The Council on Aging, Inc. serving St. Clair County is a non-profit corporation created to provide programs and services to the County Seniors. Like any corporation, the Council is governed by a Board of Directors, which is exclusively responsible for the policies, planning and operations of this agency. It delegates responsibility for the latter to an executive director, whom it appoints.
There are 21 Board members at the Council on Aging. With the exception of two members appointed, respectively, by the County and the City of Port Huron, the next 15 members of the Board of Directors are elected by the Board of Directors at the annual meeting. The remaining four members are chosen by the Advisory Committees of their respective centers, who are elected by the members of their centers. All members of these Advisory Committees are seniors and 77% of the current CoA Board are seniors. Thus the decisions affecting seniors are really made by seniors.
Vision Statement
It is the vision of the Council on Aging, Inc., serving St. Clair County that all senior citizens of the County shall be able to live in their homes as long as possible, that the Agency may avail itself of all the resources, public and private, needed to ensure that all seniors shall be able to receive those services and participate in those activities which will enhance their lives and that no senior in the County will ever feel that he/she is alone.
The Council on Aging, Inc., serving St. Clair County is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organization which co-ordinates programs that promote and safeguard the independence and well-being of the senior citizens (persons sixty years of age and older) of St. Clair County, of the State of Michigan, by
In addition, the Council on Aging may determine those services, activities and programs which, with appropriate and available funding, it could offer to qualified disabled citizens of the County.
Advisory Committees
There is a representative from each of the area senior centers' advisory committees on the CoA Board of Directors. We would like to let you know a little more about these "Advisory Committees."
These committees discuss and make recommendations regarding the programs and activities being planned for "their" senior center. They also make decisions regarding the senior center building in which they meet and the center's fund-raising efforts for the building maintenance and improvements. All four senior centers are self-sufficient in these areas.
The Port Huron Senior Center Advisory Committee meets the third Wednesday of each month. At Cherry Beach, they meet the first Tuesday of the month. In Yale, the Advisory Committee meets the fourth Wednesday of the month and in Capac, the Advisory Committee meets the third Tuesday of the month.
Funding Sources
TheCouncil on Aging, Inc., serving St. Clair County is a private non-profit agency whose programs and services are funded all or in part by the following: the St. Clair County Senior Services Mileage; federal and state grants through the Area Agency on Aging 1-B and the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging under the Older Americans Act; and State Tobacco Settlement Funding; the Corporation for National and Community Service; the Michigan Department of Transportation; the City of Port Huron; United Way of St. Clair County; fund-raisers; memberships; memorials and donations.
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TheCouncil on Aging, Inc. serving St. Clair County is in compliance with the Title VII, the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Michigan Handicappers' Civil Rights Act and the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Complaints of discrimination may be filed with the Area Agency on Aging 1-B; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights; Michigan Office of Civil Rights.