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Natick COA subcommittee finalizes draft strategic plan, will brief board March 9
Summary
The Town of Natick Council on Aging Board Strategic Planning Subcommittee met March 4, 2026, to revise the draft strategic plan, incorporate housing-committee objectives, and agree to seek staff input; members will brief the full COA Board on March 9 and aim to present the plan at the April meeting.
The Town of Natick Council on Aging Board Strategic Planning Subcommittee met March 4, 2026, by Zoom and revised the draft of its strategic plan, incorporating updated objectives from the housing committee and agreeing to solicit staff feedback before briefing the full COA Board on March 9, 2026.
The subcommittee — recorded in the minutes as Jim Fitzgerald, Paula Panchuck and Jan Sewell — discussed edits to the plan’s cover document and the housing-related objectives; members agreed the housing committee’s updates should be folded into the draft. The minutes state the group also discussed how to include staff perspectives in the plan.
To secure staff input, the subcommittee agreed on two follow-ups: to draft a short cover-sheet email to a staff member identified only as "Angela" requesting a meeting, and to provide that staff member a hard copy of the draft with objectives highlighted to show which items are continuations of existing programs. The minutes do not assign a specific member as the responsible party for those follow-ups.
The minutes record that the subcommittee will give a brief update to the full Council on Aging Board at its March 9 meeting and expects to present the finalized draft at the April COA Board meeting, coordinating further with staff prior to that presentation.
The minutes list a next subcommittee meeting for Friday, March 20, 2026, at 2:00 PM via Zoom. The document also contains internal inconsistencies: it records two different adjournment times ("Meeting adjourned at 2:50 PM" and later "Meeting adjourned at 3:15pm") and repeats a "next meeting" line that appears to be a clerical duplication. The minutes were submitted as "Respectfully submitted by Jeanette Sewell, COA Strategic Planning Subcommittee Member." The record does not clarify whether Jeanette Sewell and the attendee listed as Jan Sewell are the same person; the minutes present both names separately.
Next steps recorded in the minutes are the two staff-contact follow-ups and the March 9 brief to the full COA Board; the subcommittee plans to continue revising the draft before seeking formal consideration by the board in April.
