Okay, I call the Council on Aging meeting to order on Monday, December 8th at 12:30 p.m. >> We'll do a roll call vote for attendance. >> Paula >> here. >> Carol Laughlin >> here. >> Elaine here. Ari
>> here. >> Donna Boise here. >> Here we have a quorum. Seeing none, we'll skip public participation. Everybody get um November minutes? >> Yes.
Any corrections or changes? >> No. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to accept November minutes? >> Motion to accept November's minutes as written. >> I'll second it. Any further discussion?
We will do a vote to accept November minutes. Paula, >> yes. >> Carol, >> yes. >> Elaine, >> yes. >> Yes. >> D, yes. >> Moving on to new business, Lisa.
>> Um, for new business, what do we have? I guess my page. Um, so we went from 700 newsletters to 955. That's what they're going out. Um, but when we raise that, we're literally
um uh that's costing us like $500 and something dollars a month to ma for mailings. So, what we're doing is Denise and I are going in and seeing and calling people and seeing if you have an email address because if I add you to
the newsletter um website with with your email, it'll go right to your email and you'll always have that newsletter. available. >> Absolutely. >> Um because people will get it and then they'll come in and they'll they'll just take >> No, I haven't. >> They haven't. They I think the holiday
>> I g No, I I brought them before Thanksgiving. >> We did them that Tuesday. >> Yep. And I brought them that day and um I think they moved them aside because they were going to be closed for the holiday and then I think there was so much backup that they just then oh we
got these here and let's get them out cuz people were saying they just got them today. So maybe yours will be in your mail today. >> Um so we're trying to like offset some some of that 955 with people that have emails. Um and that should >> Good. >> Yeah. >> Good.
>> Um we have 90 to 100 people attending exercise classes. We have 30 people up to 30 people with brown bag which is tomorrow, >> right? Um and we have 20 people using the new gym weekly
>> here and there. Um, we moved Cara into the shine room. Um, Denise is back. Sebert's back in her office. Um, I just ordered a puzzle table to go in the big conference room. Um, we're going
to we're going to try to make that more of a living room um with a puzzle table behind like a couch or something. Um, like a quiet quiet stuff. >> Looking for that little puzzle. >> Yep. George asked George asked at lunchtime.
>> Yeah. >> Where the puzzle if we had any puzzles and we told them they were Jack was always interested >> and Jack was always interested but we couldn't fit it in the other two rooms so we we we were trying to bring that one back. Um I have a new yoga
instructor who wants to do a class. Um so she's going to be doing a class through the summer at the beach. Um so she she's in the winter. She's in Florida right now. She'll come back in like early April. I'll just pay for a
few months in April and May for her to do another class during the week. Um, and then I'll pay for like September, October, November, and then again she'll go to um Florida for the winter. And then Cara will pay um for her to do it
at the beach. Oh, >> she she's thinking of doing one and maybe including kids and a family one >> every day at the beach or once a week. >> I don't know. That's going to be her thing. I don't I'm not even worried about that. I'm not even thinking about it. But it even if she did it once a
week and if she gets a good following, maybe she'll offer if people are going to show up to do it two two three times a week. That's that's up to her. Um so Cara will pay for the town beach one on her hopefully out of her budget. Um this
year I I I have a gift bag for the um 50 homebound members um that get meals on wheels. Um the quil quilters did a um over the chair um over the arm of your chair. Nice quilt and it hold has pockets on
both sides and it'll hold your eyelasses, remote control, a book, um a pen, an area for a pen. It's real cute. They did it with all the material they had. So they did that. Debbie Levante made a whole bunch of knitted coffee
mug. You sit your cup on a holder. Um and then we added um we bought them a calendar, a 2026 calendar. Um we bought them little hot chocolate bombs and a bag of candy so far. Yeah. Um that's
pretty much it for new bit. Oh. Oh, I did do this. So, this is a um a coin that we designed. Um and it's basically when we have a presenter come, I can hand them a a little thank
you bag with the coin in it. Um it just says um appreciate you and on the back it says South Senior Center. It's kind of like a little thank you. Um we don't have that many presenters during the year, but we have a good handful. Um, and I notice when I go do something,
someone hands me a bag and I'm It's just a nice thank you. And then >> very very So that that they're gonna do one that says presenter in the middle and then one that says volunteers and we'll do the volunteers. We'll get them at their um lunch.
>> The lunchon. Yep. So be nice. Thank you. >> Okay, moving on. Update on classes. You mentioned we have um >> yeah a lot of attendees which is very good and adding the new yogurt class can only help. Yeah. >> I mean anything we can provide is a good
thing. That would be like once a week. >> Yeah. >> Uh here we were thinking maybe Wednesdays when we do it here because that we have an open slot at 9 on Wednesdays. >> Yeah. >> So I think classes are good. Brown bag, as you mentioned, is tomorrow. Yeah.
>> And we're we're all set with that. And >> yeah, we're usually pretty good. >> We got a few more now. We like 29 or 30. >> 29 or 30. Yeah. >> But that's excellent. >> The dining room has two full tables most of the days.
>> Um it fluctuates, but Fridays and Mondays are our slow days, but they were full today. >> You had a good good handful. We had the cards right up there and then we had um >> well Barbara's always there but we had actually just two meals and then Elaine
and I added to that so four meals. >> Yeah. But last week we had two tables and there was only like two of us were there >> Wednesday. Wednesday because what the meal >> Yeah. It depends on what the meal is. So that's always a thing. And then we have
the spaghetti um lunchon coming up with the meet and greet and the Yeah, that that usually brings in a bunch. >> Many people who haven't signed up for that do >> like 24. >> Oh, that's great. >> Yeah, it usually fills that one room. >> Yep. So, >> yeah, that's right.
>> And then finances, Lisa, >> we're doing good. Um we got our new um money. We get the um formula grant is twice a year. So it's in May we get it and then usually October, November. They didn't give it to us till the almost the
right after the beginning of November, but that's the other half. And that usually carries us until June and then May we get another one and that carries us till to October, November. >> Excellent. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Old business, I suppose. Uh most
importantly, Christmas party upcoming. Yep. >> How are we doing with signups? >> We're doing good. We're up to probably it was 82 early this morning and we got like three or four more phone calls. >> Wow. >> But I'm thinking now if people got the newsletter today or tomorrow. So we have
until like Friday to give her a total. So I think we'll be good. >> Oh yeah. >> It's not like the Christmas party hasn't been talked about and >> Oh yeah. Everyone's Yeah. Yeah. They all know.
>> Yeah. Yep. and raffle prizes. >> Raffle prizes. Paula brought me a whole bunch in my office. >> Yeah, I moved my chair and I'm like, I hear silo paper and I'm like, oh no. Um
Yeah. And the girls did um Donna and Elaine did a great job going around to get all the um >> Yeah, >> we'll need to get some more. >> She's like, if all those four don't call me, I'm going back. I'm like, oh jeez. um stood this morning. I said, "Did I
meant something?" >> I know. Because of this, they're gonna do it. They're gonna do it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And I have a nice letter going out to all the people that donated um to thank them, you know, ready after the party. >> Excellent. >> Yep.
>> Okay. Anybody else can old business? not think there's anything >> we're not thinking about. Okay, then we'll move on to the master plan. >> You have that sheet. >> You want to say about that before?
>> So Diane, I sat with Diane and basically she explained what it was and it was basically what we told them we were doing. This is just for their records and then they keep track every year of what was accomplished by the person that they gave um the the department that or
the committee that they gave the goals to. So we hit all our factors. Um we had like two major ones and we hit those and that's what we do on an everyday basis. We're we're constantly doing the same, you know, like we're we're talking about
fuel assistance and we're we're sharing our information and if someone needs um you know, help with something then we try to find them help and we're always giving them with the buses and stuff. So, we hit that target.
>> Excellent. Um, so we they basically um this is if you guys approve this, vote on it to approve it, I send it back to them today and basically they put it to to rest. Um, and then they also have it in here that they know that this is always ongoing every year and if we get
something new that we need to do or somebody suggested that we have another job to do, we just add it. >> That's it. >> Very good. >> But it just needs to be approved. >> Okay. So, do I have a motion to approve
uh the completion of our master plan for this year? >> Make a motion to approve the master plan. >> Second. >> So, motion to approve and seconded. Any further discussion?
Okay, seeing none, we'll vote. >> Yes. >> Carol, >> yes. >> Elaine, yes. Harvey, >> yes. Yes. >> Okay. So, master plan completion approved unanimously. Perfect.
Okay. Anybody else? Business that we haven't thought of. Okay. Seeing none, do we have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion to adjurnn. I second it.
>> Any further discussion? Okay. Motion to adjurnn. >> Yeah. >> Yes. [laughter] Put >> that back on. >> Carol. Yes. >> Yes.
>> Okay. So, we adjourn at 12:43.