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Minutes of the Organizational Meeting of Council Monday, January 12, 2015 - - -- Page 5 2013 and only 17 in 2014 but that was explained when I called Stacy to find out why she thought that was and she said that there was one resident using it very regularly who passed away early in 2014. That decreased the transportation number. As you go through, you will see we are adding program participation. We had zeros before. That's Community Partnership on Aging programming versus our program we ofFer at the Comrnunity Room. That has increased. The daily congregate meals are the ineals the Partnersliip offers not here, usually in Lyndhurst or Mayfield Heights or one of the other cities. Those are the numbers I carne up with. As far as our experience with Community Partnership, I will turn that over to Bill Thomas. He really deals with them more directly on a day to day basis. Mr. Thomas reported, we have a wonderful relationship with them. They offer programs we don't offer. We complement each other. The Fire Department is also very involved in regards to the Home Safety Programs: Chief Carcioppolo reported, the Community Partnership provides our seniors with all these great services: We are also going to be rolling out a safe at home program, fire safety home inspections; a collaborative project with all fire departments involved with the Community Partnership. We would be going in and giving them a free fire safety home inspection to go along with their safe at home program. This helps put in the appropriate grab rails around bathrooms. It also looks for trip hazards. We would be doing that in conjunction with them. Lieutenant Girbino will be attending the first meeting because it is a fire prevention role. That is scheduled for the 28th of this month in the hopes that it will start in April of this year. The social services they provide the seniors are very beneficial. We will call them if we see that it looks like the resident may need assistance beyond what we can provide. Most of the people we find because they go through our hospital system have already been identified as people who might need Community Partnership on Aging help because they are notified through the hospital. It's the Hillcrest SPAN area deparhnentis that are involved with it. With us all being under the same med control, it's a nice service that we are all invalved with as a collective in the area. Council President Buckholtz asked, this is something you do, does each community that participates with the Community Partnership on Aging have a representative from fire or safety? Chief Carcioppolo replied, they have met with the fire chiefs. This whole fire safety inspection program is going to be new this year where we actually do it collectively. That has not actually happened yet. Council President Buckholtz asked, so it's not really our program. Chief Carcioppolo replied, all of the fire departments would do the same fire safety home inspection. It's in its infancy right now. Mayor Rinker asked, but in each community, they would do it?