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. 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 14, 2001 <br /> Action Agen a <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Lease Approval for Central Orange Senior Center Location <br /> DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> Services and Department on <br /> Aging <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Pam Jones (919) 245-2652 <br /> Draft Lease Jerry Passmore (919) 245-2009 <br /> Proposed Floor Plan TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Photo of Building (under separate cover) Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving a lease with Horton Enterprises LLC for a 4,000 square foot <br /> suite within the Meadowlands complex (515 Meadowlands Drive) on Highway 70A, <br /> Hillsborough, in which to establish the Central Orange Senior Center. <br /> BACKGROUND: Over the past two years, the Friends of the Senior Center for Central Orange, <br /> in cooperation with the Department on Aging, has been raising support funds and looking for <br /> additional temporary rental space for more accessible, visible and expanded senior center <br /> programming to serve the growing older population. The proposed leased space is <br /> conveniently located on the back side of the Triangle Sportsplex property for easy access for <br /> seniors to use the swimming and fitness facilities and walking path. The Friends organization is <br /> broad based geographically and culturally and includes the following officers: Mary Bacon, Pete <br /> Langan, Leo Allison, Mariah McPherson, Betty June Hayes, Jerry Passmore and Ted Moore. <br /> Additional board members are Helen Miller, Bonnie Davis, Alner Greene, Frances Hamlin, Norm <br /> Gustaveson, Carolyn Thomas, Roy McAdoo, Barry Jacobs and Ina Whitted. Currently, the <br /> Senior Center space is in the Whitted Human Services Building and limited to the nutrition and <br /> art/crafts rooms and the Dept. on Aging conference room. This space would continue to be <br /> used for seniors along with the proposed lease space until a large multipurpose Senior Service <br /> Center becomes a reality. The Friends support the lease of the Meadowlands space for active <br /> as well as frail older adults who will need day care assistance. <br /> The approved Master Aging Plan (M.A.P.) identified and recommended the rental of additional <br /> senior center space in Central Orange (Goal I-A-b2) and the establishment of day care program <br /> (Goal III-A-c3). The proposed lease space would accomplish these M.A.P. objectives. <br />