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Orange County Department on Aging <br /> Advisory Board on Aging <br /> MINUTES <br /> April 12, 2022 <br /> Passmore Center/Virtual <br /> Attendance: Heather Altman, Colin Austin, Jeff Charles, Vibeke Talley, James Harris, Jerry <br /> Gregory <br /> Staff: Janice Tyler Myra Austin, Shenae McPherson, Mike Komives, Brandi Beeker, Anshu Gupta <br /> Guest: Lan and Jing Huang (Colin's neighbors), Lucinda Poole, Cherie Rosemond, <br /> Excused: Dick White, Jenny Womack, Rachel Bearman, Jerry Gregory <br /> 1. Introductions and Announcements <br /> a. Introductions and welcome to guest Lan and Jing Huang (Colin's neighbors). <br /> 2. Approval of Minutes— March 8, 2022 <br /> a. Approval postponed for next meeting as the minutes were not distributed in <br /> advance with the meeting reminder. <br /> Director's Report <br /> 3. COVID Update and Department operations <br /> a. Monitoring for COVID levels in the community is now being done through water <br /> samples rather than the number of positive COVID tests done at testing sites, <br /> since many people are also during home tests and these are not reported to the <br /> Health Department. <br /> b. The DOA is getting back to pre-pandemic activities and number of Center <br /> attendees are increasing. <br /> c. Transition of lunch program to in-person dining and curbside—people are not <br /> rushing to dine in. 15 persons are attending in-person at Seymour and 5/6 <br /> persons at Passmore. The home delivery of meals to our transit dependent older <br /> adults has been discontinued. Total number of meals being served has declined <br /> some, but still remains significantly higher than pre-pandemic. <br /> d. Seymour Center evening/weekend hours have resumed as of April 2. <br /> e. Resuming OCPT transit services to the Centers <br /> i. Working on resuming county transit services for 13 participants that have <br /> shown interest. The majority of the trips will cost $25.50 round trip based <br /> on locations. At the current OCPT rates it will cost approximately $30,000 <br /> annually to provide rides for these 13 people. We anticipate when the <br /> word gets out that the transit services have resumed we will have many <br /> more older adults requesting service. <br /> ii. OCPT has no funding. <br />