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SENIOR CENTER GENERAL PURPOSE FUNDING <br />Introduction and Instructions <br />The Triangle J Area Agency is pleased to announce the availability of funds <br />for use by senior centers to support and develop programming and general <br />operations or to construct, renovate, or maintain senior center facilities. <br />$1,265,316 in general purpose funding was allocated for senior centers for <br />the current fiscal year. This funding is allocated to the Area Agencies on <br />Aging for distribution to the centers within the region which provide full time <br />programs or will utilize the funding to develop full time programs. Across <br />the state162 senior centers or developing senior centers will be funded. <br />The Division of Aging and Adult Services has worked hard to enhance and <br />expand the statewide certification process for senior centers with standards <br />that encourage centers across the state to strive for levels of `merit' or <br />`excellence'. An intent of the certification process has been to increase <br />base funding for those who have successfully completed the process. This <br />ensures that funding is being well spent on readily identifiable programs <br />and services and provides an incentive for centers that make investments <br />to meet certification requirements. Therefore in order to provide an <br />incentive to work toward certification, and to reward those who achieve it, <br />the Division has decided to fund senior centers equally, based upon their <br />certification status. Centers of Merit will receive two shares of the funding <br />of non -certified centers and Centers of Excellence will receive three times <br />the funding of non -certified centers. The objectives for this year are to: <br />➢ Allocate funding equally to every center, based upon certification <br />status; <br />➢ Require documentation and accountability for the use of funding, <br />and; <br />➢ Provide incentives for centers to improve themselves through <br />certification. <br />Again this year it has been decided to divide the annual appropriation into <br />shares based on the total number of senior centers as determined by the <br />Area Agencies on Aging plus extra shares for each senior center which <br />meets certification status. Uncertified, identified centers will receive one <br />share. <br />2 <br />25 <br />