SOUTH CAROLINA VICTIM ASSISTANCE
NETWORK
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
MINUTES JUNE 7, 2007
PRESENT:
ABSENT:
Brett
Macgargle
Dean Kilpatrick
Ritchie Tidwell
Larry Bergmann
Marian
Lindsey
Vicki Bourus
Patty
Patterson
Cassandra Keller
Hope
Blackley
Pam Gregory
Saylor
Fox
Lillian Garcia
Luck
Campbell
Gwen Herod
Renee
Mattox
Don Zelenka
Margaret
Frierson
Mary Ann Stroup
Delores
Mendez
Jami Goldman
Meeting
began at 10:30 a.m. at the offices of SCVAN
Financial Report: Ritchie
Tidwell
Most
non-grant expenses incurred by SCVAN
are covered until the end of June, with assistance from our supplemental funding
from SOVA. We will pursue new
contract with SOVA for next year.
Fundrasing:
Law
enforcement agencies contributed approximately $5,000 each from their county’s/
municipality’s victim service fund to support the work of SCVAN as a Priority 2 victim assistance agency. Recommendations: Contact chiefs and sheriffs this summer
to develop potential funding sources.
Lock up campaign?
Board
members might talk to sheriff’s / chiefs/ Secret Service, SLED, about having us
as the recipient of golf tournament or oyster roast benefit. Alicia Moseley might help coordinate a
golf tournament during a weekday.
Set up a tournament at a nice golf course (Orangeburg has a great public
golf course) and arrange for reasonable greens fees, 4 man teams, serve lunch,
and schedule a morning flight and afternoon flight. Jeff Moore, Wendell Davis (incoming
president of SCLEOA) and Ben Thomas at SLED would be good contacts. Hope knows someone in Spartanburg, a former
victim advocate who does a golf tournament, who might help coordinate it. Tom Harrison could approach Wendell
Davis to host tournament at the Orangeburg course.
Other
funding ideas: Dept. of Corrections
may be able to provide free printing for our new brochure.
Can
Federal Enforcement grant pay for our newsletter?
Marian
Lindsey received a substantial donation from Seibels Bruce on behalf of
SCVAN. Board members are encouraged to request
donations from businesses they frequent.
SCVAN should consider
developing a fundraising board. We
will have a strategy session with the Board at our next meeting to determine who
we know in the corporate sector to fully develop a donor base.
IOLTA
Grant
SCVAN was awarded $75,000 from
the SC Bar IOLTA Foundation to provide legal information and services to
underserved crime victims in rural counties.
SCVAN
Programs:
The
CVISS Program is seeking a new IT Specialist.
Election of Board Members:
It is
time to elect new Board members via ballot of the General Membership. A Nominating Committee will be formed to
develop a slate of officers.
Nominating Committee must contain a Board member and a general
member. Language is in Section 6.1
of the Bylaws.
Motion
made to provide temporary salary adjustment for Fabienne Deyoe.
Motion was approved by vote of the Board.
Board
meeting table needed! Banks have
them. Bank of America on
Greystone
Boulevard is consolidating. Other potential sources for a
table: Law firms (SC Bar could send
notice), Prison industries could donate one. There also may be a bank warehouse in
Columbia.
SCVAN has a number of monitors
in good working condition to donate.
Monitors may be donated to schools, boys and girls clubs, day center for
the homeless downtown, (MIRCI runs it).
Draft
Report of the Victim Services Coordinating Council
Restitution was addressed using the Duluth model. PPP and DOC are not getting victim
contact information on a regular basis.
Solicitor Policy Group will now come under the auspices of the
Prosecution Coordination Commission
SCVAN will review the Victim
Service Audit of the Legislative Audit Council at its next Board meeting and
determine priority areas to address.
Disbursement of funds for victim services. How do we help implement the
recommendations of the Audit with regard to accountability? We will review the final report of the
SVSCC. We don’t have any kind of
standardized measure to determine services provided, how many victims served,
how much money spent, etc. Recommendation; SC needs a data collection systems to
maintain statistics on victims served.
A web-based system could be utilized to tabulate data. We may be able to extract data from VOCA
site monitoring audits.
Victim
Advocate Certification/Continuing Education: There is a concern that due to budget
cuts, small organizations may not be able to afford training. Will people’s certifications be cut
because of lack of funds?
Other
Matters:
Renee
has juvenile trafficking case. Are
there any facilities available in South Carolina for juvenile victims? Foster homes, DSS. Debbie Jordan will be the go-to person
at DSS for information.
Laura’s
proposal at last meeting re training:
have we received any new information? Last meeting was decided to present the
concept to the VSCC for approval.
Hope and Veronica alerted the Board that the Council is not at the stage
where they are able to review training proposals. The Council has not gone so far as to
develop criteria for approval of trainings, or standards for basic
curriculum. Laura might help
develop training standards w/VSCC members.
This may
not be an SCVAN project since Laura
is now with a new organization.
Laura is encouraged to meet with Dottie Cronise, Jeff Moore and Patty
Patterson, as well as the Executive Board, to get more information about how
training is being developed, whether or not training course is cost prohibitive
for law enforcement victim advocates, and other pertinent information.
Next
Board meeting will be a 5-year planning meeting to be held on August 10 at the
SC Bar Boardroom, 950 Taylor
Street, Columbia, SC.
(Corner of Park and Taylor)
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