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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 8, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Master Aging Plan Task Force: Status Update; Presentation of Priority Issues <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging/ Advisory Board on Aging PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Statement of Charge to the Task Force <br />2) MAP Flow Chart of process /timeframe <br />3) Summary of Prioritized Issues <br />4) Priority Issue Presentation <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jerry M. Passmore <br />Florence Soltys, Chair, Aging Board <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336 - 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To present the work done to date by the Master Aging Plan Task Force. To gain <br />approval of the priority issues identified by the three MAP subcommittees. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />At the request of the Orange County Advisory Board on Aging, the Orange County Board <br />of Commissioners adopted a plan for the development of a Master Aging Plan (M.A.P.) for the County for <br />FY99 -2000 on May 11, 1999. Advertisement in the local newspaper done for membership on M.A.P. <br />Task Force's four committees: (1) Steering Committee, (2) Well/Fit Older Adult Subcommittee, (3) <br />Disabled /Moderately Impaired Older Adult Subcommittee and (4) the Severely Impaired <br />/Institutionalized Older Adult Subcommittee. Over 100 membership requests were received and reviewed <br />by the Advisory Board on Aging on September and with BOCC members Alice Gordon and Barry Jacobs. <br />The three subcommittees have completed Phase I of the process: strategic issue identification <br />(summary attached). As required by the MAP Taskforce "Charge," the taskforce will be presenting <br />an overview of the strategic issues they have identified for inclusion in the strategic plan. <br />Phase II of the MAP process will focus on recommendations and action plans for the resolution of <br />the priority issues. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Funds have been budgeted to cover the expense of the committees operations <br />and preparing the Master Aging Plan. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): MAP Steering Committee recommend approval of the issues identified by <br />the subcommittees and reviewed by the Steering Committee in order to begin Phase II. <br />FN:/H1bocc /ab00214.doc <br />