Thank you.

I call the meeting of June 18th, 2026, Senior Commission to order.

The time is now 10 o'clock exactly.

Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Those who can't do it.

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 roll call, please.

Thank you, Chair.

Chair Watchison?

Here.

Vice Chair Comelo?

Yes.

Commissioner Dylan.

Here.

Commissioner Lopez Nicario.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Commissioner Brennan.

Here.

Commissioner Benya.

Here.

Commissioner Kopak Krishnan.

Yeah.

And Commissioner Rixen.

Yeah.

Also in attendance are Human Services Program Coordinator Liliana Gray, Human Services Program Assistant Valerie Nicholas, and Senior Commission Secretary Beth Manaho.

Thank you.

Okay.

We have a new commissioner with us today.

And her name is Ann Rickson.

Did I get that correct?

Thank you.

And at the end of our meeting during our commission comments, we will ask you to please give us a little background on yourself.

Thank you.

Okay.

And welcome.

We are very pleased to have you.

Thank you.

All right.

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

Also 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.

All right.

Consent calendar.

Approval of the draft minutes of the senior commission meeting of May 21st, 2022.

I will, if there are no additions or corrections, I will entertain a motion to approve the draft minutes of the May 21st, 2026 meeting.

Secretary, please do the roll call.

Thank you.

Chair Watcheson?

Yes.

Vice Chair Comelo?

Commissioner Dillon.

Hi.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Hi.

Commissioner McMichael Katie.

Yes.

Commissioner Benya.

Yes.

Commissioner Brennan.

Abstain.

Commissioner Rickson.

Abstain.

And Commissioner Kopakrishnan.

Yes.

The motion passes with uh two abstentions.

Thank you.

City staff report and announcements.

Um for a the annual senior resource fair.

Pedro.

Thank you, Chair.

So I have uh staff here today who are gonna provide some support with the staff uh uh updates.

Uh so I'm gonna go ahead and hand it over to uh our pro our human services program coordinator Liliana Gray for some updates regarding the annual senior research fair and the senior services.

Thank you, Pedro.

Um good morning everyone.

Um so yes, as you all know, we do have our um annual senior resource fair coming up on June 30th from 10 a.m.

to one o'clock.

Um we I think that last meeting or a couple meetings ago um passed around a sign up for uh for you all commissioners to sign up for various um tasks that day um and so it does look like um some folks signed up um commissioner comelo commissioner excuse me just called last name okay uh chair watchinson uh commissioner pena um mcmichael cate commissioner mcmichael cady and um i think that's it yes um just to do tabling um to also help us with kind of crowd control um but yeah we're excited we have 51 vendors confirmed wow um that includes some city departments as well as um our partners and other agencies that we've worked with in the past um we're really excited i think last year we had about 200 folks um visits and come through um so just again, really excited for this opportunity for different agencies to share their um various services and resources.

Um we're also gonna be chalini uh uh and i have been um going back and forth about um there's a non-partisan um uh project called uh project 250 i think and and it's a celebration of america's um birthday and so we talked about uh there's a there's a um a project on there where folks can submit their stories via video on their on their website and so we thought it would be a great opportunity to do it that day um just because we're gonna have folks here already I've reached out to the um yak uh committee and they're they're gonna hopefully have some folks here helping or some teens here helping us um with that effort as well um but yeah so that's that's what we've got going on for uh the senior resource fair cool any questions um yes um when is the when are they doing it sorry i didn't hear the need the uh it's uh the 30th June 30th 10 days.

So you're gonna be um filming and doing the story so it's it's a uh website that you log on to and there's a portal um and so if the computer has a camera you can speak into the camera and give your and we're record your story right on the website okay yeah what is it good it's America 250 okay and it's in celebration of America's 250th.

Can we include the URL on the in the minutes?

Do you all to the to the 250?

Yeah sure at those minutes still won't come out until after so maybe can we share the URL about our email I can email you that will be after this meeting thank you so I'll email it after this meeting and we're not included in the minutes.

Okay.

Thank you any other questions okay move on to uh 4B senior services update Pedro again Lily again um so yes these past few months we've had some really great um events and activities um in May um we had our senior day trip it was a second trip to Faloli um house and gardens um the first time around was a hit and so uh when we were looking for an opportunity or for for our May opportunity we decided to take folks there again since the first time was such a hit um we had the opportunity to take two shuttles this time around right that was yeah okay sorry uh two shadows and so Valerie and Cydia went with um 28 um seniors to um to the to Fallout um and it was a great it was a great time um I you know I've never been but I hear it's beautiful um and so um thank you to our partners actually here MV Transportation um that were able to you know provide the two shuttles for us so that we could take um those folks there um we also had um our cherry festival um so thank you to all you folks who were there not only uh day up but also on Friday to decorate the shuttle looked great um and it was a great time um you know we we handed out different swag again also are we're one ahead of ourselves oh that's right I'm sorry you're right I'm sorry sorry about that so thank you for everyone who attended I'm sorry you're I appreciate that there washing lastly uh this past Monday we had our uh first annual Juneteenth celebration um which is really great we um had worked with an organization called H H R E C which is human and health resource um educational center no human and health educational resource center um out of Oakland um for a celebration last year and we reached out to them just for pointers like hey how do we put on a Juneteenth celebration and what they did said hey we're gonna do it for you and it was a great time um it was a collaboration between them another organization called BH brilliant mind project um inc and then several other organizations as well um that were here.

And it was just, you know, there was um African drumming, there was poems um we had a wonderful artist who displayed um some beautiful quilts that she created and and just all throughout the room um so it was just really it was a it's a great time, and um we're excited to have this annual celebration um for this wonderful holiday.

So that's it.

Any questions?

Very silent group today.

Okay.

Moving on to foresee the Cherry Festival parade.

Right.

Now we're on the chair.

Yeah, we're on it.

I'll go ahead and turn it over to our program assistant, Barry Nicolas, to facilitate that.

Thank you.

Good morning again.

So as Lily already mentioned, we had our uh cherry festival last Saturday.

Um, and firstly, though I had uh supported in setting things up and getting prepared, I really want to make sure that we say thanks and appreciate Lily for being the staff member who was present that day and uh really uh held things down.

So thank you.

Thank you, Lily.

Um, and also we have our partners here or representatives from our partner at MV Transportation here.

Uh we wanted to, you know, we invited them and wanted to make sure that we're able to express our gratitude and appreciation for this partnership in person and with you all here, and I guess maybe in in public comments.

Uh, yeah, so they'll be able to share a few words if they want to, no pressure.

Um, and then of course, thank you to you all, as Ali already said, uh, for those who helped prepare and for those who participated the day of.

Uh so just a quick debrief, uh, very simple.

We can start with for those of you who were there.

Uh, it could be regarding decoration the day before or the day of the actual event.

Uh, please feel free to share any highlights.

Uh, what stands out to you?

You can speak a little bit about your experience, what went well, and I'll be taking notes because we're gonna get better every year, and we are getting better every year.

So, oh Marcy, um uh sorry, Commissioner Dylan, Commissioner Shalini and myself uh were there doing the decorating.

We had a really good time.

Um, I enjoyed it.

The decorations I thought were great, um, and uh everybody just kind of pitched in and did did it, and I unfortunately got caught on a phone call, so when I came back, it was like done.

So I apologize.

But um, would Commissioner Dillon or Commissioner Shellini like to make uh comments about the decorating?

Yeah, I wanted to thank Cynthia, she really really had that sense.

Commissioner Dillon teamed up.

I haven't come out of this, but she came up very good.

Uh, and it was uh really good experience.

And the next day, so thank you, Liliana, for joining us.

I'm grateful that you'll give out the senior flyers.

I think that we gave out to a lot of I finished all of mine.

So I think we reached a lot of seniors who would probably I think most of them didn't know anyone said, Oh, I go there, you know.

So the others didn't even know.

So I think that was uh good thing.

Well, thank you for setting it up.

We missed you.

Commissioner Dylan.

Well, it was fun, and uh it's always uh a little bit of a challenge to decorate with the wind coming through and through the open windows.

Thank you very much for taking things flying around and tape like coming off.

But we did it.

We managed to do it in the time that we thought that we would, so that was really cool.

Yeah, that's it.

Decorations were just right.

I would just maybe make a suggestion that next year in regards to the decorations that maybe we don't have so much stuff that like flies around, you know, like the fans the by the time the shuttle got to BART, a lot of the fans had come off, and it probably happened during you know the wind.

So I did wonder if it lasted overnight.

Yeah, it did not so in it.

It did most of it did, but the fans, the fans kind of collapsed and um and that.

So that's the only thing maybe we look at something that doesn't uh doesn't catch the wind so much.

The banners were great, they stayed on, right?

And thank you to MV for opening the windows and with another books and really really.

That's very enough.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Yeah.

We had a lot of fun during the parade waving and uh thanks to thank you, those who walked the entire way.

That was great.

Uh um, and uh you you can't you walked.

How was the walk?

Oh, it was great.

I had so much fun.

They're just such excitement.

You know, I just love the cherry festival and I didn't catch up with the ones.

We're kinda in the background.

Yeah.

I guess I'm on my own.

But it didn't matter.

I had a great time and passed out all the great fun stuff, and um I just had a blast, and so I was really great to be part of the group and representing this commission, and um and the bus.

And thank you.

We had such a great time and just laughing before I got off the bus.

Bye bye.

I'm with them.

Where'd they go?

No, they're great.

You walked on the by the library to catch up because I had my purse on there and they were turning the corner.

I'm like, yeah.

Oh, please, I'm gonna take my personal.

She might show up.

You had my first.

We figured it out.

Yeah, yeah.

We did uh I did run shot of stuff to give.

So maybe because of the bus was very ahead of you, and we you did.

Oh yeah, right before we even got to the Tony.

So maybe before we'll show farm and the MV, you did a great job.

We really enjoyed the bus ride.

Um, the uh everybody was just very pleasant and wonderful to us as usual.

And yes, again, thank you for taking all those windows on and off, or off and on, I guess, right?

In the reverse direction.

Um so that's you know, that's I think that's it.

You weren't there.

I love this.

I'm sorry.

Two years.

Oh, yeah, we were cool about it first.

Are there any other comments?

Yeah, nope, good thing.

Okay, we're gonna move on to public comments, at which point, yes, sir.

Sorry about that.

Again, appreciations for everyone, just every year, even though it wasn't there, every year seems to get better, and so I'm I'm really excited to see like what happens you know next year, and I'm glad that everybody's having a good time and a good experience, and so yeah, thank you to everybody.

And you know, the the why there is really about visibility, it's about supporting something that that is important to San Leandro, but we've talked a lot about as part of our H training plan to take advantage of opportunities where we can promote uh the services that we provide.

This is one of the awesome services that we have here in San Diego in collaboration with MB Transportation.

So great for visibility.

Uh Commissioner Kobakrishnan, you mentioned some people knew about it, some people didn't, and so just being out there, putting a face with some of these programs makes a huge huge difference as you know our goals moving forward is to increase the utilization of our of our paritransit services every year uh by at least five percent.

And so all these efforts really uh really contribute to that.

And um the coordination and the communication always gets easier, so thank you all.

Just seem fairly, very uh seamless with coordinating the time to uh uh to decorate and have the shuttle available, and just as you all can imagine, like lots of things need to happen in order for that shuttle just to be available during that time.

Somebody needs to be thinking about another shuttle that's gonna be out on the road and like you know it's scheduling.

So I want to just extend my gratitude to MB Transportation, everybody that's here.

Uh thank you for your commitment to this.

And um, yeah, thank you all for all the all the good coordination.

And uh there's some great pictures out there.

We'll we'll send them out also um in an email so that everybody can can see them and enjoy them.

Can I say something?

Sure.

Um, some years back I saw the shelter going empty, and we were going in her car or something.

We had decorated her car, and we were going in that uh private car.

So I the following year I said, why not we use that empty um van for us to go and and from that year we have been using this van, yeah, and so it has been a great uh service to us.

So thank you.

Um stuff it's been like a pink crew out there right with the windows you know if we can do it for getting them back is a great job.

You know, you but it's fame and all that so yeah grateful to you for that and undecorating the shuttle yes that's the one thing you know the stuff yeah well the wind did have to work though right now okay anything else okay yes please I do uh okay we're at public comments now and I'm gonna break a little rule please introduce yourselves uh if you uh wish to speak please uh stand up please speak clearly so that we can hear you and I'm going to turn it over to our wonderful crew here so thank you how's everybody doing today I'm Pauline Coleman Collins I'm the account manager at um be transportation I don't ever get to come to the cherry festival it's always on the damn out of town um every year thank you thank you thank you I'm Darren Watson I am the safety and training manager for MD Transportation thank you hello I'm Celicity Clement William one of the mechanics for MV Transportation one of the window removers okay and decorations I'm one of the role supervisors so I was glad to come thank you you had a good time yeah thank you good morning everyone my name is Juan I am the new assistant general manager so I'm glad to uh be part of hopefully in the next one thank you and see everything that you guys are a part of so thank you thank you so now what I would like I'm gonna break a rule here what I would like to hear from you as to how you felt things went with the Cherry Festival parade any anyone that participated and if there's anything that we can do for you that would make it easier.

Or I'll I'll just say uh for me I was on the back end I did not make it uh there to the actual event but I created some shirts um for them because I I'm very creative I like creating things so I created them some shirts for the cherry festival um the year before I was actually able to come out and meet you guys when you came to decorate and I came out um the morning of to make sure the decorations were still intact um but I think it is an awesome amazing thing I didn't even know about it so I was here at MD Transportation I was like I've been enjoying the cherry festival is amazing I really love what um the city of San Leandro does for the city of San Leandro thank you for um letting us partner with you for such an amazing event great thank you thank you anyone else yes please I think the uh the presence for the seniors was quite inviting just to see everybody out there you know flex having a partnership with the city of salad and the seniors on the bus enjoying themselves people walking enjoying themselves people in the audience enjoying themselves I mean everybody had a good time and even though you guys you know fell behind a little bit we were having a good time I'm I'm grateful to be a part of thank you belong to anyone else well we really appreciate you we look forward yeah anybody go ahead any yeah come on now's your time the windows is really fine with us because the easiest thing for us to do it's 10 bolts per window that's like the easiest thing we could do for you how many windows 10 uh bolts no bolts how many windows how many windows six six yeah that's a lot of those easiest thing we can do for you guys and then also taking up the decorations also easy so we don't mind doing like easy stuff.

Thank you.

Were you able to enjoy some part of the festival yourselves?

Well, I was at work when I'm yes are there any other comments over there?

No.

Well, thank you very much for coming and thank you for all your hard work and not just for the cherry festival, but for all of our seniors uh you guys are magnificent you make us feel really welcome and you do a great job.

So thank you so much.

Thank you.

And you can stay for the rest of the meeting or if you need to get to work, we understand.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Pedro, can you send us the minutes?

We'll do.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Bye, right.

Okay, bye.

Thank you.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

We can do one if you want.

What?

A photo?

Is it a photo?

That's all right.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I didn't hear it now.

I apologize.

As they were walking out of that, we could have done a photo.

You know, that'll be another year.

All right.

Sorry, I broke protocol, but I felt that they deserved it.

Okay.

All right.

So we're on to item six.

Actually, Chair, before we move on to item six, just uh want to let you all know for the record that no e-comments uh were received for this meeting, and the commission was advised on Wednesday um June 17th.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, we have no presentations, so we are skipping now to item seven.

Seven A, the age-friendly initiative update, Pedro.

Thank you.

Uh thank you all um again for all your support of our age-friendly work.

Uh some of the work that we just discussed right now and got to celebrate is as a result of uh our action our age-friendly action plan.

And so I want to uh first and foremost uh thank all of you and congratulate you for all the the progress that's been made with our plan.

As you know, it's uh the plan got adopted on July 15th of 2024.

We are uh wrapping up year two in a couple weeks and getting ready to start year three, and happy to say that uh uh due to all the the good work from this commission, but also our staff and our partners, we've made really good progress with all of our activities, all those activities being on time, which is really good.

So it's been a good guide to keep us focused on um uh the intention of of that plan.

And so as we get ready to enter year three, uh Chair Watches and I had a conversation regarding what uh the involvement of this commission uh can look like.

And so as you all know, um uh upon uh completing the the age-friendly action plan, uh you all have been involved in various ways, right?

And so um the last few months I've been coming and sharing updates regarding progress on each one of our of our uh priorities, which I think has been helpful, and so um we're giving some thoughts.

Like what may the next year look like in terms of your involvement, but also even conversation about age friendly in these meetings, and so what I'm what we're envisioning is that the the updates and opportunities to engage you in many of the activities as they're happening will continue.

And I'm thinking I can probably provide an age-friendly update once a quarter.

Kind of like I have been in the past, where we go through each priority, look at the timeline.

How are we doing?

Are we are we on track and so forth?

But what we would like to propose uh to the group for year three is that the the commission uh focus um its energies, time uh and talents, and uh and three three uh priorities.

And so what this would allow you all to do is to rather than just get updates about what's happening and maybe be involved here and there, like actually take ownership at a deeper level around uh a project.

Okay, and so um the the the three projects that we uh it's actually four, I'll share four in case you don't like the first three.

Uh but but the the four projects I guess that I wanna that I want to uh that we want to propose uh are as follows.

Uh the first one is as you know, um as a result of our age-friendly action plan, uh we have had a lot of good conversations regarding the need to provide support for caregivers.

Okay, and so um, so as part of that, we have some activities outlined in our age-friendly action plan that support that work.

Um I'm also uh happy to report that um in May, beginning of May, uh we submitted a proposal to Alameda County uh through the triple A to support some of this caregiver support um uh activities outlined in our age friendly action plan.

And so uh I understand they're gonna make an announcement um in June, I think.

I was on that panel, but I had to, well, it chose to recuse myself from that particular era rating panels.

Yeah, I'll mention the commission next time in the uh also that actually came up.

Who's overseeing them?

I said, of course, the senior commission.

I kind of snuck in at my call that I wasn't participating.

Yeah, thank you.

Um thank you for that update.

So we're gonna be hearing from the county soon regarding awards, and so if we are fortunate enough to be able to get that funding, um we'll be able to um uh really um allocated into this work.

And so the uh the funding is is uh for for one year, but it's also um there's a potential extension of up to three years.

So there's a possibility that there can be funding for up to four years if we get it right.

So cross your fingers, and then um, you know, hopefully in July I'll have a really good update for you.

But just coming back to the project, so one team, and it has to be under four people because we can't exceed four due to you know uh, has to be under five.

Sorry, it has to be under five.

Yes, thank you.

So it has to be four or less.

Uh so that's one project.

Okay.

The second project is the um uh last meeting we talked a little bit about safe routes for seniors, and so the idea is to um to sort of assess uh areas where there's a um uh high as I guess participation of of seniors, traffic, and and um, and assess and and determine what are some um some strategies that can put be put in place uh to support uh the safety of individuals that are that are coming to some of these sites, right?

And so some of those strategies can be uh related to physical infrastructure, but they can also be prevention and education, right?

So it can be a lot of different things, and this actually is a product of the community pedestrian and bicycle safety training program that we did back in the fall.

And so I'll I'll be transparent and say that that committee has already been already formed, given the fact that there was already a group of you that were involved in that process, and the four individuals that are participating in that process currently are Ched Watcheson, Vicher Comelo, Commissioner Pena, and Commissioner Brennan.

And so we just had actually a meeting this past uh Tuesday with California Walks, and we um we had a very productive and and meaningful uh conversation.

They're gonna be developing a report for us.

So uh this group would be uh sort of responsible for um continuing to work on that project and developing the report and then helping with some of the recommendations that come out of it.

Okay, certainly in depth in an area we don't get to get to in the normal committee um senior commission meetings, you know, really a deep dive.

Yes.

So that's good.

So that's kind of project number two, and project number three, going back to uh Commissioner Copat Krishna's comment about the cherry parade.

Some people knew about us, some people didn't know about us.

As you all know, we've discussed uh at length the importance of promoting and doing outreach.

And so what we're proposing is that maybe the a third group can uh support our promotion outreach visibility efforts, and it can be in a variety of different ways.

It can be, you know, the the Cherry Festival Parade in 2027, it could be tabling at events, it can be uh finding different ways to use electronic communication, in-person communication, partnering with businesses doing things here.

We that the idea is that this group will come up with a variety of strategies and work with staff to ensure that our San Leandro residents are aware of all the great services that are being provided here.

Not just aware, but engaged, right?

And that will help us increase utilization.

Since there are subcommittees, yeah.

Yeah, that's how the county commission knows it.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, so those are the three.

I did say four.

So the fourth one that I'll just put out there in our age trending plan, one of the one of the priorities that rank fairly high also was personal protection.

And so we've been doing some work in that area over the course of the last year, if you recall, our emergency services coordinator has been here tabling uh during um emergency preparedness month.

We've done we did a drill uh last year, we've done cyber security um uh trainings here.

Uh we also are piloting uh we are we're still in the process of of sort of of designing a uh senior evacuation uh pilot program in which we would support the evacuation of seniors uh to a safe site when the city um activates a a shelter.

And so that is still in the design phases, so this group may also be uh very helpful in supporting that work.

So those are those are four projects, uh so um so I'll I'll pause for a second, and so focus question number one for you all is in general, how does this uh sound uh in terms of saving the updates for a quarterly basis, kind of forming these subcommittees or subgroups that would focus on specific areas, just in general, we'd love to hear some thoughts about that.

We don't really have enough staff.

Oh, those are okay.

Can I call in our okay?

That's all right, that's okay.

We do want to hear.

Yes, Commissioner Brennan.

I totally support the quarterly reporting with the addition that if there's any exception items, anything falls out of program that we hear about that more quickly.

Yes, yeah, it's a good, yeah.

So that quarterly is great.

You just let us know if anything was falling off the truck.

Yeah, we'll pick it up and pick it up.

Commissioner uh, I'm sorry, like Michael Katie, I know.

I was just saying, people to form that many committees, how many members in these committees?

If you already got four people on the would there be overlap, then yeah, so so the idea is um so I'm I'm not proposing four projects, I'm actually proposing three.

Uh so you have to select which are your top three, and then from those three, the maximum number of people that we can have in each one of those committees is four.

So there's a possibility that somebody, if somebody was really excited about more than one, you can join more than one, as long as it doesn't go over the four-person limit.

Well, here's the problem.

Okay, that I see for just a second.

Um there's nine of us.

So that two projects would have four people, and the other one would only end up with one person.

I'm sorry, no.

You could join all four if you what?

Oh, you want, okay.

So you join more than one.

Okay, okay.

All right, not sure how many projects everybody wants to work on.

That's it.

It's already good, yeah.

Yeah, it depends on the group.

Okay, and the only reason I was proposing three is because if we only do two, obviously we won't be able to do it with the number of people that we have.

So three gives us a flexibility to stay under that.

Yes, Commissioner Melton.

There is a government on the evacuation of seniors, you said in case of emergency, but can you include that hot days now?

Because there are we had getting too many hot days like last week.

I think they were four really hot days, and some of the uh I know I got behavior.

So some help you in that area, but that's in it.

Okay, thank you for the input.

So that this is exactly what like the kind of things that these committees will be discussing, right, and helping us design.

Yes, Commissioner Dylan.

So uh generally, yes, I like the idea with as uh Commissioner Brennan said.

If there's anything more that we need to know about sooner, uh, of course you would let us know.

I think that's great.

Um, I do think that this will um it's worth a try to get things moving quicker, like to get things really moving along, like several pots on the stove burn and all at the same time, right?

Right, yes, commissioner.

I mean, she just said, okay.

No, I I mean I agree, I agree.

I think uh, well, you know, a number of us are already uh working on on the uh safe routes for seniors.

Um uh yeah, I I I I can see that um uh personal protection, I think that's a very important personal protection, as I'm saying, just um education.

Important to get that information out.

Um I I really I really believe that as you were talking when you were going on a lot of people don't really know what the senior center does, what the senior uh commission is all about.

So that's a very important element here, the outreach.

And I think that's not as difficult as it may seem.

Uh just getting information out.

We have a city news station.

We have there's a lot of opportunity.

It's not a whole lot of work.

Yeah.

So that uh so I I agree.

And the quarterly, as as Commissioner Bretter was saying, unless something comes out, what was that?

You can call me Richard, it's okay.

Oh, you know, saying it if something comes up that we hear about as well.

So I I agree uh as you were saying, uh I wouldn't mind being on uh a second group as well.

Commissioner Rickson, I realize that you're new, but what are your thoughts?

Well, I think it's a good idea to do this, um and yeah, I have specific interests in some of them and I would be happy to work on one of them.

Okay, maybe group.

So I get okay.

So um did we want to make choices now?

Do we want to okay?

Commissioner Dylan's going, uh-uh.

Okay, so did we want to think about it and let you know what committees we'd like to be on next month?

I mean to go forward.

Or email us.

What?

I mean email.

Email, uh yes, Commissioner, uh, okay, I got two of you.

You gotta cede to Commissioner Dillon.

Okay, um, well, how soon would you want to start?

Thank you.

The committees, um, all committees.

Um I would say that we can uh there's no rush.

There's no there's no necessary, it depends on it depends on us and how fast we want to get these these going.

And so we I'm prepared to take names today if you all have an uh a sense of what project you might want to be involved with, but I'm also okay with having you all kind of sit on it for a little bit and think about it and then come to the July meeting uh with um sort of a uh a response, you know, sort of a commitment to which committee you want to be a part of.

Okay, Commissioner Brennan, I see you out of the corner of my eye.

Thank you.

So um I'd like to defer the commitment for a meeting, but I'd like to see a scope statement for each of the four committees, rather than just a one-word, you know, and then I think a equitable way of assigning this is to um do a ranked choice so that you know I would say okay, uh my number one is safe routes and my number two, then my then you go and assign all the number ones all the numbers, you know, until you get enough people, and that way it gives everybody a chance to get into the committees that they're just saying a potential way of rather than just who gets our hand up first, kind of is my concern.

So those are my two thoughts.

Thank you.

Yes, you want to be aware.

I mean, in the county commission, some committees are different from ad hoc committees, and there are rules around you know, having to have public facing meetings, and so that all that is something to be aware of.

Because that comes up constantly with us.

How are we allowed to meet?

What can we do over email?

What can't we do over email?

How many people can you loop into the email?

Yeah, if you have a room and then you're emailing, then that becomes a meeting, and so yeah, there are a lot of rules.

Yes, thank you for that.

And so what we can do is uh today's focus was mostly to get a post whether this is something that you were all were interested in, and we can come back in July with some of the specifics regarding some of the parameters that we may have to work with.

Some guidance.

And then we'll have uh I like the idea of having a process in which we it's a good process to kind of get people into the projects that uh support the work, but also so that it's fair, right?

And so a possibility that committees and and commissions will be able to meet online again, but that needs to go before the board of supervisors.

I'm very aware of the Brown Act being on the county commission.

So once it's passed by the board of supervisors, there may be some possibility we can do some of these things over and again.

Did the city make a make a process for their commissions to meet to continue to meet on the yeah, you were not ruled by board of supervisors already here?

It's different for us.

So I know our HOA had the same question, we had to we had to change our bylaws to allow that.

We have had ad hoc committees before ad hoc is allowed.

Yes, ad hoc.

Yeah, if you call them ad hoc committees, but that means it's not a permanent.

But Pedro can be the arbiter of the process stuff.

So the process and having a committee.

So I think that in July, what the process is and what the scope is of the sub of whatever they are, because we don't know what to call them yet.

So whatever is decided, and I think that would be great.

Yeah, if we're just gonna come back and report on results and then on form or whatever, then it can be called an ad hoc and you're not bound by those.

And the timing is such that um how long I've forgotten, I'm sorry.

How long did our age-friendly initiative planning um runway go?

Was it for three three more years?

It's three more years starting in July.

Okay.

I'm sorry, two more years.

Wait, we're finishing year two.

This is year two.

So three more years.

Okay, three more years starting in July.

And then maybe some thought as a commit as commission needs to be given to priorities in year four after the subcommittees for year three.

Yeah, I think we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.

Uh but yes, but this is what we're not focusing on.

But we do have we, as you recall, as you recall, we do have a five-year plan.

Within that five-year plan, we have a timeline.

Uh all the activities are have uh uh that are outlined ha uh have we went through a process of determining during what year they were gonna happen.

And so as far as the timeline and five-year plan, we have that that we're using as a guide.

I think as far as the the progress with uh whatever whatever this these small groups are going to be called, that's to be determined.

So I guess what I was thinking was after we get the the year three, whatever these things are called focused, then kind of look at the next re look at that list again for the years beyond and make sure that we're still keeping our alignment the way we think it ought to be.

Yeah, and so I as I mentioned the updates will continue to happen on a quarterly basis, as you all mentioned if something's relevant and time sensitive, it'll happen on any given month.

So that's already gonna happen.

Like we're already gonna be revisiting the timeline, making sure that we are uh kind of staying on track.

What I will say, and I appreciate your comment, but what I will say is that uh because these these groups will have a special focus in some one of those areas, that will allow us to be able to really ensure that the work in those areas is is happening and is that a stain-based, you know, that is staying in accordance with the timing that we initially um determined if for whatever reason we feel like it could happen earlier, um, then that that's fine, you know.

May I also point out this is an election year, and so it's possible some of us may no longer be on the commission after this year, depending on what district they're in, like me.

So automatically get unappointed just because you're oh, no, yeah, and they're new, they're gonna be new.

Yeah, yeah, new.

Okay.

By the way, I just make an editorial comment, another small organization joined the um the um uh age-friendly initiative, it's called the state of Oregon.

I saw that.

The state of Oregon became an age-friendly initiative state.

That's great.

So I'm just saying we're like we're right in the middle of what's becoming, I think, um, something rising up basically.

And the thing the thing I the thing I'm concerned with is that you know, we want to form these committees.

This is now June.

By the end of the year, or maybe a month or two into the next one, some of us may not be here.

So we need to, you know, either get a start on them or yeah, I think that it's a good to to get them going, and then if you know, people switch out, then committees are established and new people if there are new people can jump right in and you know it's going so Mart our goals maybe for between now and December or January February need to be you know what what can we do in this amount of time um you know to get this going and established so that it'll carry on for the next group.

I'm sorry that's just throw monkey wrench the council members throw out all the their own district representatives oh yeah yeah I'm not voting for that person.

It's you know you have to and this and I'm not I'm sorry that this is probably not the time but you do have to read I was unaware that you have to actually reapply too you and you have to do a new letter so I I want to caution us that we know we're going on a different item we're kind of going to a different topic yeah sorry about that but I just wanted to bring up the fact that some of us we need to we need to focus on what we can do in the next six months or so and in order to get this all going.

Okay and and on that note if we can have a um like by the July meeting have some idea where we would like to work what to work on we can start in September.

Right because we're off August right well we're not sure we're voting on that later but we are and so starting in September seems like that we can start in August because it doesn't require full commission meeting right okay true wait we're we're moving we're moving we're moving down to another item which is item seven eight that we don't have to wait till January we can start sooner start to get the ideas generated and then kind of like lay the groundwork okay and get going.

Yes just to add some of those ideas have already been generated because we've already discussed them and they're actually already outlined in the age from the action plan so task number one would be let's make sure that those are happening yeah and how do we even show that the work that we're producing or providing this quality work and then looking at sustainability looking at expansion later but yeah some of that is already is already in the plan.

Great.

Okay all right so we have a plan to do a plan right so I so what we'll do is I will we'll think about the projects think about the conversation today I'll come back in July with some more concrete information regarding what the groups can be what the parameters are the structures that we have to work within and then um and then hopefully in in July we can come out of that meeting with a sense of who like what it's gonna look like we'll start uh kind of designing it and getting a sense of who may be involved and then we'll go from there.

Yeah and in in August um it still would be okay for the committees to meet it's whatever they are yeah whatever they're doing whatever okay any other questions comments okay sorry for skipping around no it's fine okay 7b lunch with the senior discussion actually bella okay um so we have we had this lunch with the seniors for a long time for many years you wouldn't Vilma Jan used to join us and it was like a tradition for us to have lunch with the seniors because they feel for when and love and when we join them and it also gives us visibility because some of them don't even know that we commissioners that commission exists here.

So that is uh one of the things and the other thing is um that at um aluminos supervisors they uh support the um spectrum in this lunch program, the budget.

So when they we invite the supervisor, like uh uh lina dam uh Lena Tam, she will see that what what good work we are doing here, and she may increase the budget or uh for the lunch program.

So that is one thing, and then uh it is um oh you know what some months back.

Um they were cutting the program um for the uh exercise classes of the which spectrum gives here, and then they went to the um supervisors' uh meeting and they talked, and I also sent a letter to uh Lina Tem, and that is why she got some um funds to continue with the exercise classes, so in that way we can always have some connection with the supervisor so that in case of need of this fund, we can always go back to her uh to the supervisor, especially Lena Tem, who is now our supervisor.

So that is another way of connecting with the supervisors, and um especially um we also like to see some what is the quality of food the seniors are getting, so it's good to eat with them and see what type of food they are getting and all that.

So it is good to have that uh tradition to keep that tradition, but it's all depends on you guys if you want to continue with that or discontinue.

So that's where I leave it.

We did that, we did that once, right?

Just a few months ago.

We did this factor.

Yeah, once we did it from the gender, that that yes, but that was a special occasion that we did it for.

It was not initiated by us, it was by that champ.

They were called champion lunch or something.

The champion lunch.

Well, I was I guess I'm not from that's okay.

No, no, no, no, no.

That was okay.

I don't understand the difference, but I'm sure I won't be able to do that.

Well, the senior commission occasionally in the past would uh invite like supervisor Tam to come to the lunch.

Which lunch?

The senior lunch.

That just a regular, yeah, just one of the regular lunches, and we would then um have lunch with her and the seniors.

Uh we also had done just a lunch with just the seniors.

We decided okay, this month we're gonna all go, and it was like all of us.

There's been a suggestion instead of all of us going, and uh there that if we were to make it on a monthly basis, that's an if that maybe three at a time go.

So we're not all going um every month.

So those those were the two things.

One was just okay this month, every six months maybe we all went.

The other suggestion is that three people mix up and go uh once a month, and that we invite Supervisor Tam to at least one of those meetings.

Yes, Commissioner Didland.

I think that excuse me, having a uh regular uh lunch like that by different commissioners with the seniors who come here for lunch, could help to inform the committees that we'll be working on.

That's what that's a good idea.

Yes, commissioner, um yeah, Commissioner Shalini.

Uh I think it's a great idea, and I think we should continue.

I'm happy to do last month in a couple of months with them.

And to go from them what they need, yeah.

That's the other thing too, right?

You know, some of them are kind of shy to talk, but you know, you can at least get to know who goes and who goes on a permanent basis, and I understand they all have tables they particularly sit at, so they do.

Absolutely.

Okay, they do.

Commission commissioner.

That in the past we had a lot of other activities that we used to have.

We used to have coffee with the senior uh coffee with the commissioner.

We're at we're talking about lunch with the seniors right there.

But we have uh Virgo, we have lost some of the things that we used to do.

We used to have forum uh on different topics, and uh then we used to have um coffee with the uh commissioners so that we could make mingle with the other people.

So we have uh we are not doing all of these things, so at least one thing I think it is good to continue.

That's what I would say.

Everybody's looking at me.

Okay, what do we do?

Okay, um, promotion subcommittee, yeah.

Okay, promotion subcommittee.

Um all these ideas kind of touch each other, right?

Each idea has a spoke.

Yeah, okay.

So um, I guess do we need a motion of any kind?

I think sir.

I have a question, it might be kind of help Commissioner Brennan's uh sort of need around, like understanding like what is what is this program, right?

Was it was to design it so I hear thank you for sharing your the purpose and the goals of the program.

I think that those are all sound, right?

But what I what I like to hear a little bit more, but I'd like to hear a little bit more is how are we envisioning that day's gonna what is like the the structure of that day, right?

In other words, let's say we have a community.

I'm just gonna say elected official X or community leader X, and they we invite them and they come, right?

So one individual, and they walk into this room.

There's 15 tables.

Then I I mean, is the idea that they go to each table?

Are they doing like a speech?

Like are they just are they just sitting down with with five people and spending the whole time with them?

And like I need to we need, I think it would be helpful to get a sense of now that we have a general at least uh uh an idea from Vicer Camelo regarding the vision, like what would what would that actually look like?

And so the reason I'm asking that question is so that we can kind of wrap our minds around it, like is that gonna is that gonna whatever structure we have, is that gonna meet our goal and our intent for that?

What what uh person power is that gonna require?

And so um, so if anybody has any ideas, uh Victor Comelo, you have some some thoughts about that.

I see your hand up, Commissioner I'll open the car.

We'd love to hear a little bit more.

Yeah, um, well, they've had the council people come because I've served over there, and and they've had the council people come.

Pete Blue came.

Um, Brian has a veto, I think Fred's uh summer came, and they did move around.

They didn't just stay, they talked to different people, and you know, and got their ideas on things and introduced themselves and it went really well.

Commissioner Dillon, I'm gonna I'm gonna think about you want me to circle back on you, okay.

Commissioner Commissioner Shalini and then Commissioner Pena.

I think um any elected member would love an audience, yeah.

Right, so whether they want to give a speech or whatever, we can say coming.

We are giving an audience, it's hard for them to go to audiences.

We are giving them audience.

That is their draw, that's a reason.

And the second thing like the Commissioner Bella mentioned is we can actually show them what they're doing, and then they're like, Oh, I've seen this, I'll pay more money, or you know, get a budget, or whatever that is.

So they come and we tell them we load them in with audience.

Like you've got numbers, numbers, people who vote.

That's that's okay.

I'm ready.

Yeah, go ahead.

Um, I think we have to be really careful that it's not a um a campaign opportunity.

Um I really would not like that at all, and it would be inappropriate.

Yeah, so it needs to be structured in such a way that information is taken in by whomever is come the you know the guest and not glad handing, just gonna put it that way, and they know what I mean, so yeah, they didn't have that problem.

I think there's a problem, so we just have to be careful that we don't allow that, or we structure it such a way that there's no way that it can't happen.

I'd like to commissioner uh yeah, Commissioner McCady, uh Michael Cady, I will get it someday.

I like the idea of coffee with the commissioners better, honestly.

When we did the lunch, it was lovely, but it was also like it was discombobulating for the seniors because they had their tables and their groups, yeah.

Nobody really kind of knew what to do with us, you know.

If we had a just set up coffee and hung out and spoke to, and we could also invite in the town or somebody to come for that.

I don't know, my input.

Commissioner Camelo, you have something on that.

Yeah, I just wanted to say that there was never any uh in the bus, it was never a campaign thing.

Yeah.

They came in somebody in the middle of the year, or when it was not an election year, they never talked about campaign.

So that has never been a problem there.

They never can be.

They just come to see and eat and then eat just to so it is more of where the budget is going for them and to see that it is what is brand and we are taking care of the seniors and all that.

So that can be a spectrum have control of that when they did that, yeah.

Commissioner Brennan.

Yeah, so I think once again, this is a perfect topic for the group working on promotion, and to have a little pro forma including instructions to the invited guests that this is a community outreach event, not a campaign event, and just make that clear.

And like Lena Staff Galvo, who's very effective, would understand that perfectly.

And Lena would be very scripted to, I mean, assuming she was an invited, um, would be the you know, most people understand, can understand the difference.

Some politicians can't open their mouth without campaigning, but there's nothing we can do about that.

It is what it is.

But I think that's a great topic for focused promotions to include that and include perhaps uh as Bella says, more of these things that perhaps were done in the past that could be resurrected in the same way.

We need to focus on whether or not we're gonna do lunch before we could branch out.

Well, we're thinking, I'm sorry, that was lunch, yeah.

So I don't think we need a motion though.

So if there's a motion, I don't think there's a motion in that, unless there's a motion to have the promotion, some uh the promotion group uh within this commission include this on their in their plans.

Um okay, Commissioner Dillon.

Okay, two things.

I'm not sure that that's a promotion thing necessarily, but uh I wasn't gonna address that.

What I was gonna say is that I kind of feel like the commission itself should be the outreach to the seniors and them that come for lunch that do activities, and then we should be talking to our uh our council members that to me is the is the route.

They can talk to citizens all they want.

I mean, any of us can, but I think that that helps to uh you know put a put a safety wall, say around the campaign idea.

So if we're getting the information, if we're having the lunch, if we're talking to people, getting to know people, and there'll be a little maybe more forthcoming with the issues, and then we take it to the council, we take it to the mayor, we take it to you know, and then you know whatever we need to do, because we're the ones on the committees, we're the ones in this room, we're the ones talking about the things.

Um I that's my opinion.

And we can always invite them to come and yeah and listen before lunch, come to our meeting because our meeting is before lunch, right?

So I mean, yeah, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, I don't know, we're just going round and round, unfortunately, and so I really don't know.

Um, you know, to me, the lunch is a one is the lunch.

The lunch is to go and and meet the people, find out who's eating there, have some fun.

I mean, really, you know, you do there.

It's a very interesting to talk to some of these people.

I learned things that I didn't know.

And uh, yeah, some of them are shy, but some of them are very open and outspoken, and um, whether or not you feel like you need to move around between the tables, that's up to you.

Whether you want to just sit in one place and listen to that particular table, that's another thing.

I don't think there's more than maybe what, four or five full tables there at a time.

I haven't been there for a little bit of time, but um so if we had three people go, you could certainly move.

You can certainly move around between courses.

They do they do kind of serve it as courses, huh?

So the commission has a table, and then we can just kind of circulate, or people can come to our table, have the names out there.

I I like the idea, I like preferred the idea of going and sitting at a table.

But we talked about, you know, okay, the chair thing, and yeah, people's favorite right tables and I definitely think that people should have um uh the people who are having lunch there should have some kind of forewarning you know like not just spring it oh today we're gonna mess up your table and throw some bloods on the talk to you hi you know I mean I think that should be some information for them to be able to yeah you know acknowledge oh today and then to be able to have maybe something they bring as a concern right think about yeah that's that's a good idea I like that yes Pedro thank you this is good input good feedback just want to share kind of my takeaways and see what you all uh think so um I'll say that the in terms of like coordinating with Spectrum who is our lunchtime provider we we can do that in advance and there there probably is a way that they can let people know in advance that that is going to be happening right and so um I think the idea of starting with a commission honestly I think it's good because then it allows you all to kind of see it and feel it and and then and then we can then determine whether this needs to can be taken up to scale at it you know to invite other people but um and it also it's it's uh it's easier uh because we can you all can coordinate a lot faster than having now to coordinate with external folks right so I so I so something about that is is kind of resonating with me.

I would still say that um and the other thing that's resonating with me is which would be even even easier is what commissioner Michael Katie mentioned with like a coffee if if you if you go the coffee route that you don't have to coordinate with Spectrum it's not just the spectrum people that you'd be interacting with it's anybody that's coming into a center with cookies people yeah cookies and coffee people will come and you just informally in a very informal kind of a natural way you're just talking to people and you're connecting with with folks you know so I think I think that's something that that really resonates with me.

I still think that and I believe that we would still want to design it in a way that um we want to make sure that we are not having a meeting having a meeting and so we need to make sure that it's scheduled in a way where you know you know three of you come three three or four of you come in July three or four different people come in August so it's staggered in that way so one is just manageable for you all but also that we don't run into any issues around that right I love it.

And so that the coffee one is just easier uh it's very seems very informal and very natural but but also happy if you if you would prefer to try that that structure that design with the lunch we can coordinate with Spectrum.

Well when we did the coffee if you're talking about the coffee when we did the coffee we all were there.

Yeah we had yeah and and we didn't it and we actually did it during one of our meeting days.

So you know so we but we didn't discuss huh what'd you say?

That was wrong.

Yeah well I I'm only saying that because then we had we had a chart up of who all of the commissioners were what districts they were in and that kind of thing.

So the other thing I remember that the came through the geo coffee in the bookies and random and they didn't want to go to the which is something too yeah.

Now they've made that space a little more inviting to be able to sit and talk right they didn't want to do the coffee and all right well I I don't have I don't have I don't have any idea what you guys want to do it's it's been all over now so yes one more I like the idea of an informal coffee broken up in small groups throughout the year.

I think we could do that right away right.

Well you need to get it out into um something right into your uh update or something.

Yeah, what yeah, thank you for that.

Actually, it's a good idea.

One thing to keep in mind is that our schedule yeah thank you our senior services calendar comes out at the beginning of the month.

So you probably would want to time this during a time that the dissemination of that calendar has been out for a few days or if not a couple of weeks, or so that you can uh get eyes on it, get as many eyes on it as possible, and that will help get as many people there as we can.

And put it up on the barboard.

So that means so that what that means that then it would be closer to like end of the middle to end of the month, does that mean we can have something in July or not?

Potentially, potentially in July or August, I would say it's it's feasible.

Okay, maybe I'm asking stupid questions.

I senior.

Can't I just go and have lunch?

Sure.

Do I have to announce that I must?

You need to tell no, you just need to tell Spectrum that you're coming for lunch.

I mean, the people are around, we just go in.

We don't have to make this big deal about okay.

I don't know, the table here, coming or whatever.

If you just want to reach out to people, yeah, yeah, sorry.

And sign up.

The idea is just like you know, to you.

The only thing I will say is that it's a great idea, and I think I support that.

Is that we do need to have some sort of structure so that we make sure it's happening, right?

So that there's some sort of commitment that people are gonna be on the end.

Yes, you can.

If you're gonna just do it casually, you need to have less than five.

You have to have like four or less.

You need nine times ten times a year.

We can just all of us sign up on the URL.

Yeah, yeah.

Do we have any kind of a flyer informational thing about the senior commission that we could give people?

We don't, but we can create something if yeah.

So we give us away at the uh little cards.

We gave us a little at the multilingual cards, yeah.

We're supposed to get like what's that?

We have those multilingual cards.

What there's some like postcards in two languages, at least maybe three languages.

Yeah, yeah, I think I remember what you're talking about.

Yeah, yeah.

There were some postcards that we I do remember, but you're already there.

They're already there.

But you're talking about the phone numbers, all the different I thought I had some information about the senior commission on it, but I couldn't just think okay.

We are we are like 20 minutes into this discussion, and it's so discussed it well.

So what we have we've discussed it, yes.

Um, so I guess this it's nothing's been settled really, except that we agree that we should have lunch and that we agree that we should have coffee with the commissioners.

And then I guess the next steps are who's gonna go to lunch and how are you gonna do it?

And the second the second thing is if you want coffee with the commissioners, then we need to decide how we're gonna break that up and have less than a quorum doing the coffee with the you know with the commissioners.

Um but I think that we need to table this until next month, actually.

I'm sorry, but it's just uh there's just I don't think we're ready to to make that decision.

So you're right, huh?

I think you're right.

We need to channel it now.

You know, and then because then you're gonna have to decide which of you are gonna go, how you're gonna, you know, how who's who's got time to go with this month, that month, whatever.

So yes, Commissioner Dylan.

Can we get it on a schedule after the um the commission meeting next month?

A coffee.

Can we get a copy at the end of July to start?

And then by the July meeting, we'll know who's going.

A copy with the commissioners at the end of July.

Uh huh.

You mean you mean schedule schedule it, calendar schedule it?

So that it's on the calendar, uh-huh, and it goes out, and then we can decide which commissioners next month.

Schedule for a staff at second.

What schedule it first, staff it second?

What's the okay?

And when do you when would be when would it be scheduled for?

End of July.

What that what day and what time?

Well, the end of July is the 27th through the 31st is the last week in July.

We will be meeting uh the 16th of July.

So if you scheduled it for the last week, the last two, because any time after the 16th, because we'll know we'll have volunteers that day, right?

Conceivably on the 16th of July at our next meeting.

Okay.

So, yeah, with my work schedule, they're probably putting that that week out now, probably the next two days.

So that'll make it easier for me to know what day I can do it.

So I would like to do it.

So I don't know what your schedule is.

Um but any time between the 20th and the 31st, I would say.

Except not Tuesdays for me.

Not this Tuesday.

The challenge that I'm having with that is that uh we haven't gone through the process of determining who's available because I'm hearing people say I might be working, and so I'm hesitant to put something out there, not knowing whether we have a commitment from at least the chicken and egg thing because some people need to know what day before they can commit.

So let's say let's say if I can commit on the 23rd, which is a Thursday, it's July, but it'll be in July, July 23rd.

We have a second, I'll come in with you.

I can we have a third.

If any one of us three cannot make that, could someone else fill in on the 23rd of July?

At what time?

Coffee.

Coffee would be morning.

Uh nine.

Oh my god.

What time do people come?

What does the day that be the center opens at nine o'clock in the morning?

Oh, days of most number of uh seniors coming in.

Do you know?

I'm just we're just calling it on July 33rd at 9 o'clock.

Yeah, from 9 to 30.

That's 10 30.

And and we three or two.

Okay, that means that somebody's got to be here early to bring in the coffee.

Somebody somehow we have to have coffee, we have to have cookies, and it has to be all set up by nine o'clock.

I would suggest you move it to 9 30.

Okay, sure.

9 30 to 11 or that, because well, you were doing nine, you were doing nine to 10 30, so one hour.

One hour, okay, 9 30 to 10 30.

That way you have time to set up.

Do we have them on page here or do we bring in coffee from now?

What's that?

Does the senior center have a coffee machine and all that, or do we bring in Pete?

We have a coffee machine here.

Yeah, yeah.

So we just need to show up and make coffee and maybe bring some cookies.

Cookies.

Does this sound okay?

Pedro?

So what I'm hearing is July 31st.

No, 23rd.

Sorry, July 23rd.

I thought I heard 31st, but okay, July 23rd from 9 30 to 10 30.

Informal coffee, maybe cookies.

Um safe bed is to probably just do it in the activity room.

As soon as you walk in because that program that they space doesn't get uh scheduled, and so I know that it would probably be available, and I'm hearing Commissioner Dylan, Commissioner Pena, Commissioner McMichael Cady and possibly Commissioner Lopin Locario would be at that one.

Yeah, okay, we got it, see and I'll bring cookies, and we'll bring cookies, yeah.

It is after just the days, and I'll be back up in case you have what I'll do back up in case somebody can't.

Okay.

There, thank you.

Okay, and I can yeah, okay, you got it.

And so remember, we just can't have more than four, right?

So right now we have right now we have a four, so anybody else can be in alternate.

And I can be a backup too if somebody can suddenly have an emergency.

Okay, now as far as the rest, as far as anything else, the day of the I don't think I have the day of the day of the meeting.

Could we have something uh that as soon as they come in the door, come and have uh coffee and cookies with the commission nurse or something?

Yeah, yeah, that'd be good.

So that they don't just bypass the activity room.

I'm sorry, you say the day of which meeting.

The day of our 23rd, the July 23rd.

The event, the actual event on the 23rd.

Yeah, can you please put up some kind of signage that says as soon as the couple days?

As soon as the seniors walk in the door that there's coffee with the commissioners or uh cookies, uh in the activity room?

Okay, yeah.

That way they don't just walk past.

Okay.

Okay.

That's your response.

I got it.

Give me an easy one.

Okay.

Are we okay?

Is this settled?

Then more than settlement.

Drag it off the list.

Okay.

So then I so then this item will not be back on the agenda in July, right?

We're gonna do coffee.

Okay.

We're going to be doing instead of lunch, we're going to be doing meet the commissioners type of thing.

So then the next uh okay, we'll go on, but uh someone else needs to decide what we're gonna do are we gonna do this?

I'm sorry, I do have one question.

Are we gonna do this on a monthly basis?

A third every third month basis, everything.

Okay, see how it goes.

Sounds good to me.

Okay.

Trial, that's right.

Make sure we're just still available.

And lunch is still, yes, yes, before we leave.

Lunch is still available.

If anyone just wants to go to lunch, okay.

Okay, just make sure that you coordinate, and there's not four of you going, not more than four of you going on the same day.

Okay, and you have to let them know and sign up because sometimes it gets full.

That is correct.

Yeah, okay.

So, how far ahead is that I would say with the lunch thing.

If you can communicate with me, so that way I can coordinate with Spectrum because they um they're very good about planning, making sure that there's enough food and space and all that.

So I would say um, so yeah, if you can on that one, if you can communicate with me in advance to let me know that you're thinking about coming by, and that way I can give them a heads up.

I like that.

I like go, I think it's the right way to go through Pedro to talk to them.

So they're not talking to 10 different people.

Yeah, it's good.

Everybody okay.

Cookies and commissioners.

Yes, I love it.

That's a good reason.

Great.

Okay.

Moving on, San Leander Improvement Association, the SLIA discussion.

Thank you.

I have an update as you already called during the last meeting, there was uh interest expressed to invite somebody from SLIA to come and present about themselves and the work that they do.

Um, uh sort of at sort of during that same time I sent uh you all a link to the presentation that they did to the city council, but the action item there for me was to follow up with them to inquire about their interests and availability to come and present to this group.

So I contacted the executive director from from SLIA, uh, who mentioned that they're they're open to uh come in there.

I was interested in sharing with the public what who they are and what they do.

Uh the executive director was going to uh coordinate with uh the manager of the program.

Um, and so I shared that um September or October might be a good time to be able to do that.

So they're going to look at their schedules and give and get back to me regarding which month is best for them.

Okay, so more to come on that.

Hopefully, I'll have an uh an additional update during our July meeting.

Thank you.

Any questions?

No.

Good.

Okay.

7D update and discussion regarding the potential impact of the county budget reductions.

I believe that Commissioner Brennan brought this up.

And I continue to be uh so there was uh I had forwarded to Pedro some um some things that have made the news uh about um the specific impact of county budget reductions on um social service programs affecting seniors, and um so I'm concerned about that.

We already had mentioned earlier in this meeting about funding of one of the uh caregiver programs through county funding.

So, you know, when the axe falls, unfortunately, some of these programs are considered low-hanging fruit, and they get chopped because they're they're not infrastructure and capital and big big iron projects.

So they're considered soft projects, and they seem to be the ones that so have you heard anything from our friends at the county on what might or might not be coming our direction, or from other people in the city.

Yeah, thank you, Commissioner Bryant.

Uh so I'll say that there's been a lot of conversation about budget and budget reductions at many levels, right?

We've talked about that here with the city and the county, obviously, is going through that in the state and obviously the federal government.

So there's multiple layers here.

Um I understand that there's a special budget hearing that was scheduled uh for today.

And so the meeting is from two to five.

Uh I can follow up and send you the link to to that meeting.

It's gonna be uh in person as well as virtual if you want to just uh listen in.

And so um that that announcement about that meeting also indicates that there will be uh a recess uh taken, and the meeting continued on Monday, June 22nd at 145.

And so I think that right now there's been a lot of conversation about potential budget cuts, and so um I think I think there's a we're in a kind of in a in a holding space to some degree, you know, because there are a lot of there's a lot of discussion and some decisions still need to be made again at multiple at those multiple levels, and so um I think this is where I think is where um if you're interested in hearing more about the the budget the county budget and and any proposed cuts, I would I would encourage you all to county county meeting, yeah.

This is the county meeting.

So after today's meeting, yeah, after today's meeting, I can go ahead and send out the link and so that I think it might be helpful as to for those of us that can listen in to listen in, and then maybe we come back in July and share kind of our observations and then any additional discussion.

I'm sure it was on Lena's uh meeting list, which she sends out.

But I'm missing out some.

There's more good news than bad lately, though, because the legislature, uh state legislature is rejecting a lot of the governor's budget, measure W is going in a lot of places, the county is.

I mean, like the triple A is having difficulty getting funds out, but that's more administrative nonsense than anything.

But I think it's better news than we okay.

Because there was some gloom and doom here uh a couple of months ago.

Yeah, I was so that is just that impression that it may be easing a bit the impacts, so that's good.

I think the revenues are better than they expected at the state level because of the AI nonsense.

I don't know how long that'll last.

Yeah, good, okay.

So if the commission is interested in listening, I can send out the I can send out that information.

Yes, you could send it up.

I'll probably ball it.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Okay, last item, August meeting, senior commission meeting.

Um, in the past, we have uh decided not to meet in August, basically because the city goes dark, and um, so it's up to everyone.

Obviously, we have to vote on this, so I will accept a motion as to whether or not we um meet in August.

Yes, Commissioner.

Then we've had the meeting in August.

I'll second it is there is a vacation.

Okay, is there a second?

I'm sorry, okay.

Second by Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Any discussion?

That was quick.

Okay, will you take the vote, please?

Yes, thank you, Chair.

Chey Washington?

Yes, Victor Comelo?

Yes, Commissioner Dillon?

Commissioner Lopez Nacario?

Commissioner Michael Cady?

Yes, Commissioner Benya?

Yes, Commissioner Brennan, yes, uh Commissioner Rickson?

Yes, and Commissioner Gobakreshness.

Yes.

The motion carries.

Okay.

So we got a lot to think about for July.

Okay, all right.

This brings us to our commission reports and announcements.

And I am very pleased to announce that we have our new commissioner, Commissioner Rickson.

And would you please tell us a little bit about yourself?

Sure.

Um, I've lived in um San Leandro for the last 27 years.

I live with my husband and uh grown daughter, and um we're both retired.

My husband and I are both retired uh for 35 years.

I ran social service agencies.

I have an MBA, but I also am a licensed clinical social worker.

I spent many years working um with older adults.

That's oh wow, but also with young people, foster youth and so forth.

And I'm really happy to be here.

This was a very interesting meeting for me.

Yeah.

Oh, I do still, I guess I'm only semi-retired.

I do still teach.

I teach at uh Sam's A State University in the graduate school of social work.

Wow.

Welcome.

Very awesome.

Yeah.

Bring us insights into the social services.

Yes.

Great.

Thank you.

I know you know it's very new, and that to you today.

I hope that uh we hear a lot more from you in the future.

Thank you.

Don't ever hesitate to raise your hand.

All right, um, okay.

Uh I want to thank everyone for their um input today.

I think we've had a really good meeting, it's been full of energy, which is good.

We have settled a couple of problem things, um, so everybody needs to be thinking about what committees they want to be on for our meeting in July.

Um, maybe what you envision the committee the committee um be working on.

I mean, don't chew, don't bite off more than you can chew.

It's you know, if you got one thing, focus on that and move on.

Um so the other thing is that if you remember a couple of months ago, I announced that the um vet clinic up on Washington Avenue was closing.

Uh well, I'm sure that you probably have seen.

I hope that we have a new vet clinic, and it is actually the employees of the original VCA have opened the clinic, so it is called WAVE.

They had a ribbon cutting yesterday, and they will have a soft opening on June 22nd and a full opening the following week.

It is staffed by almost all of the employees that worked at the BCA.

So it's really exciting to have them back.

Um, they do all the emergency services.

Uh currently, I don't know if they're open 24 hours yet.

I think they have to open first and then kind of work their schedules in.

They have both the hospital and the emergency um department.

They, however, um do not have a contract with anyone at this time to take in feral cats.

So it would have to be a pet, or you'll have to just tell them this is my cat.

Okay.

Yeah, is it in the same location?

Absolutely.

Yes, it is.

They just reopened that.

It was perfect because they all got together and said, This can't happen.

They need, you know, we need an emergency vet clinic, and so we're gonna make it happen.

And they did.

And they even brought yesterday the most beautiful horse.

They included that in the opening.

He was very pretty, he was all done up in red, white, and blue, and had stars on his uh had stars on his uh uh person body.

It was it was great, it was great.

They're happy to be here, they're excited, and so um, you know, after the 22nd, if you just want to just drop by, because they're really great.

Okay, Commissioner Lopez Nicario.

Do you have anything you'd like to say?

Um I attended a community please review board meeting last night and met the interim chief, Joseph Cranes.

Um they also said that they have seven uh in the police academy, three of them are getting ready to graduate.

They went over the coffee with the cops, which is going to be at the Marina Center at July 21st from 8 a.m.

to 1.

And um then they went through some things of uh the constitutional policy, the fourth amendment, the first amendment, the fifth amendment, sixth amendment, and the fourteenth amendment, which was really interesting being climate of today.

That's it.

Thank you so well commissioner Pena, uh welcome.

Commissioner Brennan.

So uh i i thought that the, as I mentioned earlier, the session we had with the uh uh mic's program out of UC Berkeley um tuesday was really um effective it was in depth it was very focused and detailed um it did surface the question that i'm going to raise to uh my our council uh we uh fred timon which is a city policy on um electric conveyances beyond e-bikes i think that's a senior safety concern so i'm gonna start with excuse me i'm gonna start with fred and see if we can get a danville like approach Danville city having just adopted are in the process of adopting an ordinance on that so that's not what it was a really good uh session with cow bikes and we I think uh it was good both ways they learned from us and we learned from them thank you um commissioner rixon nothing but I did want to say that I am a bicyclist is this okay to say this no we can't we can't have a discussion about what came up in right or can I'm sorry I'm stuck I don't know what she's gonna say you can make an announcement or you can make a comment yeah I was just gonna make comment that's fine okay as long as we don't as long as we don't engage in the conversation get into anything okay about that sorry about that I'm just gonna say that so I'm really interested in safety I'm not an e-bicyclist I don't have an e-bike so really interested in safety around it and I see a lot of seniors biking and I'm very concerned about it that's all I was gonna say thank you sorry just have to be really yeah I should have announced that that we can't make a discussion out of anything no I would admit sorry yeah no no that's okay okay Commissioner Dillon uh nothing commissioner comelo and the no no no okay uh commissioner mcmichael cady yeah actually it just occurred to me I got an invitation to the July 4th celebration I don't want to use that by virtue of being on this commission I okay sounds lovely I accepted that's all I didn't know what that was okay and Commissioner Shalini I have four things um so yes I do get anything I was wondering whether we can uh all our seniors are involved can they also be invited to that or is it can be I think it's a public event yeah okay that'd be nice if we we can put somebody with the same name we can come back um the other thing is um I was wondering I think they mentioned this earlier if you can talk to the library about actually creating uh a repository but seniors can sell their stories we have their stories for life and stowed okay that if you want to put that on the agenda for next time okay can you email that request to uh pedro myself thank you and then this other thing I read about this place called urban tilt in Richmond which actually what it does it it has community members um grow a garden and homeless or people who are you know food insecure they can actually get food from there so I was wondering with yak or some other group to know we can actually convert a garden into kind of a food garden i mean that's a big project but you know that's an idea and we can learn from them on how they've done that okay and then the last one this is a strange one um I know you mentioned something about zoom do we have zoom meetings in this I am pretty confused or is it all supposed to be in person okay thank you the senior commission meetings are in person yeah okay okay all right there being no further business to come before the senior commission I will entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting of June 18th 2026 so move commissioner Brennan second second commissioner Lopez Nicario roll call please.

Thank you.

Chair Watchison?

Yes.

Vice chair comelo?

Yes.

Commissioner Dillon.

Hi.

Commissioner Lopez Nacario.

Hi.

Commissioner McMichael Cady.

Yes.

Commissioner Pena.

Yes.

Commissioner Brennan?

Yes.

Commissioner Rickson yes.

And Commissioner Kopakrishnan.

Yes.

Motion carries.

Okay.

The meeting is adjourned at 1134.