Paul taught a class on serving on local government boards, districts and commisions. His day long presentation saw representatives from the the county, schools, city, conservation district, library board and various other groups.
The Roundup Memorial Hospital and Medical Center has developed a grant committee to assist with ongoing needs of the facility. Two employees from the hospital attended a grant writing workshop that was held in Roundup. This workshop inspired the formation of the grant writing committee. The committee consists of staff, administration, and hospital board members.
The group has already submitted a proposal for a new autoclave. The existing autoclave is 60 years old. The committee is currently working on several other proposals as well.
Sarah Earwood, the chair of the committee, stated “we know that we can not run a hospital on grant funds alone, but anything we can do to improve the facility and the quality of service provided to the patients will have a huge impact to the community.”
A grant writing workshop was identified as a need through the Horizons program. MSU Extension and the Horizon program brought Mike Vogel to teach the all day class.
Paul taught a class on serving on local government boards, districts and commisions. His day long presentation saw representatives from the the county, schools, city, conservation district, library board and various other groups. Attendees left with a better understanding of open meeting law, codes of ethics and parliamentary procedure practices. They also participated in a question and answer forum. Many of these participants take their new hand book with them to reference during their meetings and have commented that they feel better equiped to manage their duties during their meetings.
The Web page continues to grow and has now added the option for the Local Government Entities to post their minutes. The County Commissioners were the first Board to use the site. They have stepped to the plate to promote Community Communication for the needs and development of the County and to promote local citizen understanding of how County Government works.
One very major concern kept surfacing as we traversed through the steps of the Horizons Project, which was a continual conflict of multiple activities/meetings on the same date. These over laps of dates and activities have limited the communities resources, spreading them so thin that most of the activities were not successful. Years ago the community had a CORE group that met to coordindate dates to prevent this. The current group taking part in the Horizon Program felt that we should develop a communication process similar to the old one, but functional in this day and age of advanced technology. Since the Web Page was already in process as a promotional to the very existence of Roundup, the group felt that the Web Page could also serve as the host for the Calendar of events. After serveral meetings with the web page committee, the Group came up with a process to enter dates and activities on the site. The Web Page was noticed to the local churches, businesses, clubs and schools to post their activity dates. The churches have responded 100%, the school linked their web site, and many of the clubs have listed their activities and meeting dates.