2002-03-11 Council on Aging Minutes

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Council on Aging March 11, 2002 Senior Center Miss. Reading, MA 01867 t P Present: Dick Anderson, Barbara Powers, John O'Neill, Betty Cronin, Edwina Kasper, Ray Cabot, Gay Williams, Pamela Brown (Director). Absent: Ed Merullo, Joanne O'Brien, Dottye Foxon • Betty Cronin called the meeting to order at 6:37 p.m. • The minutes of February's meeting were approved (motion by John O'Neill, second by Dick Anderson). • Pamela reviewed the Financial Report. Everyone was very pleased with the explanations offered by her. The report was accepted, motion by Gay Williams, second by Barbara Powers. • Highlights of the Administrator's Report for February were reviewed. • Pamela commented that she had met with a representative at Longwood place, to talk about programming. She will see that flyers and the newsletter are distributed there. The town's senior citizen van will not be available to Longwood residents as they have their own. The Senior Center does have support activities that Longwood does not offer, so there appears to be some opportunity for us to serve those residents. Pamela will look into opportunities for income eligible residents at Longwood relative to taxi services and the like. A motion to accept the report was made by Gay Williams, and seconded by Barbara Powers; approved. • No return call has been received from the Carroll Center (reference low vision clientele and the computers). • Pamela reported that she will contact TASC again regarding potential trainers for the computer room. • Our shopping assistance coordinator had planned to retire soon - this makes the up-coming budget cut in the new fiscal year less distasteful on a personal level. However, the duties here will need to be merged into the Coordinator of Volunteers' position. • Regarding the Computer Room, Pamela reported that a new class with Steve Oston (a second excel class) will start on Wednesday. Five people have signed up and a sixth is interested as well. • We discussed the monthly newsletter, the Ramblings. Pamela has researched information about a bulk mailing permit - standard rate for not non-profits would be $.233 each, if sorted by route $.149; for a non-profit (we aren't one) it would be $.146 unsorted and $.089 sorted. There has been a suggestion that the Woburn post office might be able to sort our mailing data on diskette, by route; Pamela will look into this. There was also a suggestion that Mystic Valley (a non-profit) might let us use their bulk mail permit - Pamela will follow up with Dan O'Leary on this. Gay Williams put forth a suggestion that we mail the newsletter in June, September,