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Will Wyland said that the State has mandated huge changes in the mental health <br />system. He said that there is a one-month period in August after the RFP's go in and before the <br />divestiture is supposed to start an September 1St. This will be a critical funding time for Club <br />Nova. <br />Chair Carey pointed out that it was 10:00 and there were still 40 people signed up to <br />speak. The Board agreed to hear all people that had signed up to speak. <br />Timothy Pettrey lives in Cedar Grove and he is a member of Club Nova. He thinks that <br />this is the most gratifying program that he has ever been in. He said that Matthew Cox drives <br />the van and he catches the van in the morning and works at Club Nova and goes back home at <br />night. <br />Kayla Zaragoza has been a member of Club Nava for five years. She said that Club <br />Nova gives her a place to go when she has no other place to go. She said that the staff and <br />members are extremely knowledgeable. Through Club Nova, she has been back in the working <br />world and has completed two transitional appointment jobs. Without Club Nova, she would not <br />have so many opportunities, including going back to school at Alamance Community College for <br />graphic design and also taking art classes in the community. <br />Marilyn Ciocci said that she became a member of Club Nova last year. She made <br />reference to the Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. The first level of needs is shelter, and she has <br />found shelter at Club Nava as well as privacy and solitude. The last level is self-esteem, and <br />she has found self-esteem among the members of Club Nova. She asked the County <br />Commissioners to continue to fund Club Nova. <br />Pickens Miller has been a member of Club Nova since 2000. He has worked five <br />different jobs through transitional employment. This has enabled him to do many things. He <br />thanked the County Commissioners for helping Club Nava through divestiture and onward. <br />Mitchell Price is the Director of Development for Planned Parenthood of Central North <br />Carolina. He thanked the County Commissioners and the County Manager for their hard work <br />in providing funds to local agencies with limited resources. The County support has assisted <br />them for many years in providing family planning services and sex education programs to <br />Orange County residents. This year they anticipate meeting the healthcare needs of over <br />12,000 people, reaching an additional 5,000 through their educational program. He encouraged <br />the Board to support John Link's funding recommendation for Planned Parenthood. This <br />funding will help them to provide reduced fee services to young people. Their focus this year <br />will be on the Latino youth education program aimed at pregnancy prevention in adolescents. <br />Dianne Jackson is an employee of CHCCS. She is also President of the American <br />Federation of Teachers in North Carolina. She represents teachers in both school districts. <br />She said that the school districts are the main reason that same people have moved to this <br />area. She recognizes the difficult task of providing funding for the area school districts, but she <br />also recognizes the need to fully fund both school systems' budgets. As educators attempt to <br />meet increasing local, state, and national educational requirements, they must have the staff, <br />resources, and programs reflected in the Superintendents' fiscally lean proposed budgets. <br />Karen Casey is a CHCCS parent. She is also a teacher assistant at Frank Porter <br />Graham. She works for a teacher that is from England, who depends on her to assist in <br />assessments and report cards, to take the class while she does running records, to log on NC <br />Wise for attendance, conduct reading groups, math groups, writing, and workshop. She logs in <br />permission slips and takes notes and calls from parents regarding afterschool status. She takes <br />students to the nurse, to lunch, to specials, to assemblies, to recess, and on class trips. She <br />copies daily and weekly lessons, and she logs on the computer for STAR Reading and STAR <br />Math and research projects. She grades homework, spelling tests, writing, and math. She also <br />bandages boo-boos, wipes noses, washes scrapes, zips jackets, ties shoes, and helps to pick <br />