HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON FAMILIES, CHILDREN, AND SENIORS
REP. KATHY CRAWFORD
CHAIR
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
9:00 a.m.
Room 308, House Office Building
The House Standing Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors was called to order by the
Chair.
The Chair requested attendance be called:
Present: Reps. Crawford, Rendon, Hoitenga, Meerman, Wozniak, Garrett, Liberati, Brenda
Carter, Cynthia Johnson.
Absent/Excused: None.
Representative Rendon moved to adopt the meeting minutes from November 6, 2019. There
being no objection, the motion prevailed by unanimous consent.
The Chair laid before the committee a presentation given by the American Association of Retired
Persons (AARP) on Age-Friendly Communities.
Melissa Seifert, Associate State Director of Governmental Affairs, and Karen Kafantaris,
Associate State Director for Livable Communities, for the American Association of Retired
Persons of Michigan, briefed the committee on Michigan becoming an Age-Friendly State.
Questions followed. Copies of their handouts are attached.
There being no further business before the committee, Representative Garrett moved to adjourn
the Committee.
There being no objection, the motion prevailed by unanimous consent. The Chair adjourned the
meeting at 9:41 a.m.
Representative Kathy Crawford, Chair
Joy Brewer
Committee Clerk
joybrewer@house.mi.gov