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MCB Statutory Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting - Virtual

Friday, September 9, 2022
12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
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Overview   of MCB Statutory Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting - Virtual

MEETING DETAILS: 

Massachusetts Commission for the Blind

Statutory Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting

12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET

This meeting is being recorded. The recording made by MCB is a public record and will be posted in the near future on MCB’s YouTube Channel.

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Meeting ID: 824 8292 5467

Passcode: 002022

Phone: 1-646-558-8656

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If you require an ADA accommodation, please submit the online request form or contact MCB's ADA Coordinator Shauntay M. King at 857-275-7763 or Shauntay.M.King@mass.gov at least 2 weeks prior to the event. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations.

Visit our website to learn more about the SAB: https://www.mass.gov/orgs/mcb-statutory-advisory-board

Agenda

  1. Opening By SAB Chair
    1. Notification and Confirmation: This meeting is being held via Zoom under the Governor’s executive order granting authority for such virtual meetings.
    2. Confirmation that MCB records SAB meetings, allows for local recordings and makes such recordings available to the public.
    3. Welcome to members of the public attending the meeting and instruction about Q&A period.
  2. Vote to accept minutes of the previous (June 10th) SAB meeting.
  3. Commissioner Update:
    1. FY22:
      1. Please provide an update the final spending/encumbered since the last SAB by category as compared to the FY22 GAA.
      2. What is the amount of any funds reverted/to be reverted back to the state?
    2. FY23:
      1. Review of financial dashboard, including funds spent and funds encumbered.
      2. With respect to the $1M earmark for independent living services:
        1. Please provide an update on the award of contracts to providers.
        2. In addition to funds spent and encumbered, please advise how many consumers have been referred to contacted non-profit agencies for these services.
    3. Any news on RSA Reallotment Funds available for 2022?
    4. Update on consumer survey
  4. Program Updates:
    1. Dashboard on Registrations, Process, and Outcomes.
    2. Update on staffing changes and levels
  5. New Business
  6. Questions from the public
  7. Adjournment

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