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Any comments, questions, or corrections . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor . Any opposed . I abstain since i was not here. Yes, the motion carries. And now, item 4, the directors report. Good morning, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner spears. It is great to have you here and its also great to have a full commission. I think its been several years, so very excited to work with all of you. I think i want to start with kind of the National Level stuff. I just came back from the National Association of area agencies conference on ageing and board meeting, im a california repres...

What im trying to describe are those committees that meet regularly, and they hear from staff from daas, and they hear from staff you know, its an m. T. A. Person who then takes it back. So im saying all this stuff gets integrated, but it takes a while to figure out where does that voice matter. But all of these source of design ideas, and i think really, were becoming knowledgeable about them, and red lights, what an idea. And stopping a little bit and giving the pedestrian time to get across before the car starts coming into the intersection, what a concept. Well, now, something thats pretty...

Any comments, questions, or corrections . Hearing none, call the question. All in favor . Any opposed . I abstain since i was not here. Yes, the motion carries. And now, item 4, the directors report. Good morning, commissioners, and welcome, commissioner spears. It is great to have you here and its also great to have a full commission. I think its been several years, so very excited to work with all of you. I think i want to start with kind of the National Level stuff. I just came back from the National Association of area agencies conference on ageing and board meeting, im a california repres...

Stepping stone working with us. We continued presenting outstanding programs to our case membership. Julys presentation was a panel on creative ageing which features laura mason of engage, and jessica mccracken. They gave a wonderful presentation on programs that their agencies are currently offering as well as led us in a discussion about perspectives on ageing which will continue as we try to truly reframe ageing and move to the forefront of those efforts. Our august meeting will be focused on advocacy efforts for the upcoming year. We do an annual brainstorming session where members give th...

[laughter] there are two people that i would like to acknowledge. Craig coker is he is a genius. A people often ask how it began, and he began with. I just want to acknowledge him and thinking. [applause] in the former chairman of the board of the new England Council is here and he also happens to be an alum for the school in hanover and he is the political guru of New Hampshire and he has worked on somebody president ial campaigns alexander, romney. [laughter] president mccain truly a sought after group to say the least. We are honored to have a beer. Also i would like to think neil not only ...