WEBVTT 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.000 >> TESTING, TESTING. TESTING. >> 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.000 TESTING, TESTING. >> TESTING. TESTING 00:00:37.000 --> 00:01:07.000 . >> 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:30.000 HI KATHY. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:34.000 >> YES. HEY DAWN, 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:43.000 HOW ARE YOU? >> GOOD. >> 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.000 IT IS BRITTANY. >> HI BRITTANY. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.000 WE WILL GET STARTED IN ABOUT ONE MINUTE, 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.000 AND I GOT THE SCREEN UP READY FOR YOU 00:10:55.000 --> 00:11:25.000 . >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. >> 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.000 THIS IS BRITTANY, 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.000 DON'T, WHENEVER YOU ARE READY, PLEASE GET 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.000 US STARTED. THANK YOU. >> 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.000 THANK YOU. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:02.000 SO GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE, WELCOME TO 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:06.000 SILC, KNOW YOUR REGS, 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.000 WE HAVE KATHY COOPER FROM 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:15.000 THE KANSAS 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.000 STATEWIDE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:23.000 HAPPY SHE IS GIVING THE PRESENTATION. THERE ARE I 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.000 FEW POINTS, I LIKE TO GO OVER, AND I AM 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.000 SURE YOU HAD THESE GO OVER, OR GONE 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.000 OVER, MANY TIMES BEFORE. 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.000 AND 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.000 I AM HAVING TROUBLE, READING THE SCREEN HERE. 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.000 ONE 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.000 OF THE THINGS AT THE BOTTOM, WE ARE 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.000 GOING TO BE ASKING QUESTIONS ALL THE WAY THROUGH, 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.000 KATHY IS GOING TO TAKE THE QUESTIONS, I WILL 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.000 READ THEM. SO PLEASE, DO SO IN THE 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:01.000 Q AND A BOX. THERE IS A 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.000 CLOSE CAPTION BOX AT THE BOTTOM, 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.000 WHICH IS THE CC, WE DO 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.000 HAVE AN ASL INTERPRETER, 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.000 JON. YOU CAN PIN 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:17.000 HIS PICTURE IF YOU WOULD LIKE, 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.000 AND YOU NEED THE INTERPRETER, THAT WAY, YOU ARE 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:23.000 RIGHT THERE SEEING HIM. 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:27.000 AND WE DO HAVE IT 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:30.000 CAPTIONED AND RECORDED. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 AND IF YOU CAN'T SEE, MAKE SURE IN 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.000 , YOU CAN'T SEE THE ASL 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.000 INTERPRETER, MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN GALLERY 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:43.000 VIEW. IF YOU, WANT TO JOIN THE CONVERSATION BY PHONE 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.000 , OR MICROPHONE, YOU CAN 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.000 EITHER RAISE YOUR HAND BY 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:52.000 SELECTING THE HAND RAISE OPTION OR PRESS STAR 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.000 NINE ON THE PHONE. AND 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:00.000 FEEL FREE TO SAY HELLO AND CHAT. AND 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.000 JOIN THE CONVERSATION TODAY. IT SHOULD BE 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.000 INTERESTING. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000 ANYTHING ELSE THAT KATHY WANTS ME TO SAY, BUT I WILL 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:15.000 HAND IT OVER TO HER, THANKS. >> KATHY COOPER: 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.000 THANKS DON'T. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.000 MY NAME IS KATHY COOPER, I AM NOT THE BEST 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:25.000 AT THIS. I IN A ROOM, 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:30.000 IT IS VERY CLUTTER,ED, I GOT 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.000 LUGGAGE IN THE BACKGROUND, IT LOOKS LIKE I AM GETTING READY 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.000 TO GO ON VACATION, I AM 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.000 ON THE GO. ANYTIME NEEDED. I WISH THAT IS 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:43.000 THE CASE. BUT BLOND HAIR, IT IS 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 CURLY AND I AM WEARING A PURPLE 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.000 KIND OF PLUM 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:52.000 PURPLE SWEATER, I HOPE THAT IS 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:57.000 HELPFUL OR 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.000 ENTERTAINING. I WAS THE DIRECTOR 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.000 OF THE KANSAS SILC 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.000 OVER SEVEN YEARS, WHEN I CAME TO SILC, 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.000 THEY WERE OUT STAFF FOR OVER THREE YEARS 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.000 , BEFORE THAT, THEY HAD THE SAME DIRECTOR SINCE 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.000 1994, IT WAS QUITE A LONG 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.000 RUN. THEY HAD OTHER STAFF AS WELL. BUT 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.000 THINGS CHANGED IN KANSAS, SO THAT IS WHERE WE 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.000 ARE NOW, WHICH IS ONE STAFF PERSON. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.000 I KIND OF COME FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.000 A SMALL SILC 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.000 WHERE WE ARE 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.000 504C3, WE ARE THE FIRST ONE IN THE NATION, WE 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.000 INCORPORATED OFF THE BAT. I AM 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:44.000 FINDING IT INTERESTING THAT 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.000 AS I AM SURE OF YOU 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.000 DEALING WITH THE SPIL REVISIONS 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.000 AND UPDATES, I DON'T KNOW, FOUR OF US 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.000 GOT BACK. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.000 ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO REVISE IS 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.000 HOW THE SILC IS ESTABLISHED. AND THIS IS 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:06.000 BEEN INTERESTING, I THINK WE ARE INCORPORATED, 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.000 WE ARE A 501C3, 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:13.000 AND I PUT THE INFORMATION. BUT 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:16.000 APPARENTLY, 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.000 SILCS HAVE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:23.000 OR CODIFIED IN 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:26.000 LAW. I HAVE BEEN DOING RESEARCH ON THAT, BECAUSE I HAD 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:29.000 NO IDEA HOW OUR SILC WAS 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:32.000 TECHNICALLY ESTABLISHED. IT HAS BEEN 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 VERY INTERESTING TO GO BACK AND SEE 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.000 , YOU KNOW, JUST ALL THE, 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:43.000 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAPPENED. SO I AM 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.000 STILL LOOKING. I AM THANKFUL 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:49.000 THE STATE LIBRARY IS HELPING ME 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.000 DO THE RESEARCH. THEY CAN DEEP DIVE INTO MORE OF 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:59.000 THIS STUFF THAN I HAVE ACCESS TO. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.000 IT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ABOUT ME. I 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:05.000 HAVE WORKED FOR THE 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:08.000 INDEPENDENT LIVINGS BEFORE I CAME TO SILC. I WAS FAMILIAR 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.000 WITH SILC BUT I HAD NO IDEA 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.000 REALLY ALL THE DETAILS ABOUT 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.000 THE SILC. AND NOT THE 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:20.000 REGULATIONS THAT GO BEHIND THE SILC 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:23.000 AND KIND OF DEFINE THE 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:27.000 SILC AND WHAT THE DUTIES ARE. 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:31.000 AND WHEN I CAME, LIKE I SAID, 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.000 I HAD NO OTHER STAFF. I HAVE A 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.000 GOOD WORKING BOARD. BUT, I 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.000 HAD TO LEARN A LOT OF STUFF ON THE GO. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.000 I WAS VERY FORTUNATE AND I HAD A 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.000 PEER MENTOR THROUGH APRIL 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.000 . I RECOMMEND THAT PROGRAM. SHE 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.000 HELPED ME A LOT LEARNING THE REGULATIONS AND KNOWING 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.000 WHAT WAS IN THOSE, WHAT PERTAIN TO THE 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.000 SILC AND EVER SINCE THEN, THEY HAVE BEEN KIND OF 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.000 , THE GO-TO WHAT WE 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.000 SUPPOSED TO DO, AND WHY THAT IS, AND ALL 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.000 THAT KIND OF STUFF. NOW, I AM A PEER 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:13.000 MENTOR MYSELF THROUGH THE 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:16.000 APRIL SILC, AND THIS IS WHAT I SEE WITH 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:19.000 SILC THAT I WORK WITH. THEY ARE NOT SUPER 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.000 FAMILIAR WITH THE REGULATIONS. SO, WHILE 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.000 THIS IS A BORING TOPIC, AND I TOTALLY GET 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:28.000 THAT, I REALLY FEEL IT IS IMPORTANT 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.000 FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW. AND IT 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.000 WILL HELP YOU OUT TREMENDOUSLY WHEN YOU 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:38.000 DO HAVE ISSUES WITH YOUR 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.000 DSE OR WHEN YOU HAVE 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.000 ISSUES WITH CILS OR ASSOCIATIONS OR 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.000 ANYBODY ELSE, YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE LAW. YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:50.000 REHAB ACT. AND IT IS NOT 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.000 HUGE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.000 KNOWING, WHAT IS IN THERE. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.000 WHAT I TELL PEOPLE IS, 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.000 GO TO IT, PRINT IT OFF. AND 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.000 HAVE IT THE A YOUR DESK. I HAVE IT PINNED UP ON THE 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:09.000 WALL ABOVE MY 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:13.000 COMPUTER SCREEN, AND I CAN 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:16.000 REFERENCE IT ANYTIME I NEED TO. THIS IS VERY 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:22.000 INTERACTIVE, I AM PARANOID, THAT I AM GOING 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.000 TO HAVE NOTHING TO SAY, AND IT IS A 20 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.000 -MINUTE PRESENTATION, SO PLEASE HELP ME. ASK 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.000 QUESTIONS, HOPEFULLY I CAN ANSWER. IF NOT, WE WILL 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 WORK THROUGH IT. BUT PLEASE ASK 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.000 LOTS OF QUESTIONS. SO, WHERE 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:42.000 WE ARE GOING TO START IS 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.000 THE LAW. YOU NEED TO KNOW 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.000 THERE IS THE CODE, SO THE CODE OF 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.000 FEDERAL REGULATIONS, THE 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:55.000 CFR, I AM SURE YOU HEARD THAT BEFORE. THE 00:19:55.000 --> 00:19:58.000 SILC FALLS UNDER THE 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.000 CFR OR 45 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.000 CFR, 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:08.000 1329 AND THERE IS 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.000 .14 WHICH IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SILC. 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.000 15 WHICH IS THE DUTIES OF THE SILC. 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.000 AND 16, WHICH IS THE AUTHORITIES OF THE SILC. THESE 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:21.000 ARE KIND OF LIKE THE IMPORTANT ONES FOR EVERYBODY TO 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.000 KNOW. I DO 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:29.000 THING, KEEP IT ON THE COMPUTER ON MY 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:32.000 , WELL INTERNET EXPLORER, THAT 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:36.000 SOUNDS OLD RIGHT NOW, I STAR THEM AND 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.000 KEEP IT AS A FAVORITE SO I CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:42.000 THINGS BECAUSE THERE ARE TIMES YOU THINK, YOU GET ASKED A 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.000 QUESTION AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT BECAUSE IT IS 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.000 SOMETHING THAT YOU DEALT WITH OVER AND OVER, BUT YOU THINK, WAIT A 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:51.000 MINUTE? MAYBE I DON'T KNOW. AND YOU CAN 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:54.000 ALWAYS GO BACK TO THESE. THAT IS THE CFR. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.000 THERE IS ALSO, THE REHAB 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:01.000 ACT AND THAT IS THE BIGGER ONE, IT GOES INTO 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:04.000 MORE DETAIL ABOUT SILCS AND EVERYTHING. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.000 ON THE REHAB ACT, WHICH YOU NEED TO 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:10.000 PIN TO YOUR COMPUTER OR HAVE 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.000 IT ON THE WALL OR ON THE DESK 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:16.000 WHATEVER, IS TITLE 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:19.000 SEVEN, CHAPTER ONE, SPECIFICALLY PART A AND 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:22.000 SECTION 705. THAT IS THE ONE 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.000 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE STATE 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:28.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL AND WHY WE ARE HERE, AND HOW 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.000 WE ARE COMPRISED AND 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:34.000 ALL THAT. THIS IS A GOOD ONE TO HAVE AND READ 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.000 THROUGH. LIKE I SAID, IT IS NOT A LOT 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.000 OF INFORMATION. IT ISN'T FOR THIS 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.000 BIG, LONG REHAB ACT. THE SECTION 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:47.000 705 IS NOT MUCH. BUT IT 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:50.000 GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT THE 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.000 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SILC. AND WHAT IT MEANS, 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:56.000 AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW BECAUSE 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.000 IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COMPLIANT OR 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.000 AN ESTABLISHED SILC, THEN YOUR 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:05.000 STATE CAN'T DRAW DOWN THE PART C 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.000 AND PART D FOR THE INDEPENDENT LIVING NETWORK. IT IS 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.000 SUPER IMPORTANT. YOU 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.000 KNOW, THIS TALKS ABOUT THE COMPOSITION AND 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:17.000 APPOINTMENT OF THE COUNCIL. AND THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT I 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:20.000 THINK A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.000 THINK THEY KNOW THROUGH AND THROUGH. BUT, THERE IS 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.000 .... THERE IS THINGS THAT I 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:30.000 THINK THROW PEOPLE. SO, 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:34.000 YOUR SILC NEEDS TO BE COMPOSE OF 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:38.000 51 PERCENT PEOPLE WITH 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.000 DISABILITIES NOT INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE STATE 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.000 OR, PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR A CENTER OF 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:48.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING. AND THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.000 NOT ONLY IS A TOTAL 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.000 AMOUNT HAVE TO BE 51 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.000 PERCENT BUT THE VOTING AMOUNT HAS TO BE 51 PERCENT TOO. 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.000 AND PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE, THAT IT IS ONE 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.000 OR ANOTHER AND THAT IS WHAT THEY WORRY ABOUT. 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.000 THAT IS BOTH OF THESE AND IT IS IN HERE. THAT IS WHY 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.000 IT IS GOOD TO GO BACK AND READ OVER AND 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.000 OVER AND DO IT, KEEP YOURSELF UPDATED ON 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.000 IT, BECAUSE YOU DO FORGET SOME OF THESE THINGS. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.000 IT TALKS ABOUT THE COMPOSITION AND WHO HAS TO BE ON 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.000 THE COUNCIL. IF YOU ARE NEW, ESPECIALLY 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:24.000 , THIS IS YOUR, THIS IS YOUR 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:28.000 DIRECTIONS, THIS IS THE GO- 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:33.000 TO. THERE IS LOTS OF WEBINARS, AND 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.000 TUTORIALS AND 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.000 TRAININGS. I THINK, 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.000 GOSH, THERE NEEDS TO BE THE SUPER EASY, 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:46.000 JUST GO TO THIS. GO TO THIS IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:50.000 . AND IT IS, IT IS JUST RIGHT THERE. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:54.000 IT TALKS ABOUT YOUR EX- 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:58.000 OFFICIOS. AS WELL. A LOT OF TIMES WE 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.000 TAKE FOR GRANTED. WE HAVE TO HAVE 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:06.000 SO MANY EX- 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:09.000 OFFICIOS MEMBERS. IF YOU READ THE REGS, 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:12.000 IT IS NOT AS MUCH AS YOU THINK. WE HAVE 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.000 SO MANY EX- 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.000 OFFICIOS MEMBERS, IT IS HARD TO STAY COMPLIANT 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:22.000 AS A SILC BECAUSE THEY WORK FOR THE 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:25.000 STATE. IT WAS THROWING THE TOTAL NUMBER OFF. 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.000 ONCE I FIGURED THAT OUT, WE WENT 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:31.000 TO THE BY-LAWS AND CHANGED THE 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:36.000 BY-LAWS NOT TO HAVE AS MANY EX- 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.000 OFFICIO MEMBERS AND IT MADE IT 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:45.000 EASIER TO STAY COMPLIANT. ANOTHER THING, EX- 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.000 OFFICIO WHILE THEY COME FROM THE REPRESENTATIVE 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.000 FROM THE DESIGNATED 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.000 ENTITY 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.000 FROM CENTERS OF DISABILITIES, DOESN'T 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:02.000 MEAN THEY HAVE TO BE EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE. 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:06.000 I HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS AN EX- 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:09.000 OFFICIO ON THE COUNCIL, WHO IS 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:13.000 A BOARD MEMBER OF 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:19.000 THE STATE 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:22.000 ENTITY, AND NOT REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE. I AM 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.000 MEETING THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE EX- 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:29.000 OFFICIO. I DON'T COUNT HIM FOR THE STATE. AND HE HAS 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:33.000 A DISABILITY. IT HELPS YOUR COMPLIANCE NUMBER. 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:36.000 ONCE YOU READ THIS, AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT, 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.000 IT CAN MAKE THINGS EASIER ON THE 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.000 COUNCIL. IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:47.000 MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, AND 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:51.000 WHAT YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:54.000 . IT TALKS ABOUT JUST, YOU KNOW, 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:57.000 IT GIVES YOU GROUPINGS BUT YOU DON'T HAVE 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.000 TO HAVE THE GROUPING, THERE IS 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.000 ONE THAT IS A MUST HAVE. AND THAT IS YOUR 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:08.000 CIL REP UNLESS YOU ARE A STATE WITH THE TRIBAL 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.000 CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, KANSAS IS NOT ONE OF 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.000 THOSE. THAT IS OUR 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.000 TECHNICAL ONE THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE. THE OTHER ONES 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:20.000 OF COURSE, IT IS BEST PRACTICE TO HAVE ALL OF THESE. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:23.000 IT GOES THROUGH 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:26.000 THE 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:29.000 QUALIFIFICATIONS AND THEY ARE SIMPLE IF YOU LOOK AT IT. 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.000 OUTCOME WE NEED TO DO BETTER THAN JUST THE BASICS AND THE 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:36.000 MINIMUM HERE. AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:39.000 THROUGHOUT. THE PRESENTATIONS IN THIS CONFERENCE 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:42.000 ALREADY, THE NICKEL CONFERENCE. JUST 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.000 DOING BETTER ABOUT WHAT WE CONSIDER 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.000 DIVERSE. SO, IT 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.000 ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE CHAIR PERSON. YOUR 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:54.000 TERMS OF APPOINTMENT. THIS ONE WAS HARD FOR 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:58.000 ME BECAUSE, I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:00.000 WHY SOME PEOPLE WOULD COME IN 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.000 FOR A FULL 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:07.000 THREE-YEAR TERM AND OTHER PEOPLE WOULD COME IN FOR 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.000 TWO YEARS OR 1 AND A HALF YEARS. HERE IT IS IN THE TERMS OF 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.000 APPOINTMENT, AND IT TELLS YOU, IF 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:18.000 SOMEBODY LEAVES YOU HAVE TO FILL THE 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:21.000 VACANCY, AND THE PERSON DOESN'T START WITH THE FULL 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:25.000 THREE YEARS, THAT IS SOMETHING I NEVER UNDERSTOOD. AND HERE IT 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.000 IS, SPELLED OUT. 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.000 VACANCY IN GENERAL, TALKS ABOUT THAT, THE 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.000 FUNCTIONS, THIS IS THE BIGGEST PART. THIS TELLS YOU WHAT YOU DO. 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:39.000 YOU SHOULD KNOW, BECAUSE IT IS IN THE SPIL 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:42.000 IN YOUR BY-LAWS, IT IS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.000 AT A CIL. AND TALKS ABOUT THE DUTIES. 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.000 AND THIS IS HELPFUL BECAUSE YOU CAN TAKE THIS 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:51.000 AND YOU CAN, IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH YOUR 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:54.000 DSE OR CENTERS OR WHATEVER, 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.000 YOU CAN TAKE THIS AND SHOW IT TO THEM. 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.000 IT IS VERY PLAIN AND SIMPLE. LIKE I SAID 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.000 THERE IS NOT A LOT TO IT. AND IT WILL TELL THEM 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:06.000 WHAT YOUR DUTIES ARE, WHAT YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES ARE. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:10.000 AND THEN OF COURSE THE AUTHORITIES, BREAKS 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:16.000 THOSE DOWN FOR YOU AS WELL. 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:20.000 AND IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.000 REIMBURSE, EXPENSES. YOU CAN'T 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.000 PAY PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY TO BE ON THE BOARD BUT THERE 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:29.000 ARE /STAOEU 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:33.000 STIPEND AND TRAVEL 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.000 REIMBURSEMENT. THIS HELPS WITH THAT 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:40.000 . THAT IS IT. LOOKS HOW 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.000 SIMPLE. THAT IS THE SECTION 705. THAT IS THE 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.000 SILC SECTION IS. THAT IS IT. NOW THERE IS 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:49.000 MORE OF COURSE. THERE IS SECTION 704 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:53.000 BEFORE IT TOO TALKS 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.000 ABOUT THE PLAN OF INDEPENDENT LIVING, THAT IS 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.000 A GOOD SECTION TO KNOW AS WELL. AND 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:03.000 AGAIN IT IS NOT BIG. BUT IT TALKS ABOUT 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.000 WHO DEVELOPS THE PLAN. IT 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.000 GOES INTO MORE DETAIL AND AGAIN, THAT CAN BE 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:12.000 SUPER HELPFUL IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH ANYONE TO 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:19.000 GO BACK AND REFER TO THIS. 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.000 LET ME TAKE A MINUTE HERE. AND JUST 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:25.000 .... GOOD, NO QUESTIONS. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:28.000 THAT IS NOT GOOD THOUGH. ASK ME QUESTIONS. 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.000 THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE ON HERE, AND I DON'T WANT 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:34.000 TO KIND OF, TALK AT YOU THE 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.000 WHOLE TIME, ALTHOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT, IN 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.000 THESE SITUATIONS BUT PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.000 SO 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.000 ANOTHER SECTION OF THIS, I THINK IS 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:52.000 TRULY IMPORTANT FOR SILCS TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND IS 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:55.000 SECTION 725, YOU 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.000 GOTTEN IN TO, 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.000 LET'S SEE, THAT IS PART A. YOU GOT INTO PART 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:04.000 C. IN SECTION 725 FOR 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.000 CENTERS OF INDEPENDENT LIVING AND TALKS ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:10.000 SUPPOSED TO DO. AND PART OF THAT THOUGH, 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.000 NUMBER 12, THIS IS WHEN I 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:16.000 GO BACK TO A LOT BECAUSE 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:19.000 I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS PROBABLY UNTIL, I 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:23.000 DON'T KNOW, TWO YEARS AGO, THIS IS IN THE 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:26.000 REHAB ACT. IT IS SPECIFICALLY SAYS 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.000 , THE CENTERS ARE SUPPOSED TO GIVE THE SILC 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.000 THEIR APPROVED GRANT APPLICATION. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.000 I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. I NEVER 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.000 RECEIVED THAT. I DIDN'T KNOW THE CENTERS 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:43.000 KNOW TO GIVE IT TO ME. THE 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.000 CENTERS, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO GIVE THE SILCS THE 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:50.000 ANNUAL REPORT. THE PPR OR 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:53.000 WHAT WE CALL THE 704. I 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.000 WORKED WITH SILCS BEFORE THAT SAID, THE 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.000 CENTERS DON'T WANT TO GIVE ME THAT. THEY 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.000 SAY, THEY DON'T HAVE TO OR SEND IT TO THE 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:06.000 DSE OR ACL, 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.000 WHY DO I NEED IT, FIRST OF ALL, IT IS 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.000 EASY NOW TO GO TO SECTION 725 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.000 AND LOOK AT, THAT IT IS IN THE REHAB ACT. 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.000 AND THERE IS MULTIPLE REASONS 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.000 WHY WE NEED IT. WE NEED IT 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.000 HELPS US TO EVALUATE AND MONITOR THE 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:27.000 GOALS OF THE SPIL. TO SEE WHERE THINGS ARE 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.000 . IF THERE ARE ISSUES CENTERS ARE HAVING AND 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.000 YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.000 SILC AND CILS, THIS IS ONE WAY YOU CAN 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:39.000 SAY, WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OR THE ISSUES OR WHAT IS 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:42.000 WORKING, WHAT IS WORKING IN YOUR STATE. WHAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.000 FOR THE SPIL TO GET 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.000 EVEN BIGGER. IT IS IMPORTANT. 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:51.000 THE GRANT APPLICATION 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:55.000 I THINK MAYBE BEFORE AS 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.000 MUCH INFORMATION IS ONLINE ON 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:01.000 ACL'S WEBSITE, THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:04.000 FOR US TO HAVE. I 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.000 CAN GO ONLINE AND SEE THE 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:11.000 SPECIFIC GRANT APPLICATION WE NEED, 00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:15.000 INFORMATION THAT IS ON THERE. YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH PART C 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.000 MONEY THEY RECEIVE. WHAT COUNTIES OR 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.000 TERRITORIES THEY HAVE SPECIFIED TO DO 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.000 IL IN. THAT KIND OF THINGS IS 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:27.000 IMPORTANT AND YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.000 RELATIONSHIP, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DO IT. BUT THAT KIND OF STUFF IS 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:33.000 ON ACL AS WELL. YOU HAVE TO 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:36.000 DIG FOR IT, BUT IT IS THERE. 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.000 I HAD TO SEND IT TO CENTERS BEFORE OR 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.000 HAD TO COACH OTHER SILCS TO DO THAT. THE 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:46.000 DSE IS ANOTHER ONE, YOU DON'T NEED TO ASK 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:49.000 FOR THAT. AGAIN, IT IS IN THE 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.000 REHAB ACT. I DO. AND 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.000 YOU KNOW, IT IS THERE. SO.... 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.000 >> KATHY. THIS IS DON'T. I HAVE 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:02.000 THREE QUESTIONS IF YOU WANT ME TO READ THEM TO YOU? 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.000 >> KATHY COOPER: YES, THAT WILL BE GREAT. 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.000 >> FIRST ONE IS FROM DORA. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:11.000 IN DISCUSSING SILC ESTABLISHMENT, IT IS 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:14.000 , IF IT IS UNKNOWN BUT IN THE 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:18.000 WORKS TO WORK ON THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:21.000 WOULD THAT BE SUFFICIENT FOR THE NEW 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.000 SPIL? >> KATHY COOPER: HERE'S MY OPINION ON THAT, 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.000 AND I HAD A MEETING WITH 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:31.000 REGINA TO GO OVER THE SPIL SPECIFICALLY IN 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:37.000 KANSAS I SAID, THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.000 WE HAVE HAD TO WORK ON, HOW THE 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.000 SILC IS ESTABLISHED. THE CONVERSATIONS WITH HER, AND ALSO, 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.000 LAST WEEK AT THE SILC 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.000 CALL, SHE WENT OVER THAT TOO. MY UNDERSTANDING IS, 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.000 YES. IF YOU DESCRIBE IT 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.000 AND DETAIL IT OUT, YOU SAY, WE CAN'T FIND, IT 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:03.000 NOBODY KNOWS. THAT IS WHAT I AM ARE 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:07.000 RUNNING INTO, I WENT 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:10.000 BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF SILC, IN 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.000 KANSAS AND SAID, WE DON'T REMEMBER, AND I 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.000 DID THE RESEARCH THROUGH THE KANSAS 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.000 ARCHIVES, AND WE GOTTEN DOWN 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.000 BE A 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:26.000 PREVISO, BUT NOT THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE. I HAVE TO 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:30.000 SAY, WE ARE WORKING ON IT, AND LOOK AND SEE IF WE CAN 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.000 FIND IT. IF NOT, OUR STATE WILL LOOK AT 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:37.000 WORKING WITH THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE TO EITHER GET 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.000 AN EXECUTIVE ORDER WHICH WOULD BE THE 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:43.000 EASIEST THING OR IF WE CAN HAVE IT, 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.000 AS A 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.000 STATE LAW, THE SILC IS HERE, AND THIS IS WHAT 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.000 THEY DO. YES, IF YOU DESCRIBE IT, MY 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:59.000 UNDERSTANDING IS, THAT SHOULD WORK. 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.000 >> ALL RIGHT. NEXT ONE IS AN 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.000 NON-ATTENDEE, WOULD YOU SAY 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:08.000 THAT THE SILC IS AN 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:12.000 INTERMEDIARY FOR THE CILS OR AND 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.000 AM I MISSING SOMETHING? >> KATHY COOPER: HUH 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:20.000 . AN INTERMEDIARY FOR THE CILS? 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.000 NO, I MEAN NO, THEY ARE NOT. 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.000 THE SILC, 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.000 THE SILC IS LIKE, 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:33.000 THE 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:36.000 UMBRELLA THAT CATCHES THE IL FOR 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:42.000 THE STATE. AND 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.000 THEIR PEERS WITH THE CENTERS AND PEERS WITH THE 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:52.000 DSE. AND JUST THE WHOLE 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.000 .... MEANING THAT IL GOALS FOR THE 00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:58.000 STATE IS WHAT THE SILC 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:02.000 TO MAKE SURE HAPPENS THROUGH THE DIFFERENT WAYS 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.000 , THE SPIL AND THE FORUMS 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.000 AND THE COMMUNITY INPUT. I GUESS I WOULD SAY NO 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:11.000 TO THE INTERMEDIARY PART, UNLESS I 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:14.000 DON'T UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION. BUT ASK 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:17.000 IT ANOTHER WAY IF I AM COMPLETELY 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:22.000 MISSING YOU HERE. >> THANK YOU. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:26.000 SO MICHAEL HAS ASKED 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:29.000 WHEN BOTH THE DSE, SILC 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:32.000 , PPR, AND THE CIL, 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.000 PPR IS DUE AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT DO YOU DO 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:38.000 TO HELP FACILITATING GETTING THE INFORMATION FROM THE 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.000 CILS IN TIME FOR THE DSE, SILC AND 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:44.000 PPR? 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:47.000 >> KATHY COOPER: IN KANSAS THE WAY 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.000 WE DO IT, WE HAVE TEN 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.000 CENTERS IN KANSAS, 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:58.000 SIX RECEIVE PART C, AND 4 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:01.000 FOUR PART B, SOCIAL SECURITY BUT NO PART 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:04.000 C. THE DSE REQUIRES THEN TO HAVE 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.000 THE PPR IN AT A CERTAIN POINT 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.000 . I ASKED THOSE, I ASKED ALL OF THE 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.000 CENTERS, ALL TEN, TO SEND 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:16.000 THE PPR. USUALLY EARLY 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:19.000 DECEMBER. AND 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.000 THE DSE IN THE STATE, 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:26.000 PUTS THE DATA ELEMENTS TOGETHER FOR THE 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:30.000 FOUR. AND THEN, IF THE OTHER 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:33.000 SIX SEND THEM THE PPR, THEY ADD THAT 00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.000 INFORMATION FOR THEM AS WELL. IT IS A VERY 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.000 NICE SPREADSHEET THAT COMES OUT. AND THEN, I 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:42.000 WORK WITH THE CENTERS A LOT AS IT IS, 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:46.000 BECAUSE WE HAVE SPIL WORK GROUPS. SO I HAVE 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.000 SO MUCH OF THE INFORMATION ALREADY, I AM NOT WAITING 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.000 FOR IT LAST MINUTE THROUGH THE 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:56.000 PPR. I HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:59.000 WITH THE CENTERS, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:02.000 GETTING THE PPR'S. 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.000 THEY ARE JUST DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER AND 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.000 OUR CENTERS ARE GOOD ABOUT GETTING THE 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:12.000 INFORMATION INTO US, ME, 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.000 AND THE DSE. AND SO 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:18.000 THEN THAT GIVES ME A FULL MONTH TO PUT THE 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:21.000 REST OF THE STATE 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:25.000 PPR TOGETHER WITH THE DSE. >> 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:31.000 OKAY. LET'S SEE, 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:34.000 DON FRANCIS, WE ASKED THE 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.000 PPR REPORT FOR SERVICES 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:41.000 PROVIDED BY THE CILS TO RAISE ADDITIONAL 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:44.000 RESOURCES FOR CILS. >> KATHY COOPER: YEAH, 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.000 THAT IS EXCELLENT. THAT IS WHAT 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.000 I HOPE PEOPLE ARE USING, PEOPLE ARE 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.000 USING THE PPR'S AND DOING SOME TYPE 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:56.000 OF, YOU KNOW, DATA 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.000 MINING WITH THEM. THROUGH THE ANNUAL 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.000 REPORT 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:06.000 OR SHOW WHY ADDITIONAL 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.000 FUNDS ARE NEED. AND THAT IS ANY 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:12.000 PIG OPINION TO WORK WITH THE SILC 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.000 AND PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION AND DO IT WILLINGLY 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:18.000 . 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:21.000 >> THERE IS AN NON- 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:24.000 ATTENDEE, WE HAD AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:27.000 ESTABLISH THE SILC. IT IS JUST ESTABLISHED. I'M NOT SURE WHAT 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.000 REGINA WANTS. IT IS 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:33.000 GOOD, WE DIDN'T HAVE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:37.000 AS LACK OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS ALLOWED US TO 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.000 BECOME A 501C3 THAT 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.000 WE COULDN'T DO UNDER STATE 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.000 LAW, HAD THERE BEEN 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:50.000 AN EXECUTIVE ORDER. >> KATHY COOPER: THIS IS MY 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.000 THOUGHTS ON THIS. I WOULD SET YOU UP A 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:56.000 TIME WITH 00:39:56.000 --> 00:40:00.000 REGINA. SHE WAS SUPER 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.000 RECEPTIVE TO THAT. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT. BUT 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:07.000 MY OPINION ON THIS, WOULD BE THAT 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.000 , WHAT SHE PROBABLY WANTS IS THE EXECUTIVE 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.000 ORDER NUMBER. AND 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.000 YOU KNOW, WHATEVER OTHER DETAIL YOU HAVE ON THE 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:19.000 EXECUTIVE ORDER. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THE EXECUTIVE ORDER 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.000 IT IS. IF YOU CAN GIVE HER THE EXECUTIVE 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.000 ORDER NUMBER, AND TITLE, THAT IS 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.000 PROBABLY WHAT SHE IS LOOKING FOR. IF SHE 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.000 WANTED TO LOOK IT UP, SHE CAN AND SEE WHAT IT SAID. I DON'T 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.000 THINK IT IS A BAD IDEA AGAIN IF IT IS NOT 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:38.000 A HUGE DETAILED EXECUTIVE ORDER 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.000 TO GO AND PUT IT IN. IT IS INTERESTING TO ME THAT 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:44.000 YOUR STATE WOULDN'T HAVE ALLOWED YOU TO BE 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:47.000 A 501C3 WITH THE EXECUTIVE 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:50.000 ORDER. THAT IS INTRIGUING TO ME. EVERY STATE IS 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:53.000 DIFFERENT. I TOTALLY GET THAT. I, MY 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:57.000 PERSONAL OPINION IS 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.000 501C3 HELPS THE 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.000 SILC BE AUTONOMOUS. SINCE I 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.000 WANT TO SAY 30 OR 40 PERCENT OF SILCS 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:10.000 ARE STILL NOT 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.000 501C3. IT IS WORKING, I KNOW IT 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.000 KANSAS, IT HELPED US WITH THAT. BUT, 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:19.000 AGAIN, I WOULD SAY, HOPEFULLY THAT HELPED 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:23.000 BUT DEFINITELY REACH OUT TO 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:26.000 REGINA. >> THERE IS A QUESTION FROM APRIL. WHAT 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:29.000 SECTION OUTLINES THE DSE 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:32.000 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE NETWORK AND SIGNING THE SPIL? 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:36.000 >> KATHY COOPER: LET ME 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:41.000 LOOK HERE, I DON'T HAVE IT MEMORY 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:44.000 IZED. THAT MEANS WE NEED TO 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:48.000 MAKE SURE, EVERYBODY IS FAMILIAR WITH THE SILC 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:52.000 INDICATORS AND IS A 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.000 ASSURANCES. 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.000 LET'S SEE, SECTION 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.000 , THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. I SHOULD HAVE HAD 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:05.000 THIS UP AND GOING. SO, LET'S SEE. 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:08.000 SECTION 706 IS THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:13.000 THE ADMINISTRATOR, THAT IS ACL. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:17.000 THE DSE IS KIND OF THROUGHOUT A 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:20.000 LOT OF CHAPTER ONE OF THE 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.000 REHAB ACT WHICH IS THE SECTION THAT 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:26.000 STARTS WITH THE 700'S. I WOULD 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.000 DEFINITELY HAVE YOU LOOK AT THAT, IT COULD BE 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.000 EARLIER UP. I DON'T WANT TO WASTE TOO MUCH TIME 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:36.000 TRYING TO FIND IT ON THE FLY. BUT IT COULD BE... 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:43.000 . 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:46.000 I WOULD SAY START WITH CHAPTER ONE, LOOK AT 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:49.000 SECTION 701 AND GO FROM THERE, 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:56.000 IT TALKS ABOUT THE PURPOSE. I AM 00:42:56.000 --> 00:43:00.000 PRETTY SURE THE DSE LANGUAGE IS THERE. LET 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:03.000 ME GET BACK TO THE ZOOM. THE 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:06.000 ASSURANCES, I HAVE IT 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:10.000 UP ON THE WALL. IT TALKS ABOUT THE 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:13.000 DESIGNATED STATE ENTITY AND WHAT THEY ARE 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:16.000 SUPPOSED TO DO. IN THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THAT IS, 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.000 WHENEVER THEY RECEIVE THE PART B MONEY FROM 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:22.000 THE FEDS AND IT COMES DOWN, NOTICE 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:26.000 A GRANT AWARD, THESE ASSURANCES ARE THERE 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:29.000 EVERY TIME. EVERY TIME THEY SIGN, IT THEY 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:32.000 SAY WE AGREE TO IT. IT IS 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.000 INTERESTING TO ME WHEN DSE'S STRUGGLE 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.000 WITH THAT, AND SAY WE DIDN'T KNOW, THE 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:41.000 ONLY ROLE IN THE STATE PLAN IS 00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.000 , SIGN IT, SAYING WE ARE 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.000 THE FISCAL AGENT OR WHATEVER. WELL IT 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:50.000 IS IN THAT. EVERY TIME THEY GET ONE OF THE AWARDS, 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.000 THEY SIGN THAT. YOU CAN ALWAYS 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.000 SEND IT BACK, AND SHOW THE ASSURANCES, I KNOW 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.000 ILU HAS A CALL, 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.000 THEY HAVE THE SILC CALL. THEY HAVE A 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.000 DSE CALL, I MAKE SURE THAT THE 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:10.000 DSE KNOWS, THAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:13.000 DSE IN KANSAS, 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.000 WE HAVE A NEW DIRECTOR, WE HAVE A COUPLE 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.000 NEW PROGRAM MANAGERS WHICH OVERSEES THE 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.000 GRANTS FOR IL. I DIRECT THEM 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:27.000 BACK AS A 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.000 N EXCELLENT RESOURCE. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.000 >> THERE IS ONE MORE QUESTION. EVA 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:37.000 SAYS THE NORTH CAROLINA SILC, WE OFFER UNDER A 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.000 GOVERNOR'S EXECUTIVE ORDER, THE NEW ORDER, WE 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:43.000 RECEIVED, REQUIRES THE SILC TO BE COMPOSED OF 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:46.000 60 PERCENT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:49.000 WHEN I ASKED ABOUT THIS, SPECIFICALLY, I WAS TOLD 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:52.000 THAT THE GOVERNOR COULD ASK FOR MORE 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:55.000 MAN THE REHAB ACT REQUIRES, I 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.000 DOESN'T DISAGREE BUT I AM CURIOUS THAT 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:01.000 GOVERNOR WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO REQUIRE? 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:09.000 >> KATHY COOPER: 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.000 YOU KNOW, I THINK THE NUMBER 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.000 ONE THING HERE, SILC, THE 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.000 STATES CAN 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.000 IMPOSE 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:25.000 DID ADDITIONAL 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.000 ASK AN ADDITIONAL 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.000 STUFF. OUT, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I EVER 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.000 SEEN A STATE REQUIRE MORE THAN 51 PERCENT. BUT 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.000 YOU KNOW, THAT IS, PROBABLY A GOOD 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.000 THING MAYBE. IT DEFINITELY, CAN GET 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:44.000 TRICKY WITH COMPLIANCE BUT 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.000 SHOULD STRIVE TO BE MORE THAN 51 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.000 PERCENT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:55.000 , THIS IS WHERE THE AUTONOMY COMES INTO 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:58.000 PLAY IN MY OPINION. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOUR 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000 STATE AND YOUR DSE UNDERSTANDS THAT SILC HAS 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.000 TO BE AUTONOMOUS FROM NOT ONLY THE STATE 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:07.000 BUT FROM EVERYBODY ELSE TOO. 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:12.000 HONESTLY, YOU ARE THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.000 , IT IS A STATEWIDE 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000 , TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STATEWIDE IL 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:21.000 GOALS ARE MET. IT IS HARD FOR THE STATE TO DO 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:26.000 THAT. THAT IS WHY SILCS WERE 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:29.000 CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY NEED THE WATCH 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.000 DOG FOR A LACK OF A BETTER TERM TO MAKE SURE 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:35.000 BUREAUCRACY DIDN'T TAKE OVER IN 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:39.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING, BUT, YEAH, I DON'T 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:42.000 KNOW ANYTHING SPECIFIC 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.000 A STATE CAN'T PUT IN THERE. 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.000 I AM SURE THERE ARE BUT I AM NOT AWARE OF IT. 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:53.000 OKAY. 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.000 >> ONE THING I DID SEE IN THE CHAT. 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.000 FROM THE NEVADA SILC. THEIR 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:04.000 EXECUTIVE ORDER STATES THEY CAN BE A 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.000 501C3 IF THEY CHOOSE. IT SHOWS YOU HOW 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:11.000 STATES ARE DIFFERENT. >> KATHY COOPER: YEAH. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.000 ABSOLUTELY. I KNOW THAT THERE IS A 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.000 SURVEY THAT HAS BEEN GOING AROUND, AND 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:20.000 IT IS TWO SILCS AND ASKED A LOT OF 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.000 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW IS YOUR SILC 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.000 COMPRISED. ARE YOU NON-PROFIT? WHAT KIND 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.000 OF FUNDING DO YOU RECEIVE. HOW MANY STAFF YOU HAVE. 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:34.000 HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY FILLED THAT OUT. WE CAN GET 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.000 GOOD INFORMATION FROM THAT. AND GOOD DATA. AND 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.000 YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF THINGS HELP US 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:43.000 IN THE LONG RUN BECAUSE THERE IS LOTS OF 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.000 TIMES WHEN I HAD SILCS 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:50.000 COME AND ASK ME OR WHEN I ASKED OTHER 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.000 SILCS HEY 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:56.000 DO YOU GUYS HAVE THIS OR HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS 00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:59.000 , OR SET UP IF WE HAVE THIS 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.000 GENERALLY GATHERED DATA, IT IS GOING TO BE HELPFUL. 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:05.000 THAT IS A LITTLE PLUG TO MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT THE SILC 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:10.000 SURVEY FROM 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.000 ILRU, IF YOU HAVEN'T. ANOTHER QUESTION 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:17.000 ? 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:20.000 OR JUST A 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:23.000 STATEMENT. >> FROM DON. IOWA 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.000 REQUIRES WE ARE REIMBURSED BY STATE 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.000 REGS AND DOESN'T ALLOW US TO USE THE FEDERAL 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.000 RATES. AND FEDERAL RATES IS AN ALLOWABLE USE 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:36.000 OF FEDERAL FUNDS. WE CAN 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.000 REIMBURSE OF STATE RATE 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:43.000 $0.39 PER MILE AND ADHERE AND 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:47.000 HOTELS AND EXAMPLES. >> KATHY COOPER: GOOD POINT AND KANSAS, 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.000 WE HAVE TO, WHEN WE GET THE GRANT, 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:53.000 ONE OF THE THINGS THEY PUT IN THERE, WE HAVE TO 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:56.000 FOLLOW THE KANSAS TRAVEL GUIDELINES FOR THE 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:59.000 EMPLOYEES. IT IS, 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.000 THEY HAVE CHANGED AND THEY FOLLOWED THE FEDERAL 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:05.000 GUIDELINES A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY NOW, 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:10.000 THAT IS NICE BECAUSE IT IS A HIGHER 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.000 MILEAGE RATE AND PER 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:16.000 DIEM RATE. IT IS HARD, YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THEIR 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.000 GUIDELINES BUT YOU DON'T GET THE BENEFITS 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:22.000 OF THEIR GUIDELINES, AND SPECIFICALLY I 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.000 MEAN, THEY TALK ABOUT RENTAL CAR 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:28.000 RATES OR, HOTEL ROOM RATES, 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:31.000 STUFF LIKE THAT. BUT THEY HAVE CONTRACTS WITH 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.000 SPECIFIC HOTELS OR 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:37.000 COMPANIES OR WHATEVER. AND SO THEY GET 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:41.000 A GOOD RATE. THEY GET THE STATE RATE 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:44.000 THEY HOLD EVERYBODY ELSE 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:47.000 ACCOUNTABLE TO. THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I SCHEDULE 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:51.000 BOARD MEETINGS WHEN 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:54.000 WE HAD IN-PERSON MEETINGS AND SET UP THE 00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:57.000 HOTEL ROOMS OR AT LEAST THE RESERVATIONS. 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.000 THE NEGOTIATION TO GET IT TO THE STATE RATE BECAUSE I 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.000 WASN'T A STATE ENTITY 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:07.000 WAS A LITTLE BIT FRUSTRATING. BUT, 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.000 IT IS NOT A PROBLEM WE HAVE HERE IN 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.000 2020. FOR THAT. BUT YEAH. 00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:21.000 GOOD POINT ON THAT. 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.000 SO, THE 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:28.000 INDICATORS AND ASSURANCES FOR 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.000 SILCS THESE ARE PRETTY NEW OVERALL BECAUSE YOU 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.000 KNOW, THE REHAB ACT HAS BEEN AROUND 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.000 FOREVER, SINCE 1994. 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:41.000 THIS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS, I THINK, 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:44.000 FIVE? SIX? MAYBE NOW. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:47.000 AND BUT THE INDICATORS AND ASSURANCES FOR 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:50.000 SILCS ARE FAIRLY NEW IN THAT TIMELINE. 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:53.000 BUT THEY ARE SUPER IMPORTANT FOR 00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:56.000 SILCS THIS HELPS 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:59.000 YOU TO BE COMPLIANTS, YOU 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:02.000 NEED TO KNOW THE INDICATORS AND ASSURANCE, YOU NEED TO 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.000 KNOW WHAT IS IN THE POLICIES, WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE, 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:08.000 SPECIFICALLY LIKE WHO CAN SIGN THE 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:11.000 SPIL. WE JUST 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:14.000 KNEW THAT AS A STATE BUT WE NEVER HAD IT 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:18.000 IN THE POLICY. I THOUGHT WE HAD 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:21.000 GOOD POLICIES AND BY-LAWS WHEN THE 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:25.000 INDICATORS AND ASSURANCES CAME OUT, I HAD TO 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:28.000 GO AND LOOK AT THE 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:31.000 POLICIES AND BY-LAWS AND TAKE A DETAILED 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.000 LOOK AND SAY DO WE HAVE THIS, DO WE HAVE THAT? WHEN 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:37.000 I WORK WITH SILCS, I GO 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.000 OVER THAT. BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES, THEY 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:44.000 DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING OR THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.000 THAT IT IS STALLED SO THEY HAVE A 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:51.000 DRAFT THAT HAS A LOT OF THIS STUFF. BUT THE 00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:54.000 ACTUAL BY-LAWS THAT ARE APPROVED DON'T 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:57.000 HAVE THAT. AND I KNOW WE ARE WAITING 00:51:57.000 --> 00:52:00.000 ON WHO IS GOING TO COME DOWN 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:03.000 AND AUDIT SILCS AND 00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:06.000 MAKE SURE THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT. IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:09.000 FAR AWAY, YOU NEVER KNOW. IT IS IMPORTANT 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.000 TO HAVE THAT, IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE COMPLIANT. 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.000 AND IT TRULY IS HELPFUL. IT 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:19.000 GIVES YOU A GUIDELINE HOW TO DO CERTAIN THINGS. BUT 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:22.000 PROBLEMLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.000 THAT IS THE DSE ASSURANCES, 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:29.000 YOU CAN THANK KANSAS FOR A LOT OF THAT. I 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.000 LOOK AT THE DSE ASSURANCES AND 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.000 THINK, THIS WAS A QUESTION OR PROBLEM OR 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:38.000 ISSUE THAT WE HAD IN KANSAS WITH OUR 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:41.000 DSE, WHAT I FELT IS 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.000 MICROMANAGING. AND I SEE 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.000 IT IN THE ASSURANCES NOW. AND I CAN REMEMBER 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:50.000 HAVING TO 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:54.000 HAVING SEVERAL CALLS WITH BOB WILLIAM, AND OTHER 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:57.000 PEOPLE AT 00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:00.000 ACL WHEN WE WERE STRUGGLING TO HAVE A 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:03.000 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DSE. AND YOU 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:06.000 KNOW, THESE, I AM SO 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:09.000 GRATEFUL FOR THE ASSURANCES. AND WHAT THEY 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:13.000 MEAN. AND I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:16.000 TO GO BACK TO THOSE. DON'T 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:19.000 HESITATE TO SEND IT. THERE ARE 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.000 DSE THAT SWITCH PEOPLE, THAT DON'T 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.000 HAVE THE HISTORY, RSA, IT IS 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:28.000 CHANGED NOW. AND YOU KNOW, IT IS JUST 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:34.000 , IT IS HARD FOR SOME OF THEM TO 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:39.000 NOT GOING BACK TO RSA AND 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:42.000 HOW IT WAS. USE THEM. IT IS HELPFUL. 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.000 I AM READY, WE HAVE A QUESTION DON 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:48.000 ? >> 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:51.000 IT IS, IT IS A FOLLOW 00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.000 -UP. BASICALLY. THE 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:57.000 VR DIRECTOR GIVES US A LETTER FOR THE 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.000 SILC AND CIL 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.000 MEMBERS TO AUTHORIZE US TO GET RATES 00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:06.000 AT THE HOTELS. ET CETERA. >> KATHY COOPER: THAT IS GREAT. 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000 THAT IS HELPFUL. THAT IS SUPER HELPFUL. THAT IS 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:14.000 A GOOD IDEA TOO. 00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:17.000 IF YOUR DIRECTOR, THE DSE 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:20.000 WILL DO, THAT THAT IS A GREAT IDEA. I'M NOT SURE 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.000 OURS WOULD. BUT, YEAH, THAT IS 00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:26.000 A WAY TO GET AROUND IT, AND NOT DEAL 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:35.000 WITH THE FRUSTRATIONS OF THAT. 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:39.000 YOU KNOW, I SAID THIS IS NOT LIKE THE EXCITING 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:42.000 PRESENTATION, BUT, 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.000 IT IS PRETTY BASIC STUFF. YOU NEED TO 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:48.000 KNOW IT. AND LIKE I SAID, 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:52.000 THOSE ARE, THERE ARE THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:57.000 LOOK AT. AND MARK THEM AND 00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:01.000 PRINT THEM. THE 45 CORRELATE, 00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:04.000 1329, AND 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:08.000 OF COURSE THE UNIFORM GUIDANCE AND THIS ONE, 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:11.000 THIS ONE IS THE WORSE ONE I THINK 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:20.000 . -- >> KATHY COOPER: TWO CFR 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:23.000 UNIFORM GUIDANCE, THIS IS ONE THAT SILCS DON'T 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.000 REALIZE THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW. BUT, IT IS HUGE 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:29.000 AND IT COVERS A LOT OF DIFFERENT 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:33.000 FEDERAL AWARDEES BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS, 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:38.000 BECAUSE THIS TELLS YOU WHAT YOUR ALLOWABLE 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:42.000 EXPENSES ARE. TELL YOU TO DO COST 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:45.000 PRINCIPALS AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS YOU ARE SUBJECTED TO, 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.000 IF YOU RECEIVE ANY TYPE OF FEDERAL AWARDS. IN 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:51.000 KANSAS, WE RECEIVE PART B AS 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:54.000 THE MAJORITY OF OUR FUNDING, 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:58.000 STATE JOURNAL FUNDS TOO. WE 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.000 FALL UNDER THAT BECAUSE OF THE PART B MONEY. 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.000 UNIFORM GUIDANCE TALKS ABOUT 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:08.000 LOBBYING AND THAT KIND OF STUFF TOO. IT IS REALLY, 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:11.000 HELPFUL TO HAVE ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:14.000 , BOY THAT IS THE WORST. IT IS HARD 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.000 TO GET THROUGH, AND THERE IS DIFFERENT SECTIONS BUT I 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:20.000 ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO THROUGH IT. AND LOOK AT IT 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:24.000 AT LEAST ONE, YOU WILL EAT UP A COUPLE 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:27.000 HOURS OF YOUR TIME. IT WILL 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:30.000 BENEFIT YOU, BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS WE DO, AS 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.000 SILC SOMETIMES THAT WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING. IF YOU LOOK 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:36.000 AT THE ALLOWABLE EXPENSES. ONE OF THE 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:41.000 FIRST QUESTIONS I HAD ON THAT WAS, 00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:45.000 IF WE COULD 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:48.000 THE LAWYER FOR OURSELVES BECAUSE WE ARE 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:51.000 IN SOME, AUDITING 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:54.000 CHALLENGES, WITH THE STATE, 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.000 AND WE DIDN'T AGREE WITH THEM. BUT IT TURNS OUT 00:56:57.000 --> 00:57:00.000 YOU CANNOT. YOU CAN HIRE A CONSULTANT AND 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.000 THAT IS DIFFERENT BUT YOU CAN'T HIRE A LAWYER TO LEGALLY 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:07.000 DEFEND YOU WITH THE PART B 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:11.000 FUND. IT IS STUFF LIKE THAT, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW, 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:17.000 AND IT IS IN THERE, IT IS GOOD TO HAVE. 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:20.000 AND I SEE, CARMEN 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:26.000 , WRITE THE THREE IMPORTANT SECTIONS 00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:29.000 SO YEAH. I WILL DO THAT BEFORE THIS ENDS. I 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:32.000 WILL WRITE DOWN THE 45 CFR, 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:35.000 THE TITLE SEVEN AND THE UNIFORM 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:39.000 GUIDANCE ON THAT. AND HOPEFULLY, THAT WILL 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:42.000 HELP. >> THERE IS A QUESTION, COULD YOU PUT 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:45.000 THOSE NUMBERS FOR THE CFR IN THE 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.000 CHAT PLEASE. 00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:53.000 IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CHAT, BROOK HAD PUT 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:57.000 1329-14 00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:01.000 , 15 AND 16. 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:04.000 WOULD THOSE BE THE SAME? >> KATHY COOPER: THESE ARE IT. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:08.000 THAT IS A, AND I KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:11.000 THESE AVAILABLE. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:24.000 I WILL DO IT REALLY QUICK. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.000 HOPEFULLY, THAT 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:31.000 MAKES, THE CODE OF REGULATIONS, 45 00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:34.000 CFR, 0.14, 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.000 15 AND 16. AND THE REHAB ACT 00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:40.000 IS TITLE 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:44.000 7 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:48.000 SEVEN CHAPTER ONE 00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:51.000 AND SECTION 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:54.000 705, SPECIFICALLY FOR THE SILC 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:57.000 AND OF COURSE, SECTION 704 00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:00.000 IS THE STATE PLAN. SECTION 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:03.000 725 IS ANOTHER REALLY GOOD ONE TO KNOW BECAUSE 00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:07.000 THAT IS WHAT YOUR CILS, CENTERS FOR 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:11.000 INDEPENDENT LIVING ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR. 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:14.000 AND THEN, UNIFORM 00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:18.000 GUIDANCE 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:22.000 IS JUST 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.000 2O0 CFR 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:29.000 , MAKE SURE I GOT IT RIGHT. 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:32.000 OR I SEE, I GOT IT WRONG. 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:36.000 TWO CFR, 200. IT IS 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:40.000 TWO CFR 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:43.000 200. AND YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE SECTIONS BECAUSE THERE IS A 00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:49.000 LOT. 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:52.000 HOPEFULLY, THAT HELPS. 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.000 THANK YOU BROOK FOR THE ADDITIONAL 00:59:55.000 --> 01:00:02.000 THINGS IN THERE. 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:05.000 YEAH, ILRU HAS A 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:08.000 TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TRAINING ON THIS, AND THERE IS A 01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:12.000 LOT. THERE IS A LOT. YOU CAN GO UNDER THE 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:15.000 SILCS AND DO A SEARCH FOR IT. AND 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:18.000 YOU KNOW, ANY TYPE OF TRAINING, YOU 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:21.000 PRETTY MUCH GO BACK TO THE 45 CFR OR THE 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:26.000 TWO CFR 200. AND 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:29.000 IT IS JUST WHAT EVERYTHING 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:37.000 FALLS UNDER, IT IS GOOD TO KNOW. 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:40.000 I THINK THAT IS ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU GUYS, I 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:43.000 APPRECIATE IT, WE ARE ENDING A LITTLE BIT EARLY. SO 01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:46.000 , IF YOU HAVE ANYMORE QUESTIONS, GO 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:49.000 AND THROW IT UP. I APPRECIATE IT. 01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:57.000 AND HOPEFULLY, YOU GOT SOMETHING OUT OF THIS. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:00.000 >> THIS IS DON, I WOULD LIKE TO 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:03.000 THANK YOU KATHY, IT IS A VERY INFORMATIVE 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:11.000 PRESENTATION AND IT IS IMPORTANT ALSO. 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:14.000 AND I DO WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE TO 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.000 PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEYS NOT ONLY FOR 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:20.000 THIS WORKSHOP BUT FOR ALL OF THEM 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:23.000 . AND THERE WILL BE RECORDINGINGS OF 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:26.000 THIS, AND FOR EVERY 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:32.000 WORKSHOP ALSO. ANYBODY HAVE A QUESTION? 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:35.000 YOUR QUESTION WAS ANSWERED. COOL. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:38.000 >> KATHY COOPER: I CAN GO 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:41.000 AHEAD, DON YOU ARE FACILITATING THIS SILC 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:44.000 PEER SUPPORT SESSION ON THURSDAY, CORRECT? 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.000 >> I AM. YES. >> KATHY COOPER: THAT IS A 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:51.000 GOOD ONE FOR SILCS TO GO TO AS WELL. 01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:54.000 LAST YEAR, IT WAS 01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:57.000 SETUP WHERE SILCS ASK QUESTIONS 01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.000 ON HOW OTHER STATESES ARE DOING IT. OR 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:03.000 THEY HAVE AN ISSUE, WHAT OTHER 01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:07.000 SILCS HAVE DONE TO GET THROUGH IT 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:10.000 . THAT IS SUPER HELPFUL. AND 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:13.000 I THINK IT IS GOOD ABOUT SILC CONGRESS, IT 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:17.000 HAS THE NETWORKING FEEL WHEN YOU ARE 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:20.000 ABLE TO ASK A QUESTION. YOU KNOW, 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:23.000 WE HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DSE NOW IN 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:26.000 KANSAS, BUT WE DID NOT FOR QUITE A 01:02:26.000 --> 01:02:31.000 LONG TIME. AND I REMEMBER JUST SAYING, 01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:34.000 HOW DO YOU DO THAT. PEOPLE WILL SAY, 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:37.000 YOU GOT TO HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. YOU HAVE TO BUILD THAT 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:40.000 RELATIONSHIP. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? SOME POINT, 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.000 YOU CAN TRY ALL YOU WANT. BUT IF THAT 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:48.000 DSE IS NOT GOING TO WORK WITH YOU, THERE ARE OTHER 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:51.000 THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO. IT IS NOT ABOUT 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:55.000 BUILDING A GOOD 01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:58.000 RELATIONSHIP PER SE, IT IS GOING TO 01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:01.000 ACL OR SAYING, 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:04.000 STEP IN, I NEED HELP. THAT 01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:07.000 IS WHAT I TELL PEOPLE. THESE KIND, THE 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:10.000 PEER SESSIONS, THE SUPPORT SESSIONS, 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:13.000 STUFF LIKE, THAT THESE ARE PERFECT FOR THAT. YOU CAN 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:17.000 GET DOWN TO EARTH ANSWERS ON 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.000 DIFFICULT THINGS AND SITUATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:23.000 HAVING AND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO SOLVE THEM. 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:27.000 I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO DO THAT. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.000 >> I AGREE, AND I THINK IT WILL BE FUN 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:34.000 TOO. 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:37.000 IF PEOPLE TALK. YOU KNOW. >> KATHY COOPER: 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:40.000 YEAH. AND IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY PUT ON 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:43.000 HERE, IT WILL BE A MEETING 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:46.000 FORMAT NOT A WEBINAR FORMAT. UP 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:49.000 SEE EACH OTHER'S FACES. 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:52.000 >> THERE HAS BEEN A LOT THAT HAS HAPPENED 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:55.000 IN PAST YEAR, IT WILL BE GOOD TO 01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:58.000 LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO GO THROUGH 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:01.000 THAT. ALSO. >> KATHY COOPER: 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:06.000 ABSOLUTELY. >> THE WHOLE SPIL THING. 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:09.000 >> KATHY COOPER: YEAH. THAT MIGHT BE, A 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:15.000 TALKING POINT OR 2. 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:18.000 TWO. >> JUST SAYING. >> KATHY COOPER: THAT IS AN 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.000 INTERESTING THING TO DEAL WITH. I 01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:24.000 PANICKED WHEN I GOT MY LETTER BACK. BUT AFTER GOING 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:27.000 THROUGH IT, TALKING WITH 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:30.000 REGINA, I FEEL A LOT 01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:33.000 BETTER. IT IS NOT AS BIG ISSUES 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:36.000 AS I THOUGHT. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO REACH OUT TO 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:39.000 REGINA. IF 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:43.000 YOU ARE ONE OF THE STATES THAT DIDN'T, 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:46.000 KUDOS, YOU SHOULD BE UP 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:49.000 HERE, IN THE PRESENTATION 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:53.000 SAYING HOW TO DO SPILS. 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:56.000 >> IT IS GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU KATHY. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:01.000 THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU TO THE INTERPRETERS, 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:05.000 INTERPRETER AND THE CAPTIONER. WE NEED ONE 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:09.000 INTERPRETER, THAT IS ALWAYS NICE. 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:13.000 >> KATHY COOPER: THANK YOU GUYS.