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Home My Public Portal AboutA 2009-02-04 - SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL CITY OF` LYNWOOD SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL GENERAL MEETING ~,~ Pte; JAN ~ ~ 1l~Uy LYNWOOD SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER CITY OF ..°~-~~r~or;~pD 11329 ERNESTINE AVENUE CITY CLERKS ®F1=ICE LYNWOOD, CA 90262 '-~- ~.~vLK ~-(J AGENDA ~ Wednesday, February 4, 2009 12.:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. THIS MEETING WILL BE CONDUCTED WITH KINDNESS AND RESPECT. 12:00 p.m. Call to Order Pledge of Allegiance Invocation Roll Call _ Paulette Bradley, Chairperson Barbara Battle, Vice-Chairperson D. Joyce Edner _ Lorene Reed Certification of Agenda Posting Approval of Minutes 11/5/08 & 1/7/09 12:10 p.m. Overview of Suggestion Box Comments Roll-out of the Emergency Contact/Registration Form Legislature Update-Zelda Hutcherson, President-A.A.A. Senior Advisory Council Summary of the Lynwood Bingo Adventure-Lorene.Reed Staff Report 12:30 p.m. Public Comments (2 minutes) 12:45 p.m. Board Orals (2 minutes) 1:00 p.m. Adjournment Next General Meeting on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The Recreation Department, Senior Services Division does not discriminate on the basis of disability. Persons ~ with disabilities .may request accommodation services by calling. (310) 886-0425 two-weeks in advance of the meeting. The facility providing this service is wheelchair accessible. Senior Advisory Council Meeting Minutes January 7, 2009 The meeting was called to order at 12:04 p.m. by Chair, Paulette Bradley. The agenda was duly posted as prescribed by the Brown Act. Pledge of Allegiance: Chair, Paulette Bradley Invocation: Member Barbara Battle Roll Call; Cecilia Amezquita -Minutes Clerk Present: Absent: Barbara Battle Paulette Bradley - D. Joyce Edner Lorene Reed Margaret Araujo Chair Paulette Bradley: Theis afternoon we are going to give you a summary of last year's activities and the success we had in the Senior Center. We are going to move onto the roll-out of the Doctor Release Form. We have to get ourselves up to speed and have the information on hand should anything happen to you while you are here at the Senior Center or should you take ill. We would have instructions on how to care for you or contact your relatives or caregiver. That information is needed to have on file at the Senior Center. We are going to hold off on our code of conduct. We are still researching and working on that. We will go into the staff report.. Summary of Senior Center Success/Staff Report: Marisa Cordova 2008 Activities Participants Open House -April 28, 2008 Annual Luau, New Port Beach -August 29, 2008 67 Senior Empowerment Luncheon -.September 16, 2008 80 Annual Picnic, Bateman Hall Lawn- September 25, 2008 100 2 County Office on Aging Community Meetings 2009 Activities We will start our birthday celebrations which will be held the last Friday of the month in conjunction with the Human Services Association lunch program. Sweetheart Dance -Thursday,. February 12, 2009 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Health Fair/Senior Center Anniversary/Open House -April 2009 Empowerment Luncheon - To be announced We are adding classes hopefully in the month of February, Sign Language and Arts & Crafts. We will be negotiating with Compton College for additional classes here and hopefully it will be something we can add by March. We are looking into changing the food. distribution process. Rather than calling out names we will be doing. a number system. Bingo will continue every third Thursday of the month. The Presidential Inauguration Celebration will be held on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 with the cocktail hour from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Presidential Gala will take place from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. hosted by the Lynwood Bingo Club. Chair Paulette Bradley-Mrs. Reed will hand-out the Doctor Release Form for the Exercise Class. We -will also have a Doctor Release form at the front desk for everyone that participates in this facility. Pubic Orals: - Sylvia Herron -Are you going to have one. teacher for multiple classes or one for every class. (Marisa Cordova -There will be one instructor for all projects until we are able to negotiate more. . Pearline Calderon - I am informing the Senior Advisory Council that I will be forming a friendship hospitality club. Lam in the process of putting everything together at the moment so I don't have any more information. I hope we have everything together by the next meeting. . Board Orals: Member Lorene Reed - On behalf of the bingo club I would like to thank them for the presentation that was made to me over the holidays. Thank you. for the wonderful and beautiful gift you gave me. We are steadily growing. I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Chair Paulette Bradley - We have been going through some of the catalogs of the educational institutions that have reached out to the community in the senior area. There are a number of interesting classes that other communities are providing. We want to have more visits to museums. This activity is free on the weekends. We want to add this to our list of activities for this year. The suggestion box does work. We gave a report in October or November. We are doing a lot of research to improve the senior center. We are looking for ways to expedite things. We are aware of improvements that need to be made. We need. to be self-sufficient. The City is not going to funnel any money to us. They made two big budget cuts last year. We have a new group "The Friends of the Lynwood Senior Center". We need your ideas and we need to step up to the plate to help us make this a reality. I'm going to give you an idea that a number of organizations use as fundraisers: there are book sales, bake sales, arts & crafts sales. The Health Fair will be a fundraiser, trips to studios, casino trips. These are the things we need to focus on. You can have fun and raise money: We used to go to movies on Fridays and we are discussing on bringing that activity back. . Member Barbara Battle - I would like to wish everyone a healthy and prosperous. New Year and I am looking forward to the new things we will be doing during this New Year and hope that everyone will get involved. Jose Trejo - I just wish everybody a good year. I will let Marisa make an announcement at the next meeting of plans for the Senior Division. You will get an idea of what we want to get done this year. Last year we got the umbrellas, completed the exercise room and vending machines. I do not want to make any commitments, but we will certainly do something to make things happen. Adjournment: Member Barbara Battle made a motion to adjourn, 2"d by Member Lorene Reed. By unanimous consent the meeting adjourned at 12:37 p.m. 2