Senior Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

Yeah. I forgot. There we go. 11:00 could call this meeting to order. Secretary, will you please call the roll?

Yes. Member Gobar? Present. Member Herzl?

Present.

Member Nelson is not here yet. Member Blaylock? Do you wanna press on the mic? Okay. Member Walsick?

Present.

Here.

Perfect. Vice chair Reese is not here yet. And chair Kroll?

Here.

Perfect.

K. If you please stand, we'll have pledge allegiance. Thank you.

Hello. Chair, if you don't mind, I'm gonna barge into your meeting very quickly to administer an oath of office.

Absolutely. Please do.

Thank you. But for those of you who don't know me or or I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Lucinda Williams. I'm the city clerk here in Fullerton. I would like to administer the oath of the office to our new member. Don't worry. It's easy. Don't panic. I don't know if we warned you it was coming. But if you would raise your

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There you go. That's gonna be the hardest thing you do today. So congratulations. Thank you.

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Thank you. Okay. We'll now hear, public comp hear voices. Am I okay? Okay.

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That could be. We'll now hear public comment on nonagenda and consent calendar items. Madam secretary, please call the first speaker to the microphone.

We have no one in chambers, and I don't have anyone in Zoom with their hands raised.

K.

K. Committee members and staff communication reports.

Alrighty. Good morning, chair and committee members. It's been a few months since we've last seen each other. I believe the last meeting we had was in February. So we do have a department update with quite a few updates for you guys.

Alrighty. So before we get into our senior focused department updates, we wanna do we wanna give you guys some department highlights. So for upcoming programs and events for 2026 throughout the city of Fullerton's parks and recreation department, this past month in April, we brought back our downtown Fullerton farmers market, which is now called our Fullerton night market. It's hosted every Thursday in the downtown plaza. If you guys aren't familiar with it, it's a very, very good time.

We have vendors, live music. So it's a very, very good time with you and the family if you guys wanna wanna take advantage of that. This coming summer, we're gonna be having our Camp Hillcrest, which will be at Hillcrest Park for our youth, and we'll also be having a hunt camp as well, for the youth. Our hunt camp is more focused on more of arts and crafts, whereas Camp Hillcrest, it has excursions, and more of the fun in the sun type of type of approach. May 30, we'll be having our Fullerton Coffee Fest.

That will be at the Humbranch Library as well. We also brought back, our community yard sale series. And our last one was on May 2 this past, I believe, two Saturdays ago. June 6, we'll be having our Fullerton fit five k. And then every year, we have our fourth of fourth of July event. And then our last events that we're bringing for the summer are Friday Night Live concerts.

Alright. Good morning, chair and committee. My name is Carla. I oversee our senior programs across the street. So I'll be focusing on our just a recap of February and through April. So in February, we had our Valentine's Day tea party. We had close to 40 participants that attended. We had raffles. Everyone brought their own style of, hats, and, obviously, we had tea. And then also in February, we had our winter wonderland formal.

We had close to 80 participants. We just had light refreshers, a DJ, and it was from five to eight. So a good time. Everyone kind of came, danced, and mingled. And then for the month of March, we had our spring, camp. That one was for a whole week. We had 13 campers. The whole week was filled with creativity. They had a chance to do tai chi. We did, like, a tech one zero one, and then we also had them do, salsa.

And then for the month of April, we did have our health and wellness fair. We had close to 60 vendors attend. We had approximately 200 participants, community come out, do health screenings. We had a food truck on-site. We had health screenings such as, blood pressure, sugar.

So we had a good amount of things, and everyone we got good feedback from from the health fair. And then, we also have our morning hike trails that started today this morning. They were free. We started up in Laguna Lake. And then, yeah, registration would be up in the front for any following, trails that we'll be hosting.

And then for our upcoming events, we have our, senior prom, which is gonna be May 21, and then we have our flag ironing event as well, May 26, our floral arrangement workshop, which kind of fills up pretty quickly, June 5. We do have a lay craft workshop, July 8. We are planning on bringing back our senior cap as well during the summer, August 2 through the sixth. And then we do plan on having, grandparents day social, September 11, which will be taking place in our grand hall. So looking forward to seeing you guys all there, at any of our events or all of them.

And then the upcoming week meeting, sorry, August 11 and November 10.

Alright. That does conclude our department update for the last few months. We're happy to answer any questions. But I do also wanna share we did jump into our department update, but if there were any committee member reports, feel free to include those as well.

Anybody have, any questions?

I don't have a question about, events. My question is about, the taxi programs. Has that been removed? I have it on. Yes.

Committee member. The program has not been removed. We still offer our senior mobility program at the community center. However, it has been reduced in scope with limitations, and that's through and then in July, there will be another change in the scope of the program to limit it further just because we're trying to expand our funding for it, and that's been the challenge. So that's where the reduction in the scope of the program has taken place in the last few months with July being kind of our last push of reduction in the scope, but we still offer the senior mobility program.

Right. I was interested in because I had eye surgery and I couldn't get a taxi to the there was none available for to get to my doctor's appointment.

Understood. And we can look into that with staff. It's the first time I'm hearing that we don't have a taxi available or in that moment, but the program is still functioning. It's still operating. Operating. Yeah. Absolutely. So I will I will look in with our staff and get you a response to that.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I had a question. So we met last in February, and I was I thought we were meeting every other month. So I was a little surprised when we didn't have a meeting in April, and we had it in May.

The city council, had voted to change the senior advisory committee schedule. So now it's every three months. Yeah. So we're back to the original schedule when we first started the committee. Quarterly. Quarterly. Mhmm.

I think it would have been nice to tell us because we have it on our calend you know? Oh. I honestly had no idea it had changed, and I was ready to I guess I was Yeah. I was going to come in April. So Okay. If, yeah, if you could email us, you know, the dates going forward, that would be great so we can change our calendars.

Yeah. Yeah. We can do that. I believe staff provided it in the PowerPoint presentation for their, department update, but we can send you an email also.

So, yeah, just, we'll send you an email, but the next meeting is scheduled for August, and the last meeting of the year is for November.

Oh, that was for us. I thought that was for some kinda senior staff thing. Sorry.

No. It's

I did see those dates. Didn't realize it was our meetings.

Totally fine. Yeah. August and November are the the two scheduled.

So Can someone ex I mean, we decided we wanted to meet every other meet, every other month. So I don't the city council just, you know, laterally just said, nope. You don't need to do that. Like, I don't can anyone explain?

Yeah. I'd have to look back at the council report and how it was presented, but it was to streamline the committees. So all all the committees because we have multiple committees and the scheduling for each one, accessibility to the chambers, etcetera, and then the scope of each committee. But I I can reference the council report at that time. I think it took place probably about two months ago now, month and a half, two months ago, and I will and we can follow-up via email. And I can, forward you that counseling report.

There's a very helpful calendar where the guard is stationed. And when I came last month, he gave it to me, and it does show all the updated ones if if you wanna stop and get one of those.

Anybody else? K. Let's see. Consent calendar. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar?

I'll make a motion.

Do we have a second?

Okay. We have a motion in

Colt.

Yeah. Member Gobar?

Yes.

Member Herzl?

Approved.

Member Nelson?

Approved.

Member Blaylock?

Approved.

Member Welsick? Approved. Vice chair Reese is not here, and chair Kroll? Approve. Okay. Passes.

K. Next is our February 10 meeting minutes.

That was part

the consent calendar. We're on regular business item number two.

Oh, thank you.

You're welcome.

Parks and Rec senior program budget overview.

Yes. Good morning, chair and committee members. Today, we have a presentation, for the committee related to our senior program budget. We get a lot of questions in regards to adding new programs, facility improvements, capital improvements, and so forth. So we just wanted to share an overview of what our senior related program budget, looks like. Our team

you just for a moment. Just for clarity's sake, that's the senior, not the senior advisory.

Senior yeah. Our senior programs at the Fullerton Community Center. Thank you. Yeah. So this is our proposed budget for 2627, which includes key expenditures, program service areas, and and identified needs. Our goal here is to provide transparency regarding the senior program financial structure, highlight ongoing operational considerations, and support policy discussions related to our service delivery, our fiscal sustainability, and our future investment priorities. So staff have, will present it, and we're happy to answer any questions at the end. Thank you.

Alrighty. And then before we get into it, just wanna give an FYI that, no senior mobility, expenditures will be on this budget report. This will be strictly for our programs, events, things of that nature. So here's kind of an overview of our last year fiscal year 2425, this year 2526, and what we're looking ahead to for 2627. So our non regulars non regular staff wages were allocated last year, we were allocated 65,107 and 50.

This year, it was brought down to 62,460, and then looking forward to next year, it'll be the same. Our professional contractual, this is our security guard. So if you go the Fullerton community center, there's a security guard there. We also do have professional contractual, and we have bands or or pianists, anything like that that comes out of this account here. So last year, it was 28,870. This year was brought down to 28,000, and next year, we're looking at 28,000 as well. Supplies last year's actuals were were spent 4,643. This this year's 4,000. Next year will be 4,500. Our small equipment and furniture, we had zero this past year, 500 this year.

And then looking forward, we're gonna be moving their small equipment to the supplies fund. And then down there is our custodial. Pretty self explanatory. This is where our custodial janitorial services comes out of to make our community center look nice and pretty. So I do wanna highlight two expenditures.

One I wanna highlight is our supplies. So our budget last year, the the senior programs were spent 4,643. Supplies for our city led senior programs was at 795. Our supplies for our senior led city events was close to 2,000, and then office and first aid supplies were nearly 2,000 as well. This year, we we're aiming to increase our supplies, our expenditures for supplies in our senior programs and our senior events.

So our senior events, we're looking to to spend 2,500, and our supplies, 1,500. We wanna take away the office and first aid supplies, and we're actually aiming to move that into our Fullerton Community Center fund, our general fund. So they they'll still be there. We won't be taking away office or first aid supplies. They're just gonna be moving to a different account.

And then next year, with that 4,500, we're looking to spend 2,000 in our off our supplies for programs and for events. So that'll that'll come up to our $404,500 dollars. Professional contractual, as I mentioned, security services. So as you guys can see, security services takes a big portion of our professional contractual with 27,000 being spent last fiscal year and 27 being allocated for this fiscal year and next fiscal year as well. For our program needs, so we get movie licenses, DJs, singers, pianists, all that that that contribute to our programs.

We're looking we're allocated about a thousand dollars for the next for this fiscal year that that's nearly ending and for next fiscal year 2627. And then just some unfunded improvement request. So these are requests that we've gotten from a lot of our senior community on things that they wanna see throughout the community center that, you know, obviously, with our funding as it is right now, is not feasible. So these are these are kind of things that seniors wanna want, but at the time being right now, it's it's not feasible for the city. So a dedicated technology room for seniors.

I know there's been seniors that have been expressing that, you know, other agencies or other other facilities have dedicated computer rooms, things like that, and they they would like to see that here. Audio in our classrooms, higher quality furniture for lounging, and then increased programming throughout the day. So I I I know some of you guys are, you know, regular participants in our programs, and you you noticed that we have a a high amount of programmings in the morning and at night, and then there's a little bit of a gap in in between in that middle. So we're looking to see if we can increase that as well, but these are things that the community wants as well too. And that is the end of our presentation.

We are here for any questions.

I Sure.

I have a question. Go go ahead, Kim. Susan, go ahead.

I'm assuming so some of these, the custodial services or, not wages, maybe. But, I mean, there's those appear in other budgets too just for the community center and not just the senior center. So we're paying more than what you see here for those services, or is it does the senior program get stuck with all of it?

The senior program does not get stuck with all of it. It's a allocated funding for all the programs. So it's, there's percentages to each program that cover the cost based on kind of the needs. And so it can be, and I don't know the formula off the top of my head, but it can be the, like the senior programs are from nine to two per se and what that percentage of that custodial cost is. But it's there's a there's a whole number for the entire facility broken down into the programs, the various programs at that facility. So the rentals incur some of the janitorial supply or janitorial cost. The gymnasium programming incur some of that cost. Senior programs as well.

I'm just curious if the 27,000 for the security mean for this for the senior center as well as a whole community center is under that budget. At 27,000 under security services. Like, was that a security guard? Or

Yes. So it is a security guard. Similar to to or We do have cameras. The community center does have a lot of blind spots, though. The cameras don't reach every aspect of the community center. So for example, we have cameras in our in our front desk area that is pretty visible, the front of the facility, but then when we start getting into the hallways where the classrooms at, boardrooms at, gymnasium, there's a lot of dead spots that you can't see. You it's just a lot of blind spots for the for the cameras. But similar to the custodial, it is a shared so senior programs isn't taking on that complete cost for the security guard. That's also shared with our Fullerton Community Center account, which actually takes on majority of that that that that cost.

Okay. Thank you.

Lyrical question. On your professional contractual, the, total line doesn't, add up under actual $24.25?

For the actual $24.25, the 28,870?

Yeah. 27,001 thousand doesn't equal 9,000.

Yeah. My apologies on that. It is 28,000. So that total where it says 9,000, it should represent the 28,870. Thank you. Thank you for the catch.

She caught it. She gets the credit.

Yeah. But it's a spreadsheet. Yeah. Yeah.

So something something to highlight there, as you can tell, just our like I said at the beginning, our goal is to provide the senior advisory committee with, you know, transparent numbers of what our actuals are for our programming, because we always get the request of, can we increase more? Can we have more senior programs? Can we have more dances? Can we have more activities and events? In that line item there, you can see that out of $28,000, give or take Yeah.

27,000 of that towards security services, leaving us with very less than $2,000 for that, the professional contractual for DJs, musicians. So we we are limited in the funding there, just based on the scope, and that's where the senior club, definitely assist with different programs and evening sponsored programs. So that's the relationship we've established with them. But that these are these are actual numbers from last year, even our supplies. It's, you know, we get creative in utilizing community center supplies for senior programs, etcetera, but we are allocated $4,000 for senior supplies, and that's for programming of senior programs.

So we do work with a lot of contractors that bring in their own supplies, own equipment, and so forth, but these are for your city led programs and events.

Next question. Go ahead. Can we do any fundraising now?

There's different our funding For the programs. Yeah. Our that's where I think the senior club does assist in that in that realm where they sponsor a lot of the programs and events. And we do have partnerships. Our staff do look at, like, the North Orange County Community College District to provide programs and classes at either at a low or free cost.

So we are trying to balance that, just by by just, general relationships with nonprofits or organizations in the community. In regards to fundraising, there are there are sponsorship opportunities for events. So we do actually work with a lot of, like, insurance companies that sponsor dances. One that comes to mind is like Biscare. Yeah, Biscare or, like, senior insurance services.

They sponsor, so they may provide the food for a dance or the DJ, etcetera, and then we complement the remaining, funding for that event. So so staff is actively seeking all the time. We always will take sponsors, and we're we're very, fortunate to have some good relationships. But we are limited when when asked of increasing a program. And like you said, there's a lot of capital unfunded needs. The senior tech lounge, we'll call it. There's just there's no funding to establish that or upgrading our equipment, which we have a really nice facility, but, of course, with with time, there's replacement needs and so forth.

And then just to add to Christian's point regarding sponsorships, we are actually actively looking at revamping our sponsorship to make it more formalized, like a sponsorship packet type type of approach. So we're looking to introduce that hopefully in the next fiscal year 2627 to to help with some some, revenue or and and, obviously, in turn with some expenditures.

The question on the transparency part, which I really appreciate. My question to that is when it comes time for the budgets and coming up with a cost analysis of percentages divided amongst all the different committees and things, is there an annual audit that looks at that? That'd be the first part. And then the second part, who is responsible, in coming up with the percentages that go to and we'll use this as example. It goes to this program.

So in regards to the audit, just for clarification, is that, like, an internal audit you're referring to? Or

That you would, like, gets to the community of Fullerton that that they review the audits and, you know, things like that?

Yeah. So we do have I mean, all of our budgets are are public. Yeah. So the current we're in the 2526 fiscal year budget, which runs from July to June. So we're kinda towards the end.

So our expenditures should be about 70 to 80%, at this at this point in time. So that become that's new. And then for the new or for the 2627 fiscal year budget that hasn't been established yet, there will be community meetings and feedback on what the there's, like, your priority as a resident, where what you should fund, and so and so forth. In regards to and staff internally have access to budgets, our budget worksheets on a monthly basis, even daily basis, but they get updated mostly, like, monthly. So we were able to track our expenditures and revenues and make sure we're meeting those.

In regards to allocating the budget for senior programs, that's at the staff level of what we wanna present as a department. It is to note that in the in the current kind of financial state with various cities, including ours, we are we're not increasing our budgets drastically. We're just, we're identifying where the needs are and maybe reallocating funding to cover that. That doesn't mean that we're requesting additional, you know, dollars in in in relation to our baseline. We're just kinda reallocating to meet those needs. So, as Jacob presented, that's our proposed budget. So if you can if if you were able to tell, all of the numbers stay pretty status quo for next year.

So with all that being said, it leads me into the senior, program. With the facility across, when it comes to transparency, at least for me, I would like to be able to say, here here's the umbrella of the of the center over there, and this group has this percent, and this group has this percent, and this group has this percent, which will make the the 100% of it. I see this, but how does that compare to the other one? So as far as transparency, you know, it would be nice to have people outside of the bubble, so to speak, to verify or clarify or understand, is the percentage fair?

Understood.

That that's what I would like to see, not only as as a committee, but also as a as a residence of Fullerton. Is my is my senior center program getting its fair share or not getting its fair share? And you wouldn't know that unless you're able to to compare the whole basket of apples.

No. Absolutely. And like I shared, if you go on our city website right now, you can see the allocated budget for 2526. And under I think it's program it's under parks and rec it's broken down. Parks and recreation, if I'm gonna say, it's program five one five or five two community center. So we'll get we'll 519. Sorry. 51 community center. Uh-huh. And it incorporates all the different pro subprograms, we'll call it, under the community center, including the senior center, including the gymnasium. Segregated. It is segregated. So all that information is public. You just have to read through the budget. But our goal today was just to provide the senior program.

As we've done with the commission, we provided a general review of all of our programs and their budgets, but today was specifically only for senior programs. Okay.

Excellent. Thank you. Any other questions?

No. But I have a comment. We were talking about sponsors. Yes. Sponsors are really great. And, you were talking about, different insurance companies. There are many groups that do reach out to sponsor senior programs such as for where I said says DJs or a band. The Fullerton senior club, we provide many activities for the seniors, and those are free. You can come in and you can join, and then we do do different socials. And the city always helps us with providing for the rooms, for example, where we can have these.

So there are many, many things that a sponsor could reach out and help us with. And as I said, the city already does with many social activities that we, the Fullerton Senior Club, does represent and put on.

Anybody else?

I I have a question. Jacob? Yep. You had said there is a need, the community wants this. When you talk about community, what what are you talking about? Are you just talking about the senior club? Who's voting? Who are these people out there that want these things from, the senior center?

So when I say community, I mean, a lot of our patrons that come through on the day to day at the Fullerton Community Center, you know, a lot of it's it's not oftentimes even formal. It's oftentimes passing by in the hallway and saying, hey. Like, you know, I noticed that you guys have this. You know, I would really like to see this, this, and this here.

So You don't put out a survey?

No. We haven't put it out a survey for for these for these requests. It's it's more of what our staff our staff internally came together and discussed, you know, what the community is looking for. And and these four that we highlighted are are the biggest four requests that we've heard from the community.

And when you talk about the community, how many people is that? I mean, on a annual basis, how many individual seniors are attending functions at our senior center?

Off the top of my head, I don't have the number. It is upwards. Carla probably has more of an idea of of the actual numbers, but we have hundreds of seniors. Even as we I know we talked about senior mobility program. We have hundreds, if not thousands people thousands of people registered for that. We can get you a number. I I I could definitely get you a number in the in the near future. So an exact amount of what our workshops bring in senior club resident senior club members, what our events bring in. So I could get you a definite number of what that looks like. Off top of my head, currently, I don't have that.

How do you advertise these events besides the website? Because I don't know how many seniors are getting online to seek this type of resource.

Yeah. Yeah. So we we, we do a lot of advertising through the community center itself. So we post flyers. Our software Civic Rec, we send out a lot of emails through there. If it's a program that, you know, we're bringing back or if it's a program that is highly asked for, we actually do calls. We do we have a call list as well. So we do that as well. We're we're trying to get into the we're trying to get a little bit more into social media as well. But I think our priority right now is more so that that contact that face to face contact with them or calling, emailing, or posting those flyers around the community center.

So you're not working with, like, programs through Saint Jude and and doctor's offices, dental offices, and churches trying to reach because I don't ever hear and I I work in the senior community. I don't ever hear about your programs at all.

Yeah. And that's definitely something I'm I'm I'm open to to those discussions. I'm open to to advertising and partnering with with, those kind of organizations and and looking to see how we can market it more. I'm definitely open to that.

Okay. I think that that would grab more sponsorship with more attendance and and recognition. I I don't feel like we're we're serving our seniors as well as we we could.

Most of Committee member Nelson, just to add to that, you asked about kind of an assessment and need services for the seniors who's actually voicing their concerns or their likes, dislikes. Last night at the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting, we finalized the scope of work for a Parks and Recreation master plan. Within that Parks and Recreation master plan, ultimately, it's defined as kind of the document that would guide our department for the next or our city for the next fifteen to twenty years highlighting the needs, our programs, level of services already providing, focusing on parks, inventories, inventory of playgrounds, and so forth. But within that scope of work, there will be a programs and need assessment of the level of services we're currently providing and the level of services that are needed for a city of our population, demographics, trends for the next ten to fifteen or, like I said, fifteen to twenty years is the goal. Yeah.

So, of course, that come, like, playgrounds come with a price tag, capital improvement projects, and so forth, but at least that will be our launching pad into identifying where the needs are. Of course, you need to be involved in that process, and our goal is to provide the outreach for that involvement, But it's up to the resident to actually respond to surveys, attend the community meetings, and their voice, you know, concerns and feedback into improving that document. So we currently don't have one, in our department or as a city, so that's something we're looking forward to. And that should, we'll go through a request for proposal process. And within the next month or so, or probably six to eight weeks, realistically, we'll have a consultant, selected that we can start that process with.

Okay.

Alright. Good.

May I make a comment? Hi. Are you aware that we put out the city and the senior club a newsletter every week, excuse me, every month?

A newsletter that goes where?

850 people at this point. Okay? They have signed up for this. And in this newsletter, we do all kinds of things, and in the middle of it is a calendar. And it shows the events that you can go to or activities you can participate in every single day of that month.

It shows NOCE programs. It shows community center, the club, all different kinds of things. For example, it will talk about taxes when it was tax season, how you can get free tax help, grief counseling. There's a gym, yoga, coloring groups, different things to help people in many ways. And I know that goes to 850 seniors because the city and I, we work together.

We work with Jacob, Carla, Erica, and the club. And people sign up for this, and then they get that every month. On the front of it, it will show activities for that month or the next month, and, it will show, for example, when they're having the senior prom, or it will talk about when they're having a particular group to help you, say, in the area of attorney work. So I know that figure is accurate because I help with the newsletter. So people reach out that way.

Now at the front desk, whereas I don't work there, I know that if someone comes in and asks for the calendar for the month, they have those. And Jacob's staff, they're always ready to hand the calendars out to people, help them, show them where some activity or something is. When you have seniors, there are many ways to help them, and there are a lot of lonely people out there. They can go to the lunch program, for example. They can go five days a week, and they can become social also.

And they will have in that newsletter the, what do you call, the menu, so to speak, of what they could have each day. When you go to the front desk, they will tell you, and they will help you out with the menu. Everybody in that center seems to help other people, and then they have this huge bulletin board up to the right. If you walk in and look at it, it shows all kinds of activities, events, helpful programs for seniors. I

have no doubt that the resources are here. I have no doubt that there's a beautiful newsletter. I have no doubt. I have seen it. I've gone on the website as well. I just don't and it's you're asking for people to come into the senior center to get all that. You're not communicating out to the Fullerton community of what we have. 850 people, I'm sure there's more a lot more seniors than that that we're not touching on. That's my point.

Is there a way for us to get into the Observer, on their calendar? Because this just goes out to everybody.

I believe, I believe there is, the Fullerton Observer, representatives do attend our meetings, and I do know they highlight special events. Something I forgot, I'd be remiss if I don't add that. Our our Thursday night market, over at the Downtown Plaza, every Thursday from April to September In our city booth, we do highlight all of our programs, and that does include the senior center programs. And that is, if you haven't gone this year, it is very popular. It is award winning, and it does have about 500,000 people attend with about 40 to 50 vendors each week.

So we have a really good foot traffic. We have strong city presence. So we are and through all of our events, throughout the year, we do have a city booth that advertises all of our programs in general, which includes the senior programs. But, yeah, we'll take we'll take the feedback. We'll connect with some local nonprofits and maybe some senior housing and share the resources that we have to offer. Absolutely.

Great. Great. Just know that not only our seniors, but our seniors have caregivers too, and we need to be reaching them.

Yeah. That's all I'll say.

Okay. I think I think we hit this. Alright. Secretary, do we have any?

No speakers in chambers, and I don't have any participants in Zoom.

K. Alright. Then, can we have a motion to receive the report? Oh, go ahead.

As chair, you don't have to do the vote, but it is up to you. You can just receive and file as, by acclamation. So. But it is up to the committee, though. It's okay. Okay. You wanna do

that? Uh-huh. Thank you. K. Next is senior advisory ad hoc committee. Updates?

Yes. Chair, this I shared previously, we'll always have a senior advisory ad hoc committee, and related to the work plan. If there's any updates, we'll include them. We do have an update that I did not include on here, but it was focus area number one, the senior visibility in our community. And as you heard through our department update, there was a senior expo, which we'll include here that helps move forward towards completing that goal.

As your attachments as well, we have our recognized youth nonprofits or partner groups, sports groups, and those are we call them our partner city partner groups, which they meet multiple requirements and are a partner within the city. You have their contact information there through their president Do you wanna reach out? And staff did create a flyer. I believe that was requested by committee members to share who you are, what you do, and kind of and and be so the community can be aware that we have these meetings. Again, our next one is on the November 11, which this flyer will also be included at our special events.

So we're here to have any questions? If there are no updates, there are no updates. But if you have any updates, we'll take note of that and update the work plan. And in addition, since we do have a new committee member, there are a few focus areas. There's actually one focus area, which is number two, strengthen access to essential resources. If the committee would like committee member Blaylock, if you'd like to join that, we can further explain what the role of that or what that role of that committee entails.

Okay.

Beautiful. Okay. I I love the the list. I finally got the list. I finally got the list.

I appreciate it. The update I have on it is that, because I was waiting for this list, I am already on a group that, is working with the Boys and Girls Club in Buena Park, and I had my first opportunity to represent there. This will help me get started in Ocean itself. So I will definitely get started making contact with that. The event went very well in in Buena Park, so I'm excited to bring it here to Fullerton. So I had a lot of happy kids. Go ahead. You look like you wanna say something.

Yeah. Then and and to add to that point too, we've already discussed we've already discussed on your guys' behalf as well with Boys and Girls Club. Excellent. And they're they're looking forward to the communication. So we've started the initial conversations. They're looking forward to to further conversations with you guys as well.

So so my question is moving forward with this list now, how do you, propose I should proceed in contacting them?

You can, either if you'd like to you have their contact information. You're more than welcome to email them. We can coordinate on-site meetings at the community center, and staff can be part of that to assist, which is always helpful. Or you can so once you make the contact, you can then go through staff and say, hey. I've reached out to this organization interested in meeting.

Can we coordinate can we coordinate a time and place at the facility? And then we can have those conversations. I think it'd be best also if staff is involved to just to guide the conversation as well and make sure that we're able to adhere to what the plans are and to meet those goals. So we're we're happy to assist with any of that.

I will make the first initial, at least on my part, and then immediately connect in through through staff and coordinate meetings.

And I believe you have, the contact information for both Jacob and Carla.

Yes.

But if not, we'll make sure you have that have those emails.

Perfect. Thank you. That's the only update I I have for that committee.

Sorry. And chair Kroll, you mentioned Buena Park. Do you know what the organization you met up?

Yes. I do.

What's the name of it?

Solomon's Staircase Masonic Lodge number three five seven. We we're we're doing a lot of things with the youth in Buena Park community. And as I stated, I enjoy helping young people because they're our future. So I make sure I get on all those committees.

Sorry. What was the large number? I apologize. I missed that.

57.

357. Okay. We will add that. We can make a note of that in our work plan.

I'm also I'm also on that committee, and I've made connection with Shirley Ramirez, if you know that name with the Boys and Girls Club. And she definitely opens, would love to to partner with us. I guess there's a little bit of I don't know, a dis not a dispute, but the seniors don't really care for the boys and girls club. They make they make too much noise. Wow. This is what miss Ramirez told me. So we need to maybe help bring the the these two communities together under the same umbrella and help, respect one another.

So Matt, I've in those conversations as well with with, Shirley. I think the the main point of of, friction, I guess, you would say, is the is the gym usage in the mornings. So as it pertains to summer, we're already me and Shirley are already game planning for that as well. So, you know, hopefully, that'll lighten that load. And then with this with this new communication or new partnership, potential partnership, hopefully, it just grows into a a fruitful relationship.

Awesome. Thank you.

Anybody else have an update on their committees? I

have a question. I'm sorry. I know I'm being very very boisterous today, but under focus area, which I'm on as well, maybe we need to partner moving forward at the on Thursdays at the is it called Farmers Market? Is that what it's called downtown?

Our Thursday night market.

Yeah. Thursday night market. We're happy to if we need to be more visible as the commission's

there.

Even if it's one member of the commission Okay. Or any or if you're in Right. Just enjoying the the festivities there, yeah, you can always come by the booth, and we can provide you with at least definitely some water in a nice shady place to sit. So

Yeah. What's the timing of that?

It is 04:30 to 08:30.

Okay. Thank

you. Thursdays, it started in April, and it's through the first Thursday in, September.

Okay. Thank you.

You're welcome.

And then on number four, you might wanna update. Chair Harrison is no longer with us.

Correct. Yes. We will update that. Apologies for that. So then that does reduce so just to confirm, focus area one, we have Nelson, Reese, and Goldbar. Focus area two, we have Hersel and now committee member Blaylock. Focus area three, we have Kroll, Hersel, and Nelson. Focus area number four, we have Rees and Walsack. And then focus area number five, which is the annual report of city council. And we will update our work plan and make sure that it's accurately reflected.

That does leave a opening for focus area number four if anyone is also interested in assisting there, that is the intergenerational relationships. But I believe we've, I think some of this is definitely covered in other areas. So Yeah. It Alright.

Sounds like it to me. Perfect.

Thank you.

Go ahead. On the focus area number five, all commit when is that due?

I don't have a due date on top of my head. I have to look at our remaining meetings and then remaining terms. Okay. This is a 2526 calendar.

Oh, okay.

I just probably towards the end of the year, but I can I can get an answer and follow-up if it's sooner rather than later?

Alluded to the last sessions.

No. No. It would it would be including this year. So, since the term, I know everybody's been on the committee at different times and different terms, but it would be what this committee has accomplished through this work group.

Alright. Can I I've I it seems like the committees and then and who's on which ones have changed a little bit because the intergenerational relationships, isn't that the one that was Nelson and Kroll and and Herzl? And it says we're on the advocate for age friendly city policies. I don't even remember that being a committee. And then the prepared annual report was never all committee members. We had so there's something, and this is different than right?

Yes. Yes. Because I was on one way.

Oh, yeah. Those look different.

The inner I don't know I don't remember an advocate for age friendly city policies.

Let me, look at our previous agenda item, but we've been we haven't made any changes to the the group. I know we've had multiple discussions in the age city friendly policies, because I believe it was I know we had to redirect the conversation to it be senior related versus, like, citywide. So I our last meeting, which is I'm also drawing a blank on, you know, the last time we met, but there was a lot more conversations. This was the result of those conversations, but we can always double check and make sure we have the allocated committee members correctly.

It's you chairman Carl, you know what I'm

talking about. The thing with the youth in Buena Park.

So It's like everything's yeah. I don't know. This is different than Yeah.

Yeah.

I do remember being on build inter generational relationships.

That was the whole heroism.

Was three that we were on.

Yeah. That should be down in there.

I apologize. There was a shift when we did the so the report is accurate. The work plan table's incorrect. So there's an ad hoc committee, community visibility. We have committee member Goldbart, committee member Nelson, committee member Reese. Our resource access to resources, committee member Hirssel, intergenerational engagement, chair Kroll, member Hirschl, member Nelson, and then the annual report was work being worked on with everybody. So, yeah, I'll make I'll make those changes. I apologize. Thank you for letting us know.

Okay. Do we have any speakers?

Nope. No speakers in chambers and no one on Zoom.

Thank you. Just receive. We don't need to vote for that, do we?

No. Not for a receive and file Okay. As long as the chair receives and files by acclamation.

Please receive and file with the updates or as corrected. Alright. Let's see. That brings us to the end of our agenda. Going once. Going twice. The meeting is adjourned.