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Senior Services Advisory Board approves minutes, nominates Jeanine Harris and sets 2026 priorities
Summary
At its Feb. 9 meeting, the Frederick County Senior Services Advisory Board approved the Jan. 9 minutes, unanimously nominated Jeanine Harris for County Executive review and selected top priorities for 2026: Advocacy/Outreach, Health/Well-Being and Information & Referral.
The Frederick County Senior Services Advisory Board met Feb. 9, 2026, at the Bourne Building and called the session to order at 1 p.m. Chair Barbara Angleberger presided.
The board approved the minutes of its Jan. 9 meeting after Marcia King moved to adopt them and Adele Connolly seconded; the minutes record the motion as unanimously approved. Later in the meeting Marcia King reported that the Nominations Committee had interviewed Jeanine Harris and moved to nominate her to the SSAB. Sandra Wastler seconded the nomination; the board unanimously approved forwarding Harris’s information to the County Executive for review.
In a work session the board prioritized its focus areas for 2026. The meeting notes record member votes as follows: Advocacy/Outreach (8 votes), Health/Well-Being (6 votes) and Information & Referral (5 votes), followed by Housing (3 votes) and Transportation (2 votes). Board members discussed speaker ideas and outreach strategies tied to those priorities, including invitations to representatives from nutrition programs, DAI, ALICE/United Way and public health speakers.
The minutes also note that the SSAB has discretionary funds of $2,000 that must be spent by June 30, and members were reminded that purchases must be ordered and received by that date to use the funds this fiscal year. Several members asked staff to follow up on next steps for the priorities list and to coordinate proposed speakers and resources.
The meeting included a public comment period during which a resident asked how meeting information is shared back to the community; Chair Angleberger said DAI is improving outreach and has hired a communications manager. The meeting adjourned at 2:58 p.m.; minutes are signed by Melinda Lohman-Hinz, Executive Assistant.
What’s next: Jeanine Harris’s nomination will be forwarded to the County Executive for review; staff will coordinate follow-up on the board’s prioritized topics and return with speaker and program recommendations.
