I call the July 17th senior commission meeting to order.

The time now is 10 02.

We will now have the Pledge of Allegiance.

Anybody that can stand, please do.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

One nation under the individual liberty and justice for all.

You may be seated.

Thank you.

Mr.

Secretary, roll call, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Chair Watchison.

Here.

Vice Chair Comelo.

Commissioner Dillon.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Here.

Commissioner Richard Brennan.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Commissioner McHenry.

And Commissioner Shalini Commissioner Salini.

Yeah.

And Commissioner Pena.

Just for the record, we have an excuse absence by Commissioner Bena.

Also in attendance today, we have our recreation and parks department director uh Vicente Zunica and Senior Secretary Pedro Naranjo.

Thank you.

All right.

Please silence any devices that would prove a distraction during the meeting.

And also please remember to ask for a recess if you need to step out of the meeting, as that may impact the commission's ability to maintain a quorum.

Thank you.

The consent calendar.

The approval of the agenda for July 17th and the approval of the minutes of June 20th into one motion and one vote.

So Commissioner Brennan, second, Commissioner Comelo.

Roll call, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Chair Watchison?

Yes.

Vice Chair Comelo?

Yes.

Commissioner Dillon.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Commissioner Brennan.

Yes.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Yes.

Commissioner McHenry.

Yes.

And Commissioner Shalini.

Yes.

The motion carries.

Okay.

City staff reports and announcements.

Pedro, you have the floor.

Thank you so much.

Just a few updates for everyone.

At the at the citywide level, just want to let everybody know that as you all recall, traditionally the city goes dark, what we call dark in August, right?

So there will be no city council meetings and no uh commission meetings.

And as you all know, we decided to cancel our August meeting here as well.

So in terms of the city, that's an update.

As far as uh human services, I'm happy to report that uh the operation at the Luelling Interim Housing Navigation Center is going well.

Just received an update this past week that all 29 units that are available at the site are now full.

And then as you may have recalled from the last meeting, we also have uh activated the drop-in center component, which is basically a drop-in center for anybody.

You don't have to be a a person staying on site, any unhouse person can go there during the week to receive a variety of support with basic needs, and then uh lastly on the senior services front.

Uh thank you so much for everyone who was able to make it to the uh annual resource fair or roaring uh festival that we had.

Uh it was a it was a lot of fun.

Um, and uh we I think we had over 300 people that came to the event.

Uh over 45 vendors, uh some of uh which come here on a regular basis, and some who are external to our day-to-day operations, but just a great opportunity for our community community to get information regarding all the services that are available uh in their community.

Um in particular, I want to thank Chair Watchinson, uh Commissioner Dillon, Commissioner Lopez Nacario, and I believe it was Commissioner Benya who were and Commissioner Comelo, who were staffing the senior commission table.

Um good opportunity with Mike King, our our our age friendly consultant, great opportunity to promote what you all do here with the senior commission, and specifically uh targeted information regarding the uh age friendly initiative.

So thank you all for for participating in that, and we look forward to next year already.

Yes, and uh those concludes my that concludes my report.

Thank you.

Um I would just like to add thank you too to the commissioners that attended.

Uh you did a great job, and I had I had a lot of fun.

And I really appreciate everything.

Several of you walked around and just actually corralled corraled some of the attendees, which was great.

So thank you very much for attending.

I hope perhaps in the next uh thing that we have, the next event that we have that uh dish more of you will be able to attend.

Um, and we're really gonna miss Mike King because he did a fantastic job.

He was there the whole day and just is uh was really good too in promoting us.

So thank you very much.

Public comment.

Um, the public is invited to make comments on items that are not listed on the agenda at this time.

Public comments are limited to two minutes per speaker, subject to adjustment by the chair.

The commission is unable to respond to your concerns today as they are not agendized.

Your item may be taken under consideration for future discussion, or it may be referred to the appropriate department.

Um, when you address the commission, if you would please stand, state your name if you desire for the record, and please speak clearly and project.

Thank you.

We do have someone from the public.

Would you like to introduce yourself?

My name is Sky Wu, and uh I was invited by I went to the senior fair, and they asked me to come here and see what you all are doing.

I have uh two parents that are uh elderly.

Uh, Leander.

I came back from Hong Kong to take care of them, and they were very interested in what's happening here, so I'm gonna report back today.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Okay.

Yes, just want to share with the commission that no e-comments were received for this meeting, and the commission was advised on Wednesday, July 16th.

Thank you.

Presentations today we have Vincente Zunika.

Is that right?

Okay.

With the recreation and parks department, he's the director, uh, and uh he is going to give us an update on all that's been happening recently with the recreation and parks department.

So and Cynthia, you have the floor.

Thank you.

Good morning, and thank you for inviting me.

My name is Vicenta Suniga, the new recreation and parks director.

I think I can still say I'm new, but here a little over a year.

Uh, the recreation department is a brand new department.

Uh recreation and human services, as well as senior services was one department in the past.

Uh, there was a decision to separate these two departments.

Recreation, then became recreation parks.

So, for my understanding, it's the first time it's recreation and parks department.

So, what that means is recreation stayed, and our department uh absorbed all of park maintenance, all of tree maintenance citywide, so 18,000 trees, all the street medians, tide gates, golf course, marina, the shoreline, and as well as we kept recreation, which traditional recreation since human services separated, human services does senior programming.

We do all age programming and also operate our three aquatic centers, which are open for the first time in over a decade.

The city of San Langel has three pools open.

Today I'm gonna start with the presentation of just some information regarding our summer session.

So we traditionally have had a guide.

I don't know if you guys notice we we have a new design for our guide.

Our guide now comes every three months, so it's a quarterly guide.

In the past, we only had three seasons.

Now we have four.

Uh, it helps with advertising courses and classes, scheduling, and also helps us pull a lot more analytics and marketing for our classes, which has been super super helpful.

Um we work in collaboration with senior services to promote our programs through those brochures that get mailed to every household in the city of San Leandro.

Um, again, I'm gonna start with a presentation of just the summer session, but then I can open it up to any other questions.

Just high level, I wanted to just share that.

Uh our new department has passed two master plans: a tree master plan, which really provides long-term vision for planting and maintaining and replacing trees, it sets goals on canopy coverage, uh specific uh species of trees and helps address climate resilience.

And so it's the city's first ever tree master plan.

So if you ever were wondering when do they maintenance your trees, uh, the city was trying to do seven, eight-ish uh maintenance cycle with this tree master plan.

They recommended that every five years, so um, and I'll send the link after the meeting as well, too.

So we broke up the city's six districts into five, and now the idea is that we will touch every tree at least every five years to ensure that it's maintained properly.

Again, if there's emergencies or there's service calls, we're gonna try to address those as well.

Um, the recreation and parks master plan.

I think it's the first ever recreation parts master plan too.

There was a parks master plan, but there was not a recreation and parks master plan.

And the recreation and parts master plan got a lot of public input and data to identify recreation gaps and future priorities.

So it gave us a strategic map.

Uh, what do people in San Leandro want?

And I wanna say I was a little bit surprised.

So I live in San Leandro, have three young boys, and I was expecting everybody wants swim classes, more programming.

Interesting enough, people want walking trails, shade, and safe parks, those were the top three goals for what help us then develop uh where we make improvements in our parks.

Um, and so um that that guide is a guide for the next 10 15 years for our department.

So it really gives us yes.

Oh, can I?

I'm sorry, could we?

I apologize.

Could we maybe hold our questions until the end so that we ask you?

The presentation may answer questions.

Okay, sorry.

No worries.

We don't have to announce that.

I apologize.

No, no problem.

And what I can do also is I can send we've recently updated our website.

So we have a new branding kit, we have a new logo.

That's why I passed out some swag today as well, too.

Um, our our website's been redesigned as well, too.

And so um, we're developing a page for all of our master plans.

Um, and then we're also developing reporting matrix where you can go in there and follow progress on what we're doing as far as trees and activities.

So I'll start with this presentation, and then I'll be happy to answer questions, any questions either regarding this presentation or regarding the department.

You're just gonna scroll down.

Okay.

So uh I wanted to share our participation, and this is specifically to again human services and the senior department, focus more on senior specific activities.

We do have classes that are all ages that seniors do participate.

Um, but I did just want to share that 90% of our participants were San Leandro residents.

So I wanted to share that because there was uh a couple concerns that we were subsidizing a lot of program for people that didn't live in San Leandro.

That's not really the case uh per our registration system.

90% of the participants are from San Leandro.

Um, our resident participation increased from uh 3,200 in 2023 to 5,000 over 5,000 in 2025.

So that's a 56% increase in the amount of people that are taking our services, and we're continuing to push forward and adding additional classes.

We have the city's first master uh swim program at Farley now.

Farley's gonna be open.

Historically, it was open for three months.

Now we're in we're budgeted to have it open nine to 12 months out of the year.

So we'll have programming there year-round.

Um, non-residents also rose but at a slower rate, and this just really shows a growing resident engagement, it just reflects our outreach.

So we have a staff that's 50% of her role is developing marketing information.

So we encourage people to follow us on Facebook and Instagram, but she's really good about telling, being able to tell our story, be advertising our events, assisting with the development of the guide, monitoring our website, and so really being able to work collaboratively with the city's public information officer on marketing our program.

So please follow us.

So 2023, 2024, and you see it shoot up in 2025.

And so it's just a testimony to kind of give you guys an idea of pivoting, understanding what our priorities are, understanding what classes residents want, and increasing classes.

Because we did not increase staff, we actually decreased staff.

So we're projected to be under budget and projected to be over in revenue.

And then also, I know you guys read the San Leandro Times, and they were showing the budget process and how our depart our department of recreation parks actually went up in expenses.

But what the article didn't say is we went up in expenses, but we also by about 200,000, but we've also increased our revenue by over 600,000.

So we actually lowered the subsidy to the city's general fund by 400,000 in one year.

So that wasn't that wasn't articulated in the San Leandro Times article, but staff is really being strategic and smart with our classes, and so although we increase expenses, we've knocked it out the park with with revenue.

And again, this is just another trend.

As you see, it shoots up from 24 to 25.

So, uh site-based participation.

So we pulled reports trying to understand where people take our programs, and Farley consistently ranks the highest during the summer.

So it's nearly doubled in participation from 24 to 25, which is amazing.

Uh Shabot Park and the boys and girls club pool also has maintains steady trends as far as enrollment.

And the San Leandro Family Aquatic Center, this is registered users, but in the first two weeks we opened, we had over almost close to 3,000 people visit that site drop-in for swim, which is pretty remarkable.

And we have more sites activate in 2025 than when we ever had.

So we are operating programs at 14 city locations currently.

So very proud that we're trying to be equitable in where we offer programming, where we offer camps.

The idea is that we're offering these neighborhood camps so that people can walk to the park, walk to the camp, take a swimming class close to their house, take a fitness class that's within walking distance of their house.

And so we've really been focusing on implementation and increasing programming.

We've also had discussions with the library.

You guys all know libraries can be closed on Sundays, but we've talked about how can we activate those spaces to still have programming there, and so we're working with the library to understand if recreation can utilize those rooms to increase programming and still activate those sites because what we found in every recreation professional tell you when the people there's people in the park and there's people in the buildings, you you lessen nefarious activity because there's more eyes in the park.

And so we've been really trying to focus on activating all of our locations.

Um, and then these are just the top five sections for summer, as you see.

Farley is close to uh two thousand people, and this is not the final number for summer because we're still in summer.

Chabot uh legacy camp.

Um, it's been great to see.

Um Grandma worked at the camp, dad went to the camp and worked at the camp.

Older sister went to the camp and worked at the camp, and now little brothers at the camp.

So it's great to see all the different generations that have utilized and attended that camp.

So that's our legacy camp for San Leandro.

Uh boys and girls clubs also pretty high on participation, and then the family aquatic center, followed by a Washington Manor.

But as you see, San Leandro likes swimming.

Um, and I'll share a little bit of our field reservation.

San Leandro, just based on the data, and I don't know if that's just what they offered, but they like swimming, they like dance, and like baseball.

Those are the three every those are the three sports everybody rents um or utilizes our fields for.

Um so age-based participation.

So our our largest age group that we offer or register for our programs during the summer is six to twelve.

So we have we had a little over 2,500 participants this summer.

And again, it's this really just shows the need of how summer camps help to subsidize um child care as well, too, right?

My kids are all in camps now, right?

And so being able to really provide these local camps at affordable rates and different types of camps uh has really been well received.

Um, pre-K programming also arose as well, too.

It went up 48% in the last three years, which is also shown that we are focused on early childhood education, ensuring there's a safe space for for kids to play and learn through play and to socialize.

Um, and um my youngest, he's five, he's really shy, kind of towards the tail end of uh early COVID.

So he's shy.

We used to call them like the COVID baby because you know he wasn't socializing with people, but anyways, this summer he took some of our camps and just seeing him come out of his shell, make friends with counselors, meet other kids.

It's like it just reinforces what the importance is of those experiences, and to meet other kids from different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different situations that they encounter, and but at that camp, you're just one unit, you're you're one family.

So it really shows the benefit of programming, um, and then all age programming, which is just open to everybody, we've nearly tripled the numbers in the first year.

So that's a that's a big success.

And then teens was really really lacking, and so we've started increased teen programming.

So that had a drastic increase of 175% in just one year, and again, that's just this is just the breakdown as you see.

Um the blue is our youth programs, pink is teens, um, kind of dark orange, reddish colors, preschool, all ages, and then adults is the um last color on there.

So uh key revenue trends.

So, as I mentioned before, our revenue increase, so we haven't changed our budget for the last three years.

Our expenses have stayed the same, but our revenue increase from 23 to 24 by 18 percent, but from 24 to 25 by 45 percent, and so it was just being really smart.

If we had classes that weren't popular, um, and we were offering the same class twice, but there was an opportunity to combine the class and lessen the amount of staff, we're able to combine the classes.

Now we have a full class, we don't have to offer the class twice.

Also, understanding what classes were popular, so reviewing which ones had long wait lists, and hey, that that's people are interested in those classes.

Let's add more classes.

So that really allowed us to be smart um with revenue, and also in the next year, I'm we're gonna try to pass a cost recovery policy, and what that cost recovery policy is you take a holistic look at your programming and you understand what the community benefit is.

So if it's a private class, it's gonna be more expensive, but semi-private, the cost is gonna go low.

But if it has a large community uh benefit, then it's gonna be highly subsidized.

So that's that's that's kind of the dance you do in recreation.

You want to offer a lot of these private lessons to supplement all your other classes so that you have opportunity to in essence be more self-sufficient with your uh expenses.

Um, and again, this just like I mentioned before, it just shows this this increase in 2025 just aligns with program expansion and increased participation.

Um, and it just shows a continued growth in fee revenue, uh, and just demonstrates community demand and a successful cost recovery strategy.

And again, these are fees collected just just for summer.

So 2023, 423,000, 2025, almost 725,000.

So um, doing more doing more with less or doing more with the same, and so we've we've been really strategic um on how we utilize those funds.

Uh so key highlights, uh program participation increased.

Uh, as I mentioned before from uh 300 3,561 to 5,500.

So 55% increase in just participation in the last two years.

Uh, 90% of users are from San Leandro, so which means that we're offering classes that people in San Leandro, residents in San Leandro want.

Our revenue has had significant increase.

Like I mentioned before, first time we have three pools open in over a decade.

We've expanded site activation, so that aligns with our master plan to expand access, equity, and wellness, youth and multi-generational programs continue to lead participation across the city.

So these are the classes where different generations kid participate.

And then so how does this align with the master plan?

So before I get into that, I just wanted to also share another stat.

Our aquatics drop-in for aqua aerobics for swimming, as went up from lat just from last year.

Yes, we got a new pool open, but just from last year, it went up 500%.

So we had a little over 4,006 people drop in to swim or take aqua aerobics.

We're anticipating 2025 to be close to 25,000.

So that is a huge increase.

So that just shows that we are dedicated to activating these locations that we have access to.

Farley is through a joint use agreement.

It's owned by the school district, so the city maintains and programs it.

The boys and girls club, city owns the land, boys and girls clubs at the building.

We're finalizing the lease agreement with them to have exclusive use.

So we would maintain it, we would program it.

The only real city owned pool is really the I keep saying manor, but it's the San Leandro Family Aquatic Center.

Oh, that's the old manor.

Yes, the old manor.

So uh yeah, no, I when they talk, I'm like, which pool is that?

I'm like if you talk about the manor pool, they're like, yeah, it's San Leandro Family Aquatic Center.

But yes, the at the Washington Manor part.

So that's the only city-owned building.

The other ones are through lease agreements that we have those, but those lease agreements really just focusing on activating.

So again, how does this align with the master plan that we adopted?

So the master plan's recommendations, expand program and offerings for all age groups.

As I share, that's been the highest growth.

Um advanced key goals, community health, program access, um, respond to community feedback, aquatics, youth fitness, enrichment opportunities.

Uh we've demonstrated strong cost recovery while serving diverse needs, and then build momentum towards prioritizing facility and site investments identified in the plan.

So understanding where people wanted programming.

And with that, um, I'm open to questions.

Shalina, you had a question.

It's a couple questions, I just asked two.

Um the data is is it only for summer?

The data?

So what I'm showing is just summer.

So these are just summer numbers.

This is a three-month period.

Yeah, okay, that's what I'm saying.

So when you said you uh did the survey and you found walking trails uh you know safety and shade very important.

Do you know how many people responded and what they want the uh demographics or what the older people, younger people?

So they did uh statistically valid surveys as well as multiple public surveys.

So based on benchmarks, engagement was really high for City of San Leandro based talking to the consultant, looking at other cities' feedback, and so statistically valid surveys were sent randomly to multiple households.

I think they got back close to 500 random surveys that went to randomly selected households, and then we had over a thousand uh respondents through public surveys as well, plus we had a focus groups.

Plus, plus we had an advisory group.

The advisory group was made of of community development, uh, public works, school districts, San Leandro Unified School District, as well as San Lorenzo Unified School District because in the Washington Manor area, they're still selling Renzel schools.

So they were involved.

Uh, we had park staff, we had recreation staff, maintenance staff.

So we had that group, and then we also did pop-up events.

So we did pop-up events at uh cherry festival.

Uh we did a pop-up event at the library.

I'm drawing a blank right now.

What it was, it was um that's okay.

Marina Community.

Marina Community Center, we had we had pop-up events, Washington Manor, we had pop-up events, um, and there was MLK, so multiple special events.

We had pop up, we have consultants and people there to ask questions and go over designs.

So community input was pretty strong.

Um, but I will forward the master plan.

The demographics in San Leandro, um, which the plan has is, I believe the median age in San Leandro, I think was like 43 years old.

So it's uh it's an older population in San Leandro.

Okay.

No, I'm a statistician, so I mean these things.

Okay.

Thanks again.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Yes.

Uh, Commissioner Camillo and then Commissioner.

Um, you know that um having safe um box of is part of our um HP initiative.

So we have benches and have to have safe trails for the seniors.

Um also that we can have uh uh maybe can push the wheels, etc.

So I uh uh are you taking into account our age friendly initiative suggestions also?

So that we looked at the age friendly initiatives as part of the master plan.

We looked at the climate action master plan, we looked at the trails master plan, we incorporated the tree master plan.

Um I I'll send you the I'll send you the adopted one, and it it speaks to it has all the demographics on there as well too that you can access as well to.

Um, but yes, we are.

Um, and the last two years, my understanding was the major park maintenance funding was suspended pending the completion of the master plan.

So now at the recently adopted budget meeting, the parks department will now have 475,000 annually to make those improvements to walking paths, to add benches, to add new shade structures, to add new playgrounds, which Hossian, if you guys will have we replaced the playground that was that was uh damaged due to arson.

I don't know if you guys um saw that in the news.

So we replaced we replaced the playground, it's actually open.

We opened it July 1st.

Um, we're gonna be opening the first all ability playground on August 23rd.

So be on the lookout for that memorial park, and then Stephen Taylor Sanctuary of Life.

It's another section marina where we're adding public art.

That's gonna be probably open sometime in October.

But to your question, uh, we do have funding now specifically to address those areas in relation to the age-friendly plan.

Okay, I have another question for um it may not be related to you, uh, but uh you know the beautification of downtown San Leandro, it it attracts more uh businesses and uh people shoppers to our city.

So is that a plan to beautify the city, a downtown area?

So the city supports the San Leandro Improvement Association, SLIA.

Um in downtown, there's they've been doing more pop-up events.

Um Second Friday they do events, so the city's been providing some funding to help improve downtown specifically.

As far as beautification through some federal money that the city received, ARPA funds, they did create a beautify San Leandro initiative, and so that was in my department.

So the funding for that was not renewed.

So we have uh three, we actually have a beautification project at Victoria Park this weekend, um, and we have another two events that are scheduled.

Outside of that, I think we're gonna have to be creative as we start developing some beautification type initiatives that are led by volunteers because it's led by volunteers.

Uh, we've been also looking for sponsorship.

So the Optimus Club has been pretty supportive on looking to supplement additional events for us, uh, tree planting events, beautification events.

But as far as specific downtown, uh the San Leandro uh Improvement Association has really focused on that.

They have so they have also so we provide funding and contract them out.

They clean downtown and they also provide ambassadors to help uh with public safety downtown as well, too.

Um, and so they're their focus downtown.

I would share we're exploring some initiatives to bring similar structures, uh events to other areas of city of San Leandro.

So right now we're trying to figure out would the golf course be a good place to have a special event with marina and looking at other parks, um, and also working with HOAs as well, too.

The Washington Manor Homeowner Association has been very supportive, and so we support them as they put also with they have a uh park day event at Washington Manor.

So looking at just being more strategic to work with partners to figure out how we can kind of stretch the dollars that we have for those types of programs and events.

I mean, this is the last question.

I'm sorry, um, because I have been asked waiting for you to come to our meeting.

Um San Leandro is called the cherry city, and we don't have any cherry trees, and I know that we don't uh we don't um they say as when you bring up the subject of cherry trees, they say cherry trees are not growing in um in San Leandro, but there are many trees that I know, and I think her neighborhood has got a cherry tree.

I have got so many people in my area about cherry tree.

So why don't you make a little like a cherry tree grow and uh have some few few uh cherry trees?

Can you please do that?

That is why I have been doing I have been fighting for this for the last five years.

So um, yeah, there's there's opportunity.

I I failed to share that we also got approved a Washington Manor site specific plan.

So it's a plan for redesigning the park, and I think through that engagement to your testimony looking for um orchard and education and gardening classes came up.

So on that plan, actually, the back part of Washington Manor, there's a corner.

I don't know if anybody lives in Washington Manor.

There's a back corner where kids use the tan bark to like do ramps in the in the in the afternoon.

I don't know if anybody lives in Washington Manor.

What anyways, it it there's it's not utilized, so you've decided to make a ramp out of like the tan bark and dirt back there.

So, anyways, um we are looking part of the design was to include some type of fruit and cherry trees, might be something that comes on board.

Uh, but also having a demonstration garden and being able to do education, naturalist led education as well.

Too um I would share, there's been a push for native plants, and so during our beautification projects that we have done during some of our renovation of street medians, uh during our tree planting events, we've been trying to emphasize native native plants.

Of course, we can't always plant native plants, but there has been an emphasis to add more native plants to uh uh our planning events.

Yes, I knew you all have the city has been giving grants for planting um uh native plants.

So I had been one of the well entities that got the grant from the city for planting native plant in Wolfert Garden.

Okay, yes.

Yeah, can you please um make sure that this little can you uh make sure that you keep that in your mind about the cherry trees?

Yeah, thank you for sharing that too.

I forgot to mention through the beautify event uh initiative, we awarded 25 hot 2500 grants to neighbor neighborhoods, residents, faith based, community-based groups to do beautification throughout the neighborhood.

So they submitted a proposal, submitted an application.

I think we gave 32 applicants.

I think everybody submitted an application got got the grant.

And uh we'll be publicizing those later.

There was uh Native Gardens, Mulford Garden, Mulfort Gardens, not owned by the city, that's uh which was interesting.

I didn't I didn't know that.

Um, owned by the city, it's not um uh Mulfort Gardens, so we help with some uh maintenance needs that they needed there, uh churches, schools, boys and girls club, community gardens, uh uh murals, and so we really found that to be successful.

So we'll look to see if we can explore that in the future, but I'll be happy to share it with Bedron, he can share it with you guys as well too.

Um just a final report with all the pictures on what initiatives and what was um where that money went.

Thanks.

Commissioner McHenry.

Um I'll follow up on Bella Bell's comment about cherries.

I have made it a point over the last year, and particularly now since we were really nobody wants to drive under bankrupt.

Um I go East 14th, take a little extra time.

Um, and I I look I look up at these flags, which I know are not uh inexpensive, and I know putting them up is not inexpensive, and yet so many of them are these little pale pink, sort of after they've been up there for you know six months.

You can't even tell what it is, you can't tell what the writing is, and I'm thinking here we are, cherry city.

Where are the bright red cherry trees?

You know, something that really says San Leandro, Cherry City.

Um, this is this is our our big thing in Cherry Festival, and yet look around the city.

There's nothing that um that identifies us on a regular basis that could be instead of these pale drippy little flags, uh that should be on.

I think they're on East 14th and on Bankrupt, I suppose.

Um, let's brighten up the city.

This is this is who this is supposed to be our merchandise piece, and we're not merchandising ourselves on that.

Yeah, no, I I I I know what you're I think I know what you're talking about.

Uh you're talking about the flags on the polls.

I think they were put up when the city celebrated the 150th year anniversary, I believe, right?

Um, some of them are been there so long, they're all they're white.

Okay.

I can follow up to figure out who's who's responsible for those, but I do agree.

So the city now has a branding kit.

So these colors you see here are part of the branding kit.

Um the colors on the slides.

Um, but I do agree with you.

Um, speaking of cherry festivals so that's in our department as well, too.

So we put on the cherry festival.

This year we increased participation by almost 50,000.

So we had almost 30,000 people in attendance.

So I do hear what you're saying, uh, really focusing on what our identity is, focusing on our branding, and then clue and beautifying the city by something easy of updating the flags that we have posted on the post.

I I agree.

This does not say cherry.

And nothing on this page, none of these colors say this is cherry city.

Gotcha.

Not even close.

Um I have a number of questions, but I'll keep it to one great biggie.

That since I didn't realize that you were uh response, your department is responsible for the trees and the medians and that kind of thing.

Um, when are you going to actually be doing it from this master plan?

Because I could guarantee you on my trips along East 14th, which I take probably three or four times a week.

Um, and this includes whatever's happened happening with downtown.

Uh I doubt that you could drive more than a block without saying, whoa, that really speaks of slum.

The trees are the medians, both.

Okay.

Medians.

So um we re renovated, three medians, and I'll get the exact locations for those.

Um, we're having conversations with again, this just split from public works to my department.

So, we've only had it for about a year.

Uh, the master plan for trees was to inventory, so every single tree, city-owned tree.

You can go on our website and click on it, it'll tell you the species.

Um, I'm trying to pull up right now um the areas that we are um maintaining now, so I can actually give you that.

So 2022.

So we're doing it in phases.

My understanding coming on board, they were behind 900 requests on tree maintenance.

So let me just give you the dates that we have proposed now because this is all new.

This is all new.

So 2025, we're gonna be doing we're finishing district six and gonna be completing district one.

District two will be in 2026, district four would be in 2027.

This is on our website, district three will be 2028.

The idea is every five years we will begin to maintain those trees.

The city um is developing an RFP now, so we're finalizing an RFP that we'll take to council.

Um for contracting out tree maintenance services, but again, this is the first RFP the city ever did.

So we're being very strategic on pretty much locking in prices for the next five years, um, but being very specific on maintenance standards.

Um, the city now has the first uh our tree supervisor is a certified arborist, our manager is supposed to be, so we'll have two arborists on our team now, and so we're taking um a different approach to maintaining the trees to ensure that it's healthy.

So, to your point, we are starting to implement the five-year cycle now.

So that just started July 1st.

Um, so 2025 this year, we're gonna we're gonna finish district six and one.

Okay.

Within that plan with the trees, uh, does it include uh repairing the sidewalks that were damaged because of the trees that the city chose the inappropriate trees that the city chose to plant in those places?

So or are you going to require that the homeowners repair those sidewalks that were damaged because the city chose to put in trees that were not appropriate in their root growth for that particular type of area?

Agreed.

Um, that was one of the comments from the mayor when we presented tree master plan was: are you picking the right tree for the right space?

Yes, and the master plan does that for us.

So now we have uh tree palette and it's on our website as well, too.

Uh, we have different tree varieties that you can choose from, but now we have them broken up to uh planning strips of three feet wide or less, and what species there we recommend that we input for those for planting strips that are greater than three feet for planting for large if you're looking for small trees or large trees or medium trees.

On our website now, we have like a palette of what species are supposed to be planted in those areas, so that does not happen because I don't think there was a comprehensive look in the past when they initially planted all the trees in San Leandro, so the right trees are not platted in the right section, which is why sidewalks are coming up to answer your question about side.

So to answer your question about sidewalks, that's a public works question.

I don't know all the specifics on what the process is to repair that, but I'm happy to get that information for you.

So we maintain the trees, public works does the sidewalk, so that's we're working collaboratively to address those things, but my department's more the trees.

Well, they they coexist.

I hear you.

And the problems the problems are created by you by the trees that you your department is currently responsible for.

And it's a problem throughout the city, not just in one area, it's at a problem absolutely everywhere.

And because I use a walker, golly, I'm just amazed at the things that I am now aware of that.

Five years ago I didn't have a just almost embarrassed to people's ability to get around and what challenges there are.

And since you're here talking trees, you get hit with this when you oh no, that's part that's that's I'm I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I'm not gonna argue with that at that.

I do want to share that the reason I was highlighting these master plans is because these are the plans that give you the blueprint to be strategic, to have some science behind what you're doing.

So in the past, they didn't have a tree master plan.

They didn't know what trees, they there was an emphasis on planting the right trees in the right locations, which is why we're in this mess now.

Um, and with this master plan, now when we do tree replacement or we add trees, we're putting the right trees that are not going to cause maintenance issues or sidewalks to come up in the future.

So we're trying to be more intentional with how we do our work.

I can't speak to what happened before I was here, but um I'd be happy to look into what the process is for I think that sometimes they break it or shave the sidewalk down, but I can get the information.

Sorry, I'm sorry.

Can I just make a quick comment?

It does tell us on uh Commissioner McHenry's question.

I'll be real quick.

So um just to piggyback on the question regarding the sidewalk repairs.

Um, if you all may recall that is a conversation that we had during our age-friendly initiative process, and actually uh we decided that uh an activity within that initiative was going to be to work with our public works department to uh organize a uh presentation to be held here at the senior community center to educate the public regarding that program, their process as you can imagine.

Every year there's a the it uh the uh capacity may change depending on budget.

There's a criteria that they use to determine how they're gonna use the minute funds.

So just to say, I believe that's actually a year one, year two activity.

So that should be happening um right this year, probably in the next few months.

Thank you.

So you just added another question.

So I am as part of that, we should point out that the My San Leandro app is perfect for reporting those bad sidewalks, as I just did a week ago and got a uh trouble ticket, you know, comes back from the city and says we're looking at who's gonna take a look at a defective sidewalk.

So every one of those you see should be reported.

My second question is to staff is it possible instead of all of us running off and searching the web, could we get these master plans along with the presentation deck that was used when they were presented to um probably the city council?

Because that usually has some context in addition to the master plan.

If you don't know yeah, I I brand down, I think uh Director Zanika has mentioned you know there's gonna be some some links, some uh a tree master plan.

So yeah, so we'll we'll package up what everything that we think we're hearing is gonna be helpful.

Give me this conversation, and then we'll send it all in one email so that you don't have to third things to uh to the sense of so what is parks and rec doing specifically for the um for the older citizens of the city.

Um there's not much here that there's no breakout of over 65s that we lumped in with a general all ages group.

So specifically, um, are there have you been thinking about programs um walking programs?

Um, uh you know, other types of programs that are very age-friendly um re you know uh things that the recreation park could do.

So our most of our adult classes, if I pull the average of the age of all of our dog class participants, it's 15 up.

Um, young people.

Young people.

Um, the the reason the reason why we had not focused on that demographic is because that's senior centers, senior services focuses specifically for that demographic.

So we deferred to their department to do that program in activation.

Um we have part of the quality of life uh council priority is to start having discussions of how we can collaborate on uh programs.

Yes, I agree with where you're going.

So um just to share, I'll give you one example.

Um we had a conversation with East Bay Regional, and we're we're gonna be looking to see in collaboration with human services, um, East Bay Regionals can provide us uh free buses to pick up either at Marina Community Center or here at the senior center to go to East Bay Regional Park led uh activities at Reese Bay Regional Parks, trails, walking paths.

So we had a meeting about two weeks ago.

I think staff had a meeting with uh East Bay Regional.

So that's something we're we might be looking to implement in collaboration with senior services.

Um East Bay Regional uh it's a regional park district, and they offer programs.

We actually partnered up with them this summer um on summer programming.

So they're offering all free busing to our camps, which has been a great partnership because busing is expensive, so they've been offering free busing and they've been taking all of our participants to free field trips to East Bay Regional Parks.

The winter coal canyon, they actually got life free swimming lessons, um lunch and had activities at that location, and so yeah, definitely we should we will have more conversations with senior services as far as activation.

So are you doing anything similar on the west side, which is the long beach and the marshlands and and all of that uh the and another question is which department did the mad that maintains that maintenance assessment district end up in?

Is that in public works or did that float over to you guys?

So the assessment, I would say put so public works and engineering is one unit now.

So I say public works, but public works and engineering are together now.

Um so when public works got split, they inherited engineering.

I got the other half of public works with recreation.

So engineering and public works are together.

So I will refer to them to public works, but it's engineering and public works are overseeing that specific map.

As far as RIP RAF for the rest of the area, this year I also uh through the budget process um received funds to maintain the rip RAF and the RIP RAF are the big rocks at the marina.

So the city has not prioritized or invested in maintenance to rip rap in the past.

So in at the end of the year last year, there was king tides and the storm, and all of the debris from the bay washed up there to the trails.

So we closed the trails for a week.

My staff was able to clean up the whole trails and make it open.

But if you visit the marina, you notice certain sections are fenced off.

So now we have funding, yeah, it's like an eight million dollar project, eight to ten million, but we have budgeted out that we're gonna do in phases, at least start to work maintain to uh lessen the cost long-term cost to it.

In the past, there wasn't any focus or work plan specifically to maintenance of the rip rap, which now there's gonna be and so um hopefully that answers both of your questions.

Yeah, so I I know that exists structurally, but um I'm thinking there's opportunities for um uh marsh exploration, birding, um, all of those things to use that area more actively.

It's been a bit, in fact, the name of the little park out there is called the passive park, you know, the one at the start of the bay trail.

But but yeah, so there's a little park at the end of the welling.

So um, so you know that was what I was thinking.

That's a very senior friendly, uh, but the idea of benches, shade, all those kind of things along the trail is also important.

So, um, I'm gonna want to set up a meeting with you in another with another hat on here.

So yeah, no, 100%.

And then just to your point, that was also, so I would share.

Uh most of the master plans have three to five priorities.

San Leandro had like 18.

So 18 number ones.

18 number ones.

Um, but native uh or excuse me, naturalist led programming was on there as well, too.

And so I come, I used to work for the Hayward Area Recreation Park District.

So we had Sulfur Creek, we had the shoreline, we had a robust naturalist program-led activities.

Um, San Leandro's lacking that.

So right now we are discussing um partnerships with friends of the creek.

Um, so they recently hired somebody, they actually worked that hard.

They used to do all of our shoreline trails and naturalist programs fishing for kid camps there, and so we're communicating with Friends of the Creek to figure out if we can support their nonprofit to add some educational components.

Friends of San Leandro Creek.

Um, sorry.

There's more than there's more than one.

I know Friends of San Lorenzo Creek too.

Um, as far as trails, um, we have a I have a meeting, I think in about two weeks with the uh project manager for Hayward Area Recreation Parks District, um, master who helped develop their master plan, their trail master plan.

So we have a meeting with them regarding Bayfair project, and we're trying to figure out how we can connect their master trail plans through the shoreline, do urban areas and how that could translate into San Leandro as well.

Our recreation and parks master plan did touch a little bit about opportunities for expanding trail access, whether that's through the Alameda County flood control areas and figuring out if there's some connectivity through that trail system to connect the city as well, too.

The city has a bike and pedestrian master plan that we looked at too, to incorporate in our plan and having just more areas for people to walk to use uh bicycles, so extending the trail system is definitely gonna be a priority moving forward as well.

Too, but 100% naturalist activity activate the shoreline.

The only class we have currently we have uh a contractor that does uh butterfly uh education uh monarch butterfly education down at our golf courses.

So we have uh sanctuary uh monarch butterfly sanctuary at uh near the marina.

Yes, we no, sorry, we were wondering.

We could we could probably take up the next whole next hour of our meeting with all the questions and everything too.

Maybe we could have you come back and then maybe you know, yes, okay.

Quick question, it's real quick.

I wanted to ask you, um, a lot of you know, a lot of the trees at the city planet, and they've been new homeowners that just decide data.

I guess I'm knowledgeable that they just can't rip it out.

Are you guys uh going to um deal with any of that at all?

Or so uh we'll meet with academic development, they do the code enforcement, but I will share that we are also working part of our department's also the executive sponsor for the quality of life council priority, and part of the work plan for that is that we are gonna develop a draft for um uh tree preservation ordinance.

Um we've heard a lot from at least Washington Manor area that all the trees are being cut down, um, and so we're gonna work strategically to come up with an ordinance to present to council our recommendations on how uh to help preserve some of the trees um as well as some of the code enforcement to protect trees because the tree master plan, well, the city has a very I'm gonna say uh visionary goal to have the city's canopy coverage at 20%, which is really really high, and it's an aspirational goal.

I don't know if we ever will get there.

Um, but through the master plan, um the thing is the city could don't plant all these trees, but then the city's gonna have to maintain all of these trees, and so we we're really being need to be strategic on educating residents of the importance of trees and also developing some type of preservation um ordinances for trees because we really need the help.

If San Leandro really wants to get to 20 percent or even increase to 10 to 15 percent, um, we're really gonna need the help of residents as well, too.

So we're we're we're having meetings with the county as well as hard.

We got a state grant that we're going to be implementing in the next month.

It's a climate action grant.

So what it is, it's a planning grant to figure out on a I'm gonna quote this wrong, but Western Alameda County, Western Alameda, Western Alameda County.

So working with East Bay Regional, working with Hard, working with City of Hayward, and working with the county to develop a grassroot group to advise and help develop a plan team planning initiative, and also to look at how we facilitate requests for trees, maintenance for trees to streamline it on a regional level.

So we'll be probably rolling that out in the next two months.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Well, really quick.

I mean, that's gotta be quick.

I mean, it's fast uh and easy.

So I was wondering what the um the increase in the team participation, what were the programs that were kind of led to that?

So uh our department overs is uh oversees also and contributes to the youth commission.

So our youth commission is actually pretty popular.

We have about 30 members, um, and so they have help advise us on types of programming.

So it's more specialized programs, um, we've had uh and drop-in free programs.

So we had uh drop-in art classes.

Um it was interesting because I was reading one of the comments and um we did a a knitting and plastering class for teens, and they're like, we need that scene center.

Um, but uh so we did drop-in activities where they don't have to pay, it's a drop-in, they're able to socialize.

Our youth commission has also helped to promote our activities, and we have more specialized classes.

So this year we actually have a lot more steam coding classes.

Um my kids are taking an engine engineering Lego camp at Marina Community Center from one to floor today.

Um, so we've added a lot more of those specialized classes, and we're gonna be increasing a lot of our sports activities as well, too.

So where?

Uh at all of our parts.

So Thrasher has activities now, uh, Washington Manor, uh, Wash to Manor.

Currently, we offer a free program, which I didn't share.

We have 300 uh youth participating in a free junior giants program.

So they do practices and then games, it's 100% free and they get lunch.

Um, and we also so I forget forgot to share that, I wasn't even included on these numbers.

Another 300 kids that are playing baseball for free.

Yeah, and the giant sinker, that's been a long-term thing.

Um, so one more thing.

So, who took up graffiti as graffiti um in part, and it's a two-part question.

Two parts.

So in parks, it's us everywhere else public works, okay.

So, two different departments, and um my question originally came up a couple of months ago.

Is um, if the graffiti is specifically racist or hate graffiti, is it reported to the police department as a hate crime?

Do you know?

I I'm not 100% sure if it's reported.

We do just as a policy.

So if someone comes on to be from the city of San Diego, say they're getting ready to paint it to get rid of it.

Is it also report categorized like uh cataloged photograph, whatever it is, and then covered and reported?

Everything should be cataloged in our work order system.

So maybe this is something that the police department should address.

Yes, so it could be taken over, yes, yes, or a city council.

Okay.

Uh I I I could I could look into that as well too, and get some additional information.

Like people want to do the right thing and just you know, kind of get rid of it, raise it and over it, but we should really know if this is going on.

So the one that happened recently at a park and on the sidewalk, that was reported to PD.

Okay.

And we were collaboratively with public works.

So my staff went and took care of the park, public works when it took care of the sidewalk.

I think we evaded that.

I think less than six hours once we were notified from the school district.

It was on a school district sidewalk, yeah.

Um, and then PD was also involved.

So there was a police report that was done as well, too.

I would have to confirm, get more details if at specific park locations or public work locations, depending on the size or what's there, what then triggers it to be communicated with the there's a there's a process in place, policy in place that these things are documented.

They're all documented in our work order system, but I as far as PD, I will confirm that what that is, like what the criteria is for reporting to PDP.

Okay, thank you all for all your comments.

I know we're gonna have you back.

And thank you very much for attending today.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I did want to give our public an opportunity.

If they uh very quickly, if you have a question or um a comment, your questions may not be answered right now, but if you have a comment, uh again, we you know we do take it under advisement.

Anybody?

Yes, no, no, okay, thank you.

No, did you have something?

Oh, can we deal with a couple of reviews about this topic?

One, yeah, it has to be about this topic, it has to be about this topic.

I'm sorry, I'm having carding having card, it has to be about the presentation that we just had.

It can't be about anything else.

Oh, right now, the public comment part was before you came in.

I'm so sorry.

Okay, no problem.

Um I could part in a couple of the June team, and so thank you for that.

I don't know if you put that on, I think it was kind of a comment, but those would do a teen activity.

I would like to know about the teen activity where they uh advertise to the team, so how do they know about them?

Uh most of our advertisement, which is something new we're actually doing now.

We found it to be super successful.

Um so we have a scholarship program, and we had trouble awarding the scholarships, and we translated the flyer and sent it through school districts uh flyer software, peach jar, and within a week we awarded $35,000 in scholarships.

So, what we're finding to be super really successful is advertising through the school districts' channels, um, social media, and also our youth commission having events.

So they hosted a movie in the park event.

We had a lot of teams participate in that.

Um, and we also work with the boys and girls club as well, too, on cross-marketing activities with them and us through our social media channels and marketing channels.

Okay, thank you.

My sandy, do you have business cards?

Yeah, I should have some.

Yeah, thank you very much.

Oh, I thought you'd give it an all right.

Um, we need to move along.

We'll take a little break.

Um, you need to stand up.

I'll bring some.

I have them in my card.

Can we take a break?

Okay, I also don't want to escape.

Five minutes, yeah.

So I have my five minutes.

Okay, so did we call a recess on the recorder?

We did, yeah, okay.

All right, thank you.

All right, uh, calling the meeting back to order.

All right, action item number seven, age-friendly implementation update.

I will turn this over to Pedro.

Thank you so much, Chair.

Uh so I am happy to share, as you all recall from the last meeting, that this work with HTML will still be a huge priority of this uh commission, and as such, it will always be on the agenda.

Okay, and what I um what I like to do, I think what I what it would be helpful is to have a sort of a structure in which every month I come and I share updates.

I come and I get input or we when we when we come across things that require some input and conversation, and then also very importantly, come and share where they're up whether where there are opportunities for the commission to support some of these activities.

Okay, so uh I think we have the business cards that are coming around.

Okay, the flood of emails are I got two thank you.

And I can get more of the we can give more I'll have some I have some extra ones at the next meeting.

I got one oh you go on that's great.

Thank you.

Yeah I'm gonna send you the links real quick before I leave the okay perfect.

So so with that um just a reminder so as part of our age friendly initiative we all agreed on six priorities right 13 projects and a dozen or so activities.

So what you're gonna see here is a breakdown of some of the age-friendly activities uh in which I will be providing some updates maybe engaging you all in conversation and again at the end kind of soliciting your support to support uh some of that work and so um and so with that I'll start with our first uh priority which is plan sustainability as you know that has to do with building our capacity right strengthening our infrastructure everything from funding to staffing to partnerships uh so as you see for our first activity there um regarding trainings uh I'm happy to report that we just completed uh our staff just completed a de-escalation training on July uh 2nd uh the de-escalation training was intended to support staff to understand to assess uh and understand various types of scenarios or situations that might come up here at this site and understand how to adequately manage those situations in many of those situations yes in many of those situations obviously understanding like de-escalation uh techniques uh so we partner with the Alameda Alameda family services who is who uh came and provided this training uh all of our all of our staff got got trained and so and so this helps support our ability right our capacity to be able to support the safety of our staff our partners and our patrons um so that took place just recently uh as far as uh our next training uh part two what I'm calling part two our CPR and first aid staff training is gonna be held in the fall of this year we did a part one with half of our staff since then we've acquired new staff or or we want to provide an opportunity for staff that missed our first session to participate in the CPR first aid training.

With that I'd like to thank our colleagues with recreation and parks department who actually have been doing these trainings for us.

So we're currently coordinating with them to schedule uh the next one so come in a few months at the end of the summer early fall every single one of our staff members uh will be certified andor their certifications will be updated um and every middle school student for city of San Leandro has also been CPR certified certified as well too thank you yeah absolutely I love that that's great thank you um so that's so that's trainings and then so with partnerships as you all know we are part of the Alameda County age friendly communities these are uh monthly meetings that that we have with uh partner cities and and the county um once a month our next meeting is actually tomorrow uh there on on Fridays uh the June meeting I think was there was a recess because of summer even though we're still in summer but for some reason the June meeting was was was canceled.

So I'll be participating in that meeting as you recall great opportunity to network great opportunity here about resources outside of San Leandro great opportunity for us to share also with that body what we're doing and what's working I know that Commissioner Michael Katie usually participates in those meetings in a in a different capacity that she has with the county but it's always good to have her there and so we can uh you know support one another we'll we'll look forward to providing an update about that meeting at the at the next meeting um regarding the implementation of our comprehensive communications plan as you know this has to do with access and information and outreach uh very excited to share that we uh uh applied for a grant through Kaiser to sponsor our um our annual senior services expo we did the first expo last year we had great success with it we're gonna continue to do it again this year and they agreed through this grant program to fund the uh the event so we're gonna be receiving uh four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars from Kaiser to specifically sponsor this event that's gonna help with uh light refreshments it's gonna help with um uh helping with the graphic design and and and promotion uh raffle prices you know we all like these goodies that goodies that people bring to us right so these swag swags swag items um so we're looking forward uh to that in the fall very importantly as you know with some of these grants while they may be small it's a it's a it's a it's a uh gateway right to potentially more partnership and other opportunities so we look forward to that do we have the data on that yeah we do I think we do I don't have it at the top of my head but I can I can forward it to the commission thank you yeah and so um and so and so with that um I uh mentioned to you all I think in an email um and sort of a piggyback to the conversation that we had last month regarding outreach a list of the sites where we are distributing this the monthly senior calendar uh so um so that's a that's a that's all those are sites are getting hard copies of of our calendar thank you yes if there are other sites that you want to recommend please share them with me today or email them uh to me we're gonna we're gonna we look forward to continuing to expand uh that outreach and and um and then and then similarly uh my invitation still stands I'm happy to provide you with copies uh I know I brought some from one of our commissioners today uh copies that maybe you're willing to uh get out to local restaurants or other other facilities that are not on that list or just you know just in general to your networks a little comment on that I I bring actually used to get big stacks of them but I bring them over to Ilios because I'm usually there a couple of times a month and every time I go there the stack is gone and those are great places seniors go to dinner or lunch um at many of our local restaurants and having the local paper and the senior um uh calendar something that they read while they eat say I share I sometimes listen to what's being said at the next table and they actually do read those things and does it go out in the paper would the paper be willing to do that you're talking about the selling times good question you know that's actually good idea to explore I know that um every so often they include the city's activity guide they do in there so that's a great idea that was a good idea that's a great idea yeah as an insert yeah then I don't know if there's a charge for that I know that in the in the past we have paid for advertisements to the the San Leandro Times and that came and we think we bought a uh quarter of a page and and then there is a charge for that right yeah but if it's an insert but insert I don't know that yeah there's a cost and if it well I'll find out yeah it's a good idea um so um uh we did participate also recently in the in the July 11th Pride Festival I don't know how many of you were able to make it out there last week I understand the festival uh had a great had a great turnout uh staff was there uh to connect with folks to share information about the the services uh that we provide and uh we even had um a volunteer who is uh a lead person with our rainbow seniors program here at the senior community center to join our staff that day at our table to help promote um uh to help promote that that particular program that is that is that takes place here so that was uh a great collaboration with our volunteers um just for kicks I want to share with you we we we we have been uh tracking the the traffic that we get through social media as we're promoting some of these activities so as an example uh we worked with our communication our city communications team to promote the uh the annual senior resource fair and so some of the analytics related to that um through instagram our instagram posts received uh 1304 views okay our facebook post for that particular event received 2043 views and then we also received uh 27171 views through next door okay so that was just promotion that we did over the weekend over a the weekend before the annual uh resource fair similarly as you all may know we provide uh advertisement about our programs through um through a program called called clavio which basically is a a electronic newsletter that goes out to any individual over the age of 50 who has at some point registered for a senior services class through our active net system okay and so um so we were tracking the number of views between the period of June 11th through July 8th and we found that during that period there was uh 3,510 views uh with about 659 followers okay so just to kind of give us an idea of like who's who like this effort that goes into the social media uh promotions facebook and so forth you know what the response uh uh to that to that is we're not abandoning the face to face we will never abandon the face to face as you all know because it's so important to us um so i I want to share that we have um we have uh three uh face to face outreach uh events happening between now and our next uh senior commission meeting the first one is on july 26th uh we will be uh at the Grant Avenue Foundation fourth annual backpack backpacks for kids eventually and first community expo that's a long name or long name for an event but that's the name of the event so that's July 26th we will also be at the August 9th Davis Street Resource Center okay and then we will always we will also be at the September 3rd farmers market okay so those are three events are coming up that we're looking forward to then as you see on the slide on this on the screen there we also uh have a presentation uh to the human services commission scheduled for next wednesday july 23rd uh commissioner dylan and i will be giving that presentation we met yesterday to prep for that uh um for that event we're looking forward to learning about what are the priorities of that commission right we look forward to specifically focusing on helping them um help uh to raise their awareness about our age friendly plan but specifically our priorities our projects and our activities in hopes that in the review and this discussion on that we'll be able to identify some very concrete places where we can collaborate as you may recall from previous conversations that's been in the interest of this collaborative I mean this commission to collaborate with other commissions uh so that's going to be happening next week we'll provide an update um at our at our next meeting so how can you help around this priority there's a few different ways uh one please help distribute those senior uh monthly service calendars to your to your networks and or email me any sites that are not on that list that I emailed you that you think we shouldn't that we should add uh to our to our uh distribution second thing is um um we have those three events coming up the outreach events if you're if you're at all if you're available or interested in helping staff uh please contact me and um we we we would be happy to have you join our table to share about this commission but also about specifically age friendly and the third thing that I'll say is similar to the human services commission presentation will be presenting to other commissions so as we move forward with that those presentations uh if and when you are available and interested please please let me know and I'm I'm happy to uh partner with you on those presentations can I ask what what's the Davis Street one what are they doing there it's a it's a resource fair oh yes a resource fair that's an annual resource fair that they that they do so we will be there have a table have some activities to engage the public and have some materials to hand up.

Do you have any times on these at all?

Yes, I can give you that uh so the the Davis Street Resource Center is scheduled from 10 to 1.

And the date again.

That is uh August 9th the uh the Grant Avenue Foundation event is uh July 26th, and it's from the hours of 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m.

And then the the farmers market is September 3rd, and that's in the evening hours.

I think it's three to seven.

Okay.

Okay.

Moving on to the next priority.

Our personal protection priority.

There's some exciting things happening there as well.

As many of you uh will recall, we have been participating, we have been partnering with UC Berkeley and uh the uh California walks uh on the community pedestrian and bicycle safety training program.

And so we are at the tail end of that program.

I'm waiting for them to let me know when the draft of the report is gonna be uh made available, as well as when we're gonna be scheduling that final uh planning committee meeting.

As you may recall, we have Chair Watcheson that's planning part of that committee, uh Commissioner Brennan is part of that committee, uh Vice Chair Comelo is part of that committee, and Commissioner uh Pena has been participating in that process.

So I will I will uh share when when that information is available and when that meeting is gonna happen.

Um we're not we're not uh discontinuing our partnership with with uh UC Berkeley and um and uh and California walks.

Uh even after this process is complete, they are making themselves available to provide technical support uh to us uh just to help us uh find ways to implement some of the strategies that are gonna be recommended as part of our final report.

So that communication and the partnership with them will continue.

And then lastly, um they have invited us to uh to be part of a um of a of a series uh interview interview series that they conduct with various uh partners that they have found to be a special interest or success.

And so they have a um a series called Stories from the Field, and again it highlights successes, uh success stories with uh case studies.

Uh so um they uh went ahead and uh uh conducted uh an interview with uh my king and myself a few weeks ago, and so they're in the process of finalizing the the um finalizing the story uh scheduled to be completed by the end of the month.

I will go ahead and let you know when that's done, and I will send you the link to their website so that you can see uh what that interview was like.

But good opportunity for us to continue to promote all the good work that's happening uh through our age friendly initiative.

Um so that's that's uh that's uh the CPBST update.

Uh and now um and also within that that uh priority, as you may recall, uh we are uh working to um execute a contract with uh tech exchange.

Tech exchange provides uh litter uh computer literacy classes for our seniors.

Um so we um ended up applying for a contract, a grant through ARP, which we did not receive.

Nonetheless, we did not give up.

We found ways to leverage some of our existing resources to be to get into our contract with them.

So I'm happy to say that we just executed the contract with them last week.

So as a result of that, they're going to be providing uh eight classes to about 30 individuals come the fall, and they will also be uh providing a demo or a kind of uh interactive uh uh activity for us during the fall uh senior services expo.

Okay, so great opportunity there to continue that that partnership with tech exchange.

Um so how can you help?

I would say our our our mention the commissioners are part of the planning committee.

Please continue to be engaged.

Please read the draft of the report when it comes out and please attend the the last final meeting and then just be prepared to come back to a future commission meeting to provide an update regarding um the progress with that.

Yes.

Is there any way to uh that we can observe or or uh just uh see what's going on in the tech exchange training sessions?

As far as coming in and just observing the shadowing, yeah, I think that would be fine.

Yeah, yeah.

Based on the first, no way, but I'd like to understand and see kind of in kind of practical way what's going on there.

Yeah, to clarify my thinking as to perhaps what's needed.

Absolutely.

You have your views of what you think is needed, but until you hear people ask questions, you don't actually know what's needed.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And so we can do that for sure.

I think there's is let me check with them, but I don't see a problem.

You know, they're the they're the operators of the program, so sometimes they have you know uh things that that they need.

Um, so I will double check with them.

Um, and and so the other uh opportunity that I see is in the upcoming months.

I think it's gonna be really helpful and and interesting to all of you to hear directly from some of these new partners that we have, right?

So as we are getting into these contracts with some of these um uh partners uh whose work is coming to life at result of age friendly.

Like I want to invite them to come and provide a brief presentation so that we have an opportunity to get to know them and for you to ask questions about some of the work that they're gonna be doing.

Okay, so uh moving on to our our personal protection uh priority here.

Um so uh we've talked a little bit about this.

The city has uh what they call a local hazard mitigation plan.

So what this does is it provides uh a plan uh that the city uses uh during times when there are there's a local hazard such as a flood, wildfires, cyber community commute uh cyber security threats, and so uh every so often they update this this plan and um and so um and so they are at a phase right now where they're doing community outreach.

And I believe I sent you all the information about this via email as well as the link that you can use to take the survey.

Uh the survey is supposed to only take between five to 10 minutes, maybe longer, maybe shorter, depending on the individual.

Um, but it's uh it's uh it's done through uh the survey monkey.

The survey will be available uh for the uh between the period of July 10th through July 31st.

Okay, so uh we are going to go beyond that and make this uh as accessible it is to our older adults, and so we're planning to uh open up the computer lab next Thursday, uh between the hours of 12 30 and 4 30, and invite senior community center patrons to come into the computer lab.

We'll have staff there helping them navigate through the survey and answer any questions to make it as easy as possible.

And then beyond that, knowing that not everybody wants to get in front of a computer, we are going to have hard copies of the survey also available during that time.

Okay, easy survey.

It's an easy survey.

Is it easy?

You took it okay, perfect.

Perfect, um, so that's that.

And then the the next item there is the um an update regarding our participation in the Alameda County Access and Functional Needs Advisory Committee.

As a reminder, this body meets uh on a regular basis.

Emergency preparedness specialists and myself are part of that committee.

We participate in those meetings, they're focused on helping understand uh the needs of vulnerable populations during a disaster.

And so um, so that meeting took uh place yesterday, and the uh I guess one takeaway from that meeting is that there is going to be a government and disability summit uh uh happening on uh September uh 2nd.

And so um that may be a good opportunity for um somebody within the city to go and and connect at a broader level regarding some of this, some of these uh initiatives outside of of San Diego.

So um, so that's that update.

Uh we'll move on to um oh so the request there, there's always gonna be a request, right?

So the request, the opportunity for you all is uh again take that survey, okay, if you haven't already done so.

Uh, and if you're interested in coming and helping us next Thursday, greet people, just direct them to the computer lab, help them with through that process.

Please feel free to reach out to me offline.

I'm sorry, was there a time?

Yes, it's 12:30 to 4:30 next Thursday.

Okay, next update.

Um, we have uh under our housing security uh priority.

Um so we uh human services department has uh recently executed a contract with home match.

Home match is a program that uh supports uh people with uh finding housing.

Um sometimes it's uh like shared housing uh with with other individuals here within the the city.

Uh so they're um they're uh receiving a $30,000 uh grant from our department, and so in the next uh few weeks we're collaborating with them to uh promote these services.

Uh so we'll be you uh incorporating uh that outreach through uh our Facebook, uh possibly our senior services guide.

Um they're asking about presentations that they can do.

Uh they're gonna be they're gonna explore possibly doing something aligned with uh National Night Out and seeing if there's opportunities for them to connect with various community groups through uh National Night Out, and so um, and so they also are interested in uh coming and meeting you all and as well as the Human Services Commission.

So um, so I wanted to check to see if this commission would be interested in hearing a presentation from home match.

And I would say, uh we're gonna reach this in August, like September will probably be busy and we'll have a lot of updates about age friendly.

So I'm thinking maybe October.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

And so um, am I doing a time here?

Okay, I'll speed it up a little bit.

Um so um uh yes, item two didn't make it on with a hard copy.

Item two.

Oh, yes.

Thank you for that.

Thank you for that.

Hot off the press.

I no, I understand the exchange.

Yeah, I don't know whether it was an addition or subtraction.

It's an addition, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you for bringing that up.

I think that's why I was getting a little lost here with my my notes.

Uh, so hot off the press.

We I have been contacted uh by my colleagues in the community development department who are going to be um engaging the community in uh focus groups uh to discuss the 2023, 2031 housing element.

So there's gonna be some focus groups.

Um, and so they are um so the the housing element is um it's uh the goal is to uh uh let me see here or to reduce identify constraints to housing production, make development more financially feasible, and support the city in reducing vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas emissions.

Okay.

Uh the study will look at changing how we mandate car parking, bicycle parking for new development and and how multimodal transportation requirements can be incorporated into mute development.

So they have reached out and have asked if I if we have two senior commissioners who would be willing to participate in the study.

What does that entail?

The plan is to meet with the focus groups two times virtually, each time for no more than two hours.

Uh currently they are targeting the weeks of August 4th and September 8th to conduct these virtual meetings.

Uh the city has contracted with a third party consultant to facilitate the discussion uh with no city staff present, and uh the feedback uh provided will remain anonymous.

Uh so please let me know if you are interested so that I can connect you with the individuals who are spearheading this project.

Did they give you times?

They did not give me time, no.

And are the focus groups or this two separate focus groups or the same people?

I think it's the same people for both focus groups, correct.

So what would be the idea of talking to us?

Should they be talking to people who are homeless, or what was the purpose?

Did they say anything?

Um, I think they just want to get feedback from the community, and they're they're exploring different ways to connect, and and because commission commissions are comprised of residents who are already actively involved in city uh you know efforts or at least knowledgeable, it's it's it seems like it could be a natural opportunity to engage folks.

I think here in particular, I think it's a good opportunity because as you know, housing security came up as a top priority for our age funding plan.

And that's actually is as you can see, is actually part of what what we said we wanted conversations and studies that we wanted to be a part of.

Yeah, so I that's the invitation to you all.

If somebody is is eager to participate in that, raise your hand, or or if you're so I see two hands, I see uh Commissioner uh Lopez Macario and Commissioner Brennan.

So I so if nobody else is uh I'm impressive, but I don't know how we can add value.

Okay, so I'm sorry.

I'm I'm not here one of those two days.

Okay, no, it's fine.

I think when they're only asking for two.

So I think if if you're all okay with Commissioner Brennan and Commissioner Lopez Nacario representing the commission, we should be fine for now.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Okay.

Uh next is our health and wellness uh priority.

And so um, so we are uh we are uh as you know, one of our activities is to partner with the Alameda County Public Health Department uh to um provide uh trainings here for staff and caregivers.

So this would be specifically through the county's uh healthy brain initiative, Alzheimer's disease and related dementia trainings, and so we're looking uh we are currently in in conversations with them.

Uh they're going to be um we're gonna be providing trainings in the fall of this year.

Uh the trainings are gonna focus on um self-care for caregivers, uh managing daily care, managing decisions for caregiving uh in-home versus facility care, and then helping navigate the healthcare environment, which includes advocating for yourself and for your loved ones.

Um the trainings will be held in collaboration with the public health department, and they've retained uh a consultant by the name of Sage Dementia Consulting to provide the trainings.

Okay, so come in the next few months as we get some of these things uh fleshed out.

I'll be sharing information with you all.

And if you're all interested in participating or you know people that might be interested, please uh help us promote um also in that category.

Um we did supply, we did submit a second grant uh application to Kaiser, a mini grant, uh, to fund a caregiver appreciation event.

We've never done that here.

We want to do it.

Uh we've partnered, we've met with uh social services who has done this in the past and gotten a lot of really good intel.

Uh, unfortunately, Kaiser did not select that project uh as a um as an awardie for for this year.

Um, just like other things, we're not gonna give up, we're gonna continue to find opportunities to support this work.

So more to come on that.

So that's scheduled for November 6th.

Is that correct?

Which one is the yes?

Yes, yes, and then uh lastly, here is our uh social connection uh priority, uh which includes combating epidemic of isolation and loneliness through creative varied opportunities for trust building, uh social interaction and share learning, and so um as part of this age-friendly work, as you all recall.

Uh we uh uh have discussed the importance of uh doing day trips for seniors, and so we are exploring uh that uh project with our flex rides shuttle provider, which is MB Transportation, who have agreed to uh to support this this work.

And uh, and beyond that, as you recall from the last meeting, we added this as part of our paratransit proposal to ACTC, uh, which is where we get our measure BB funds to to support this this work, and and that body has has approved our proposal.

So we have the funding, we have the approval on the on the project.

We have a provider who's interested in doing this with us, and now it's just a matter of incorporating that into their contract.

Their current contract with them, uh, which does not include this work, goes through September 30th of this year.

So we are in the process of renegotiating the contract, incorporating this component into their contract so that it becomes effective um October first so after October 1st we'll be able to do uh monthly day trips we're not waiting until October 1st to do a day trip so as you can see from the screen there we do have our annual trip to the senior the senior living festival at the Oakland Zoo last year we we partner with supervisor Nate Miley's office and we're able to get a charter bus that came here so this year we're planning to do that again the events planned for September 25th it's gonna be at the um at the uh at the Oakland zoo and so we have a bus that's gonna be coming here that day and we'll be able to uh to transport uh 50 older adults uh to that event we'll have staff there and so where you can help is uh please come and participate in the in the event if you're available help and uh andor help us promote what day of the week is that Thursday uh Thursday September 25th yeah and so um sign ups begin when um I don't know you find out yeah um so those are our updates as you can see lots of good information lots of progress and so uh any areas where I mentioned we need your support please feel free to contact me and so uh in the future I'll continue to bring these updates and uh and engage you all in this grid work any questions I know this is not part of that but seniors uh volunteers helping senior um that program you said you were above to be if you remember what is that for the yeah thank you for that um so um again we incorporated that that that program into our period transit program proposal which was approved uh as you may recall we have been having conversations with an organization called Citizer uh from the Tri Valley who operates a program called right care so um so the next step for us is to engage in revisit uh these conversations with them we've already been in conversation that's how we developed a proposal for the paratransit uh program so now it's coming back to them and we uh to negotiate a a contract with them um so I'm hoping to have a uh promising or exciting update for you the next time that we meet thank you yes so just clarification because I'm new what happened to the senior here called sick i mean something happens what is the procedure um say a little bit more so like these people come for classes and all what if they faint or something what is the procedure right now so the procedure is uh basically to assess the situation i mean if it's if it's an if it's an emergency call 911 uh 911 for the most part uh we we actually trained our staff on on sort of assessing these kind of situations and so yeah it's it's called it's called 911 uh if it's um if it's an emergency if it's something that we can do through the CPR first aid training that I just described based on the training that they received and staff would be able to follow accordingly okay yeah is there a difficult on site yeah uh yes does anybody know how to use it that's a good question uh so again that was that's part of what's covered in the in the CPR first aid uh training and so what so what we hear from from the trainers when they do those trainings is that the system is supposed to be very user friendly I know sometimes it can be very intimidating right new machine how do we use it but apparently once that thing gets turned on it walks you exactly through what you need to do it talks to you right now it talks to you yeah yeah it was not I have not interacted with once yeah lucky yeah we offered the general public ever here which training CPR and all that that you guys only for the stuff, thank you.

Yeah the the one that we're that we're leading for the fall is it's specifically for for staff.

Right.

And so as you heard uh from uh uh director zuniga that they also have other uh efforts that that they implement to train community members, and you heard the example about all the the eighth graders who were who were just trained.

Yeah, because I have a lot of we have a lot of research that went through that training they needed yeah, but I was just wondering like for us if we wanted to uh I haven't come across anything, you know, we wanted to get retrained.

It's kind of hard to find, because um, I mean I have environmental technician training and one of them is C Pri R EMT and all that, but you know it's good to get retrained because like you say they have new things that they use differently from when I have training.

I just realized my CPR training was pre-defiliated, which is why I don't know I've never interacted with anyone else.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, let me look into I know sometimes the American Red Cross provides these trainings.

So um let me look a little deeper into that to see what what opportunities they have for community residents, and then I'm happy to share that with you all.

Okay, and maybe make a point of that it could be a refresher CPR course.

If your CPR, you know, there's a few years back, yeah, time for refresher course to be updated.

Yeah, and I think they do have that structure where there's the there's the brand new certification, and then there's the refresher.

Yeah, perfect.

So, two more questions.

I'm sorry.

So you had said the CNEX is once a year.

So you've said the fall senior expo that Geyser has given us money.

Is this in this fall or is it next fall?

Yeah, good question.

So just to just to clarify, so we have two big fairs that we do here.

One is the annual senior resource fair that just happened, and then there's the fall senior services expo.

The difference between the two of those is that the annual resource fair, we we invite outside partners.

Okay, the senior services expo in the fall is specifically targeting the programming that we're providing.

And the reason for that is because as you know, sometimes people don't know about the services that are available and the resources.

So that was our targeted intentional way to say, wow, look at all these services that we already have.

How can we we need to ensure that anybody from our community is aware of what's already happening?

So that's that targeted one.

Last year we did it out of that necessity, so so because we found it successful and useful, we decided that we want to continue to do those, and then this year we just happen to uh be able to fund it through this funding funding from Kaiser, uh, which helps, right?

Because as we've discussed in recent months, we are having to uh find ways to do some cost savings, and so this is a good opportunity to just offset some of those costs that we would have allocated toward this event.

Now we can allocate those costs to something existing or possibly in something new.

Um and the tech contract that you have, the content, just like was mentioning, who decides the content of what we're going to teach the uh seniors?

So Oakland uh, sorry, so tech exchange actually has a curriculum uh that they have developed and that they utilize um as part of the the implementation of of these classes, and so um and so they it's it's through their it's through their curriculum.

But but part of the I think the the planning of these these classes happen in coordination with our staff.

So our staff get to see the curriculum and they get to provide some insight about some of the things that we're hearing from our older adults that they're interested in, and so um, and so we do so it's through a collaboration, yeah.

Yeah, and is it possible for me to get engaged in that?

I mean, this is what I do for a living.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

So so going coming back to uh Commissioner Brennan's uh inquiry regarding you all being able to just come in shadow.

So I'm gonna look I'm gonna I'm gonna follow up with them to see if that's something that can happen.

Um they might even engage you as volunteers, so don't they'll be surprised if you don't be surprised if you get roped into helping in some ways because they do leverage volunteers, and then um second to that I do look forward to inviting tech tech exchange at some point to come and meet you all and share more about their organization.

A copy of the curriculum would be probably answer many of the questions.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

Okay, I have two minutes.

Okay, so um, this goes along with the age-friendly.

Uh in July, they have on July 26th is the National Disability Independence Day, and Let's Come Together to show kindness, compassion, and understanding for all.

Uh the terms disability and disabled include a broad range of physical, psychological, developmental, and intellectual conditions, both visible and invisible, and the National Disability Independence Day commemorates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, on July 26, 1990.

The ADA offers protection from employment discrimination as well as improved access to goods services and communication for people with disabilities.

And the day serves as a powerful reminder of the barriers that many people with disabilities have faced and still faced.

So the next thing I have is, and if you I've sorted this, you got each have a bundle.

This was in the AARP magazine.

Um it's a uh what you should have in a go bag, and then my husband kindly went into the computer because he has to know more always.

And he has printed out what actually needs to go in your go bag.

There's one for uh couples, or you can use it as a single if you're like an older senior couple, or and there's a second one for just uh like regular, you know, all the all the massive information that needs to go in ours doesn't need to necessarily need to go in everybody's.

Amazing, thank you.

I think is there that access to this, oh yes, yes, yes, here.

There's these two go down there.

I mean the patrons, patrons have come here, they should have um well that's up to Pedro.

Yeah, that's up to Pedro.

Okay, then the third thing I have is I found this online, and I thought this was interesting, and something to go along with our um age-friendly.

Some schools are exploring the idea of awarding physical education credit for students who help seniors with yard work.

The innovative approach connects community service with physical activity, allowing students to fulfill their PE requirement while assisting elderly or disabled individuals with tasks like mowing lawns or gardening.

Um schools are recognizing the value of community engagement and the positive impact it can have on both students and community, physical activity, yard work, such as mowing, ranking, or gardening, provides a good form of physical activity for the students.

PE credit by participating in these activities, students can earn PE credit, potentially reducing the time and effort required to complete their physical education requirements, and dual benefit is the approach offers a win-win situation, providing assistance to those in need while simultaneously promoting physical activity and community involvement among students.

Some schools are considering expanding this program to include other forms of physical activity and community service, further enhancing the benefits for students and community, and there's actually an Iowa school that is giving PE credits already for helping the elderly.

So I just thought that might be something that we might talk about going and talking to uh the high school or even you know, you know, some of the data school board.

Yeah, the school board, right?

Um, the um says that the students aren't typically too excited at the beginning, but once they get involved and start doing the yard work, they become more motivated, and it also teaches the high school students who are struggling to complete with education uh to complete their education and are to risk for dropping out.

So it actually sometimes PE is the last thing.

I was not a very good PE person, so I know how that goes anyway.

Those are things I just thought would be the food for thought for our age-friendly initiative too.

Did somebody have a question?

No, that's okay.

You kind of finished it.

I was I was uh we were talking about, I was talking about that and actually kind of trying to initiate that for our HOA instead of our landscapers because that's they don't know what they're doing.

You know, kids do that.

Yeah, because it's like you say it's motivation.

Yeah, okay, and um, okay, and uh, I would like to take this time to give our public an opportunity to comment on what we've just discussed.

Anything?

Okay, I'm already involved in putting together uh the goal tag, and because of the recent events in the discipline and Tennessee, because of the recent events, the weather event, the flooding, in uh I believe it was Mississippi, and Kentucky, uh and they talked about the warning system that was needed, like the sirens as a bowl, too.

Excuse me, pardon my phone, you know, anyway.

What I'm thinking is that the bag itself needs to be definitely thought about because it needs to be water repellent, it needs to be a certain type of bag so that it is durable and sustainable in terms of what I'm already putting in.

And a lot of what I'm putting in is uh those little wood called nature valley barn, um, and I put in dry cereal, and I do know that a lot of people use dry fruit like apricots and different things, but give people an understanding of what needs to go in.

I think it is so important, like you say, to have a go bag because you never know when that situation will arrive.

I know there was a gas leak a few months ago, and that was near uh Luelling, if I'm not mistaken.

Uh, I'm not, you know, I'm not new, I'm fairly new to San Leandro.

So a lot of the stuff that you're talking about, I don't know.

District this and district that, um, I don't know.

But I do believe that there needs to be also a liaison between teenagers and elderly because a lot of time they actually think that it's time for us to go to give get out of the picture, yeah.

And so we do need an opportunity to understand we're all human beings, and where they've been, I mean, where we've been, they're gonna go.

Yeah, and so we have a lot to share in terms of our stories and our wisdom.

Thank you very much.

Okay, did you have something too?

I wanted to add uh, I I'm working with uh Tandy Family Farms, and uh they're uh organization that has planting a lot of uh gardens in people's homes.

I've been talking to them about maybe setting something up for seniors and also people who are disabled, so volunteers could help plant those gardens for them because I've noticed a lot of seniors when I went to a greening summit, they were telling me that they can no longer garden, but they'd love to have a garden.

If we can get more people to help them in terms of volunteers, so they can still have the garden in their front yards, maybe, uh even food gardens.

Uh I would love to be able to get them to maybe present something to you guys about that.

It's possible in the future sometime.

So it goes to this thing about volunteering and like pee, even you know, younger people could help and get the credits or something like that.

Yeah, and if we can do that, that'd be wonderful.

Because they're already doing this everywhere.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, we still can't talk to them.

Can't talk.

But I would say, can you hang out?

Can you can you can we talk afterwards?

I think there is a connector there that might be good.

Sorry, thank you.

All right, um, we're down to uh Commissioner Comments, Commissioner Lopez Nicario.

It's kind of all over the place.

So uh Commissioner Brennan.

Um I did find an interesting article called Um Dutch Design Intersections, which exactly uh talked about uh improving bike and pedestrian access through intersections to reduce uh interaction with powered vehicles.

Um I'll forward that to Pedro and uh it may be interesting to our Cal the team from Cal and that setting.

Okay, uh Commissioner McHenry, um our guard is back, yeah.

The lady that we have known for so long who's been missing, she's back.

I'm so excited to see her.

I've missed her very much.

I'm so glad to see her.

Um thank you for the technology recycle bins.

I brought my old flip phone that I've now had for what a year and a half or more, that I didn't know what in the hell to do with.

And I brought it in Monday to put it in that bin.

So thank you very much for those.

That's and when I went out during our break, um, there was a lady that was looking at it, and we had chatted for a moment about it.

So um, encourage us, let us know that it's remind us, let us know what that it's there and exactly what will go in it.

Thank you very much on that.

Um we need more handicapped parking.

Yes, I said it again.

Uh and I would be curious in the future as we're talking about surveys and questions to ask.

How many individuals actually use our website since that was one of the things that we were talking about today?

Particularly, I think one of the ways we could do it would be um even to look at the the records of people who register for classes.

How many do it online, how many come in here?

Um, because it flows to my other constant, which is communication other than the website, communication in person, communication in writing, uh communication uh, you know, with our churches and and other organizations.

Um I'd just be curious about that.

Uh, we and also we have talked a number of times about uh doing a field trip about our bus services, maybe we should think about that.

Find actually finding a date for that.

Uh and if you have an opportunity, um I I read the city manager's report that comes to me electronically uh every month, and there's never anything about uh the senior uh senior services or the senior center or the uh community center.

It would be nice if she would include that.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Commissioner Camilla, uh, um last month I believe the some of the spectrum, uh senior services.

They had some of the classes eliminated because of lack of funds, but uh then uh they also had the staff had gone for the meeting, and then I called Nina Dan, and uh she promised to have them back.

Uh the she found some money to put the to get those classes back.

So that was a good thing.

So can't you are we not supposed to be advocating for this thing as a commission?

I would say that as an individual, as an individual, you can do that as a commission, it would have to come to this body, and there would have to be a discussion in a decision made as a body to do that.

Okay, okay, but there was no time for this, so I think I did on my own.

It was as long as it was done, okay.

Commissioner Dillon.

No problems, uh Commissioner McMike McMichael Katie.

I brought some senior updates.

That's the quarterly newsletter for the county commission on aging.

They're out front there.

I don't know.

I think they come, but I don't know that you get very many of them, so I always bring in extra staff.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Commissioner Shalini.

Um questions.

Is there a thing like you're talking recycling?

Things do recycle medicines.

We do.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

There's a red bin out there.

Oh, it's locked, but I should be.

Yeah, and the waste pickup.

I was very pleased to see that they accepted class A drugs and had an officer standing right there to make sure that the Class A drugs went into the appropriate recycle.

So it's important to not be throwing, you know, opioids or other such things into a somewhat accessible recycle area.

Do we uh ever have courses on financial literacy or financial scans for seniors?

We do.

Okay.

And in the my Sandandro app, can there be an app box of that for seniors?

Something.

What I say, uh actually, I think we're going into a discussion.

Okay.

So if you if that's something that you want to discuss further, we can add it to a future agenda item.

But I hear I hear I hear the comment.

Okay, yeah, we can add it.

Okay.

All right.

There being no further business to come before the senior commission, I will entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting of July 17th, 2025.

I move to adjourn the meeting.

Okay, and second, okay.

Dylan and Brennan.

All right, roll call, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Chair Watcherson?

Yes.

Vice Chair Comelo?

Yes.

Commissioner Dillon.

Hi.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Yes.

Commissioner Brennan.

We're out of here.

Commissioner Michael Cady.

Yes.

Commissioner McHenry?

Yes.

And Commissioner Salini.

Yes.

Motion carries.

All right.

I declare the meeting of July 17th adjourned at 12 13 p.m.

So