Silver Summit Senior Citizens Advisory Committee
The Summit Common Council recently established a Silver Summit Senior Citizens Advisory Committee with the mission to coordinate, communicate, and deploy volunteers and organizations in an efficient and collaborative way. It will establish a social safety net for Summit senior citizens to help direct senior residents to available resources provided by non-profits and the city, county, state, and federal governments. The committee will encourage communication among organizations to enhance collaboration and to eliminate gaps and duplicative efforts among organizations to ensure the needs of seniors are being met.
“Common Council created the Silver Summit Senior Citizens Advisory Committee to increase awareness of the many resources available to older adults for basic needs such as health care, food, housing and transportation,” explains Council President Marjorie Fox. “Establishing a safety net for senior citizens will ensure that they can live as part of the Summit community as long as possible with independence, dignity and choice. I look forward to working with committee members to help achieve these goals.”
The Silver Summit Senior Citizens Advisory Committee shall consist of the following members serving a one-year term:
- Mayor
- Two Common Councilmembers
- Two senior citizens from the community-at-large
- Department of Community Programs Director or Designee
It will also include one representative from each of the following organizations:
- GRACE
- Housing Authority
- SAGE Eldercare
- Society Helping our Infirm and Elderly (SHIELD of Summit)
- Summit Area YMCA
- Summit Interfaith Council
- The Connection
For more information on the Silver Summit Senior Citizens Advisory Committee, visit cityofsummit.org.
