April 17, 2020

2:00-4:30pm

Objective: Provide clarity and advise steering committee on MHC’s fiscal sponsor process by developing criteria and implementing a selection process that ensures MHC can achieve community impact and adequately resource partners.

The group identified potential barriers in finding potential sponsors and decided MHC should secure a Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with another party instead of merging with another group.

It is understood that MHC needs to find new funders without competing with our partners.

A list of possible Tier 1, 2 and 3 groups were identified and people in the group were tasked to pre-interview potential funders and, if possible, add more possibilities to the list.

Next steps – At the May Steering Committee meeting present funder criteria and brainstorm with to narrow list of perspective funders and develop a proposal for fiscal sponsers.

The LCC met remotely hosted by The Arc of Arapahoe & Douglas Counties. TSAC will have an intern from Metro State University work with the LCC this summer on revising their strategic plan, exploring development of a website, and recruiting members. A subcommittee has been formed to convert TSAC’s operational guidelines to by-laws. This will help create the structure and internal controls needed to register with the Secretary of State and open a bank account. Also, in keeping with this goal, Andrea Suhaka, Doug Tisdale, and Tina Francone agreed to serve as officers for the group. A new membership application was presented for review along with a process for collecting dues. Next month, the TSAC planning board will meet on May 21.