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Righting The Ship
Work of stabilizing and transforming
the JCC continues.
Jackie Headapohl
I Managing Editor
Financial Oversight
Committee continues
to work at the Jewish
Community Center with interim CEO
and turnaround specialist Jim Issner
to stabilize the center and transform
it into a JCC of the 21st century that
serves the community — and is one
the community can afford.
"The oversight
committee has done
a very deep dive,
trying to get a sense
of the real picture
— the overall plan
by program and
department" said
Scott
Federation CEO
Kaufman
Scott Kaufman. "The
losses are significant.
They're more than we thought origi-
nally, about twice as bad"
The committee is awaiting a revised
audit from Plante Moran, which has
performed the JCC's audit for the past
three years, according to Federation
Chief Financial Officer Dorothy Benyas.
Financial One, the company engaged
to handle the JCC's internal account-
ing functions, is working to restate
the financial statements from an audit
performed before improper account-
ing practices were discovered in early
December 2013. Plante Moran will
audit the restated statements in the
next few weeks, giving all involved a
clearer view of the JCC's true financial
condition. Final numbers are expected
in June.
"It was a lot more work to get the
financial picture than anyone thought"
Kaufman said. "We had to go back-
wards a few years to get real numbers
going forward"
According to Kaufman, the differ-
ent departments within the JCC didn't
have a handle on their own budgets.
Issner's mandate is to streamline the
operations and put the infrastructure
in place to manage it properly with
proper financial oversight, he added.
"I see Jim Issner moving the needle.
He has a mandate to do what's best for
the center and not to allow politics to
drive the decision making" Kaufman
said.
All the proper accounting systems
are now in place. Everything that
wasn't being done is now being done
correctly"
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Looking To The Future
If Issner's job is to "stabilize the ship"
as Kaufman puts it, the job of the
Visioning Committee is to build a
new ship — "a space ship," Kaufman
said.
The Visioning Committee, formed
about three months ago, is being led
by JCC past-president and Federation
President-Elect Larry Wolfe. The
committee, comprised of JCC and
Jewish Foundation board members,
as well as a few
people from the
NextGen commu-
nity, first took an
extensive look into
the JCC, touring the
buildings, studying
the core business
and all its program-
Larry Wolfe
ming.
The committee is working in tan-
dem with the Financial Oversight
Committee and Issner.
"Our first job was to get a handle
on the JCC's financial problems:'
Wolfe said. "We needed to look at its
core business to see if it fits the needs
of our community as we go forward"
Now that the Visioning Committee
has done its exploratory work, it
soon will create subcommittees that
include facilities, including opera-
tions and maintenance; partnerships,
which will look to how the JCC can
better partner with area schools,
shuls, hospitals and universities;
financial feasibility; fundraising; and
executive search.
Issner has been at all meetings
and is working hand-in-hand with
the committee. Wolfe has made a
presentation to the boards of the JCC
and the Federation. "There is total
transparency in how we're operating"
Wolfe said. "We are working for the
benefit of the community:'
Wolfe expects the subcommittee
work to take 60-90 days. "At that
time, we will have substantive recom-
mendations for the JCC board as well
as the Federation board of governors"
Wolfe said. "The committee will
stay in existence for longer to ensure
approved recommendations are
enacted upon.
"We know we have to change the
culture, and we will do so."
The Big Picture
Wolfe said his committee is reach-
ing out to communities around the