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Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda

Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Advisory board meeting Health and human servicesPublic facilitiesHousing and affordabilityAppointments and personnelBudget and appropriationsComprehensive planHomelessness and shelterParks and recreationSchools and educationState legislative agenda

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What was decided

  1. Approved 3Approval of Minutes — November 11, 2025 Approved

Read from the agenda's recorded outcomes. Where the board published minutes, those are the record — this is a pointer to them.

What's on this agenda

The county's advisory board on aging discusses how to serve unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. The agenda also has a technology budget request for a Rec Trac software upgrade and a report on new SNAP work requirements for older adults.

Workgroup leaders give first-quarter reports on the county's current master aging plan. The board also opens planning for the plan that follows it, covering 2027 through 2032.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Orange County's advisory board on aging spent most of its December 9 meeting on a problem its senior centers did not choose: unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. Staff are considering a bag policy, worked out with the library and the county attorney, and the county's street outreach team offered training for center staff and more frequent rounds now that it is back to full strength.

The timeline for anything better is long. The building at 2700 Homestead Road is about a year away from hosting cold weather cots, and a day center is a couple of years out. The county has approved the lease for the cots, but what happens after that is not settled.

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Agenda items (10)

Staff or committee report · 5Discussion item · 2Minutes approval · 1Procedural · 1Budget action · 1
  1. 3 Approval of Minutes — November 11, 2025
    Minutes approval
    Approved
  2. 4 Staff Updates
    Staff or committee report Public facilities
    The Seymour Center facility manager position is posted, with an internal candidate of interest.
  3. 5 Serving unsheltered persons at the Seymour Center
    Discussion item Health and human servicesHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordabilityPublic facilities
    Staff described the situation at the Seymour Center and a possible bag policy developed with the library and the county attorney. The county's street outreach team, now back at full staffing, offered training for center staff and will be at the centers the first and third Saturday of each month in 2026. The building at 2700 Homestead Road is roughly a year from hosting cold weather cots and a day center is a couple of years out. Members raised how a bag policy would work in practice and how the centers' purpose of serving older residents fits with younger unhoused people using the building.
    • 2700 Homestead Rd · no matching parcel on file
  4. 7 Meeting Attendance
    Procedural Appointments and personnel
    Staff read the county's advisory board attendance policy to the board.
  5. 8 FY25-26 Budget
    Budget action Budget and appropriations
    A technology project request for a RecTrac upgrade, discussed with county IT on December 8, with the budget due mid-February.
  6. 9 Changes in SNAP benefits
    Staff or committee report Health and human services
    The new work or volunteer requirement for older adults receiving SNAP has been implemented.
  7. 10 First Quarter Year 4 Reports from Workgroup Leaders
    Staff or committee report Health and human servicesHousing and affordabilityParks and recreationSchools and education
    Reports from the five master aging plan workgroups. Outdoor spaces set priorities on teaching older residents how to take part in local government planning and on physical accessibility of trails and outdoor spaces. Social participation reported a new partnership with Orange County Schools and outreach with the Refugee Support Center. Community support and health services reported 775 people reached at 18 health department events, four rural presentations to 106 people, new and expanded fitness classes with a multilingual instructor, and two natural burials funded in full by the Bluestem Community Fund. Housing reported the 2025 senior housing guide published, two Aging in Community events…
  8. 11 Planning for 2027-32 Master Aging Plan
    Discussion item Comprehensive planHealth and human services
    Indiana University's survey design team is developing topic areas for each workgroup. Workgroup leaders pilot and quality check in early 2026 so the community engagement survey is ready by May 2026, with a UNC public health student helping with distribution over the summer.
  9. 12 Senior Tar Heel Legislature
    Staff or committee report Health and human servicesState legislative agenda
    The delegation is promoting food collection and distribution using the senior centers as collection points. The alternate delegate proposed handwritten, signed letters from center participants to state legislators on letterhead, collected at an information table and mailed in bulk; staff offered to create a template.
  10. 13 Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Joint Community Advisory Committee
    Staff or committee report Health and human servicesPublic facilities
    One facility is developing a new rehabilitation hallway with six tracheostomy ventilator beds, which would be the only such beds in Orange County. Another is offering a $3,250 resident referral payment, taken out of the resident's bill.

Agenda changes

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