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City of Fort Collins
Senior Advisory Board
Minutes
Wednesday Dec. 8, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.
Meeting at 310 West Prospect
Fort Collins, Colorado
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.
City of Fort Collins SAB invites you to its scheduled virtual board meeting.
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I. Call to Order
a. Meeting started at 11:32 am.
II. Guest introductions
III. Public Input
None
IV. Administrative Items
a. Attendance: Myles Crane, Suzanne King, Dave Kovach, Allen Kress, Sarah Schliz,
Deanna O’Connell, Nancy Luttropp, and Alicia Durand
Staff: Sara Mendez and Sarah Olear
Excused Absence: Greg Wells
b. Correspondence: Interim City Clerk
c. Approval of Minutes
i. Comments on minutes: none
ii. Motion to approve: Nancy Luttropp; Allen Kress 2nd
d. Calendar
V. New Business: Discussion
a. Plans for January Virtual Meeting: New Members, Guest speakers and Annual Report
Potential Invitees: Offices of Mayor, City Attorney, Acting City Clerk, Sustainability
b. Nomination and Election of Vice Chair Jan – Mar 2022
Myles Crane’s motion to nominate David Kovach to fill the Vice Chair position for
January and February of 2022, effective January 1st 2022. Nancy Luttropp 2nd. Approved
unanimously.
c. Draft Annual Report: Any recommended changes can be emailed to Myles.
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Motion made to approve proposed draft by David Kovach. Deanna O’Connell 2nd.
Approved unanimously.
d. Service Recognition: Greg Wells, Sarah Schilz and Suzanne King
Myles distributed an appreciation gift to all 2 of the 3 board members present.
Recognized Suzanne King. Suzanne has served with the board for 8 years. She is
passionate, an excellent listener, cares deeply for the community and is an amazing board
member.
Recognized Sarah Schultz. Sarah has served with the board for 5 years. She has great
energy, is highly principled, and as vice chair and former chair has been a terrific leader
who demonstrated great foresight.
All three departing members, Greg, Suzanne, and Sarah will be missed.
VI ANNOUNCEMENTS :
Sara Mendez shared a Senior Center update.
The management team is looking to update the age policy at the Senior Center to match the
current ongoing programs and events at the Senior Center. The 18 years and older age restriction
will be removed so that those 18 and under can be in the facility, only with adult supervision
always. This aligns with current intergenerational programming that already occurs at the Center
and allows for youth to participate with parents or grandparents in specialty SC programs like
bad mitten or table tennis.
A spirited discussion followed this update. The biggest concerns being that Seniors would be
pushed out of the Senior Center and no longer have a space of their own within the city. The
board is worried it will become another community center. Not all board members disagreed.
Some thought that if there is unused space at recreation centers, then they should be used by
people interested in using them. They also thought more intergeneration programming should be
encouraged at the Senior Center because of all the benefits associated with it.
Some discussion comments included the following:
Do not change the age restriction.
Designate certain senior days and youth days.
Offer badmitten and table tennis at other facilities.
Build another recreation facility.
Trial run of the policy for 1 year, evaluate how users feel and make changes after.
Signage and education on how to communicate between generations. Focus on how to
encourage kindness and respectful communication between the generations.
At its January 12th meeting, the SAB will discuss this matter further regarding policy
communications, procedural compliance and related matters.