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Special Service District

Entity

Wasatch Behavioral Health Services Special Service District

Public Body

Wasatch Behavioral Health Services Special Service District Board

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Notice Title

Wasatch Behavioral Health September 2021 Authority Board Minutes

Notice Tags

Mental Health, Mental Health Professional

Notice Type(s)

Notice, Meeting

Event Start Date & Time

September 22, 2021 09:00 AM

Event End Date & Time

September 22, 2021 11:00 AM

Event Deadline Date & Time

09/20/21 01:00 AM

Description/Agenda

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE WASATCH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT WILL HOLD A REGULAR PUBLIC MEETING SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 AT 9:00 A.M. AS AN ELECTRONIC MEETING WITH THE ANCHOR LOCATION FOR SAID MEETING TO BE IN THE BOARD ROOM OF THE Wasatch Behavioral Health Westpark Building 750 North Freedom Blvd. Provo, Utah GOVERNING AUTHORITY Commissioner Bill Lee (Chair) BOARD: Commissioner Tom Sakievich Commissioner Amelia Powers Gardner WASATCH BEHAVIORAL Juergen Korbanka, Executive Director HEALTH STAFF: Scott Taylor, Division Director Brian Butler, Division Director Randy Huntington, Division Director Doran Williams, Associate Director Marilyn Sanders, Authority Board Secretary Joe McKea, HR Director EXCUSED: Todd Phillips, Financial Director ALSO PRESENT: Ben VanNoy, County Deputy Attorney CONSENT AGENDA Approve the Minutes of the July 28, 2021 Governing Authority Board Meeting The minutes are approved upon consent. REGULAR AGENDA Ben has reviewed agenda items #1-5. These are the standard contracts. Commissioner Sakievich chaired this meeting as Commissioner Lee was feeling unwell, but joined via Zoom. 1. Approve Agreement with Courtney Burnette dba CC Therapy Services LLC a. Courtney Burnette is coming to do some in house contracts with us. 2. Approve Agreement with House of Hope a. This is a renewal. 3. Approve Agreement with Project Reality a. This is a renewal. 4. Approve Agreement with Department of Workforce Services and Authorize Executive Director to Execute Agreement through Docusign 5. Approve Agreement with Department of Healthcare - Medicaid and Authorize Executive Director to Execute Agreement through Docusign MOTION: Motion to approve regular agenda items #1-#5 as stated was made by Commissioner Powers Gardner and seconded by Commissioner Lee. The motion passed 3-0. 6. Approve Foothill Kitchen Expansion & Remodel a. A donor approached us to donate $100,000 for a commercial kitchen remodel for Foothill. Ben VanNoy explained that they don't need to amend the lease, due to the space issue, but would just need to have approval by the commission. After discussing this, the board proposed to amend this up to 4 rooms and wait to hear back from the architect to learn whether his is feasible. The commissioners will put this on the next Commission Meeting at the County to approve this expansion and remodel. MOTION: Motion to approve regular agenda items #6 with the amendments of adding up to 4 rooms was made by Commissioner Powers Gardner and seconded by Commissioner Lee. The motion passed 3-0. 7. Discuss Project Reality Program a. This was brought up to the board to discuss pros and cons of assuming responsibility of the Project Reality Program. They are currently administering methadone treatment, have seven employees, and are co-located in the H & J Building. We are currently paying their rent so they can be in the H & J Building and they use our electronic health record. Whenever they have clients that are not yet in WBH services, we will add them in. If everything works out as proposed, the timeline to absorb this is approximately the first of the year (2022). A benefit to this is that there wouldn't be an outside entity in the building. Juergen explained that we would save money on the administrative end by not having to do the work twice. For example, we would bill Medicaid directly instead of having to pass back and forth paperwork to bill for services. This would also reduce staff oversight time. Project Reality is a 501c3 and was created to be a methadone clinic and we are currently subsidizing approximately $200,000 per year. We will also be able to allocate a proportion of the cost to Medicaid if we were to take on that program. Juergen just wanted to bring this here to discuss at this time. No action was taken, but he wanted the Authority Board to be aware that this item may be on a future Authority Board agenda. 8. Director's Report a. Briefing/ QUAPI Report i. Administration: Juergen thanked the commissioners for being at the UAC convention and speaking on issues. Wasatch County offered to pay us 10% more to pay Wasatch county employees more. They made a commitment to pay this out for 2 years and indefinitely after. The reason for this is that the cost of living (especially housing) in Wasatch County is severely higher than in Utah County. This doesn't affect our budget at all. We are rolling this out as it is a straight pass-through. In addition, Juergen wanted to let this group know that he anticipates a concrete proposal to do something else for master level clinicians, nurses, and select positions. Juergen will get some data for commissioner lee for the next time they meet. ii. Community & Clinical Services Division: We have an increase in demand of Medicaid recipients and to address this we have implemented Therapy Connect. This is a connection for urgent therapy care, same day scheduling, and overall helps clients process any issues before they can get in with their regular therapists. We also have an insurance clinic (Mountain Peaks Counseling) and have decided to address the influx of recipients by substituting the insurance clients with Medicaid recipients. This is a similar to an overflow clinic to address these clients. We have kept original clients, but new clients we will refer to places that take their insurance. This is a temporary fix to stabilize the workforce and will then move back to serving the insured. iii. Crisis & Intensive Service: We had two therapists leave and were able to hire a new therapist due to the 5% raise. We have some space open in the Payson building due to Promise moving, and have now been able to move a noisy classroom in that spot which is beneficial for clients. CYFAST was created in 2012 when we got money from the state for early intervention for children & youth. The goal to this program is to help kids who are in transition from an inpatient stay to those who need extra support. This is fairly short term. Scott also shared success stories from this division. iv. SUD Division: The 5% market adjustment has been a great turnout in hiring and Randy shared some feedback about this. The option of a 2.5% pay increase or 2 hours fewer of PTO has been a huge success also. The Promise program has now merged into the new location. They will have an open house on October 28th from 3-6pm and the address is 290 E 930 S in Orem. Juergen will send a flier out to the board. The Promise program is for women and children and we have a therapeutic milieu for the kids and moms. We will pick them up in the community, bring them in for treatment, take them home and overall have great services for those who would not have had them before. 9. Review and Acceptance of Financial Reports for July, 2021 and August, 2021. a. The bottom line is that we have a 1.2 million profit which is due to the many personnel positions that we have open. Juergen explained that we are not limiting access to beds or services right now with the exception of our Aspire program due to the staffing shortage, however we are getting back to normal with this as we have hired a new clinician. b. Juergen explained that some time our HSWs will look into getting a master's degree and we may want to look into tuition reimbursements or interest free forgivable loans. The board expressed some ideas and benefits that could help with this. Commissioner Powers talked about the ARPA money and how this could be a great opportunity to alleviate some stress and increase job positions and retention/ recruiting funding. Scott explained that universities are having staffing problems too and Juergen suggested that we should look into some sort of tuition or staffing of teachers too because we have many qualifying people who can teach as adjunct faculty and we could make some sort of a trade with local institutions. 10. Review and Acceptance of Expenditure Reports for July, 2021 and August, 2021 MOTION: Motion to approve regular agenda items #9 and #10 as stated was made by Commissioner Powers Gardner and seconded by Commissioner Lee. The motion passed 3-0. MOTION: Motion to strike regular agenda items #11, #12, and #13 as stated was made by Commissioner Powers Gardner and seconded by Commissioner Lee. The motion passed 3-0. 11. Approve and Set a Date, Time and Location for a Closed Meeting for a Strategy Session to Discuss Pending or Reasonably Imminent Litigation (Suggested for today's date, at this location, following the completion of the regular agenda and work session agenda items) (Announce the vote of each Commissioner) 12. Approve and Set a Date, Time and Location for a Closed Meeting for a Strategy Session to Discuss the Purchase, Exchange, or Lease of Real Property, Water Rights, or Water Shares (Suggested for today's date, at this location, following the completion of the regular agenda and work session agenda items) (Announce the vote of each Commissioner) 13. Approve and Set a Date, Time and Location for a Closed Meeting for a Strategy Session to Discuss the Sale of Real Property, Water Rights, or Water Shares, Previously Publicly Noticed for Sale (Suggested for today's date, at this location, following the completion of the regular agenda and work session agenda items) (Announce the vote of each Commissioner) WORK SESSION PUBLIC COMMENT In Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify Marilyn Sanders at (801) 852-4704 at least one day prior to the meeting. MOTION: A motion to adjourn this meeting at 10:08am was made by Commissioner Powers-Gardner and seconded by Commissioner Lee. The motion passed 3-0.

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Meeting Information

Meeting Location

750 N. Freedom Blvd.
Suite 300
Provo, UT 84601
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Contact Name

Jennie Reese

Contact Email

jreese@wasatch.org

Notice Posting Details

Notice Posted On

November 04, 2021 11:45 AM

Notice Last Edited On

November 04, 2021 11:45 AM

Deadline Date

September 20, 2021 01:00 AM

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