Commission on Aging Meeting

City of Galt MINUTES COMMISSION ON AGING GALT PARKS & RECREATION OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOM 610 CHABOLLA AVENUE, GALT, CA Thursday - SCHEDULED Mar 28, 2019 10:00am Chairperson: Bob Balliet Commissioners: Alvin Roberts, Andrea Johnson, Pennie Niemeyer (Suzanne Nelson was appointed to the Commission but resigned prior to being sworn in). 1. Call Meeting to Order – Bob called meeting to order at 10:00 AM 2. Roll Call: Bob Balliet, Alvin Roberts, Andrea Johnson, Pennie Niemeyer. Advisor: Monica Lopez Guests: Marie Hall, Sandra Markell, Cheryln Konn, Pat McCormick, Helen Johnson, Sylvia Jimenez 3. Public Comment: Under Government Code Section 54954.3, members of the audience may address the Commission on any item of interest to the public or any agenda item before or during the Commission’s consideration of the item. Speakers shall restrict their comments to issues that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission and limit comments to a maximum of five (5) minutes. (Bob read statement). [Dir Solis – thanked the Commission for their patience with the City Council actions re: qualifications for Commission appointment and indicated that with the change in the Qualifications portion of the Ordinance, two Members of the Commission can now be appointed from outside the city limits. Vice Chair Alvin Roberts and Commissioner Andrea Johnson fall into that new category.] 4. Acceptance of Minutes: (a) Approve Minutes of Nov 2018; By Commissioners that were in office in Nov 2018 – No quorum of those Commissioners was present – No approval vote could take place; (b) No Dec 2018, Jan 2019 & Feb 2019 Minutes – Meetings were cancelled due to lack of quorum. 5. Guest Speaker: None 6. Old Business Senior Health Information Fair – Previously Suspended Item (Bob) rescheduled April 9th at Galt Market. Bob also mentioned that the Commission would participate in the Eggstravaganza event on Saturday, 4/13/ 2019, and invited the Commissioners, if they could, to be a participant in this. Both Alvin and Andrea indicated they would participate, and Pennie indicated that she would make every effort to do so. 7. New Business (1) Current Number of Commissioners (Bob) – Welcomed Alvin Roberts, Andrea Johnson, Pennie Niemeyer to their new terms and indicated that Suzanne Nelson had resigned prior to being sworn in. We now have a vacancy on the Commission. (2) Letter of Thanks to former Commissioner Marie P Hall for her service on the Commission. (Bob) Monica indicated she would contact City for such a Letter. (3) Election of Officers: Chairman & Vice Chairman - (Bob) Bob opened the floor for the election of officers – Chair & Vice Chair: Motion was made by Bob to nominate Alvin Roberts, Vice Chair. Motion was seconded by Andrea – Alvin accepted the nomination. Election of Alvin Roberts as the Vice Chair, for the remainder of this calendar year was unanimous. Alvin Roberts placed in nomination Bob Balliet to be elected Chair of the Commission and Pennie Niemeyer seconded it. Bob accepted the nomination. Election of Bob Balliet as the Chairman, for the remainder of the year, was unanimous. No other nominations were made. (4) Establishing a Protocol to contact City Council Member that appointed a particular Commissioner on a regular basis (monthly?) to have them become more involved in what we are presently doing, or planning on doing (Alvin & Bob) and then report back to the Commission on the meeting. The consensus of the Commission was to contact our City Council Member quarterly, perhaps even invite them, one at a time, to come to our Commission meetings.  (5) Meeting with Elk Grove Senior Center in April to discuss support and assistance in the operation of the Galt Senior Resource Center. (Bob) Bob indicated that he had sent an email to the Elk Grove Senior Center Director, asking for an appointment to discuss the matter – had not yet heard back. (6) Introduce Volunteer for Senior Resource Center - Bob welcomed and introduced Ms Sandra Markell to the Commission. She addressed the Commission – the other volunteers were also invited to visit with the Commission but chose not to respond to the invitation. (7) Establishing a Senior Resource Center in Galt – (Bob) New Opening time-line; (Pennie) Update on office floor, etc & volunteer training. June 14/15 was set as the Grand Opening of the Center. Pennie indicated she would like to donate Pergo floor – can P&R staff install this. Alvin also indicated an interest in installing square carpet flooring and working with Pennie & Parks & Rec to get either of this accomplished. The consensus was that training would proceed just prior to the opening of the Center. (8) Senior Resources Calendars for 2019 – (Bob) Discuss ordering some more, with corrections. The consensus of the Commission was to collect all remaining 2019 calendars from Parks & Rec, Alvin and the Senior Club and use those up and not order any new ones until the 2020 editions come up. 8. COMMISSIONERS REPORTS: Alvin asked about whether his donation of a Deadbolt with code would be acceptable and surplus chairs were available for the Resource Center – Ms Lopez indicated in the affirmative. Andrea He would install such a system. Andrea asked about the Keys for the Resources Center and Ms Lopez indicated that she would collect the keys held by the Senior Club. Mention was made by the Senior Club re: 8/24 – Senior Club 50th Birthday Party at Chabolla Center. 9. ADJOURNMENT – Motion was made by Bob to adjourn and seconded by Alvin – vote to adjourn was unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 11:00 AM. Bob Balliet Chair, Commission on Aging City of Galt