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Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda

Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Advisory board meeting Health and human servicesBudget and appropriationsHousing and affordability

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What was decided

  1. Approved 3Approval of Minutes - December 10, 2024 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

Orange County's Advisory Board on Aging opened its 2025-26 budget discussion on 14 January 2025. The department needs county money to replace federal pandemic funding that paid for the take-away meal programme and some in-home services.

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Meeting recap

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

The way outside agency funding is reviewed has changed: the county manager's office and department directors will do it instead of advisory boards, and there is a new performance agreement process. Staff said funding has dwindled and the application is demanding. The department itself applies to Chapel Hill and Carrboro for outside agency money.

One member raised a broader concern about citizen input, saying advisory boards in Chapel Hill have been dissolved and that more than ten petitions he has filed over five years went nowhere. Another gave the extra funding for take-away meals as a counter-example.

The board discussed what to put in its annual report to the commissioners, and members raised the cost of assisted living, planning for solo agers, and support for caregivers. One described a parent with dementia who did not qualify for Medicare and the monthly cost of long-term care. Staff said national assisted living companies build with tax credits that expire after twenty or thirty years, at which point costs jump, and called it a nationwide problem.

Members also discussed the proposed Fiddlehead community in the context of group homes, and staff said what matters is the zoning and what a change would permit. The state health insurance counselling programme reported on the Medicare Part D open enrolment season.

How the votes went

The December minutes were approved.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (4)

Minutes approval · 1Budget action · 1Discussion item · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 3 Approval of Minutes - December 10, 2024
    Minutes approval
    Approved
  2. 8 FY 25-26 Budget Kick-off
    Budget action Budget and appropriationsHealth and human services
    The department needs county funding to replace federal pandemic money that paid for take-away meals and some in-home programmes. Outside agency review moves from advisory boards to the county manager's office and department directors, with new performance agreements.
  3. 9 BOCC Aging Board Annual Report
    Discussion item Health and human servicesHousing and affordability
    Members raised the cost of assisted living, planning for people ageing without family nearby, and support for caregivers. Staff noted that assisted living built with tax credits sees costs jump when the credits expire after twenty or thirty years.
  4. 10 Medicare Part D Open Enrollment Success Report
    Staff or committee report Health and human services
    The state health insurance counselling programme reported on the open enrolment season.

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