Personal Care Attendant Quality
Home Care Workforce Council
600 Washington Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA  02111 

DEVAL L. PATRICK
Governor

TIMOTHY P. MURRAY
Lieutenant Governor

JUDYANN BIGBY, M.D.
Secretary

Tel.:  617-210-5715
www.mass.gov/pca

		

Personal Care Attendant Quality Home Care Workforce Council
 
One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

Council Meeting – Executive Session

Minutes	January 6, 2009	3:15 P.M.	21st floor, Room 1 	
 	
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 members in attendance	Joe Bellil, Liz Casey, Paul Spooner, Jean McGuire, Tom Jones and Joe Tringali (telephonically)	
 Staff attending	Jack Boesen, Michelle Byrd,	
 chair	Jean McGuire	
Note taker	Michelle Byrd	
agenda setting	No issues were added to previously-issued agenda	

The executive session began at 3:15 p.m.

Jean McGuire asked the council to consider a follow-up retreat to specifically address a number of issues, including:  what the work of the council entails, the Council’s relationship with the MassHealth PCA program and future collective bargaining issues.  Paul Spooner suggested that the council use the opportunity to better define the role of the Council.  There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the retreat, but there will be no deliberation on Council business.  Council members discussed arrangements and agreed that the half-day retreat should take place in approximately 3-4 weeks.  A suggested location was at Stavros Center for Independent Living in Amherst, Massachusetts.

A motion was made to leave executive session by Joe Bellil and was seconded by Paul Spooner and passed unanimously. The council came out of executive session at 3:30 p.m.