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City of Fort Collins
Senior Advisory Board Minutes
Wednesday August 9th 11:30 am
In Person meeting/Zoom Hybrid meeting 1200 Raintree Drive
Fort Collins Senior Center
Mission: The Senior Advisory Board shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Fort Collins City Council
on programs and policies that help aging citizens live full and interesting lives and continue to
contribute, participate, and share in the life of the community.
I. Call to Order: 11:35am
II. Public Participation
Tammy Shirk, Trisha Ehrlich, Joe Glomboski
Tammy and Trisha shared concerns regarding changes to scheduling for free
programming at the Senior Center as well as information relating to Senior Advisory
Board.
III. Administrative Items
a. Attendance:
Alan Kress, Deanna O’Connell, Mary Roberts, Bruce Henderson, Gabby Rivera, David Kovach,
Suzanne King.
Excused: Myles Crane, Alicia Durand
Staff members: Lisa Hays.
b. Approval of May minutes Motion: Alan Kress Second Mary Roberts. Unanimously approved.
c. Correspondence – None
d. Six Month Calendar Update – Sarah will keep updated monthly.
IV. Today’s Guest Speakers: Ginny Sawyer Project Manager with the City Manager’s Office
a. See presentation materials.
b. Background on 2 potential November ballot measures
Action needed.
a. Boards to have basic understanding of the measures should they get questions.
b. Information located on the City Website: ourcity.fcgov.com (Sustainable
funding).
V. New Business:
a. Discussion of community outreach.
How to create awareness in the community about the Senior Advisory Board and what
their mission is.
A proposal was made that Senior Advisory Board create handouts to be distributed to the
community via senior center programs as well as within the community at various
locations. A motion was made by Suzanne King and seconded by Mary Roberts to
investigate avenues of producing handout material. All approved.
b. Recent City Council Activity – Council member Susan Gutowsky no report.
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VI. Ongoing Initiatives: Deferred to next meeting.
a. Board member roundtable minute
b. Housing – Mary/ Alan
c. Transportation – Bruce
d. Safety & Wellness - Deanna
e. Office on Aging – Alan
f. Outreach to isolated individuals-Gabby
g. Senior Center - Sarah
h. Future SAB Guest Speakers
VII. Adjourn 1:30pm
UPCOMING EVENTS and OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volunteer Engagement Summit: Saturday August 26th from 10 am – 8 pm
Live involved: Saturday September 9th from ?