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Minutes of the Organizational Meeting of Council <br />-Monday, January 12, 2015 - <br />Page 6 <br />Chief Carcioppolo replied, each community, they would do it, yes. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, coordinated by the Community Partnership? <br />Chief Carcioppolo, yes, when they are doing the safe at home program, correct. <br />Mr. Thomas stated, so between our programs we have offered through Donna, our Senior <br />Supervisor, and these programs they offer, we have a well-rounded program. It's well worth the <br />money. <br />Mr. Jerome asked, how can it be done? If a resident has an issue, they shouldn't call the fire <br />department? They should go through Community Partnership on Aging, correct? <br />Mr. Thomas replied, they start with Donna. Donna would refer them to Stacy. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, program participation, did we not have programs in 2012 <br />and 2013? <br />Ms. Wolgamuth replied, these are the Community Partnership on Aging programs. Because we <br />were new, I don't think our residents really understood they could participate in them. Finally <br />this year people axe starting to. That ranges from woodworking classes and including the <br />matinees and lunches we provide here. That program number is all of their programming. That <br />does not include the prograinming we offer in the Community Room. <br />Council President Buckholtz stated, I was just matching it up against the $37,000 and we have <br />100 people and it's like $370 a person. I don't want to think of it that way. I appreciate you <br />coming through with this even at the 11t" hour. It's fine. We are not voting on it tonight. Is there <br />a way to find out information from the other communities like their growth patterns? I <br />remembered that when we talked about coming through with some statistics, also coming <br />through with some ways of promoting it as best we can. I know we do. <br />Ms. Wolgamuth agreed. Bill and I spoke about that. We feel collectively we have done a lot to <br />promote it this past year. There has been fairs and a lot of mailings and the Community <br />Partnership does their own newsletter. We put it in every VOV. We have worked hard to promote <br />it as much as we can. They have presence at our pancake breakfast. They had a table and were <br />passing out their materials. Last year we asked about the other cities and what their percentages <br />were as far as participation. Remember that some of these cities have been in it since 1978. The <br />highest percentage was South Euclid at 20%. With the numbers we have this year, we are at <br />11.3%. We are not at 20, but 1Vlayfield Heights was at 12, Highland Heights was at 12, so we are <br />kind of right in the same range. <br />Mr. Thomas added, we have only been in existence with them for less than three years. South <br />Euclid is at 20% and they have been there since 1970 something. <br />Council President Buckholtz asked, anyone have any questions?