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Consolidation Plan Specifics New Central Orange Senior Center 1._ Change in Oaerational Hours at both Centers beainning January, 2009 A. The Seymour Center hours would be reduced to: 8:00 a.m.- 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, and 8:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. The Seymour Center would be open on evenings, but with reduced hours. (Note: Evening hours are needed to accommodate over 120 fitness studio participants who attend evenings and to maintain similar hours as the Sportsplex fitness studio that will be available to the Central Orange Senior Center participants on a fee basis.) B. The new Central Orange Senior Center hours would be 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. on Monday and Thursday and 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. (Note: Currently, the Center is open only on Monday evening. Once in the new facility, we will evaluate the need for more hours for FY2009-10.) 2. Permanent Center Personnel A. Reassign Senior Citizens Program Coordinator from the Efland/Cheeks and Northern Orange Community Centers to the front desk management operations at the new Central Orange Senior Center, to help cover expanded daily operations. B. The one permanent Evening Facility Manager would rotate between the two Senior Centers when possible, but would require an additional 10 hours a week of anon-permanent position. It is hoped that revenues from classes at the Central Orange Senior Center will cover the staff cost for the evening hours. For building and participant security, volunteers would be needed and recruited through the Friends and RSVP, to open the doors and to assist the one paid employee on evenings when the centers are open. 3. Temporary Center Personnel A.. To compensate for mandated budget reductions, all crafts and exercise instruction that have taken place at various Central/Northern Orange locations would now take place at the new Central Orange Senior Center beginning January 2009. (For example, the four separate exercise classes that operated two days per week at various locations would be combined into two classes, but would offer seniors four days of instruction Monday through Thursday each week.) 4. OPT Senior Citizen Transit Oaerations A. All transportation for senior trips would be merged with the two new Senior Centers which will be connected hubs for transporting out to other necessary services such as weekly shopping, banking, etc., and also periodic medical trips when possible. In January, 2009, OPT would begin senior transportation from community centers to the new Central Orange Senior Center. Since the public Hillsborough to Chapel Hill hourly route would leave from the two Senior Centers between 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. each day, citizens would be encouraged to ride the public bus to hospital clinics if possible. Seniors can travel between centers for different activities and to the new Orange County Durham Tech campus for classes.