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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 1, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Durham Technical Community College's Nature's Kitchen Culinary Program <br />and Orange County Senior Centers <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging and Asset Management PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Facility Use Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Janice Tyler, Interim Director, <br />Dept. on Aging, 968-2071 <br />Pam Jones, Director, <br />Asset Management, 245-2652 <br />John Roberts, County Attorney, <br />245-2318 <br />PURPOSE: To approve a facility use agreement for Durham Technical Community College's <br />Nature's Kitchen Culinary Program usage of the Orange County Senior Centers' kitchen <br />facilities. <br />BACKGROUND: Durham Technical Community College (DTCC) and the Orange County <br />Department on Aging began meeting several months ago to develop a partnership around a <br />potential culinary arts program. The Senior Centers were designed with commercial kitchen <br />facilities with the expectation that in the future the daily lunch would be cooked on-site at these <br />facilities. <br />The future vision is for the Senior Centers to eventually serve as training facilities for the DTCC <br />Culinary Arts program and for DTCC culinary students to prepare the daily lunch or assist with <br />special food related events. The beginning of this partnership is to first offer the Nature's <br />Kitchen Culinary Program. The program emphasizes nutritional and therapeutic cooking, <br />mastery of kitchen skills, knowledge of sustainable kitchen practices and farm-to-table food <br />production. The program includes 504 hours of traditional and hands-on instruction. <br />The program will be using the DTCC Orange County Campus and the Orange County Senior <br />Centers. The Senior Center kitchens would be used in the evenings when Senior Center <br />programs are not utilizing them. The primary location would be the Central Orange Senior <br />Center with occasional use of the Seymour Center. This lease is being executed independent <br />of the terms of the proposed Facilities Use Policy. Orange County Environmental Health has <br />given its approval of the program and use of the kitchens. <br />