HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOA 05/`16/2023Minutes of the COA Board Meeting May 16, 2023 RECEIVED
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Present: Chair: LeeAnn Cerretani, Vice Chair: Paula Devine, Secretary Mary oungan, IO I q
Treasurer: Pat Comperchio, Members: Joan Hoey, Dick Kelsay, Director: Jose0 p&9a41PAzA
Assistant Director: Wendy Adams. Residents: Nancy Graf, and Marie Grygienc. Excy;edi D
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Call to order: Paula Devine called the meeting to order @ 3:32 PM
Minutes of the Board Meeting: Minutes from April 2023 meeting were reviewed. Dick made a
motion to accept the minutes and Pat seconded, Vote in favor:
Affirmative: 5 Negative: 0
Treasurer's Report:
Pat presented the treasurer's report. There was a decrease in gift accounts. Jo explained that it
was due to payment to the bus company. Dick made a motion to accept the Treasurer's report
and Joan seconded.
Affirmative:6 Negative:0
Rob MacDonald, the Chairman of the Mansfield 250th Anniversary committee, came in to
introduce himself. They will be having events all year long but there will be an all -day event
held on August 23'd• 2025. The committee is looking for volunteers. Meetings will be held on
Wednesdays at 6:30 on the 2nd floor of Town Hall.
Director's Report:
• Friends are now DBA Friends of the Mansfield Council on Aging
+ They have worked really hard to reorganize themselves and are doing a great job.
• New FB page and sign with the mission. Meetings have been going really well and
things have been moving in a positive direction.
• Weight loss/Healthy Eating— Elisha is looking into various challenges and fun activities.
• Programs:
o Andrew Noone —'discuss his book Bathseba Sooner Revolutionary Murder
Conspiracy
o Theatre Class
o Senior Safety Day on June 91h
o Joyful Chorus —Travel Abroad Spring Concert June 15th at 10 am
o Phyllis De Larcheriiere- Inner Hippie'
oMunicipal Training on Dementia June 13th
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• Logos and T-shirts
o $18.00 for crew neck and $20.00 for V-necks. Dick made a motion to spend
$1,000 to order shirts. Paula seconded. Vote was taken: Affirmative: 6 yes
Negative:0
• Signage
o Mary is meeting with the TM office and Highway Dept. tomorrow.
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New Business:
• Memorial Day Parade
Group of walkers representing the GOA in the parade. They will be carrying the banners
that the Friends group designed and ordered.Joan Hoey offered to call the individuals
that volunteered to walk.
• VA Memorial Project Update
o The DPW has done such an amazing job on all the memorials that the group does
not have to do any cleanup work for Memorial Day. We will be putting out the
memorial signs on the south common on Friday the 19th. 1 will be meeting with
Andy from DPW sometime in the next month to find a spot for the COA-
sponsored bench at one of the sites and to discuss a proposed new
memorial. We will get the group together in the months leading up to Veterans
Day to do cleanup work on each site. - Neal
• Family Fun Night — Tuesday, July 111h. Friends members would like to participate as
well as Board members: Lee Ann, Pat and her husband Frank, Joan, Dick, Jo, Wendy,
and possibly Mary.
• Paula, Nancy, and Mary would like to do Food Safety training.
Adjourn:
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Dick made a motion to end the meeting and Paula seconded, The next meeting will be held at
the'COA at 330 pm on June 20, 2023.
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Agenda;
Call to order at 3:30;pm
Minutes from past meeting
Treasurer's Report
Guest: Select Board Member Maureen Doherty
Director's Report
Old Business
• Family Fun Night
• Logos and T-shirts
• Memorial Day Parade
• VA Memorial Project Update
New Business
• BESI Board assignment
Adjourn
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