On July 27th, the BOD meetings ofCienElderlyServiceCenterandCienDaycareCenterfor the mentally handicapped (Home of Grace), the subordinated units of Nanjing YMCA were held at the meeting room on the third floor. President Li Enlin hosted the meetings, associate general secretary, Zhao Dongshu and members of the BOD, Han Shaning, Ding Yanren, Han Pinmei, Qian Guoliang, Zhang Jian, Zhu Aimin, and Tan Liying were presented.
All the members of the BOD agreed that even there are some problems encountered when we are running the elderly home, just like the saying it is the first step that costs troublesome. What we should do it to maintain faith, persist to invest and marketing on elderly home. Now, first priority is to keep good quality service, then to sell the empty beds with discount price, so that the ratio of occupancy; in addition, we can cooperate with our neighbor—social work department of Nanjing Industry University, arrange some students of social work to coordinate with our staff to do marketing and advertising at the weekends in the community. About the running expense of the elderly home is high, the BOD meeting has agreed to set the baseline for charging the cost of water and electricity; if the number is in the baseline, then, we will not charge from the our guest; if the number is higher than the baseline, then will be charged according to the numbers. At last, the BOD meeting reached the salary standard and subsidy using her personal car for business purpose of president Han Pinmei of the elderly home.
After that, the BOD meeting of Home of Grace was held, about the problem of development of running the daycare center brought forth by Wang Yanjun, suggested by the BOD that by using the empty beds to offer full-time caring for the disabled, so that we can get some income to reach a balance of Home of Grace to maintain the sustainable development.
