I call the meeting of May 21st, 2026 Senior Commission to order.

The time is now 10 a.m.

Please stand for the pledges of allegiance, those that are April.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Please be seated.

Mr.

Secretary, could you do the roll call first?

Thank you.

Chair Watcheson?

Yes.

Here.

Vice Chair Comelo?

Yes.

Commissioner Dillon.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Commissioner Brennan.

Commissioner Pena.

And Commissioner Gopal Christian.

We have an excuse absence by Commissioner Brennan.

Also in attendance today, we have Human Services Director Jessica Lobitan, Recreation and Parks Director Vicente Zunica.

Human Services Program Assistant Valerie Nicolas and Senior Commission Secretary Pedro Mananco.

Thank you.

Announcements, Pedro.

I have one minor announcement.

If you take a quick look at your agenda under item uh seven, which is action items, the agenda that was sent to you on Friday had a typo.

There was a 7A, 7B, 27 C's.

So just a minor edit there.

We went ahead and switched the last one to a D from a C.

That was it.

Thank you.

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.

Consent calendar.

I will entertain a motion for approval of the draft minutes of the senior commission meeting of April 16th.

Anyone?

Yes.

Commissioner Shalini and the second?

I see.

Second, Commissioner Comelo.

Mr.

Secretary, will you please take the roll call?

Thank you.

Chair Watchison?

Yes.

Vice Chair Comelo?

Yes.

Commissioner Dillon.

Abstain.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario?

Here.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Yes.

And Commissioner Gopakrishnan.

Yeah.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

Okay.

Item four city staff reports and announcements.

Pedro, item A, vacant district five appointment.

Thank you, Chair.

So I have good news, everyone.

The vacancy for District 5 has been filled.

And so Ann Rixen was appointed during the past Monday, May 18th City Council meeting.

Commissioner Rickson could not attend today's meeting.

Uh but she will be available for the June meeting.

I have already reached out to her to schedule a time to meet with her so I can orient her to this commission, in particular to the work that you all are doing with the age-friendly initiative.

So you'll all get a chance to meet her in person during the June meeting.

Thank you.

Item 4b, Human Services Department wide updates.

This presentation will be done by human services director Jessica Lobadon and Rex Recreation and Parks Director Vincente Zunica.

Did I get that right?

Yes.

Thank you so much.

Good morning, everyone.

It's nice to see you all, and thanks for having us this morning.

We're going to be providing an update on the human services department.

Thanks so much.

So to give a little bit of history.

It was one department with the human services division under the recreation and March of 2022.

Based on community feedback on how the city of San Leandro could better serve the most at-risk residents, the city announced the formation of essentially the split of the department.

So the formation of a standalone human services department and a standalone recreation and park department.

So since uh March of 2022, that's been the structure that has been here in the city.

It's two standalone departments.

As I mentioned, the human services department was really uh created to better serve those most at risk, including individuals experiencing homelessness, those in mental health crisis, as well as really some of the domestic violence needs in the city.

And senior services stayed with human services, kind of to fill out the scope of work within that department.

So over the past, what is it now?

Three, four years, we've really been kind of hi, good morning.

We've really been piloting how this looks, and we've done a lot of great work, but we've also identified several efficiencies to doing a reorganization.

So effective July 1st, senior services will be returning to recreation and parks.

And human services will be moving into the city manager's office.

So this is just a visual of kind of, I'm sorry, it's a little small and light, but uh I think everybody has a copy of the presentation in their packets.

So what you can see here is is essentially the split of services.

So under senior services, of course, we have our senior commission, the senior center, paratransit program, our food distribution programs, as well as implementation of the age-friendly action plan.

So all of that as a suite will be moving into recreation and parks.

Under human services, we have the human services commission, homelessness response, our community assistant grant program, the Lowelling Interim Housing and Drop-in center, and the alternative response unit.

And so that'll be moving into the city manager's office.

And it will have executive leadership by Director Zumika.

I will continue to oversee human services in a new capacity as a deputy city manager.

I'll continue human services as well as a broader citywide scope of work.

So good morning, Isan Kissing Recreation Parks Director.

So I want to get a little background.

So I'm into the city.

Well, I guess I can still say I'm new.

I've been here a little over two years.

So the idea was to expand senior programming outside of traditional senior centers to allow additional flexibility and increase some programming for residents.

Where I came from, we covered a hundred square miles, so the need to have satellite locations and accessible locations for seniors was very critical.

So we're looking to evaluate and expand services here in San Leandro as well.

So one of the benefits of the re-org is centralizing services.

So recreation will become the one-stop shop for all direct community services and facility reservations.

So currently recreation overseas picnic reservations, field reservations, gym reservations, as well as we're currently negotiating a master facilities agreement with San Andrew Unified School District to also reserve all fields, schools.

We're also working with the library.

So for the city of San Leandro, we're near future, the recreation parks department will see all reservations for the whole city, including school district sites.

Human services, prioritizing really those types of service for vulnerable populations, elevating that work to the city manager's office.

And so the city feels elevating that work, that critical work, the city manager's office will give it the uh additional resources needed to really affect change in the city.

Again, maximizing impact.

So recreation, our capacity now, we operate three pools, so aquatics programs, fitness programs, camps, any program you can think of the city offers, we offer.

We offer it for all ages except seniors, and so it's a really uh smooth transition in our eyes of integrating another uh age population to our repertoire.

Um I did want to also uh highlight that currently recreation parks also is the administrator for the recreation software that senior services utilizes.

We also administer our activity guide that the senior services and programs are included in.

So there's already some collaboration, and we're already working with staff on a lot of uh initiatives and some of the um infrastructure that happens behind the scenes, and so we see that as a smooth transition.

Also, we've just completed two master plans last year, our tree master plan and also our recreation parks master plan.

Our recreation and parks master plan is really about expanding programming, better KPIs, and what that means is looking at trends, looking at what classes are successful, looking at what the community wants types of programming the community wants.

So there was an extensive outreach on the types of programming that the community wanted, and uh senior programming was identified, and so um seeing that transition and bringing it under one umbrella makes makes sense to us to just efficiencies and in alignment with some of the recommendations in that plan.

Um, as I shared before, efficiencies, so um we do very similar work, just different age groups, and so we've really been working on a lot of foundational uh work in the recreation and uh parks department as far as customer service, making it easier for online or walk-in registration, um, as well as staffing levels redoing our websites, social media campaigns, Google apps.

So we have the infrastructure to absorb another program um within our department.

Um I did want to say um just also just as far as talking of some of the services and opportunity, recreation park also oversees the golf course as well, too.

So we've got a lot of work happening at the golf course.

We have uh senior clubs, men's and women's clubs, we're upgrading our clubhouse, so there's opportunity for more activities there.

Um, we also do offer afternoon programming, and the majority of our registration is 50 and over for a lot of our activities in the afternoon.

They're not categorized as senior programs, but everybody over 50, all active adults are taking those programming.

So the opportunity to kind of streamline and advertise through our networks, I think it's going to be very successful.

Um, recreation also does a charity festival.

Um I did want to share since I'm here.

We're also doing a 250th independence day celebration at the golf course.

So we have live music, food trucks, um, free event that'll be at the golf course.

Um, and then the last thing I want to add as well is um we really the city why has really been focusing on efficiencies and cost savings through this um you know mid-uh budget cycle, and so we did want to highlight there's a significant cost savings as well, too, of streamlining just this departmental structures and approximately about a 350,000 annual savings that'll go with this reord.

Um, so with that, um, we're open for questions.

Yeah, the one the one thing I'll also add that we we didn't list on here is that um it really is industry standard to have senior services within a recreation um department and as well as paratransit services.

Um, so we we did a landscape analysis of I want to say 18 to 20 cities and maybe found one city that had it separate.

Um so it's it's really aligning us with kind of how most cities structure their senior service programs, yes.

Commissioner uh Shalini, three questions, so congratulations on your new job.

Um, so things like the drop incentive, not that could be thought of the uh housing, but you know, the city club's office.

Uh and we have a lot of seniors who are dead.

Are you just going to lump all the seniors together with other holistic building other people into that?

Yeah, so are you saying like um services for unsheltered seniors?

Yes.

Um, I would say that you know our services for the unsheltered population are um well here at Landro, they're typically for 18 plus our drop-in and navigation center for those 18 plus.

Um, so they're they're open to everybody.

Um we don't currently have any specialty programs for those who are seniors who are also experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

However, we do work with our provider building futures, and they may know of specialty senior services somewhere in the county, but we don't have them here in San Diego.

And my last question is you mentioned um uh you do a lot of um surveys or whatever, you know, getting feedback from the community.

Um, and you know the seniors get give feedback very differently.

They're not on Google Labs and all things.

So what kind of different ways of collecting information from seniors would you be doing?

Okay, well, I'll speak specifically to the master plan first.

Yeah, uh to the master plan, we had pop-up events, and we also had booths at a majority of our large special events.

Um so we have multiple with uh multiple translators at all of our events as well too.

Uh moving forward, it'll be pop-up events, um, it'll have uh opportunity for in-person feedback.

Um we also do surveys for all of our activities, so there'll be an opportunity for surveys um after each activity is concluded to get feedback as well, too.

But there'll be no more in-person type uh feedback.

Okay, thank you.

Um anyone else, Commissioner Kmella.

The must have planned.

Um, I don't know whether DSC uh is it possible to get a copy next week?

Uh first of all, I want to go ahead and just congratulate uh this uh for uh the promotion and you coming in.

And I also want to thank you for bringing my jetty uh that has a big thing for me, and they you did it in within a few days, and I was trying to read for like five years.

So thank you so much for that.

Yeah.

So must have planned if we can get a copy.

I don't know.

We can we can share a copy with Pedro, who can find it out with the entire commission.

Okay, that's really good.

The other thing I want to show, so our department currently sees urban forestry, so street mediums, file soils, tree maintenance, as well as the shoreline, but we also have a database of 600 volunteers as well, too.

So we really see that as an opportunity to engage um with the different population and and recruit additional volunteers to help with services that we provide as well, too.

So I think there's a huge opportunity to extend that program.

Anyone else?

Everybody's quiet today.

I'll I'll also just share that you know Vicente and I work very closely together, and I anticipate that we will continue to work closely together.

Um, and so there will be opportunities for collaboration in the future.

Thank you.

All right.

Okay, we'll move on to um foresee then the annual resource fair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

So lots of exciting things happening as you can hear.

Uh also very exciting is our annual senior resource fair.

And so um, I know I've shared the date with you already in the past.

I think uh sent you the flyer as well, so we're looking to host this event uh on June 30th, uh from 10 to 1.

And so historically, this has been a great opportunity to um uh invite uh many different providers, both from nonprofit businesses, uh, public agencies to come and share information regarding resources for seniors.

Uh I think last year we might we had maybe like 40 or so vendors, over 200 people came, and so every year we try to make it better, bigger and better.

And so uh staff is doing a great job of planning that the the theme for this year's event is take me out to the resource fair.

So it is June, it is baseball season.

If you like baseball, you get into the spirit.

There's gonna be a deck uh table decorating uh contest as well.

So it's just it's just a lot of fun, and so um in the past you all have participated in different ways.

Uh one of those is by having a a booth, a table, and um using that as an opportunity to be able to promote promote what the senior commission is and what it does, and uh specifically to promote some of the work that you've been uh helping lead through our age-friendly initiative.

And so there are opportunities for you all to do that again.

I have a sign-in sheet here that I'm gonna go ahead and pass around, and so staff is suggesting is that we have uh a couple shifts.

Uh so one shift from 9 30 to 11 30, and obviously whoever's part of that ship would help with the the setup of the the table, and the second shift would be from 11 30 to 1 30.

Obviously, at the end of the day, you'd be responsible for helping uh with breakdown and and cleanup.

Staff will of course be here to support anything that you that you need, and so that um so there's that opportunity.

Uh, there's also an opportunity for a couple of people to help distribute uh tote bags.

So we're gonna be handing out some some tote bags as uh giveaways.

Um I hear they're really nice, they're gonna be really nice.

Uh we've done some really good ones in the past, so I staff continues to just uh exceed expectations there.

Um so yeah, we just need a couple people that are willing to uh hand out those tote bags.

Uh we also need uh up to two people to help uh distribute and collect a uh survey that we are going to be administering uh as a way to get feedback from people regarding their experience with the with the event, and then lastly, uh a couple people that are uh interested in just helping helping people navigate through the space when they get here.

You know, when you have 200 and so people here and there's a lot going on, you know.

If uh vendors need uh help getting to their table or patrons just need help understanding what's going on and where to go, uh we'll need a couple people for that as well.

And so um I'll open it up for any questions, but while we're doing that, I'll go ahead and pass this around.

So if you already know that you're available and what you want to do, go ahead and sign up.

If you don't know, it's okay.

You can always email me between uh now and as we get closer to the event.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Yes, the surveys is um at well the tote bags.

Are you talking about walking around and handing out tote bags or where would you hand them out?

I think the idea is to have you uh those two individuals somewhere at the front of the building as people are entering.

So you're gonna be welcoming them and then obviously distributing the tote bag at that time.

Part of the welcome, okay, and then the survey is that gonna be also at the front of the building or uh yes, okay.

So you're gonna need like four people to do that?

Uh staff requested two, so I think we can because I think there's also gonna be other staff helping as well, and we have other volunteers that may be supporting that need.

Okay, but what I meant was you're gonna need two for the tote bags and two for the survey, or yes.

So it's two for the tote bags, two for the surveys, and then two to help just welcome people and help people navigate through the space.

Well, there's only nine of us, so it's just different opportunities.

I mean, it doesn't have to be two.

I mean, we uh if you want like I said, we have other staff members and other volunteers, so we'll be okay.

Trying to figure out the and the yes, go ahead, uh Commissioner Dillon.

I'm sorry.

What is the survey?

It'll be a uh post-event survey.

So just uh, for that event, yes, inquiring about the event, what they thought was great, what could be different in the future, how satisfied they were with it.

Okay, so an exit survey.

A post-event survey, yes.

Got it.

Okay.

I understand.

Um I will let you know that um I was at C's Candy yesterday, and they had these little chocolate baseballs, so I bought a bunch of.

Oh, nice.

So we'll be handing those out at our table.

That's great.

You might have an advantage there with a voting theme contest.

I also have I also purchased decorations for the table as well.

Okay, okay.

So the table is all taken care of.

Great.

And we will be here in the hall again, like we usually are.

Yes, okay.

Yes, yes.

Thank you.

So yeah, just if you know right now, feel free to sign up.

If you don't, let me know later.

And um, staff just wanted to provide as many opportunities for the commission to engage in however way you felt uh available and interested.

Okay, is there any possibility of if we're decorating the table of coming before 9 30?

I mean, yeah.

Yeah, before 9 30.

Can we?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah, we'll be here.

We'll be here as early as 8.

So any time after eight is fine.

Any other questions?

Yes, what date is it?

Uh June 30th.

Sorry.

What day of the week is that?

10 till 10.

So Tuesday.

Okay, if there are no further questions on the annual resource fair, I will move to 4D, which is senior services update.

Again, Pedro.

Thank you.

Yeah, just a few exciting updates of some work that has uh transpired since our last meeting.

Uh so we um had our volunteer appreciation event on April 30th.

I believe that a few of you were here.

Uh so we celebrated our more than a hundred volunteers that help support more than 20 programs, including our Mercy Brown program, Spectrum Lunch program, and multiple exercise and recreation programs that we have here.

Um, about 60 volunteers were in attendance and enjoyed a live refreshments, live music, uh, and a rock painting activity.

So that was a lot of fun.

I know Jessica was here and uh it's just those those events are always fun.

Uh there was a giveaway.

Uh some of you that weren't there had that on your chair today, so we just want to take this time to also appreciate you, even though you were not able to be there.

We really appreciate you volunteering all your time and your talents to this commission and everything that we do with senior services.

Um, I've gotten some really good feedback regarding the the bags.

Uh people really like them and they they're really practical.

They're lunch bags, and uh so uh it's always been a hit.

So that the uh so thank you all for supporting uh that event.

Um as you know, our our senior day trips are very popular.

Uh we tend to have a waiting list on those, right?

Uh Valerie.

Uh so our April uh day trip was scheduled on Friday, April 24th.

Uh 13 seniors and one staff member visited the USS Hornet, uh Sea Air and Space Museum in Alameda.

Uh folks were treated to a docent-led tour around the museum.

And so I think we've shared some pictures of some of those trips in the past, right?

Um, people really enjoy those.

Um also on April 28th, uh, we had an earth day tabling event.

And so uh Don Schultz Allen with waste reduction uh the waste reduction program coordinator was was here at the SEC.

Uh she shared information on eco-friendly ways to recycle uh in the city as well as information about Forrester.

Uh the organization that is helping residents harvest excess crops on their properties and donating them to food resource partners.

I think that's also been something that's been discussed here uh with the commission.

So lots of really exciting things.

More to come.

Uh, as you know, I always send out the senior services calendar for the month, so feel free to use that to uh help promote our services and it's of course you are always all invited to come and participate.

Thank you.

And that that concludes my time report.

Any questions?

Okay, okay.

All right, um, public comment.

Um today we June.

I'm sorry, yeah, thank you.

May 21st.

We do not have anyone attending from the public.

And Mr.

Secretary.

Thank you, Chair.

Uh, we did not receive any e-comments, and the commission was informed on Wednesday, uh, May 20th.

Thank you.

All right, presentations.

Um, please wait until the end of each presentation to ask questions in order to facilitate this discussion.

The chair will call on each commissioner in turn to ask questions and give their ideas for the presentation provided in this update.

Um, alternative response unit annual report.

This will be presented by our human services director, Jessica Lobiton.

Thank you.

Hi again.

Um, so I'll be presenting an update today on the alternative response unit.

So, as a reminder, the alternative Response unit is a program which is in partnership with Alameda County Fire Department, which is the City of San Leandro's fire service provider.

Uh the City of San Leandro and Cardea Health.

Uh Cardea Health is a nonprofit that provides mental health services as well as services for those who are experiencing homelessness.

Um it's a clinical unarmed alternative to traditional 911 response.

It's staffed by one emergency medical technician, one nurse practitioner, and two community health workers.

It operates Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.

to 6 p.m.

in San Leandro proper, so not in the nearby unincorporated.

This program was set up in November of 2024.

The program goals are to reduce police response to 911 calls related to behavioral health requests.

Deliver an appropriate and timely response to behavioral health calls that meet the individuals' needs, decrease the number of unnecessary emergency room visits, and bridge and facilitate service connections for individuals.

The ARU exists for several reasons.

One of which is that behavioral health crises are not always law enforcement issues.

It provides an appropriate and compassionate crisis response, and it also reduces the strain on police, emergency medical services, and the emergency departments.

So today we'll be looking at some of the first year utilization trends.

In summary, the call volume increased, then plateaued as the program ramped up.

The ARU is now operating at full capacity, and dispatch triage protocols are functioning as intended.

So this chart here shows the distribution of all eligible calls.

As I mentioned, currently the ARU only operates Monday through Friday, or sorry, Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m.

to 6 p.m.

So we do see that some of the calls that could have been received from the ARU come out of service hours.

So in quarter one, we saw, you know, roughly an equal number of calls for service within hours versus out of hours.

And then in quarters two through four, we did see more calls that could have been answered out of service, but we do have the calls that were answered in service as well.

We also have calls here, we show that the ARU was with another client when some calls came in, and that really peaked in quarter three.

First year at a glance, 821 unduplicated clients are served.

So this means unique non-repeat persons.

For a total of about 2800 total client interactions.

Roughly half of those individuals were high frequency 911 callers.

And the interactions with high utilizers declined over time.

So there's different ways that somebody can call and request for the ARU.

So that's, you know, just calling the 911 system, and you can either request the ARU or dispatch can send out the ARU.

Follow-up calls are those that have been already responded to, and then the ARU is going out again or making contact again with an individual.

On view calls are ARUs out in the field, they see somebody in distress and they're responding.

And then the direct calls are that in quarter two, the ARU actually set up its own direct phone line.

So we don't see any calls for direct service in quarter one, but we do see some in quarters two through four.

So looking at response type, a majority of calls were handled by the alternative response unit alone.

They didn't require co-response with the police department or additional backup.

About a quarter were co-response calls with the police department.

And a small percentage did require EMS or fire backup.

And this is now fully integrated into the 911 system.

So as I mentioned, one of the goals of the program is emergency department diversion.

Only 5% of the ARU 911 calls required emergency medical service involvement.

Most client needs were met on scene through referrals.

So it does look like this program is helping to reduce unnecessary emergency room utilization.

Looking at client outcomes, we do see that clients are released, so meaning that their needs are addressed on scene or provided referrals and resources for follow-up.

Clients can be transported to follow-up services.

They can also be referred to another service.

There are instances where clients are refusing to engage.

We see a small amount across the quarters of PD, PD being requested, and then also medical being requested.

And this again just shows the total calls of 821 unduplicated individuals across about 2,800 interactions.

Here are some success stories of the ARU.

Care Court is a mental health program here in California that really helps those most in need getting services that they may be reticent to engage in.

So we had an individual in urgent crisis who was facing eviction with serious mental health issues, a history of psychiatric holds.

The ARU is able to fill out care court petitions and filed one on her behalf.

Worked closely with the landlord courts and first responders to facilitate a compassionate eviction process.

The client developed a strong bond with the ARU and relied on transportation from those providers.

And you know, had some ongoing engagement, but the care court team was able to secure temporary conservatorship, which enabled treatment at Villa Fairmont, which is part of the John George psychiatric campus.

While in care, the client was stabilized and texted the ARU.

Thank you for caring enough to help me when I didn't want it.

So it's it's been a really successful program in engaging clients in higher level care needs and actually getting them to those services.

The individual also had worsening dementia but was refusing services.

This was really becoming a drain on dispatchers and our police department who were trying to intervene and not seeing traction.

There was a collaborative effort between the county emergency medical services, Kaiser, adult senior services, dispatch, and the ARU with repeat engagement and uh engaging, and finally getting this individual into a memory care unit of a local senior facility.

Um so there's really some positive stories here.

Um I can share one more that isn't listed here, but just happened a few weeks ago.

Um at City Hall, there's an individual in distress outside of our city offices.

Um, and so you know, we went outside, we were trying to engage with the person.

They said that they wanted to go to the hospital.

Um, so I contacted the alternative response unit.

They came within about you know 20 minutes, they were on call with another person.

Um, but then they engaged the individual, took them over to the Llewellyn Drop-in center, and the person has started engaging in services.

That's good.

Yeah, so it's really um, I think like I've read these stories, and then having been on the other end of calling for it and engaging with them.

I know Pedro has had to do that quite frequently.

Um, it is a really nice resource to have here in San Leandro to have people out there responding in a really calm, de-escalated and compassionate way to those in crisis.

Are there questions, comments?

Yes, Commissioner Xelini.

I have 12 questions.

Okay, so thank you for this.

So I wanted to first understand.

Um you said there was a saving of 350,000 in the earlier thing and you know, separated the human resources.

Um so is this coming out of a different budget?

Uh the alternative response unit.

Um, this program is funded through the the human services department.

We we are the funder for the program.

But the 350 savings came from somewhere else.

Yes.

Okay.

Uh you say here ARU is operating at full capacity, and yet the numbers show show a decline.

I mean, if you look at you know the quarter one loss, it was a decline.

So, what does that mean when you're stopping about it's gone from 1244 to 497 or 90 to 76?

So what does that mean?

Yeah, so I think in part that's due to actually some of the intensive engagement in the first quarter.

We did see a decline in those users who were contacting 911 very frequently, and then there was a drop in how often they were declining or they were contacting 911 through this engagement with the alternative response unit.

Right, right.

So that's great news, but then how does why they had full capacity?

Have you reduced the number of people working at the ARU?

I mean, that's what I'm trying to say.

Oh, like what made it full capacity?

Yeah, oh the number of number of users are decreasing.

Then we obviously have like this capacity, right?

Uh there they're still responding to multiple calls a day, like six to eight calls a day.

Okay.

Um, they had uh there was I I believe um they wanted to start out slowly and intentionally, and so they weren't operating 40 hours a week to begin with.

And then they began operating 40 hours a week in order to so this uh table and distribution of the call.

This is the point of 25.

Right?

Okay, and when it says out-of-syllabus, you mentioned that this costs, okay.

Okay, uh, so what is uh this is what a regression line for the union out of service?

Is that what you've done?

I mean, this is uh why would the people be calling out of service?

Okay, maybe my question is um how do they call?

Do they all call to 911?

Is it a separate number to call for AIU?

There's a few different ways to call to call for the ARU.

Um, it can be through 911, it can be through the direct phone number, the ARU can respond like as they're driving out in the community.

Okay.

Um, and so those out of service calls are either coming in through 911, someone calling in, and it could have been an eligible call for the ARU, or they're asking for the ARU, or out of service, someone is calling directly for the ARU.

So do our seniors citizens here know that there's a different number I don't respond, senior.

How do we how do we communicate to senior answer?

Yeah, we we've got these little I think I gave away my last card.

Um, but we do have these cards that have the ARU's drug number.

We can absolutely um provide those and list it here.

Um it is a little easier to contact the ARU directly, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, okay.

And if you want me to stop, just let me know.

No, no, you're fine.

Okay.

Uh so here on this thing you have um direct call.

So how do you do direct call?

Is it just a follow up like uh the quality?

Like the call type.

So the direct call is calling the number directly.

Calling over the AR.

That number that you talk about.

Yeah.

And the follow-up is the ARU is following up and calling proactively.

Okay.

And what's the meaning of on view?

On view is when the ARU is out in the field.

They're they're driving.

They're driving from you know Walmart to City Hall and they see somebody in distress, they pull over and respond.

And this entire number is still 891.

I mean these are percentages.

So is it still 891?

Uh, this is data from the first year of operation.

So that that's likely increased.

Okay.

Um so now I'm getting to say 25% co-response with police.

So was it that the ARU wasn't being called correctly?

They should have gone line one and they pulled or was.

You know, with this one, I think that it's probably it could have shown up a few different ways that first police were called and then the ARU came out, you know, seeing the call and they get dispatched essentially at the same time.

You can see all the calls coming in through dispatch.

And so they may have seen a call and said, Hey, that seems like something we can respond to and going out with them.

It also could have been that the police went out and then and then said, Hey, this is more appropriate for the ARU, and they called the ARD at that point in time.

Okay, one more question.

You're counting.

No, I'm not counting.

Yeah, okay.

So, this is when you the same thing that means the client how becomes the center would call when you say other service, it could be the NS or somebody else that has one of the nine.

Which one?

Referred to other services?

Yeah, yeah.

So that could be any number of things.

It could be referring them to the Llewellyn Drop-in center to other behavioral health services, it could be connecting them to food services.

Um, it's really any number of like triage to other more appropriate services.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I would only run the party.

Is that a bag number for this?

There is, yeah.

So we can definitely provide that information to everybody.

Okay, and then there's not so much voters.

The direct number, but this is the uh that is the program exists.

Um we've done some we've done some publicity on the program, but we can absolutely do more.

Um, because it is a great program here in the city.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, thanks.

Okay.

Any other questions?

Yes, go ahead.

No, I just wanted to make a statement.

Um, I actually use them because you know I work at the CBS.

Yeah.

For a lady, and they came out, and I couldn't, you know, stay because I was working, but they came out and they assisted her, and she looked like she was perfectly fine.

They took her, so yeah.

They're a great team, they're really they're great, they're all really nice.

Them and the ambassadors, yeah.

The ambassador's doing this.

Oh, they gotta have them.

Yeah, one more question.

So if they're at capacity and then we get more calls, would we be adding more resources?

You think I don't think so, unfortunately.

Uh, the city is facing a significant deficit over the past two physical years.

We've cut, I think 17 to 18 million dollars.

Um, so luckily we've sustained funding for this program.

Okay.

Any other questions, comments?

Okay, again what the first the uh Q1 was, what the first year was when it started.

Uh it started in November of 2024, and it was kind of a soft launch.

Um, so they weren't operating, you know, 40 hours a week at that point.

November 2020.

Yeah.

Any other questions?

Great presentation, thank you.

And I know you're doing the next one too, so shifting.

Here we talk a lot today.

Okay.

Uh on to item six B the Llewelling drop-in center update, and this again will be presented by uh human Services Director Jessica Lobadon.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um this is a shorter presentation.

Uh so I'll be providing an update on the Lwelling uh interim housing and drop-in center.

As a reminder, this is a program that uh the city opened last year.

We converted the former Nimitz Motel on the Welling Boulevard into a two-prompt site.

One component of it is interim housing, so providing individuals with shelter plus case management to get them into permanent housing.

The second component of the program is a drop-in center.

It's open five days a week, Monday through Friday.

Anyone who is unsheltered or experiencing housing instability can walk in and access that program.

It offers laundry, showers, and connection to other services.

So we've been open for about a year now.

Since opening in April of 2020, and I will apologize, this information is as of February, so I'll actually share some updated numbers.

Since opening in April of 2025, the navigation center, that's the interim housing portion.

Here it says 12.

We've actually helped over 30 clients move into permanent housing.

The early outcomes demonstrate the effectiveness of the program's housing focused approach and in state sustained engagement with residents.

It's also been successful in connecting clients to encourage opportunities and preparing clients for long-term success in independent living through workshops such as budgeting and housing search program.

We opened them, you know, at slightly different times to allow for ramp up.

It served about 300 unduplicated individuals.

And again, this was data from February, so probably more now.

And again, the drop-in offers a place really for individuals to have some rest, take a shower, have a meal, do their laundry, and then get connected to services.

Just some success stories.

A client was housed in December right before Christmas and went from his lease signing to a job interview and started work shortly after exiting the shelter.

The drop-in center was open Christmas Day.

21 individuals came through.

I think it was raining that day.

And you know, here's some quotes just from individuals who were expressing their appreciation for having this type of resource here in the city.

So it's been a great program so far, and we're really really excited to see some of these early outcomes.

Okay.

That's it.

Okay, any questions, comments?

Yes, Commissioner.

And we have email.

So for example, yeah.

So the program does provide um connection to substance use services, and so that's one of the components there.

Um they um, I don't know the proportion of how many have been connected to those type of services, um, but that is something that they provide there.

And we send it to the Zendem don't use your dogs and um so there's there's a sobering center and a detox center at the Fairmont campus, um uh the Dom George Fairmont campus.

Um, so connection to there as for those who are in acute need of detox or sobering services, um, but then there's also um you know other services such as just substance use education, um, alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, those types of programs that they also connect individuals to.

Anyone else?

Great program.

Thank you very much for your presentation, both of you.

Thank you.

Um, and at this point, we're going to take a little recess so you can stand up, stretch your legs, and get water, whatever.

Yes.

Sorry, just sorry.

Just uh as we're closing out that session, we do have a few of the ARU cars here.

We're gonna be ordering more.

So for those of you that don't come and visit us as often, feel free to take one.

For those of you that come by often, and we'll have some more the next time you see you.

I think we have more in storage, so I'll go check.

Okay, so we might have some more, and then uh and then also what I'll do is um I'll go ahead and follow up with an email that has a link to the uh webpage for the ARU where also this information can be found.

Um also for the record, I just want to recognize that Commissioner Benya joined us shortly after the roll call.

So she is with us today.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, uh Mr.

Secretary, could you please pause the record?

The senior commission meeting for May 21st has reconvened at 10 59.

We are on to action items number seven.

7A commission, I'm sorry, senior commission participation in the 2026 Cherry Festival Parade will be presented by Valerie Nicholas.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, so we are just what a couple weeks away from the big cherry festival.

So want to take time to finalize some details.

We'll sort of do this in two parts.

So first, uh confirming logistics regarding your participation, and then second, confirming um the logistics around the decoration and the theme, right?

Um, so firstly, uh last meeting I did pass around a sign-up sheet.

Um, so just want to make sure that whatever folks have signed up signed up for are is still uh what you're expecting or how you're expecting to participate.

Um so first for parade participation.

I have a yes from Commissioner Comelo.

Is that still great?

Uh Commissioner Dylan, you had said tentative.

Has anything changed regarding her?

I can commit to it.

Okay, got it.

Thank you.

Commissioner Pena is a yes.

Is this is it still a yes for you?

Great, thank you, Commissioner Lopez Natario.

Thank you.

Uh Commissioner McMichael Katie, it was tentative.

Yeah, you will be participating just to do it again.

So Saturday and June.

Saturday, June 6th.

Yeah, I think I will be the answer.

Yes.

Amazing, thank you.

So that's a yes.

Okay, Commissioner Salini, you are a yes still.

Perfect.

Commissioner Pennan is not here, and then Commissioner watches us.

Oh, yes.

Wonderful, great.

And now uh for transportation to the Cherry Festival from the senior center.

So if folks don't want to drive to the downtown area and would prefer uh meeting here where there's ample parking, and then one of our staff members will come with one of the city cars and bring you over to the staging area.

Um, so the only people I have who have said yes are Commissioner Camello and Commissioner Watcheson.

Okay, has that changed for anyone else?

No, okay.

And then also just want to confirm will it be you or uh would someone else be?

I agree with that.

Okay, okay, plus one, great.

And for you, right?

Commissioner watches in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just you no plus one.

No plus one.

Okay, great.

Any questions?

Commissioner Camilla, do you need need to pick you up?

Um, no, I think we've got what then?

What then are we assembled?

Um, so we should have been in.

I'll get the final details.

Uh there's a participant mandatory participant meeting on May 28th.

Uh so I'll get the final details after that meeting.

But if it's based on previous years, uh I think we have to be in the staging area, or at least the shuttle has to be there by eight, and then yes, and then maybe uh this ending.

Oh, sorry.

Oh, I thought last year, may I last year um we didn't have to be there at eight.

It we were picked up later.

So you were picked up later, yeah.

So the shuttle, uh the vehicle needed to be in the staging area by eight, but I think participants we got you closer to the actual start time of the year.

Yeah, because it was a long time to sit on a past.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought that was that far.

No, yes, it is at R.

So you maybe are up here, okay.

Like probably nine or nine thirty.

Thank you.

Probably closer to 9 30, but uh visente can look it up.

Okay, thank you.

Um while he's looking it up, maybe I go on to the next thing.

Okay, so regarding uh participation and decoration.

Um, so that takes place the day before, so Friday, June 5th.

We've talked to uh MV Transportation, and they said the vehicle will be available anytime after 12 p.m.

on Friday for us to come to their lot and be able to decorate the flex shuttle.

Um, and so I the only person who or we have two folks who said yes to that, and that's Commissioner Brennan and Commissioner Washison.

You're still available.

Okay, great.

Um, and a few of you uh we're not sure, but maybe now that we have a better idea of the availability of the shuttle, if we can maybe find a time in the afternoon that works best for most of the group, then maybe more of you will be able to join us in the decoration of the shuttle.

Again, that's after 12 p.m.

at the MV lot, which is located right near the Walmart on Davis.

Um, so those of you who were uh tentative were Commissioner Comelo, Commissioner Dillon, Commissioner Pena, and Commissioner Shalini.

So um during that day, is there a time that would work best for me?

It's no, okay.

Sorry, it was funny.

I think I said I'd be there too.

Yes, okay.

So now just figuring out a time after 12 p.m.

that afternoon that would work best for most people, or would maybe shift your maybe to a yes.

See, I work that day, so I don't get off till three.

So that might be late for you guys, I'd be able to come after that.

Yeah, I'm sorry, so you don't get off till three, and then who else was the only yeses I have so far are are you and Commissioner Brennan.

Okay.

Um the maybes were Commissioner Dillon, Commissioner Pena, and Commissioner uh Shalini.

And then yours was actually blank, Commissioner LeBron.

Yeah, because I wasn't sure, but um yeah, she's got me scheduled to work that day, and uh I don't get off till three, so I have to come after three.

Okay, yeah, so mine is a no, I have yours is a no.

That might be late, you know, for you guys.

I guess you'll have to check with Commissioner Brennan offline because he's not here today.

Um I'm I can come anytime.

Anytime, okay.

And the value just to confirm floats and vehicles is between 8 and 8 30.

So 8 30.

And the parade start time is 10.

10 o'clock, yes.

Okay, so we can probably say be there for you, be there at the staging area close to 9 30 is better.

So we'd be here and someone will take us from here.

Yes, if you need that, if you need that help.

Yeah, that was the question.

That's probably okay.

I'm sorry, nine o'clock.

Yes, okay.

I think that'd be uh yeah.

So between 9 and 9 30, we'll probably pick you up from here at the senior center.

I'll I'll talk to other, you know, other staff who are supporting, and we can finalize the time and then we'll be in touch with the decided.

So just that why you have PD, we're planning to close San Leandro Boulevard from Davis to Thornton.

9:30.

So anything after 9:30, it's gonna be hard to get probably nine o'clock sounds like more time.

Yeah, 9 a.m.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Thanks.

Okay, any other input or questions around the decoration?

Oh, decoration.

I think I can help on that Friday.

Okay, you said one o'clock.

And any time after 12 pm.

So is there a time that would work best for you?

Well, I'll get you something after one o'clock.

After one o'clock, okay.

And probably 12, but I'm just gonna make sure one o'clock.

I'll just say one for now.

Okay, thank you.

Anyone?

And the MV lodges where right near uh the Walmart on Davis.

So if you're coming, sorry by the Drake's it's be yeah.

So if you're coming from Williams Street, it's right at the corner of Williams, and I forget what the name of that is.

Westgate.

Coming the backway.

Yeah, come the back way.

Okay, you know that is the stage in area, so then San Angel work.

Yeah, yeah, yes.

Well, I'll make sure that we send you the details, especially after I attend that participation.

I don't know.

And what about the decorations?

Are you supplying those?

Well, that'll be that's the next one.

Next thing, okay.

Sorry about that.

Yeah, okay.

Last call for anything regarding the decoration on Friday, June 5th.

Anything if.

But just let me know what the details are, and then I'll let you know that.

Do you have is there a time that would help you decide?

I don't know.

One o'clock would probably be fine.

Yeah.

Okay.

Got it.

Okay.

Great.

Alright, we'll move on to the next thing.

Yay.

All right.

Theme and decoration.

So our last uh meeting.

The only suggestion we got was uh the 250 years uh theme.

So I asked that you all sort of think on it, um, if that's what we were we're set on that theme, or has anything else come up for anyone else between then and now that you'd like to suggest to the group.

Did you say like a baseball thing?

No, that's that's for the uh senior resource there.

Okay, yeah.

This was for like fourth of 4th of July, but it's yeah, yeah.

So we we can dress them in something like regular way.

Okay, so it sounds like we're we're sticking with the 250 year 50th anniversary theme.

Okay, sounds maybe good.

Next year the parade will have a theme, so everyone will be able to do that.

Oh, wonderful.

What's that?

Next year the parade will have a theme, so then all the floats.

Oh, the parade will have a theme.

Okay.

Just as far as the parades you guys are know, we have uh 48 uh participants and uh we have increase of floats this year, so I think I think 30 floats were in the basket.

Oh my gosh.

So a lot more floats this year.

Yeah, that's cool.

Nice.

Yes, it's fun.

Can you remind us what the theme was last year?

Oh, last year's theme was was quite fun.

It was um through I believe through the decades.

Yeah, right, was what we called it.

Yeah, um, and so we we all dressed up, you know, we all chose a decade and and dressed up accordingly.

We had Commissioner Lotus Nacari and her poodle sphere, Commissioner Pena looked like Donna Summer in her 70s disco uh garb.

That was great.

It was really fun.

That was fun, yeah, yeah.

That was a lot of fun.

That was fun, yeah.

This time can you get us some eggs or something like that?

Well, we go all the time.

Commissioner Dylan had suggested little um, what is it?

The little bonnets, the last name.

Oh, yeah, like the ones that there you go.

What was it?

But what tri-corn hat?

Oh, the tri-horn hats.

Uh yeah, well we'll have to if you'll have to check in with uh Pedro about budget, but yes, consideration.

Is there a way we can get your delay to uh donate some candy that we can pass out?

I think we have some still, yeah.

We we did a pickup not too long ago, and I'm pretty sure we make sure to keep a stash aside for the festival or we'd also mentioned about giving our files to people that you walk the parade so we can get that we can get a basket so we can kind of yeah, I'll be working on just little maybe four by six size cards that just sums up, you know, the the senior center and senior services department what's available.

Might be if if there's I don't know where you get your decorations from, but I wonder if there's some way maybe to get like um cutouts or whatever of um like the presidents or the people that um the founders that kind of thing maybe to put in the you know on the bus.

Only the founders, not the governments I think a pardon the founders, right?

Washington and yeah, the f the yeah, the founders or yeah, we don't need every president.

No, be sure you have no constitution signers, that kind of thing.

I think that would be a good nice of the ladies.

Well, some ladies signed the constitution, I understand, so we'll look into that.

Yeah, Abby 11.

Yep.

You have to have it.

Yeah.

That's great.

Um, if any of you have specific resources that you would like, you know, for me to incorporate in, you know, the decoration or the theme, please feel free.

Maybe they can send it to to you, but don't you can forward that to me.

We want to make sure you know all of those ideas are included as much as we can.

Maybe I picture the Constitution, right?

Right.

And them out.

Yeah, my body.

Is it about it to be?

Oh, that's funny.

Right.

Do we have a color anymore?

We do have a color printer.

We can generate a lot of nice pictures.

Yeah.

You know, print them.

Yeah, so that's that's why I'm asking if you have specific things you would like to be considered as you know, the handouts or the decoration.

Right.

Feel free to send them over and I'll do my best to figure out because we do have the color printer here.

I could do things on Canva.

Just as long as I have always had maybe children.

Gee, Saniha, are we allowed to use AI adjust.

What is the what is the view on the policy on using?

I think AI and pictures is fine.

Our policy doesn't have anything in contact.

I don't think so.

Um I would just say it's best practice.

I've seen nothing I've done, but like in other images it says like uh images like AI generated.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought of the law which has been signed by the same one.

Okay.

That's good.

Any further discussion?

Any other ideas?

No, okay.

Thank you.

Thanks for your Q.

Thank you very much.

Sounds excited.

See, just get us excited, and then okay.

Which one of us is gonna be in the cherry pot eating?

Oh, yeah.

So we had uh close to 30,000 last year.

We're trying to get about 13,000 this year.

So it's not even a hot test last year.

Yeah, I wasn't needing more.

Okay, but can we move on?

Um to 7B and 7C.

Um Commissioner Camello, are you going to rename?

I need to get to the seven Cardin?

Seven C up to seven C.

Okay.

So on 7B lunch with seniors update next steps.

Did you wish to table that?

Um, and we'll go to the next one.

Okay, so um, I think we need uh can a motion to table okay.

So I'll entertain a motion to table 7B, lunch with the seniors and next steps until next meeting.

Okay, Commissioner uh Lopez Nicario second.

I think okay, Commissioner Pena roll call, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Yes, sir Comelo.

Yes, Commissioner Dillon.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario, Commissioner McMahon Katie, yes, Commissioner Benya.

Yes, and Commissioner Kopakrishnan.

Motion cares.

Thank you.

Okay, seven C San Leander Improvement Association.

Slea discussion.

Um Commissioner Camello, this was one that you asked to be put on the um agenda.

So if you please um I feel that the downtime area is important to give you beautiful and see if um there is a lot of improvement that can be done, especially near the safety and uh CVS and that area and also near the Berlin area uh because uh it is like a doorway to a city, so people come shopping there and doing things.

So I would like that um a person from uh Sandy Android uh improvement uh association to come and give us a job so we can give some suggestions on how we improve that case because to make it most safe for seniors and for people who are shopping there because I whenever I go there I see many scuffles and all that.

Sometimes the uh ambassadors are there, sometimes they are not there, and people don't know who to call.

Maybe we should put a little road there in space of emergency uh non-emergency thing called the ambassador and give some phone number there, a little blackout sort of thing.

And um, I think we do it some colored down, which is the buildings are gray and the the trees that have got that around um planters that can be uh painted or some flower flowering plants could be put there so it's become more um uh appealing to people um I had made a suggestion to it's uh to ask for a whether I could ask for a grant and uh get it for them to beautify it but the thing is uh I got the permission from the um owners of this uh building but I couldn't get uh and then there are the business people who are there so if something happens during the whatever I've been through the grant they can be um coming after me or something so I gave up that idea so but they themselves they have got better clothes so they can do things so I would like to have the uh be a person from uh SLIE to come and give us a talk so we can give some suggestions and see what can be done collaborative and that YouTube video you sent was great.

I'm sorry no idea they he sent a link to a YouTube video about SLI when they did a presentation I had no idea so that was very helpful.

So you can do uh washed once in a video at least I think I'm not uh um this uh uh Lopez knows more about it because she wanted them yeah they need to spray clean and uh put the netting up on top so that the pigeons you know quit resting up there and well they didn't not not on and not where CDS is where Safeway is but not where CS is I don't think it goes all the way down either that's the association or whatever I think all that out right I don't know I I don't know what exactly SLIA can and can't do yeah I don't know what city responsibility possibly and I don't know what their responsibilities are.

Yes.

Vincent talk a little bit about security in the parking lot so the safe weights with the other businesses contract out security guards in the parking lot so SLIA doesn't control or they do provide support but there are security guards and our city staff's been talking to some of the businesses to make their security guards more visible.

As far as the landscaping in that parking lot as if we're uh we have a little funding there was a grant improved downtown so we're having discussions about updating all the landscaping because our department also oversees city landscaping so we're seeing if we can learn some of those funds to do some of the landscaping in that parking lot.

The other thing that I'll share as well too is we've had some conversations with so we work closely with SLIA SLIA helps us with coordinating the cherry festival as well too so we contract them out to help us with the cherry festival um and also we're exploring possibly putting a downtown park inside that shopping center where Yoga Fina's at where it would be a plaza to have performances outside dancing outdoor fitness and so we're talking with Slea and uh city staff about possibility of possibly funding a downtown park there as well.

Anyone else have comments yeah yes they do have plaza guards that walk through but you know they're like by themselves so sometimes they get um caught up with somebody and they have to call the ambassadors and the ambassadors there's only a couple of them and they go from I think the street to maybe parrot and so they're called and let me tell you those guys are fantastic.

And you know there's one guy in the real early morning, and then there's uh two guys that come on.

I believe it's 12 31 o'clock, and they work till about well, about quarterly nine because then they have to go back and do paperwork.

And so the home is almost now like at 8 30, they're not gonna be there.

So that's when we've actually closed our doors and Alley let certain people in.

Because it's like they know, you know, no, you're not coming in, yeah.

So I I would really like them to be able to maybe switch it an hour more to an hour later, uh, because their presence is unbelievable.

But um, yeah, the plaza guard, he does walk around and walk through, but he's by himself, and there's only like I think there's two shifts.

Yeah, the question, yes, the question is whether we want to put uh someone from SLIE to come and give us a dog, and within the gets I did something to them, so that is a thing that would no.

All right, um, is there interest in the commission to have SLIA come and give us uh a talk on what they can and can't do possibly or what they will and will not do?

Yes.

Just yeah, just wanted to add, um, so the video that Commissioner McMichael Katie referenced earlier was the recording to the presentation that SLIA did to the city council just recently.

I think it was April.

So every year they do a they provide an update.

I would encourage if you haven't got uh had a chance to see the video, go ahead and uh review it so that you can just get uh familiar with the program, but also some updates regarding what's transpired in the last in the last year.

There's a lot of really good information there.

I don't know, uh I'm happy to reach out to them to see if there's an interest or availability.

Uh as uh director Suniga mentioned.

They're busy currently with uh supporting the the charity festival.

They also organize a few other events throughout the year, and I know in December they do second Fridays, and then in December they they play a huge part with um it's a wonderful night.

So they are busy, so but I can reach out to see how available they are.

In the meantime, what I would suggest is uh if there are our questions or concerns or there's information that you would like to know.

I'm happy to forward that to um to our contact there, along with even the link to this recording where uh they can hear the information, you know, uh direct directly from you all.

So I think those are a couple things that maybe we can do until we we hear back from them if that's okay with the commission.

Any suggestions do we want to get them to come maybe not regularly, but uh after two or three months, you can just believe with uh that would be.

That's what I think that's what we'd be.

That's what Pedro was offering to do was to see to see if they can come and perhaps you know, to forward this information to them to see if there's questions that they you know further down the road.

I know that they're I know their budget's being cut somewhat, so it may be that they're going to lose people instead of get more people, so you know it's gonna depend on um on what they can do.

And and I know that they've also cut out uh hours out of one of the programs, the morning hours, I think it was.

So is there an okay?

So do I need a motion to put this on here?

Okay.

If it's okay with the commission, I can go ahead and reach out to them, yeah, see if they're interested or available, and then if so, we I can come back to the next meeting with an update.

And then in the meantime, if you have quite specific questions or concerns, um, feel free to share those with me.

I'm happy to um forward those to our contact.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Appreciate it.

Maybe in like September or something, because they've got their hands full right now.

Okay, um, you know.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Please indicate that Commissioner Camello has left the uh has left our meeting.

Thank you.

It's on the recording.

Thank you.

All right, um, we're at 7D now, the age-friendly initiative update, and that will be Pedro.

Yes, thank you.

As always, lots of progress and exciting things happening with age friendly.

I usually provide a very detailed update today.

What I'm gonna do, just given how much information we've already shared.

I'm just I'm gonna focus on two um areas, and so one of them is um an event that's quickly approaching us.

So in your packet, you have a flyer for the talk of the cup, and so uh that is happening uh Wednesday uh May 27th, uh from 9 to 10:30 here at the Senior Community Center.

As a reminder, this activity falls under our personal protection priority under age-friendly.

We have actually already coordinated one of these with our colleagues from the police department last year.

I think it was that's yeah.

And so um, so this is uh another opportunity, and so uh you are all welcome to uh to attend, and we're looking to forward to continue to promote this in the next week with our with our patrons.

So we're I know it's here at the center.

Where is it taking place in the center?

Yeah, thank you.

Um, I but I the last time we did it was in the activity room.

Uh so as soon as you come into the building to your left side is uh there's a few tables.

So we, if you recall, those of you that were there, we set up some coffee and well, they set up some coffee, and I think there was some donuts, and it was very informal.

You know, there was uh uh several of our colleagues with the police department were there in all different ranks and just available to talk to people one-to-one and hear uh feedback directly from you all.

And so I imagine that the the structure will be similar this time.

Okay, any other questions on that?

Okay, okay.

The second update is last fall, we all engaged in the the community pedestrian and bicycle safety training program uh uh in collaboration with California Walks and UC Berkeley.

So thank you all again for helping with that.

Uh as you recall, we engage our colleagues with the public health department.

I mean, sorry, public works department, uh specifically our transportation and engineering colleagues uh in this process.

And so what came out of that was sort of an assessment of key areas in our community that we decided to uh do a deeper dive and um through uh look at it through a lens of safety, right?

And so recommendations came out of that as part of that process.

Uh CalWalks provides additional support to programs that um that participate in this program, and so we uh have been in communication with them and have uh decided that we would like to continue uh our involvement through a kind of uh you all have learned of the program called uh safe routes to schools.

Uh so we're gonna borrow from that and do a safe routes to senior centers.

And so the idea with that is for us to um work with CalWalks, uh engage um uh some of you, our staff, in um identifying where there are some opportunities uh here in the in the uh area surrounding the senior community center uh that may be maybe infrastructure but mostly education and prevention oriented uh to support the safety of anybody comes to the site, uh whether they're walking or that they're on a bicycle or they're driving, and so uh California Walks is going to help us with with that process.

Uh so we have a couple meetings uh coming up.

One of them is actually happening today at one o'clock, and so um the members of this committee that the commission that are gonna be participating in that process are those that were part of the planning committee during the uh community uh pedestrian safety training program, and those individuals include Chair Washison, um Vice Chair Comelo, Commissioner Brennan, and Commissioner Pena.

And so we have to be very careful also that we don't uh we stay under uh we don't have a quorum, right?

So Ford keeps us at that, and it's also very much aligned with all the work that's been happening with this project.

And so uh Commissioner I mean, uh Chair Watchison and Commissioner Tierra Pena will stay here and uh join us um in the meeting.

It's gonna be a virtual meeting.

Uh Commissioner Comelo will take that meeting from from her house.

And so we're looking forward to making progress with with that project and uh definitely looking forward to coming back in June with an update.

And that concludes our age-friendly update.

Thank you.

Any questions, comments?

Okay, thank you very much.

All right, this brings us to our commission reports and announcements.

Um I will um thank you all for attending.

I think it's been a good meeting.

I think we've got a lot of things again to think about and I'm all over.

Um, and um I hope everyone has a good month, and I'll see you at the Cherry Festival for sure.

Um so Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Um I attended the community report last night, and they were discussing uh the flock a lot and how much is helped them, and um there were some privacy issues that were talked about, and then they discussed about you know what happened with the chief, and uh the public was there, they were not happy at all about her being put on lead, and it's just coming out a year later.

Um that's about it.

Thank you.

Okay, Commissioner uh McKay.

I'm sorry, McMichael Katie.

I don't have any.

No, okay, uh Commissioner Shalini.

Oh, talking to people today.

Um Commissioner Camillo is gone.

Uh Commissioner Dillon.

Uh maybe we can think about putting something on the calendar in the fall since we're getting close to the end of this year for uh caregivers of seniors, particular seniors carrying for seniors.

Okay, all right, thank you.

Um and Commissioner Penny, okay.

All right, that being said, and thank you for attending with us.

Uh Jessica and Vincente and Valerie.

There being no further business to come before the senior commission.

I will entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting of May 21st, 2026.

I'm sorry, okay.

Uh Commissioner Lopez Nacario and Commissioner Shalini.

Roll call, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Chair Watcheson?

Yes.

Commissioner Dillon.

Aye.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario?

Aye.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Yes.

Commissioner Benya?

Yes.

And Commissioner Gopakrishnan.

The motion carries.

Okay.

Uh the meeting is adjourned at one.

Well, my watch died.

And then you.

There we go.

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