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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 14, 2004 Action Agenda Item No. 9- C ~ 6 SUBJECT• Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Under Separate Cover Membership Roster INFORMATION C ONTACT: Copy of letter written to Nursing Home Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 Administration Letter of Recommendation TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) Being Hillsborough 245-2130 Recommended Chapel Hill 968-4501 Interest List Durham 688-7331 Application(s)/Resume(s) of Person(s) on the Mebane 336-227-2031 Interest List PURPOSE: To consider making new appointments to the Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee, BACKGROUND: There are two vacancies on the Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee. There is one At-Large vacancy and one Nursing Home Administration vacancy. The Clerk's Office has received a recommendation from the NHCAC for Arthur St. John, If appointed, Mr, St. John will be serving an initial one-year training term, All Orange County Nursing Homes were sent a letter on August 5, 2004 giving them 45 days to nominate a vclunteer to represent them on the NHCAC, the Clerk's Office has not received a response. The 45 days waiting period ended on September 20, 2004, therefore allowing the BOCC to make appointments without their nomination. Nursin Home Communit Adviso Committee Pos. No. S ecial Re Term Exp. Date 1 At-Lar e Initial One Year Trainin Term 1/31/2006 6 Nursin Nome Administration Initial One Year Trainin Term 1/31/2006 The N,C, G.S.. 131d.31 (b) (4) states: "Of the members, a minority (not less than one-third, but as close to one-third as possible) shall be chosen from among persons nominated by a majority of the chief administrators of adult care homes in the county, If the adult care home administrators fail to make a nomination within 45 days after written notification has been sent to them requesting a nomination, these appointments may be made without nominations." FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider making new appointments to the Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee, as the Board may desire.