HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/24/2003 - Regular Minutes - Parks Board Senior Advisory Committee
Regular Meeting
Monday, February 24, 2003
College Station Teen Center
1520 Rock Prairie Road
1:00pm
Minutes
Members Present: Bill Kling, Chairman; Frank Camplone, Fred Dollar, Annie Lee Finch,
Laura Holmes, Catherine Lamb, Billy Lay, Robert Meyer, Haskell Monroe, Neal Nutall,
Suzanne Reynolds, Dipankar Sen, Yvonne Stevens and Joanna Yeager.
Members Absent: Betty Wilbom
Student Vistors: Robert Koeorburg, Liesl Frazier, Laura Love, Missy Flint, Charles
Schneider, Tara Fitzpatrick, Neil Marx, Lindsay Gavos, Brad Shipman and Doug Bell
Staff: Peter Lamont and Marci Rodgers
Call to order. The meeting was called to order by Chairman, Bill Kling at
1:00pm.
II. Hear visitors. No visitors
III. Approval of minutes from regular meeting on January 27, 2003.
Haskell Monroe made the motion that the minutes be approved. Robert Meyer
seconded the motion. The motion passed.
IV. Meet with A&M Architecture students to discuss design for a senior center project.
A&M students attended the meeting to discuss the project with the Senior
Advisory Committee as their "client". This is a hypothetical assignment. The
students asked questions in order to understand the client's goals for the senior
activity center and to confirm the final program. The committee responded with
good suggestions and other considerations. The students will be in contact with
Marci Rodgers as the coordinator for the project. A final presentation is scheduled
for April 16th.
V. Committee Reports:
Program committee: See attached minutes
CIP committee: Billy Lay who is a member of the CIP committee reported that
the committee met for the first time last week and will continue to meet for the
next eight weeks on Tuesday evenings. Mr. Lay explained that the committee was
given a list of 55 proposed projects submitted by the city staff with a total price tag
of$60 million. The committee has been asked to prioritize and cut the projects to
total approximately$30 million. The committee is also open to consider projects
not listed and Mr. Lay suggested the senior advisory committee and citizens
contact him or other members on the CIP committee to express their wishes. Mr.
Lay said that there would be public meetings once the items were prioritized.
Fred Dollar made the motion that Billy Lay express the wishes of the senior
advisory committee to the CIP committee. Neal Nutall seconded the motion. The
motion passed.
Neal Nutall made the motion that the senior advisory committee recommends to
the city that ballots be constructed in such a way that the projects be listed and
voted on separately and not as one project. Catherine Lamb seconded the motion.
The motion passed.
VI. Senior Services Coordinator Report. See attached report.
VII. Next meeting date and agenda. The committee would like to have a representative
of the Silver Haired Legislature speak at a future meeting and continue to have a
CIP Committee report. The next meeting will be held on Monday, March 31st at
10:00am
VIII. Adjourn. The meeting was adjourned at 2:40pm