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I Commissioner Rich said there was discussion at the work session about the Unified 2 Development Ordinance (UDO) as it relates to renewable and solar energy and utility 3 placement in the County. She wonders if it would be possible to have a forum to educate the 4 Board on what it means to put those utilities in the County. 5 Commissioner Rich said there has been a report in the News and Observer about 6 contractors who are subcontracting work, and then not paying the subcontractors properly. She 7 said the Board had received an update on what the County can demand from its contractors. 8 She thinks the Board needs to examine this issue more. 9 10 4. Proclamations/ Resolutions/ Special Presentations 11 12 a. Orange County Long Term Care Quality Service Awards 13 The Board recognized the winners of the 2014 Orange County Long Term Care Quality 14 Service Awards. 15 Janice Tyler introduced Donna Prather, Chair of the Long Term Care Leaning 16 Collaborative, who reviewed the following information: 17 18 Background: As part of the Orange County 2012 -17 Master Aging Plan, the Department on 19 Aging was asked to develop a mechanism to help increase the quality of care provided in 20 Orange County's long -term care facilities and home care organizations. 21 22 In 2013, the Advisory Board on Aging created the Orange County Long Term Care (LTC) 23 Learning Collaborative to bring administrators and direct -care staff together to learn about and 24 share successful approaches to quality care. The Aging Board wanted to provide organizations 25 the opportunity to learn about these new approaches and to support them in their 26 implementation. 27 28 Long Term Care organizations were invited to a series of seminars in the summer of 2013 29 which focused on two areas 1) activity programming and 2) administrative practices to reduce 30 staff turn -over. LTC organizations that attended the seminars were then challenged to 31 implement and evaluate the results of at least one of these practices over the coming year. 32 33 The Advisory Board on Aging was so impressed with the results of some of these 34 efforts /projects that it would like to honor them with a 2014 LTC Quality Service Award. It is 35 hoped that the recognition of these Long Term Care organizations will be used as motivation for 36 other organizations to implement practices that support high levels of quality care. 37 38 Donna Prather announced the following award winners: 39 40 2014 Long Term Care Quality Service Award Winners: 41 42 Livewell Assisted Living: Executive Director Diane Beckett and Activity Director 43 Marriettie Morris 44 Livewell is a 6 -bed family care home located in Chapel Hill. Many of its residents are 45 persons with dementia. The goal of its project was to implement an individualized program of 46 memory stimulation with each resident at least 15- minutes each day. With input from their 47 families, a set of activities was designed for each resident based on their past interests and 48 hobbies. It was hoped that these activities would bring pleasure to the residents, as well as 49 reduce some of the negative effects of dementia. The program was so well received by the 50 residents that they willingly engaged in these activities far more than just 15- minutes each day.