Peoria Standard

Peoria Human Resources Commission met Friday, Nov. 4.

Here are the minutes as provided by Peoria:

Call to order

The special meeting was held by the Human Resources Commission (HCR) in room 404 at City Hall, 419 Fulton St., Peoria, Illinois, on June 17, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. Chairperson Rakoff called the meeting to order @ 8:33 a.m.

Roll call

Roll call showed the following commissioners were present: Nancy Rakoff, Shandra Bond, Mark Brown, Wayne Cannon, Farrell Davies, Amr Elsamny, Patrick Krichhofer, Brett Kolditz, Judy Oakford, Gret Stout, and Jessica Zobac - 11

Absent: Josh Moore - 1

Council Liaison present: None

City staff present: Nick Mitchell, Kathryn Murphy

Others present: None

Minutes

The minutes for the June 17th meeting were reviewed.

Motion

Commissioner Kirchhofer moved that the minutes for the June 17th meeting be approved as written; seconded by Commissioner Oakford.

The minutes were approved unanimously by via voice vote 12 to 0.

Old business

None

New business

A. Conflict of interest disclosures for 2017 public service applicants

Staff member Murphy read into the record the following conflict of interest declarations:

CommonPlace: Wayne Cannon, Nancy Rakoff

Children's Home: Mark Brown

Staff member Murphy reviewed for the commission how the commissioners with conflicts were not able to ask questions of the agencies for which they have declared a conflict of interest.

B. Clarification hearing for 2017 CDBG public service applications

Before opening the hearing, Chairperson Rakoff requested staff member Murphy review the process for the hearings. Staff member Murphy stated that applicants would have up to 5 minutes to present about the program. Staff member Mitchell would keep track of time and would hold up a 1 minute remaining sign at the appropriate time. Then, commissioners would have any of the remaining presentation time and up to 5 minutes to ask questions. Staff member Mitchell would alert Chairperson Rakoff when time was reached.

Chair person Rakoff opened the clarification hearing per the following schedule at 8:39 a.m.:

The gitm Foundation, Human Services Center, Center for Prevention of Abuse, Boys and Girls Club, Dream Center, Common Place, Community Workshop and Training Center, Crittenton Centers, Prairie State Legal Services, Heaven's View Community Development Corp., Family Core, Children's Home, Neighborhood House, Pediatric Resource Center.

Chairperson Rakoff thanked the commission for the hard work in reviewing all of the applications and asking great questions of the applicants. She reminded the commission that the scores should be completed individually and turned in to staff member Murphy.

Staff member Murphy stated that commissioners could turn evaluations forms in now, remain in the room to complete them, or take them home and return to City Hall by Close of business Tuesday at the latest. Staff member Murphy would then complie all the scores and remove the highest score and lowest score for each application to obtain an average score. Chairperson Rakoff stated that these numbers would exclude those with a conflict of interest and the denominator for the average would be adjusted accordingly. Staff member Murphy mentioned that these scores would be used for the beginning of the funding discussion to be held at the next regular meeting of the commission to be held on Friday, November 18.

Other business

There was no other business before the commission.

Citizen comments

There were no citizen comments.

Adjournment

Motion:

Commissioner Oakford motioned to adjourn the meeting; seconded by Commissioner Cannon.

The motion was approved unanimously via voice vote 12 to 0.

The meeting was adjourned @12:23 p.m.