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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Page 11 I wanted to give you a quick update on the Community Partnership on Aging. Bill Thomas and I met with the Commission on Aging and introduced the services that are offered. They seemed very interested We talked about it for quite a while. They seemed most interested in the transportation services. But ultimately they suggested that we might do a Village-wide survey to see what kinds of needs there aze before we move forward. Bill and I are meeting with the Rec Board tomorrow evening. We will talk about it with them. I have got a Citizen's Advisory meeting next week. I may mention it to them a1so. Donna Heath is putting together numbers to show 'participation in our current programs. My plan is to put a11 that together in a pretty comprehensive memorandum. I did get an answer to the specific question raised by Council in that the Federal funding they receive is about 7% of their annual revenue so it's fairly low. My recommendation, I was going to have the Director come to the February Caucus but I think we might wait until we get the memo out and have a11 of the information before we bri.ng her in for a presentation. Council President Buckholtz stated, I would make one comment. You are doing it the right way, but we have done surveys before and they're tricky. You can't win if you send them out. You don't heaz back or you heaz from a few people and then you figure tha.t's a good sampling of the whole community and it's not. So I think we really have to get through all these committees, as many committees that people sit on. Make it a priority to really reach out to people and find out what they really want and need. Someti.mes people don't even express it. You have got to kind of intuitively figure that out. Great. Good job. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS: Council President Buckholtz stated, yesterday we sent out the final version of the Committee assignments for Council. There will be a little organizational item at your next meetings in terms of figuring out who is going to do what. It's not a big leap from how things have been running in the past. We will see what we have now. Activities Committee - Mrs. Mills reported, our first meeting is January 24th here in this room at 6:45. Architectural Review Board - Mr. Marrelli reported that Architectural Review Board met on Januaty 4 and finalized the plans for the Wildcat Park improvements at the High School. Board of Anpeals - There was no meeting. There is no report. Cemeterv - There is no report. Citizen's Advisorv Board - Mr. Marrie reported that Citizen's Advisory Board met on the 14Ih of November and discussed a few items. Bill Thomas came in and gave the group a very very enlightening discussion on the Recreation Department and the services we offer for the Village.