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Board of Directors of the Oshkosh Seniors Center
Meeting Minutes- Monday June 27, 2005
Attendance
: Board members: Mary Luepke; Phil Hill; Ralph Nielsen; Mona Walker; Bob Hoffman; Don
Wolter; Judy Troudt; Roger Westphal; Barbara Ruedinger; and Leon Thompson. Excused member: Bill
McCarthy; Kristin Cimera and Esther Stegemann. Staff Members: Sue Kreibich, Aging Services
Manager; Bobbie Luft, Center Office Assistant; Judy Brewer Center Supervisor; Paula Stephens Center
Nurse and Jessica Krenz, Student Intern working under Molly.
Vice-President Mona Walker called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. M/S/C (Wolter/Hoffman) that the
agenda be approved as written. M/S/C (Thompson/Troudt) to accept the minutes as written.
REPORTS:
Aging Services Manager
, See special fund raising and new business/old business.
Facilities/Maintenance:
Don Wolter announced that the Facilities/Maintenance committee will be
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meeting July 14. Jim Dyer had by-pass surgery. Sue will contact him to see if he will stay on the Board.
An earlier email indicated that we could replace him if we wanted to as he would be out three months.
Don is working on getting more members on the committee.
No Reports from Finance, Nominating, Oshkosh Committee on Aging, Personnel and Policy
Friends:
Barb Ruedinger, FOSC President, stated the strawberry fest went well; they sold out of ice
cream and berries. Twenty percent of gross goes to the host of the fair so a little over $1,000 was cleared.
Health Committee:
The May meeting was cancelled due to a lack of quorum.
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Programs:
Jessica reported that summer games had 140 participants. The dance will be held on July 8.
Fitness Assessments will happen twice monthly. In July, Medicare Part D will be explained by the
Benefit Specialists, Candice Corbett and David Fendt. A representative from the Social Security
Administration will be at the Center to help those who qualify for Part D fill out the applications.
Publicity:
Roger Westphal commented on how small the committee is. Roger is going to contact Jesse
Fillmore to see if he is interested in joining the committee. The committee talked about e-mailing
churches of large events that will be held at the Center and checking different magazines to possibly place
ads. The Committee will ask the Board for an advertising budget, the amount is being determined.
Special Fund Raising:
The Rec. Department notified us that only one of our three requested dates was
available. Judy made contact with the Community Band to see if we could use their risers. They have not
been ordered yet because they are lacking some funding. The Center could rent them or help raise $900
needed to purchase them. It was mentioned to check the availability of the Kolf Sports Center. That
center seats around 5,000 people and no risers would be needed. Don Wolter agreed to make contact with
someone from there and check on exact seating, cost of renting and available date. He is going to request
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the date of April 2. Sue Kreibich has a letter ready to go out to sponsors. FOSC would have a planned
pot luck for the meal to serve to the band players.
Old Business:
The re-accreditation was approved. It was done as of last Wednesday. Two Board
members came in to view the paper work involved. The review team will come in August, the last time
this happened was five years ago.
New Business:
After talking with most people on the Board, Sue Kreibich shared that the majority were
in favor of looking at the ability to have Adult Day Services at the Center. Some concerns of Board
members were: what is the condition of the people that will be here, will this drive out people that attend
the facility now, and will the temporary wall work for the division of the kitchen from the adult day
service group. Sue passed out a sheet that LSS uses as a guideline to the condition of people accepted
into the program. There would be no more than 20, with one staff member for every 4 people. The
rooms of use would be the staff break room, copy machine/Nancy’s office and Oasis East. The staff
break room would be moved to the lapidary room and Linda and Nancy would share an office. Even
though the mealsite if growing, things could be arranged differently to make more room for diners.
Monthly bingo could be held at the Annex and food could be brought to the Annex for those that wish to
eat at the mealsite that day. The main coatroom would be changed into a bathroom for use of LSS
participants only. They would do day to day cleaning and our staff would be doing a weekly cleaning in
those rooms. Sue is going to check more into insurance liability, zoning and the wall that separated the
two oasis rooms. LSS would pay for construction and pay per square foot of use. They may possibly
provide a senior connection person to be available at the center for a couple to times per week. The cost
of this would be around $7-$9,000 a year.
Announcements:
Winnebago Seniors Tours made $649 on the trip to France, with 21 people on tour with
them. In 2004 Tours gave the FOSC $6,000. There will no meeting in July of the Board unless a need
arises.
M/S/C (Hoffman/Wolter) to adjourn the meeting.
Respectfully,
Bobbie Luft, Oshkosh Seniors Center, Office Assistant