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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 24, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9-d-1 <br />SUBJECT: Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee-Two New Appointments <br />DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover <br />Membership Roster INFORMATION C ONTACT: <br />Copy of letter written to Nursing Home Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 <br />Administration <br />Letter of Recommendation TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) Being Hillsborough 245-2130 <br />Recommended Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Interest List Durham 688-7331 <br />Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) on the Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />Interest List <br />PURPOSE: To consider making new appointments to the Nursing Home Community Advisory <br />Committee. <br />BACKGROUND: There are two vacancies on the Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee. <br />There is one At-Large vacancy and one Nursing Home Administration vacancy. The Clerk's Office has <br />received a recommendation from the NHCAC for Arthur St. John, If appointed, Mr St. John will be <br />serving an initial one-year training term. <br />All Orange County Nursing Homes were sent a letter on August 5, 2004 giving them 45 <br />days to nominate a volunteer to represent them on the NHCAC, the Clerk's Office has not received a <br />response. The 45 days waiting period ended on September 20, 2004, therefore allowing the BOCC to <br />make appointments without their nomination. <br />Nursino Home Communitv Advisory Committee <br />Pos. No. Special Rep. Term Ex p. Date <br />1 At-Lar e Initial One Year Training Term 1131/2006 <br />6 Nursin Home Administration Initial One Year Training Term 1/31/2006 <br />The N.C. G.S. 131d.31 (b) (4) states: <br />"Of the members, a minority (not less than one-third, but as close to one-third as possible) <br />shall be chosen from among persons nominated by a majority of the chief administrators of <br />adult care homes in the county. If the adult care home administrators fail to make a <br />nomination within 45 days after written notification has been sent to them requesting a <br />nomination, these appointments may be made without nominations." <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider making new appointments to the Nursing Home Community <br />Advisory Committee, as the Board may desire.