09-28-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals -September 2, 2009 MR. PHIPPS: If I understand correctly the State, you will submit your budget to the State and the State would approve that and pays ... MS. GURROLA: My application process sir was put on hold pending getting all the proper legalities here, like the Special Use permit so... MR. PHIPPS: So you're not positive that the State will really pay you enough to operate this? MS. GURROLA: That could be an assumption but I can't say that to be a fact sir. The home ... MR. PHIPPS: At this point your budget hasn't been approved by the State? MS. GURROLA: That's correct. But up to this point I've ran group homes and the house is able to be supported and continue as such regardless of what the State is willing to pay or do. I'm just want to provide the service. I don't know how that sounds but that doesn't matter. So if they come back and say we can afford $50.00 a day to do this program. I just want the license sir whatever the State wants to do past that, so in other words my budget will be submitted and whether or not they approve whatever amount I still would like to proceed with the program because I'm more on the social service part of it, not the money making part of it. MR. FEDDER: Where does the rest of the money come from? If it's a $100 a day and the State approve $50, do you have to come up with the other $50? MS. GURROLA: Pretty much that would be the way it works sir if that were the case. And like I said initially for the first four months there is no State funds at all ... MR. FEDDER: You would have real estate taxes. You have insurance for the house. MS. GURROLA: Yes sir. Since 2006 I've maintained that mortgage and insurance and property taxes and everything else, lights, gas, so that will be maintained regardless of what the State is paying or doing. MR. GURROLA: I would like to speak on that for a minute. When I told you we submitted a budget, that budget is actually submitted on an average of what the State is paying. So in that particular budget, you use that $50 a day, that is not a correct figure and in the budget I submitted we used the average from last year of what the State paid per day per child, but we were able to operate under what they were paying as an average. It is very unlikely that they are going to not approve that average because we were on the middle of the low end and we showed that we can still run with a little less than what the average was per last year. So that's totally ... MR. FEDDER: Mine was just a hypothetical figure. It could have been a $100 or it could have been $10, my concern is that if you don't have enough money funded to you, that means the program suffers or somebody has to ... 17