City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0326

• File #: 06-0326
• Version: 0
• Name: The Creation for a Center for Aging Services and Research
• Type: Mayor and City Council Res.
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 1/23/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 5/15/2006
• Enactment #: 06-011
• Title: The Creation for a Center for Aging Services and Research FOR the purpose of sustaining an initiative to create a "Center for Urban Aging Services and Policy Development" in the City of Baltimore.
• Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
• Indexes: Aging Services, Research

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/15/2006	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
5/8/2006	0	City Council
5/1/2006	0	Aging Subcommittee	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
5/1/2006	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
1/26/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/23/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
1/23/2006	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Commission on Aging and Retirement Education)

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL concerning
Title
The Creation for a Center for Aging Services and Research

FOR the purpose of sustaining an initiative to create a "Center for Urban Aging Services and Policy Development" in the City of Baltimore.
Body
Recitals

The Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education (CARE) is launching an initiative to create a "Center for Urban Aging Services and Policy Development" in the City.
The Center will bring together urban researchers, private and public funders, community leaders, service providers, and older consumers to develop new strategies for creating innovative models for delivering services to older adults. Further, the Center will examine strategies for tapping into the vast reservoir of resources offered by older adults and establish a foundation for public policy and funding strategies based on the realities of aging in urban America in the 21st Century.

The Center will be established as a 501(c)(3) community-based organization and will examine the role played by key subgroups of older urbanites in the life of cities like Baltimore. These subgroups will include low income minorities, the "empty nester" population, senior homeowners, older people with chronic diseases and disabilities, grandparents raising grandchildren, emerging ethnic and minority communities, aging members of the gay community, and urban baby boomers.

The Center will respond to is...