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COORDINATING COMMISSION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
April 9, 1975
A regular meeting of the Commission was held in the City Council Chambers
at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 9, 1975.
Members Present: C. E. Hommon, Chairman
Charles N. Shepardson, Secretary
R. Fred Chambers
Frances Bigelow
Jim Conlon
Ed Martin
W. J. Wonders
Members Absent: Virginia Dunford
Also Present: John McGraw, Administrator, City Dept. of Human Resource
Minutes of the regular meeting of March 12, special meeting of March 31, 1975 and
a report of subsequent activities with the City Council and City Manager on
April 1 and April 3, 1975 respectively were reported by the secretary. All were
approved as distributed with minor typographical corrections.
After thorough discussion of the proposed compromise plan worked out by Messrs.
Shepardson and McGraw for the Commission and Brunton and Phillips for the City
whereby the R.S.V.P., Home Helps and Visiting Nurse Association would have es-
sentially the office space requested in the northeast corner 1st floor of the
Coloradoan Building with scheduled use of the conference room in the northwest
corner basement in lieu of the room requested on the first floor for the present,
with the understanding that Parks and Recreation plans to move much of their
staff and some activities to new facilities in the City Park Fire Station in
approximately 18 months at which time additional space will become available
for Care -A -Van and other senior citizen service activities in this building.
The following action was taken:
Moved by Bigelow seconded by Wonders that the Commission endorse the
proposed plan together with an application by the City for $10,000.00
of Title III Older American Act Funds currently avail&le to the Larimer-
Weld C.O.G. for 1975 and our additional $25,000.00 of 1975-76 funds to be
used as partial reimbursement to the City for the cost of remodeling, re-
furbishing and refurnishing the space to be used in this building. The
motion was approved unanimously.
Wonders moved and Conlon seconded that the Commission express its thanks
and appreciation to Mr. Brunton and Mr. Phillips for their cooperation and
to Mr. McGraw and his staff and Robb & Brenner, architects for the build-
ing, for their expeditious preparation of the fund application and the
cost estimates pertinent thereto. This motion was also adopted unanimously.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 p.m.
Charles N. Shepardson,
Secretary
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