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File #: 23-1439    Version: Name:
Type: Financial Business Request (FBR) Status: Filed
File created: 3/28/2023 In control: Finance Committee
On agenda: 4/19/2023 Final action: 4/19/2023
Title: Discussion and possible action to increase one Senior Center Van Driver to full-time.
FINANCIAL BUSINESS REQUEST
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Discussion and possible action to increase one Senior Center Van Driver to full-time.
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Background:
The Senior Center has seen a tremendous increase in the demand for transportation services. Making a driver full time would allow us to increase our service hours and accommodate more medical rides. If the merger moves forward, we proposed moving the funds from the Community Health line into the Van Driver line to cover the cost of making a driver full time.



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Meeting Action Detail:

Finance Committee Meeting 04/19/2023:

File #: 23-1439 Version: 2
Type: Financial Business Request (FBR)

Title: Increase one Senior Center Van Driver to full-time.
Action: Discussed/Completed
Minute Note:
Councilor Saums provided some background noting at the April 5, 2023 Finance Committee meeting they forwarded to the Town Council a recommendation to submit a Grant Application to Senior Resources Agency on Aging -Title 3 in the amount of $14,120 to be used to increase one Van Driver to full-time. However, he stated because the town's practice has been not to use grant funding for salaries, at their April 26, 2023 meeting the Town Council did not approve submitting the grant application, because after the grant funding ended, the budget would then have to take on the entire cost of salary for the full-time van driver.

Councilor Saums went on to note that Chairman Dombrowski referred increasing the one part-time Van Driver back to the Finance Committee to discuss whether the town needed a full-time Van Driver and the funding source.
Director of Parks & Recreation and Senior Citizens Scott Johnson, Jr., explained that the Senior Citizens Center has seen an increase in the demand for transp...

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