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The board thanked Mr. Berggren for the information. There is no action to be taken. 5. DISCUSS AND TAKE ACTION ON MAAA FUNDING FOR HALL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INDUSTRIES - The board will go back to the discussion regarding MAAA funding the representatives from Midland Area Agency on Aging were able to come to the meeting. Casey Muzik addressed the concern on the additional columns on the spread sheet. They were from a previous year and just were not deleted. Lancaster provided information to Ms. Muzik based on the allocation tables for the meals it showed the percentage of the funding for each county and the percentage of meals that each county serves and the funding that they receive. She cited that Hall County has 40% of the meals and 56.8% of the home delivered meals and only 37.9% of the funding. She noted these amounts for all of the other counties. She was only looking at the meals and in for Hall County to provide the same number of meals as they did last year it would take an additional $70,000.00 to do that. Now the county will have to allocate more dollars. Ms. Muzik provided information to the board members. She stated that each county has a different cost per meal. Hall County is the lowest cost per meal and the contributions are also different from county to county. Arnold noted that there are new accounting methods to determine the costs. MAAA only accounts for the Older American Act dollars and those dollars have to be spent on services that are allowed under the act. That is why there is a reduction because of how the dollars were spent. MAAA handles the pass through funds they have to oversee those dollars. The audit put them on a corrective action plan from 2014 and they had to comply. There were activities like the gambling trips the adult day care, and the boutique that are not allowed to be paid for under the Older American Dollars grant. Also the respite/caregiver services and the homemaker/chore services will be handled by MAAA these dollars were pulled from all of the counties. Ms. Muzik distributed the budget summary, information for the caregiver and homemaker chores services and a copy of the compliance plan to the board members Lancaster stated they are coming into compliance. The cost to keep the doors open is higher in Grand Island than in other counties, She said she is not talking about the other services she is talking about what the appropriate ratio should be. Hall County will have to make up the difference she wanted to show the board the allocations per county. Quandt expressed concern on the allocations for the meals and ask how they can treat one county different that the others. Ms. Muzik stated that the food budget has not changed and noted that Hall County will be receiving more. According to the population they were receive too much money. This is not a cut in funding but the care giver and homemaker services have been removed. Arnold noted that MAAA is not starving our seniors we have lower infrastructure costs and in the past the dollars were used for things that were now allowed. MAAA had to do a corrective action plan. 10