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Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Garden Senior Center
►The meeting was called to order at 3:34 pm by D. Villagran, LCSS Chairperson.
►Roll Call Roll Call was conducted by T. Garcia.
Members present: G. Bryant, E. Flores,T. Garcia, R. Irwin, D. Villagran, P. O'Brien, S. Fierro and P. Lewis
Members absent:J. Garcia (Excused), Y. Recio, and J. Lawrence
►Approval of Minutes
The meeting minutes from the February 2, 2017 were approved by P. Lewis, second by T. Garcia. All
were in favor. None opposed.
►New Business
A. LCSS Member Vacancies— D. Villagran reported 5 vacancies on the advisory board. For the one
Senior Center Representative vacancy, G. Bryant made a motion to elect K. Heslip, seconded by
T. Garcia. All were in favor. None opposed. For the three Community At Large representative's
vacancies, P. O'Brien made a motion to elect G. Berry, seconded by G. Bryant; P. Lewis made a
motion to elect M. Hansen, seconded by G. Bryant; P. O'Brien made a motion to elect M. Zhao,
seconded by G. Bryant. All in favor. None opposed. With discussion of attendance for J.
Lawrence,T. Garcia made a motion to elect E. Bell as a Direct Service Agency representative if J.
Lawrence is to deny reappointment. G. Bryant seconded. All were in favor. None opposed.
B. Election of Officers- D. Villagran requested the committee hold off on election until a few
vacancies were filled.
►LCSS Subcommittee Session/Project Status Report
A. Development&Special Events— N. Chavera reported a proposal for sales on the raffle basket
tickets to be sold outside of the Corpus Christi Trade Center. Idea has been discussed with the
coordinator and staff is waiting for a response back in the next few days. Dates will be discussed
to the committee by next month's meeting. Baskets are to be raffled off on April 14th at City Hall
at 1:OOpm. As for the St. Patrick's Tuesday Night Dance and Silent Auction for March 21"is still
tentative. N. Chavera will be in contact with Lindale's special events committee to discuss
further details.
B. Program Evaluation—Report for Program evaluation is to be discussed at next month's
meeting.
C. Program Operations—D. Villagran discussed the annual retreat will be schedule once a majority
of board vacancies have been filled.The Senior center accreditation meeting is tentative,
waiting for available dates from L. Oliver.The Treasurer monitoring has been completed,waiting
for the Special Events Committee summit to be held to be able to provide new center
committees with the revised treasurer procedures.The program operation subcommittee has
requested to meet with Parks and Recreation Director to review and discuss their opinion for
the proposed joint operation/RFP that was recently kicked back. A different site was
recommended by the Director. It was said L. Oliver will be setting the time and date for
subcommittee members to meet with the Director. An estimated date for the Special Event
Committee Nomination Timeline was discussed for the month of May. Summit will be scheduled
shortly after the nominations are completed.
►SCS Division program updates
A. General highlights—An electronical report will be sent in electronically to all committee
members.
B. Senior center operations—An electronical report will be sent in electronically to all committee
members.
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C. Program performance reviews/Nutrition Program Operations— An electronical report will be
sent in electronically to all committee members.
►Items for next Agenda
None.
►Public comments
L. Childress, a retired councilor of CCISD, made the recommendation to the RFP decision for committee
members to possible speak with the president of the NAACP to get a background as to the choice of
Oveal Williams Senior Center being selected. L. Childress recommended a consideration of selecting
senior center of the South section of town. A concern of attendance was brought up, L. Childress'
questioned if possibly replacing the committee members who have not attended more than 3 months
on a roll to be replaced. Lastly L. Childress reported the issue with the SCS special events calendar being
added to the Parks and Recreation website is now resolved.
►Adjournment
• The meeting adjourned at 4:28 pm.
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