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2 <br />WORK PLAN <br />FOR <br />ESTABLISHING THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL SENIOR CENTER SPACE <br />IN CHAPEL HILL <br />GOAL - Determine feasibility of establishing an additional <br />Chapel Hill Senior Center <br />Objective - To create a Town /County Task Force to identify <br />scope of services and location. <br />BACKGROUND <br />Issue - Orange County /Chapel Hill needs to increase its <br />capacity (policy /service design) to respond to the <br />service needs of the increasing older (60 +) <br />population composed of varied groups with vastly <br />different needs. <br />Significant External and Internal Factors <br />A. Demographics of Aging.are changing: (1) increasing overall <br />number (especially the old -old) in Chapel Hill, (2) <br />increasing concentration of older persons toward north and <br />east side, (3) increasing diversity of elderly <br />from low- income to high income, widowed, minority, <br />newcomers, active "Frisky" to severely impaired <br />"Fragile" elderly. <br />B. Service System continues to be affected by several <br />factors: (1) lack of highly visible, identifiable facility <br />(s) to meet the multiple needs of a diverse elderly <br />population, (2) creation of additional services /resources <br />by community agencies, (3) lack of programming space for <br />seniors by the Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation Department <br />and the Department on Aging, and (4) increased interest in <br />joint planning for the elderly by public and private <br />agencies. <br />C. Older person's perception of county /city services has <br />changed: seen more as a right to be guaranteed to all. <br />CREATION OF A TOWN /COUNTY TASK FORCE <br />Proposed Composition - The Orange County Commissioners, <br />Chapel Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation <br />Commission, Orange County Advisory Board an Aging will each <br />select one or two representatives. At -large representatives <br />would be Robert Seymour and Betty Landsberger, totaling ten <br />Task Force members. support staff to the Task Force will be <br />Jerry Passmore, Dept. on Aging and Mike Loveman, Chapel Hill <br />Recreation. <br />