Gallatin County DUI Task Force
Members
Christina Crow, Citizen Volunteer, Vice-chair
Force Tolar, GCSO
Gordon Berger, West Yellowstone PD
Shanda Smith, Gallatin City-County Health Department, Citizen Volunteer
Hal Richardson, Bozeman PD
Jonathan Cook, Three Forks PD
Jason Karls, ADSGC Prevention Specialist
Robert Larson, Citizen Volunteer
Cherie Lofton, MHP
Jeff McRae, Manhattan PD
Katherine McLaughlin, Citizen Volunteer
Scott Lanson, County Attorney’s Office
Jenna Caplette, Coordinator
Guests
Tom Schwartz & Matt Smith, National Park Service
Aaron Baczuk, Three Forks PD
Matt Michael, Gallatin County Detention Center
Approval of April minutes: Motion by Hal, second by Scott.
New Business
- The 2009 Swimming Upstream Awards
- Jenna shared that the awards were more time consuming this year because she had to pick up the work that Stacy Wesen from Safe Kids, Safe Communities, used to do. It was overwhelming. She billed a lot of hours to ADSGC under her Prevention Writing Grant. She said that there needs to be more Task Force member involvement next year, more delegation of tasks.
- Judge Snowberger did the opening speech this year, and did a tremendous job.
- Both Christina and Jenna found that the awards provide a good place for networking.
- Lifesavers Conference: presentation by Jenna
- Jenna said both she and Stephen found the 2009 Lifesavers Conference useful. She and Stephen presented on their experience to staff of Highway Traffic Safety in Helena last week. Jenna attended many of the workshops Highway Traffic Safety requested coverage for as part of their funding.
- One idea from a workshop that Stephen attended involved pulling people over (thus to avoid privacy issues). Jenna and Stephen will present more information in May, when Stephen is back from vacation.
- 7th Annual Adolescent Conference by Eris
- Working with resistant clients: Types of resistant: Active, passive, unintentional.
1. resistance: put time into the client
2. set high expectations for the client
3. be aware of ìhelicopter parentsî or parents who hover over their children and guide them through every step of everything they do, not letting kids solve their own problems or think for themselves.
- Self defeating behaviors: use the Damage AssessmentÖ (i.e. peeling away the layers of the onion).Dr. Mee-Lee: Stages of Change Model
- Input for 2010 DUI Task Force Plan
Jenna handed out copies of the 2009 plan and requested in put from anyone interested for the 2010 plan. That plan will have to be approved at the next meeting.
We will also need to approve a 2010 budget.
- Alcohol Myths: we will no longer be doing "guerilla" marketing on this campaign; instead we will be doing more mainstream marketing.
- It was suggested we run an ad in the Sunday paper on the police reports page; one myth a week; every 3 weeks.
- Scott suggested Jenna put together a prototype and then the Task Force discuss/approve it.
- Christina suggested that we use the Bozone; Jenna will have something solid by next month and email it out.
- Motion for $500 for Drinking Myths Campaign by Jeff McRae, second by Eris
- Topics of open discussion
- Change meeting date for April meeting to April 22nd.
- There will not be a roundtable with MADD in April. With MADD attendance down they need to reconsider what projects they involved in and it seems like it may be time to reassess the roundtables.
Finances
- Compliance Checks funding
- Discussed the question of whether it is within the legislative intention for DUI Task Forces for them to fund compliance checks. Scott and Force had a discussion of this and questioned our authority. The compliance checks are in process right now.
- Reviewed budget and mini-grants given to date
- Jenna discussed in detail why our marketing/advertising budget was over plan (Detention Center ads). She will research other line items and presen a solid budget at the next meeting, pretty much working with this year's plan.
Meeting adjourned at 6:40
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