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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date <br />SUBJECT: Active Seniors Assessment <br />DEPARTMENT: Health <br />August 16, 2005 <br />Results <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7- Q <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Seniors on the Move Report <br />(Under Separate Cover) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rosemary Summers, ext 2411 <br />Ellen Young, 968-2022 ext 292 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />Chapel Hill <br />Durham <br />Mebane <br />732-8181 <br />968-4501 <br />688-7331 <br />336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a presentation and consider the results from the Active Seniors Project, <br />BACKGROUND: Staff will provide a presentation reviewing the Active Seniors Project and <br />highlighting the recommendations to help promote walking and biking in the neighborhoods <br />surrounding the new Southern Orange County Senior Center an Homestead Road in Chapel <br />Hill. The Seniors on the Move Report is the result of an eight-month project that brought public <br />health educators, land use planners, and senior services professionals together with senior <br />citizens and other community members, <br />Assembled in October of 2004, the Active Seniors Project Team conducted five main tasks over <br />eight months, including: 1) receiving orientation and training from project staff; 2) reviewing <br />existing plans for the project area; 3) conducting assessments of the pedestrian and bicycle <br />infrastructure in the area; 4) identifying existing pedestrian and bicycle routes; and 5) <br />developing recommendations for improving the pedestrian and bicycle network in order to help <br />seniors and others be mare physically active, In addition, the Project Team provided input on <br />the site design of the Senior Center itself to help connect it with the surrounding pedestrian and <br />bicycle network, <br />The Project Team identified existing walking and biking routes and developed maps of these <br />routes that will be posted in a variety of places and will be available to residents, The Team <br />also developed a set of six priority recommendations for improving walking routes and six <br />priority recommendations for improving biking routes in the Homestead Road area. A few other <br />additional recommendations are included in the Report as well, <br />This project was funded at $19,710 through a grant from Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch <br />Community Grants Program within the NC Department of Health and Human Services, Grant <br />application partners were the Orange County Health Department as the lead agency, and <br />included the Triangle ~7 Council of Governments and the Orange County Department on Aging, <br />