Aging Advisory Board Minutes 020916

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ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD ON AGING Minutes February 9, 2016 PRESENT: Mary Altpeter, Alex Castro, Keith Cook, Teri Driscoll, Ed Flowers, Katherine Leith, Winston Liao, Yvonne Mendenhall, Dick White, EXCUSED: Peggy Cohn, Lorenzo Mejia, Donna Prather STAFF: Mary Fraser, Julia Katz, Yvette Missri, Cherie Rosemond, Janice Tyler The meeting was called to order by Chair Alex Castro at the Central Orange Senior Center. Following the introduction of Julia Katz, former MPH summer intern and current Capstone Team member, the minutes from the January Advisory Board on Aging meeting were reviewed and approved following the motion by Keith Cook and second by Teri Driscoll. Janice Tyler began her Director’s Report by reviewing the county inclement weather policy. She pointed out that it is the County Manager who makes the decision to close or delay opening county offices when the weather is bad. Even with the 2-hour delays in January , the parking lots at both senior centers were very dangerous. With the manager’s approval, the senior centers did not open until noon the second day. In the future, the Department on Aging will have the option to delay the senior center opening beyond the employee start time when the parking areas are unsafe. The Orange County Board of County Commissioners will meet tonight to review Advisory Board and Committee work plan. Alex Castro, Teri Driscoll and James Bartow have agreed to represent the Advisory Board on Aging, the Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Community Advisory Committees, respectively. Janice Tyler, Mary Fraser, Pam Tillett, and Lorenzo Mejia made a presentation about Orange County CARES Dementia- Capable Community grant activities at the Carol Woods Retirement Community on Feb 4th. The Department will be making three presentations at the North Carolina Association on Aging conference in March. They will present on the Dementia Capable Community grant, Project EngAGE, and the Music in My Mind program. Janice, Mary, Yvette and Cherie Rosemond will be presenting a workshop on Project EngAGE at the American Society on Aging conference in Washington D.C on March 21st. The Department has also submitted a Nomination for the American Society on Aging Award for Excellence in Multicultural Aging for the Chinese Outreach program at the Seymour Center. The Chair introduced Julia Katz and explained that she worked for the Department over the summer to create a set of power point slides that could be put together in various ways to advocate for “Complete Streets” policies and programs with city and county plans. The Aging Advisory Board is hosting a Complete Streets sub-committee, charged with developing plans to fulfill some of the transportation and navigation recommendations called for in the 2012-17 Master Aging Plan. Julia serves on this committee, along with Alex Castro, and Lisa Berley, the OCDOA Transportation Specialist. Julia prefaced her presentation with the fact that she hoped this would be a “dry run” for a fuller community