Senior Committee Minutes 2010 03-22-10
APPROVED 4/26/10
United City of Yorkville Senior Ad Hoc Committee
Meeting March 22, 2010
Beecher Community Center
Present: Glory Spies, Rita Murphy, Cecelia Sanders, Bonnie Schradel, Bonnie Olsen, Robert
Skidmore, Barb Skidmore, Rose Spears, Patty Strahan, Mayor Valerie Burd
Glory Spies opened the meeting in the absence of Bette Schoenholtz who was out of town.
Introductions
Approval of Minutes
After review, Rita Murphy made a motion to approve, Barb Skidmore seconded. Approved.
Old Business
1.Patty Strahan reported that Tim Evans had contacted her and that they will have
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movies every other month. The first will be Julie and Julia on April 28 at 1 p.m.
CNN will do popcorn and the Rec Dept will provide the projector and big screen.
Senior Services will pay the per movie license fee.
2.A listing of services provided was put together by the Police Dept. Bonnie Schradel
noted that Health Dept. info was not included. Rose Spears volunteered to continue to
find senior issues for the City newsletter. There was also a flyer of service
organizations put together by the Human Resource Commission some time ago but
Glory Spies noted it probably would need updating. Cecelia Sanders said that the
southern Kane County TRIAD was going to hold a ‘fashion show’ of uniformed
Police, Fire, Nicor, Comcast, etc. employees so you can see who is coming to your
door and what their identification looks like.
3.The walking program was tabled to next month.
4.The Registration at Beecher for Park and Rec programs was also tabled.
5.Bonnie Schradel started working on a Need Survey. It was suggested to put the
request for personal information at the end, even though it is optional. Another
suggestion was to add the number of times per week people attend the current
programs, and to include other senior programs that the seniors attend, even if they
are not in Yorkville. Mayor Burd suggested also including programs at the Library.
Bonnie will continue to refine the program. It was also suggested to add the Kane
County Cougars as an option for a trip. The distribution would be in the City
newsletter and at Beecher. Another suggestion was to see if it could be put into the
water bills.
6.Glory will add the current services onto the Info Page on the City Website, starting
with the list provided today by the Police Dept.
New Business
There was some discussion of the renewal of the lease for Senior Services. The Mayor
will be bringing it up to the City council and it is on the agenda for a committee to
discuss the possibility of reducing the lease for the balance of the year due to the lack of
funding being received by Senior Services. Currently the rent paid is about $1000.
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There was discussion on the meal program being provided by Senior Services. Cecelia
mentioned that 7-11 is supposed to donate overstocked bakery items to charities. Panera
and Jewel now give their overstocked items to the Food Pantry.
Bob Skidmore asked how many seniors attend the meal program and was told the number
averages about 50 each day.
Rita Murphy stated that the Lunch and Learn program last Friday had 73 attendees. It is
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on the 3 Friday at 11 a.m.
Additional Business:
Rita Murphy brought up the transportation program and a problem that seems to be
happening. There is a woman who lives in Oswego, but she is a senior and was told that
she would only be able to have the service every other week. Rose mentioned that there
was a survey done in Oswego with the seniors and they did not indicate that
transportation was important. Cecelia also mentioned that she had heard a senior say that
she believed that those who signed up to use the program would have to undergo a
background check (which is just for those who are hired to drive). The Mayor will
mention these concerns at the ribbon cutting today.
Rose also mentioned that in the new budget review, there is a possibility that seniors will
be asked to pay full cost for refuse and the program should be need based, not general.
The Mayor explained that the water bills are not self-supporting. There is now a lack of
new users tapping on, which was what previous projections of income had been based on.
There was also discussion on the various cuts from the state and the problems with
pensions being funded as well as unfunded mandates to schools and cities in Illinois.
Meeting adjourned at 9:30 a.m.
Next meeting – Monday, April 26th, 8:30 a.m. at Beecher Center