Meeting Minutes 9/8/2025

In person at Longreach, Maine Maritime Museum, thank you Phyllis for organizing this space 

Attendees: Kelly, Karin, Joel, Barbara, Polly, Marla, Janet, Phyllis

• AARP Challenge Grant - Karin

• Listening Sessions - Dates (Steering Committee Members are needed as note takers. Please sign up for one. All Listening Sessions include lunch provided by the Fountain and $20 gift card (choice of grocery or gas). Agenda for the listening sessions below.

• 9/11 11:30-1:00 Bath Housing Moorings, Congress Street

• 9/30 11:30-1:00 Woolwich Town Hall

• 10/8 11:30-1:00 Arrowsic Town Hall

• 10/9 11:30-1:00 Phippsburg Unitarian Congregational Church.

• tbd Plant Home, Georgetown and West Bath TBD

• VTP AFCLK update - Karin

Our dide administrator Jennifer is very busy in Woolwich with currently 13 drivers and 12 riders. Some are needing weekly, biweekly, PT, cardiac rehab, grocery, dental visits. Still recruiting more drivers. Resource packets can't hold everything, example: significant needs for home repair. 6 year waiting list with Maine housing. Found a loan to pay for repairs.

Arrowsic 1 rider and 6 drivers.

Georgetown still has not many riders. At least 7 drivers.

Bath: Our group presented  our current project/VTP to the Bath Transportation Committee: We are looking for someone to adopt the project in Bath. People Plus is still providing some rides in Bath.

• Photo Project Update (Susan not present) - Karin

Only 2 or 3 submissions at this time. We still have until the end of September. Brightfield School has interest in including a photo project in their curriculum, in intergenerational settings, to be explored further..

• New Business

-Mature Drivers program Session cancelled and rescheduled for Monday Oct. 6 12-1:30 at Maine Health, old Parkview Hospital. Older driver safety and mobility benefiting individuals, family members, and/or professionals, September 15 date was cancelled. 

-Bath Housing will be selling their property at 150 Congress Avenue to the Developers Collaborative for the construction of new housing for BIW workers. Friday 9/12, from 9 am – noon, drop in. Developers Collaborative will be hosting an Open House for a last look at the building – and to share redevelopment plans.  Please share widely!  This is the United Church of Christ.

-September is Library Card Signup Month and the goal is to sign up 200 new cardholders. Please spread the word. A community evening is planned for October 22^nd to explore what technical solutions patrons would love to see happening  at the Library if there was no price tag attached.

Next meeting date and location: October 9, 3:30-4:30 at Maine Maritime Museum.

Agenda for Emergency Preparedness Community Listening Sessions, September - November 2025

Listening Sessions Emergency Preparedness

Time Topic Materials & Roles

0:00-0:15 Settling In & Food

Welcome & Introductions: Deirdra facilitates a round of introductions, shares purpose of

the listening session/why we are bringing older adults together in Bath for this conversation.

Room setup notes

0:15-0:45 Listening to experiences of attendees with emergencies. Encourage them to ground their answers in experiences or stories that they are welcome to share.

Guiding Questions:

1. General/Opening: What do you consider an emergency?

a. What helps you feel prepared?

2. Concerns: What’s your biggest concern during an emergency?

3. Access to Information: How do you get information during an emergency?

a. What do you wish you knew?

4. Resources: When a large storm or power outage occurs, what is the first thing you reach for?

a. Why is that important to you?

b. What do you wish you had?

Notetaker: [Name TBD]

0:45-1:05 Phil Davis (SCEMA) shares information about county-wide resources and helps attendees sign up for RAVE alerts

1:05-1:25 Evaluation of Disaster Preparedness Emergency Kits1:25-1:30 Evaluation of the Session

Deirdra closes the meeting by informing attendees when/how emergency kits will be made available to them. Deirdra then leads a brief round robin “check out” with the following evaluation questions:

What is one thing that you learned during the listening session?

What is one thing that you recommend we change for future listening sessions?