Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
membership. Members offered suggestions and were encouraged to have candidates make <br />application to the Board of County Commissioners Office. Janice Tyler announced that the April <br />Advisory Board meeting will be held at 10:00 am at the Seymour Center in order to follow the <br />MAP Steering Committee meeting and to allow the Capstone Team to attend. <br />Mary Fraser announced that all five MAP workgroups have completed their meeting schedules. <br />The Capstone students have taken the objectives and strategies and are reordering them to <br />align with the NC Division of Aging’s Plan. A draft of the Plan will be sent to the Steering <br />Committee one week prior to its February 29 meeting (8am-10am,Carol Woods). Following <br />their input, the draft Plan will go out for public comment through mid-March. There are several <br />ways to provide comment: copies of the Plan available at the senior centers with comment <br />sheet, on-line distribution through the listserv with an on-line survey, seven public comment <br />sessions throughout the Orange County community. Following the public input period, the draft <br />Plan will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and then the Advisory Board on Aging before <br />its presentation to the Board of County Commissioners at the May 1st Meeting. The Plan will <br />have an accompanying document with information too specific for the Plan itself. The Chair <br />suggested that the media be contacted to promote the public comment sessions and Advisory <br />Board members were encouraged to attend. <br />Alex Castro suggested organizing a volunteer group to work with the entities identified to <br />implement the MAP strategies after the completion of the planning process. Mary Fraser <br />announced that a post-MAP celebration was being planned for all involved and the formation of <br />this group could be announced at this event. Janice Tyler added that there is interest in <br />reconvening the Steering Committee at least once a year. Ms. Fraser suggested that a summer <br />practicum student could assist in organizing the monitoring of the MAP’s strategies’ <br />implementation. Ms. Tyler announced that the proposal submitted for next year’s Capstone <br />Team had received initial approval. The date scheduled to present the Department’s proposal <br />to the Capstone students is March 16. <br />Janice Tyler raised the issue of assigning dollar amounts to Master Aging Plan implementation. <br />She plans to meet with Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey to discussed the concerns <br />expressed during the process of the validity of attaching such numbers to a strategic plan. She <br />stated that she has already met with Department on Aging Supervisors to identify ways to <br />redirect current efforts to meet some of the stated objectives with no increase in County support. <br />Leo Allison and Haryo Marsosudiro reported that the Friends of the Central Orange Senior <br />Center is beginning its 2012 major fundraising effort. A website for the organization has been <br />launched (www.friendsofcosc.net) and membership letters will be sent out soon. The Las <br />Vegas Night fundraising event will be held on April 21st. This year’s attendance goal is 330 <br />persons. <br />Mike Seymour reported that the Friends of the Seymour Center’s January solicitation letter <br />campaign had raised less than previous years. An application to support the Johnson Intern <br />Program and extended evening/Saturday hours has been submitted to the Town of Chapel Hill. <br />Discussion followed on the need to increase the community support of the Friends organization.