Community Services and Youth Committee - Regular Meeting

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Thank you. We will now move to item number one on our calendar. This is the election of officers. Do we have any nominations for chairman?

So I'll nominate Carmen Roberts for the chair.

Okay. Were there any other nominations?

No. No. Okay.

Now make a motion.

Make Make a motion. I motion that Carmen Roberts be the chair.

Do we have a second?

I second.

Okay. Thank you. Now we we will vote.

You have to turn this off.

Yes, sir. And push it right there. It'll turn green. There you go. See how

it turns green?

There you go.

God bless you.

Okay. Thank you. No no problem, sir. Coke. Oh.

Dawn, you wanna press the yes button? You want Carmen to be right there. There we go.

Yes. Yes.

And Diane is a abstain. So there's something to push a veil for her.

Do we have any nominations for vice chair?

I was gonna nominate Diane for vice.

I'll second it.

Any other nominations?

I motion for Diane Kwazman to be vice president or vice chair, sorry.

Second. Is there a second?

Oh, I second it.

Now

we will vote. Anonymous. Thank you. And congratulations. Okay.

We'll now have public comment. Audience participation is encouraged. Public comments are limited to three minutes. To comment on any matter within the jurisdiction of the commission, you are invited to participate in person or call (951) 826-8688. Press 99 to be placed in the queue to speak. Individuals

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We will now hear from Maya and Edison, Kind Hands of California.

Hello. Thank you for inviting us. My name is Myra Jackson and this is Edison and we represent Kind Hands California, a California based non profit dedicated to providing low or no cost handyman services to low income and undeserved communities. Our mission is simple, to ensure that people, specifically seniors, can live safely with dignity in their homes. They work their whole lives to build.

Across our communities, many older adults are living under fixed incomes. A small repair such as a broken step, a leaking faucet, a loose hangnail can quickly become a safety hazard or financial burden. Unfortunately, these are repairs that many seniors either cannot afford or cannot physically address themselves which is where we come in. Our volunteers and partners help with minor home repairs, safety improvements and accessibility fixes that allow seniors age in a place safely rather than face displacement or injury in their homes. By working together with the Commission on Aging, hopefully we believe we can identify seniors most in need, prevent falls and home hazards, preserve housing stability, preserve it for older residents, and strengthen communities by support systems.

This is not just about fixing a home. It's about protecting independence, dignity, quality of life for everyone, especially our elders. We will love the opportunity to collaborate with the Commission on Aging to expand services and ensure that no senior has to choose between safety and affordability in their own home. Thank you and I hope we can work together.

Thank you.

Thank you. We will now hear from Janet Palacio. Park and Rec.

Hi, good afternoon commissioners. Thank you for having me. I'm here again, Janet Palacio, recreation services coordinator for Boardwalk Park. And today, I'm here to report on the events that we have going on at the four centers that we offer services for our 55 and better community. So we went ahead and drafted up the events by center so if you want to take a look at those and then if there's any that you are interested in coming out, we'd love to see you come out and support the programs through the Parks and Rec Department. Okay, thank you.

Thank you. We will now close public comment and move to the presentation on housing and human services.

Here we go. Good afternoon commission, staff and members of the public. My name is Agrippina Neubauer. I'm with the housing authority and I love talking about all of the programs that we do. So thank you so much for inviting me today.

So the Department of Housing and Human Services is a fairly new department. So I just wanted to give a quick overview because I know not everyone knows what we are up to over there. But mostly we are working to develop public and private partnerships to improve the causes and effects of poverty. So this can take lots of different shapes. So a lot of what we do is implementing grants aimed at providing decent housing and suitable living environments and expanding economic opportunities.

With the housing authority which is the division of HHS where I work, we really work to increase housing stability through increasing affordable and permanent supportive housing opportunities for very low to low income individuals and families to help them achieve housing sustainability and self sufficiency. And we also provide a wide range of services and resources for persons at risk of homelessness. Now this usually takes two big forms when you're looking at what we do at the city. One of them is that we use those public private partnerships to develop housing. So affordable rental housing is based on the idea that a household shouldn't be spending more than about 30% of their income on their housing costs.

And so if we have what we know is gonna be a lower income household, we will subsidize the building or rehabilitation of housing and in exchange that developer will keep the rents at a lower rate so that it is affordable for those lower income households. So we do have a large amount of households, affordable housing rentals that are specifically for seniors. Now seniors the definition changes because it's tied to whoever gave us the money. The state tends to be a lot more flexible and say seniors are 55 while the federal government usually says 62. So if we were using federal grant dollars to create this affordable housing unit, we would use the federal definition which is 62.

So you might see different things but that's kind of the reason behind that. We have our full list online. We can also email you the link if you need. I'll give you some emails at the end. When you do go to this website, you will see two lists.

One will say family and one will say seniors. So the list for seniors is going to be the head of household must be a senior citizen. So you must fall under one of those categories, 55 or 62. The other list for family is not age restricted so that doesn't mean you can't also apply for one of those housing units, it just means you have to be senior to apply for a senior unit. So I definitely recommend that anyone who is looking for a more affordable place to live, go to our website, go to this list because these are public private partnerships, they're all independently managed so you will have to call the ones that you're interested individually and get on their individual wait lists and again partially it's because they all have slightly different criteria and so you wanna make sure that the one that you are looking at, you qualify for the housing at that specific one.

I know I've said affordable affordable a bunch of times and so I just wanted to give you a quick idea of what that looks like when we're talking about this. So we use the area median income to determine if someone is income qualified. So generally you need to make 80% or less of the area median income and there's like a whole calculation that goes into this because we also take into account family size and different kind of components. So this is a chart, we have this on our website. I know it looks craziness but for example, if you are a single person, you are income qualified, you make 60% of the area median income, that means that you make about $47,040 a year or less.

So if you are that person and you are looking to get into a one bedroom unit for somebody who makes 60% of the median income, your rent on that unit would expect to be about $13.44 dollars which is significantly less than market rate. I think if we all look at market rate units right now and one bedroom's getting close to 2,000 maybe even more depending on the area. So having an apartment that is rent capped at $1,300 is gonna be a huge help for some people and so different apartments will have different units set aside at different income levels so sometimes they will have 50% units and so for that one you would need to make $39,200 or less and if there is an available 50% unit, then you could get into it and that rent would only be $10.49 dollars And these are adjusted every year, usually around the change of the fiscal year, so we should start seeing a new one about July, August. We also have some other senior rental assistance programs and Pangy Crosby, my colleague is the day to day on those so I'm gonna turn it over to her so she can give you the scoop on how to access those.

Thank you, Edithina.

Hi, good afternoon. I'm Panty Crosby. I'm the project assistance for senior rental assistance program and the housing program as well. For you the have to be 62 and older and you must live in the city of Riverside. That's definitely one of the criteria's that you have to have to qualify for this program and with this program, I can assist you up to $600 for twelve months and after the twelve months then you go back to paying your regular rent or

most of

the time I usually tell the seniors please try and apply for section eight so that way they can move from my program onto section eight which is a good program that would help them. And that goes, you can actually be in a mobile home park. I can assist you as well. And for the homeless prevention program, this program you have to also live in the city of Riverside as well. I can assist you with up to three months of rental assistance but you have to receive a three day notice from your property manager in order to qualify for this and you have to show that you are definitely having struggles to pay your rent in order for me to help you.

You have to turn in all your major documents, driver license, social security card, your apartment lease, you would have to turn in bank statements and as well you have to turn in if you have documents from court, you have to turn those into me and I can assist up to three months with rental assistance. And as well as legal fees and late fees. I will assist with that also. And I will hand this back over to Agrippina. If you have any questions, I'll leave my business cards as well also.

Did you do your Alright. So I did wanna talk about our homeless prevention programs a little bit. So like Pangy said, we can help you. We have found that the best way to tackle the homeless problem in our city is to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. So every person that we can retain and keep in stable housing for as long as possible helps keeps one extra person off the street.

So we definitely want to do that. It's cheaper for us to help somebody stay stably in their house in the long run than serving someone who's homeless. So if you have questions about this, the way to apply email homelesspreventionriversideca dot gov and we can get you started with the application for that. The other thing that I did want to mention as part of our homeless services is Riverside Access Center. So if you are already homeless or about to be homeless and this doesn't necessarily mean that you are on the street.

If you are staying on somebody's you know somebody else's house, you don't have a legal right to live there, you're just kinda couch surfing or maybe doubling up with somebody. If you're not the legal leaseholder or owner of that place where you're living, you might qualify as homeless under some of our programs. So I definitely think that it's worth it to reach out to our Riverside Access Center because they can start the process of connecting you with resources that you might qualify for especially with our housing. So I said we have a whole list of affordable housing projects. We have some for seniors and they're rent capped for low income people.

We're working on a new one right now and I've been getting a lot of calls because people see this brand new building coming up and it says senior housing but the money that we put in there comes from state housing homeless assistance and prevention funds and federal American Rescue Plan funds which are both specifically designed for people who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. So that means that once that building is built, you can't just walk up to the leasing office and say us I would like an apartment please. To qualify for those you have to be referred through our homeless services because that's how they're gonna verify that you are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless and they're gonna verify that you qualify for that apartment. So there are other apartments at that complex that are kind of open to just more general low income seniors but those are potentially open county wide. So we want to really make sure that the units that we have set aside for people who are at risk of being homeless have priority and so if that you think that that might be you and you want connection to services, definitely reach out to our Riverside Access Center.

You can call 311 and they can connect you over. The direct line there is (951) 826-2200 or you can email homelesshelpriversideca dot gov. Alright and that is the end of my presentation and I am available if anyone has any questions.

Are there any questions commissioners?

How long are the waiting lists?

They can be So it's a little bit squiggly because we have different priorities. So if you are a senior, if you're a veteran, you have priority over other people. We also do what's called the VI SPDAT which is a vulnerability index and so when you go through your intake at the Riverside Access Center, they will ask a 10 questions trying to figure out do you have immediate health risks, is your age, if you have disabilities, all kinds of things and depending on the score that you get, you can get bumped up the list. So it's not necessarily a first come first serve. It's kind of like when you go to the emergency room, the people who need the most help shifted to the front of the line so it really is on a case by case basis.

Commissioner Kelly? You have a question? Commissioner Bass.

Are there requirements to receive this assistance?

Yes. So the first, it depends on which one you're looking for. Let me go back. So if you are looking for the homeless assistance, they will do the intake and they will explain to you what the requirements are but generally it's you don't have a legal right to be anywhere. You don't have a legal right to reside anywhere and then they can find the type of assistance that is best for you. But like the other ones for our homeless prevention, you have to be renting a housing unit in the city of Riverside, you have to be 50% or below the area median income and those are those charts that I showed and then we can help with up to three months. So it depends on the exact program. Each one has slightly different requirements.

So you're not going into drug rehab programs and alcohol programs?

That's a different subsection. So what I'm looking at is The everyday housing The everyday, yes. I know a lot of times people hear affordable housing or even permanent supportive housing and that just means somebody needs help staying in their housing and that could be a regular everyday person. Sometimes it's even people who are working jobs, two, three jobs and they just can't get over the finish line. There's a lot of different components and different programs.

What about pets? So with our affordable housing units, it's the same as any other apartment complex. They will each have their own individual pet policy, sometimes there's going to be a pet deposit or different fees that are involved with that but it's on a case by case basis depending on the specific complex. Do you help with the deposits? We can. Including the pet deposit? Do we do pet deposits? I don't think so. But I know we do help with the deposits. Okay. The regular security deposits to get people in. Okay.

Commissioner Cohn?

Yes. Now I know at Goldwere apartment complex, it's a five year waiting list. Would that put a person if they qualified above that five year list?

So it depends on the program that they are going through. If they are just looking at a regular, I'm trying to get into a lower, more affordable rent they would have to get on that five year wait list. But if you are experiencing homelessness or you're at risk and depending on your other risk factors, you potentially could get placed maybe not there but somewhere else faster than the five years.

Okay, thank you.

Question. The other young lady when she was saying about 600 a month for up to a year, what was the qualification for

that? Sorry. So

could you repeat that again?

When you were saying about you provide 600 a month towards their rent for up to a year, What was the qualification for that?

Was it income?

Well the age is 62 and above and that you are currently in a Riverside residence. Okay. And then you can qualify for the twelve months and basically you need to just turn in your driving license, social security card, your award letter, your apartment lease, all pages and three months of bank statements.

Oh, okay. And then you said after that, they applied for section eight. I know when I was working out in the field, section eight was backed up by like eight years or something. Is it still that today? I don't know.

Actually it's still actually backed up but what they're doing is they're basically taking 70 and above so I always encourage my seniors to, if they have not signed up for Section eight to please sign up for Section eight because they're calling the seniors 70 and above. Okay.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Any other questions?

Yeah, I have one more question. Because I always hear the rumor that once you get on these programs that nobody ever reviews the person to see if their income has changed and things have gotten better for them and they just constantly stay on the program.

So for our programs, we do review. I have a colleague who goes out every year and she audits the files to make sure that they are still checking that people are income qualified because that does impact the amount of assistance that they can get. And so she makes sure that the property management is still verifying that people are income qualified and that they're being charged the correct rent especially because those charts do update every year and so making sure that that gets updated annually. There are some programs where somebody can get in and then never have to do it again. We don't like to do that because that feels like we just kinda threw our money away.

So what we do is if somebody does get into one of our programs and their income goes up, their rent can go up even up to market rate and then hopefully that will encourage them to get off the program and free it up for somebody else.

If there's no more questions, we wanna thank you for your presentation today consent calendar all matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine by the Commission on Aging and may be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless before the Commission on Aging votes on the motion to adopt members of the Commission on Aging or staff request specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Do we have a second?

I'll second that.

Okay. Motion carried. Motion approved. Communications. We will now proceed to the communication portion of the agenda. You will be given the opportunity to give your committee updates during this item. This item is only to receive ad hoc committee updates. Are there any updates or communications from our ad hoc committees? I'll start with commissioner, Joyce Clark.

No updates. I'm on Diane Crossman's committee of mobility.

Commissioner Kelly.

Only that we continue to have meetings to decide who's going to do what event on the events committee and who's going to attend which events.

I'm sorry I did that incorrect. I should call on housing first. I should call the ad hoc committee and then you can say what you have to say. So housing. Commissioner Bash.

Yeah. I did find one on housing. Then I'll save further comment on that for when we are allowed to talk more about what we've done. Okay? Does that work?

No? No. This is the ad hoc committee. So if you have any communication regarding the ad hoc committee, any updates for the housing ad hoc committee, you can report now.

Okay. So I did learn of one. It's called the Inland Empire Community. Give me a second here. The Inland Empire Community Lease Trust and it is people donate money to this particular Inland Empire Community Lease Trust and then they in turn help seniors to purchase homes.

The bad news about it is you don't get to purchase the land. The land stays within the community trust, but they help seniors buy homes and live in their homes.

So Thank you.

Okay. You're welcome. Senior Health?

Yes. I I work off and on with Yana for the Riverside Police Department, and that's calling seniors that living at home. And I've had it in four instances where people I know who are seniors are at home don't know how to communicate, and it's really rough today when you get older to try to communicate. And Yana does it like a calling system, and then they refer it out to people to help. And it's not widely known and it's in Riverside because I've always been work with it from here when I was working with the chamber of commerce.

And it happened with my mother-in-law and that's how I got involved years ago. And I don't know. I've been to a lot of meetings where I brought it up and people kinda like they don't know. You know? So it's something that I keep saying to people because it's my Kiwanis Club and a lot of or fraternal organizations I've said to, and it's worked. But it's a program that I wish it would be a little more available or like the paper ever so often brings up a case or something. And you're never alone is just what it's called. Mhmm. It's a fabulous program.

So, mister, commissioner Kuhn, it's actually in the Park Recreation Guide. Yeah. I saw it. The number is in there so you can always refer a senior to that. Okay. That way they can get a number and have the person that's in charge of the program. Four times a year, Park and Rec takes care of it for you.

Thank you.

Events?

Sorry. Just what I had said before, unless somebody else on the committee would like to say something, is that we continue to meet on a pretty regular basis to see which events are happening at the different places in the city and particularly in the senior centers and decide on which ones will attend and who will attend them in our group.

Environment. I'm on

the bid committee. Okay. On February 11 the events committee was at the Gallantine event at the Genit Koski Senior Center where we talked with seniors and you know kept them informed of what we do and what's we try to also help them know what's out there to the best of our ability. On March 7, I attended a dinner at The Meadows and I spoke about some of the new programs for seniors. I took some of the brochures for the seniors.

March 14, oh yeah, that's irrelevant. I'm sorry about that one.

Okay. Is there anything else on events?

Yes. I worked the table at Janikoski Senior Center for the Gallantine Women's event, and it was fabulous. And those events, they take a lot of the brochures, and it really is good. And I just brought it up over at Los Sierra Senior Center, and they're kinda kicking it around. They're doing something like this over there. And I'm not on the committee or anything, but if there's any you know? But the it was really great because all our brochures were gone and Diane who's on the board here, and she's over there at Janikoski. Yeah. I worked that and it was really great. It was super event.

Okay. Great. Any other comments on events? Environment.

I attended the February 21, the bulk drop off. It's every third Saturday. It's on Lincoln. And I advise especially seniors because if you can get someone to pack up your car, could just drive it and they tell you where to go and they take it all out for you. So that's a wonderful program. I do it every third Saturday because I have a lot of junk. I just wish we had some people that come around with a truck to help us seniors.

I love it. Oh, God.

And then I also on, February 28, I went to the, it was reducing wildfire risk at La Sierra library. It was a national fire protection Association. Oh, god. I can't They have something called Firewise and you the neighborhood. It's like eight to 2,500 homes can sign up.

And if you sign up, they do like a three year assessment risk. And when you sign up, you guys, you can get discounts on a certificate discount rates for your insurance, yearly updates. And what it is, your community is banding together to prevent those fire wildfires. You can sign up on let me grab the website, and find out more information about it. Riverside. Give me a sec. I was a little bit disoriented today. As you can see, I've been fumbling papers since I've got here. It's been a long week. Riverside

When When you find it, can you send it to Sandra?

I got it. Riversideca dot gov slash firewise. Thank you.

Any other updates on environment? Okay.

Mobility?

Diane Klassman, I'm on her committee and she's not here to report.

Okay. Are there any updates on conferences, seminars, and regional meetings attended by commissioners?

I wasn't here for the January meeting so I do have some events that I attended from December that I'd like to be able to mention. Is this the spot? Am I in the right place? Yes. December 10, I attended the mayor's event at the Goskie Center. On December 16, I was at the Bordwell Holiday Potluck and had a table representing our commission. And on December 18, I attended the La Sierra Senior Center Holiday Party.

That was good. I attended one or two.

Okay. We're gonna go from my right to my left. Commissioner Clark.

Nothing to report.

Commissioner Kelly.

I attended the Galentine's Day event on the February 11 at Janet Goskey. I also attended the fire protection for Ward 4 that you talked about. That was it.

Commissioner Bash.

Okay.

Well, on March 11, I just went and buzzed around the Janet Goskie Center and I talked to a lot of people and told them who I was. I got a brochure while I was there on the Woods Apartment Homes. It's a senior place and it's down on Palm Avenue. So I have some information on that. I did I went on March 14, I went to the Heritage House and enjoyed their little event that they had on the butterflies.

I've been going to the mobile home parks and trying there's two of them that I've been going to. Just trying to talk with the people and listen to what they have to say and take stuff. Take I usually try to take some brochures and something along with me so that they're aware of us.

Thank you. Commissioner Coon?

Yes. I attend every month the, AARP meeting

Oh.

At, Janet Goskie. It's the first Saturday of the month and if there's something that you need, I don't know. I'm on the commission here and and they could do, but I keep bringing up to have someone here, like, go over there and speak on one of those Saturday meetings. There's a good turnout and that's AARP two three seven here in Riverside, and they do quite a bit. And I've worked with them off and on through my there again with a lot of seniors doing things and it's been a real success over there.

And then last year, I tried to get to I'm not on the board there, but I've they asked me and I but I've worked through there a lot with people. But I want to bring that up about tooth the the ARP. It's really a good organization and it's pretty. I think there's over 200 or 300 members in that. It's a great organization. Thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner Dove.

I just attended the forty sixth Annual Black History Parade and Expo downtown Riverside, by Dell and Carmen Roberts Foundation. Good. Good. Good turnout.

Thank you. My calendar was so busy. I don't know. I can't write everything down.

Oh, alright. No? Hell, yeah.

It was February 14. Okay. Are there any requests for items for fit I'm at Boardwell regularly. So, yes, I was I did attend the Black History Parade on February 14. I attended the Black History Month kickoff on February 7.

I get to.

I attended we had a presentation here for the city and city council for Black History Month. I attended that, and I don't know the date on that, but it was a couple of it it was but it was, like, every weekend, I was doing something. So and then last Saturday, which what's the date was that Saturday? I attended the Sunrise Rotary Bingo. I had a event.

And so I was awarded me and my husband and I. So when commission on aging was mentioned in my bio. So so I've been busy. Okay. Thank you.

Are there any requests for future cons requests for items for future consideration?

I'm still concerned about communication. The cards, the numb did you say there's a new number? I tried the number again. It's not working. So I can't give out those cards that we have. And also our flyers, does it have the right information? Oh, let me see. Because I tried that.

Those are the ones you gave me

right here. Let me see. That number is not working.

Not working. Yeah. I know. I think I tried it. It didn't work.

Yeah. It's I'm trying to remember. It might have been a couple weeks ago. It sent me to somewhere saying it it like, you can't it doesn't exist type of thing. That's what it gave me. And then if we could take a look at those flyers and the for a future thing to see. Do we wanna take pictures of the commissioners each year or something like that?

Anyone else?

Yes.

Commissioner Bass?

Okay.

Is items for future Yes. Okay.

Okay. On April 24, it might be April 25, it's on a Saturday, Albert, well, La Sierra Senior Center will be hosting the health, no?

Yes. Is agenda items. Yes. You just missed that was the last discussion. Right.

So that's that. Okay. That's item 10. That's item 10.

That's item 10. Okay.

Yes.

Okay. Alright. So future consideration. No. Okay. Let's move it move it right Item along 10. Do we have any commissioners and or city staff announcements? Okay. Okay. Commissioner Clark.

Yes. Thank you. The Doskey Center is having their spring festival on March 28 And I will give you these flyers at the end. This one is very interesting for all of the all of the wards that are represented or the commissions that are represented here. Ages 50 and up, a health fair and it's being put on by the Riverside Medical Clinic and that's April 18.

And they're doing quite a bit of screenings. I will send these down. I'll send these down. The impact of Alzheimer's and dementia in our community. They're having a couple of workshops throughout the month of March, April and May at the Janikoski. I'm gonna pass that one down. This one is given by the insurance HRBC, lunch with the doctors. And this

And

to the

own be screenings and what services that they really

of need to be looking at when they look at their insurance. This one is a will, wills and living trust that we, that is a monthly educational workshops. And these are Janet Gosky every second Friday. Extremely well attended. Extremely well attended.

The final one is estate planning work shops. This one is the the second Friday of every month. Again, no cost at the Janet Gosky Center. And I hope you will share all of these with some of the residents at the centers that you visit. Thank you Madam Chair.

Anyone else?

Is it my turn now?

Commissioner Bash.

Okay. La Sierra Senior Center will be hosting a health fair on April 24 or twenty fifth. Do I got I have to look at the exact date on that one. And I'm their contact person. It's the twenty fifth and I'm their contact person so they contacted me.

Diane is not gonna be available. Laurie's not gonna be available. I we don't know about Debbie. So what we have is me.

Now what date is that?

April 25.

Okay. I can go.

You you are allowed you you're able to go?

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll mark it down on my calendar.

You'll have to give me your contact information. Okay? Alright. I it's gonna be from nine to twelve. And anybody else that wants to assist, you're more than welcome. It's it's a really nice event.

What is it called now?

It's a health fair event. And there's many vendors, and they have clowns and music, and it's really nice. So

And where is that now?

It's gonna be out at the La Sierra Senior Center.

Good. Perfect. I'll be there for sure.

Okay. And I'll get your information so we can stay in touch.

Yeah.

Okay. And then I have one more thing that I wanna bring up. Has anybody ever looked at our brochure that we have that we keep handing out to these seniors? What I'm getting at is who writes it and are we able to change that? Are we able to rewrite that thing and present a different commission on aging brochure?

We can do that?

We can definitely look at maybe one of your committees for each ad hoc. You can ask them to each find out what needs to be changed different. It's actually went through the marketing department. But if you have some changes that you'd like to update or maybe new pictures, we could definitely take that into consideration.

So when do they, they print more when what we have is exhausted. Correct? Okay. So I don't know if anybody wants to be with me on that or not, but what do they think about it?

Oh, I'll be with you on that.

I beg your pardon?

Commissioner Dub, down here.

What?

I'll be with you to on that if you wanna get with the committee. I'm absolutely

Okay. And you you may completely disagree with Thanks. Where I'm going on this one but you know.

What what do you disagree on?

That's what we're gonna get the committee for.

We can be, but we might not like the statement. We changed the statement or whatever.

Yeah. Commissioner Basher, you have my info to get in touch with me when you wanna meet? Great.

You think it's great? Yes.

Okay. Well, then

maybe you don't wanna be on the committee.

I don't wanna be on the committee.

Okay. Alright. Thank you for that sidebar.

Have him off.

Commissioner Kelly?

Chew me out.

Okay. I'll call and chew you out.

Call call me and chew me

out. Okay.

Commissioner Kelly. Hi there.

I have a question about I guess this is where to bring it up. If we're going to acknowledge or thank the ladies that did the artwork for our holiday cards?

I really can you re say that again because I really couldn't hear you.

Oh. We had the artwork for our holiday cards that we printed and passed out. And the artists were from the La Sierra Senior Center. And in the past, we've always recognized them with just something, a thank you.

A certificate?

Yes. And I want to know if we're going to do that since it's been several months now since we've used them.

Yeah. That's under section nine but we'll go ahead and put it on and see if we can get that certificate presented by May 18. It's next meeting. Thank

you. Oh, I have an announcement. Any any other announcements from the commissioners? Okay. On March 25, we'll have the Boardwell Park Advisory Board meeting 11:00, Boardwell Park.

Now we'll hear from Summer.

What what time is that meeting?

11AM. Eleven.

Oh. Good afternoon commissioners. Summer Primo, Recreation Super Supervisor with the Parks Recreation and Community Services Department here with some updates. The first thing I wanna share is that this past week, the California Parks and Recreation Society Annual Conference was held in Long Beach and we had eight staff members attend in varying capacities. Some of our senior program staff actually serve on the CPRS aging section and they participated in a senior center bus tour of Orange County Senior Centers, which was really fun.

And the point of that was to create awareness or increase awareness and knowledge of other Southern California centers and their lay out, their programming and just to network with colleagues. That was a really fun and exciting event. We were also excited to have staff from the Janet Goskie Center attend the conference for the first time as well. And attendees enjoyed participating in trainings and workshops, networking with peers and learning more about resources to utilize in our centers. And a really exciting thing that happened at CPRS was that one of our Los Sierra Senior Center recreation leaders, Jacob Curiel actually won the CPRS Aging Section Unsung Hero Award for his work at Los Sierra Senior Center.

This award honors an individual whose behind the scenes dedication, passion and commitment to older adults often goes unrecognized but whose impact is felt deeply by those who serve. And Jake is lovely and I highly recommend his Timeless Taste Cooking class at La Sierra to any and all seniors. Our next senior strategic plan meeting is next week on Wednesday, March 25 at the Dale Senior Center. And in this meeting, we'll be refining and finalizing our corporate non profit and government stakeholder engagement survey to get this out to the community in the next few weeks. And finally, our Parks Rec and Community Services Department events recap.

Since our last meeting, we had four luncheons, four elder tainment events and three potlucks that celebrated Black History Month, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Doctor. Seuss and National Book Week and just general senior socializing and fun in addition to our regularly scheduled senior

programming. Thank you so our next commission on aging meeting is scheduled for Monday May 18 at four p. M. If there nothing else, additional There's there's

no meeting in

April? There's actually going to be a, event up in

the Okay. Yeah. And that date was what?

On that date. April 20. You'll be getting an invitation to Okay. That

Good. Already have it.

Commissioner Pendergra.

I had watched the meeting from last time in January. It was very good because I wasn't able to attend it. But I was wondering, I saw that transportation did a presentation I believe. I was wondering if, I think it was Transportation maybe. Yes, okay, that's what I meant, sorry.

But they were passing out bags of things. I was wondering, do you hold on to things for commissioners that aren't able to attend the meeting for like to get later on or something or some of the flyers or materials? Okay oh okay alright it'd be nice to keep those and we can plan to come pick them up make it easier rather than you'd have to haul them around or anything that's possible thank you okay

meeting adjourned

yeah okay