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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 16, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 4-b <br /> SUBJECT: Re-naming of the Central Orange Senior Center to the Jerry M. Passmore <br /> Center <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1) Letter from Friends of Central Bonnie Hammersley, 919-245-2300 <br /> Orange Senior Center (September <br /> 20, 2010) <br /> 2) Memo from Friends of Central <br /> Orange Senior Center (May 8, <br /> 2014) <br /> 3) Response from BOCC Chair <br /> (October 21, 2014) <br /> 4) Letter from Chair of Friends of <br /> Central Orange Senior Center <br /> (March 17, 2015) <br /> 5) Resolution <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the re-naming of the Central Orange Senior Center to the <br /> Jerry M. Passmore Center and consider a resolution approving the renaming. <br /> BACKGROUND: Jerry Passmore was the Director of the Orange County Department <br /> on Aging from 1977 to 2010. The Friends of the Central Orange Senior Center (COSC) <br /> have requested that the Board of Orange County Commissioners (BOCC) rename the <br /> Central Orange Senior Center to the Jerry M. Passmore Center because of Mr. <br /> Passmore's many contributions to improving the lives of older adults in Orange County. <br /> These contributions include: <br /> • Jerry Passmore provided executive oversight of the merger of the Chapel Hill <br /> Council on Aging with the Orange County Council on Aging into a unified county- <br /> wide system. (1976) <br /> • Jerry Passmore proposed, in coordination with the County Council on Aging <br /> (COA), to the Board of Orange County Commissioners (BOCC) the Orange <br /> County ordinance establishing the first county Department on Aging and Advisory <br /> Board on Aging. (1980) <br /> • Jerry Passmore promoted the development of public-private partnerships in <br /> serving older adults, by involving the entire community and provided leadership <br /> as well as developing bylaws for: <br /> 1 <br />