Okay, tonight is uh June 24th uh 1926 2026 uh and we're here at 53 starting our meeting for Commission on Senior Living.

And um so tonight we've got I want to just do a little bit of review and sort of an update on all the things that we've been working for and toward.

And so uh I'm gonna get started by just saying at our last meeting, which was not a public meeting, we had a conference for our members of our senior commission, and we came up with um some of our priorities for um the AARP uh plan for um action plan to submit to um AARP.

We were welcome, welcoming our speaker that did the commission, and that was uh Phil Anderson who conducted our our uh meeting.

And I also want to recognize um Dave Sanders, who's in our our um audience, and Dave, you'll you'll know why Dave is here in just a little bit when we talk about our conference for the fall.

Some of you might have met Dave last year because he sort of took over for me when I was unable to go to the conference, and he also covered a lot of the registration, which he's been assigned to do that again this year, and so we're welcoming Dave, and we'll be talking to David a little bit later as well.

So I thought we would get started with number one.

I think I'm gonna talk, I'll do the the uh fun things first and the easy things first, and then we'll get into our action plan and go through some of that.

What I'd like to accomplish tonight is that we get that action plan sort of in uh a little bit in final form so that we can get it signed by the the mayor and get it submitted.

My goal at our our conference was to have it approved by this time, but we're it's it's much bigger project than we thought, and so we'll but it's it's on its way.

It has already been handed to the uh marketing department with the city, and they are working on putting that into a form in which it will be a booklet form, it will have our application, it will have our results of our survey, and it will also have our action plan.

Um and it will be in booklet form, it will be full of pictures and um illustrations.

So it's gonna be a I think you're gonna be pleased with the report when it comes out.

I think it'll be really thorough, and I think it will be a document that can be used throughout our in our commission as well as other um committees here in the city.

And I also think that it will be something that we'll use as we go through this whole process.

Um and as um John is not with us tonight, but he's on transportation, and he's already accomplished a lot of things with transportation.

Uh so as we finish projects and things get completed, we can also put that in our plan of action, and at the end of our three-year evaluation period, we will just be able to submit that to ARP and keep right on moving.

As well as when uh there's we have new members, or when we have new committees, or those kind of things, we can just keep moving.

So Phil, I was I'm gonna sort of let you after our our conference, Phil and I met several times to try to formalize our report.

Um do you have any opening comments, Phil, that you'd like to make?

Well, yes.

Uh and thanks for the opportunity to uh be a part of this planning process.

Um I think the thing that button on the microphone is there.

Right here?

That one.

Okay.

Um of the theme things that we had to look at with the AARP framework.

Um is it treats communications and information as a separate sector of the community.

And that just from uh from a uh from my experience, that doesn't work because every thing that we do requires communications and information.

And so it becomes more of a hub rather than a sector of the community.

And so whether it's housing or transportation or whatever it may be, those are community sectors.

And uh so we're looking at how we attack the communication and information, but it's gonna stand it doesn't stand alone, it stands in the middle.

It it can connects everything together, and that's a little bit different approach than the way AARP does.

And we think we can we think it will be more effective for how we're trying to do that, because we can have the greatest programs, the greatest sectors, we can have everything happening, and if nobody knows, it doesn't matter.

And so that's we're we're fashioning the report.

So as you go through, as we go through and you look at the very uh ex sectors, we kind of set we set that aside and said we'll we'll handle communications and information, but not yet.

It'll get there at the end, but um we're looking at a little bit different approach because we think it it will work better for our community here because we have so much stuff.

The question is how do we communicate it and keep people informed?

Okay, okay.

Yeah, and I think we we changed some of the um titles a little bit just to be a little more clarified.

And if you look at the report that I sent you, um we took each let me let me start by saying the the areas that we identified in our conference or in our retreat was housing, health services, education, transportation, communication, and outdoor.

And so what we what um Phil and I tried to do was to narrow in on those, and there's still a little bit more of work that we need with education and probably health services, because those were a little bit I've still got to develop those a little more, but we tried to include our top our priorities and some of those other things that will be later on, we're at the toward the back, and we're left blank a little bit so because we're gonna fill those, those are our priorities.

The first the ones that we identified at our conference were really the ones we're gonna focus on the most.

Those other ones will come along and be a part of that as we move through this process.

Um and what we try to do as well is to develop for each one of those areas.

We tried to develop subcategories so that everybody was filled following the same same yeah, the same uh format.

So and one of those were, and and I'll go through those, and those were the vision.

What does this group what that's the housing group see as their vision?

What I took the research findings strictly and word for word from the the survey results that we had so that they we knew what the research findings were, uh what the recommendations were from the reason from the report, and then what were our tactics, and this is one of the things that we'll be working on.

What are the tactics?

What are we gonna do to see if we can achieve that?

And sometimes you know, those are subcategories, and yet they have some more information that we need as to why we're zeroing in on that, and then um each each one of those sections, and then we had potential, I said a potential assessment partners, and that's gonna be our stakeholders.

What other people can we involve in this process so that we we get their input as well?

Because we got a lot of good resources in the committee, we are in the community, and we don't have them all on the committee, but we want their input.

So we have potential assessment partners, then we have the metrics and the outcomes, and that's gonna be how do we measure whether we're accomplishing what we want to accomplish, and then of course the last thing is communication, and that's a big one.

That's a big one.

That's what Phil was saying.

We're gonna have that sort of as a hub of all of those things.

How do we get the word out as to what we're doing with that?

Um so what I did was try to go through each one of those areas and try to at least begin to identify those five steps or four steps that we had.