The Aurora City Council is set to establish an Aging-in-Community Advisory Board that would focus on issues facing seniors in the city.
Aldermen meeting as a Committee of the Whole put establishment of the board on the consent agenda for Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, meaning it is likely to be approved.
It would join the more than 40 boards, advisory boards and commissions run through the city.
Alex Voigt, deputy chief of staff in the mayor’s office, has said the idea for the board came from work being done by Katrina Boatright, the city’s manager of Senior and Disability Services.
Boatright has been working with the Metropolitan Mayors Conference, which has an Aging in a Changing Region program.
Voigt said one of the recommendations they offered was to create a board specifically for the aging population.
Boatright has said while she has received comments from some interested in the board, she as yet has no recommendations for members.
Voigt has said the nine-member board would be made up of people with a tie “to the community the board is aimed at addressing.”
She said there would be no age requirement to serve on the board, meaning the group would not be made up of only senior citizens.
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