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Council on Aging Board Meeting
Monday, March 9, 2009
Reading Senior Center Game Room
Present
: Stacey Bertocchi, Steve Oston, Marguerite Bosnian, Margaret
Havey, George Lonergan, Carol Oniskey, Carol Patterson, Barbara Powers,
Carole Scrima, Dawn Folopoulos (Staff).
Call to Order:
6:33 PM.
Minutes:
approved and accepted for February 9, 2009
Administrator’s Report:
approved and accepted.
Questions were answered by Staff regarding the retirement date of the
COV, the content of the emergency preparedness kits, rummage sale
vouchers, and the Formula Grant reduction ($/elder). Staff was
willing, in the future, to compute YTD unduplicated data for various
categories of Staff/Client/Program Contacts heretofore listed as N/A
in this report.
Financial Report:
approved and accepted.
Comments were made by some COA members that the monthly
Financial Report was perhaps too detailed to be user friendly and,
therefore, did not readily help the Council make decisions or offer
guidance to Staff. It was moved (Bertocci) and seconded (Scrima) to
shorten the report to the General Fund and Burbank Fund summary
sheets; motion passed 7-1-0.
Old Business:
Discussion of the costs and benefits of the Elders Services ad in the
Recreation Division magazine was continued from last month, at
which time the Council agreed to discontinue the ad for the Summer
2009 issue only. Staff provided a handout from the Recreation
Administrator about advertisements, including a price list. It was
moved (Patterson) and seconded (Scrima) to reduce our ad to ½ page
and to revise the wording, beginning with the Fall 2009 issue; motion
passed 7-1-0.
The Nurse Advocate presentation to the BOS will be on May 5, time
unknown. Staff encouraged attendance by Council members.
The Council deliberated on means of showing support for maintaining
the Coordinator of Volunteers position, including writing letters to the
Town and entering the budget discussion at the next Town Meeting.
Staff distributed a handout on Fundraising-Raffles-Charging
Admission for Senior Center Events (see minutes of the February
COA meeting).
Greeting cards from the Atlantic have been partially sorted. Easter
cards are now available at the Senior Center. Work is continuing at
the Senior Center to further catalog our stockpile of cards.
New Business:
Staff passed out copies of the Elder/Human Services Division 2008
Annual Report, which detailed its programs, activities, services and
accomplishments for the year.
Staff discussed reorganization of some of the Division’s programs in
light of there not being a Coordinator of Volunteers staff person at this
time. Finance and Human Resources will assume responsibility for the
Property Tax program and the Medical Escort program. The Division
is considering giving oversight for the Adopt-a-Family program to a
private organization, such as the Reading Clergy Association.
Council members committed themselves to fill in gaps created by the
retirement of the Coordinator of Volunteers position.
Reminder that Friend and Family Day is June 20. Volunteers and
ideas are needed.
Adjournment:
8.03 PM.
The next meeting will be April 13, 2009.
Respectfully Submitted,
,
Steve Oston
Secretary