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Senior Advisory Board
June 10, 1987.
Members Present: Mildred Arnold, Yetta Rollin, Joe Campanella,
Ruby Lynch, & Sam Rosenthal.
Members Absent: Patty Raco-Wunsch, Nancy Luttrop, Arlene Simon,
Phillip Simon, Pat Long, & Roxanne Smock
I. Call To Order
Meeting was called to order by Chairperson, Joe Campanella
II. Review of Minutes
Motion was made by Joe to approve the minutes as read.
Motion was seconded and all approved.
III. Introduction of John Daggett, representing Transfort
The Saint and Caravan boards have not been merged at this
time. John feels positive regarding the opportunity to put
Saint under the "umbrella" of Caravan, just as RSVP is under
that umbrella, allowing Saint to apply for grants and not be
seen as a government entity. The RSVP board is under and
reports informationally to the Caravan board, however the
Caravan board avoids involvement in the operations of the
program.
John reports that the boards are currently on very good
terms, and communications strong. Their number one goal is
to increase the number of trips available to the seniors in
the community. The stated purpose of the discussions of
concern to our board is to maximize the effectiveness of the
resourses of both these groups to the benefit of both the
seniors and the handicapped. The city will still control the
funds for both agencies, and will ensure continued service
contractually.
Mildred expressed the concern that very often
transportation providers are rigid and unable to provide a
convenient way to the Dr.'s office in an emergency. This
concern was expressed by all in attendance. John explains
that this is one of the issues which the Transportation Task
Force is looking into, and suggested that we individually or
as a group express our concern to Gina Jannett at 221-
6611,the coordinater. We should avoid conflict and represent
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the need we see in the senior community. Saint currently
operates on demand response 68% of the time, while Caravan
is less than 10% demand response. We all agree, a combined
cooperative effort utilizing all the resourses of both
organizations would be most desireable. The possibility of
also utilizing the taxi cab companies contractually to help
fill some of the demand response support was also discussed.
We viewed the recruiting slide show for Saint. The
presentation was very professionally done and certainly
Inspiring in its effort to encourage volunteerism on behalf
of Saint.
IV.Paint-a-thon
The boards involvement in the project was discussed. Joe
met with representatives of the office on aging and
developed in part a form to be used to evaluate the various
applicants and their homes. A preliminary copy is attached.
Please look it over and respond to Joe with any suggestion
for improvement by 6/24/87. We currently have 9
applications to process, so its not to early to begin our
evaluation work!
V. Adjournment
The table was polled for further new business, and motion
was accepted to adjourn.
Respectfully SubTij ted,
Jl�l
.F.C.