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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 19, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~- q <br />SUBJECT: Master Aging Plan Update and Preliminary Goals and Objectives Approval <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging/ Advisory Board on Aging PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />MAP Task Force <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Steering Com. Minutes- May 11, 20Q6 <br />2) MAP Approval of Outline and Theme <br />3) MAP Proposed Bill of Rights for Older <br />Persons <br />4) Preliminary MAP Goals, Objectives and <br />Strategies for 2007-11 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jerry M. Passmore, 245-2000 <br />Pat Sprigg, Task Force Co-chair <br />Florence Soltys, Task Force Co-chair <br />PURPOSE: To update the Board of County Commissioners on the Master Aging Planning <br />progress and to request approval of the report outline (including the report theme statement, <br />and the development of a bill of rights for older persons) and the preliminary goals and <br />objectives for 2007-11 for public comment. <br />BACKGROUND: At the request of the Orange County Advisory Board on Aging, the Orange <br />County Board of Commissioners approved on June 23, 2005 updating the Master Aging Plan <br />(M,A,P.) for the Years 2006-2010, On October 18, 2005, the Board of County Commissioners <br />approved the recommended M,A,P, Task Force charge, structure, membership and time frame <br />-with Commissioners Barry Jacobs and Alice Gordon to serve on the Steering Committee.. The <br />M,A,P. Steering Committee was formed and guided the activities of the three subcommittees <br />charged with identifying specific issues of the elderly and developing goals, objectives and <br />strategies to accomplish them, <br />Since the last MAP update report to the BOCC on May 4, 2006, Pat Sprigg and Florence Soltys, <br />co-chairs, held a M.A,P. Steering Committee on May 11"'to complete prioritization of subgroup <br />issues and begin the development of goals, objectives and strategies. (Attachment #1) <br />During the months of May through August, the three funcfional subcommittees - (1) Well/Fit <br />Older Adult, (2) Disabled /Moderately Impaired Older Adult and (3) the Severely Impaired <br />/Institutionalized Older Adult -and the four identified broad issues subgroups <br />(Information/Access, Housing, Transportation and Transitional Care) met to finalize goals, <br />objectives and strategies. The MAP Leadership team (consisting of the facilitators of all the <br />subgroups) met to finalize goals, objectives and strategies for administration/planning and <br />legislative/advocacy that would be included in the MAP report. <br />