Aurora is looking at establishing an Aging-in-Community Advisory Board that would focus on issues facing seniors in the city.
Aldermen on the City Council Rules, Administration and Procedure, or RAP, Committee this week unanimously recommended establishing the board, which would consider issues concerning aging in Aurora.
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, told committee members 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.
“One of the recommendations they offered was to create a board specifically for our aging community population,” Voigt said.
Boatright told aldermen that while she has received comments from some interested in the board, she as yet has no recommendations for members.
Voigt 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.
The Committee of the Whole will consider creation of the board before full City Council approval expected by the end of the month.
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