 Gallatin County DUI Task Force
Minutes 1-29-03
Members:
Bob Larsen, Citizen Volunteer
Jason Hoppert, MHP
EJ Clark, Belgrade PD
Shanda Smith, Health Dept
Mark Daugherty, Citizen Volunteer
Susan Wordal, City Attorney’s Office
Todd Whipple, County Attorney’s Office
Jami Brogan, MSU
Called to order 5:40 PM.
January 8th minutes approved, Susan motioned. EJ seconded. Shanda mentioned some misspellings. Motion passed.
Suggestions for the Future of the Task Force: as proposed by Mark and Todd:
Option 1: Have our funding renewed. This would be the best outcome but it relies on the legislature. Need to support Sue Dickenson and work on members of budget and appropriations committees.
Option 2: Disband at the end of June, 2003. We can take the remainder of our funds (about $14,000) and invest them in good projects. We would need to know what we want to do when the time comes.
Option 3: No coordinator, just volunteers. Challenges would be: working with a finite amount of money and getting everyone together, having an effective volunteer organization.
Option 4: Join another organization. We would benefit from that synergy, but may lose our identity and reputation.
Option 5: Get money from the county somehow – but this is a long shot!
Decision: Todd moved to proceed under option 1 and if that fails to go to option 2. Bob seconded.
Legislative Update:
For more information on DUI-related bills, go to the state website.
Jenna has been forwarding emails and information.
Todd moved to discuss the legislative session at our next meeting and Susan seconded. That meeting will be February 19th, about transmittal time for the legislature.
Mark asked that Jenna disseminate information to board members about that change in meeting date.
DUI Budget:
Mark had questions for Jenna regarding some line items on the budget. These were, expenditures for advertising with the Chronicle. Jenna explained that these originated from our last PI&E Grant and were spent on placing social norms ads.
Our office: We pay the full rent and MADD writes us a sublease check that shows as income in our account, but cannot be directly offset from our rent expenses because of the county accounting system. Jenna needs to find out how much notice we need to give our landlord before moving out.
Mark asked questions regarding computer expenditures. He wanted to make sure Task Force investment was not “co-mingled.” Jenna
explained how she balances choices about Task Force investment in the maintenance of her computer system that is used for Task Force work. She pointed out she did buy a new hard drive last spring and paid for that on own, that she did tell the Task Force in the process of budgeting a couple years ago that there was a high risk of problems with her computer because of its age. The Task Force opted not to make other arrangements for computer access because of the change in our funding and the indefinite nature of the Task Force’s future. Todd pointed out that equipment purchased new, like a keyboard purchased recently, would belong to the county and Jenna would need to be prepared to return that. Jenna asked if she might have the option to buy back those
items.
Jenna had reported to Mark about the accumulation of vacation, sick and comp time on her account. The Task Force asked that she find out the value of her vacation time since it would need to be reimbursed and that she not accumulate more comp time for now. Jenna said she had raised the issue for clarity’s sake and because she might need to begin setting boundaries about the investment of her time in various projects, or may have a month where she works less because she’s using up comp time.
Parent Party Patrol:
Presented at the MIP class at ARC in late January. The Saturday morning class went well. Shawn Fowler from MHP participated and did a great job keeping the issue of DUI in front of the group. Five parents and their children attended. It was a good experience. The class will be repeated about once a month.
Mark moved to adjourn and Todd seconded at 6:31 PM.
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