Senior Citizens Commission

CITY OF SHAWANO SENIOR CITIZENS COMMISSION AGENDA WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2024 9:00 AM SHAWANO CITY HALL, 127 S. SAWYER STREET, SHAWANO 1) CALL TO ORDER 2) PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3) ROLL CALL 4) COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETING LAW 5) APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND/OR OTHER MATTERS AUTHORIZED BY LAW 6) APPROVAL OF SENIOR CITIZEN COMMISSION MINUTES OF JUNE 19, 2024 7) PUBLIC COMMENT PLEASE KEEP COMMENTS TO 3 MINUTES 8) PRESENTATION FROM LAURIE WILKINSON WOLF RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 9) REPORTS: a) Civic Center Report b) Gift Shop Report c) Commission on Aging Report 10) BILLS 11) OLD BUSINESS a) Rental Conflicts 12) NEW BUSINESS a) Garden Updates b) Round Table Discussion Page 1 of 10 13) SET NEXT MEETING DATE 14) ADJOURN DISABLED ACCESSIBLE (Contact City Clerk prior to meeting if require additional services.) It is possible that members of and possibly a quorum of members of other governmental bodies of the municipality may be in attendance at the above-stated meeting to gather information; no action will be taken by any governmental body at the above-stated meeting other than the governmental body specifically referred to above in this notice. Page 2 of 10  June 19, 2024 Shawano, Wisconsin CALL TO ORDER • Chairperson Jack Young called the Senior Citizens Commission meeting to order on Wednesday June 19, 2024 at 9:00 AM at Shawano City Hall. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL • Members present: Alderman Jack Young, Lynnae Zahringer, Joan Porter-Priem, Lois Flaig, Bonnie Wolf, Roger Olson, Dennis Zdiarstek, and Mayor Bruce Milavitz. • Also present: Kendra Brusewitz, Brenda Marquardt and Paula Landau Civic Center Coordinator. COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETING LAW • Chairperson Young stated that we were in compliance with the open meeting law. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND/OR OTHER MATTERS AUTHORIZED BY LAW • Motion by Flaig to approve the proposed agenda, seconded by Wolf. Motion carried by voice vote. APPROVAL OF SENIOR CITIZEN COMMISSION MINUTES OF MAY 15, 2024 • Motion by Porter-Priem to approve the proposed minutes seconded by Wolf. Motion carried voice vote. PUBLIC COMMENTS PLEASE KEEP COMMENTS TO 3 MINUTES • None. PRESENTATION FROM KENDRA BRUSEWITZ OUTREACH & PREVENTION SPECIALIST AND BRENDA MARQUARDT ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES • Brenda has been working with Department of Human Services for 8 1/2 years; the first 4 years she worked in Crisis and Adult Protective Services. In May of 2020 they decided to make a full time position for Adult Protective Services, which Brenda stepped into and became backup for Crisis. Adult Protective Services has 3 functions. First being referrals, that can come in from anyone, from anywhere to our Intake office. They are written up and assigned to Brenda and after hours to the Crisis team. Hours are Monday-Thursday 7-4:30, Fridays 7-11, and in the after hours, it would be the Crisis team to follow-up. Brenda’s role is to take the referral and do some investigation, whether or not the claims are instantiated, there are linkages to resources. In most cases the referrals come in where there is lack of support, whether it is natural, support of friend, neighbors, clergy, medical providers things of that nature. They come in, they need linkage to those provider, whether it be medical providers, legal aid, our ADRC, Aging Disability Resource Center. So, the first part of Brenda’s job is investigations. The second part of the job is in some cases due to cognitive impairments some individuals need guardians. If their decisional compacity has been impaired or they are no longer making decisions in their best interest, having them evaluated by a medical doctor or a psychologist; making the appointments, connecting the dots, in some cases going to the appointment with the individual and having the doctor sign a medical opinion. There are two types of guardians, guardian of person, which handles health care decisions, housing decisions, things that have to do with the person, and guardian of the estate, which is financial. Linkage to benefits, the Benefit Specialist, ADRC, medical assistance, and social security. For individuals that have less than $2000.00 in assets, the county and Brenda would step in for handling the paperwork for legally petition the courts for guardianship and protective placement, and attend the hearings, potentially provide testimony. The third part of the job is going out annually to review the protective placements. If a judge orders guardianship and protective placement at a facility. If there is a court order in play, for someone who is ordered to stay at a facility based on their needs. Having someone from the county Page 1 of 8 Page 3 of 10  come out and check in on them, make sure they have a voice, if there are questions about the orders, if there is something the guardian is not providing, they need to convey that someone is checking in on them. On a six- month time frame, Brenda checks in with the client, the facility, and the guardian over the phone. At a year Brenda drives out to meet with the individual, do observations in the facility, talks with the guardian and does a full-page report that is submitted and filed with the courts that goes to the state. The guardianship takes place if they don’t have power of attorney paperwork for health care and finance filled out. Kendra has been working with Human Services for 8 ½ years. She first started with Crisis and did work in the jail. In January 2023 she took the Outreach Prevention Specialist role but is still part time Crisis. The crisis line is 24/7, 365 days a year. If you call the crisis line, you will get a crisis worker. Hours are Monday- Thursday 7:00am -4:30pm, Fridays 7:00am-11:00am, you will get a Shawano County worker from our building, after hours on holidays you will get the answering service which is Family Services in Brown County, they still provide all the support, but if we need to mobile out and do a face to face with our community, we still get paged and someone from our community would go out. There is always a Shawano County worker on call for crisis. The crisis line is for mental health. If people are having suicidal thoughts, homicidal thought, depression, grief, anxiety, and they need someone to talk to, that’s our main goal. We are the linkage point. When we do crisis assessments, we will do an assessment on them within a half hour, making sure they are safe, whether if that looks like taking them to an impatient facility for their mental health, safety planning with a family member or friend, and following up with them and getting them resources they need. The other part of Kendra’s work is prevention. With the aging population of prevention: how do we prevent these cases from being neglected or financial exploitation? There are pinwheels around town, they were the actual referrals we received on elder abuse cases. We had 307 referrals for Adult Protective Services, the criteria for the pinwheels is you have to be over the age of 60, and these were open investigations, so there were 141 for the year. What are the qualifications for the people who answer the phones? You need a college degree at a bachelors level, some people have their masters. We work closely with Law enforcement, so if a 911 call comes in that someone is trying to hurt themselves, the police would go out first and then call us to let us know they need an assessment. Depending on the situation we might meet them in the community, meet them at a police department, hospital; were asking them questions determining their risk, are they safe to go home, do they have the means to harm themselves? That’s how we determine the level of care, we want to operate on the least restricted, our goal is to keep them in their home independent and in our community. A 72-hour hold is determined if they don’t have any support or attempted to hurt themselves and its significant; don’t feel they are safe in the community, or ending their life or hurting someone else, that’s when we would put them on a 72-hour hold. The state is working on providing access to the Crisis Stabilization Center. Shawano County contracts with North Central out of Wausau. Prior to that we had to work with various hospitals in the area, Green Bay, Appleton; some of them were outside of that, Fondu lac, and Milwaukee. Having grants and funding from the state helps provide this service to North Central and our area. In our area the biggest thing is how do we get volunteers? If it be people calling the customer, drivers, and companions to play cards, etc. Discussion followed. REPORTS: • Civic Center Report: Paula Landau submitted a report for June to the committee members on the issues and/or happenings at the center. • Gift Shop Report: Bonnie submitted a report for June. The gift shop did very well at the Rhubarb Fest. They have 2 new workers volunteering, not crafting.The gift shop did donate a lap throw to Shawano Place on Engel Drive; to get their name out. July 13th is the Shawano Fest, August 9th Sidewalk Sales, and August 24th Farmers Market. Discussion followed. • Commission on Aging Report: None. BILLS • None. OLD BUSINESS • Rental Conflicts: None. NEW BUSINESS Page 2 of 8 Page 4 of 10  • Election of Officers: Porter-Priem made a motion to nominate Jack Young as Chairperson, seconded by Flaig; any other nominations? Young nominated Lynnae Zahringer, Zahringer declined. Motion to close nominations made by Young, seconded by Porter-Priem. Motion carried for Chairperson Young. Nomination for Assistant Chairperson, Porter-Priem nominated Lynnae Zahringer, seconded by Young, any other nominations? None, Young closed nominations. Motion carried for Assistant Chairperson Zahringer. • Discussion on Disability Issues: Young spoke to Matt from Park and Rec about Sturgeon Park, if possible, of remodeling the sidewalk that goes down towards the shore to make it more disability friendly for people in wheelchairs. Matt will contact an engineer to come down and write a report on feasibility and cost. Young will keep the members informed. Young talked about changing the name of out committee to Senior and Disabled Commission. Any thoughts? There has to be some terminology about Aging. Need to define what population you are referencing for disabled. When you read Senior and Disabled, it is interpreted as Seniors and Disabled community, whatever their age bracket is, whether it be 18 to 100. Who is your target population. Mayor Bruce commented that if there is a concern that is not represented properly, as they are looking at it, there could be another possibility for a committee specifically on disability. Mayor Bruce will work with Jack. There is a ribbon cutting at Kuckuk park today 4-8pm. How it all started, is that it was disabled families that moved to Shawano that had a vision. We worked together and was able to change Kuckuk and Memorial as much more friendly to disabled and Senior Citizens. Discussion followed. • Garden Updates: As of yesterday, of the 28 half plots 22 have been rented. There are 17 box gardens and only 7 have been rented. The water pump has been turned on and working, the garden boxes that had peeling paint have been repainted. The hose that runs underneath the road, the hook up has been replaced. Roger will pick up a new 75 garden hose, the hose there was all tangled up. Discussion followed. • Round Table Discussion: Paula commented that the concerts in the park, with the trash cans, they use all of them, even Civic Centers. If the people that pick up trash on Friday, if they could empty all trash cans, it would be appreciated. Mayor Bruce will talk to Eddie to make sure that is taken care of. SET NEXT MEETING DATE • The next Senior Citizens Commission meeting will be on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 9:00 am at City Hall. ADJOURN • Motion to adjourn made by Olson, seconded by Porter-Priem. Motion carried by voice vote. Respectfully submitted, Paula Landau, Civic Center Coordinator Page 3 of 8 Page 5 of 10 Page 4 of 8 Page 6 of 10 Page 5 of 8 Page 7 of 10 Page 6 of 8 Page 8 of 10 Page 7 of 8 Page 9 of 10 Page 8 of 8 Page 10 of 10