Senior Advisory Commission - Regular Meeting

Thank you. We're just about to start. This is Adila. Hi Adila. This is Chris. So we have a few commissioners that aren't here, but we'll go ahead and start. And if they join us, they'll join us. Okay. Good evening. Welcome to the Senior Advisory Commission for Monday, August 17th. This meeting will be recorded. The Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press continue on the Zoom application to stay in the meeting. Use the raise your hand feature in Zoom when you would like to speak on an item and to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you're done speaking. If you're calling in by phone, identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. Press star nine on your phone to raise and lower your hand and press star six if you're participating by phone to unmute. Thank you. Turn it over to Chair Andrews.

Now call to order the Senior Advisory Commission meeting of August 17th, 2026 at 5.04. Roll call. Commissioner Andrews present. Commissioner Capadia. Present. Commissioner Sadaf?

Present.

Commissioner Schmidt?

Present.

Commissioner Seldon?

Present.

Commissioner Soto?

Present.

Commissioner Vaz? Absent. Welcome to the Senior Advisory Commission meeting. Our first item on the agenda is our consent calendar. This month, there is one item on the consent calendar. It's for June 15, 2026 minutes. Any comments or suggestions? We're headed. If none, I would entertain a motion to accept.

Move to approve the minutes.

We have a second? Commissioner Sullivan, thank you. Commissioner Andrews, yes. Commissioner Capadia, yes. Commissioner Sedat, yes. Commissioner Schmidt, yes. Commissioner Sheldon. The other two are absent, so there you go. So the motion passes. Public comment. Our public comment is not present.

Sorry, public comment for the minutes.

Oh, public comment for the minutes, I'm sorry.

I see none online.

Okay. We will now move forward with public presentation section of our meeting. as part of the meeting is reserved for persons to address the Senior Advisory Commission on any matter not on the agenda and within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission. The law does not permit action on or extended discussion of any item not on the agenda, except under special circumstances. The Commission or staff may briefly respond to a statement made or questions posed, and the Committee may request staff to report back at subsequent meetings. As a reminder, comments can be mailed to clerk at Santa Clara, ca.joshman. Is there any member of the public that would like to make comments or fill out a speaker's card? To accommodate all speakers, we request that you complete your comments within one minute. Staff, do we have any members of the public that would like to speak?

I do have one person online. Go ahead, Wanda. Is this for public presentations?

Yes. I just want to welcome the new member as a past member and say thank you all for serving. And I want you to know I'm here enjoying watching you. Thank you. Bye-bye.

Thanks, Wanda.

Um, our, uh, public's works is not here yet. So maybe we go ahead and go on to the next one and then.

Okay. So item two of our agenda is to elect a chair and a vice chair for this next year. We have any, any comments, anybody?

Do you want to explain just for our new commissioners kind of what we do, how we go about doing this?

How we go about doing this? Okay, so... Could you explain it, please?

Sure.

Thank you.

So each year there's an opportunity for the commission to elect a new chair and vice chair. It is up to the commission if they want to do so. And so the commission does that by a vote, they make a nomination to nominate somebody. That person would need to accept the nomination. And then if that person accepts it, then the group would vote. If there's more than one nomination, then the group would vote for each one and the person with the most votes would win. And so you can vote for vice chair first, then chair. It's up to the commission on how the commission would like to do it. But for our new commissioners, Commissioner Capadia is our vice chair and Commissioner Andrews is our chair. And so they've been serving this last fiscal year. So they started in July 1 of 2025 and they're finishing up. Thank you.

I wonder if... the current, if the vice and the chair would be interested in repeating their roles this year? Sure. You'd be interested.

Yeah.

No problem. If there's any other comments, then I would make a motion to nominate Rick Andrews for chair and Chris Kapadia for vice chair.

Second the motion. Mm-hmm.

this down so what i heard was um commissioner smith's would uh is i made a motion to nominate rick andrews for care to continue both folks and both accepted yes yes must be a unanimous vote right

was a it was and then it was a second and then i made the motion and then there's a submission or selden as a second so then we just need to vote okay yeah andrews yes commissioner yes commissioner sadat yes commissioner schnitz yes yourself yes there you go two episodes so we have a unanimous process thank you thank you all

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Okay. Item 2B is to discuss and develop the Senior Advisory Commission work plan goals and activities for fiscal year 26 and 27. So, in our packets, you will notice they're on page, it says 2 of 2.

9 of 6. 9 of 6, 8 by 3.

there are an A through H of possibilities for us to use as our ideas for our work plan, for our ideas for the work plan. So I don't... Does everybody have this? So we've started without you.

Oh, you have a meeting started.

Meeting starts at five.

So we are at, just to catch you up for a second, we've done a election for next year for our chair and our vice chair. And the motion was made to keep Chris and I here for next year.

Nobody gets the boot.

So we are now looking to do our senior advisory commission work plan for next year. Typically planning activities. So we have, for those who have the agenda in front of them, they have it. You need to have a economic center for my calendar. You have them, they can see on there.

Up on the screen there to help out. It would pay you. I'm sure it's the last last item on the agenda. Next, let me go.

The table looks like your age. Okay. Those are the subjects we have to choose from. And then we.

It's also on the screen there. You can look it up. I can see it, but what she has is different.

This is the actual table. This was picking up from last month's meeting, or sorry, two months ago. You're kind of brainstorming. So capturing what you guys had talked about at that time. So what Rick was referring to as part of the staff report is the different categories from the age-friendly. Those are the different categories he was talking about. economics and employment, community housing, outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation and streets, health, wellness and nutrition, social and civic engagement and access to community resources information. And so at the last meeting, the group talks about advocating for housing regulations for older adults in Santa Clara. and proposing regulation modifications to protect older adults in rental properties. Also participating in the 2027 Health and Wellness Fair by hosting a table and to promote the Senior Advisory Commission And possibly offering a smaller survey, as mentioned, might be on a specific topic. And, you know, asking people to, could be three questions, five questions.

Yeah, for those that are new, the reason why we propose that, because the survey that was out is not exactly what we wanted.

And then... And then also you guys have talked about just continuing with the senior needs assessment and the data, pulling the data together and presenting that to council at your joint meeting in November. And then I was just kind of jotting down.

Do you have a date for the November meeting already? Do you have a date?

Yes. November. It is November the I emailed it to you all. I believe it's the 7th, the Tuesday. Usually they do it before their council meeting. I can resend it to you.

Oh, no, I got it. I have something else here in the calendar. That's what I'm going to do. Thank you.

Was this part of your email for the meeting or this day, November? Where was it?

That was in a separate email a couple months back when council set their dates. Yeah.

Yeah, I think I read something.

I can resend it to everybody. And then these were just some other, at the last meeting, individuals were talking about just resources in general and being that there's quite a few resources available to our older adult population. What I heard the group talking about was it just seems like people don't know where to look. And so the group was talking about What could the group maybe do to promote those resources? Or how do you communicate those resources out to individuals?

Yeah, related to, if you'll excuse me, related to a senior center. Because resources for adults out in the city, they just don't work. They aren't experienced. But I don't want to go into this detail. There are many, but they are not a center. And to be sad that you're here in bed and nobody actually has the power to do much.

I would say reach out to the senior communities that are already in the city. Instead of only this senior center, there are senior housing, like Pre-Housing, and then there's one on Down Street, and then there are other faith-based senior groups. It would be nice to outreach to them if possible, but I wouldn't know how to start with that. I mean, I have some ideas. I have two or three outreach places already in mind, but obviously we need to look for more. But that would be another way of reaching out instead of just putting stuff in the library or in the newsletter, which a lot of people don't really read, unfortunately.

I don't know if this moment is the moment. If not, Jennifer, you can tell me. But I have some documented situation here that I want to show to you all. that is related to why we need regulation to protect adults and seniors housing. Do you think I should show it now? It's a few photos.

Or should I do it later? I think our agenda item that we're working on right now is the work plan.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's related to that. Just to reinforce the need for it. So you all be very conscious about it. Is that okay, Jennifer? Is that okay? It's quick, but I think it's important because we are discussing exactly that. So this is me about six months before I moved to a senior housing facility. And this is about two months after moving in. I think you can all, but I can pass so you can look closely. And this moves on like to this. to this, you know, to have alteration in the house, to the whole face. I'm gonna get to the eyes because this is, I think, the most shocking situation. Well, I think this is enough. So now I'm going to go, you know, nails from this. Toenails and nails. Can I just ask, what does this have to do with the house? Ferdinand's. I get that. Yes. So it's skin. Hold on. Hold on. It's skin. It's skin. I'm doing quickly because I don't want to take my stride. This is lungs. And I have heart too. Affected my heart. This is inside of my unit. This is the machine who sucks air and bring it inside of the room. And I want to present this to the CZ Council. So they see the need for ordinance, the fast ordinance. This is the opening where the air goes through. And if you can look at the bottom, you'll see the amount of dust. The professional who went there to document this, they even scrapped the bottom so you can see the debris and the amount of dust that was inside. And this is a few photos taken on neighbors that are not capable to clean their units. So this is the power back. This is two plants that she has in her apartment. The one that holds some of it. And the other one, what is even more critical. So I joined the city advisory commission to bring district attention to the city council. I thought it would be easier, but it has not been. And I have been here for two years. I think myself and he is the only ones from since I started. So that's the situation. It's not only one place. This is very common. And why? And I went to the health department. I went to the building department. I went everywhere in the city and the county to see if I could have them enforce landlord to clean this, to fix this problem. And guess what happened? I was evicted without never being late on one payment. I was sleeping on a parking lot for over a year trying to find ways to fix this because of course I'm not the only one who suffers with the consequences of this kind of environment. And why I was evicted? Because there is no ordinance in the city of Santa Clara to enforce landlord to fix problem like this. The inspector from the House Department went there. They saw it. But they could not do anything. Why I want to tell this on the first day with the new people. We have really serious problems in the city with seniors. And we here, we can make the difference and make the city council to pass law to enforce landlords to not have this situation. This is my unit. Okay, thank you for listening. If you want to look closely and then... There's something called Project Sentinel. Have you heard of them? They help a lot with some of this. That's why I mentioned when Sir says about the resources, I guarantee you, none of them do anything, can't do anywhere to all of them. Actually, the Law Foundation helped to evict me because there is a lobby in this country and in this state, in this city, that protects businesses, not people. All this... agencies that exist to help, including the law foundation who gave me a lawyer to go to court, to fight in court, they were not able to, they actually facilitate for me to be evicted because they get grants from the corporations who owns those properties. That's the problem. That's why we need laws. We need ordinance because if we had any, the court would be able, the judge would be able to act. But even the judge can't act because there is no ordinance. There is nothing written there that they can enforce the land law to fix the situation. And plus they lie. Do you know why they evicted me? I went to court, went in front of the judge. The judge encouraged them to make an agreement with me and fix the problem. They agreed that they will fix the problem. And then what they did, they asked everybody to remove their vehicles from the parking lot where I was parking, where I was sleeping, where was my house, to go outside. And when I moved in, they paint that that spot was assigned to somebody else. And that spot was the spot where the court assigned for me to stay. And that's where the law foundation failed because the lawyer said nothing to defend me as having a document from the court saying that that was the spot that I was assigned to. So the commissioner that was there that day was, of course, wasn't the judge who did the whole thing. She evicted me because they said I violated... the agreement by parking on a spot that was not assigned to me. But there was no spot assigned to me. Then the one the court decided was where I was.

Please.

I hear that Commissioner Ms. Vaz would agree that goal one for our work goals would be appropriate. And I would like to agree that that be one of our work goals. So maybe we could move to and see if that we want to be with that work goal and keep moving.

I want to ask a question about that goal. If I remember right in the last meeting with you and Chris, we're going to get together to talk about what did that happen?

Yeah, I didn't. I just wondered, it did happen though. It did not happen because we could not, at least I was spearheading and I could not get hold of the right people with different agencies.

That's fine. That's fine. It's just something that came to mind that we had talked about that.

We spoke about it, but we didn't do anything officially yet because we wanted the whole commission to get together and hear this and work together on it.

I have a question. Before we propose any new regulations... Should we not know what's already there in the book?

Well, that's one of the things that they were, the understanding was they were going to look up was the things that are already there. And regulations are not something that we as a commission have. All we can do is present something to the council in our meeting and in November as part of our work plan. So that's a no. That's all we can do.

If the regulations are already there, then we would look very foolish trying to present something that's obvious.

That's why we asked.

I'm sorry to hear, but I think I wasn't clear enough. No, you were very clear. This is me. I went to court. There is no ordinance to protect renters, senior renters in the city. There is none.

We can look into it. We'll continue on with that. Let's look at goal number two.

I want to court. Because maybe they did after that.

To make clear that. Let's find out.

I think what we're saying then, right, Chair Andrews, is that Commissioner Voss and Commissioner That is correct. To work on this item offline and bring their findings and their recommendation to the commission.

That was what was agreed upon at the last meeting in June.

That has census in the room now. We're just rechecking that.

Yes, but because we were short in the staff, the board and I, we decided to wait. And I would bring this here as I'm doing so everyone knows the situation. Because this is critical. That is nothing to do with Brown Act.

Because there's two people assigned to the subcommittee to work offline to propose a regulation modification to protect older adults and rental properties, as it's written here. Is that what the subcommittee wants to do?

We want more people on this committee, not just two.

You can only have three.

we want to change that that's why we do this that's the brown act personality doesn't allow that but this is such a crucial thing what has to do with such a crucial thing How about the Brown Act for the president that's making billions or millions of dollars?

We're not talking about that right now.

We can speak for him. We're speaking about us and it's the Brown Act, the law.

We're so lost that the president cannot do what he's doing either. This is related to what we're doing here. We should not be stopped to do what is so crucial for seniors to live in this city because there are people dying.

So the commission needs to agree as a whole on what the commission is going to tackle for their work plan. I want to propose a vote then.

Who's here that agrees that we should all work together on... Thinking on how we can address the sitcoms about this problem, it just pays our hat.

I would have a point of order. I think that I hear from... from the committee that there is a subcommittee and that you've agreed. We voted on it at the last meeting.

We had to have more people. That's why we just got started. You guys voted for the two of you to be on the committee. And we said that we needed more people at the time. It can't be more.

You can only have one.

You can have one more. Oh, that's okay. It just depends on who wants to be part of it and then join us. If they don't want to, then they don't have to. Oh, yeah, of course. So it's up to anyone that is new, that is here right now, that wants to join myself and Mr. Capordia to work on that. And we don't have to write anything. We just have to suggest something. to the city council that we needed them to do something about the situation.

I would be interested, since you mentioned the new member, I'm one of the new members, I would be interested to see the two of you were getting together, see what you can do, make some organization and maybe come back at the next meeting just and present your findings. And then... No, the finding is here. That's your... And I'm so sorry. It sounds awful what's happened to you, but we represent everyone. So as the commissioner and to be part of the subcommittee, I would love to see a start with what both of you could find and come back.

We haven't a start because as they said, and as we discussed when we decided to have the committee, Just the two of us, but we can have, I was hoping to get more, but as you know, now we can have one more. And that's when I'm going to start all together, not the two of us, but just three.

Right now you are a committee of two. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a committee of three. So I'm not sure. I'm not available to. begin that with you. But I would love to be able to see if you guys could brainstorm and what that committee could look like and what a third person could offer. That would be my suggestion.

When my turn comes, I'd like to speak about on the same subject what I found. Some basic groundwork is done already and I have some thoughts in that so I can tell you what I found. Because it's not enough to talk about now, but there is enough progress made so that we can make more progress. You know what I mean? There is a lot of groundwork has been done and we are going to do more. Because to give you an idea, I mean, an anecdote, that I wanted to have a flashing crosswalk light right outside our building because people, older people cross. So I went to the traffic department. I talked to them and all. They have a set procedure. They just don't go and say that, OK, a commissioner comes and makes a request. But one thing they did, they listened to me. As a commissioner, we have a lot of power. People will listen to us, okay? They cannot ignore you. So what he did was, he said, we'll have to do study. We love to have a data. How many people have been hit at that intersection? Because it costs them $10,000 to $15,000 and it's a public money. And they will not just on ad hoc because commissioner said so, they will do it. whether this problem or any other problem. So I learned from that point on, I have to have a lot of data because they go by data. Then they say that we will do our analysis, you know, traffic, how many cars go by. We have a lot of data. So ultimately they put the flags, they put the sign in the middle of the road, then they say pedestrian traffic, you can see that. Flags on both sides and all. They did that. But they did not put a light at Crosswalk. You see, he has responsibility that I learned as an entrepreneur. In entrepreneurship, we are the boss. You know, public is the boss. They have money. We cannot and they will not do it. Believe me, you try and they will not do it. They have their own. So I learn and I'm collecting data. That's what I'm talking about, the groundwork and all. How many seniors, what are the, and that's not available. My frustration is that's not available. Eviction isn't for everybody. You know, it's not for just seniors. But they don't have data for seniors yet. I'm trying to contact people and hold a meeting. Myself, Ms. Walsh, and whoever.

What you said reminded me of why we had plans. It's It's not that him or myself has to come here and present anything for other people to join. No, it's the community who's going to find ways. Whoever wants to join is going to do what I have done, what his has done, and we still have a lot to do, which is go out there and verify what is needed in this particular situation. You, for example, can look at the loss. and see if there is ordinance. And if there is, you're going to bring to the three of us, OK, I found this. I feel like I, this is only about me. But there are others probably that I visited. I have a lot of videos that I recorded of people talking. I have a lot of data, I can say. And he's doing his own. So if you want to join us and you welcome anyone who wants, but just one more, as Kim says, Just see what it is and do your own research and see why you can contribute to this. Thank you for that invitation.

But we are on our goals. So we've heard about goal one, potentially. So I just want to make sure that we're referencing what the work for this meeting is. And I can hear the passion regarding the ad hoc. But right now, We're talking about all the goals, and I see that it's on there. So I feel like we've discussed that goal one, and I think we need to look at it because it's everything that we want to do for over the year. Yes.

So I think we need to keep... And you can be in more than one committee. Okay.

You can be in more than one committee, yes. But our goal number one, we've talked about, And we have to come, we have to, you know, talk about that. And we still have to do goal two and three for our meeting today.

We have to present it. We have to give this to the council by I think it's the 25th of this month of what our goals are for this year. So we really need to get through this so that we have something to present. I mean, what you guys are saying is great, but I mean, this isn't set in stone yet.

This was everyone just, so the commission needs to decide if you like these three goals and if not, you change them, you modify them, whatnot. But if you're adding to them or adding a different goal, but this is what was, uh, From the last meeting.

And whoever wants to join the committee doesn't have to decide now. You can just send an email then and say, hey, I want to join this.

At any time, if you decide you want to be a part of it, then yes, we can add you to it. That's absolutely true. And we can add to our goals, but I... The one thing I want to make sure that we understand, whatever goals we make, we want to be able to achieve. So you don't want to get too extensive here. We want to, you know, we want to be something achievable to us. So that's as we're as we're doing this, like goal two, as we move into goal two is to participate in the health and wellness fair. You know, it is to put a table up. you know, promote the senior, you know.

I'm all for it. I can be part of that one.

And then at some point we need to create a small survey. That was our idea, just a small one-subject survey that maybe we're trying to get, you know, an answer on. I mean, if anybody took the survey that we gave out last year, it was pretty long. It was pretty extensive, and we should be getting results soon, I would hope. Things we need to more things that we're going to need to work on. So any other comments on goal two?

I'm personally the main thing is the sample size, who are we going to? I mean, promote to and how we are going to get the survey done.

And that doesn't have to be decided tonight.

Yeah, right.

You're just creating your work plan. And then from here on out, the commission with the different committees will work on each item.

Yeah, I am with goal two that, yes, we need to know where we are going.

And this has been done before the health and wellness fair. So we have an idea of what's done, how it's done. So we can build up on that strength and figure out how we can really work with our senior focus. So that would be a very doable goal, in my opinion, at least. I agree.

Just about every year, we've had a table.

Right. And we can see what worked and what didn't work and what we can add to make it even more.

Our last year's focus was on the survey. I mean, we were, this one here was, I'll get the survey from everybody. So it was a good effort.

In the past, the commission has also partnered with the health and wellness program and sat in the information booth. And so that was just another piece of the commission's assistants. They sat in the info booth and they helped the vendors get to their booth, welcomed them, passed out bags, surveys, evaluations, things like that. So the commission has been involved in a couple of different ways with the health and wellness fair in the past.

I think what Rick was saying is about me. I did exactly what that Jennifer was saying. So I didn't sit there and wait until the people came to our table. I walk around and I went to each one and that was, according to their own testimony, was really good. I got a lot of response. I got a lot of people that didn't even know about it. So that's what I'm hoping that other people come and join me on this really hard work that we have to do in order to make a difference in this city for the seniors and so much needed because the people who come here they have income i'm talking about people who do not that make a thousand dollars a month in their retirement they pay 900 of rent and they have to live with that so they don't have even a dollar to pay to come anywhere That's the ones we need to work to help. And remember, we are in the most well-seated in the world, and this is happening.

So are we all in agreement on goal number two?

Yeah.

Okay. Goal number three is the senior needs assessment, and that one's going to kind of be a moving target until we get the data. Until we know where the strengths and the weaknesses are that we need to get involved in, we really are just going to have to wait. I'm not really sure.

When is it going to come?

That's the question I was going to ask.

Do you have any idea when we are going to get the results?

Yeah, we'll share that with you during the SAC report.

Okay. Let's share it during the staff report.

Okay. All right. So are there any other goals that we want to, because I think the senior needs assessment may end up being a large project in itself, just by the answers to the questions of what we think we need to do. I think that's just my opinion. Yes, ma'am.

I have a comment, maybe like, Correct, incorrect. But it's my understanding that only a thousand surveys were done, which is really a very small data point that everything said and concerned. So, yes, we have to look at the results. Yes, we have to analyze them. But at the same time, I think that we should also keep our common sense and our reality and what we know about the general public in mind as well. Absolutely. We cannot just take the results and say, oh, because these thousand people want X, Y, and Z, so we have to do that. No, that's not...

In the survey world, or in a lot of the world, when it comes to participation, if you can get 8% to 10% of the population of that group of people you're trying to get, you've done well. There's 15,000 seniors in this, right? 15,000, right, seniors?

I thought it was 22,000. No, 15.

15,000? They use a quantifier.

Yeah. I think it's more than 15,000.

More than 15?

According to... Like 500,000 seniors in this area.

Don't describe the city. I wasn't thinking. 15,000 in Santa Clara.

Santa Clara County.

60 and up.

60 and up.

In Santa Clara County. Yeah. No, Santa Clara. 15,000, right? 15,000, yeah. You look at it, it's on the website. It's like 8%, right? 7%? Wait a minute. You're right. But... as long as it is distributed all over 15,000. Agreed. If you have 1,000 from senior center, that's skewed. That will not work. Okay. I hope you people understand what I'm saying. See, distribution means it's spread out all over different populations, rich, poor, healthy, unhealthy, everybody. But if you go to rich area and get it, Hey, they are all, they know what to do. Surveys are challenging. I have studied. I'll share as we go along. You'll hear from me.

That's a good point. I appreciate your point. It's a good point, but I think we have to I mean, that alone, I think, is going to be whether we use the assessment or we use other metrics to look at it. That alone is going to be a large project all by itself. And I don't know if we want to attack more, add more goals. Like I said before, I would like to make them attainable by the end of the year, by next June, that we can say we accomplished our goals.

Yeah.

It's been a hard thing to do here as long as I've been here and the Senior Advisory Commission is to accomplish because a lot of times we've made too many and you get to the point, you go, we still got all these to do and we haven't got there yet. Using Maria as an example, we have not paid the attention to that that we really need to, the housing. We have not. We've had all these other and I think

Again, it's just my opinion.

I don't know that we want to go much further than Regals.

I agree with you. I think we should now wait and see what the survey is going to tell us. And from that survey, we can think on what We can still need to ask and make the small surveys as we have been proposing.

If I may, can I ask the staff what their opinion is on that? Is three goals enough? I mean, does the commit, does, will the council, you know, they won't say, yeah, but I'll do it.

Oh, no. Who else is it? Good. Yeah. Or maybe within, activities are maybe within the goals.

Good.

Good. Thank you. We do have new members of the public who have arrived and may have comments on resources for the city. Blake's interested. Ask the chair to field him. Yeah, absolutely.

To our public folks. Thank you.

Well, thanks so much. I appreciate the handoff. Good evening, commissioners. My name is Martel, and I'm with the city's traffic engineering team as a of data right so but last time i was here if i haven't met you i uh went over um the sv hopper program a little bit about what the hopper is how you guys can book a ride and take it around the city so i wanted to give a brief update on that as of july we actually expanded to the northern part of santa clara And so now you can take the SVA hopper up to anywhere you like within the city of Santa Clara and Cupertino now for this fiscal year. Afterwards, we're going through some funding, see if we can grab some more grants from state and federal funding as well to keep the program going. But I just wanted to give this pamphlets. You might have seen them already around the Senior Center, but I will leave this here for you guys. And if you guys would like me to do another presentation for you guys to go over the S.E. Hopper program and answer any on getting the agenda.

I have used it and I love it. So it's a lot of fun. The only fun part is not if it's a smaller car and they kind of squish us in like three in the backseat and we're all squished up. That's not the fun part, but if it's a bigger car, it's a lot of fun. But I have a question and here's, I'm sure you know the answer. How much is it really used? Is it used as per your projections? Is it used more? Is it used less? Because if you have to go and look for funding, you will need to justify the funding. So is the use there or do we need to promote it more?

Oh, absolutely. We are seeing a huge increase in the service. We're running a fleet of 16 vehicles from 13 vehicles. And to your point about being squished in the back seat, efficient, but also environmentally friendly. So the point of view of picking the hopper and also doing these kind of rides that are going to the same location in one vehicle versus having to do a single vehicle trip. And again, bringing up the data that Commissioner Capati brings up of our data projections are actually As word slowly gets out, we want to be able to mitigate the expectancy of wait times for the people who are currently using it, and then also being able to supply the rides to new to new writers as well so we want to make sure that you guys are still getting the same level of service while also um low cost not low service right both so that's why it's both low cost animals Yes.

So I don't know why Sunnyvale dropped out of it. Sunnyvale used to be part of it two years ago, and then we suddenly chopped it down, and now it's only Cucutino and Santa Clara. Was it funding, or was it lack of need?

Different city council priorities. Okay, so it was a funding issue. It could be that they have their own reasons, and we attempted to reach out to Sunnyvale, but they just didn't want to play ball. Okay. Yeah.

It's a different transportation service. Oh, okay.

So, hi, how are you? I was here last time you had a presentation. I brought your information back to my organization and I gave out information to some of the seniors. However, Several called back and said they had difficulties with the phone call because not all of them have, you know, tech savvy capabilities with their phones. They don't have iPhones. So I had told them that you had suggested given a call that they could have like a, you know, the credit card or they could pay. But they all had, like, yeah, either there was nobody there to answer the call, there was nobody to help them properly, and they couldn't get the service. And so that was what some of my clientele were, like, experiencing.

That is, you know, the call center is something that we're still currently working through internally via our operators. help out the seniors. I actually helped out a couple, did a couple of house calls.

They need that. They need a little bit more service, slower talking. Set up the phone call. They would work with them on the phone because some of these seniors can't come in here.

I can work with them in person. Okay. Yeah. And if any of your residents feel that they need help personally, feel free to give me a call. That's great.

That would help.

That would help.

Great.

No problem at all.

Thank you.

Any other questions? Awesome. So I'll just leave this here. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. Thank you. look at this card too yeah uh i don't have a card on it i can email yeah yeah thank you guys so much thank you so why do you need to entertain them to accept three goals that except the work plan except the work plan as presented so without even okay is there any quick is back by the new company our new commissioners i just want to make sure we gave you an opportunity to

provide feedback or add something or.

Yeah, good.

I just have a question about a are we going to? Decide to wait to hear from them about their their investigation or we're just going as is.

What are you talking about?

Which one?

I think that, I think it falls under goal one. The Copedia and VAS are interested in theory of that subcommittee.

Yeah.

And so they would be working on. I don't understand your question. Is that what you meant?

But are we waiting for feedback? I mean, is the motion that we're going to wait for feedback before we vote or we're voting as it's just written like that? Like.

We're voting to accept.

To accept the work plan as it's written. To work on the goal.

To work on these goals. However, to your point, Commissioner Seldon, Commissioner Kabadia, and Commissioner Vaughn, any work that they complete that they want buy-in from the whole, the whole commission has to approve their work before it gets presented anywhere outside this body. So if they say, you know, we want to present this ordinance or we've realized that these laws are invalid or not working or whatever it is that they come up with, the commission then gives them feedback and then they may present that to the bodies that this commission agrees to at a later date. So you are only allowing them to work in these areas at this point. But under that definition, right, they're supposed to propose a regulation and modifications to protect older adults in rental properties. So as long as the rest of the commission believes that they're meeting that goal when they present back, you can determine that at a later date.

I think what I have in mind is

We're going to present the problems to the city council and ask them to create laws, ordinance for renters. That's not what this says. I know, that's why I'm saying again, because that happens the same thing with the survey. We said what we want, but was written something else. I'm reading that carefully, and I don't know what is written there is what I am saying. What I am saying is, propose to the city council that they need to pass ordinance to protect seniors renters in Santa Clara and protect in a sense that if the environmental is bad, as I have presented here, the system can enforce, for example, the housing building department that I called them to see this. They are capable of enforcing the landlord to fix this. There is no ordinance for that. I don't know. This is not my language.

I know, but as an advisory body, you don't necessarily...

say fixes council right you're meant to provide them with options as as an advisory as an advisor yes and that advises there is no ordinance to protect seniors renters in this situation i'll present the situation so use an example you would the committee would research what other cities do so you would research to see what the city of sunnyvale what type of housing regulations or what type of rental rights they have. City of San Jose, City of Cupertino. So by providing that information, we call that benchmarking. So you're showing them what the other cities are doing. And then the commission is saying, based on what the other cities are doing, We are proposing X, Y, or Z. And that's how the whole, you know, if you're presenting something to counsel, that's what the commission, subcommittee slash commission would do.

Wonderful. That makes clear to me. And I have done for San Jose. Of course, I don't have everything in writing because at the time I did with the lawyers. And we verified that San Jose has ordinance for such situations. Santa Clara doesn't. We saw that together, the lawyer and myself.

So we're not doing homework right now. No, but I'm just finishing.

I want somebody that can join one more person, just not the two of us, because it's a lot of work. I want the three of you or the four of you. decide if you want to join us and work on other cities to see what they have. And, of course, I'll put in writing what I already found for San Jose, and I can do all this too. So the more we have, the better on the whole area. So you don't have to decide now. We need one more person in this committee, and now you know what we should work on. And as Jennifer explained very well, and I appreciate that.

So going back to the, this is what is proposed, the proposing regulation modifications to protect older adults in rental properties. That's what?

Yeah, regulation and regulation modification. Modification, if there is no ordinance, if there is no regulation, there is no modification. that's what I'm questioning, the word in there, even though it's not my language, I feel like maybe it's not what I want.

So, I mean, you can do a couple of things with this if it would be of interest to the entire commission, which would be like the goal could, it's a little bit, it's a little definitive rather than provide counsel with options for their consideration. That's another way of doing it. That's one way to soften it. Another one is I'm also hearing that maybe there's an interest and maybe not, but I'm going to lift this up and see if it's in the ballpark. There might be an interest for the notes to say that to name the two It just says, I know, but I know, but it doesn't say what they're doing.

Yeah.

It just says who's on the subcommittee. So there's no notes that says what they're doing, what's happening, what's, what's, what are the, what's the stated outcome? Like, otherwise, am I correct in assuming that if they don't do research or bring it back for the subcommittee, And so then, therefore, it would appear as though the entirety of the commission didn't deliver on a goal when really the goal is up here in support of Commissioner Vaz's ideals and or supported by the commission. Commission, however, the Commission is asking for some work to be done and delivered in order to move it forward. If we put that in the notes? You can absolutely put something like that in the notes and say that, you know, that the subcommittee members will conduct benchmarking research and deliver considerations for the Commission to

move forward to council something along those lines but i don't know if that's because it doesn't seem like it's very definitive right now and there's a question around what well if we approve this what does that mean yeah yeah but this is as far as i understand that's the whole process you present an idea like i did is voted and passed for the subcommission The civil commission then develops the work that we decide, which is suggest the regulation. And then the commission as a whole vote to agree or to modify or to- And then present. Yeah, that's the way it is.

That's the- All we're doing is capturing- Making it clear. Yeah, that's- Because otherwise- It's some work, some words on a piece of paper.

This is much more clear.

Good suggestions.

Other city rental regulations. Rental right and reservation. What's the worst people?

Find some of this information. Since I don't have their emails, do I send it to you, Jennifer? Do I send it to you to give to them? Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to do a quick research. I'm going to see what I need to find. I'll send it to Jennifer and she can send it to you guys.

Wonderful.

Okay.

Okay. Just one thing. I'm advocating for housing regulation. It's not housing regulation. It's renter.

It says rental properties. She was fixing it.

Commissioner Vaughn was talking about the title. Advocate for rental properties. Oh, I see. I see. What's the words? And I think I advocate for senior housing.

Senior rentals.

You're talking specifically for rentals. Yes.

No, this is specific for rentals.

Senior housing rental rights.

Yes. Senior housing rental. Yeah. It's the same clue as you can't hear it. or rental ordinance. I think I want to have this ordinance there. Advocate for Senate House rental ordinance.

Well, I think that would depend, the ordinance would depend on the city, if the city- But we are advocating for it.

Which one?

But wouldn't the city decide what, if it's a regulation, if it's an ordinance, if it's a- Oh, you can put both ordinance and regulations. Mm-hmm.

So they're going to deem... Yeah, but what I'm saying is we need to suggest what is needed. Because according to what I understood, and I can be wrong, that's why I always ask for help. When I was in this process, as far as I remember and what I understood from the lawyers, from the Law Foundation, and we can chat with the Law Foundation regarding this... is that is no ordinance. So that's why lawyers and the court cannot act to protect the rent

to counsel, you can't, you want to craft an ordinance to give it to counsel or you want to ask them to consider.

To craft it for them, yes. For them to see based on your, I think the problems that I'm presenting.

You need to give them all the information so they come up with the conclusion of the ordinance idea.

For the record, you know, Kim or Jennifer or I don't write housing ordinance in community development and planning. It happens in a different department. So what you're doing is you're going to give suggestions for that department and their planning commission and council to consider. But that's not... So we're going to provide some feedback or input is what would really happen at this commission. We don't make housing policies or rental policies at this department or at this commission level. I know that.

And that's why I want to be clear. I know that. And if you look back, I clearly say that to people here that understand that we are doing that. No, we are advisors. We give suggestions. We give advice. them ideas what to do bring the problem ask them to fix the problem that's amazing yes you're going to bring this so that's why the issues you want them to consider well yes while looking at or considering the future and that's why i put ordinance because the problems start when they are building and i want to bring this and i have this already documented part of it because When they build, they build with problems. And that's why I want to stop. And I want a regulation to force them to fix the one that is already with the problem, that was built with the problem, with the permission of city of Santa Clara housing department that inspect and do all this.

So I think what... ordnance language or modifications.

I'm sorry, but I object to that. I'm not annoyed to make ordnances. No, no, no.

I'm just proposing.

Yeah, please.

You're just asking them to propose. You're saying, could you consider this language or can you consider these issues...

I would rather give a framework. If we agree to go with the framework, let them figure out the legal language. And even the framework. I'm like, we need to get more things done. And I would highly recommend that we have a deadline on this. If this thing has been continuing for the past two years, there needs to be a deadline. It hasn't been a goal for the past two years.

Okay. Too late. Too late. Too late. To have it be a goal. Yeah, we've had a conversation a lot.

But I'm here trying to learn what I'm looking at. How to do that. You've got it still. and within the commission in order to craft this goal. I think everybody in the room hears what you're saying. I think some commissioners have demonstrated or expressed that they're not comfortable using the word ordinance in the title of the goal. So I think you as a commission need to come up with the agreed upon language that you feel comfortable

Yeah, but I am suggesting something very serious that is regarding ordinance, and I know what I'm doing. Even though she's new, this is her first day here, so she doesn't have the comprehension of all what I'm saying. She will learn. She will understand as we move on. What I'm trying to make clear is to establish the word, because I have learned on the hard way in this country, if you don't express properly, you are not heard. And you are not taking into consideration what you're doing. And I want to make sure that's not going to happen, because I've been here two years to make sure. I'll get this very clear to the city council with the proper word that they understand. And that's why I am asking for help because English is not my first language.

That's fine. But if you want to propose the language as such, then the commission has the right to either approve or decline it.

But not now. Not now, not in the first day. I think a person, the first day in the community give such a suggestion is a little bit further. There's seven members. It's a new commission. It's a new people. They need to work. You misunderstand what I'm saying. We need to form this properly now. Which is what we're asking you to do.

That's right. We're asking you to provide verbiage. Yeah, and I am asking for help. The television has to approve that to move it forward. Yeah, but... This isn't our plan yet.

I know, but that's what I'm saying. We need to put, because we can change later.

You can't change it later. Whatever the commission puts forward tonight is going to be approved by council at the end of next week.

Okay, so that's another reason for me to be really clear in what I want. I will say that the commission should know that they can say they can decline or they can say I would like to make an amendment to that language to say this or that and then train is it possible just to push this off till another no because it's just being too long no no it's just this is the most important thing for you they would like us it's going to council at the end of this month which means it has to be finalized tonight and needs to be in a proper way and i really appreciate your input i think it's wonderful and what jennifer says too Just let's work in the wording and put it together. And then you guys make suggestions. Let's work on this. Okay. Advocate for... Senior has rental.

So I, can I just say number three, I would say propose modifications to protect older adults and rental properties and leave it somewhat.

I don't want to leave it just like this. I want to be specific.

Ma'am, commissioner of us. I hear your passion. It's on here. We have three and we are we are an advising body. You're going to go forth and be on the ad hoc commission to look. Okay. And it's in there. It's in there to be. And we are advisors of this and we are going to do that. And I think I would love it if you could also give some more time to the people around the room. And you're getting a little animated for me. That makes me a little uncomfortable. So please, if you could let other voices be heard. And I understand your passion and how horrible this was for you. But we're just trying to get through this goal. And I think it's going to be an advising.

I just want to work with Jennifer and the gentleman until we have this finished, and then we have them.

We're not. I'm here to finish this.

Proposed ordinance modification or regulation to protect older adults in rental properties. I like that. I agree with that.

Okay.

Collaborate with other city departments. The number B, I am not comfortable because it's not collaborate with other city departments. We're going to research. Because you're going to collaborate, right? Yeah. Yeah, but we're going to research. It's not collaborate with the other cities. If I understand the language properly.

City departments.

So housing, community services, city departments. Yeah.

It's not collaborating with them. We are going to get information from what I understand from them how It is regulated. You know, the seat is from our senior.

We're seeing elaborate with city of Santa Clara departments. I can spell that out. Yeah, because it's that or the city. So, so as Damon was saying a little bit ago, we don't, the commission, the parks and rec department doesn't have anything to do with ordinances of any kind. So we would defer to and work with the housing department on what ordinances are there already in the city or what wording they would put forward to help draft something. We don't draft that. So we'd collaborate.

We are not proposing ordinance. We are suggesting the city should create ordinance.

Yeah, but isn't it? She says that we are just going to propose something. We are proposing, right?

We are suggesting.

It's not proposed. In city, there are many departments, legal department, there is mayor, there is council. They all review before legislation is passed. It's not something that you just think a commission suggests and they're going to pass it. That never happens. We have to be mature about it. You know, we suggest something, it may happen, it may not happen. Something to my liking, it may happen, may not happen. And I have to live with it. That is democracy.

I would say in this. I'm not recommending ordinance. I'm suggesting.

Yeah, that's what we were going to do. Maria, we are going to suggest.

I'm suggesting. Yeah, we are going to suggest that. For the seating council to create or to pass whatever, to create ordinance. We call that a recommendation.

Yes.

If we do recommendation means I'm telling you what you should do. No, we're recommending something to you and it is your choice whether you

Oh, I got you.

It's stronger than the suggestion.

Suggesting is just like a recommendation. Thank you for helping with the language.

It's a more formal action that the commission would be taking. So that's the word we use in all of our agendas.

Recommend ordinance modification or regulations to protect all adults in rental properties. Thank you for having that.

So I have a question. Let's see if I may, please. And it says, ordinance modification. But there isn't an ordinance. So how do you modify it?

Well, we don't know that. That's going to be that way.

We don't know. It's possible that it's possible or it's as far as I know, right?

I can't confirm or deny that we have. So I'm saying if you're here, it's either going to be a modification of an existing ordinance, right?

Yeah.

Or it's going to be a new ordinance. Okay, here we go. Okay.

Ready? I'm going to, I'm going to. I'm going to, don't delete this. Write it somewhere else. And then let's see how everybody likes this. We're going to make recommendation on proposed regulations, comma, which could include.

But not limited to.

Could include or may include an ordinance, comma, related to rental properties for seniors.

And another that I just so fast, instead of C.

Yeah, this would replace, this language would replace C. Okay. I like it.

Recommendation on proposed regulations, which could include an ordinance related to rental properties for senior and protection against eviction. I think it's a part of the ordinance or not? No.

recommendations or proposed regulations one of those would could be around evictions one of those could be around living conditions i can put one of those yeah that would be a problem as i've said multiple recommendations thank you yeah yeah it doesn't have to be just one thing also why commissioner um

I think I need just that name more, Jennifer.

Because the framework is...

Thanks for the conversation. Can you say that again?

Ms. Castro, could you say that again? The framework that I heard Commissioner Adila talk about was the components. So the framework of eviction or the framework of living conditions, those types of things. So when you get specific, you're talking about creating a framework to then get the ordinance across the table, right?

Yeah, instead of narrowing it down, make it larger.

So do you want me to take out what I have currently for C and replace it with this?

Make a recommendation. And then we can noodle on that as a commission and refine it if we need to. Sure.

Make recommendations.

I think instead of saying seniors, add older adults.

So it's a little more general.

Yep. We could do that.

Yeah, but older adults means anyone in the city. And we are talking about specifically for the senior housing.

How about we put an ARP in there? Seniors are older adults now. What is the senior? Is it an ARP? 50?

Ben and Claire, it's 50 plus.

We can put 50 plus in there. both legal and other, right? So we can put in our, there you go.

My question to you is, is this, I'm trying to make it specific because that is in the senior housing property, properties. And has an age, 62, 52, each one has an age.

Using the age will help create a way If it's a city ordinance, in some cases, it could potentially impact a larger, we can impact more residents than if it's maybe, if it's 55 and over at the state or federal level. not less.

Okay, yeah. That's good. Make recommendations on proposed regulations, which would include unemerged individuals and properties with older adults 50 plus.

It doesn't say anything about protection. Like make recommendations on proposed protection, protective regulations.

Okay, so somewhere in there, make recommendations on closure.

Protect the regulation. I don't know.

Actually, regulations do protect. That's what they did. Yeah. Otherwise, why would you need the regulations, right? The regulation is making it worse, not better.

You're right. either S or- I think it's put S. Yeah, I prefer to have- Regulations. Okay, but that is regulations on plural, it makes sense now.

So somewhere we should try to fit in, I'm sorry,

Honestly, I'm not even talking about it. We kind of think maybe that's redundant if the regulation would be to basically protect and regulate.

I think of the ordinances, Jennifer, if you put plural, take the A-N and put plural ordinances because it might be more than one.

And can I ask another question? How are we going to get the proposed regulations? That's after you guys do your research and then you come back and then we decide? Is that how it works?

Yeah, the way it works, and Jennifer and Kim correct me if I'm wrong. I have this proposal, right? So I brought to the commission last time it was approved to have a subcommittee to work on. And then we work on what we are defining here. And then whoever with me and Mr. Capogia, we're gonna work and bring this here. And then all of you is gonna look at it and say, okay, we like this, I think it's important, we approve. And then we submit to the city council. At this time that we're going to present, all of you have the rights to suggest modifications, add things, whatever. And then we finalize. Everybody agree with the vote. It's passed. Then we send it out. Is that correct? Did I explain properly, Jennifer? Sorry, I...

yeah um generally speaking yes it would be they would the subcommittee would bring it back for consideration and just like similar to the process that's happening tonight um the commission would agree amend add or delete any of the proposed uh ordinance whole commission and then you would decide whether or not this is it the product that you would like to then forward on the council and or the planning commission or any other or that oh sorry and then another question are these goal one two three and the order of precedence or they're just listed in one two three they're just listed in one two three yes just as the way you guys have talked about it yeah they're not in a no not like priority order priority order

And I do have a question. Since I am the new member, can we have a timeline? Once we say, okay, these are the three things we need to do, and I would like to be on the Goal 1, I can be on the Ad Hoc Committee. What's the timeline are we looking at? Like I, as a committee member for Goal 2, when does the Senior Advisory Commission want me to present for that goal? What's the timeline? Can we go over that?

Yeah, usually. So the work plan is for the whole year. And so obviously with that, there's that initial deadline. Goal, that's your one time frame. You have a year. But sometimes within each goal, there is separate timelines. So for instance, like the health and wellness fair, then it would be completed by May because the health and wellness fairs are in May. So that would be completed by May. So, but there have been other goals that the commission has worked on and said, you know, it would be done by February or...

So the November 17th meeting, all we need to do is just present these. We don't need to tell them that this is what we have done. This is what our research has done. And this is what we propose doing for the health fair. This is what I, as a committee member, will be doing X, Y, and Z. Talking to these people, nothing like that in the November meeting.

Yeah, at the November meeting, the commission would provide their kind of like this format. And so it would say these things. And so they'd be able to see what the plan is for the year. And so they may ask you questions. Oh, what are you guys doing with this? Or have you guys made much progress on this? So there has to be some brainstorming.

some ideas put forth in black and white so we can say, okay, this is what we are thinking. It's a work in progress, can be improved, can be deleted. But overall, this is the framework we'll be doing.

In my case, just in my case for this, I want to have a little bit more advanced by November. But this is me because this is, it's, it's my, suggestion so as we work as a subcommittee and as we get to the point that you guys is going to approve and then on the on this dinner in november i will present to the city council what we approved and perhaps with the mayor and I want to have minutes to talk and she already granted that to me. So whatever is the procedure, how they do, they do. But what I'm saying is, Because this is my thing. I want to talk at the dinner and say some words.

I think we're off topic on that. I don't agree with that. There's a public forum, but we are seven of the body, and we have a president, a chair of this commission, and a vice chair. So that's going to be determined later.

So are we comfortable now with... but the goal line with how it reads.

I'm still working on it.

Well, we have other things to get to.

For me, let's move on and finish it. I have a few things on my mind.

Benchmarking means you research what other surrounding cities are doing. So the term they use is benchmarking. So you're comparing.

So collaborate with other city of Santa Clara department. Okay, department. So the other city, the other department of the city of Santa Clara, it would be like that, right? Collaborate with other department or housing department. Okay. Yeah.

And then any commissioners who are interested in talking more like across the city so it's not just a snapshot of just what the seniors do and we can look at what some of the other groups have done we have four commissions in our department so we can also tell you some things are recurring and some things don't get don't ever fall off the work plan and some things are new and some things have timelines and some things are we do them so there's And I know some of us are still new and getting warmed up to this as a concept. And that several of us, although new, will be on the commission for repetitive years. We're hoping to keep you guys on the commission for a little while. And then you'll see how these work plans evolve and how some things come in and some things stay and things like that. So absolutely, we can do that work. I wanted to make sure that you felt and or you have an opportunity to learn more about the work plan.

That would be lovely.

Thank you. Yeah. So I added. Just a second. My passion and my eager to have this is not because of me. I lost many people. They died. A very close friend of mine, my age, house as I am, she died. It wasn't as lucky as me that she walked outside and she couldn't breathe and she died. When they called the health care, she was already dead. That's why. And it was not just her. She's still dying there every week, two to three people. Dying.

Are we comfortable? I'd like to Are we comfortable? That's not mine.

A, do you want to take the S off adults?

Or adult rental regulations? I think it's S. A boss of an S. A boss of an S. No.

Search a benchmark of older adult rental regulations. Because the plural is the regulations. Yes.

Yeah, but it's not plural. It's making, I forgot the word. Match the being to have recommendations. Yes. Like the apostle asked, like Maria's house. Don't know.

No. Do the recommendations.

Yeah. Oh, there you go. That works. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Good.

And we worked in protections into that last one.

Yes. Damon came up with adding related to rental property protections for older adults 50 plus on C. I think it's good. So then that captures your...

I think this was... This definitely got...

And I just hope that you guys will feel who I am very serious about this. I want to start with the other goals.

Yeah.

The second one is pretty straightforward. The third one is we're going to be developing that as we go along because we don't know yet.

That's about the survey. The results from the hearing from these things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if I can entertain a motion to accept our work plan.

We'll second.

Commissioners.

We'll make the motion. That Sadat and Soto.

Soto is the second. Thank you both. Yes. Yes. Commissioner. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes. All right. So we'll move to the staff reports. I'm anxious to know about it.

Let's see. First things first, we have a ice cream social Friday this week. Coming up, we'll be having ice cream out on the patio from 11 to 1 if you guys would like to join us. And then the senior needs assessment, the The data has been submitted to our research company. So they're compiling the data. And we're going to set up a meeting. Kim and I will be meeting with them to just kind of talk about the basic findings. And then we'll work with them on creating the formal presentation. So if you have a copy of the old one, I can also, I'll send, since we have new commissioners, I'll send you guys the copy of the previous one. And so it's like an executive summary and it just breaks down the data and compares from last survey that we did in 2017 to this year's. So compare, see if there's similarities or differences. And so that'll be a substantial summary. So that'll, I'll So that will be coming.

And we can commit to having a high-level overview by October, so you can see it before we have our dinner. And then the final report won't be out by then, but we can at least have some preliminary data to share with the council at the meeting. And to share with you first. Yeah. It's a long time.

Jennifer, could you please put down the screen so I can? Oh, sorry. Thank you. Yeah. I want you to photograph the... Oh, no, no, no, no. I want you to photograph the writing.

Oh, okay. Do you want me to email it to you? We can email it to everybody. Right now? Not right now, but... No, I want you to photograph.

Please. Yes.

Oh, and then our barbecue will be, uh, the following. So next Thursday, so our barbecue will be on the 27th, um, on the patio. And, uh, it again senior center newsletter is always a great resource lots of information in there that's all i have thank you

Any other updates, staff? If you haven't driven by Henry Schmidt Park, I would take a look at that. There's quite a lot of construction going on there that's slated to open to the public sometime in the winter. So it's happening, though. The International Swim Center continues to make progress and on track. to open the bodies of water sometime late summer, fall 2027. And then on Tuesday night, we take phase two, which will be the building, administrative building and locker rooms and such. The designer will be, so the agreement is on the council agenda for Tuesday night. And so that is exciting progress being made. And our lovely Art and Wine Festival is happening September 19th and 20th. So mark your calendars for that.

But you're going to send it out, right?

That's very nice.

Will the Schmitt Park still have the cute little train? It will have an even cuter train.

Okay. A new one. A new train. The whole train depot. So if you look on the website, there's some renderings of what it will look like. There'll be a huge water tower. There'll be new exercise equipment, a walking loop. We're enhancing the tennis court for light. like the tennis courts will get redone. Um, so yes. And then actually Thursday night, um, here is a public meeting, um, from six to seven or so six to seven 30, um, for, um, We've been doing a survey on the city's interest, community's interest on this and pickleball. So you'll remember that that was a hot topic in Santa Clara from some of our previous commissioners. And so we'll have a community meeting downstairs in the multi-purpose room starting at 6. Again, over 1,000, about 1,300 responses on that survey. We'll share the responses to the public and talk through some facilities where people We think potentially we could add additional amenities for the public's enjoyment. So yeah, that's coming soon. Good job. Thank you. Move to adjourn.

Okay, we'll have commissioner reports. So, please start.

This is just a comment. During the Thursday night 49er game, my dad lives in a senior housing building right at the corner of Lafayette and Cali de Luna. And And it's filled with seniors. And the turn to the right was open. And then later, they closed that. But there's no man there to tell you which way to go, what way. I feel like they should man that and have a pass to get through there, at least the seniors. Because literally, the building's right on that corner. And then they take you all the way down Lafayette to almost, they want you to go to 237. Yeah. It's just, it's just not really good for seniors. And I'm not sure who to talk to or tell. So I thought I'd bring up the right people. Okay. Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you. What's this? It's Lafayette and Cala de Luna. 2350 is the building that he's in. 2350 Cala de Luna.

That was the same place that has huge street parking issues and all. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. That's terrible.

Yeah.

Yes, I just wanted to apologize for my absence in May. My mother-in-law passed away suddenly that Friday for the 17th of May. And just that whole month going forward was just chaos because my husband had lost his father a year before. So they kind of left each other one and then the next. So it was just... a lot so i would like to excuse my absence or ask for an excuse and just letting you guys know that that is what had happened and i wasn't trying to miss the meeting purposefully so just an update thank you thank you thank you we already did i think we already excused her from that so commissioner kapadia oh okay

I was working on this in the background because I realized that without the concrete data and all, the needle is not going to move, no matter what wordings you come up with and all. the council and all, whatever little I've learned is not going to be very effective. So I was trying to contact agencies like SALA, Project Sentinel, Bay Area Legal Aid, Law Foundation, who have, all these organizations have worked with evictions for a number of years, and I wanted to learn from them and then come up with a she called it ordinance or wordings and recommendations for the council based on the information and the data from these very reputable agencies. So that's what I'm working on. And when it's hard to get their time and appointment, I had my own issues, traveling, my own health, and also I couldn't work as hard as I wanted to. On the ADA front, which is one of my favorite area, I found out I'm continuously doing research on that. And there are good numbers all around, but I'm not an expert in ADA construction and all that. There are prefab ADAs available at a very... ADUs, sorry. ADUs, I can correct it. ADUs, ADUs, ADA, you know what ADA. So ADUs, and they look very, numbers look very good. And I checked with the city. They take one or two, six months to issue permits, depending on the complexity of the project. And charges are between $300 to $800 for the whole permit. Now, the thing is, water and sewer is connected to the main house, and water may have a separate submeter if you want to measure that, how much water being used by ADUs. And electric, you can have a separate submeter. So everything is very smooth, very easy. It's a matter of somebody taking that step and doing it. Other thing I always, I volunteer at senior center. I always, I made many friends and I talked to a lot of people and few of the senior problems are social isolation. Several have died recently. They tell me in their relation because nobody was there to communicate. They fall, something happens, and they are gone. So that's the issue I'm going to take on my own. Maybe develop some app, get some big names. So some people have died because of falling. Some people have died because of the... issues with carpet, and some people have died because of smoking and carpet catching fire. So these are, you know, we are looking at these three goals. but there are many, many very crucial, important issues. So I am brainstorming myself and see how we can holistically put together a plan for senior, not for this year, but for the years to come. And I have, if you would like, I've done some work and I'll share it with you. I put 12 major issues And I've created a flyer. And so this is like a, you can put it on your refrigerator. Everybody can take one. And these are the major issues for all cases. And you may immediately recognize some of them because of your own issues. Thank you. Thank you.

There you are.

Looks good.

Chris.

That's it. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate your report. Oh, yeah. One more last thing. Last thing. This is a few people at Senior Center over here, and they didn't show up. They were friends of mine. We exchanged the phone number. I said, how come they're not showing up anymore? So I sent them text, and I called them. No answer. One of them did it. One guy didn't. So I had his home address. I said, how can he disappear like that? So I went to his home. I rang the bell. And here he comes from the side. He was wondering who was ringing the bell. And I said, hey, dad, where have you been? And the first thing he did was hug me. And he said, thank you for coming and checking up on me. So sometimes you have to take risks. Sometimes you can't say privacy, privacy. I went there. The other guy said his wife passed away, and he was in social isolation. And he sent me the text, because of you, I'm coming. There are things we can do. And, you know, these are small, small things we can do to help.

You know, Connie, the one who used to come, she fell down and now she can't drive. There are so many of seniors who need help.

So, I just wanted to share the good news. Thank you. Okay, done.

Commissioner Siddharth, report.

Thank you for accepting me. I had good time today. So learned a lot of new things and enjoy meeting new people. So thank you for the welcome.

Commissioner Boas, anything else to report? No. Okay. So thank you. So for me, I want to thank the Cultural Commission and the Parks and Rec Department for putting on the night markets, for putting on the dance, the street dance, and all the concerts that they're doing, and even the movies that are happening. So it's a great job. Thank you very much.

I agree. Thank you.

We'll now take a motion to adjourn the meeting at 6.55. Is that okay? If there's anything else anybody else wants to bring up?

Can I amend that motion to include adjourning in honor of the father-in-law of Commissioner Sotomayor? Absolutely.

All right. All right.

Anytime I had an issue with her son, she'd always take my side.

She was a good lady. Who was the motion?

Mr. Spitzman, make the motion.

Second.

Thank you.

Andrews, yes. Capadio, yes. Yes. Sadat, yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. And yes. We are adjourned.

One more last thing.

The guy who gave me a hug, he's 94 years old. 94 and still coming here.