in New York and the rest outside of New York. So it's just so you know. Once again, if we were to have a case, our responsibility would be to carry out the follow-up of contacts and also to put in place any type of clinic we would need to vaccinate people. So let's hope that this will not be the case. And I also wanted to let everyone know that our next free Contre la Rage will take place on September 12th. It will be for Yann. And the registrations will open tomorrow. That's all I have, unless you have any other questions for me.

Anything else?

Thank you. C'est cette période de l'année où nous devons soumettre notre plan d'allocation des ressources à l'OCFS. Je viens donc demander l'autorisation de soumettre le plan d'allocation des ressources comme indiqué dans ces tableaux avant qu'il ne soit envoyé à l'État pour approbation. Je reviendrai ensuite vers le comité car je devrais comptabiliser certains montants dans les budgets de cette année pour le volet R.A.G.O.A.

et le reste sera inscrit au budget pour 2027.

Je suis donc ici aujourd'hui pour demander l'autorisation de... C'est ça, l'autorisation de soumettre le plan d'allocation, comme indiqué ici. La première étape consiste à le présenter à notre Conseil des jeunes, qui examine en détail les demandes de financement avant de les approuver pour ensuite nous les transmettre ici au comité. Le financement des programmes des villes et villages, vos programmes représentatifs, reste identique à celui de l'année dernière. Dans l'ensemble, tout a légèrement baissé cette année. There has been a slight decrease in the funds allocated, such as for the YDP funds, where there was 175 less than last year.

The same goes for youth sports and education, whose funding has slightly decreased from 275 for one program and 218 for the other.

To determine Team sports for young people remain an unknown. It is an additional legislative program. We have been fairly consistent in the reception of funds for sport and education for young people. Funding for refugee youth homes has also been fairly stable over the years. We have had the opportunity to finance all candidates from the county of Washington for team sports or sports and youth education funding.

Le baseball host, est-ce seulement cette équipe ou est-ce toute la ligue ?

C'est toute la ligue. Cela inclut le programme Challenger qui concerne toute la ligue.

Où y a-t-il ?

Ce sont les fonds qui vont directement au foyer pour jeunes sans-abri situés dans le comté de Warren, mais nous recevons les fonds pour les comtés de Warren et de Washington. You will therefore not see any amount allocated to the County of Warren on the LCMS, although the home is located in this county. Do not ask me why, I tried to do research in the historical documents, but I think that originally the county of Washington ran this home and we have therefore always ensured the administrative tasks for this flow of funding from the state. while receiving the funds of both counties. It is possible for all these financing flows to be kept, in part for the administrative fees. We therefore keep the percentage allocated to manage the programs. So the funds for the young fugitives and homeless are very specific. We only have one refuge to which they can be sent. They distribute them in funds for crisis services and for transitional housing that go to the association for homeless young people. The only case where, for budgetary reasons, I would come back to ask for a budgetary change in order to add a quarter of the funding to the budget in 2026 to be able to pay them in the first quarter. The year of the program for this flow of funding goes from 0.1 out of 10 to 30.09. This extends to 2.

Do you have anything to add? Of course.

Historically.

In 2003, when I was at the White House, we had just launched it and we were actually going to set up the refuge here in Bliss Falls. But we didn't find any. That's when Dr. Morrissey-Falls offered us a house.

But the discussions initially started with the Washington County Office.

And we had a meeting with the Washington County Office. Thank you for your clarification.

Any other questions? César. Oh, it was when...

The question was about the 10th of September 1925 or the approval of the Youth Department Council.

Oh yes, it was the 7th of September 1926. Sorry about that. So they approved the 10th. So this date, this date must be changed. We met at the Youth Council in August or July, late July. So I'm going to correct this date. I'm going for the dollar amounts. Once I come back, I will make sure that the update table is correct.

We don't need any approbation.

No need for approbation, just to submit the resource allocation plan, because the state must still approve the programs listed here, as well as the amounts. And then I will come back. So you need us to say that we give you permission to submit. I make this motion.

Motion made by Darling. Any other discussion? All in favor?

And just a few updates on our youth employment program, which ends today. We had seven young people who worked hours using the STSJP funds, and they finished their picnic tables at Lake Lauderdale and at Yolette's. They weeded around the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Arsgile. They did a lot of work on the fairground. They do a lot of work before the fair. They clean the dormitory, the four stands, and help to set up the picnic tables and that kind of thing. They clean the four milkshake stands and other granges on the fairground, as well as all the other small projects. but it was the most important projects carried out by the youth of the employment program. Today, they will fill out their end-of-mission survey. We will bring you this data because we really had a great year. A question, sir, to add one last point on the SSJP.

We have just finished the request for subsidies Sue and Sean have done an incredible job.

I am very grateful for their help in the preparation of this file. I would add that we are trying to understand how to maximize the Raise the Age program, if it is ever possible. For the moment, we cannot make requests because we exceed the tax ceiling, but we have reconfigured the amount en dollars. Par exemple, si nous soumettons une demande au DSS pour un jeune du programme Raise the Age Aid devant effectuer un travail d'intérêt général, c'est un exemple de programme remboursable. Je crois que c'était un 500 dollars pour ce service. Nous avons reconfiguré le montant pour obtenir le coût réel par utilisation. Ainsi, le montant que nous... potentiellement nous faire rembourser via Raise the Age Egg serait, je pense, de deux... huit cents dollars. Ne me citez pas sur les chiffres car nous venons tout juste de terminer le budget. Nous avons maximisé le montant potentiellement remboursable en nous asseyant avec Dwayne et son équipe pour essayer d'optimiser les fonds disponibles. C'est un processus difficile.

Cela nécessitera-t-il d'être en dessous du plafond l'année prochaine pour être remboursé ou allez-vous les reclasser ?

C'est à déterminer, ils disent que nous devons fournir une dérogation ou remplir un formulaire qui n'existe pas vraiment. Nous ne savons donc pas. Disons simplement que nous n'inscrivons aucun dollar dans notre budget 2027 pour raise the age aigu car nous ne savons pas si cela arrivera. However, if we get the approval of the derogation, we would be ready to submit our requests to be refunded and to add these funds.

They are very indecisive. And I think that last week, it was possible to request this derogation if it was legal. Once again, we were going to ask for it. And you're looking for it.

Other questions for... Thank you.

Service of Social Affairs. But who doesn't show up right away? Not very far. I suppose that the first thing on the list for the replacements, we will ask for two post examiners, social services, a post of file assistant and a post commis. The file assistant position mainly works with homeless people through the case management of the family center. And it is also paid 100% by this grant. As you remember, it is also the money that was transferred from a non-profit association to us so that we could have this additional person at 20 hours, which was more profitable for us. So it was this one.

We had

A departure of senator who worked on the code blue and the billing for the homeless. We had someone who was promoted internally and took this position, so this position of examiner is available. Oh, the postman is at the reception and we all know how it is over there. All of this is part of the existing personal channel.

Pressed by Darwin.

Discussions? In favor? So concerning. So we are trying to clean up the reception area of the hall. We have with technical services. the counter space between the two. Thus, someone who is sitting deep down in this area, looking through the window, has a better visibility on people.

It's a better workplace. We appreciate that.

We bought with money, which was in our budget for the wall games, things like that, to take care of the children when they are in the hall waiting for their appointment.

We had a new alarm clock.

This is one of the things we bought because they were all broken. That way, someone doesn't have to sit there all the time and can go eat something or go to Stuart's or something like that while they wait with the alarm clock. They will call them when their appointment will have arrived. We bought a smart TV from the market. We have a TV in this hall that has been there for a long time and that has not been turned on. So I just typed it there because it's not a TV. It would be necessary to plug in a computer to be able to broadcast information or if we want to put cartoons animated for children or others. So we don't have a computer to be able to plug it in. It seemed logical to us to spend 100 or 110 dollars for this.

We are looking for, let's hope,

to change the color of this room to make it softer, a little more comfortable, you know. I know that there are normally only two standard colors used in the county, but I think it's an exception for this area because it's just the waiting room. Everything we can do, I mean, I can provide you with all sorts of studies showing that when people are at ease, calm, in this waiting room where they sometimes wait hours for their appointment, it will also improve the lives of our employees when they are present. We had four incidents. The week I was absent, two weeks ago, over there, where you know, a few of our members were threatened and you know, someone jumped over the table. to take another one, so security remains a major concern. How can we improve the experience of our customers or our customer service for the people we serve and for our staff? This is a point on which I have to discuss at the moment concerning the color, but for the rest, for the other parts, we are ready to bring something.

So I asked Wayne to present this to the committee because I received the order form for the paint and yes, these are not standard colors. Usually, the services do not buy paint to paint their own office. I discussed it with Matt.

It's not in the plan this year or something like that.

So when you sent your email saying that it's a way to calm customers who come here, yes, I think there was a huge increase in incident reports in this area because people are unhappy. I wanted to see if the committee would approve this purchase of paint. I think it was seven gallons or something like that. It should be, it should be. I don't have the order sheet.

Who has it? Who has it? It will probably be two gallons maximum, I would say.

No, I know there was a 20-liter bucket and something else, but I suppose that if that's what it takes to make people a little less aggressive with the host staff, it may be the exception. As a rule, I don't know. You have to say that we can't have two colors.

I think it's easier for people to have the standard. I mean, it's one of the two standard colors. Something like pearl, white pearl, something like that. My idea of ​​orange and blue has been rejected.

Bring it on.

May I have a motion to approve this soothing color? Motion approved. Any other discussion on the subject? Is it blue? There is a naval facility that takes care of the seabed. Maybe they could give their opinion since it is about color.

Thank you.

We hope not to keep it. The next point is IEVA, which was launched, arrives here in about 15 days. We are going to start this process. The two lives I had, we reviewed the number of License necessary and we had overestimated at the beginning. So the good news is that it will cost us about 700-500 dollars less per year than initially planned.

So this is the only update I have. Finally, I have other things.

Everyone has the two reports that I sent you. The first report is all the same numbers that I present to everyone on a monthly basis. I just decided to clean them up and put them in a graph to see what you think about it.

Usually, I just wanted to give you a form of document or something.

But I think this is under the importance of automation. I have a few more examples if anyone wants to. So, it just highlights the IR with its joint parts. So, as you know, section 1 on temporary assistance requests, allows you to see if there are trends. They feel that it has remained quite stable.

The line at the top shows that our punctuality remains very high at 92%, which is wonderful.

Economies linked to the October 25 to July 26 shutdown are estimated at about 25 billion dollars. Hotel cabs since the end of the year. 24, 25 until today have decreased by 61%.

Now, I don't have the August figures, obviously, because the month just ended yesterday, but August was a busy month.

What do these figures look like? But we know that we have been very busy. And let's see point number 2, the delays. Here is our graph that shows the improvements we have brought to the service. It would be ideal to be at 100% all the time, but we are very satisfied to reach 92 or 93. It takes a little more explanation on the costs of reorientation. It can be someone who does not respect the rules or who has been sanctioned, but what we are mainly looking for is permanent accommodation to get people out of the hotels. And on July 13, no one stayed at the hotel for more than a year. C'est donc un chiffre dont nous sommes fiers. Nous allons continuer à essayer de garder le cap. Donc, c'est à vous de décider si vous souhaitez que je continue à vous présenter les informations sous ce format. Je pourrais le rendre plus propre, plus joli, plus sophistiqué ou autre. C'est apaisant. C'est très apaisant pour moi. Les chiffres vont dans la bonne direction. N'est pas ça. Ça arrive. No, it's a pleasure to see. And you know, that's why we say that an image is worth a thousand words. It's always true. And the last thing I have is the UNISAC article on the effects of the HR1 law on the administration of the SNAP program. So it's for your pleasure to read, I should say. But that's where the estimates are. Now, it's hard for me to say it for the moment because it hasn't started yet. I think we'll do our best to be as active as possible in our defense and try to contest some of these infractions. In my opinion, it's too early to say what. What could this have meant for people who have been excluded from SNAP or who do not respect the requirements of SNAP? We do not yet know the answer to this question, but it is something that we will certainly follow. So I really think that this figure represents the worst possible scenario. Now, it is true that a large part depends on the direction we take. If the costs of fuel, electricity and food persist, people will need more services. We are in a different situation than we were seven or eight months ago. As little as it may seem in terms of costs, energy, food, all that. So, we don't become... So, to keep you informed of what's going on, the information I receive, I'll try to communicate it to you as quickly as possible. Question de reporter cela de quelques années. Et je pense que cela piétine. Je n'en ai plus entendu parler depuis. Et nous sommes à 30 jours de l'échéance et s'ils n'ont encore rien proposé, je ne pense pas que ce soit possible. Avez-vous des questions? Reception. Are you working on the security plan for the next budget? Devis for metal detectors. Things like that, which is not bad. I have disbursed a few thousand dollars. I have contacted all our representatives at the state level and at the federal level. The office of STFATIC since early August no longer takes any calls. Demande d'intervention. Il ferme pratiquement boutique jusqu'à ce que la nouvelle personne prenne le relais à ce poste. J'ai reçu une réponse du bureau du sénateur, du bureau de l'Assemblée Simpson, du bureau de l'Assemblée indicating that they are also actively seeking funding to help us pay for all this. The only two lives that I lack or for which I am waiting are the two lives for the buildings and the land in order to make the physical changes, which I did not expect to have from day to night. The most important part of the project. And if they have to modify the doors, I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the doors, the entry doors there are at the bottom. Yes, it's because the buttons for disabled people are on one side. So there could be a cost if we had to change that.

And I think that to be in accordance with the ADA law, we have to have the button on both sides. I think we only have it on the outside. And I know that the sheriff has made a request for an adjoint for 2027 for this in advance.

So as soon as I have all the levies, I can't, I can't write down any grant requests. I'm missing most of them. So as soon as I have all the information I need, I'll start looking for funds outside the county to cover. At least to compensate some. Something else. Thank you. Other point in the order of the day, do the other service managers have anything to say? Just an update. One week. Supervisor Owen, the president of the audit committee, has sent a correspondent.

We ask for more details on the CPS.

The process.

Let's move on to something else.

Does anyone want to see that? Very well. And with their business?