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_I 600K 108 FACE 104 * Recommendation: The Taxpayers" Board strongly disapproves of a milage for this purpose. Rather it recommends holding to next year's $500,000 limit as the model for successive years unless and until a change is definitively supported by facts, an appropriate needs assesment is available, and a one-time or regular annual change is clearly justified. 2. The present Ordnance is interpreted by the CSN Board to be services directly to children, despite the emphasis, by people now dealing with children's problems, that problems with children cannot be separated from problems with families and society. E.g. IRC Head of Children and Families: "C. & F. investigates 60 reports of child abuse every month ... Child abuse reflects what is wrong with the family." Chairman of the CSN Grants Subcommittee: "The problem is poverty and ignorance [in the family]." Juvenile Court Judge (on CSN Board) says Juvenile Court deals with problems of dependent children in a problem family. * Recommendation: (103.2016 Objectives) Change in Ordinance that would encourage a more accurate reflection of the broad problem rather than isolating service to the child. 3. At present 6 of the members of the CSN Board are specified, for example, "the Sheriff," "the School Superintendent". Not only are these not the persons in the agencies who are most familiar with children's problems, but their attendance, e.g. the School Superintendent, is anything but regular. (One proposal now before the Commission asks that the County Head of Children and Families , rather than the 4 -county District CEO, be the representative for Children and Families and that the Sheriff himself not necessarily be the representative.) We approve of this and this substitution should be general policy for all ex officio members. * B mmenda . : (103.201 Objectives) Membership on the CSN Board should permit substitutions of,gg=L4priate representative of each indicated office or institution as approved by the County Commission (or the CSN Board). *132Mmm0dation: A favored alternative we should like to have considered is a citizen board based on interested, socially minded citizens as the voting members, excluding elected and appointed public officials and public employees from voting on the Board. Hulda Grobman for the Indian River County Taxpayers' Assoeiation JANUARY 19, 1999 -20- • 0