HomeMy WebLinkAboutSenior Advisory Board - Minutes - 03/08/1989The meeting of the Fort Collins Senior Advisory Board was held
on March 8, 1989. Attending the meeting were:
Members
Joe Campanella
Margaret Watts
June Begstrom
Mildred Arnold
Kathleen Jones
Kay Rios
Yetta Rollin
Advisory
Art Ganung -- Office on Aging
Mike Degner -- Poudre Valley Hospital
Barbara Schoenberger - Senior Center
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES The minutes of the meeting of February 8,
1989 were approved unanimously.
OLD BUSINESS
1. Election results -- the quarter -cent sales tax passed and so
there will be work to do as far as a site for the new senior
center. Art told the committee that Susan plans to call another
meeting of the Site Committee in the near future.
2. Senior Lifestyle Fair -- Letters went out to 89 different
agencies and businesses. Kay presented the proposal for the
event. Yetta suggested adding stock brokers to the list of
people invited to have a booth. Discussion centered on how to
determine who would get a booth. Joe suggested using a first
come, first served method. Mike felt more comfortable with a
jury situation so that the best could be picked according to the
philosophy behind the fair. Barb suggested that the Senior
Advisory Board have a hand-out on the table for the catastropic
insurance issue. She also felt the Board should provide a dis-
claimer saying that we do not necessarily endorse the agencies
nor products at the Fair. More of the details will be worked out
within the coming week.
3. Senior Resources Access System -- Joe is interested in put-
ting this service together for Fort Collins. He would like to
see the staff of the Senior Center do this. Barb felt that the
work load involved would require additional staff because someone
would have to collect the information and keep it current. In
Denver, the system is plugged into the City Wide Computer and the
Public Library is often used as an access point. Anyone in the
system can pull up the information. Barb thinks it is possible
to use this same set-up in Fort Collins, but the Board would need
to identify several points:
1. where the collection would be done;
2. how to educate the public and what types of
public relations would be used to sell it to
key points;
3. list of agencies to involve.
The City of Fort Collins has a computer system, but it would have
to be expanded. Barb will mail out more information and will
research this further.
4. Access on Lemay -- Joe read the letter from D. Ruth Clear
from the City stating that this was under study at this time.
NEW BUSINESS
1. Task Force on Senior Seminars -- Joe explained that Ed
Chilcott and Iris Slack were interested in putting on educational
seminars over a long period of time. The seminars would deal
with health insurance, taxes, alternative living arrangements and
other senior -related issues. Barb said that this is the first
time that all these senior organizations have worked together on
such a project and felt this could be tied into the resource
access idea.
2. Resignation letter to the city -- Roxeanne Smock moved and
did not formally resign so Joe sent the letter in her behalf.
3. Directions for City Boards -- tabld until next meeting.
4. Women's Financial Information Program -- Barb told the board
about the series of seminars in the program. It will be held
from 7 to 9 p.m. for seven consecutive Tuesdays. The price is
$15 for the whole workshop, which will deal with the unique needs
of women in mid-life and behond. Barb said that it was selling
okay to mid-life women but the older women are not interested.
She asked that Board members encourage older women to also attend
as these issues will pertain to them as well. Scholarships are
available and transportation will be provided.
5. Senior Ball -- The Senior Center needs volunteers to help on
different aspects of the event: decorations, food and publicity.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was
adjourned at 3:50 p.m.
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