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Committee Reports <br />• Heather Altman announced that Carolina Villages is unofficially beginning business on October <br />15. The public announcement of its operation will be held in early 2014. <br />• Leo Allison stated that the Friends of Central Orange cancelled its Harvest Moon Ball due to the <br />low number of advance ticket sales. The Bermuda cruise fundraiser has completely sold; plans <br />are underway for a spring cruise. <br />• There was discussion about an official representative from the Friends of the Seymour Center <br />to this Advisory Board. Jeane Suddarth was recently appointed to the Friends Board; Katherine <br />Leith is its Chair. Janice Tyler summarized the conversations underway between both Friends <br />organizations and Department staff to assure that the three travel sponsors are not in <br />competition with one another. She also announced the upcoming Friends of Seymour board <br />retreat. <br />• Discussion of the future of the Chatham-Orange Community Resource Connection is underway <br />as the staff coordinator is leaving the area and State funding has been eliminated. <br />• The Adult Care Home Committee continues to promote the Songs for Seniors program. <br />Committee Chair Dan Hatley expressed his concern with new members being appointed to the <br />ACH without first attending a committee meeting or being responsive to attempts to contact. <br />• Richard White reported on the Senior Tar Heel Legislature meeting he recently attended. He <br />summarized the priorities that the STHL has identified for 2014: funding for Senior Centers, <br />Project Care, adult protective services, Home and Community Care Block Grant funding, and <br />increasing the staff-to-patient ratio in long term care facilities. Heather Altman noted that a <br />number of local agencies utilize the Senior Tar Heel priorities as a base for their legislative <br />agendas. <br />• Alex Castro stated that Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels recently held a successful Food <br />Truck Rodeo fundraiser and a strategic planning retreat. <br /> <br />There being no further business the meeting was adjourned. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br />Janice Tyler, Secretary <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />3