HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 08-16-2005-7aORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date
SUBJECT: Active Seniors Assessment
DEPARTMENT: Health
August 16, 2005
Results
Action Agenda
Item No. 7- Q
PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N)
No
ATTACHMENT(S):
Seniors on the Move Report
(Under Separate Cover)
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rosemary Summers, ext 2411
Ellen Young, 968-2022 ext 292
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough
Chapel Hill
Durham
Mebane
732-8181
968-4501
688-7331
336-227-2031
PURPOSE: To receive a presentation and consider the results from the Active Seniors Project,
BACKGROUND: Staff will provide a presentation reviewing the Active Seniors Project and
highlighting the recommendations to help promote walking and biking in the neighborhoods
surrounding the new Southern Orange County Senior Center an Homestead Road in Chapel
Hill. The Seniors on the Move Report is the result of an eight-month project that brought public
health educators, land use planners, and senior services professionals together with senior
citizens and other community members,
Assembled in October of 2004, the Active Seniors Project Team conducted five main tasks over
eight months, including: 1) receiving orientation and training from project staff; 2) reviewing
existing plans for the project area; 3) conducting assessments of the pedestrian and bicycle
infrastructure in the area; 4) identifying existing pedestrian and bicycle routes; and 5)
developing recommendations for improving the pedestrian and bicycle network in order to help
seniors and others be mare physically active, In addition, the Project Team provided input on
the site design of the Senior Center itself to help connect it with the surrounding pedestrian and
bicycle network,
The Project Team identified existing walking and biking routes and developed maps of these
routes that will be posted in a variety of places and will be available to residents, The Team
also developed a set of six priority recommendations for improving walking routes and six
priority recommendations for improving biking routes in the Homestead Road area. A few other
additional recommendations are included in the Report as well,
This project was funded at $19,710 through a grant from Physical Activity and Nutrition Branch
Community Grants Program within the NC Department of Health and Human Services, Grant
application partners were the Orange County Health Department as the lead agency, and
included the Triangle ~7 Council of Governments and the Orange County Department on Aging,
FINANCIAtn IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with receiving the presentation.
Implementation of the recommendations from the Report may have costs associated with them
that have not been determined at this time.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board receive the Report
presentation.