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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.

• 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.

• Functions as a resource to the Mid-Carolina Area Agency on Aging by obtaining input from service providers, older consumers and their families in the development of an annual Aging Funding Plan;
• Serves in an advisory capacity for the Care Management service provided by Mid-Carolina Area Agency on Aging.

• 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.

• Annual review of the needs of juveniles in the county who are at-risk or who have been adjudicated. Council shall develop a request for proposal process and submit to the County Commissioners a written plan of expenditures. Upon the County’s authorization, the plan must be approved by the Office;
• Ensure appropriate community based intermediate dispositions for adjudicated juveniles are available, pursuant to minimum standards set by the Office; and 
• Perform the following on an ongoing basis:
  1. Assess needs of juveniles in the community, evaluate resources, plan for unmet needs;
  2. Evaluate performance of juvenile services/programs as a condition of continued funding of programs;
  3. Increase public awareness causes of delinquency and prevention efforts;
  4. Develop intervention strategies and risk assessments for at-risk youth;
  5. Provide funds for services: treatment/counseling/parenting/rehabilitation;
  6. Plan permanent funding streams for delinquency prevention programs.

• 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.

1. Promote the health, safety, rural agricultural values, and general welfare of the County;
2. Increase identity and pride in the agricultural community and its way of life;
3. Encourage the economic and financial health of agriculture;
4. Make recommendations to the Cumberland County Joint Planning Board and Board of Commissioners regarding issues involving farmland in Cumberland County.

Historic Cumberland County Courthouse,
Room 107C

130 Gillespie Street
Fayetteville, NC

201 Hay Street

R. B. Williams Building Ste 401A

Fayetteville, NC

Festival Park Plaza Training Room 1st Floor

225 Ray Ave

Fayetteville, NC 28301

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.

• Visits to assigned nursing homes each quarter to include completion of a quarterly report by each subcommittee;
• Promotes community involvement in facilities;
• Promotes community education and awareness of the needs of the aging in facilities;
• Serves as a resource of volunteers;
• Become aware of conditions in facilities and assists grievance processes.

• 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

• Expend the net proceeds of the occupancy tax authorized by and levied under Session Laws 2001 Chapter 484, as amended from time to time, for the purposes provided in that act;
• Promote travel, tourism and conventions in the County, sponsor tourist-related capital projects in the County;
• Contract for and be contracted with, apply for and accept grants and gifts for the accomplishment of the purposes provided in the act.

Judge E. Maurice Braswell Courthouse

5th Floor, Room 564

117 Dick Street, Fayetteville

• 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.