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COORDINATING COMMISSION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
Monthly Meeting
November 2, 1971
The monthly meeting of the Mayors Commission on Aging was held in
the City Council Chamber on Tuesday, November 2, 1971, at 4:00 P.M.
Present: Mrs. Nancy Stegner
Mr. Walter B. Peterson
Dr. Harry Sobel
Mr. W. J. Boggs
Rev. Clarence H. Hinkhouse
W. R. Jim Deitloff
Mrs. Doris S. Atkinson
Absent: Dr. Douglas Murray
Officers were elected as follows: Chairman, Nancy Stegner; Vice
Chairman, Walter B. Peterson; Publicity Chairman, W. R. Jim Deitloff;
and Secretary, Doris S, Atkinson.
A regular meeting date for the Commission was designated as the
second Wednesday of each month at 3:30 P.M., in the City Council Chamber.
The next meeting will be held Thursday, December 16, 1971, in the
Friendship Room of the Home Savings Building, Howes at Oak, in conjunction
with the Fort Collins Chapter of the AARP and the Senior Citizens Advisory
Committee. The Senior Citizens Advisory Committee is made up of representa-
tives of eighteen senior citizens groups. The Senior Citizens Advisory
Committee and the Fort Collins chapter of the AARP meet together on al-
ternate months. The program for the December 16th meeting will be "tax
relief for seniors." Jim Deitloff volunteered to contact Mr. Robert B.
Robinson or Mr. W. N. Leuthauser, Colorado State Department of Social
Services, department of services for the aging, 1575 Sherman Street,
Denver, Colorado, 80203, and request that one of them serve as a keynote
speaker for this meeting. Topics suggested were: Information on pro-
posed tax relief, Present tax relief legislation, and/or Tax relief as
practiced in other areas of the United States. Nancy Stegner appointed
herself and Doris Atkinson to invite members of the City Council and
the Larimer County Commissioners or their representatives to the
meeting.
Senior citizens activity week which will be held in May, 1972, was
discussed. Dr. Sobel suggested Mable Preble and Nancy Stegner be named
a chairman and co-chairman. Other suggestions were: to ask for assis-
tance from the Chamber of Commerce; to invite the Junior High School
bands to play for the parade; to plan around a centeral theme such as
"ACTION NOW ON RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE"; to
select a chairman for the Senior Citizens Advisory Committee; and fin-
ally, that each commission member be prepared to recommend a senior
citizen for the chairmanship.
Senior Citizens Commission
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November 2, 1971
There was discussion of the proposal that a newsletter be published
and circulated; the newsletter to contain information from each senior
group as well as from the Commission. One purpose of the newsletter
would be to locally activate White House Conference recommendations.
Doris S. Atkinson
Secretary