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GRANT APPLICATION FOR COUNCIL ON AGING - RESOLUTION N0, 81-53 <br />INTERESTED CITIZEN, WILLIAM KOOLAGE, STATED THAT THE COUNCIL <br />ON AGING HAS BEEN AN ONGOING PROGRAM FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS, THEY <br />HAVE BEEN PROVIDING A LOT OF SERVICES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS THAT NO <br />ONE ELSE OFFERS - GETTING THEM TO DOCTORS, ETC. - AND HE ENCOURAGED <br />THE BOARD TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM, <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER WISHED TO KNOW WHAT THE GRANT FOR THE <br />VERO FOUNDATION IS FOR, AND COMMISSIONER WODTKE REPORTED THAT THIS IS <br />A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION SET UP A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO BY A RESIDENT OF <br />THIS COUNTY. THE MONEY IS INVESTED AND USED FOR NEEDY ELDERLY OF THE <br />,•*•Maio <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER STATED THAT HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH <br />TAKING FEDERAL MONEY IN THE FIRST PLACE. HE THEN INQUIRED WHY THE <br />PLANNED RESULTS ON PAGE 3 DO NOT INCLUDE (D) IN REGARD TO SOLICITING <br />VOLUNTEER PARTICIPATION, <br />IT WAS MT KNOWN WHY THAT WAS LEFT OUT. MR, KOOLAGE NOTED <br />THAT THERE ARE A GREAT MANY VOLUNTEERS WHO PUT IN A GREAT MANY HOURS, <br />BUT THEY DO NOT FILL ALL THE NEED. THESE SENIOR CITIZENS ARE THOSE <br />WHO HAVE VERY LOW INCOMES, <br />FINANCE OFFICER BARTON CONFIRMED THAT THESE ARE INDEED <br />CITIZENS WITH EXTREMELY LOW INCOMES. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />BIRD, COMMISSIONER FLETCHER VOTED IN OPPOSITION, THE BOARD BY A 4 TO I <br />VOTE ADOPTED RESOLUTION N0. 81-53 APPROVING THE GRANT APPLICATION TO <br />COMMUNITY SERVICES TRUST FUND FOR THE COUNCIL ON AGING. <br />73 <br />Box 47 PACE 87, <br />