I now call the September Fourth, twenty twenty-five Senior Citizens Advisory Board meeting to order.

Has this meeting been properly noticed and posted in compliance with the Nevada Open Meeting Law?

Yes, it has.

Do I have any amendments or a motion to approve?

I make a motion.

I uh move to approve the minutes from August 7th meeting.

So we have a motion to approve meeting, minutes from August 7th, 2025.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

So moved.

Item number five presentation by Natalie Mazzulo, Master of Education, Healthy Aging Initiative Coordinator with the University of Nevada Reno regarding healthy aging initiative programs for seniors, all wards.

And if you can state your name for the record.

Yes, okay.

Good afternoon.

This is Natalie Mazzulo for the record.

How are you this afternoon?

Wonderful.

You have packets in front of you.

There's just some things from the University of Nevada Reno Extension Office.

Before I get started, how many of you are familiar with the UNR extension offices?

Is there anybody that's not familiar?

Okay, great.

So the extension offices are attached to land grant universities.

We are with the University of Nevada Reno.

Extension offices are throughout the country.

We have 17 offices across the state.

There's one in every county, including one in Carson City.

Extension offices typically are known, they're community-based and they service the community that they're in.

So every extension office that's in a community services that community and works really closely with the boards and county commissioners, city planners, those types of things to really provide the necessary education for those communities.

Many of you may know the 4-H program or Master Gardeners.

Those are both uh extension programs and have been for uh many years.

Um here in Nevada, we have both of those a Master Gardener Program and 4-H, uh, which is a youth program.

It uh we do a lot of after school programming, but we also have a healthy aging uh team, which is unusual.

Not all extensions have a healthy aging focus.

Uh we usually focus on health and nutrition, um, a lot of agriculture, uh, how uh the communities and economic development within the community, but ours is very fortunate, and we work very closely with the university and faculty members.

Um I myself um faculty with the university, and I'm really excited to tell you a little bit about the programs that we run here in Clark County.

So on the slide here, you can see um these are some of the main programs that we run.

And here's my small team up in the corner there.

I'm very proud of them.

I was uh doing our calendar for my director today, and we have 60 classes and events scheduled for the month of September.

So we're a busy group, even though we're kind of small.

Um, one of the many of the programs that that we offer and that extension offers are evidence-based programs.

They're either uh research-based, evidence-informed, or evidence-based themselves.

An aging mastery program is an evidence-informed program.

It's uh it was developed out of the National Council on Aging.

Uh, we run that in our older adult resident communities, which would be our Nevada hand properties, our ovation properties, um, those types of uh residential independent living communities.

We also run them in senior centers and community centers across uh across Clark County.

The program is um uh there are 10 items or 10 different lessons that are part of uh the aging mastery program, and we do things like advanced planning, so you can plan for end of life, uh financial um education or financial fitness, we call it.

Uh we do falls prevention, nutrition, uh, physical activity, uh all different kinds of um how to stay healthy, and it's not just again physical activity and nutrition, it's all the other kind of finances like relationship, um relationship education and how to maneuver grandparents that raise their grandchildren, um, how do we provide them tips and resources?

So that's really what aging mastery does, and it really helps to uh get older adults to set goals and to live a healthy, a healthy, happier, longer life.

Um, we're also really excited about bingo size, it's out of the University of Kentucky.

Um, and uh the it's bingo, but they combine it with exercise to make it more fun, but then in addition to that, we have educational questions.

So we teach a falls prevention module, we do a nutrition education module, we have a range of motion, and that's really for our assisted living folks that might not be able to do much more than be in a chair and be mobile.

And then we have our regular exercise program.

And again, we teach this at the residential communities like Ovation and Nevada Hand, as well as all of our senior centers.

We can do pop-ups of these as well, but it is a 10-week series, and so we and we teach it twice a week.

We also do community outreach, and these are tabling events.

This might be of interest to the group because we can be asked, we're often asked by county commissioners and folks in the community to come and perform or provide a table or an educational interaction, so to speak, at health fairs and wellness fairs.

We also do believe it or not, back to school events where we do provide tips for grandparents that again are raising their grandchildren.

There are over 24,000 grandparents that have legal guardianship of their grandchildren in Clark County, and there's more that have responsibilities to their grandchildren.

It's just not a legal where they're the sole responsible for those children.

So we do lots of events that where we focus on lifespan education, not just older adult education.

We do again nutrition education through our cooking matters class, and this teaches cooking tips.

Again, we do this at our residential communities and our senior centers.

We provide a uh a snack with all of these, so the Cooking Matters class is pretty, they like it coming because they always get something to eat.

This is the one I'd like to spend a little time with our disrupt aging, and we teach that to UNLV students that are incoming.

Um it's just to plant the seed that the aging population is here and we're here to stay, we're not going anywhere.

And in fact, they themselves will one day, if they are lucky, be in this same population, and so they really should think about it when looking at careers or academic ventures because there's a niche with that the aging trend brings to the community.

Umder adults spend 61 cents of every dollar.

That's that's quite a bit, and that's over those over 65.

So I'm not even included in that group, and and I I am an older adult myself, but I'm not yet included in that group.

And I tell you that because marketing really 70 to 80 percent of marketing is done towards younger gen the younger population, except we kind of hold the purse strings.

The older adults are the ones that are spending most of the dollar, and so from an economic standpoint, we need to show that those going into education today and the career paths that they choose, that the older voice does make a difference, and that they really should look at a niche.

And the example that I usually give with our students because it's easy to understand, is that for instance, if you're interested in real estate and you go to get a real estate license, that's great, and you can serve the entire population, right?

You can go out and serve new home buyers from 18 to however and and find them a home.

But if you just narrow down that niche and looked at folks that are retiring, and you look at residential communities, you look at uh areas that are walkable, um, that are more invitable or safe and friendly for older adults, you now have your a niche in real estate, and you kind of have a one step above the market, right?

Because now you're pop you're focusing on a certain population, and that's that way with every academic career.

I mean, I have students just drop them at me, just pop them out there, and I can find a tie-in to older adults and how there's a career that has a path that that could benefit them in the future.

It also lets them think that the choices they make now really affect how they age.

And the example I give is my friend Patty was in a terrible car accident when she was 16.

She was sitting in the car with her legs up like this.

So her knees were up, which as we know probably wasn't super safe, but you know, we didn't wear seatbelts back then, so and her knees hit the dashboard, and because of that, she hurt her knees.

Um, at what I believe is a young age, she was 55, she had to have knee surgery, and it wasn't because she was 55, it was because she had injured her knee when she was younger.

And that's a really good example to give to some of our uh younger adults because it just goes to show them that you know when you say to them heart disease just doesn't happen, you just don't get congenital heart failure overnight.

They kind of look at you, it's kind of like the smoking ads, and they go, yeah, right.

But when you think about something that they can relate to about when they were 16 and how that affects how they age, um it kind of puts it in perspective for them.

And so we actually just taught this class to second-year medical students at UNLV Kirk Kakorian School of Medicine.

So even though we are University of Nevada Renault, we do work closely with UNLV.

Um, one of the things I'm also proud of, and I brought several of them if you'd like to take some.

Um, there also is one in your packet, but it's our newsletter.

We uh distribute this.

Um there are 70,000 of these that go out every year.

Uh, they do go out in with three square in the golden grocery commodities again at our uh resident communities at our senior centers.

These go out throughout the whole state, in fact.

Uh it's written by faculty.

I write some of the articles, my team writes some of the articles, and other faculty content area specialists.

We've had doctors and registered dietitians, nutritionists, um, all sorts of folks.

We've had Cheyenne Di Pasquale from ADSD write an article.

I mean, we really try and make it relative to uh older adults in our state, and then the back is usually some tips.

Um, so we're happy to get that to anyone in the community if you have an audience for it.

Uh, one of the other classes that we just started teaching is laughter yoga, and I know people kind of think that's sort of silly, like why are we teaching that?

Um, but it really does uh help with cardiovascular health and it helps with your aging perception.

If you're familiar with any of the work that Becky Levy does, uh, she talks about how uh the perception of getting older is our enemy, right?

Um, in fact, if we have positive, if we reinforce ourselves positively with aging comments, uh, we can live up to seven years longer.

So when we say to ourselves, oh gosh, my back really hurts, it's just for me getting old, or you know, oh gosh, I can't see.

I let me put my glasses on so I can hear you better, you know, that kind of thing.

Um, we're really taking years off our lives, so we need to be proponents of our aging and really embrace it.

Um I chose to shave my head when I turned 50 just because it was something to do, and um, this is how it grew back.

So this is where I'm at now, and now I've got to find something to do when I turn 60.

So if I come back when I'm 60 and I have dreads, you guys, it's only just because it's something different to do.

But I try and embrace every step of aging.

Um, and because I think that it does help us as we age.

Um, one of the things I'm really super proud of is my team developed overnight camps, and I'm not sure if you're familiar with Camp Alamo, but Commissioner Kirkpatrick was kind enough to um commandeer this overnight facility for us.

It's in Alamo, Nevada, which is in Lincoln County.

We have a collaborative agreement with them to run this camp there, and we decided that camping shouldn't just be for kids, right?

The 4-H kids shouldn't just have all the fun and go camping.

So we have an overnight camp for older adults.

Uh we can sleep up to 30 older adults at our camp.

And I believe there's a flyer in your uh folders.

On the back side, you can see what the rooms look like.

They are full rooms, they have bunk beds, double bunk beds in each room, but we we don't require our older adults to sleep on the top bunks.

So we do two per room, which means we uh we can only seat 30, we can sleep 30 instead of 60, but we have a lot of fun.

We have a preparedness camp coming up.

So, in addition to all the camp fun and the campfires and the s'mores, and the we've got bird watching, um, an astrologer to come out.

I'm sorry, an astronomer that comes out, and we're gonna look at stargazing.

Um, but we also do uh educational components.

So we have the Office of Emergency Management coming and doing preparedness classes, we're gonna be teaching archery, how to photojournal, um do fall prevention, um, and AARP Nevada is coming out and doing some cybersecurity as well as our IT team is coming out and uh doing how to be safe online.

So it's really just how to be prepared.

Um, it is 199.

We were fortunate this go-around.

Um, AARP Nevada is a generous co-sponsor, and they gave us 2,000 to uh sponsor 10 campers.

And so I'm proud to say our camp is full for October.

Uh but we will we do it every April and every October and September of 2026, we're gonna do a grandparents' day camp, and that is for grandparents that have legal custody of their grandchildren.

They get to bring their grandchildren to camp with them, and we'll have classes for the kids and the grandparents, and then joint things that we'll do together.

And it will be on the Saturday before grandparents' day.

So that's something to look forward to.

Um we do professional development.

This is uh from our first uh annual summit.

That is President Keith Whitfield of UNLV.

He was our keynote speaker again, just to show that UNR and UNLV play nice in the sandbox.

We like to do a lot of things collaboratively.

Uh, we have joint faculty that work together, and um, Dr.

Whitfield was kind enough to offer uh to be our keynote speaker, and for this particular conference, we talked about marginalized older adults and communities that live with dementia.

Um last year we did elder fraud, and this year we're doing alternative therapies.

Uh, and so we'll be doing presentations on uh art, animal, dance, music, recreation therapies, and then we'll be doing a uh yoga laughter session um just to kind of break things up and to to um be fun.

But uh we do offer six continuing education units, and the um who we provide the units to are on the slide, so I won't list them all, but they are for health professionals.

We do this uh at least once a year, and we're open to do any other professional development when it comes to health professions in these professions if it has to do with older adults.

So if that's something you're interested in, we can offer that.

There is a uh flyer, by the way, for the summit in your handouts.

Uh we do we have a botanic garden.

I'm not sure if anybody's aware, but we're on 215 and windmill, and we have a beautiful botanic garden in our backyard.

There are 4500 plant varieties, and I was able to get a partnership with Neon Museum and our botanic garden manager, and we're going to get uh neon museum art installation put in the garden soon.

So that's really nice.

But we offer tours, we open it up to senior centers, um, and anybody at any time can come in during uh regular work week hours and just tour the facility on their own.

Excuse me.

Oh, well, I believe that was the end of my presentation.

I thought there was more.

Yes, I'm sorry, I thought there was more, but that is it.

Yeah, if you have any questions, um, I'm happy to answer them.

But again, we're right here in the backyard and we're happy to work with you.

Yes, Charles Lee, ward five.

I was wondering how is it that an older adult spends more money than uh the young adults?

Um that's a really good question.

It's because not all of our older adults are low income, and many of them are on fixed incomes, but as state workers as myself, I'm also on a fixed income.

So a lot of it is just uh budgeting and planning.

Uh the research was done by AARP Economic Board, so I I do you know believe that it is accurate, but um again, it's it's an average of money spent by all sectors of the aging population that's over 65.

Caroline Mosdeen from Ward 6.

I've got a couple things.

Your um newsletter information is that available to us uh via email.

Can we get that on email so we would have it on a regular basis?

Yes, if you uh provide me an email, I can uh get it so that it's sent to your email box every month.

That would be excellent, because then we can share it with our seniors, print it up locally and share it with our seniors.

That was my first question.

My second question is I was really fascinated by this 4-H camp and learning center.

Um sounds like lots of fun.

Um but the in the the I was just going to say that the interesting thing is ward four and ward six uh do a lot of things together because of um a lot of general interests and and finances as well.

Um we have always well, we continually look for day trips.

Um and some of the day trips that we've looked at, we go, oh, maybe that's too far, it might be this or that.

But I think that we have sufficient number of active seniors who might be uh interested between the two wards and would like to find out a little bit more information about that program.

Maybe our two council women would be willing to um maybe just provide the transportation, and we could sign that up for for uh, you know, and that's an over one overnight.

Is it uh we can do a day trip.

We bring um we bring uh students from the school district from our school district here in Clark County to the camp and do day trips, and it's like a nine to four kind of thing.

We provide the transportation.

We have buses that can take um up to ten people, and we have two buses, so we can take some people if we needed to.

Uh obviously it would be nice if we had a big bus, but that's costly.

But we can go up for the day.

We have a chef uh that he's a registered dietitian that works for extension and he provides the meals while we're there.

Um we could also do an archery.

Um, my entire staff is trained to teach archery, so that's one of the activities we do while we're up there.

So we could do a whole day of it.

Right.

A day trip would be lovely, but quite honestly, I'm I'm maybe we would start with that.

But quite honestly, I think an overnight trip would be something that they would be very, very welcome just talking to the seniors that we have.

Yeah, and we are too.

I would love to talk more with you about it.

Would certainly like to pursue that a little bit more from that aspect at this time.

Let me turn it over to someone else until I have another question.

Thank you so much.

It's an excellent program.

Thank you.

David Tills Award for this may seem like an odd question, but when we talk about seniors, are we talking about 55 years old, 60 years old, 65?

Is there a cutoff?

That's a great question.

Where do we draw the line?

Yeah.

So when I talk about older adults, it's 50 and above.

And I do that because of our our um really strong partnership with the ARP Nevada.

And they use 50.

However, it is interesting to know if you didn't know this.

You can be 18 years old and sign up for AARP Nevada and become a member.

You any adult can be a member, but I like to use 50 because of that.

Um I also use that because I spent many years working for the School of Medicine in Reno.

Um my offices were here in Las Vegas, but when you look at clinical trials for uh medications uh and they look at geriatrics, they start at age 50.

So yeah.

Yeah, so I'm part of the group.

Thank you.

I'm I'm proud to be here.

Chair O'Rearch Cameron, I uh I second the senior slumber party.

Um that's what I'm gonna call it.

Sounds more useful, right?

Uh my question is what about any type of financial aid opportunities for seniors?

Yeah.

Are you aware of those?

That's great.

The only program that we charge for um for the older adults themselves is our camp, and it is 199.

Uh, again, we were fortunate enough to get a sponsorship from AARP Nevada, which gave us 10 spots.

Um, I am actively searching out other sponsorships.

Um last year, uh Commissioner Kirkpatrick did sponsor several of our older adults that were in her district.

And um, and so there is that opportunity again, uh, as well as I'm looking at uh Dick Sporting Goods and REI and some of those corporate places that may have the money.

And the other thing is I'm also kind of playing around with the idea of maybe doing um an early onset dementia camp for those with early onset dementia.

And if I do that camp, yeah, if I yeah, I should I should do this.

I'm doing it really for myself, but um, I would definitely make sure that I uh I get Cleveland Clinic involved because they have sponsored some of our programs.

Now, our professional development is a nominal fee of $50, but that typically is for our uh licensed employees or licensed health care workers, and $50 is a pretty nominal fee for six hours of continuing education.

I wish I could bring the camp prices down, but unfortunately it's it's the lodging fee, and it it I don't understand it.

It has to do with funding and how the funding comes in and out through the county.

Uh, but we have to pay for the lodging and the food, and that's where the 199 comes in for the two nights because it's approximately 100 a night.

I hope I answered your question.

I'm sorry if I didn't.

You did.

Okay, thank you.

It's always a big concern, right?

For all of us, Chair O'Rearch Cameron, uh, the financial side of it, and that also has my wheels turning on some sponsors for the next one too.

Thanks.

And uh as usual, I know we'll talk all the time because we know each other, but I have some definite ideas outside of this too.

Okay, just to let you know, I think ARP Nevada may be sponsoring the whole grandparent state camp in next year.

They're very interested, and they just got it um their new director.

I believe his name is Todd Story, and I'm not positive, but I think that's his name.

Um, and so we're working to see if they're gonna pick up the whole camp for next year.

Does anyone have any other questions?

Probably not until you go through the packet, right?

So if you could also for the record, make sure uh that you say how you can be uh contacted, excuse me.

Yes, because we are being recorded, and that way if we're sharing any of the information, we can all go back to the YouTube and get in.

Oh no, that would be great.

Okay, so my email address is the first letter of my first name, which is N.

My last name, Mazzulo, M-A-Z-Z-U-L-O at UNR dot Edu.

And my phone number is 7028 5911.

Caroline Mosdeen, uh Ward 6 again.

Uh I think I need to dementia it more.

I just I just totally lost uh train of thought here while you're doing that.

That's great information.

Oh, I it has I did write it down now.

Um excuse me, another day trip uh was the uh botanical garden.

That might make a make for a very good day trip since it's local and uh what kind of scheduling is there for that?

Uh I I usually like to do things at least two months in advance because I try to get um programs to come in.

So they don't just tour the gardens, they come in and they get little lessons.

Um of our different like the master gardeners will come in, the Nevada Naturalist will come in to talk about different opportunities that extension has that are outside of my department.

So if I have like about eight weeks, I can plan that so I can get my other faculty members to join.

Okay, so we could think somewhere around Thanksgiving or something like that.

Yeah, and I could probably pull something together in October if that's something you're interested in.

Yeah, I and I think we could go a little later and give you a little more thank you.

While we get or action together.

I just love working with Ward 4.

Thank you.

Nicole Graham Ward One.

Quick question.

So the only one cost is the camp.

Yes.

Everything else that you guys offer is free.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, and we come to you.

Oh, perfect.

Yeah, we also do pop-ups, which we call we call them pop-ups, but they're um, excuse me.

I had bronchitis last month.

Sorry, and I'm still kind of coffee, but um, we can do a pop-up where we bring in one class.

So bingo size is a great class to do that in.

So if you have a site that you think may be interested, we can bring just one class in because we don't want to overwhelm folks and say, Oh my gosh, you've got to come twice a week for 10 weeks.

And if you don't come, you know, we can't count you, that kind of thing.

So we do the pop-up and get them all excited because they really are fun programs.

Um it it kind of makes it uh better for marketing.

Oh, thank you so much.

Yeah, I can attest to the bango size.

I've been a part of it.

And when we did um when I was a panelist and we did uh that event, we did some very fun things that you do with seniors, and that was that was fun.

I have to say, uh fun for all ages, although I am 60, so maybe that's why I'm saying it's fun.

I don't know, but I I really enjoyed it, and it it gave me an opportunity to see it in action.

So I highly encourage each of you to see where they're doing it, and especially if it's in one of your wards, and even if it's not, just participate, see what it's like so you get the feel of it if that's okay if they can do that.

Yeah, any time if any of you would like to come visit a class, just shoot me an email and I will let you know what our schedule looks like that week, and you can pop in and uh watch it in action.

It's it's really fun.

We'll be at the Healthy Kids Festival next weekend, uh, which is at the East Las Vegas Community Center.

We'll be doing the hydration station.

Uh we'll be giving away rubber ducks so that when folks see the rubber ducks, they will remember to drink water.

That's how we look at it.

And we started doing that um with our uh at Bob Price Park with the senior center out there.

Um they were the volunteers, and they got to teach the youth that came to the Healthy Kids Festival about hydration, and it was it was a really fun activity that we did.

So we try and get our uh older adults involved whenever possible.

I would just like to say for the record, um, also Natalie has been such an amazing resource in the community with UNR and just her personally, and I have the pleasure of also serving with her on the Commission on Aging Policy and Legislation Subcommittee, and she is involved in so many things and has her hand on the pulse.

So she's really a great resource, not just for these, but for a lot of things.

So if for some reason you can't get a hold of me with my productive schedule, you can always get a hold of Natalie because she definitely has her hand on the pulse of a lot of things, and we greatly appreciate you and taking the time to come down.

I know this was a rescheduled meeting, and thank you for coming.

We appreciate it.

I really appreciate the opportunity.

Thank you.

Item number six report by Gregory Gray, management analyst one regarding senior issues received by the Department of Neighborhood Services awards.

Good afternoon, Chair members, Gregory Gray, for the record.

I just have one item to report on, and it was regards to a care coordination case we received yesterday.

Um we received a call from the uh the senior, the recreation coordinator at Centennial Hills Active Adult Center, where we had a senior that was effectively abandoned by his spouse.

Um and his spouse were unhoused for uh quite a while.

Um Olga had been steadily communicating with them at Centennial Hills when she visits to connect them with services, and the wife refused services for the both of them.

And it wasn't until recently over the Labor Day weekend that he was returned to the center by the family that found him.

His family had found him, and so they brought him to the center because they weren't sure where else to take him.

And there is there's concerns over housing, future housing for him.

He has no ID insurance or documentation on him, so he's not able to access his bank account.

You know, he's not able to access his insurance.

So there's concerns about that.

Um the family has been doing their best to try to coordinate with him.

They have extenuating circumstances that they have to deal with, um, and they have to leave town.

So he is suffered from a stroke and is using a walker.

Um so he does need round the clock care, and he has a tendency to elope.

So there was concern from the family about leaving him home by himself, and there was no one available to stay home with him.

Unfortunately, because of the services that are available through his insurance, he would need access to that.

If he needed to pay for a personal care assistance, he would need the financial means to do so.

He nor the family do not have that at this time.

Um concerns about continued homelessness given his condition.

And uh, of course, as I mentioned, the family's inability to care and be responsible for him given the situations that they are going through.

Um so after a lengthy discussion with the family, the unfortunate solution, and I call it unfortunate because I had to advise the family that if they did not have the means to care for him, and he did not have the means to care for himself, he is effectively homeless and he would have to utilize the services of our courtyard.

What we the board has toured the courtyard, and as you have seen, it is not ideal for seniors, especially seniors of his condition.

I also had to advise the family that while shelter services are available, they do require seniors to be able to perform a number of daily tasks on their own, taking care of themselves, getting out of bed, going to the restroom.

And given his condition, we weren't sure if he would be able to do that.

So I advise the family that this is more of a last resort option for him if they did not want to or had the capacity to take care of him to the level that he needed.

Um fortunately, the family was able to come together, and one of the seniors at the center was offering a room for rent.

So he has a place to stay in the interim.

We don't know where his wife is at.

There has been communication with the wife, but there seems to be some mental decline going on.

She is absconded with his documentation, his ID.

She most likely has access to a bank account.

She refuses to return.

She refuses to return any of his items.

So while he is in this interim housing, Olga and myself, as well as the recreational coordinator, will meet with him once he returns the center to see about getting him on track to getting him new ID, getting him ID access for his insurance.

Um, with state services being down, that is kind of like on hold in a holding pattern right now.

So our main thing was making sure that he is safe and sound, which he is for the time being.

We are all on alert and we are on standby until he is ready to continue accessing services, and that's all I had to report at this time.

Actually, I do have one more item.

Member Lee brought up the concerns regarding the fitness fee at Dulil Senior Center.

We reached out to the staff and the director of Parks and Recreation.

We were informed that there was a mandate across all facilities to increase the fitness fees for all centers that had fitness centers.

Um, and that was what was done in accordance with their mandate.

Um he has um informed me that there are some members that are not happy and have spoken out against this.

So I advised Member Lee that I would be connecting him with the chair as well as um councilwoman to discuss this further, and that's all I had to report.

Thank you.

And thank you for the update on the senior.

I had not been involved in that in a while, and I'm glad to hear at least that he's gonna be getting the assistance because honestly, with my touch points with them, the wife was definitely the one that was refusing all of the services that had been offered to them, even when we had housing officials there for a seminar, it was being ref you know refused, and unfortunately, uh the way things work, we cannot assist when that happens.

I agree, Gregor Gray, for the record, and I made um the family aware that this was an inevitable consequence of those choices, and I advise the family that had they had thought services earlier or agreed to some sort of services beforehand, they could have prevented the situation from happening.

And that is a you know, a word of warning to all of our seniors that wait until the last minute to seek help.

Don't wait until last minute, get help now.

Call our care coordination team.

We are on standby.

We are we are willing to do what we can to assist.

Thank you.

I greatly appreciate everything you two have done.

Uh, I am aware of this case, and it was one of those that we all had to wait until unfortunately this day.

And uh, yes, it's a big lesson.

And then also, um, if I didn't say it for the record, Chair Rear Cameron, if it becomes a little bit more of an urgency, I can help you on the state level while the systems are down.

I can do something.

Yes, and we we do appreciate that, Gregor Gray, for the record.

Um, I think given how fast the situation occurred.

Um we knew that it would take a while for any services, any real proactive services to take place, and so we were kind of like in emergency mode, just trying to make sure that he was going to be okay before the center closed because the family was trying to leave him there, and we were like, this is not an overnight facility, they don't provide any additional services, it's recreational activities only, like you can't leave him here.

Um, so there was a lot of education opportun, you know, like learning opportunities for the family, you know, in regards to what our senior centers actually do and what care coordination does.

Thank you, Chair Rear Cameron.

Uh, as I remember talking with them, um, literally living out of a vehicle, and the help that she was asking me was for someone to donate a van.

That was gonna be the housing of her choice, just to let you know, so you understand you know the mind of some of these seniors.

And they were taking showers and and I guess on the YMCA side and making do and just spending their time at the center doing activities and on the computers.

So there are times you may run across these type of situations, and honestly, there's not a lot that we can do except just continue to encourage them, and especially if there's a spouse who maybe does need more of the the help and medical help as well.

Um, so thank you.

Thank you so much for that update.

Item number seven, report by board members regarding senior issues and events within their council wards and at large, all wards.

And for ward one, we have Vice Chair Nicole.

Madam Chair, could you set a time limit?

We have 15 minutes left on the clock.

Two rear cameron, yes, two two minutes for each.

Two minutes.

Got it.

Uh Nicole Graham Ward One uh update we did uh last month at Libra Ren Senior Center.

We did a dementia friends training.

We had a great turnout.

We had over 10 recipients, um, which was really great getting more of that uh awareness out there with the residents with Ward One, and then the only that would be it for Ward One.

Um I am looking to get us the campus of hope uh more information.

Uh that did start.

There is some back and forth controversy with some of the residents in Ward One.

They love the idea, just not the location has been the biggest, but other than that, uh, we'll try to get more on that.

That's it.

Thank you.

And for Word Two, we have Vito Galati.

Uh yes.

Um I attended the uh uh the monthly ward breakfast buzz, uh, which is always very informative.

Um well attended.

I also attended actually was in June, but since we had a hiatus of two months and then I wasn't present here, uh report it now, attended the annual forum back in June organized by UL V Road Equality Equity Allowance Project.

This is the event brought over 80 attendees, including experts in traffic safety, Clark County Commissioner Michael Neft.

I had the productive conversation with Leah Grimaldi, I believe she's a civil engineer with the city of Las Vegas regarding local traffic concerns.

As a result, uh new traffic systems were installed in three key areas of the neighborhood on Fort Apache.

And uh additionally, a studies pending for the installation of tubular delineators in the medium of a high traffic car, though, which significant pedestrian and bicycle and school bus activity.

Also spoke with Aaron Breen, director of the Road Equity Alliance Project at UNOV's Transportation Research Center.

She uh shared valuable insights on efforts to reduce pedestrian fatalities in Clark County and express interest in proceeding and in presenting our board if we extended the invitation.

That's overall was a very productive uh conference, and I highly recommend it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, let's talk more about that.

100%.

And now we have Word 3 is absent, so we have Word 4.

David Tilser.

Uh David Till's award four.

Uh in uh in one four ward four in Sun City, it's been a nice quiet summer for us.

Uh there hasn't been a lot going on.

Uh, however, uh the Sun City Security Volunteer Force had to change their name to the Sun City Patrol for legal reasons.

So the people were questioning that and uh purely for legal reasons.

So it's now not a security, it's just a patrol, it's the same people in the same cars uh doing what they did.

It was just a legal issue.

Uh this is interesting.

We have two restaurants that Sun City owns.

Uh, they're both going through renovations right now, and one of them has leased out a section of one of the restaurants for poker machines.

This is the first time Sun City is actually trying this.

Uh we hope it works out well for everybody, they're at least to somebody that feels they can do well, and we will collect the money from the lease.

So at Sun City, they feel that is a win-win for them.

Uh coming up, we're having a it's called the Memory and Balance Expo.

Uh it's being run by the medical students at UNLV, and they'll be doing all the testing of the uh the question uh they check your balance, which I did last year and I failed.

Uh, and the memory, uh, so they're checking that.

Uh it was uh well attended last year, and I'm sure this year it will be also.

Uh a lot of residents, when I talk to them, I ask them what their real issues are, and the main two they all seem to mention are prices going up, and they're all on fixed incomes, and some are uh a little lower than others, and security.

So they're just being told to watch around themselves and be aware and always be out with somebody, don't be alone.

Uh, the last thing which I had been waiting for an update, and it actually came into me this morning, so I hadn't even had time to put notes on it.

But uh Sun City will be sponsoring uh a uh a seminar on how to avoid being defrauded and ripped off by contractors.

Uh this affects everyone, but I think the contractors that are not reputable really take care, take advantage of seniors.

So that is coming up uh at the September 24th, and uh I will be there, I will take notes and bring any literature I can to see uh what's doing and how we can all uh be positive with this, whether they're seniors or not.

But for this, I think it'll be a very interesting discussion.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Also, word for would be myself, Chair O'Rearch Cameron, uh, for the sake of time.

Uh I have been on the next door neighborhood app, as you hear me speak a lot about, and that is where I'm finding a lot of people who think going on there is where to find resources.

And although I do see a lot of good resources being commented, there are of course are times when these things are just absolutely gonna send them in the wrong direction.

So I take it upon myself to message them and let them know my advocacy and give them the resources through a private message as well as my email, so that they have access uh when they're going through it, especially if they're doing anything like contractors or various companies for power of attorney, et cetera, because a lot of people will tell them to do some things that will really get them in trouble, unfortunately.

And the people are just trying to give them help, but it can be an unfortunate challenge.

Um the other thing is, of course, I continue to get calls because I have been out in the community.

Um seems that a lot of people know my email and number, and it is 100% the rising costs is almost every single call, and it goes down to the basic needs that they are having to figure out how they can get this prescription because they need to be able to make their housing payment, whether it's rent or their mortgage.

And it goes down to that every time where they're tossing up between their health and their housing.

So uh just for the record, I want to say that it still continues to plague us, and I would honestly say more than ever.

I do know that there was legislation passed this legislation session so that we can get some more affordable housing, and they are putting together the teams for all of that, so we will see some things happening quickly, but once again, then they will have to be built, so it will take time.

But that will be um it for my update today for the sake of time.

Thank you.

And now we have ward five, and that would be Charles Lee.

Hi, uh Charles Lee Ward 5.

The only thing I have is uh the ongoing discussion about the additional fees they are charging for the uh fitness room.

And I have an a petition signed by uh quite a few members up there.

So other than that, that's it for me.

And do I give you this uh petition, Gregory?

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Chair O'Rearer Cameron, uh, for the record.

And Charles, I definitely would like to get with you so that we can address the situation as well.

Um so let's make sure we exchange our numbers after.

And then we have ward six, Caroline.

Caroline Mosdeen for Ward Six.

A couple quick things.

We spoke about uh decorating ornaments last month.

Uh the actual decorating group day was uh is over, has passed.

But if anyone is still decorating ornaments, they just need to be delivered to Carson City uh by mail uh by September 15th.

Uh there's also uh a at the Centennial Hills Amphitheater, the Fat Cat Swinger.

Uh it's a concert at the set of the uh amphitheater, and that's on Saturday, September 13th from 7 to 10 p.m.

And that's a free program.

So bring your uh blankets and low chairs and go enjoy that.

Uh, I'd like to also remind everybody that councilwoman Nancy Bruni for Ward 6 does have her boca ditos, which is basically uh where you can bring up any community issues and have a nice conversation with many other people who uh show up from the community, and that's next Thursday.

It's always the Thursday after our meeting.

So that would be next Thursday.

Uh, in regard to affordable housing, I don't know any specifics, but I do know that I've been by the ovation housing, which is not totally finished, but at Decatur in 215 over by Costco.

There are signs there now for accepting applications in interest.

So that would be something if people are interested in that.

Uh, also as far as uh affordable housing, and this is going to be well for the future.

I do know that councilwoman um Bruni did go to a groundbreaking ceremony for uh in North Las Vegas for affordable housing.

So we'll have to keep an eye out for that.

And then lastly, um a little bit in advance, but the night of souls, October 25th, it's going to be for obviously just before Halloween.

Uh, and it's going to be over at Sun City.

So Sun City Desert Vista Ballroom.

There is a cost for that for $65.

You can make a reservations by Sun City Summerlin.com.

And uh it's a whole evening of lots of stuff, including dancing and costumes and singing and all kinds of fun stuff.

So if you have any interest in that, um, please keep an eye out for uh night of souls for Saturday, October 25th.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that's it for the ward reports.

Item number eight discussion regarding next steps and future meeting topics of the senior citizens advisory board, all wards.

I know we have a running list.

So if anybody has anything outside of that list, please go ahead and let us know.

Caroline Mosdeen, uh, ward six again.

I just would like to uh ask and reiterate the interest in ward maps.

We still don't have the maps that are redrawn for with the we're redrawn last year.

So if we can get hold of those and preferably on at least 11 by 16, because if we want to post them somewhere or use them for a presentation, once again, we'd really appreciate the larger size maps.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there any other discussion regarding next steps, future meeting topics?

Okay.

Item number nine, citizens' participation.

Public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the board.

No subject may be acted upon by the board unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come forward and give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion of any single subject, as well as the amount of time any single speaker is allowed, may be limited.

Do we have any citizens' participation?

Seeing and hearing none.

Our next senior citizens advisory board meeting is on October second, 2025, in our new location here at the uh what is this called?

I'm sorry, the public meeting room of the new Civic Center building.

There we go.

Got it.

And that is always at 1 p.m.

And we are now adjourned.