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RUTH WEIDENHEIMER--
Represents Pahrump seniors.
APPOINTMENTS WEEKLY
PAULA KING--
Temporary nutrition project director.
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Pahrump Valley Gazette, Thursday, July !7, 1997 27
Senior operation manual questioned
Continued from front page
Project Advisory Council Operations Manual was presented
and approved at the commission meeting on May 6.
At the May 19 commission meeting, a group of concerned
seniors asked the commission if they would rescind the
document and let the seniors draft their own bylaws document
for approval. That was granted and the commission and
county management have been studying the document. The
seniors group also asked the commission for a policy state-
ment for use of Nye County buildings, specifically, the
Pahrump senior center.
Tuesday, 12 seniors (among a packed audience that came
for the animal ordinance and senior issues) carried petitions
supporting the seniors' right to vote for their representatives
and presented them to the commission.
Weidenheimer, referring to the county's document,
summed up the seniors' unanimous message by saying, "We
lic meeting.
The commission did vote to give the nutrition workers
at the senior centers a 3.6% cost of living salary increase
retroactive to July I, 1997. The workers did not get an
increase in July of '96. In October, when the minimum
wage increases to $5.25, the workers will be brought in
line with that as well.
They also voted to approve matching funds for a federal
grant for the Congregate and Homebound Meal Programs
for the centers.
Steve Rainbolt, Pahrump town board member said Pahr-
ump is looking into taking over the management of the
Pahrump center from the commissioners, in an effort to
better resolve the many problems. The issue will be on the
agenda for the next town board meeting.
usually work under the saying, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'
Gentlemen, it IS broke and we want it fixed."
Weidenheimer read a letter from Van Crawford, senior
nutrition program director for the past 16 years, that stated
several areas in which the county's operations manual was
lacking: It has no input from the senior participants, it does
not follow federal law, it is a sham document, it doesn't
follow the Older Americans Act of 1965, the seniors lost the
right to elect their own council members, it limits their
amendment rights, and it is different than the rules under
t
which the other centers operate.
No action was taken on approving the senior group's
document until county staff can study it.
In other senior issues, Van Crawford is facing retirement
soon and the county had to approve filling her position.
There was some confusion about a correct job description
for the director' s position and as to whether the county had
to advertise for the position, or whether they could just
approve Paula King becoming the full time, permanent
director. King has been temporary nutrition program
director while Crawford recovered from a major illness.
Gary Pulliam, deputy district attorney, is looking into
the question of whether the county MUST advertise for all
open positions, and will advise the commission at the next
public meeting. "It' s our (the DA' s office) advice that they
should advertise them," he said.
Pulliam met with
Weidenheimer Wednesday
to briefly go over the senior
center issues. They will
meet at the Pahrump senior
center during the next
couple weeks to carefully
go over both the county and
the senior group's operation
manual documents and dis-
cuss the whole issue thor-
oughly before the next pub-
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