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Show ORDINANCE 123 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ESTAB-LISHING AND CREATING A GRAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING, DEFINING THE CONSTITUENT MEMBERSHIP, MEMBER-SHIP, TERMS OF THEIR OFFICE, PURPOSES THEREOF AND PROVIDING FOR THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES RE-SPONSIBILITIES OF SAID COUNCIL ON AGING. BE IT, AND IT IS, HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COMMIS-SIONERS OF GRAND COUNTY, COUN-TY, UTAH, AS FOLLOWS: Section I. Due to the great interest in Grand County in improving, developina. coordinating coor-dinating and strengthening all programs concerned with a repidly increasing aged and aging population and to more fully utilize the potential of our older citizens, their skills, their wisdom and their experience, exper-ience, the Board of Commissioners Commis-sioners hereby creates a Grand County Council on Aging, hereafter referred to as the Council on Aging. Section II. PURPOSES, DUTIES DU-TIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES RESPONSIBILI-TIES OF THE COUNCIL ON AGING 1 . To serve as the successor to all functions of diverse groups left without authorization, authoriza-tion, at the formation of the Council on Aging. 2. To promote and develop programs to interest and provide for the welfare of senior citizens. 3. To cooperate with the Utah Division of Aging and also both public and private companion agencies on the State and National levels to more effectively meet the needs of and provide opportunities oppor-tunities for older persons. 4. To integrate the activities of such other groups with the kindred aims of providing opportunities for senior adults of volunteer or paid service to the community and to their fellow man and for opportunities opportuni-ties in educational, recreational recreation-al and social pursuits. 5. To be aware of and interested in the aspects and needs of the aging, to promote appropriate public relations endeavors and to coordinate activities and fiscal management. manage-ment. 6. To seek out resources at the local, State and National level to provide services to the aging adult. Section III. ORGANIZATION The Council on Aging shall consist of twelve (12) regular voting members representing different groups or agencies (public or private) associated with services to older people such as Family Services (Welfare), Health, Education, Community Action, Commun ity Services Council, Churc-es, Churc-es, extension service, etc., with at least one-half (Vi) of the membership over sixty (60) years of age. Ex-officio mem- bers without vote shall be the i Aging Coordinator of the Jj senior citizens' programs, I Chairman of the Council, except in the case of a tie, ana, the President(s) of the repre- 4 sentative senior citizen club(s) (a maximum of two (2) presidents), organized under the auspicies of the Council on Aging. 1. Voting members shall be appointed by the County ' Commission, by resolution (or minute entry), who may follow the recommendations of the Council on Aging. Appointments Appoint-ments shall be made to be effective October 1st of each . year. Vacancy appointments will be for the balance of the term for which the appoint- , ment was made. 2. Appointments are to be staggered as follows: ' (a) Four members appointed for 1 year, October, 1975. (b) Four members appointed for 2 years, October, 1975. (c) Four members appointed for 3 years, October, 1975. 3. Officers, to serve as the executive committee, to be selected from among the Council on Aging and appointed appoint-ed by the County Commission, consists of the following (term of office, one year, not to exceed three consecutive terms): (a) Chairman. (b) Vice Chairman No. 1. (c) Vice Chairman No. 2. Mernbers of the Council on Aging shall meet on the first Wednesday of each month at the Senior Citizen Center at 2:00 p.m. o'clock, or at special session as called by the Chairman and are to be uncompensated except that they may be reimbursed for ', actual expenses incurred on , behalf of the Council on Aging, provided funds are available. Secretarial services for the Council shall be ' provided by the Secretary of the County Senior Citizens programs. Any member of the Council on Aging may be removed by the Commission for cause. Any member missing more than two (2) consecutive meetings without cause shall be considered j removed. 4. Program personnel shall ' serve by approval of the Council on Aging subject to approval by the County Commission. Com-mission. (a) The Council on Aging shall hire or solicit a volunteer to serve as Aging Coordinator to administer and coordinate approved programs in the , County. The Council shall provide job specifications (qualifications, descriptions) for all positions. (b) The County Aging Coordinator shall hire a j secretary-bookkeeper (or secretarial sec-retarial and bookkeeping ser- ' vices will be provided by a county courthouse employee on a regular basis) and other necessary personnel on approval ap-proval of the Council on Aging. (c) The County Aging Coordinator shall fill positions and develop and provide opportunity for volunteer services ser-vices by qualified senior citizens as much as possible. Section IV. BUDGET A budget shall be established establish-ed annually by the County Commissioners, who may follow fol-low the recommendations of the Council on Aging, it being the desire of all concerned that i this Council on Aging be Independent and self-suflic- I lent insofar as possible and subject only to a minimum of j control and supervision of the County Commission. Monies collected and ex- pended shall be accounted for I annually by the Council on ( Aging and shall be audited by , the County Auditor before ' approval of the succeeding ' year's budget. PASSED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED BY THE BOARD OK COUNTY COMMISSION- ' ERS OF GRAND COUNTY ; THIS 15th DAY OF AUGUST, A.D. 1975. Voting Yes: -D. L. TAYLOR Chairman of the Board of Commissioners HARVEYW. MERRELL Commissioner In Charge of Programs for the Aging , A. DAN HOLYOAK , Other Commissioner ATTEST: I BARBARA DOMENICK County Auditor I Published In The Tlmos- 1 Independent, Moab, Utah, Soptombor 18, 1975. i |