QUESTION
Why is Mount Ararat senior center closed and what efforts are being made to redirect its funds?
1:00:16
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The Mount Ararat senior center remains closed, with Council Member Mealy seeking reasons and Commissioner Cortes-Vazquez suggesting a plan for the center's funds.
- Mealy inquires about the closure of the Mount Ararat senior center, affecting 300 seniors.
- Cortes-Vazquez explains the center is not a nonprofit, leading to funds being placed with Fort Green Council instead.
- Cortes-Vazquez proposes revisiting the issue to identify a suitable nonprofit to manage the funds and program.
- The discussion transitions to how older adults can access information through the Aging Connect number.
- Mealy suggests improving resource accessibility for seniors through coordination with schools for barcode creation.
Darlene Mealy
1:00:16
Why do you think Mount Ararat is still closed?
1:00:20
A senior center with 300 seniors where they used to come downstairs and eat.
1:00:25
And it's still closed to this day.
1:00:28
We don't know why closed.
1:00:29
Could you give me why closed?
1:00:31
It wasn't any issues.
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:00:35
I believe until you did you gave money to to Mount Ararat.
1:00:40
Through back then, about to
Darlene Mealy
1:00:42
give it again, but it's still no center there.
1:00:45
In which somehow seniors are dying now.
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:00:49
My activity.
1:00:51
That money, Mount Ararat, is not a nonprofit.
1:00:54
And that money has been placed in Fort Green Council.
1:00:58
You're aware of that
Darlene Mealy
1:00:59
that she didn't wanna do it.
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:01:02
Then I think that you and I can go back and revisit that issue separately.
Darlene Mealy
1:01:06
I thought that you said once I get the money, haven't heard from
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:01:11
him until we find until we find the nonprofit who can absorb that money and then implement the program.
1:01:22
That program is not an established older dog club.
1:01:25
So we have to do that through an existing process.
Darlene Mealy
1:01:27
30, 40 years, so I'm gonna leave that.
1:01:30
We keep talking.
1:01:33
How does the cabinet structure?
Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez
1:01:34
Do you wanna know how older for the record?
1:01:37
I would like to let everybody know how older adults can act says any information that they may want.
1:01:43
Alright?
1:01:43
There is our agent connect number.
1:01:46
Any older adult can ask for any any older adult or their family member can call aging connect, where you get a live person, an expert on aging service, and they will direct them to the appropriate agency or individual.
1:02:05
And the number is 212
Darlene Mealy
1:02:08
No.
1:02:08
212.
1:02:09
Is it posted anywhere?
1:02:12
Is it posted in every center?
1:02:14
It is That's the seniors and even do a barcode.
1:02:18
I went to a school today, 308, and they were there making barcodes.
1:02:24
So maybe you should coordinate with a school, 308 my school, and let them do the barcode that our seniors could just put it, you know, click it on their phone and they could see all the resources right there.
1:02:37
And do you mean she she took up some of my time?
1:02:41
But we're at