Minutes November 2008

San Saba Domestic Violence Taskforce

November 10, 2009

The Taskforce met at the Dove Project. In attendance were Allen Brown, Danna Smith, Missy King, Georgia Harris, Brenna Troncoso, Lindy Shulz, Sabrina Maultsby, Tonnie Robbins, Charles Carter and Deborah Keith.

Agency updates were given by Deborah for the Children’s Advocacy Project and Brenna for PAPA. Brenna shared that Political Asylum Project has a new name “American Gateways.”

Allen Brown, the new sheriff-elect gave an overview of what his plans and goals were for the Sheriff’s department.

Georgia reported that the Dove Project failed to receive one of the two grants they get from the Governor’s office, Criminal Justice Division. She said that attorney Tommy Adams had offered to help with the paperwork of getting non-profit status for the Dove Project filed. She hopes to be able to get the city to agree to allow the Dove Project to be a non-profit agency within city government and that we would have our own board of directors. This would enable us to seek funding from private foundations that require 501c3 non-profit status.

Brenna and Lindy gave an update on the domestic violence conference in Dallas. They had received a full scholarship for the conference fee and hotel to attend.

The San Saba Community Plan is scheduled for Nov. 20, 2008 and items that we wanted to include were discussed.

The meeting was adjourned about 1pm. Next meeting will be scheduled for the 2nd Tuesday in December. However, with the holidays upon us the meeting may be changed.