Announcements:
Bob Mattice joined the meeting
. Glenda asked if we should contact anyone about the WiSACWIS confidentiality draft and offer our assistance. Randi will do that.
Randi announced that Kathy G. has offered to be Treasurer next board year. Laurie Eckert-Trapp has agreed to be President-Elect. Chris is looking for someone to be Secretary – please contact Chris if you are interested.

Conference Site:
Contract for 2004 Conference at Kalahari will be signed shortly.
Discussion on how to determine location of conference sites in the future
After discussion, vote was taken and Board approved having a joint conference with the WJOA in 2005

Division of Juvenile Corrections Report – Pam Eitland :
The institution numbers continue to decrease.
There will be 18 less people in Central Office due to budget cuts. All changes need to be done by May 3rd. SPRITE will be run by an off-site manager at Ethan Allen School.
The board thanked Pam for the excellent job she’s done as liaison, and we expressed our hope that she will be able to continue with us.

Committee Reports

Conference Committee – Dale L.
Dale reported that things are going well – contacts are coming back. They are still looking for 2-3 breakouts.
Suggestions for breakouts: Baby Think It Over program, testifying techniques, Statewide Venue document, round-table on problem-solving, Creative Dispositions The keynote speaker is locked. He is Ron Glodoski. He is doing the whole first day.

Newsletter Committee – Kay.
Articles for the next Prima Facie are due May 2.
Discussion of conference brochures. Will decide on number to have printed after mailing list is assembled.

Curriculum Comm. – Gary.
The Practical Applications Training is set. Brochures are out, and folders are being put together for participants. The committee added a disclaimer to the packet. 41 participants are signed up for Wausau and 18 for Madison thus far.

Committee on Position Statements and Mission – Dave for Fred.
The committee reviewed the current Statements of Philosophy.
There was some discussion in the committee regarding Consolidation of Services and the Effect on Juvenile Court Intake Services. This will be discussed further at their next committee meeting.

Nominations Comm. – Matt.
Currently all Board plan on running for reelection.

Membership Comm. – Laurie Eckert-Trapp.
WJCIA currently have 228 members. There are only four counties with no representation in the Assn. J.

Manual Comm. - Darren
The committee has gone through all 12 chapters in the Desktop Guide. At the May meeting they will come to the board with recommendations regarding what should happen with the Desktop Guide information, and how to make it specific to WI.
The committee also discussed changing their name to “Resource Committee” or possibly joining with the Information and Technology Committee. They feel the website is a more efficient way than a manual to get the information out to members.

Forms Comm. – Laurie N
Regarding the Consent Decree form, the State committee is wondering why we need the “No violations of state, federal law….., etc.” wording. Laurie will fill them in.
Regarding the rights form: there are 2 forms out there and the committee wants just one.
Regarding the Waiver of Participation form, there are numerous drafts being worked on.
There was a request from Eau Claire County to make an addition to the Notice of Satisfaction of DPA form. They’d like to add a place for signature of social worker/ caseworker in addition to the signature for intake worker.
Laurie Eckert-Trapp furnished Laurie N. with the Hmong version of the rights form. Laurie N. discovered that Milwaukee County’s rights form isn’t the same as the rest of us use.
There was some discussion about the origins of the Forms Committee.

Legislative Comm. – Tom
Sen. Ron Brown and Sen. Dave Zien will co-sponsor our bill on threats to social workers/ families.

Training Comm. – Marilyn
Marilyn reported that we will get the $25,600 contract for providing basic training for the 2003-2004 year.
Next training is 4/28/03-5/2/03 in Wausau. Then June 9-June 13 in Eau Claire.
Marilyn then announced that the 2003-2004 board year will be Marilyn’s last year to chair the Training Committee.

Information Technology Committee – Chris/Fran
The committee has decided to offer a one-year contract to Dave Bauer. There will be a provision that if we are dissatisfied, we can get out of the contract.
Fran then reviewed a handout she gave us regarding additional information that we could put on the site, and asked for board assistance in getting that information to her.
It is hoped that as of May 1st, we will be at wjcia.org.
There will be a Q & A section. There is a disclaimer on that section.

Special Assignments

WCCF.
The Dept. of Mental Health person reported that they are consolidating – Disabilities and DD are merging. The Bureau of Mental Health and Bureau of AODA are merging. Northern Center is closing.

Statewide Venue
The final draft is on our website. There is hope that the directors will sign it at their May conference.

Unfinished Business

Executive Committee Meeting
The Executive Committee met in Black River Falls on 3/13/03. Kathy G. passed out a rough draft of a budget format that the committee would like all committees to use. Dave reviewed the history of why it was decided to do this. The Exec. Comm. decided there were two ways to go about doing the budget. One way is to set a figure each year for board/committee expenses and committee chairs would have to fit their budget within that. Another way would be to ask the committee chairpersons what they need and then go from there. Someone suggested that we will also eventually have to look at what the counties are “donating” in terms of copies, printing, etc. All the chairpersons have until the June meeting to submit a proposed budget for next year.