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Oshkosh Committee on Aging Minutes
June 2, 2005
Attendance
: Corky Abraham; Claude Benedict; Donna Altepeter; Dr. Jean Caudle;
Kristin Cimera; Ann Jungwirth; Ernie Kandler; Jerry Konrad; Don Kutchera; Joan Rogers;
and Mae Ziebell. Guest included Shirley Mattox, City Council Member. Attending Staff
were Sue Kreibich, Aging Services Manager and Bobbie Luft, Office Assistant.
Corky Abraham called the meeting to order at 8 a.m. M/S/C, (Kutchera; Cimera) agenda
M/S/C, (Kutchera; Konrad) minutes.
Correspondence:
Sue Kreibich passed out listings of local food pantries, the Senior
Route monthly report for May and an Elder Abuse Conference announcement. She also
passed out a survey for Triad on car care. She received a letter from the County that
they tentatively will be increasing our grant amounts next year but not in the amounts we
had requested. Health Services will receive $500 more next year than this year and
Program Services will receive $1000 more next year than this year. Sue announced that
the County Resource Directory has been updated and is located at the receptionist front
desk. Ann Jungwirth thanked the Committee for sending her to the CWAG convention.
Chairman:
Corky Abraham announced that Jerry Kratsch had resigned from the
committee. Corky handed out to each member a listing of resolutions from the
Governor’s White House Conference on Aging. He asked that all members bring it
along to future meetings.
Constitution:
M/S/C (Cimera, Rogers) ratified the recent update of the Constitution of
the Oshkosh Seniors Center Board of Directors.
CWAG:
Ann Jungwirth was very impressed with the broad range of coverage at the last
convention. Ann commented on how wonderful the services were provided by the WI
Council for the Blind. Joan Rogers stated that they came to her home for visits for one
year, and they were very helpful.
Housing Committee:
The committee is waiting to hear from Brad Masterson of the
Oshkosh Housing Authority as to whether he’ll help finance the printing of the updated
brochure. Toby got the printing bids, Kristen Cimera produced the spreadsheet and
information form. A copy of the spreadsheet will be e-mailed to those that were listed in
the last housing book.
Oshkosh Seniors Center Board of Directors:
Sue Kreibich made an announcement
that members of the Board of Directors elected Bill McCarthy as President; Mona Walker
as Vice-President and Ralph Nielsen as Treasurer. Bill and Sue are going to be meeting
with the newly elected members of the Board and have an orientation. Bill will appoint
chairmen of committees. The Board is working on bringing the UW Madison Varsity
Band to Oshkosh for a fund-raiser in the spring. This fund-raiser will assist with the
expenses of renovating the pole shed. M/S/C (Konrad, Benedict) to elect Kristen Cimera
to a one year term on the Board representing the Committee.
Pole Shed Update:
An update will be done on the long-range plan on Tuesday, July 22.
The last time this was done was in late 1999. Boris Frank will has been hired to assist
the Board of Directors with this update. He’ll meet earlier with Board members, talk on
the phone with some who can’t meet in person and then will meet for the entire day on
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the 22 of July. Mr. Frank feels that two plans need to be done. One for the Committee
on Aging and one for the Center as a whole. M/S/C (Kutchera, Konrad) move forward
with action for the plan for the Oshkosh Committee on Aging and not to exceed $2500.
Winnebago County Commission on Aging:
Dr. Jean Caudle is now on this
committee, along with two other new members, Patti Mail and Sylvia Banville.
Senior Shuttle:
TheMay report shows that as an average since January, rider-ship is
38.76 riders per day. Corky Abraham commented that low rider-ship can not be from
lack of advertising as the advertising has been great. Some suggestions were given as
to why rider-ship is low is because there had been no signage on the bus for quite some
time and that it comes right along with another city bus. Sue will pass these comments
on to the Transit Division of the City.
Member Comments:
Shirley Mattox announced that Greg Underheim would be having
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a workshop with the City Council on the budget June 14. With no further business, the
meeting was adjourned. The Committee decided to not meet in July; the next meeting
will be on Thursday, August 4 at 8 a.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Bobbie Jo Luft, Office Assistant