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• Visits to assigned Adult Care homes each quarter to include completion of a quarterly report by each sub-committee;
• Promotes community involvement in facilities;
• Promotes community education and awareness of the needs of the aging in facilities;
• Serves as a resource of volunteers;
• Helps to maintain the intent of the Residents’ Bill of Rights;
• Becomes aware of conditions in facilities and assists grievance processes.

• Hear appeals from determinations of the Animal Control Director (or his designee) concerning potentially dangerous, dangerous or vicious dogs;
• Hear any other appeals provided for by ordinance concerning determinations of the Animal Control Department;
• Provide advice and information to the Animal Control Department;
• Upon coordination with the Animal Control Director, make recommendations to the Board of Commissioners for the betterment of the county’s animal control program;
• In conjunction with the Animal Control Department and the county’s Communications Manager, provide for a program of public education, information and outreach concerning responsible pet ownership, animal cruelty, and the county’s animal control program;
• Select officers of the board, including a chairperson, and adopt rules of procedure.

• Conduct administrative reviews and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is an error in any order, requirement, permit, decision, determination , refusal made by the Planning and Inspections Director or other administrative officials in the carrying out or enforcement of any provisions of the zoning ordinance;
• Hear, deny or approve applications for variances and special use permits from the terms of the zoning ordinance;
• Interpret the official zoning maps;
• Rule on matters concerning nonconforming uses;
• Hear and approve or deny applications for High Density Development and variances from the provisions of the County Water Supply Watershed Management and Protection Ordinance;
• Hear and rule on appeals and variance requests from the County’s Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance.

• Reviews medical examiners’ reports, death certificates and other records of deceased county residents under the age of 18;
• Members discuss outcomes of services and circumstances surrounding the child’s death;
• Promote understanding of the causes of child deaths and identify deficiencies in the delivery of services to children and families by public agencies;
• Make and carry out recommendations for changes that will prevent future child deaths.

• Aids in the financing or industrial and manufacturing facilities for the purpose of alleviating unemployment or raising below average manufacturing wages by financing industrial and manufacturing facilities which provide job opportunities or pay better wages;
• Aids in financing pollution control facilities for industry in connection with manufacturing and industrial facilities and for public utilities;
• Conducts any and all other activities as shall from time to time be found to be appropriate in connection with the foregoing and as are lawful under the Act.

• Provide a basis for the community to develop and tailor a chemical emergency planning and response program to suit its needs;
• Provide the public with identity, quantity, location, and properties of hazardous substances in the community;
• Review the county and facility plans annually and conduct emergency drills to test the plan. The annual review of the plan should include a hazards analysis and an evaluation of available resources that could be used during a response for a chemical incident.

FTCC General Classroom Building

Room 114

2817 Ft. Bragg Rd

• Promotes studies and plans of the recreational needs of the County;
• Informs and advises the Board of County Commissioners and public of the needs for facilities and programs;
• Advises the Recreation Director in planning recreational programs, acquiring land and water areas and in accepting any grant, gift, bequest or donation of any personal or real properties offered or made available for recreational purposes.

City of Fayetteville Parks & Recreation

121 Lamon Street
Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteville City Hall

E.E. Smith Conference Room

• Assist with public hearings held relative to aging issues;
• Represents the interests of older persons;
• Reviews and comments on policy, programs, and actions which affect older adults;
• Reviews and comments on the area plan and/or plan amendments as submitted by the Area Agency on Aging to the North Carolina Division of Aging for approval.

• Serves as an advisory organization for senior citizens governmental units, providing those units with assistance in securing funding and in meeting responsibilities to senior citizens in the area;
• Assists city and county agencies (related to activities of senior citizens) in securing funds, grants, or appropriations necessary to function as directed by city, county, state and federal governments;
• Commission members may visit health care or recreation facilities.

FCPR Senior Center, Large Program Room

739 Blue Street

Fayetteville, NC

• Provides a safe, dependable, accessible and affordable transportation program for elderly and disabled Cumberland County residents in order to enhance their quality of life;
• Allocates funds received through the ROAP Grant to local agencies providing transportation to the elderly, disabled and rural residents of Cumberland County;
• Oversees the official actions of the Community Transportation Program and ensures that Federal and State requirements are met.