Joe Tomsick can take pleasure in what he achieved throughout his tenure on the helm of the Lake County Council on Ageing.
The group lately introduced that Tomsick, its longest-serving chief govt officer, could be stepping down Feb. 6 after 14 years of service, The Information-Herald’s Chad Felton reported.
In accordance with the council, Tomsick departed “to pursue a brand new skilled alternative, forsaking an company strengthened below his management.”
Since 2012, Tomsick has led the council by way of vital progress, increasing packages and providers, modernizing services and constructing a crew devoted to bettering the standard of life for Lake County’s older adults. He additionally established the Ruth Densmore Senior Advocate Award, recognizing people or organizations demonstrating distinctive advocacy on behalf of Lake County’s seniors.
Tomsick led group boards highlighting the altering wants of older adults, together with the county’s first-ever Ageing in Lake County boards for elected officers and shows for space mayors and metropolis managers.
“Joe introduced imaginative and prescient, vitality and coronary heart to this group from day one,” stated Cameron Zwagerman, Tomsick’s first board president. “He understood the accountability of main a nonprofit company, and his management positioned the Council on Ageing for long-term success in serving seniors.”
Moreover, officers word, Tomsick was instrumental in securing greater than $1.1 million in grant funding from varied organizations, together with the Walmart Basis, the Granger Basis, the Western Reserve Junior Service League, and the Jerome T. Osborne and Georgeanne S. Osborne Charitable Belief.
The funding supported a variety of enhancements, together with a modernized vitamin website in central Painesville, kitchen and expertise upgrades, safety enhancements and facility enhancements that decreased reliance on taxpayer funding.
Tomsick additionally oversaw key capital enhancements on the Mentor East Avenue workplace and led “modern partnerships,” together with utilizing American Rescue Plan Act funding to relocate the Mentor Vitamin Website to the Lake County Board of Developmental Disabilities/Deepwood Administration Constructing.
Humbled, Tomsick stated, “We’re and have been the gold customary for senior providers in Lake County due to our unimaginable workers, robust board and supportive group. I’ve at all times stated that Lake County is lucky to have an impartial, nonprofit Council on Ageing that actually listens to seniors and places their wants first, with out having to navigate layers of forms.
“One of many causes I take nice pleasure in having been the CEO is that over the previous 54 years, our staff have devoted their vitality to constructing and sustaining a dependable, responsive social service company … it has been an honor to serve,” he added.
“As I transfer on, I’ve assured our board of trustees that I stay obtainable to help the subsequent CEO as they step into this new function — I’m assured that they’ll have the complete help of our unimaginable workers.”
Present council Board President Shannon Cianciola added that the company is healthier and its work is stronger due to Tomsick’s tireless advocacy.
“He genuinely loves seniors, and that reveals in the whole lot he does,” she stated.
The Information-Herald commends Tomsick for offering glorious management as CEO of the Lake County Council on Ageing. He actually set a excessive customary for his successor.
