Success Quest of 467 Monies
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October 20, 1980
Dennis Beitz
North Central Kansas Guidance Center
214 Poyntz Avenue
Manhattan, Kansas 66502
Dear Dennis:
Tn accordance 1Ü th your request for local 467 experience at the
PrograJTl Directo:r.s I Board meeting in Topeka, I am submi ttir,g a
short narrative and suppo:r.ting documents relating our successful
quest for 467 monies this year.
After my return from the Rock Springs workshop in September, 1979,
I met with the last President of the Ellis County Council on
Alcoholism (hereafter "ECGA"), which had been deactivated for want
legitimate business earlier in 1979, and proposed that ECCA should
be re-activated to serve as the advisory council for the disburse-
ment of Ellis County and city 1.¡-67 liquor funds. I gave the President,
Brother Felix Shinsky, duplicated copies of the League of Munici-
pali ties articles on 1+67 and urged that ECCA would be an appropriate
body to insure the proper use of these funds.
Brother Felix agreed with me and proceeded to enlist an ECCA Executive
Board consisting of 16 representati yes of salient consume:r:', provider,
and governmental bodies in Ellis County. He then corresponded with
the vari.ous city and county commissions identifying ECCA's cùnstituency
and requesting the commissions'recognition of ECCA as their advisory
councj 1 (utilizing a modificati,on of the League of r1unicipali ties
"Policy Resolution on Alcohol P-['ograms" j see Enclosu:ce 1).
The first meeting of the revived EGGA Board was held on Nov. 28,
1979, and served mainly to clarify the role of EGGA as advisory
council on the allocation of 467 funds, some members having thought
that EGGA itself was to receive and use funds. (See Enclcsure 2,
r1inutes) .
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subsequent ECCA meetings various directjons and proposals
were considered, explored, and rejected or suspended, In late
March I drafted and ~3ubmi tted a proposal (Enclosure J) to use
$32, 13:3 of local 1+67 funds (approximately 9&10 of projected
income) for the funding of an occupational/youth consultant
position in our unit, This proposal Has voted on and unanimously
approved at an open public meeting of the ECCA Board on May 20,
1980 (Enclosure 4),
The last step in the processing of the proposal was secur:l.ng the
formal approval of the City-County Commissions one of which had
previously negotiated the "Policy Resolution on Alcohol Programs".
The President of ECCA and I appeared before the Ellis County
Commission and Hays City Commission in early June and secured their
respective approvals with no trouble. Another ECCA Board member
appeared before the Victoria City Commission and secured :L ts
t'enta ti 'Ie approval, although it could not act be cause it had failed
to budget alcohol bunds for 1980. The Ellis City Council was
recalcitrant and decided to allocate only $200 to support the proposal.
In summary, I'd say that the success of this process was due to (1)
the active and co-operative participation of the President of ECCA;
(2) the selection of an ECCA Board genuinely interested in and
fairly knoH'ledgeable about alcoholism; and (3) the "preparation"
of major city and county commissioners in advance for the reception
of and action upon the proposal.
I hope this account is helpful to your purposes.
further, please let me knoH',
If I can assist
Sincerely yours,
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~ick Whittington, C,A.C.
Director
Alcoholic Services Unit
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EXECUTIVE BOARD ELLIS COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOLISM
President:
Brother Felix Shinsky, Liaison to Ministerial Allionce
Vice-President:
Ernie Honas, Liaison to Educators
Secretary;
To be filled
Treasur~r: M.C.Leiker, Liaison to AAjAla-TeenjAla-Non? Nar-Non Groups
Mayor Dan Rupp, Liaison for City of Hays
Judge Joe Jeter,Legal Advisor and Liaison for City of Hays
Don C. Staab, Legal Advisor, Liaison for City of Victoria
Liz Waltérs, Psychologist, Advisor to Board, also heads section on Child abu
Dr. Roy Neil,Physician, Advisor to Board, Liaison to M.D. 's in County
Lloyd Preston,Liaison for Hadley Hospital
John Petty, Liaison for High Plains Mental Health
Richard Whittington, Liaison for St. Anthony's Hospital
Dale Peier, Liaison for Fort Hays University
Alan Ross, Liaison for Alcohol Inform~tion School-County
Bob Emerick, Liaison for Travenol Inc.
City of Ellis and City of Schoenchen still to appoint a ~ember to the
Board.
From the above Board Members
one will be elected at the first
Board Meeting to serve as Secretary and one will be chosen to
act as a Public Relations
person.
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