Senior Association Coalition Meeting

Randell Brown, Regional Director of the Florida Dept. of Financial Services, mentioned that there were some concerns with annuity abuse and anyone with concerns should contact him at 323-0914.

There also was some discussion about transportation needs of seniors and the challenges of starting volunteer transportation programs; mainly insurance coverage. It was noted that Council on Aging and Votran are again visiting this topic and looking at some options for the future.

Lois Bollenback, Senior Transportation Planner with the Volusia County Metropolitan Planning Council (MPO) was introduced. She reported that the MPO was in the process of coordinating a long range plan for transportation in Volusia County and they were seeking public participation in this effort. It was noted that the three major challenges for our county in the future will be energy, water and transportation.

Those present were then separated into two groups to provide suggestions for transportation in the future for our county. Lois Bollenback asked that the minutes reflect a request to the group and anyone else they may know who would be interested, to please visit the MPO website to fill out a survey to be heard. That site is www.volusiacountympo.com; page down to link “Take the Long Range Planning Survey” to bring up the survey online.

Carol Thomas with the Council on Aging announced that the next meeting would be held Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 10 a.m. at the Council on Aging office in Daytona Beach. The topic would be Legislative Issues. It was also discussed that we address energy and transportation issues at a future meeting.