The government agency that I have observed is the Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services. The county that this agency belongs is the Santa Clara County of California.
2. The meeting was located at the Family and Children’s Services-A Division of Caminar and the address is 375 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306. The meeting that I attended was February 23, 2018, at 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
3. The number of appointed members is six and the number of appointed members who attended where six. The names and titles of the appointed members are Gary T. Miles, Board Chair, Joel Wolfberg, 1st Chair, Victor Ojakian, Board Member, Mary Crocker Cook, Board Member, Robert Gill, Board Member, and Llolanda Ulloa, BHB Liaison.
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The topics that were discussed during open comment were about LGBT+ counseling programs available, the costs of transition programs for drug abuse, and family programs that are available to low-income families and how the board will fund the programs.
6. A topic that was discussed during the “discussion” period was merging all subcommittees’ meetings together to reduce membership absence. The issue that board had discussed the unfair workload to the members who attended the meetings and the issues of the members who were not attending the meetings. Furthermore, all six board members voted for the merge as the vote was 6 to 0.
7. What I observed during the meeting was that board was approachable between the “open comment” and the “discussion” portion, but when the board had to vote on the action items it was fast pace. The reason why the board is very approachable at the start is that citizens had the opportunity to participate in the discussions with the board members, so they can hear any concerns such as LGBT counseling. Also, when the board began voting on the action items very quickly as they were finishing items from meetings prior that they did not decided at the time such as the “Older Adult” proposal that they had voted and
2. The meeting was located at the Family and Children’s Services-A Division of Caminar and the address is 375 Cambridge Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306. The meeting that I attended was February 23, 2018, at 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
3. The number of appointed members is six and the number of appointed members who attended where six. The names and titles of the appointed members are Gary T. Miles, Board Chair, Joel Wolfberg, 1st Chair, Victor Ojakian, Board Member, Mary Crocker Cook, Board Member, Robert Gill, Board Member, and Llolanda Ulloa, BHB Liaison.
4. The total number of people …show more content…
The topics that were discussed during open comment were about LGBT+ counseling programs available, the costs of transition programs for drug abuse, and family programs that are available to low-income families and how the board will fund the programs.
6. A topic that was discussed during the “discussion” period was merging all subcommittees’ meetings together to reduce membership absence. The issue that board had discussed the unfair workload to the members who attended the meetings and the issues of the members who were not attending the meetings. Furthermore, all six board members voted for the merge as the vote was 6 to 0.
7. What I observed during the meeting was that board was approachable between the “open comment” and the “discussion” portion, but when the board had to vote on the action items it was fast pace. The reason why the board is very approachable at the start is that citizens had the opportunity to participate in the discussions with the board members, so they can hear any concerns such as LGBT counseling. Also, when the board began voting on the action items very quickly as they were finishing items from meetings prior that they did not decided at the time such as the “Older Adult” proposal that they had voted and