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ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA REQUEST TO <br />SENATOR ELIZABETH DOLE <br />Southern Orange Senior Center Kitchen Facility Funding Request <br />Project Name: <br />Southern Orange Senior Center Kitchen Facility <br />Organization or Entity making request: <br />Orange County Department on Aging/Orange County Government <br />Orange County, North Carolina <br />Organization Contact (include name, position, addresses and phone <br />numbers): <br />Moses Carey, Jr,, Chair, Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />203 Simerville Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27517 <br />H - (919) 929-8513 W - (919) 933-8494 <br />Email: mcarev1(a~mindspring.com <br />Barry Jacobs, Vice Chair, Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />2105 Moorefields Road, Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />H - (919) 732-4384 W - (919) 732-4941 <br />Email: barN.ICr~mindsprinq.com <br />John t.ink, County Manager, Orange County, North Carolina <br />200 South Cameron St., PO Box 8181, Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />(919) 245-2300 <br />Email: jlinkCa~co.orange.nc.us <br />Jerry Passmore, Director, Department on Aging, Orange County, NC <br />515 Meadowlands Dr,, Ste. 400, PO Box 8181, Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />(919) 245-2000 <br />Email: ipassmore@co.orange.nc.us <br />Brief description of organization and/or project to be funded: <br />Orange County Government, as part of the services and <br />programming provided through the County s Department on Aging, is <br />currently in the architectural design phase of constructing a new <br />Southern Orange Senior Center in Chapel Hill, NC, The new Center <br />will replace a leased facility on Elliott Road in Chapel Hill, The new <br />location on Homestead Road will be more accessible to senior <br />members from all socio-economic levels within the Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro communities, The facility will include a multipurpose <br />meeting room able to accommodate up to 250 people for cammunity- <br />wide events and projects, <br />As part of this new 25,000 square foot facility, the County is <br />proposing to construct commercial grade kitchen facilities capable of <br />providing in excess of 150 meals daily far senior citizens who come <br />to the Center as well as serve as a base of operations to support the <br />highly-poptalar Meals on Wheels program that serves homebound <br />seniors in the southern Orange County. Further, as meal time is an <br />