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Commissioners map out priorities for Washtenaw senior millage: nutrition, centers, homelessness prevention and RFP process
Summary
Board members and public commenters outlined goals for implementing the county's recently approved senior millage, emphasizing nutrition program expansion, operational support for senior centers, an RFP-driven grant program, caregiver supports and a county oversight role for contracting and data.
Washtenaw County commissioners used a broad Jan. 22 working-session conversation to begin shaping policy for implementation of the recently approved senior millage, highlighting nutrition, senior-center operations, older-adult homelessness prevention and an RFP-driven approach for distributing funds.
Commissioner (Maciejewski) — who described a framework he has been refining since summer — opened with a set of proposed priorities that included eliminating wait lists for nutrition services, providing roughly $200,000 for senior-center operations to help centers retain qualified staff, targeting older-adult homelessness through partnerships, and issuing…
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