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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-02-05 Regular Meeting GRAPEVINE SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING AGENDA L Tuesday, February 5, 2008 — 2:00 PM Grapevine Senior Activities Center 421 Church Street Grapevine, TX 76051 817-410-8130 1. Call to Order 2. Welcome Guests 3. Consideration of minutes for December 4, 2007 meeting 4. Citizen Requests 5. New Business a. Welcome B.J. Martin, new Ex-officio with the Housing Authority b. Friends of the Grapevine Senior Activities Center: MindFit Program-Roger Jones, Treasurer c. Housing Authority update — B.J. Martin d. GRACE update— Pat Frosch e. Senior Activities Center update tor 6. To Do 7. Adjourn IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THIS PUBLIC MEETING AND YOU HAVE A DISABILITY THAT REQUIRES SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS AT THE MEETING, PLEASE CONTACT THE SENIOR ACTIVITIES CENTER AT 817-410-8130, AT LEAST 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE. REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS WILL BE MADE TO ASSIST YOUR NEEDS. IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, CHAPTER 551.001 et seq, ACTS OF THE 1993 TEXAS LEGISLATURE, THE BOARD MEETING AGENDA, WAS PREPARED AND POSTED ON THIS, THE 1st OF February 2008 AT 4:30 PM. rayson,lDirector a L. Grape ne Senior Activities Center GRAPEVINE SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD Minutes of February 5, 2008 Meeting Page 1 of 2 1. The Grapevine Senior Citizens Advisory Board met at 2 PM on February 5, 2008 at the Grapevine Senior Activities Center (SAC). The following members were present: Dick Guckel —Chairperson Tena Burrell — Co-Chairperson Martie Chaplin — Secretary Paul Ernst Pam Price R. Bruce Walters Dorothy Kritz— Ex-officio, Grapevine Senior Activities Center B.J. Martin — Ex-officio, Housing Authority Others present: Kaye Grayson, SAC Director Chris Smith — Recreation Superintendent— Parks & Recreation Roger Jones, Treasurer, Friends of the Grapevine Senior Activities Center(FOCSAC) Those Not Present: Pat Frosch — Ex-officio, GRACE Ted Ware— City Council Member Liaison 2. Welcome guests During welcome of Friends of the Grapevine Senior Activities Center's Roger Jones, Treasurer, Roger explained FOGSAC's involvement in providing audio visual equipment setup. Also, everyone present introduced themselves to B.J. Martin, new Ex-officio member with the Housing Authority. 3. Consideration of minutes for December 4, 2007 meeting Minutes were approved without any changes. 4. Citizen Requests No citizen requests. 5 New Business a. Friends of the Grapevine Senior Activities Center: MindFit Program-Roger Jones, Treasurer Roger explained and demonstrated MindFit's computer based training that assesses trains and enhances cognitive skills. Recommended 20 minutes day, 3 1 (iire times per week. Roger said he will let members try some of the demos. There is another version for Fleet Operation drivers, and third one for women who have had traumatic experiences. Program is licensed and FOGSAC has the software on two machines. It is about a 30 week commitment, to use 20 minutes 3 times per week. Implemented the program at the Center. Demo disks are available or there is a website address too. If interested, contact Dick. Can also download to your home computer for a fee. $124 with our discount. Roger did a power point demo and several Board members participated. Parks and Recreation working on press release. First open to those who have taken computer classes, then to Grapevine residents. Think we are the only Senior Center in North Texas and maybe Texas that has this. Largest facility is in Jewish Retirement Community in Florida. b. Housing Authority update — B.J. Martin B.J. said they are putting in sprinkler system on Worth property, then on to West (irr Texas. Next are the windows and then cabinets. Three deaths reported, Charles Scharette, Don Mackey and Mr. Bobby Kelley. There was discussion around how openings are filled and demographics of residents and that rental payments are based on income. c. GRACE update— Pat Frosch None d. Senior Activities Center (SAC) update— Kaye Grayson Had big Mardi Gras Party at the SAC day of meeting. Thursday, February 7, The President of the Grapevine Rotary Club and several members officially presented the four wheelchairs to the SAC and representing the City were the Mayor and City Manager. The Rotary Club purchased the wheelchairs for the SAC after need identified at last meeting. The Rotary-sponsored "Rotary Senior Valentine Dance"will be at Paradise Cove". Music provided by Larry Hutton. Senior Center provides transportation and 130 signed up already. Dorothy said there are some new couples that have joined Senior Center. And, some singles. Kaye said that unfortunately, from time to time, that some long time seniors 2 . • have to be placed in assisted living facilities and nursing homes because they have become too physically and/or mentally impaired to take care of themselves at the SAC. This is an issue that staff deals with on a regular basis and the staff is in constant contact with the family to help and assist in any way for the family to be able to handle these very difficult and emotional decisions. Dick said that between the last meeting and today, Kaye asked FOGSAC to help with storage problem. 3 filing cabinets and rack will be delivered tomorrow along with shelving, close to $700 worth, to improve storage closet. Dick alerted those members of the Advisory Board with terms expiring this year that they will need to apply to renew. Chris said Parks and Recreation playbook is out. Also the United Way came to City Council meeting to address senior isolation issues. Chris completed application they requested we complete to see if we meet their criteria for meeting their senior isolation issues guidelines. He sent it back to United Way and in recent newspaper article Grapevine was noted as meeting their criteria. 6. To Do None Cor 7. Adjourn Moved to adjourn, seconded and approved. The meeting was adjourned at 3:30 PM. Respectfully submitted, Martie Chaplin Minutes approved by the Board on day of 2008 tre 3