State of Oklahoma
Commission for Rehabilitation Services
Department of Rehabilitation Services
State Office, 3535 NW 58th Street, 2nd Floor
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73112
Monday, January 11, 2010, 10:00 am
Approved Minutes from the
Regular Meeting
Agenda
1.
Call to Order and Roll Call
Commissioner White
PRESENT
Commissioner Ben White
Commissioner Ray Kirk
Commissioner Steve Shelton
PRESENT FOR THE DEPARTMENT
Marla Baker, Joanie Batty, Larry Bishop, Rosemarie Chitwood, David Couch, Hope Crumley, Goli Dunkle, Karen Dunn, Lori Estep, Melinda Fruendt, Cheryl Gray, Jody Harlan, Larry Hawkins, Susan Hawkins, Jean Jones, Ray Leard, Jane Nelson, Mike O’Brien, Rick Olderbak, Kathleen Reed, Linda Santin, Kevin Statham, Sandra Stokes, Dana Tallon, Ray Turner, Noel Tyler, Randy Weaver, Jonathan Woodward.
OTHERS PRESENT
Theresa Hamrick, ORC; Rene Ryan, TSHA; Stella Church, Secretary for Howard Hendricks
INTERPRETERS
Hazel Lucas
Tonya Puryear
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by Commissioner White, Commission Chair. Commission Assistant, Kathleen Reed, called the roll.
All Commissioners being present, a quorum was declared by the Chair.
2.
Statement of Compliance with Open Meeting Act
Commission Assistant
Ms. Kathleen Reed, Commission Assistant, confirmed the Commission for Rehabilitation Services is in compliance with the Open Meeting Act.
3.
Introduction of Guests
Commissioner White
David Couch introduced the New Civil Rights Administrator: Kara Marrow. The Commissioners welcomed Ms. Marrow.
4.
Public Comments
Commissioner White
Being none the meeting moved to reports
Report Items
5.
Report from the Director
Mike O’Brien, Ed.D.
Budget Reductions
Director O’Brien reported 5% budget cuts have been taken each month since June 2009. In December, 2009, the budget reduction was 10%, and there will likely be another 10% reduction for the month of January, 2010, although that has not yet been requested. However, in the Social Service Cabinet meeting, agency directors were advised to expect 10% reductions per month through the remainder of the fiscal year. For June ,2010, the reduction may be as high as 17%. Director O’Brien and Cheryl Gray, DRS CFO, have been working on the budget to assure that everything remains okay.
The Status at this time:
- Disability Determination Division (DDD), because it is 100 % federal funding, has new money coming in and new employees being hired. The new 25,000 square foot building has been approved, Central Services has signed off on it, contracts have been signed, and the building will be built right next to the existing facility with additional parking. Funding is not an issue for DDD.
- Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) and Visual Services (VS) Divisions have the carryover which will allow for the priority groups to remain open and major staff positions to remain unchanged at this time. DRS will likely return federal funding in the amount of $3.8 million. However, the large carryover will allow the agency to be okay and be able to manage the current fiscal crisis that DRS and many other state agencies are facing. The Stimulus Funding also helps with some protection that the agency would not have had otherwise. VR and VS will be fine through the summer at least, and we will know more as we go along. The 3.8% Cost of Living Allocation will not be forthcoming, because of the budget reductions and the agency’s ability to be fully matched and the State will not be able to come up with the difference due to the severity of the budget reductions.
- The Oklahoma School for the Blind (OSB) and the Oklahoma School for the Deaf (OSD), because they are 100% state funded, and because neither received any Stimulus Funding, will have much tighter budgets. Primary ways to help manage their tight budgets are to not fill vacant positions, to use lapsed salary funds from last year, and the transportation funding allocated for the new OSD bus. The bus allocation will be used as part of what is going to be returned so that staff positions will not be forfeited. At OSD one dormitory has already been closed in order to manage things more effectively. At 10% budget reductions issues are very dramatic at both schools. Due to the retirement of the OSB Superintendent, Larry Hawkins, OSD Superintendent, will be taking on the additional duties as Acting Superintendent at OSB through the end of the school year. The agency will be looking at administrative and management positions and the structure at both schools to see how things are going to be managed. For example: a 10% reduction for an entire year at OSB is the equivalent of over $600,000 and even more at OSD. So Director O’Brien is looking at how to manage the funds successfully and make sure both schools remain good schools that are accredited with quality teachers and that they remain intact. But it will require a review of management positions and how they are structured, and it may cause some vacated positions to remain vacant.
- Superintendent Hawkins has been working diligently with Director O’Brien to ensure that programs at both schools are viable and running efficiently. Even so, because the schools are 100% state funded they will face the greatest risk and it will take great discussion with the legislators to make sure they understand the impact of these budget reductions.
Commission comments:
Commissioner White: Are any of the special requested items going to be funded?
Director O’Brien: When the proposed budget for FY 2011 was presented, one of the House Representatives asked why DRS even asked for anything. Director O’Brien does not feel DRS will receive funding for anything on that special request list. DRS has been looking at the potential of getting bond issues for the schools, but he does not know if it will make it into this legislative session or if it will have to wait for the next fiscal year. Through May is going to be a real belt tightening experience at both schools to make sure they can begin the next school year thriving. Ultimately the Department of Education(DOE) has to step up at some point and assure DRS gets special education money and that DRS gets the actual funding tied to the kids DRS is serving as opposed to the limited funding DRS is currently getting from DOE.
VR/VS Performance Report
A written Vocational Rehabilitation Report is available on pages 1 and 2 of the January 2010 Commission packet. Director O’Brien reviewed these sample reports, a column for cost per case will be added, among other statistics. They are categorized by unit.
Page 1 is since May 7, 2009, when the meeting of the implication of Stimulus Funds took place. Page 2 reports what was done since the administrative year began on October 1, 2009, this is based on the federal fiscal year.
Page 2 - shows 2,229 applications since the beginning of the year. There are 1,818 eligibility decisions; 1,289 written plans, this shows there is movement with applications and eligibility. The disconcerting side is that there are only 265 closures, which means DRS is still struggling with not getting enough people put to work and not having enough people in closures. This is one of the things that DRS is obviously continuously dealing with in supervision issues, and monitoring and keeping in touch with supervisors about.
Commission Comments:
Commissioner Shelton: Regarding the closures, is there any way to measure the quality of the closures? Is there any way that can be reflected? Is it relevant to the VR program?
Director O’Brien: At this point there is not a way to measure the quality of the closures.
It is relevant, because DRS wants people to have jobs to position them to become independent, we don’t want a whole bunch of minimum wage, minimum lifestyle jobs.
One of the federal measures is the average DRS VR clients wage compared to the state’s average wage. Oklahoma has consistently been in the top ten in that DRS client’s jobs tend to be as good as, or better than, on an average the state’s average wage. What has been the challenge is that DRS is dramatically down on closures. Given what we have today, VR is ahead of last year’s plans and applications numbers but behind of last year’s numbers in closures. David Couch, current acting VR Division Supervisor, and Jane Nelson, VS Division Supervisor, have been asked by Director O’Brien to put their focus intensely on getting jobs. This has got to be the number one priority.
Commissioner White: With the economy the way it is today, to expect DRS to have a higher percentage of closures is not being very realistic. In defense of DRS, when the President of the United States and the Federal Congress and the Governor of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Legislators have not been able to do things to create jobs, to expect the people in an agency like DRS to perform significantly better is not a reasonable expectation.
The economy, with regard to the job market in rural communities, is probably not better than it is in metropolitan communities. Therefore, the plans would not be the same – ten plans in metro Oklahoma would have a better chance of closure than ten plans in rural Oklahoma.
Director O’Brien: Historically DRS rural offices have placed more clients in rural jobs than metropolitan area jobs. The top ten DRS counselors were all rural or suburban. DRS can not fail these indicators two years in a row. If that happens DRS will have to accept guidance from the federal government on how to repair the problem and Director O’Brien is not prepared to do that. There are things in the agency’s favor, the Stimulus Funding and the ability to do on-the-job training, the addition of some 50 Galt workers to help with job placement, the additional Job Club Training that has been initiated and the additional training DRS is bringing in. The fact that DRS can give money to employers to hire DRS clients, has to affect the agency’s behavior and the behavior of employers by offering them marketable, job ready people. Oklahoma’s economy, however rough it currently is, is still better than the economy of other states.
Commissioner White: DRS cannot quit trying just because the budget is being reduced. However, the federal government is asking why this agency cannot do better without taking a look at themselves. If the federal agencies were doing better so would the state agencies.
Director O’Brien: Certain requests have been made with the feds. He has already met with the new Federal Commissioner, and the Executive Committee for State Directors to work specifically on some of these issues. However, any decisions will not have any impact on this fiscal year. DRS is going to have to move forward with what we have facing us.
Commissioner Kirk: the VR Statistics reports are great in that they show which counselors are performing and which are not, then the Programs Managers can look into the numbers and find out why.
Director O’Brien: That is exactly right, and that is why the agency has instituted all of the DRS managers looking at all of this data on a regular basis. That is why Director O’Brien monitors the report every Friday, so that he has a pretty thorough understanding, clear to the individual counselor basis across the state as to what their performance is. PMP’s for counselors and supervisors this year now have a new individual performance accountability closure requirement.
Director O’Brien further reported: Last March some fairly dramatic changes were implemented in VR and VS and in the Executive Team in creating some new teams to do some new and different tasks. The Cold Case Unit, the Social Security Unit, Innovations Unit, and Executive Team were created. Director O’Brien has decided to report on each of these units to bring the Commission up-to-date on what has been done in each of these units and what the future plans are for each.
- The Cold Case Unit, under the supervision of Jason Price, was instituted to help the agency with what are essentially lost cases. Every public rehabilitation agency has those cases that for some reason the client and the counselor become disconnected. Every year it ends up being, nationwide, thousands of those cases and directors across the country try to figure out how to deal with these cases in some consistent way. The DRS Cold Case Unit has been running about six months with four staff people and their responsibility is to follow up on any individual case that has not had a contact in six months or more. or any case in which the counselor asks for help to find the client. Their report shows that there are three tasks they are expected to do.
- They are asked to find the case, and if there is a potential successfully closure on it, get the successful closure managed and back to the counselor so the counselor can get the credit.
- If there is a problem with the case they want to get the case reactivated, rejuvenated and set up with a counselor so that it is moving forward.
- If it really needs to be closed because there is no further forward movement, then the unit staff member closes it, and have that part of their statistics.
In six months this unit has found 51 “Code Twenty-six” closures that were lost and returned to the counselors and were developed as part of DRS records. They reactivated, rejuvenated, and re-referred 147 cases that had been lost and were not on placement. They closed 89 cases that were clear there was no further movement. These are both VR and VS cases.
The four staff members spend a lot of time on the phone trying to make contact with these clients, and even visiting face to face at the client’s home. This is a very positive outcome.
OTOD Program at OSD:
Larry Hawkins, OSD Superintendent, and Hope Crumley, VR Programs Manager, have been working diligently to revise the OTOD Program. They actually have the program ready to officially begin on January 15, 2010 with a new design of three different levels of participation. Everyone is confident that the new design is within the rules, and will be a successful model as well. They created a work trial level, a work adjustment level, and a work study level and they managed to work the external payment component so that it is legal. Accolades to Larry and Hope for sticking with this task and having what looks like a successful outcome.
Commission Comments:
Commissioner White: Local employers have input into this?
Director O’Brien: They have been in contact, however, because it is difficult for them to work the payments, we are going through Galt and TSHA as potential payers to do these other activities.
Commissioner Shelton: Regarding job closures and quality of jobs.
Commissioner Shelton understands that the agency should not pass on a closure because it is not of high enough quality. However, he would like the agency to make sure that counselors are not taking an easy closer over a more difficult closure to get a higher quality job. He would like to see something on the submitted report i.e.: Average salary per placement so the quality of the job can be seen. This is a concern of Commissioner Shelton’s because sometimes the path of least resistance is taken.
Director O’Brien: This is something that can be added to this report. He will be trying to work on a report that will give the statistic of the overall status of each case. Historically, this has been Oklahoma’s highest area of performance. That’s where DRS, even though there may not have been as many closures as required, has had a higher quality of closure in terms of income as it relates to the state’s average wages.
DRS Annual Report
Director O’Brien distributed the new pictures taken of himself and the Commissioners for the Annual Report which is in the process of being completed. Jody Harlan, PIO, and her staff are responsible for the pictures and the completion of the Annual Report.
Change of DRS Business Logo
Director O’Brien shared that the agency is in the process of updating it’s business logo with a new design and new colors. Several proofs have gone to the Executive Team for their input and selection. The final designs will be submitted to the Commission for review and comments. A verbal description will be presented to Commissioner Shelton for his review.
6.
Financial report as of November 30, 2009
Cheryl Gray,
Chief Financial Officer
The written Financial Status Report for FY 2010 begins on page 3 of the January 2010 Commission Meeting packet . Ms. Gray reviewed the All Programs Agency Summary as of November 30, 2009 which is on page 3. She explained that the numbers do include the budget revision and reflects the 5% reduction for June.
- Total Budget for the agency is $136,702,714.00
- Expenditures Year to Date are $40,849,995.78
- Percentage Expended is 29.9%
- Total Encumbrances are $85,883,920.10
- Percentage of the Budget used as of end of November 92.7%
- The previous month percentage of budget used was 92.1%.
The percentage of the budget used will not change a lot in the next months as the additional budget revisions are submitted.
Commission Comments:
Commissioner Shelton: As the budget cuts are taken it, it will be reflected in the budget revisions, so when comparing the actual budget to the expenses, it’s always going to be around 90 – 95%. So as the budget reductions become 10%, that should actually see the 92% creep down to 90%. Is the 92% from the adjusted budget?
Ms. Gray: Yes, because it is reflected in the total budget. When the budget revisions are done, the actual budget is reduced. So an additional 5% reduction will be reflected in the December budget report.
Commissioner White: Requested a comparison of the original budget and a current performance level with the new revised budgets.
Packet document (opens in a new window):
Financial Status Report November 2009
7.
Report from Management Services Division
Goli Dunkle,
MSD Administrator
MANAGEMENT SERVICES DIVISION REPORT– Joannie Batty, HR
Ms. Batty reviewed the written Personnel Activity Report which is available in the January 2010 Commission packet beginning on page 10 with the Activity Summary on page 15.
Director O’Brien explained that the length of time to fill a position will take longer due to budget revisions.
Commission Comments:
Commissioner White: Requested that positions that are vacant and at this time are not going to be filled due to budget revisions be designated with an asterisk.
Packet document (opens in a new window):
Personnel Activity Report
8.
Grant Writing and Revenue Development Report
Larry Bishop,
Development Officer
Larry Bishop is the new DRS Grant Writer, the first few months into this new position have basically be preparatory. He has been familiarizing himself with the available funds that might be coming down through the pipes. He has met with the Division Administrators and Schools Superintendent to assess the agency needs beyond those in the Budget Requests, and planning the approach toward obtaining additional funds outside of the appropriations process. His position as DRS Grant Writer will have circumstances that will have Mr. Bishop writing grants on his own exclusively, however, it will also partner him with staff from either of the DRS schools, the library staff, and/or field operations or other divisions. He has recently completed a Federal Research Grant application in cooperation with the DRS Transition coordinators. A sample of this grant was distributed to the Commissioners for review. Mr. Bishop explained the grant writing process. Further grant funding is being researched and opportunities are available. Since 2008, the philanthropic donors have decreased due to the economic changes. Beginning next year Mr. Bishop will actively begin searching and making plans for Memorial gifts and Plan Giving to the schools and/or the library on a long term basis.
Commission Comments:
Commissioner Kirk: Commented that donations come into the schools and OLBPH on a monthly basis so there must be funding out there. The commission does want to keep abreast of the status of grant and philanthropic funding.
Mr. Bishop: He will provide the Commission with a quarterly report regarding the progress of the grant writing tasks.
Commissioner White: First, what the economy is going through right now is very similar to the economic environment in 2001 following the 9/11 event. People are very cautious about when and where they are making their investments. Secondly, a grant can help to displace some of the expenditures the agency would normally have, it would be to the agency’s advantage to partner with other agencies who are not quite as vulnerable as the agency is to the legislature in that regard. If they are able to quantify dollars the agency would have spent as part of the budget, and compare that with the dollars obtained through a source grant or research project, DRS may have to carve out some portion of the budget when it comes to the legislature.
Ms. Bishop: The legislature does not want to discourage charitable giving or supplanting income, because they know this revenue is not on-going, long term.
9.
ABLE Tech Annual Report on Utilization of
State Appropriations Contract
Linda Jaco,
Director of Sponsored Programs,
OSU Seretean Wellness Cntr
A written ABLE Tech Year End Report is available beginning on Page 16 of the January Commission packet. Ms. Jaco explained that her position as Director of Sponsored Programs includes the partnering with a number of different programs including the Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council, AgriAbillity, and Able Tech. This report is based on the State Fiscal Year from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. She shared the contractual details about contractual application that Oklahoma Able Tech has with the Department of Rehabilitation Services as a result of some legislative moneys that are received annually from the Oklahoma Legislature. Ms. Jaco reviewed the submitted reports. Ms. Jaco also presented the Workforce Center Accessibility Initiative available on page 21 of the January 2010 Commission Packet. Oklahoma is second in the nation regarding national rankings.
Commission Comments:
Commissioner White: asked Ms. Jaco to explain the difference between non-guaranteed loan and a guaranteed loan.(as depicted in this report)
Ms. Jaco: a non-guaranteed load – the bank takes the risk of making this loan. A guaranteed loan – if a person does not qualify for guaranteed loan, then Oklahoma Assistive Technology guarantees the payback of this loan, the bank has no risk on this loan.
Commissioner White: Congratulated Ms. Jaco for the national ranking and asked what would be the goal or success level to make the program better.(I.e.: more loans, larger loans).
Ms. Jaco: There will be no fusion of new federal dollars. This program was started in 1989 and the last federal dollars provided was in 2005. The Assistive Technology program is a mandated program. Oklahoma strives to keep this a low overhead, low cost budget program to maintain. This program does not have a great infusion of federal dollars. Right now there is a 1% default rate, and we are striving to keep it at this rate.
Commissioner White: The commissioners are proud that the agency is in partnership with this program. He thanked Ms. Jaco for her report.
Packet document (opens in a new window):
Able Tech Report
10.
Report from the Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council
Teresa Hamrick,
ORC Programs Manager
Ms. Hamrick reviewed the written ORC report for the month of December 2009, is available on page 22 of the January 2010 Commission Packet. Commissioner White thanked Ms. Hamrick for her report.
Packet document (opens in a new window):
Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council Report
11.
Review and discussion of Proposed Policy changes:
DRS Policy Chapter 1 – Administrative Operations
DRS Policy Chapter 3 – Management Services Division
DRS Policy Chapter 5 – Financial Services Division
DRS Policy Chapter 10 – Vocational Rehabilitation & Visual Services
DRS Policy Chapter 20 – Special Schools
Sandra Stokes,
PDPS Supervisor
The Action Items for Second Review of the proposed policy changes begins on page 23, the Executive Summary begins on page 25, and the proposed policy changes beginning on page 30, of the January 2010 Commission packet. The108 proposed policy changes, these proposals are returning for a second review, along with DRS Rules Reports for each policy change. There will be no action, these proposed policy changes will go before the public in February,2010, and return to the Commission in March,2010, for final review/discussion with possible vote of approval/adoption. Ms. Stokes reviewed the Action Items on page 23 and asked for any discussion/questions.
DRS Policy Chapter 1 – Administrative Operations
DRS Policy Chapter 3 – Management Services Division
DRS Policy Chapter 5 – Financial Services Division
DRS Policy Chapter 10 – Vocational Rehabilitation & Visual Services
DRS Policy Chapter 20 – Special Schools
Commission comments:
Commissioner White: wants to be sure that any portion of DRS policy can be easily accessed by the average person. He wants to be assured that in the process of streamlining policy it will not be more difficult for counselors or other staff to find answers to questions that may come before them frequently.
Ms. Stokes: Yes, there is confidence that the average person will be able to navigate to the policy they are referencing. There are “Instructions to Staff” and guiding links, also the PDPS unit is in place as a resource to help anyone from the field with accessibility needs.
Commissioner White: regarding 612-1-7-163 On-the-job training.This document says “the employer must be willing to consider the client for any open position, full or part time, after the initial training period.” Is there an agreement with the employer that says that they understand and agree to this?
Director O’Brien: There are two separate agreements the agency utilizes with employers, they are not contractual, but they are a signed agreement between the employer and the agency. One is for jobs under $2,500, the other is for jobs over $2,500, in the agreement it especially says that. They are used depending on the type of compensation to the client.
Commissioner White: Please explain the difference between 612:10-7-1639(b5) and 612:10-7-163 (b6).
Director O’Brien: (b5) pertains to the actual development when the client is learning specific skills; (b6) says that after developing those specific skills, if the employer has an opening they will try to hire the client.
Commissioner White: The Re-engineering Group Summary explanations stopped on Page 229.
Ms. Stokes: That is because DRS:3-7-13 begins Financial Services revisions. At the beginning of each policy section PDPS has included a DRS Rule Report form that summarizes the proposed change.
Commissioner White thanked Ms. Stokes for her patience with all the questions. He also thanked Jean Jones for forwarding the Reengineering document as a reference. It made reviewing of the items easier.
Packet documents (opens in a new window):
Answers to 10-2010 Action Item and
Resolution 2010-01
Action Items
12.
Review and Discussion with possible vote to approve the December 14, 2009 DRS Commission Minutes
Kathleen Reed
Commission Assistant
The DRS Commission Minutes for the month of December, 2009 begin on page 274 of the December Commission packet.
Motion to approve the December 14, 2009 DRS Commission Minutes as
corrected – Commissioner Shelton
Motion seconded by Commissioner Kirk
Packet document (opens in a new window): Commission Minutes - 12-14-09
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion Passed
13.
Review and Discussion with possible vote for Approval: Resolution to create a DRS employee performance recognition program.
Rick Olderbak
General Counsel
The written Resolution is available on page 289 of the January 2010 Commission Packet.
Motion to approve Resolution 2010-02 as presented – Commissioner Kirk
Motion seconded by Commissioner Shelton
Comments from the Commission:
Commissioner White: Regarding the Commission Award – There is a concern that raised the issue of whether or not the Commission can go into Executive Session to discuss the nominee for the Commission Award. The Chair of the Commission would like to recommend this be able to be done within the scope of an Executive Session. Commissioner White thanked Rick Olderbak for bringing this resolution to the attention of the Commission.
Packet document (opens in a new window): Resolution 2010-02
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion Passed
14.
Review and Discussion with possible vote for Approval of Donations to the Oklahoma School for the Blind
Larry Hawkins,
OSD Superintendent
The written OSB Action Item is available on page 286 of the January 2010 Commission Packet.
Motion to approve the donations to the Oklahoma School for the Blind with the correction and with new format – Commissioner Kirk
Motion seconded by Commissioner Shelton
Commission Comments:
Commissioner Shelton: 12-22-2009 VS Fund raiser, for clarification it needs to be reworded to reflect that it is not a contribution from one DRS Division to another. Commissioner Shelton asked that OSB breakdown their donations report the same as OSD’s to make both reports consistent.
Packet document (opens in a new window): OSB Donation Report
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion Passed
15.
Review and Discussion with possible vote for Approval of Donations to the Oklahoma School for the Deaf
Larry Hawkins,
OSD Superintendent
The written OSD Action Item is available on page 288 of the January 2010 Commission Packet.
Motion to approve the donations to the Oklahoma School for the Deaf – Commissioner Shelton
Motion seconded by Commissioner Kirk
Packet document (opens in a new window):
OSD Donation Report
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion passed
16.
Review and Discussion with possible vote for Approval of the Lease/Purchase of a Motor Coach/Bus for Oklahoma School for the Deaf
Larry Hawkins,
OSD Superintendent
This agenda item was withdrawn from the agenda.
Kirk Voted: None taken | Shelton Voted: None taken | White Voted: None taken
No action was taken.
17.
Vote to Convene into Executive Session Proposed Executive Session: to Discuss Performance Appraisal for the DRS Director As Authorized by the Open Meeting Act 25 O.S. 1991, 307 (B) (1)
Commission
Motion to convene into Executive Session – Commissioner Shelton
Motion Seconded by Commissioner Kirk
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion Passed
18.
Vote to Reconvene into Regular Session
Commission
Motion to reconvene into Regular Session – Commissioner Kirk
Motion Seconded by Commissioner Shelton
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion Passed
19.
Vote on Actions from Executive Session
Commission
Kirk Voted: None taken | Shelton Voted: None taken | White Voted: None take
No action was taken
20.
New Business
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jody Harlan, PIO, had a response in the newspaper regarding the funding for the brailing of books for Oklahoma School children that was brought about by NewView formally League for the Blind.
NEW BUSINESS
Commissioner White called for any new business.
Being none, Commissioner White entertained a motion to adjourn
Kirk Voted: None taken | Shelton Voted: None taken | White Voted: None taken
No action was taken
21.
Adjournment
Date and location of next regular meeting of the DRS Commission:
Monday, February 8, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
Department of Rehabilitation Services
State Office, 3535 NW 58th Street, 2nd Floor
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73112
Motion to adjourn the meeting - Commissioner Kirk
Motion seconded by Commissioner Shelton
Meeting adjourned at 12:30 p.m.
Kirk Voted: Aye | Shelton Voted: Aye | White Voted: Aye
Motion Passed