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t <br /> ` ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 21, 2002 <br /> Action Age a <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Master Aging Plan Senior Housing Assessment Project <br /> DEPARTMENT: Aging S Advisory Board on PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No_ <br /> Aging and Housing and <br /> Community Development <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Jack Chestnut,Vice-Chair,Aging Boartl <br /> Senior Housing Assessment Project Jerry Passmore, a#. 2009 <br /> Inducting Work Plan Tara Fill act. 2490 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 733-0181 <br /> Chapal Hill 9684601 <br /> Durham 88&7331 <br /> Mebane 336-2278031 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve the expenditure of$6,000 in Master-Aging Plan funds earmarked to <br /> develop and complete a senior housing needs assessment. <br /> BACKGROUND: Of the top 20 Master Aging Plan's issues/objectives, three address the need <br /> to ensure an adequate supply of senior housing. Goal IIB-a1 (ranked number 7) recommended <br /> a county wide assessment of current senior housing and recommended needs projected <br /> through the year 2020. An adequate supply of senior housing was prioritized as one of the top <br /> issues to be funded for FY 2002, and $6,000 was act aside In the adopted Master Aging Plan. <br /> Implementation of the pretest was postponed unfil staff could respond to the BOCC's inquiry as <br /> to whether information on senior housing needs was already available from County housing <br /> agencies, Jack Chestnut,Vice-Chair of the Orange County Advisory Boat on Aging, <br /> investigated the matter because he was a member of the Orange County Affordable Housing <br /> Board and a member of other local and state senior housing groups. Based on his research and <br /> assistance from Tam Fikes, Director of Orange County Housing and Community Development, <br /> it was determined that a special needs survey on senior housing (ownership and rental)did not <br /> exist that covered all socioeconomic groups. The Orange County Affordable Housing Board <br /> was presented the issue and, in light of the fact that the senior population will double by 2020, <br /> recommended proceeding with goal II6-a1 at its meeting on February 12, 2002. <br /> The attached Orange County Senior Housing Assessment Plan was approved by the Orange <br /> County Advisory Boat on Aging on May 10, 2002. The plan would be implemented by the <br /> Orange County Department on Aging with the assistance of Carol Woods Retirement <br /> Community and the County Housing and Community Development Department. The plan <br /> would cover all of Orange County including the mal areas. <br />