Senior Advisory Committee

12300 Forest Hill Blvd Village of Wellington Wellington, FL 33414 Action Summary Senior Advisory Committee Mary Kastner Sharon Lascola Veronica McCue Sally Schwartz Howard Trager Sampson Nebb Jose Soto Thursday, March 9, 2017 3:30 PM Village Hall - Council Chambers I CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 3:30pm. II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mr. Trager led the Pledge of Allegiance. III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Ms. Kastner made a motion to approve the agenda and Mr. Soto gave the second. The agenda was approved as presented. IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Ms. Kastner made a motion to approve the minutes and Ms. Lascola gave the second. The minutes were approved as written. V. PRESENTATION Meridith Tuckwood gave an update on programs and events. She explained that the senior newsletter was being well received but that some residents in Village Walk were not receiving it. She is working with the Post Office to resolve. Ms. Tuckwood announced that 60 seniors were trained in CPR in February. Ms. Tuckwood announce upcoming events including the next Good for You seminar scheduled for March 16th and the next Senior Symposium scheduled for April 25th. She also noted that the Matter of Balance and iphone/ipad and android classes are all coming in March. Mr. Trager asked if it would be possible to get Windows 10 training and Ms. Tuckwood said she would look into it. VI. OLD BUSINESS Mr. Trager informed the committee that this workshop will be utilized as a focus group to help establish a goal oriented vision under the direction of this Village of Wellington Page 1 Senior Advisory Committee Action Summary March 9, 2017 committee. They will study and develop a plan for the implementation of a volunteering mentoring program for the school year 2018 and beyond. As Mr. Trager and Mrs. Edwards talked they want to be able to utilize this committee to be able to help them start this pilot program for mentoring. Ms. Edwards suggests that someone from the committee go ahead and make a motion to request that staff coordinate a joint session between the Senior Advisory Committee and Education Committee. Ms. McCue makes a motion that they set up a date and have a joint session with the Education Committee and Jose seconds the motion. Ms. Edwards will be contacting everyone to set a date for the joint meeting. After discussing the mentoring program the Senior Advisory Committee came up with a few ways to get the volunteer opportunities out to the seniors like e-mail, newsletters and contacting Senior HOA's. Ms. Edwards will take this transportation issue to the administration and see what they can come up with to solve this problem Ms. Kastner handed out some ideas of hers on the Volunteer Opportunities. VII. NEW BUSINESS VIII. PUBLIC COMMENTS IX. BOARD COMMENTS Ms. Tuckwood mentioned that Ms. McCue had attended a Caregive seminar recently and there may be opportunities for other members to attend events in the future. Mr. Soto said there is a similar event coming up next week and can forward the information. Mr. Trager asked that Ms. Tuckwood be sure to inform the members of events in the future. X. CLOSING COMMENTS XI. ADJOURNMENT Ms. Kasnter made a motion to adjourn and Mr. Nebb gave the second. The meeting was adjourned at 4:35pm NOTICE Village of Wellington Page 2