For july 2014 to june 30th 2018 in the amount of hundred and 50,000 plus plus a 10 percent contingency for a total not to exceed hundred and 73,000 plus the purpose to provide emergency short term homemaker and personal Care Services to eligible 57b8d individuals the grant will be funded through county general funds. Hello, again commissioners as you stated the item is a new 3 year home care for Seniors Program the program itself as described sends out a person to complete the Caregiver Services open a short term basis the types of Services Provided fall under 3 personal Care Services and a shower services typically the clients most uncommon this Program Utilized by clients that have an application pend for state funding ssi services to cover that bridge and sometimes the clients running home from hospital or rehab facilities need Short Term Health at the home and some referrals come in from clients need an occasional clean up around the house the provider is selfhelp for the elderly t
Whistleblowers, an extension of nonmedical employee probationary periods and requirement that gao conduct a study of the a time space, and resources devoted to labor union activities. I encourage those of you today if you have not already research this legislation, please do so. We would welcome your support of these crucial pieces of legislation. I look forward to hearing from each of you today, and the groups that you represent. I now yield five minutes to the senator from georgia, my good friend mr. Isaacson. Senator isaacson i want to do laughs because i was late. I apologize. I will followup briefly on what chairman miller said. We are delighted to have you today. We appreciate what they do for the veterans. We have a lot of challenges but the chairman of the house and i have committed that we are not just caretakers of the status quo but instigators of improvement. We think v. A. Health care is important. We want Veterans Health care to work. We want veterans to have the best hea
Do we have at option of canceling the contract. Yes. We do. Any other comments or questions comments or questions from the public . Hearing none call the question all in favor, say i. Any opposed thank you the motion carries item h requesting authorization to enter into a new Grant Agreement with selfhelp for the seniors for july 2014 to june 30th 2018 in the amount of hundred and 50,000 plus plus a 10 percent contingency for a total not to exceed hundred and 73,000 plus the purpose to provide emergency short term homemaker and personal Care Services to eligible 57b8d individuals the grant will be funded through county general funds. Hello, again commissioners as you stated the item is a new 3 year home care for Seniors Program the program itself as described sends out a person to complete the Caregiver Services open a short term basis the types of Services Provided fall under 3 personal Care Services and a shower services typically the clients most uncommon this Program Utilized by cl
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Quorum call mrs. Murray mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray mr. President , i come to the floor today to introduce the military and veteran Caregiver Services improvement act. Mr. President , this is a bill that will make really critical improvements to how we support our why i am and injured veterans our ill and injured veterans and their caregivers. And i am especially pleased to be joined by our former colleague, senator Elizabeth Dole, who has come here on the floor and has been such a tremendous and invaluable person in working to bring these caregiver issues to national attention. And i really appreciate her being here and being such a champion on this and a leader. She has brought people from all over the country together to make a difference for our caregivers and for our veterans. We also have many of the very caregi