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Senior Center Commission
Thursday, October 17, 2024
4 PM
Iowa City Senior Center
Agenda
1. Introductions/Welcome—L. McKnight
2. Minutes (September 19, 2024)
3. Public Discussion for items not on the agenda
4. Operational Overview—L. DeLoach
Senior Center programming update
Senior Center facility update
5. Commission Discussion— L. McKnight
Senior Center master plan discussion
Commissioner’s report of community correspondence
Future agenda Items
6. Adjourn
**Next meeting is Thursday, November 21, at 4 PM **
Meeting Packet Contents:
1. Agenda: Thursday, October 17, 2024
2. Minutes: Senior Center Commission, Thursday, September 19, 2024
Preliminary Minutes
September 19, 2024
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MINUTES
SENIOR CENTER COMMISSION
September 19, 2024
Room 311, Iowa City Senior Center
Members Present: Nancy Ostrognai, Jay Gilchrist, Lee McKnight, Angie
McConville, Ross Taylor, Warren Paris, Betty Rosse
Members Absent: None
Staff Present: LaTasha DeLoach, Kristin Kromray
Others Present: None
CALL TO ORDER:
The meeting was called to order by Gilchrist at 4:00 PM.
Commissioners introduced themselves to new commissioner Taylor.
RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL:
None.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE AUGUST 15 MEETING:
Motion: To accept the minutes from the August 15, 2024. Motion carried on
a 7/0 vote. McKnight/McConville
PUBLIC DISCUSSION:
None.
OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW:
DeLoach reported that the Monday Table 2 Table food distribution has been very
popular. A numbered entry system has been put in place so that people are
randomly given a number and that dictates when they go through the line. Many
of the fall classes have started and are filling up. The Original Mature Groovers
are planning for another Black History Ball and are brainstorming a full weekend
of events. SHIIP open enrollment season. The Friends of the Senior Center
Pickleball Jamboree will be September 29th at the Greenstate Family Fieldhouse.
It will include a clinic on how to play as well as a tournament. There is an
opportunity with the University for a project pairing seniors with students to talk
about their personal history with going to movies. Commissioner Ostrognai had
Preliminary Minutes
September 19, 2024
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suggested a new bulletin board for the ground floor where members can ask for
peer suggestions on local vendors or suggest some one they have used in the
past for things such as home repairs, this has been implemented and it is on the
ground floor.
DeLoach gave an update on the facility. A handrail on the Linn St steps is
missing as it was hit by a car. It will be repaired. The Linn St sign has been
replaced with the new logo. The temperature controls will be updated this fall,
which will hopefully alleviate some of the heating and cooling issues in the
building.
COMMISSION DISCUSSION:
Ostrognai reported that a volunteer for the Table 2 Table distribution feels that
disabled participants are being over run in the distribution line. Gilchrist asked
Kromray to give a report at an upcoming meeting regarding operations.
Gilchrist will be gone at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
Meeting Adjourned.
Preliminary Minutes
September 19, 2024
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Senior Center Commission Attendance Record
Name Term Expires 10/19/23 11/16/23 12/21/23 1/18/23 2/15/2024 3/21/24 4/18/24 5/16/24 6/20/24 7/18/24 8/15/24 9/19/24
Betty
Rosse
12/31/26 -- -- -- -- -- X X X NM NM O/E X
Jay
Gilchrist
12/31/25 X NM O/E NM X X X X NM NM X X
Tasha
Lard
12/31/24 O NM O NM O O O -- -- -- -- --
Angela
McConville 12/31/24 X NM X NM X X X O/E NM NM X X
Lee
McKnight
12/31/24 X NM X NM X X O/E X NM NM X X
Susan
Mellecker
12/31/23 O/E NM X -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Nancy
Ostrognai
12/31/26 X NM X
NM X X X X NM NM X X
Ross
Taylor
12/31/24 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- O X
Warren
Paris
12/31/25 X NM X NM O X X X NM NM O X
Key: X =Present O =Absent O/E =Absent/Excused NM =No meeting -- = Not a member