AGENDA – PKS COUNCIL ON SUCCESSFUL AGING
October 14, 2025 – 10:30 a.m. Town Hall

Our vision: To expand the discussion of ways we can positively impact Pine Knoll Shores’ quality of life for our senior citizens and help each cope with issues that pose barriers to living comfortably in Pine Knoll Shores and aging in place

Call to Order
Cindy Schersching

We did not have a quorum at this meeting. We did have a good discussion about the group in general and touched on some potential plans.

This agenda will be reviewed at the November meeting:

On-going Business Discussions and Decisions:

• Time Banking: Kathy Driver
  A variation of the service people listing that could be useful is the establishment of a “Time Bank.” With this design participants offer a service to the community and the estimated time it takes to perform it; the service + time are banked and can be exchanged for a service they need, e.g., baking a pie might bank 1.5 hours which can be used toward 1.5 hours of power washing. This is a useful tool for community engagement and resilience.

Our link to Time Banking is Kathy Driver who will share her experiences/conversations re:
Software packages available to facilitate this; suggested organizational structure to ensure success; a ‘starter list’ of services to be offered; estimates of the value of variety of services; promotion of program (YouTube); coordinating with PKA to broaden services, etc.

• Gathering Places: John Macheca

Our September 2025 meeting was held at Nacho’s restaurant. Thoughts, comments? Do we want to develop Nacho’s as a COSA gathering place – Review of experience: Do we want to go back to Nacho’s? What did we like most? What would we change?

Do we want to do more of these get togethers at different restaurants? Next steps?

Update on the COSA survey:

• The COSA survey launched at the end of the…just before or just after Labor Day. No names were required. The unique sampling approach – EDDM – gave (nearly) every resident an opportunity to participate. Data will be run on a base of individual responses and on households.

I’m taking a first look at the COSA survey results. About 20% (~250 interviews) responded. Currently I’m focused on evaluating the integrity of the data (i.e., representativity) of the data. Then I will look at the actual responses in detail. Kirsty and Missy have been a great help.

Group Discussion:

• What do we want to accomplish as a group? We have a vision/mission statement. Our vision follows from the Town’s vision/mission statement.

New Business:

• A job opportunity with the History Place awaits a senior with the right qualifications. See me if you are interested.

THANKS to ALL!