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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 17, 2009 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. (p -Q <br /> SUBJECT: Acceptance of County Master Aging Report for 2007-2008 and Approve Priorities <br /> for 2009 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Aging/Advisory Board on Aging PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> MAP Work Plan Annual Report: 2007-08 Jerry M. Passmore, Aging Director and <br /> and Priorities for Calendar Year 2009 MAP Project Manager, 245-2000 <br /> Steve Lackey, Chair, Adv. Board on Aging <br /> PURPOSE: To review and accept the Orange County Master Aging Plan Annual Report covering <br /> an eighteen-month period from July 2007 through 2008 and approve priorities for calendar year <br /> 2009. <br /> BACKGROUND: On May 15, 2007 the Board of County Commissioners adopted the five-year <br /> Master Aging Plan (MAP) covering the period 2007 through 2011. The MAP's overarching new <br /> initiative was "Building Aging-Friendly Communities in Orange". The plan focused on three <br /> functional population groups: the Well/Fit Older Adult, the Disabled /Moderately Impaired Older <br /> Adult and the Severely Impaired /Institutionalized Older Adult. The MAP also identified and <br /> addressed four broad issues: information/access, housing, transportation and transitional care. <br /> The adopted Master Aging Plan directs the Department on Aging to implement the plan and the <br /> Orange County Advisory Board on Aging to monitor the progress of the Plan and to submit annual <br /> update reports to the County Commissioners on the accomplishments and recommended priority <br /> changes (MAP Goal I: Planning/Administration., Objective 1). It was recommended periodic MAP <br /> reports be submitted to town elected officials in Orange County (Town of Carrboro request). <br /> The new priorities for 2009 listed below do not require any additional County funds. However, the <br /> food service improvement priority will require the re-deployment of existing JOCCA County <br /> nutrition funds to the Department on Aging for operating the nutrition program and operating the <br /> Seymour Center kitchen beginning FY 2009-10. <br /> 1. Develop a local aging-friendly community assessment tool. (graduate student project) <br /> 2. Improve food service at Senior Centers in conjunction with supporting the local <br /> economy and environment. <br />