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Minutes
Bozeman City Senior Advisory Board
Bozeman City Hall, Gallatin Conference Room
January 5, 2011 1:15 PM
Present: Norm Dreyer, Peggy Tombre, Carole Brennan, Patty Phillips, Fran Shellenberger
Election of Officers:
Ms. Tombre Moved and Ms. Shellenberger Seconded a Motion to Elect Norm Dreyer President. Motion
carried by unanimous vote.
Mr. Dreyer Moved and Ms. Tombre Seconded a Motion to Elect Fran Shellenberger Secretary. Motion
carried by unanimous vote.
Goal No. 1 – Improve Access in Public Places. Fran has a meeting scheduled January 13 with MSU officials
Jaynee Groseth, Michael Stevenson and Stacy Stanislao regarding improving access to MSU Buildings and
arenas. She will use demographics provided by Norm Dreyer. At this meeting Fran will suggest that MSU
seek to become one of three sites for the Governor’s Conference on Aging and encourage MSU to name a
prospective speaker for the Montana Gerontological Society Conference. In addition, she will request that
MSU name a liaison to this Board.
Goal No. 2 – Recruit Additional Board Members. The Secretary will write letters to the Director of the
Senior Center and to RSVP, Galavan, Befrienders, and Experience Works, inviting them to ask someone to
apply for membership to this Board.
Goal No. 3 – Status of Acquisition of Assisted Listening Device for City Hall – postponed to the next
meeting.
Goal No. 4 – proposal for creating additional parking spaces for the Senior Center using Fairgrounds
property – postponed to the next meeting.
Mr. Dreyer suggested asking the Senior Center for permission to hold meetings at the Senior Center, to
make meetings more accessible to the large population of seniors visiting the Center and to encourage
public comments. The Secretary will write a letter to the Senior Center Director with this request.
The next meeting will be held on February 2, 2011 at City Hall, 121 N. Rouse, 1:15 p.m. We will request the
upstairs meeting room if it is available. Aimee Kissel will be requested to send out a reminder and agenda
the week of January 24, 2011. The Secretary will prepare an Agenda.
Respectfully submitted,
Fran Shellenberger
Secretary