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SOWN CITYIJOHNSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER
Agenda
Thursdav January 30, 2014
4 p.m. — 5:30 p.m.
Room 205
Time
4 — 4:20 p.m.
1. Introductions—Honohon
2. Minutes (January 16, 2013)
3. Public Discussion
4:20-5:30
4. Discussion of Commission response to the possible creation of a City Council
appointed Ad Hoc Senior Services Committee
Meeting Packets:
1. Agenda: Thursday, January 30, 2014
2. Minutes from Thursday, January 16, 2014
Preliminary Minutes
January 16, 2014
MINUTES
SENIOR CENTER COMMISSION
JAUNUARY 16, 2014
ROOM 208, IOWA CITY/JOHNSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER
Members Present: Jay Honohan, Chuck Felling, Kathy Mitchell, Mark Holbrook,
Margaret Reese, Jack Hobbs
Members Absent: Rose Hanson
Staff Present: Linda Kopping
Others Present:
RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL:
None.
CALL TO ORDER:
The meeting was called to order by Honohan at 4:02 PM.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 24, 2013 MEETING:
Motion: To accept minutes from the December 19th, 2013 meeting with the
correction of adding Linda Kopping to staff present.
Motion carried on a vote of 6/0. Reese/Mitchell.
PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA:
COMMISSION ASSIGNMENTS:
Honohan will attend an upcoming city council meeting.
STEERING COUNCIL REPORT:
None of the participant committees have met since the last Commission meeting.
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Mitchell suggested inviting City Council members for a tour of the facility. She
volunteered to conduct the tour. The Commission endorsed this idea and she
will extend this invitation after February 1, 2014.
DISCUSSION ON DEVELOPING REGULATIONS FOR SERVING ALCOHOL
AT SENIOR CENTER EVENTS:
The amended policy was distributed with changes approved last month included.
Motion: After 501(c)(3) add: charitable organizations and governmental
entities. Omit apostrophe after gala. Felling/ Holbrook 6/0
The approved policy will be submitted to Eric Goers in the City Attorney's office
for review.
OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW:
City Council's Ad Hoc Committee to Explore Delivery of Senior Services
Kopping reported that in her presentation to the Council she provided the
following information (see attached remarks)
1. Overview of Senior Center
2. Finances for FY13 and the FY15 budget recommendations
3. Review of the summer 2013 survey—
. Success in programming, support of optimal aging, and making Iowa
City an attractive place to live.
• Call for expanded hours of operation —with current resources unlikely
we can do anything about this.
• Diversity —Noted that this is an issue we have been working on and
outlined plan for coming year that drew upon current activities,
volunteer resources, student support, and available resources.
Kopping emphasized that she did not mention the initial budget request for
$30,000 to conduct a professional needs assessment and a part-time temporary
employee to conduct offsite programming in low-income and minority areas that
had been eliminated from the budget submitted to Council. She felt this was
probably a mistake.
At the conclusion of Kopping's remarks Councilman Dobyns indicated his
concern with The Center is that it is not responding to the needs of the people
who really need the services.
He went on to say that the survey illustrated that the people using services at
The Center tend to be individuals who could easily use other, similar services
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available in the community. He mentioned a lack of race, economic, gender, and
ethnic equity among current participants.
Councilman Dobyns suggested taking a broad look at the best way to provide
senior services in Iowa City and Johnson County. He suggested the Council
discuss the formation of a Council appointed ad hoc committee to look at the
provision of senior services.
Commission agreed to meet again in two weeks, on January 30, 2014, to discuss
appropriate action to be taken in response to the Council's action to form an ad
hoc committee and concern with diversity.
NHB/Linn Street Band Issues
Michelle was successful in her search to locate a new band director for the Linn
Street Band that meets here on Monday nights. This has only increased the
tension that exists between the band and The Center. It has become quite
apparent to Senior Center staff and the Band leadership —the Band Director and
perhaps several members of the Steering Committee —have fundamentally
different beliefs related to the origin and operation of the New Horizons and Linn
Street Bands.
Kopping would like to be able to resolve this and have been trying to come up
with a creative solution. Commissioners recommended to Kopping that she
inform the City Manager current issues related to the band to keep him informed.
Kopping will continue to work to establish a better working relationship with the
band leadership.
Television in the Pool Room
A number of years ago someone donated a large screen television to The
Center. It has been in the pool room since donated and used by one individual
for viewing and by the wii bowling group on a weekly basis when a volunteer
leader is available.
Providing a television for personal viewing in isolation does not fit with the
mission of The Center. A new television has been purchased and is on a cart
that will be used for fitness classes and wii bowling and other games. There is
no longer a television in the pool room.
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COMMISSION DISCUSSION:
Election of Officers 2014
Motion: To accept the slate of officers as follows:
Honohan, Chair
Felling, Vice Chair
Holbrook, Secretary
Motion carried on a vote of 6/0. Holbrook/Mitchell
ADJOURNMENT:
Motion: To Adjourn. Motion carried on a vote of 6/0. Holbrook/Mitchell
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