HomeMy WebLinkAboutF-2b - Carrier Alert ProgramCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
Parks, Beaches and Recreation Department
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Parks, Beaches and Recreation Director
SUBJECT: CARRIER ALERT PROGRAM
Recommendation:
May 14, 1984
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
ITEM NO.
BY THE CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
MAY 141984
Adopt Resolution No. in support of the implementation of the Carrier
Alert Program.
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The Orange County Area Agency on Aging and the National Association of Letter
Carriers co-sponsor and support the Carrier Alert Program in Orange County. This
program serves as an alert mechanism to help handicapped and elderly individuals,
mostly ones living alone, who may suffer an illness or accident in the home and
cannot communicate their need for help.
OASIS Center and Friends of OASIS would like to assist with the implementation of
this important program for the Corona del Mar and Newport Beach elderly.
Nationally, Carrier Alert has been endorsed by President Reagan and locally by
the County Board of Supervisors (Resolution No. 82-1889). The process to
implement is:
1. Obtain City Council Resolution.
2. Announce to our members and the media that we are starting this program.
3. Our Outreach Coordinator would obtain names of the homebound who would like to
participate. Each would fill out a card with his/her name and the names and
telephone numbers of two relatives or friends.
4. OASIS would give a list and update it, when necessary, to the Corona del Mar
or Newport Post Office of those participating.
5. The letter carriers would put a sticker inside those people's mail boxes.
6. Should mail pile up, the letter carrier would notify his superior, who would
call OASIS. OASIS would call one of those names on the participant's card to
check on the person.
The Friends of OASIS and the Parks, Beaches and Recreation Commission at their
meeting of May 1, 1984 have supported this Carrier Alert Program.
Ronald A. Whitley
RESOLUTION NO. 8 4 - 4 2
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH SUPPORTING IMPLEMENTATION OF
A CARRIER ALERT PROGRAM FOR THE HANDICAPPED
AND ELDERLY LIVING ALONE
WHEREAS, The Orange County area Agency on Aging and The
National Association of Letter Carriers co-sponsor and support
the Carrier Alert Program in Orange county; and
WHEREAS, this program serves as an alert mechanism to
help handicapped and elderly individuals living alone who may
suffer an illness or accident in the home and cannot communicate
their need for help; and
WHEREAS, the program is designed so that when a letter
carrier notices that something is amiss or unusual at a home
along his mail delivery route, he will begin a chain of actions
designed to help those citizens who are registered therewith and
desirous of such help.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Newport Beach supports the implementation of this
Carrier Alert Program in cooperation with its Oasis Senior
Citizens' Center.
ADOPTED this day of MAY 14 , 1984.
Mayor
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Friends of OASIS
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Grant Howald, President
Jim Sawyer, Ist Vice President
Bud Desenberg, 2nd Vice President
Edgar Williams, Recording Secretary
Fern Torrance, Corresponding Secretary
Matt Hall, Treasurer
Garnet Barrick
Owen Evanson
Norma Gilchrist
Brenda Ross
Ross Miller
Anthony Monte
Eleanor Newman
Ione Stockholm
Per Trebler
Vince Teague
Merle Hummel
Boyd Stillings
Mayor Evelyn Hart and
City of Newport Beach
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Council Members
Newport Beach, California 92660
Dear Mayor and Members of the Council:
P.O. BOX 829
CORONA DEL MAR, CA 92625
TELEPHONE: 759-9471
January 18, 1983
Richard Sweet
As you are aware from the Long Range Planning
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Milt Handarz
Committee's letter of January 3, 1983 to the Mayor
Julia O'Shaughnessy, Ex-Officio
and Council Members, Friends of Oasis is interested
in expanding the scope of Oasis to include a separate
Geriatric Health Education Center building which may
ADVISORY BOARD
include a senior day care center. We are in the
Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich
midst of exploring the need for such a center in the
Assemblywoman Marian Bergeson
Agnes Blomquist
Newport Beach area ,at this time.
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William Blurock
Dr. Allen Cottle
Dr. R. J. (Sal) Curreri
Friends of Oasis is proud of its 2700 members and
Walter Gerken
the things we've done in conjunction with the city.
Mayor Pro eEvelyn Hart
Mayor Jackie Heather
We have pioneered in the evolution of recreation
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Louis Heilig
musical education, garden plots, art classes and
Edgar R. Hill
Chris Hopper
lectures on the health problems of seniors. We would
A. Grant Howald
like to continue to pioneer in the area of human
Vincent Jorgensen
Peter Kremer
services.
Lucille Kuehn
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John Macnab
Our membership at its present rate of growth may
Michael Manahan
Doreen Marshall
double or triple in the next few years as more of the
Robert McCurdy
15,000 seniors in Newport Beach become acquainted with
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Supervisor Thomas F. Riley
James Roosevelt
Paul Ryckoff
our facilities and as our facility expands to meet theWa
needs. Such a growth iri our membership will require
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Judge Calvin P. Schmidt
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Florence Schumacher
Richard Smith
space for expansion.
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Manager ;
J. Leslie Steffensen
Jerome Tobis
We would like the opportunity to be hoard by the
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Robert Wynn
Planning Commission before the City makes any final
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determination concerning the vacant land surrounding
Oasis.
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