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23 MEETING SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION
[Senior Affairs Commission on September 18, 2023.]
WORK.AND WE, UH, NEED TO DO A QUICK CHECK TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANY, UH, FORUM.
UH, DISTRICT THREE AND FOUR ARE BOTH VACANT.
AND UH, MARY IS HERE, RIGHT? YES.
UM, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? THIS IS CARMEN.
SHOULD I NOT BE HERE? COULD YOU NOT BE THERE? SHOULD I NOT BE HERE? OH, I'M LOOKING AT, I'M LOOKING AT AN OLD FORM THAT SAID THAT THAT WAS A VACANT.
UM, IS LISA ON TODAY? LISA'S ON HERE.
SO, UH, WE HAVE A COURT I LEFT PROCEEDING.
UH, FIRST UP ON THE AGENDA IS, UH, PUBLIC SPEAKERS, AND WE HAVE TONY BRYANT HERE.
YOU'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND SAY HELLO.
YOU NEED TO BE ON CAMERA, THOUGH.
I DIDN'T HEAR MY NAME CALLED I, I SAW YOU AND BROUGHT YOU DOWN.
KYLE'S GOT THE FULL LISTENING IN.
WE WELCOME, UH, PODIUM THAT AGAIN.
THE PODIUM OR OVER HERE? E OH, CHAIR ON E OH, CHAIR ON THE END.
I AM, UH, THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR FOR HOUSE DISTRICT 100, UH, WHICH, UH, REPRESENTS, UH, FENTON JONES.
UM, AND I AM, CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? AND, UH, OUR OFFICE IS HERE TODAY, UH, IN SUPPORT OF SEVERAL DISTRICTS THAT ACTUALLY, UM, OVERLAP, UM, IN WITHIN HOUSE DISTRICT 100, WHICH IS, UH, DISTRICTS 2, 4, 5, AND SEVEN.
UM, BUT WE ARE HERE, UH, JUST TO LEARN MORE ABOUT, UM, WHAT, UH, WE CAN DO FROM THE STATE SIDE, UM, IN TERMS OF SUPPORTING ANY OF THE SENIOR ACTIVITIES THAT, UH, ARE TAKING PLACE, UH, WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER, UH, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT'D LIKE TO SPEAK IS HERE AS WELL? OKAY.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GRACIE HERE, AND JUST WANTING TO, UH, ONE, UH, PUBLICLY SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND PUBLICLY THANK, UH, MY APPOINTEE, UH, BERNARD MITCHELL FOR ALL OF HER WORK, UH, AND CONTINUED SUPPORT, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, UNDER THIS.
I'M A LITTLE BIT TARDY GETTING ALL OF MY ASSIGNMENTS TOGETHER, BUT PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE, UH, REASSIGNED IF, IF YOU SO WILL.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO DO IS TO, TO, TO COME AND JUST SAY WE WERE BRIEF THIS MORNING IN QUALITY OF LIFE, AND I'M JUST SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS THAT, UH, OUR OFFICE OF COMMUNITY CARE PARKS AND, UH, OUR, EVEN OUR DATA ANALYTICS TEAM HAVE BEEN DOING, UH, TO ONE, ASSESS THE NEEDS, BUT ALSO PUT PROGRAMMING AROUND IT.
UH, MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS, UM, UH, SERIES ON NETFLIX ABOUT THESE CENTURION COMMUNITIES THAT ARE LIVING WELL BEYOND, UH, A HUNDRED YEARS OR MORE.
AND WE'RE SEEING THAT THE COMMON THEME SEEMS TO BE COMMUNITY CULTURE AND ACTIVITY, AND WHAT THE TEAM HAS PUT TOGETHER AND WITHIN BRIEF US ON THIS MORNING GIVES ME A LOT OF EXCITEMENT.
AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTINUED WORK, UH, THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING AND HOW I CAN FURTHER SUPPORT ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS.
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SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.AND MS. VERNON, PUBLICLY, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR COMING IN THE FOUR YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION.
IT'S THE FIRST TIME THE CITY COUNCIL PERSON HAS EVER BEEN PRESIDENT AT ONE OF OUR MEETINGS.
BUT DAVE, I I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT UP.
BUT IT'S, IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BECAUSE I THINK AT TIMES THIS COMMISSION HAS FELT AS THOUGH WE TALK ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS AND WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL AND NOTHING HAPPENS.
AND, UH, IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR MANY YEARS, IN MY OPINION.
UH, THIS YEAR WAS QUITE DIFFERENT THAN ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.
AND WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT THAT YOU PROVIDED, UH, FOR THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
AND ALL THE OTHER COUNCILS OF PEOPLE THAT BOARD IT, IT'S AN IMPORTANT THING THAT HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED TOO LONG.
SO, JUST SO YOU KNOW, JESSICA SHAW MADE THAT VERY CLEAR TO US THIS MORNING, UH, IN THE MOST PROFESSIONAL WAYS, BUT SHE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO ON THE PANEL.
THEY KEEP AN EYE ON THEM GUYS.
UH, NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE, UH, AUGUST MEETING.
EVERYONE GOT A COPY? IF ANYBODY HAVE ANY COMMENTS, ORIONS TO THE MINUTES.
IF NOT, I WOULD TAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
UM, THE CHAIR'S REPORT, I HAD, UH, A COUPLE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT.
UH, EVERYBODY KNOWS THE
UH, THE, UM, THE OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT IS I THINK EVERYBODY, UH, EVERYBODY HAD A PART IN COMING UP WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THIS GROUP OR THIS BODY FOR BUDGET, UH, PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND AS I WAS SAYING, THIS IS REALLY THE FIRST TIME SINCE I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN IT OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS THAT SOMETHING ACTUALLY CAME OF IT.
AND, UH, I THINK WE, UH, I, I THINK THE REPORT ITSELF WAS GOOD, BUT THE, THE, THE WORK THAT WE DID WITH THE DATA ANALYTICS GROUP OF ACTUALLY HAVING FACTUAL INFORMATION TO SUPPORT WHAT WE WERE SAYING IN THE PAST, IT'S ALL BEEN ANECDOTAL.
AND, YOU KNOW, ANECDOTAL INFORMATION IS GREAT AND IT MAY GET SOMEBODY'S ATTENTION, BUT IF YOU WANT SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, YOU BETTER BE ABLE TO HAVE FACTS TO DO THAT.
AND, AND WE'VE GOT SIGNIFICANT ISSUES IN THE SENIOR COMMUNITY THAT NO ONE HAS REALIZED JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT WERE AFFECTED.
AND IT'S, UH, AT 140,000 SENIORS AND PROBABLY A THIRD OF 'EM HAVE SIGNIFICANT ISSUES THAT, UH, NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
AND IN SOME CASES, IT'S NOT THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY TO SOLVE THE, ALL OF THOSE PROBLEMS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE AND TO HELP ORGANIZE GROUPS TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER ENTITIES SHOULD BE DOING IT ARE DOING IT.
UH, SO ANYWAY, THAT'S, I, I WAS REALLY PROUD OF, OF HOW ALL THAT TRANSPIRED.
AND THEN I WAS EVEN MORE PROUD WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WANTED TO, UH, REMOVE VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING THAT GOT INCLUDED IN THE SAME MANAGER'S BUDGET FOR SENIORS.
UH, AND, UH, ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT, SENDING OUT AN EMAIL, UM, ALMOST EVERYBODY ON THE COMMISSION, UH, SAID THAT THEY WOULD TALK TO THEIR COUNCILPERSON.
AND, UH, LO AND BEHOLD, IT WORKED.
AND, AND WE, THOSE, THOSE WERE ALL PRESERVED AND WE'RE, IT APPEARS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT 'EM BEING IN THE CHOPPING BLOCK THIS YEAR ANYWAY.
UH, AND SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO STEPPED UP, UH, AMONG THE, ON THE COMMISSION AND, UH, THANK THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO LISTENED TO THEIR COMMISSIONERS, UH, BECAUSE IT REALLY, REALLY DID MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.
AND I THINK THE NEXT YEAR IS WE MOVED INTO THE NEXT, UH, THIS NEXT TERM.
UH, I THINK THERE'S SOME EXCITING THINGS THAT ARE GONNA HAPPEN, AND THERE'S SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES.
AND, UH, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO LEADING THE
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COMMISSION FOR TWO MORE YEARS.I FOUND OUT THIS MORNING THAT THE MAYOR IS GOING TO REAPPOINT ME AS CHAIR.
UH, SO WE'RE, UH, WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON ALL THAT.
AND THAT'S GREAT, AND I, I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S SUPPORT.
CAN I, CAN I JUST, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY INVALUABLE TO THIS WHOLE PROCESS WAS THE DATA ANALYSIS.
AND AS YOU KNOW, I USE THAT IN SOME OF MY EMAILS AND MM-HMM.
WELL, I THINK THERE'S MORE TO BE LEARNED YES.
ABOUT WHAT THE REAL NEEDS ARE.
AND, UH, BUT THAT'S WHAT THIS NEXT COUPLE YEARS IS GONNA BE YES.
AND, UH, I HAD A, I I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT WITH DEBBIE AUSTIN THAT, THAT, UH, AND, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, DEBBIE, BUT IN A NUTSHELL, UH, SHE TOLD ME SHE THOUGHT ALL I CARED ABOUT WERE NUMBERS AND, AND THAT, UH, THEN SHE LISTENED TO THE INTERVIEW THAT I DID FOR, UH, CHANNEL FIVE.
AND, UH, HE MIGHT REALLY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE TOO,
AND, UH, I, I THINK WE ARE, WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS, AND I THINK IT'S AN EXCITING TIME TO BE PART OF THIS, OF THIS ORGANIZATION.
HOPEFULLY WE CAN, UH, CONTINUE MAKING MORE PROGRESS.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE ME, YOU HAVE WORKED HARD MAKING DECISION.
WELL, IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A LABOR LOVE.
LET'S MOVE ON AND, UH, QUICKLY GO THROUGH DISTRICT UPDATE.
UM, WE'D START WITH WHOEVER WOULD LIKE TO START, WE'D START ONLINE.
LISA, HAVE YOU GOT ANYTHING FROM YOUR DISTRICT? I DO NOT HAVE ANY UPDATES.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM YOUR DISTRICT? NO, NOTHING NEW.
CARMEN, I CAN'T SEE CARMEN'S IN YOUR CORNER.
DO YOU HAVE AU DO YOU STILL HAVE AWESOME.
DO YOU DO, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? NOW I CAN.
UM, I, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M SPEAKING OUTTA TURN OR, OR IS IT MY TURN TO SAY SOMETHING? GO, GO AHEAD.
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IS THAT, UM, WHAT THE COUNCILMAN MENTIONED ABOUT COMMUNITY CULTURE, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
I HAVE FOUND THAT TO BE IN, WORKING AT, AT THIS COMMISSION.
AND ACTUALLY, I DO HAVE A FULL-TIME JOB THAT I WORK WITH SENIORS.
IT IS SO DISTINCTLY NECESSARY.
UH, THE CITY OF DALLAS DOES HAVE RESOURCES THAT WE CAN USE.
LIKE WHEN I THROW A PARTY, THERE'S NO WAY, UM, I COULD DO WHAT I DO IF THE CITY OF DALLAS THROUGH THEIR CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT WASN'T THERE TO, TO SUPPORT US AND THEN FOLLOW THROUGH WITH IT.
WELL, I'M LOOKING AT MY CALENDAR HERE.
THERE'S A GRAND OPENING FOR A PROPERTY THAT I'VE BEEN TOLD WILL BE DEDICATED FOR SENIORS.
AND, UH, IT'S GONNA BE ON NOVEMBER 9TH.
THAT'S NOT WHEN WE MEET, BUT SO PEOPLE COULD BE AWARE OF IT, IS THAT I'M BRINGING IT UP.
IT'S A BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION.
IT'LL BE ON A THURSDAY ON THE NINTH AT, UM, 2:00 PM CARMEN, WHERE IS THAT? UH, LET ME GIVE YOU THE, THE EXACT ADDRESS IS 63 6 30 SOUTH LUAN AVENUE AVENUE HERE IN DALLAS, OF COURSE, HERE IN OAK CLIFF BY CHAIR.
AND IT, AND IT, YES, THAT'S WHAT IT, IT SAYS, UH, IT'S CALLED THE OAKS, THE OAKS GRAND OPENING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH.
THAT'S AT 2:00 PM AT 2:00 PM IT'S A VERY BEAUTIFUL BUILDING, AND IT'S TAKEN A LOT OF THE MAKINGS,
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BUT IT WAS WORTH IT.UM, CARMEN, IS THAT A PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTY, DO YOU KNOW? NO, NO.
TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THEY ARE NOT.
IT HAS TO DO SOMETHING WITH, UH, THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT THAT'S ON HAMPTON.
SO MAYBE IT'S WITH THE D H A OR SOMETHING.
NOW, AS FAR AS FINANCING AND ALL THAT, I DON'T HAVE IT, BUT I WILL HAVE IT BEFORE THEN BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT FAR FROM WHERE I AM ON A DAILY BASIS.
SO, YES, I'VE HEARD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT I'VE ALSO KNOWN OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OAK CLIFF FOR A ONE BEDROOM, 1200, $1,500.
WELL, MOST OF THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH COULD NEVER MOVE IN THERE, BUT, UM, IF IT'S A REASONABLE, A MORE REALISTIC, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, I'LL GLADLY SHARE IT WITH YOU.
VERNON, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING? GOOD AFTERNOON.
JUST LIKE TO SHARE THAT ON SATURDAY, EXCUSE ME.
UH, SEVERAL DISTRICTS CAME TOGETHER AT, UM, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOR A REVIEW AND UPDATE OF THE PAST, UH, LEGIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION, THE 88TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, AND THE PROPOSITIONS THAT WILL NOT ONLY AFFECT SENIORS, BUT AFFECT EVERYONE.
AND, UH, SENATOR WEST HAD PREPARED A BOOKLET THAT HAS A SUMMARY OF ALL OF THE PROPOSITIONS, AND I JUST WISH I WAS ABLE TO GET ENOUGH OF THOSE TO SHARE.
AND I'M, I'M STILL GOING TO TRY, UH, TO GET SOME, BECAUSE IT, IT'S, IT'S VERY VALUABLE.
UH, IN DISTRICT THREE, UH, YOU JUST MET OUR, UH, COUNCILMAN, UH, ZARIN, UH, GRACIE THAT IS CURRENTLY, UH, COMPLETING THE ASSIGNMENTS FOR, UM, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AND AFTER THAT, HE WILL BE DOING A 100 DAYS OF MEETING WITH, UH, HIS CONSTITUENTS AND PUTTING FORTH PLANS FOR THE DISTRICT.
I THINK, I GUESS JUST ASK IF THERE'S ANYBODY ELSE.
I THINK YOU COVERED, DID ANYBODY ELSE WHO'S ONLINE HAVE ANYTHING THAT I CAN'T READ THE, UH, SCREEN FROM HERE? UH, THIS IS, UH, COMMISSIONER AUSTIN, DISTRICT EIGHT.
WE HAD OUR FIRST FORWARD DALLAS MEETING, AND, UM, THEY TOLD US THAT WE WERE, THE TEST MEETING, IT DIDN'T GO VERY WELL.
UM, SOME OF THE RESIDENTS THAT ATTENDED, UM, A MISCONCEPTION OF WHAT THE, UM, THEY PROMISED TO COME BACK AND THEY ARE COMING BACK TOMORROW NIGHT.
UM, AND THEY'LL START ALL OVER.
HOPEFULLY THEY WILL, UH, ALLOW THE PRESENTERS TO PRESENT, UH, THE INFORMATION AND THEY WILL LISTEN WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING AND AN OPEN MIND.
BUT, UM, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY BECAUSE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WE'RE FINDING OUT THAT ACROSS FROM CARTER HIGH SCHOOL, SOME, UH, COMPANY IS OPENING A DISTRIBUTION CENTER.
WE'LL BE BUILDING A DISTRIBUTION CENTER RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL AND NEXT TO, UH, FRIENDSHIP WEST BAPTIST CHURCH, WHICH IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.
WE KNOW THAT OUR AREA THAT SOUTH, SOUTH OF THE T TRINITY RIVER WAS ZONED INDUSTRIAL IN THE BEGINNING WHEN THE FOREFATHERS OF DALLAS DECIDED TO ZONE DALLAS.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE WORKING WITH IN FORWARD DALLAS IS TO GET THE ZONINGS CHANGED OR RESTRICTED SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE ALL THIS INDUSTRIAL STUFF GOING UP OVER HERE.
OUR COUNCILMAN AND COUNCIL, BASIL DOOR, BASEL DOZA FROM SOUTH DALLAS HAVE WRITTEN A LETTER TO THE TEXAS AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION BECAUSE THE SE A NEW BRAND NEW CEMENT PLANT HAS BEEN OPENED OVER ON THE TRINITY BASIN, THE TRINITY, I THINK IT'S CALLED, UM, SOME KIND OF, UH, CONS CONSERVATORY OR CONSERVATION PLACE, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO GO AND WALK THROUGH THERE.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE CLASSES THERE FOR SOME OF THE STUDENTS IN D I S D.
BUT FOR WHATEVER REASON, A CEMENT PLANT OPENED THERE, IT WAS SHUT DOWN, SOLD, AND THEN ANOTHER COMPANY OPENED IT BACK UP, AND THEY'RE OPERATING THERE, AND IT IS OPERATING IN VIOLATION OF, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
SO, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME ZONING CHANGES DONE, IN OTHER WORDS.
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IS SUPPOSED TO HELP US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY.ALSO, I ATTENDED, UM, THE SYNERGY EVENT.
I THINK I TOLD YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
THAT TOOK PLACE IN TARRANT COUNTY, WHICH IS AN AWESOME EVENT.
IT BRINGS IN ALL KINDS OF VENDORS.
I WOULD SAY THAT THERE WERE POSSIBLY 200, 300 VENDORS THERE.
UH, THERE WAS EVEN FACEBOOK THERE, IT'S CALLED, UH, META NOW.
UH, I GOT TONS OF INFORMATION THAT I CAN SHARE WITH, UH, ANYBODY THAT'S INTERESTED.
UM, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME.
AND TIM O'HARE, WHO IS THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER, I BELIEVE, I THINK COUNTY JUDGE PUT THIS ON THIS YEAR BECAUSE HE, UH, TOOK THE PLACE OF THE GUY THAT RETIRED LAST YEAR.
BUT IT, IT WAS REALLY AWESOME.
AND I'VE BEEN ATTENDING FOR A WHILE.
ALSO, I WANTED TO SAY THAT I SENT AN EMAIL TO MACKAY AND TO JAMES BECAUSE DS, WHICH IS A DALLAS AREA GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HAS A SUMMIT COMING UP THAT'S GONNA BE EQUALLY INFORMATIVE.
IT IS GONNA COME UP IN OCTOBER.
AND I TALKED TO COMMISSIONER KLEIN ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT, AND I SENT HIM A, A PICTURE OF THE FLYER.
AND, UM, IF MIAH AND, UH, JAMES GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL SHARE IT WITH YOU.
AND THERE IS A SENIOR EVENT COMING UP, UH, AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AT THE ARBORETUM.
AND YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UM, JUST GOOGLE, UM, DALLAS ARBORETUM SENIOR EXPO, AND YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UH, REGISTER FOR IT, BUT IT'S FREE AND IT SHOULD BE SIMILAR WITH LOTS OF INFORMATION AND RESOURCES FOR SENIORS.
THERE WAS A MAN AT OUR COMMUNITY COALITION MEETING FROM 3 1 1 DEPARTMENT DALLAS 3 1 1, AND HE TOLD US ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED BRANCH OUT DALLAS.
AND HE SAID, IF YOU CALL 3 1 1 THAT YOU CAN, UH, REGISTER FOR NO, NO CALL GOOGLE BRANCH OUT DALLAS, AND YOU CAN GET TREES FOR FREE.
HE SAID THEY HAVE FRUIT TREES, OTHER KIND OF TREES FOR FREE.
YOU REGISTER NOW, PICK UP LATER, BUT YOU HAVE TO REGISTER WITH BRANCH OUT DALLAS.
BUT I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY NEAT THAT THE TREES WERE FREE AND USUALLY THEY'RE JUST REGULAR TREES, BUT THEY DO HAVE FRUIT TREES NOW.
MARILYN, DID YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO TO YOU? DID YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM YOUR DISTRICT? YEAH, WE HAD OUR, UH, FASCINATION, UH, FOR THE COVID AND THE NEW, UH, VIRUSES COMING ON.
AND WE ALSO WENT TO THE SS A S TO THE SENIOR, UH, THING FOR, UH, RALEIGH TO ENJOY TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT THE EPIDEMIC IS COMING BACK AND HOW IT'S GOING BE.
AND WE, UH, AT MAD NASH, WE HAD A, A THING FOR THE KIDS AND WE BUILT A PARK OVER OMAR MADE SURE THEY PUT A BASKETBALL.
SO EVERYTHING IS DOING PRETTY WELL IN MY DISTRICT EXCEPT WE HAVING PROBLEMS ABOUT THE HOUSES BEING REMODELED AND REBUILT.
AND THEY NOT, THEY NOT GETTING ON IT.
THEY HAVEN'T, THEY DIDN'T DO IT BEFORE AND THEY HAVEN'T STARTED YET.
IT GOING THROUGH A LOT OF CHANGES, BUT THEY STILL COMING UP TO THE CENTER, BUT THE PURPOSE CENTER, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAVE THEY DID WRONG AND THEY REQUESTED MORE PAPERS FROM, BUT SOME OF 'EM SUBMITTED THEY PAPER BEFORE THE EPIDEMIC STARTED AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T HEARD NOTHING.
SO YEAH, THAT'S A PROBLEM IN MY, UH, DISTRICT.
BUT OMAR SAID HE'S GONNA CHECK INTO IT AND MAKE SURE IT GETS RIGHT, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WE OKAY.
COMMISSIONER DANIELS, IS THAT, IS THERE REPAIR WORK? YES, MA'AM.
AND SOME OF THE WOMEN BEFORE THEN HAD FOR THEY HOUSE TO BE DID ALL OVER AGAIN, THEY PACKED THEIR STUFF AND MOVED IT OUT RIGHT BEFORE THE EPIDEMIC.
AFTER THE EPIDEMIC CAME, THEY DIDN'T DO IT.
SO AFTER THE EPIDEMIC, THEY STILL TRYING TO GET IN AND GET THEIR PLACE, AND THEY TOLD 'EM THEY DIDN'T HAVE NO MONEY.
BUT NOW I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY DO HAVE SOME MONEY, BUT THEY TOLD THEM THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY, SO NO, THEY NOT GETTING THEIR HOUSES DEAD OVER THERE.
WELL, HE CAME AND SPOKE TO US, REMEMBER LAST MONTH? YES, HE DID.
AND THOSE PEOPLE ARE STILL WAITING.
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WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOMEBODY, UH, FROM HOUSING SPEAK TO US TODAY AND PROBABLY ADDRESS THAT QUESTION.I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH BECAUSE THAT'S MIND BOTHERING TO ME BECAUSE THEY KEEP SAYING, WHAT IS THE CITY DOING? WE DONE BEEN AND TOOK CARE OF EVERYTHING THEY SAY.
EVERY TIME WE GO BACK, THEY WANT ANOTHER PIECE OF PAPER AND THEY SENT IT TO 'EM AND THEY STILL WAITING.
AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE EPIDEMIC.
DO YOU HAVE ANY, UH, THANK GOD FOR YOUR, I CAN JUST SEND DISTRICT FOUR MAYOR PRO TEAM, UH, CAROLYN KING ONLY HOSTING, UM, HOSTING BOND MEETING ON THE 10TH OF OCTOBER AT HAPA WILLIAMS, OR EITHER BECKLEY, ONE OF THE TWO.
SO IN THAT BOND MEETING, THERE'S WHERE I'M GONNA BE LISTENING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN INTERJECT OUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CENTER WE TRYING TO DO, AND I'M ELOISE LUNDY IN THE BOTTOM DISTRICT, AND I WANT MY CENTER UPDATED AND UM, REMODELED TOO.
SO WE GONNA GET READY TO START HAVING OUR BOND MEETING, BUT DISTRICT FOUR.
UM, I HAVE SOME TREES THAT I KILLED.
SO
AND I WANT TO SEND A SHOUT OUT TO MY, UH, COUNCIL PERSON,
AND WHEN WE TALK, WHEN WE, IT'S A WHOLE ONE WHEN, UH, WE MEET, I MEET WITH HIM.
UM, HE DID MENTION SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT, THAT WE HAD.
AND IT WAS GOOD JUST TO SEE THE, ALL THE COMMISSIONERS REALLY ENGAGED AND PAYING ATTENTION, NOT ON THEIR PHONES, NOT, BUT REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT WAS GOING ON AND REALLY HAD A HEART FOR, UH, THE SENIORS.
AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, THEM PAYING ATTENTION, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN LOOK LIKE THIS, BUT YOU DOING SOMETHING ELSE.
SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE
JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS YOU MAY HAVE KNOWN, KNOWN ALREADY ABOUT THIS.
THIS IS, UH, WAY TO SAVE WATER, ALL ASSIGNED TO CONCERNED ABOUT THE WATER AND ENVIRONMENT AND, UH, HOW TO GET FREE, UH, IRRIGATION CHECKS FROM THE CITY AND ALSO THE NEW THRONE FOR YOUR HOME PLACEMENT.
THE PROGRAM, UH, TO GET AT LEAST TWO AUDITS IN YOUR, HOW YOU CAN LET YOUR, UH, CONSTITUENTS KNOW THAT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE.
WOULD YOU GIVE A COPY OF WHAT YOU JUST PASSED OUT HERE TO
JUST, UH, WHAT I PICKED UP AT MY DISTRICT MEETING.
UH, CAN YOU GET A COPY OF THE BUDGET BRIEF TO SEND TO EVERYBODY MY RECORDS HERE? OKAY.
SHE, YES, I, I, UH, WELL, I DID GO TO THE BUDGET HEARING THAT WAS ACTUALLY HELD, UH, BY COUNCILMAN RIDLEY IN 14 IN COUNCILMAN MORENO FOR DISTRICT TWO.
AND I DID SPEAK TO THE ISSUES THAT THAT, BUT SOME OF THE BUDGET ITEMS, THE NEW THINGS THAT WE HAVE BEEN PROPOSED, UH, STAFF HAD PRESENTED IT AND I TOLD 'EM THEY STOLE MY SPEECH, BUT I DID ADDRESS THAT AND, UM, I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN DR YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NO LONGER ON THAT KILL LIST.
UM, I'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THE
AND, UM, HE AND I WENT TO, UH, A PRESENTATION MR. HART MADE IN PARK THE OTHER DAY TO TRY TO SEE IF THOSE THINGS WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THE SENIORS AT, UH, XAL PARK.
AND THEN HE ALSO REALLY WANTS TO, I'LL BE GOING TO THE BOND MEETING AND I'LL BE DOING SOME EMAILS ABOUT THE BOND ISSUE BECAUSE THAT CENTER DOES ALSO WANT TO BE PART OF THE FUND, UH, UH, PROGRAM AND IN PART TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY FOR SERVING SENIORS.
I DID GO TO THE, UH, WILLIE B. JOHNSON CENTER TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT HAD BEEN DONE OUT THERE.
I, I THINK, I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH DI THAT'S MR. THAT WAS MR. MAGUS,
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I GUESS MS. STEWART'S DISTRICT.I DON'T KNOW WHO THE REP THAT IS A FANTASTIC PROGRAM.
AND I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE DIRECTOR THAT'S RUNNING IT AND SHE'S RUNNING IT ON A SHOES STRING, BUT IT WAS FABULOUS AND IT WAS WELL ATTENDED.
SO, UH, ANYWAY, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN DOING AND OKAY, MOVING FORWARD.
NOBODY MENTIONED THE GOLDEN GAMES.
I DID ATTEND THE KICKOFF CEREMONY AND, AND, UH, IT A GOOD TIME.
WAS THAT BY ALL, AND UH, ACTUALLY MY CITY COUNCIL PERSON WAS THE COUNCIL PERSON WHO, UH, SPOKE AT THE EVENT.
HAVE HER SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON AND SHE HAD A LOT OF GOOD COMMENTS ABOUT SENIORS.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, UH, WE, I THINK WE'RE DOING WELL ON THAT.
UH, WITH THAT, LET'S MOVE ON WITH THE AGENDA AND OUR FIRST, UH, BRIEFING FROM STAFF RELATED PEOPLE, UH, IS BRIEFING FOR THE ASAP PROGRAM AND THERE EVERYBODY, OR MOST EVERYBODY, UH, NEW
AND HE RETIRED AND IS MORE THAN, UM, MORE THAN CONFIDENT REPLACEMENT IS HERE TO TELL US WHAT HER FIRST FEW WEEKS HAVE BEEN LIKE AND, UH, KEEP US ON WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE PROGRAM.
SORRY, IT'S NOT MORNING ANYMORE.
I DID TAKE THE BIG SHOES OF DAR PEARLS, THE FILL NOW THAT HE IS NICE AND RETIRED, BUT I AM NOW THIS THE NEW SERVICE AREA MANAGER FOR THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION AND I'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY QUITE A WHILE, BEEN WITH THEM SINCE I WAS 16 YEARS OLD.
THAT WAS JUST A FEW YEARS AGO THOUGH.
UM, AND I'VE JUST WORKED MY WAY UP THROUGH THE PARK DEPARTMENT, SO I'VE BEEN A REC REP FOR YEARS.
MY AUNT WORKED FOR THE CITY AS WELL, SO I GUESS IT'S IN THE BLOOD.
UM, SO I STARTED OFF AS A SEASONAL EMPLOYEE AND BECAME THE COORDINATOR OF RECREATION, UH, AT THE PROGRAMS AT LAKE HIGHLANDS NORTH RECREATION CENTER.
I WAS THERE FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS, BECAME THE MANAGER.
I LEFT THE CITY FOR THIS AMOUNT OF TIME,
BUT I QUICKLY RAN BACK HOME TO DALLAS WHERE, WHERE I BELONG.
UM, LOUISVILLE WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE.
I DEFINITELY GOT A LOT FROM THERE FROM THERE, BUT DALLAS IS DEFINITELY HOME FOR ME.
AND I CAME BACK AS THE COMMUNITY PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR THE RECREATION SERVICES DIVISION AND SUPPORTED SERVICE AREA TOO, WHICH IS, UM, EAST DALLAS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO PLEASANT GROVE AND DOWN TO CLEAVER RILEY, WHICH IS A VERY FAR SOUTHERN POINT OF THE CITY.
I GUESS IT'S NECK AND NECK WITH TOMMY ALLEN.
UM, BUT UM, SO I HELPED SUPPORT THAT SIDE OF THE RENER OF THAT SIDE OF TOWN.
UM, AND NOW I'VE BEEN UP HERE AT CITY HALL BEING THE FINANCIAL SERVICES MANAGER FOR THE LAST YEAR, BUT QUICKLY FOUND OUT THAT, UM, I DON'T BELONG AT CITY HALL.
I BELONG OUT IN THE FIELD SERVING THE CITIZENS OF DALLAS, WHICH IS WHERE MY HEART IS.
SO I'M EXCITED TO BE FILLING THIS NEW POSITION AS DARRYL FLORALS AND I HOPE THAT I CAN DO ALL THE FUN, EXCITING THINGS THAT DARRYL DID AS WELL.
UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS I'M GONNA DO WITH THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION AS I'M THREE WEEKS IN AND STILL LEARNING.
I MEAN, I, OF COURSE I'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY FOREVER IT SEEMS LIKE, BUT TAKING ON A WHOLE NEW ROLE, A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE OVER EVERYTHING.
SO, UM, I'M LOOKING TO REVAMP THE PROGRAM IN A POSITIVE WAY, NOT IN A BAD WAY, BUT WE'RE GONNA ADD SOME MORE POSITIONS IN THERE, SOME NEW RESTRUCTURING.
UM, I'M LOOKING TO GROW THE PROGRAM, OF COURSE DARRYL DID SOME PHENOMENAL THINGS, BUT I WANNA TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER.
UM, SO I KNOW THAT WILL BE GREAT.
OF COURSE, I'M GONNA CONTINUE THE COMMUNICATION WITH THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION AND BUILDING OUR RELATIONSHIP AND WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO HELP YOU GUYS.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA, CURRENTLY, WE'RE ALSO GONNA STRENGTHEN AND GROW OUR CURRENT PARTNERSHIPS.
SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A NEW CHAPTER AT THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION, AND IT'S GONNA BE FUN AND EXCITING.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY WELL, WELCOME.
WHEN YOU SAY CURRENT PARTNERSHIP, CAN YOU ELABORATE JUST A LITTLE BIT? YOU MEAN WITH US OR WITH OTHERS? WITH YOU GUYS.
AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH WELLMED, UM, UNITED HEALTHCARE, ALL OF THE, I THINK CRYSTAL BRIEF ON IT THIS MORNING AT THE COUNCIL BRIEFING, BUT WE HAVE QUITE A FEW PARTNERSHIPS.
THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE ON WITH, WE'RE NOT MIXING ANYBODY, WE'RE KEEPING EVERYBODY.
WE'RE JUST GONNA TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER.
SO DO ALL, I VISITED SOME OF THE CENTERS TO LOOK AT THEIR SCHEDULES.
DO ALL OF THE CENTRIS NOW HAVE THE ASAP PROGRAM? ARE YOU AWARE OF WHETHER THEY DO OR NOT? UM, I KNOW THAT CURRENTLY WE ARE IN OVER 20 RECREATION CENTERS, INCLUDING WILLIE B. JOHNSON,
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UM, WHICH WAS JUST MENTIONED, UM, SINGING HILLS HAS THEIR OWN RE PARK DOES FRE PARK.I WATCHED SOME STUFF THIS MORNING.
AND THEN WE ARE ALSO PROGRAMMING ALL OF OUR, AFTER OUR ASAP PROGRAM TO, WE'VE ADDED FRIDAYS IN, SO THE PROGRAMMING'S MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NOW INSTEAD OF MONDAY.
SO THURSDAY, WHICH IS THE ONLY SCHEDULE I HAVE.
KYLE IS TRYING TO CATCH SOMEONE.
I SHOULD, UH, JARVIS HAS I SOMEONE HAS THEIR HAND UP.
I JUST, I STILL HAVE MY HAND UP.
UM, LINDSAY, THANK YOU FOR COMING AND, UH, GOOD LUCK IN YOUR, UH, IN NEWEST ENDEAVOR.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT PETE AND WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IN THE MEETING WAS MEASUREMENTS AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE SENIORS AND WHAT THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS LOOK LIKE.
UH, I KNOW ONE OF THE WISHES THAT I HAVE IN LOOKING AT OUR REC CENTERS IS SOME KIND OF MEASUREMENT OF HOW WELL THOSE PROGRAMS ARE ATTENDED OR NOT ATTENDED.
SO AS YOU GO THROUGH YOUR EVALUATIONS, UH, IT WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF YOU CAN BE THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE MEASURE THIS? HOW DO WE, UH, FIND OUT WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE THESE PROGRAMS OR USING THESE PROGRAMS, UM, IN SOME, YOU KNOW, EVEN IN A GOING FORWARD BASIS.
UM, BUT THAT'S JUST A COMMENT THAT I HAVE OF PART OF MY WISHLIST FOR YOU.
AND THAT'S ON MY LIST OF THINGS TO DO.
I PLAN ON GETTING OUT TO ALL OF THE RECREATION CENTERS AND DOING A SURVEY WITH ALL THE PARTICIPANTS TO SEE WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE AND WHAT, WHAT IT IS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR FROM US.
SO THAT WAY WE CAN HEAD IN THAT DIRECTION AS WELL.
BUT YES, DEFINITELY SOME MEASUREMENTS WILL BE IN PLACE.
SO YOU, IS THIS A FORMAL SURVEY OR AN INFORMAL SURVEY THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE DOING AT THE VARIOUS SITES? WE CAN DO, WE CAN DO MAKE IT A FORMAL SURVEY IF NEEDED.
UM, I WAS GONNA MAKE IT VERY INFORMAL AND JUST GIVE THEM A LINK TO TAKE THE, THE, THE SURVEY, GIMME THEIR FEEDBACK ON WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SO THAT WAY WE KNOW HOW TO TAKE THEIR PROGRAM.
SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE, UH, HELPFUL TO US IS IF, IF YOU'RE GONNA BE SURVEYING THEM ANYWAY, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO, UH, ASK WHOEVER YOU'RE SURVEYING, WHAT DO THEY VIEW AS THE THREE BIGGEST ISSUES CONFRONTING SENIORS? OKAY.
WHERE THEY LIVE, WHERE THAT TYPE OF THING.
AND I, I KNOW THAT TRANSPORTATION IS FREQUENTLY CITED, RIGHT? IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS OF GETTING TO THESE PROGRAMS, UH, SOMETHING.
BUT IF WE COULD GET A LITTLE, LITTLE BIT MORE, PARTICULARLY IF WE'RE GONNA BE GOING ALL OVER THE STUDY DOING THIS, IT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO HAVE SOME KIND OF A SUMMARY OF HOW DID THEY RESPOND TO THAT? THAT KIND OF A QUESTION.
UM, UH, MOST OF THE CENTERS HAVE A BILLBOARD, I THINK.
IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE CALLED? POLICE? ARE THEY STILL CALLED LIKE OUTSIDE? WHAT ARE THEY CALLED? OH, OH, THE OUTSIDE.
UM, AND, UM, IT WOULD BE GREAT SINCE COMMUNICATION IS ROUGH, SO IF THEY, IF SOME WAY EITHER THE MARQUEE CAN HAVE SOME TEASERS ON IT OR A WAY TO CONNECT WITH THEM, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
SO EVEN SOMETHING LIKE MOST OF 'EM HAVE SENIOR PROGRAMS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.
SO IF THEY CAN SAY SENIOR PROGRAMS, UM, EMAIL COULD OR COULD NOT HELP.
BUT, UH, AND THE WEBSITE IS CUMBERSOME BECAUSE I'VE TRIED THAT.
BUT DID YOU TRY, I MEAN, I WAS LIKE, I GAVE UP AND I'M FAIRLY OKAY AND I WAS LIKE, I CAN'T FIGURE THIS WEBSITE OUT.
UM, BUT IF WE COULD SAY, CALL A NUMBER FOR INFORMATION OR IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN COME INSIDE PROGRAMMING SENIORS COME INSIDE SENIORS COMING.
YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA ACTUALLY.
I, OH, WAS IT ON ME? I LIKE THAT IDEA.
YOU SAID WE DON'T HAVE A, A MARQUE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO WOULD THAT BE, WE CAN HAVE, SO WE COULD GET THE WORD OUT WITH MORE PEOPLE, BECAUSE I AM IN THE BOTTOM DISTRICT AND
THEY TRYING TO DO DIFFERENT THINGS WITH THE RIGHT.
I'M NOT IN CHARGE OF MARQUEES.
I COULD SEND THE MESSAGE TO BE PUT ON THE MARQUEE, BUT AS FAR AS THE INSTALLATION OF THE MARQUEE, THAT WOULD BE THE CENTER MANAGER.
THERE'S ALSO A FACEBOOK PAGE PORTIA'S BEEN TRYING TO SPEAK FOR AROUND THE, DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS TO REACH OUT TO
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SENIORS IN THE L G B T Q COMMUNITY? OH, ABSOLUTELY.COULD YOU DIVULGE SOME OF THEM? I MEAN, WE'RE GONNA CONNECT WITH THEM JUST AS WE WOULD ANYBODY ELSE? I MEAN, IF WE NEED TO, IF RIVER SEAN, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN AT RIVER SEAN QUITE A BIT.
IF WE NEED TO GO TO RIVERON AND TAP INTO ONE OF THEIR EVENTS INSTEAD OF THE BOOTH TO TAKE A SURVEY, THEN WE'LL TAP INTO THAT THAT WAY.
OR ANYBODY ELSE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT'S GOT, UM, EVENTS GOING ON, WE'LL GO INTO THE SENIOR PROGRAM AND, AND TAKE THE SURVEY THERE.
SO WHATEVER WE'VE GOTTA DO TO, TO BE OUT THERE TO PUT OUR FACES OUT THERE AND GET
NO, I MEAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS TO REACH OUT TO MEMBERS OF THE L G B T Q COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY ARE WELCOME IN THE FACILITIES AS WELL AS ANY PLANS TO BRING THEM INTO THE REC CENTERS? BECAUSE THAT'S A MAJOR PROBLEM.
SO WHAT DO YOU PLAN ON DOING ABOUT THAT? WELL, IT'S DEFINITELY WE NEED TO START WITH OUR STAFF AND MAKE OUR STAFF TRAIN OUR STAFF PROPERLY TO ALLOW CITIZENS OF THE L G B T L G B T Q COMMUNITY TO FEEL WELCOME AT OUR REC CENTERS.
I MEAN, ANYBODY THAT COMES INTO OUR REC CENTERS PERIOD SHOULD FEEL WELCOME.
THAT NEEDS TO BE A CONVERSATION THAT NEEDS TO BE HAD WITH OUR UPPER MANAGEMENT, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ADDRESS IT WITH MY STAFF AS WELL.
I I KNOW THAT CRYSTAL IS, IS VERY L G B T LGBTQ FRIENDLY.
SO, UM, BUT IN YOUR NEW POSITION, WHAT DO YOU HAVE PLANNED IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NEEDS OF SENIORS IN MY COMMUNITY ARE MADE TO FEEL WELCOME? I'M GONNA GIVE THEM THE SURVEY JUST AS I WOULD ANYBODY ELSE.
AND I THINK THAT YOU'D BE A GREAT PERSON TO HELP ME GET THAT, THAT SURVEY OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, IT SOUNDS LIKE.
SO, UM, CAN WE CONNECT? ABSOLUTELY.
WE'VE WORKED WITH TOGETHER BEFORE.
IT'S BEEN A WHILE, BUT YES, ABSOLUTELY.
WE DEFINITELY WANT EVERYBODY TO COME AND JOIN.
SO, I, I JUST, AND I'M BEING RHETORICAL, BUT I REALLY DO WANNA EMPHASIZE THE NEED FOR COMMUNICATION.
AND I KNOW WE FEEL SO STRONGLY THAT THAT IS ONE OF THE POSITIONS WE'VE ASKED FOR, JUST NOT JUST FOR PARKS, BUT, UH, I LIVE NEAR SAL PARK IS IN MY DISTRICT, BUT I LIVE MUCH CLOSER TO ANOTHER REC CENTER THAT THE ONLY THING I'VE EVER SEEN ON NEXT DOOR IS WHEN IT'S GONNA BE CLOSED.
AND, UM, IS THAT HELPFUL? I, AND YET I KNOW THEY HAVE WONDERFUL PROGRAMS. I'VE BEEN TO LIKE ONE, THERE WAS A, IT'S BEEN A WHILE, BUT, YOU KNOW, A BIG PROGRAM FOR SENIORS.
THERE WERE LIKE THREE OF US THERE, AND IT'S A WONDERFUL CENTER AND THEY HAVE REALLY GOOD PROGRAMS, BUT I DON'T THINK THE WORD IS OUT AND I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING YOU DO.
AND I LIKE, UH, RENEE, I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TIME TO GO TO THE REC THE PRESENTATION AT KEITH PARK.
I FINALLY, I HAD TO MAKE TWO PHONE CALLS.
WELL, I MADE MY OTHER CALLS, BUT I FINALLY HAD TO CALL THE CENTER TWICE TO GET THAT INFORMATION.
AND WHEN I GO TO THE WEBSITE, YOU END UP ON THE, AND I'M NOT FAULTING YOU, I'M JUST INFORMING YOU APPRECIATE YEAH.
I MEAN, WE'LL, WE'LL GIVE YOU TILL NEXT MONTH, BUT
I I KNOW YOU ALL STRUGGLED TO JUST, AND I MEAN, JUST WHEN I WAS AT WILLIE B. JOHNSON, HER, I MEAN, IT'S HER AND ONE OTHER STAFF.
AND THEY WERE DOING AMAZING THINGS.
BUT YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNICATE, WHEN YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE, YOU JUST STAND UP ON PARKS AND REC AND YOU CAN'T FIND IN INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION ABOUT EACH REC CENTER.
AND THAT MAY BE PART OF THAT WOULD BE A, NOT THAT ALL SENIORS ARE USING THE INTERNET, BUT ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
SO HERE'S THE COMMUNICATION ISSUE, UM, BECAUSE THE, THIS PROGRAM ADDRESSES WHAT YOU DO, ADDRESSES SO MANY OF THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMITTEES, THE ISOLATION, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
AND I MEAN, YOU, YOU'VE SERVED SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN COMMUNITIES.
MY NEIGHBORS ARE GOING TO THE RICHARDSON REC CENTER, A SENIOR CENTER.
AND WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT? BECAUSE THERE'S CHERRY YOGA THERE.
SO IF YOU GO TO FRED'S PARK, YOU SEE THAT THEY HAVE MULTIPLE OFFERINGS, BUT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT.
SO, UM, SO I NEXTDOOR IS A GREAT IDEA ACTUALLY, KAREN, AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT NEXTDOOR IS? ARE YOU RIGHT? WHAT A FABULOUS IDEA TO PUBLICIZE PROGRAMS THERE.
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WE HAVE A MAP TEAM THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF OUR MARKETING, UM, THE STUFF IN THE PARK DEPARTMENT, AND THEY DO TAP IN THE NEXT DOOR FOR US.BUT I'LL MAKE SURE THAT CHAIRMAN KLEIN JUST SECOND MAKE SURE THAT'S AUSTIN.
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO SPEAK WAIT, WAIT JUST A SECOND.
WHAT WERE YOU SAYING? MS. UH, OUR MAC TEAM DOES, DOES DO ALL OF OUR PUBLICIZING ON NEXTDOOR BE MAKE SURE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO DO THAT, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR SENIOR PROGRAMS. THAT'S GREAT.
OKAY, DEBBIE? UM, I WAS, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO ADD THAT THERE IS A DALLAS PARK SENIOR PROGRAMS FACEBOOK PAGE.
IT'S CHANGED AND THERE'S A LINK ON THE OLD ONE THAT WILL LET YOU JOIN THE NEW ONE.
YOU CAN CLICK ON EVENTS YOU CAN CLICK ON, YOU CAN SEE PHOTOS OF EVENTS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE AT THE DIFFERENT SITES.
YOU CAN FIND OUT INFORMATION ABOUT THE DIFFERENT SITES AND ABOUT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT.
SO BOTH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT AND THE SENIOR PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT ARE ON FACEBOOK FOR IT.
AND SO THAT'S EASILY ACCESSIBLE.
AND OUR STAFF UPDATES THAT AND KEEPS IT UPDATED.
YEAH, THEY UPDATE IT CONSTANTLY.
AND IF YOU CALL THEIR OFFICE AT, AT THE SENIOR PROGRAMS TO OFFICE, THEY WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET ON OR HOW TO SET UP YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT.
THEY'LL ACTUALLY SEND YOU A LINK AND YOU JUST CLICK ON THE LINK AND JOIN.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
NEXT UP IS, UH, KEVIN MUND TO TALK TO US ABOUT THE KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME THIS MORNING.
I'M A MANAGER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE, AND I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT OUR MARKETING COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION THAT WE HAVE WITHIN A DEPARTMENT THAT WILL ALSO COVER OUR KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM.
SO, JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION OVERVIEW, WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR, THE DIVISION, UH, WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE, OUR OPERATIONS, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, OUR COMMUNITY CLEAN POPUPS, OUR COMMUNITY HAND TOOL PROGRAM, OUR COMMUNITY CLEAN TRASH OFF PROGRAM, AND AS I SAID PREVIOUSLY, OUR KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM.
SO JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR DIVISION AND WHAT WE DO AS A PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE, WE ARE CHARGED WITH THE TASK OF MARKETING OUR, UM, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION AS WE STRATEGICALLY PROMOTE AND COMMUNICATE THE ORGANIZATION'S BRAND PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO ALL OF OUR CITY OF DALLAS RESIDENTS.
WE ALSO AIM TO FOSTER PROACTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH INNOVATIVE MARKETING STRATEGY, EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS AND PROACTIVE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES.
AND OUR MISSION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT IS SAFEGUARDING AND SUPPORTING A STRONG, HEALTHY COMMUNITY.
AND OUR DIRECTOR, MR. CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIAN, WE HAVE A BODACIOUS GOAL OF BEING THE BEST CODE COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT IN THE NATION.
SO WHAT ARE SOME OPERATIONS, UH, THAT FALL UP UNDER OUR COMMUNITY, UH, MARKETING AND ENGAGEMENT DIVISION? WE HAVE OUR, AGAIN, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION, WHICH INCLUDES OUR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, AND INSTAGRAM.
OUR VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT, OUR COMMUNITY CLEAN TRASH OFF PROGRAM, OUR COMMUNITY HAND TOOL PROGRAM, OUR KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM, OUR WASTE AND PLACE TRAINING PROGRAM THAT WE DO AT THE AREA SCHOOLS.
OUR REIMAGINED VACANCY PROGRAM, OR WE CALL IT VACANT LOT BEAUTIFICATION, OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT POPUPS AND OUR MURALS ON THE MOVE.
SO I'M JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
SO THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF DALLAS, OUR CODE COMPLIANCE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CODE REPS, ALONG WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM VISIT REC CENTERS, LIBRARIES, AND SENIOR PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
UH, RESPECTIVE YOU, IF YOU JUST SCROLL UP JUST A LITTLE BIT ON THAT SLIDE, YOU COULD SEE OUR NUMBERS AS IT RELATES TO OUR ENGAGEMENT FOCUS.
SO THIS YEAR FOR F PHYSICAL YEAR 23, WE VISITED 178 LOCATIONS.
AGAIN, THAT'S A COMBINATION OF RECREATION CENTERS, SENIOR PROGRAMS, AND LIBRARIES.
WE'VE GAVE ENGAGED WITH OVER 9,000 RESIDENTS AND FACILITATED AND DISTRIBUTED OVER 13,000 EDUCATION MATERIALS.
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AND THAT'S UP, UH, SINCE FY 2022.SO OUR DEPARTMENT, WE'VE TAKEN A VERY STRONG PROACTIVE APPROACH IN ENSURING THAT ALL OUR PROGRAMS AND EDUCATION MATERIALS ARE MORE FRONT FACING WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS RESIDENTS.
SO, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND PARTNERSHIPS, ONE OF THE THINGS WE WEIGH HEAVY ON IS VOLUNTEERISM, UH, IN OUR DEPARTMENT.
AND THOSE COULD BE THINGS SUCH AS VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY CLEANUPS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, AS WELL AS HELPING US GET SOME OF THE INFORMATION WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY.
SO THIS YEAR, WE'RE PROUD TO SAY OUR VOLUNTEERISM IS UP, UH, WITH RESIDENTS, COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
SO WE'VE ENGAGED WITH OVER 2,700 VOLUNTEERS DONATING OVER 9,000 VOLUNTEER HOURS TO THE CITY OF DALLAS, UH, WITH THE VALUE OF OVER $271,000 OF VOLUNTEER TIME AS IT EQUATES TO DOLLARS BACK TO THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND AGAIN, THAT IS UP SINCE FY 2022.
SO WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT, WE ORGANIZED A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, UH, WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, VOLUNTEER GROUPS, COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS, SCHOOLS, OR JUST EVERYDAY CITIZENS.
UM, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE.
WE LIKE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA, IT TAKES ALL OF US IN AN EFFORT IN, IN ORDER FOR US TO SEE A LITTER FREE CITY AND KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOODS CLEAN.
SO IF, IF ANY ONE OF YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO, UH, ORGANIZE OR, OR GET ASSISTANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY OR NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP, PLEASE CONTACT US AT, AT THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE, AND MY CONTACT INFORMATION WILL BE AT THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION.
WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT, WE ALSO FACILITATE THE COMMUNITY HAND TOOL PROGRAM.
THIS PROGRAM IS FREE, UH, TO ALL RESIDENTS WHO LIVE WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
THIS PROGRAM ALSO SUPPORTS OUR VOLUNTEER CLEANUPS BY PROVIDING TRASH BAGS, GLOVES, RAKES, UH, LITTER GRABBERS.
WE HAVE LAWNMOWERS, WE HAVE WEEDED EATERS, ALL PROVIDED FREE TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS WHO WANT TO PERFORM A COMMUNITY CLEANUP OR A BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT WITHIN THE CITY.
AND HERE, THIS IS JUST A, A NUMBER OF AVAILABLE TOOLS AND RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE, AGAIN, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY TOOL, UH, PROGRAM HAND TO THE PROGRAM.
UH, AGAIN, LAWNMOWERS, WEEDED EATERS, HAND POLE, PRUNERS, HEDGE TRIMMERS, HEDGE CLIPPERS, HAND FALLS, RAKES, BROOM SHOVELS.
UM, WE EVEN PROVIDE THE GAS FOR, FOR THE BATTERY, I MEAN FOR THE GAS POWERED EQUIPMENT, AS WELL AS TRASH BAGS AND GLOVES TO ACCESS THE TOOLS OUT OF THE COMMUNITY HAND TOOL, UH, PROGRAM.
UM, A GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL MUST SIGN A TOOL LOAN AGREEMENT, SIGN A RELEASE OF LIABILITY, UM, AND WE ASK THAT THEY SHARE THEIR COMMUNITY, UH, CLEAN UP DATA BACK WITH US SO WE CAN, UH, DO PROPER TRACKING OF HOW THE TOOLS AND WHERE THE TOOLS ARE BEING UTILIZED.
AND ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST ATTEND A MANDATORY EQUIPMENT TRAINING, UH, WHEN PICKING UP THE TOOLS OR IF WE ARE DELIVERING THE TOOLS ON SITE AT A VOLUNTEER CLEANUP EVENT.
SO THIS IS JUST A SNAPSHOT OF OUR COMMUNITY, UH, CLEANUP ON THE GO PROGRAM.
THIS IS A TRAILER THAT WE CAN DEPLOY OUT ON SITE, UH, TO A GROUP OR TO AN ORGANIZATION WHO IS PERFORMING A COMMUNITY CLEANUP.
THE UNIQUENESS OF THIS TRAILER IS THAT THIS TRAILER IS ALSO OUTFITTED WITH BATTERY POWERED TOOLS IN LIEU OF GAS POWERED TOOLS AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BRING OUT BATTERY POWERED OR GAS POWERED TOOLS TO GET THE JOB DONE.
ONE OF OUR PREMIER PROGRAMS IS OUR COMMUNITY CLEAN TRASH OFF OUR COMMUNITY, CLEAN TRASH OFF PROGRAM.
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THIS PROGRAM.
SO ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WE HAVE WHAT IS CALLED THE COMMUNITY CLEAN TRASH OFF.
THIS PROGRAM GIVES RESIDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME DISCARD OF HAZARDOUS WASTE.
SO YOU MAY HAVE KNOWN OF IT AS BOPA BATTERY OIL PAINT AND ANTIFREEZE, RECEIVE DOCUMENT SHREDDING AND ALSO TO RELIEVE, UH, RESIDENTS OF ADDITIONAL BULK TRASH.
UH, THAT MAY BE OVER THE LIMIT OF THE SANITATION SET OUT GUIDELINES.
UH, TYPICALLY WE'LL PERFORM THESE TRASH OFFS AT SCHOOLS, UH, RECREATION CENTERS OR COMMUNITY PARKS.
UH, YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND A SCHEDULE ON OUR WEBSITE, BUT WE ALSO PARTNER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION AND THEY, UH, ANNOUNCE IT THROUGH THEIR TWITTER,
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UH, FEED AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.OR IF YOU NEED A CALENDAR OR WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE NEXT, JUST PLEASE GIVE US A CALL AND WE'LL LET YOU KNOW.
IN TERMS OF HOW THIS PROGRAM IS PERFORMING, UH, YOU CAN SEE OVER THE PREVIOUS YEARS THE DATA, UH, IT'S COLLECTED OF HOW MANY EDUCATION LETTERS THAT WE MAIL OUT TO RESIDENTS.
SO IF YOU ARE LIVING NEAR OR AROUND A CENSUS TRACK WHERE TRASH OFF IS GOING TO BE HELD, WE PLACE LETTERS IN THE MAIL TO ENSURE THAT THE AREAS THAT ARE MOST IMPACTED RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION VIA MAIL.
SO YOU CAN SEE RESPECTFULLY OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HOW WE'RE DOING AND PARTICIPATION, HOW WE'RE DOING, AND REACHING OUT THROUGH EDUCATION DISSEMINATION AND HOW WE ARE DOING WITH ADDITIONAL BULK TRASH AND TIRES AND HAZARDOUS WASTE, UH, ELEMENTS THAT WE'RE COLLECTING THROUGHOUT THE CITY THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.
AND I THINK IF YOU JUST SCROLL DOWN JUST A BIT, YOU'LL SEE KIND OF WHERE WE ARE IN 20, UH, 23.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE, WE'VE, UH, EXCEEDED IN SOME AREAS WITH THE COLLECTION OF TIRES OR HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIALS, AS WELL AS RESIDENT PARTICIPATION.
SO WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THIS PROGRAM, UH, WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE.
BUT MOST OF ALL, THIS PROGRAM IS A HUGE BENEFIT, UH, TO THE CITY OF DALLAS RESIDENTS.
SO JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM, UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE.
UH, WE ACQUIRED THE KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM AS AN AFFILIATE WITH KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL AND KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL.
UM, THIS ACQUISITION HAPPENED AROUND 2018, WAS WHEN THE CONVERSATION STARTED.
USED TO BE FACILITATED BY A SMALL NONPROFIT, UH, HERE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
UH, AFTER CONVERSATIONS AND PARTNERING WITH THE ENTITY, THEY FELT THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS ITSELF HAD A MUCH GREATER CAPACITY TO, TO, TO TAKE THE PROGRAM, UH, TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
SO WE HAD SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THE, UH, NATIONAL AFFILIATE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL, AND THE STATEWIDE AFFILIATE KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL TO SEE WHAT THAT TRANSITION WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS ACQUIRING THAT PROGRAM INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF CODE COMPLIANCE, UM, OPERATION.
SO THIS JUST GIVES US A, A TIMELINE OF, OF HOW, HOW THAT TRANSITION, UH, TOOK PLACE.
A KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM OR KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM OR ANY KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM, UH, IS REQUIRED FOR, UH, THE FOCUS IS ON LITTER, BEAUTIFICATION, AND RECYCLING.
SO WE, WE ALL, WE HAD THOSE THREE COMPONENTS OF PROGRAMMING THAT WE WERE ALREADY DOING WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT, OR AS WE WERE PARTNERING WITH OTHER, UH, INTERDEPARTMENTAL, UH, DEPARTMENTS TO, TO FACILITATE THIS.
SO IT MADE SENSE FOR US TO GO AHEAD AND TO MAKE THIS ACQUISITION.
WE MADE THE INQUIRY IN 2019, UH, IN 2020, OUR DIRECTOR AT THAT TIME, MR. CARL SIMPSON, WE ALL MET WITH KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AND THE REGIONAL PROGRAM DIRECTORSHIP WITH THEM.
AND THEY ESSENTIALLY GAVE US THE GREEN LIGHT TO GO AHEAD AND TO ACCEPT, UH, THE KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL BRAND UP UNDER THE CITY OF DALLAS, UH, CODE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM.
AND MOST RECENTLY THIS YEAR, UM, WE RECEIVED SILVER STAR STATUS, UH, THROUGH KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING THROUGHOUT THE CITY UP UNDER THIS UMBRELLA.
SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT ACCOMPLISHMENT AND HOW WE ACCOMPLISHED IT WITHIN TWO YEARS.
SO OUR NEXT ACCOMPLISHMENT IS REACHING GOLD STATUS, AND WE'RE WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW.
OUR, OUR TEAM AND STAFF AND OUR DIRECTOR IS VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE EFFORTS THAT WE'RE DOING, AND WE WANNA BRING EVERYBODY ALONG FOR THIS, THIS AWESOME JOURNEY NEXT CLIENT.
SO, SO THIS IS HOW I CAN BE REACHED WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.
UM, AND MY NUMBER IS SHOWN BELOW AT 2 1 4 6 7 1 9 6 0 6 OR BY EMAIL AT KEVIN DOT MONDAY@DALLAS.GOV.
WE ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH YOU, UM, IN ANY CAPACITY.
AS I STATED EARLIER, WE ARE OUT AT REC CENTERS AND SENIOR PROGRAMS WITH STAFF BEING FRONT FACING, ANSWERING QUESTIONS OR CODE COMPLIANCE RELATED, UM, PROGRAMS THAT WE, WE MAY HAVE IN-HOUSE OR TO LEARN BETTER HOW WE CAN BETTER WORK WITH, UH, ANY POPULATION, UH, WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS AS IT RELATES TO, TO OUR PROGRAM OPERATIONS.
AND AT THIS TIME, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
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I'VE GOT A QUICK QUESTION IS, AS IT GETS TO THE SENIOR POPULATION ARE, WHAT, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR TOTAL VOLUNTEERS FOR THESE PROGRAMS ARE, ARE SENIORS? SO CURRENTLY WE, WE DON'T TRACK, UM, VOLUNTEERISM BY AGE.UM, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DEFINITELY, UH, TAKE A LOOK AT.
I WILL TELL YOU, UH, WE DO RECEIVE, UH, A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS THROUGH OUR RESIDENT, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, UH, THAT ARE SENIORS WHO ARE OUT PERFORMING, UH, COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT.
UH, I CAN THINK OF SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOODS OR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS THAT WE WORK WITH THAT HAVE A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF SENIORS, UH, PARTICIPATING IN THOSE VOLUNTEER CLEANUPS.
AND ONE OTHER QUESTION THEN WE'LL SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANYTHING.
UH, IF, IF A SENIOR LIVING IN ANY PART OF TOWN THINKS THERE'S A PROBLEM IN THEIR, IN THEIR COMMUNITY OR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, HOW DO THEY, HOW DO THEY GO ABOUT FINDING OUT ABOUT YOU AND, AND ACTUALLY GETTING SOMETHING ORGANIZED TO DEAL WITH THAT ISSUE? YEAH, SO IF IT, IF IT'S RELATED TO A COMMUNITY CLEANUP OR THEY WANT TO ORGANIZE AN EFFORT, THEY CAN JUST CALL ME DIRECT, UH, AT THE NUMBER THAT'S LISTED, UH, THAT I LISTED ON THE SLIDE.
HOWEVER, IF IT'S A, IF IT'S A CODE VIOLATION OR SOMETHING THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT'S, UM, IN THEIR AREA, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEIR FIRST PLUGGED IN WITH THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD CODE DISTRICT.
SO WE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THEM CONNECTED TO THAT, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CODE MANAGER AND EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD CODE DISTRICT HAS WHAT IS CALLED A NEIGHBORHOOD CODE REPRESENTATIVE THAT ALSO, UH, GOES OUT AND EDUCATES RESIDENTS AND ATTEND, UH, MEETINGS GOING ON IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, OUR COMMUNITY.
SO HOW MANY OF THOSE REPRESENTATIVES ARE THERE? SO EACH CODE DISTRICT HAS A, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CODE REP, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU'RE LIVING IN THE CITY.
SO WE HAVE OUR CENTRAL CODE DISTRICT, OUR SOUTH CENTRAL CODE DISTRICT, OUR SOUTHWEST CODE DISTRICT, OUR NORTHWEST CODE DISTRICT, OUR SOUTHEAST CODE DISTRICT, AND OUR NORTHEAST CODE DISTRICT.
SO WE HAVE A TOTAL OF EIGHT, AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR NUISANCE ABATEMENT DIVISION AS WELL.
WE HAVE, WHAT, WHAT'S THE NEW ONE? NUISANCE NUISANCE, NUISANCE NUISANCE ABATEMENT DIVISION.
SO OUR NUISANCE ABATEMENT DIVISION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GOING OUT AND DOING WHAT WE CALL SOME OF OUR HEAVY LIFTING.
SO THEY ARE CLEANING UP ILLEGAL DUMP SITES, THEY ARE DOING ABATEMENTS OF, OF PROPERTIES.
THEY, WE ALSO MOW AND CLEAN, UM, UH, VACANT LOTS.
SO THEY, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST OF OUR HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AS IT RELATES TO OUR DEPARTMENT.
COULD YOU SHARE WITH MAC, KYLE, UH, LIKE A MAP OF WHAT THOSE DISTRICTS LOOK LIKE AND WHO, WHO, WHO THE, THE REPRESENTATIVE IS AND HOW TO CONTACT THEM? YES.
SO WE CAN ACTUALLY, IF I'M NOT SURE WHO'S CONTROLLING WE WANT, WE CAN GO TO OUR, UH, WEBSITE.
WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION LISTED ON THAT WEBSITE, BUT I CAN ALSO EMAIL THAT BACK OUT TO, UH, THE LIAISON HERE TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE ON THE CALL GETS A COPY OF OUR, OUR DISTRICT SERVICE MAPS.
ANY, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS? UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO LOOK INTO, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS, WITH CODE COMPLIANCE AND CODE VIOLATIONS AND THE USE OF CODE WITH SENIORS AND I'M, I'M FINDING WE, THERE'S, LIKE YOU SAID, THERE'S NO DATA AND I REALIZED WHEN I GOT A CITATION ABOUT THE WICKER CHAIR ON MY FRONT PORCH, NOBODY ASKED MY AGE, THANK GOODNESS.
BUT, UM, YOU, DO YOU KNOW OF ANY PLACE IN, IN THE DEPARTMENT WHERE THERE IS THAT KIND OF DATA ABOUT SENIORS AND CODE VIOLATIONS OR CODE COMPLIANCE ISSUES? NOT RIGHT OFF.
I DON'T, BUT IF YOU, IF YOU GIVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY, LET ME RESEARCH THAT INFORMATION.
UM, TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DON'T KNOW THE AGE OF A PERSON WHO'S LIVING IN THE HOUSE IF, UM, IF THERE IS A VIOLATION.
UM, SO, BUT LET ME RESEARCH THAT INFORMATION TO SEE IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO EVEN GATHER THAT TYPE OF INFORMATION.
THEN ALSO, YOU DON'T WORK WITH COMMUNITY COURTS THAT THOSE ARE BASICALLY FOCUSED ON INDIVIDUALS, WHEREAS YOURS IS ON COMMUNITY VIOLATIONS.
IS THAT CORRECT? SO WE DO WORK, WE DO COLLABORATE WITH COMMUNITY COURTS, UH, IN A NUMBER OF WAYS.
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UH, COMMUNITY COURTS FOR VOLUNTEER, UH, CLEANUP PROJECT TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY NEED, UH, COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS.SO WE DO WORK WITH THEM IN THAT CAPACITY, UH, AS WELL AS DOING EDUCATION EFFORTS, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY COURTS COURT.
WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
ANYTHING ELSE? THOUGHT I GOT A HANDOUT? YEAH, ONE HANDOUT.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY OVER IN DISTRICT NINE, MY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION HAS WORKED WITH Y'ALL FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS FOR NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP PROGRAM AND THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT GO OUT WITH US THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD TWO TIMES A YEAR ARE, ARE SENIORS.
WE SEEM TO GET, THEY SEEM TO WANNA PARTICIPATE MORE THAN THE KIDDOS DO.
AND APPRECIATE AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP, YOU KNOW, HELPING US COORDINATE THESE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THOSE EFFORTS, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
SOMEBODY ELSE LINE MITCHELL HAS MITCH MITCHELL, COMMISSIONER MITCHELL, BERNIE MITCHELL.
SIR, I JUST WANTED TO THANK MR. MUNDY FOR, UH, ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS AND GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING.
GOOD TO SEE YOU, MS. MITCHELL.
AND SEE YOUR NAME COME ACROSS THE SCREEN.
UM, I WANNA ALSO THANK, UH, HIS DEPARTMENT FOR SENDING, UH, REPRESENTATIVES TO EACH OF THE, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS AND THEY GIVE STATISTICS AND, UH, DATA AND THEN, UH, THE COMMUNITY CAN GIVE AN INPUT ON THINGS AND CONCERNS.
SO I WORK WITH TWO DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND THEY THEY'RE REALLY ON IT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND I WANNA MAKE SURE I SHARE THAT AMONGST OUR DEPARTMENT THAT, THAT WE'RE DOING
AND I, I HAVE A COMMENT, PLEASE.
UH, THIS IS DEBBIE AUSTIN, DISTRICT EIGHT.
WE HAVE, UM, A PERSON FROM THE, UH, CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICE IN COUNCILMAN ATKINS COMMUNITY OFFICE ON CERTAIN DAYS OF THE WEEK.
AND I MENTIONED TO HER THAT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE STARTED BUILDING SECOND HOUSES IN THEIR BACKYARDS.
AND SHE SAID THAT SHE'S BEEN TRYING TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT, UM, IN PARTICULAR HAS A 200 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING THAT THEY WERE BUILDING, THEY CLAIMED THAT IT WAS A STORAGE BUILDING.
BUT I KNOW OF THREE PARTICULAR HOUSES ON OUR STREET THAT HAVE, UM, SECOND HOUSES IN THE BACKYARD.
AND LIKE WHEN WE WERE DOING THE TAX THING, AND YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK UP THE VALUE OF OTHER HOUSES ON THE STREET, RIGHT? LIKE OUR HOUSE WAS THE PRICE HIGHER THAN ANY HOUSE ON THE STREET.
AND SOME OF THESE OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAD SECOND HOUSES IN THE BACKYARDS WERE PRAISED LOWER.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT.
BUT I HAVE MENTIONED IT TO HER.
THANK YOU MS. DEBBIE, FOR THAT.
I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH MS. SHANIQUA LANE.
I THINK SHE, SHE, SHE IS THE LIAISON WHO, WHO DILIGENTLY WORKS WITH THE DISTRICT EIGHT OFFICE.
I, I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH HER ON YOUR CONCERN AND HAVE HER TO REACH OUT TO YOU DIRECTLY, UH, WITH A RESPONSE.
'CAUSE ONE OF THE HOUSES IS PAINTED WHITE AND GREEN.
YOU CAN SEE IT FROM THE, FROM THE STREET.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BEING HERE.
WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT NEXT.
HELLO, MY NAME'S KENISHA GREER, AND I AM THE INTERIM AREA REDEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR THE HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD REVITALIZATION DEPARTMENT.
UH, TODAY I'M GONNA GO OVER JUST A FEW UPDATES, AND THEN IN THE END, I'M GOING TO GIVE, UM, YOU GUYS A CHANCE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND I CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH YOUR, UH, ANSWERS IF YOU NEED.
SO, SPECIFICALLY IN THE SENIOR HOME REPAIR PROGRAM, WE HAVE COLLECTED 726 APPLICATIONS.
SO, SO FAR WE'VE HAD ONE THAT IS NOT ELIGIBLE, UM, AND THEY CAN BE NOT ELIGIBLE DUE TO INCOME, UM, MAYBE EVEN PRIOR ASSISTANCE RECEIVED, BUT I KNOW
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SPECIFICALLY THIS ONE WAS INCOME.WE HAVE 57 APPLICATIONS THAT WERE CANCELED, AND WE HAVE 10, WHICH IS OUR ORIGINAL 10 THROUGH THE PIPELINE THAT WE ARE WORKING THROUGH, UM, WITH INSPECTIONS AND GETTING THE LEAD TEST SO THAT WE CAN GO AHEAD AND BEGIN THE REPAIRS.
NOW, ONE THING I WILL SAY IS THAT SOMETIMES, UM, WITH THE DELAY THAT WE'VE HAD, BECAUSE THE LAST TIME WE CAME, WE HAD THE 10 APPLICATIONS, SOMETIMES PEOPLE AREN'T THAT RESPONSIVE.
UM, WE'RE CALLING TO GET THE SPECIFIC NECESSARY INFORMATION FROM THEM, UH, DEPENDING ON HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN SITTING.
IF, IF IT HAS BEEN, UM, NOT WORKED ON OR EVALUATED WITHIN SIX MONTHS AT THAT TIME.
WE DO SEND OUT, UH, OUR COORDINATORS TO ASK FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
AND THAT'S JUST, UM, JUST PROTOCOL JUST TO, TO GO FORWARD.
SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THOSE 10 THROUGH THE PIPELINE.
NOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS, UM, WE HAVE 76% OF OUR APPLICANTS, UM, ARE BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN.
WE HAVE 17% OF OUR APPLICANTS THAT ARE WHITE OR CAUCASIAN.
WE HAVE 7% THAT ARE OTHER RACE, OR TWO OR MORE.
AND THEN WE HAVE 21% HISPANIC.
WE HAVE THE AVERAGE AGE OF OUR APPLICANTS ARE ABOUT 73 YEARS OLD.
AND WE HAVE APPLICANTS OVER 65, UH, WILL BE ABOUT 95% OF OUR APPLICANTS.
IN REGARDS TO THE AREA MEDIUM INCOME, UH, 50% ARE SITTING AT ZERO TO 30% A M I, WHEREAS WE HAVE 31 TO 50% THAT ARE 25% A M I.
AND THE ADDITIONAL 25% ARE IN THE 51 TO 80% A M I.
28% OF OUR APPLICANTS ARE MALE, AND THE OTHER 72% ARE FEMALE.
UH, IN REGARDS TO OUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT WE'RE SERVING, UM, 9% ARE FROM COUNCIL DISTRICT, ONE 4% ARE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO 22% ARE FROM DISTRICT THREE, 9% ARE IN DISTRICT FOUR, 26% ARE FROM DISTRICT SEVEN, 17% ARE FROM DISTRICT EIGHT, 4% ARE IN DISTRICT NINE, AND 9% ARE IN DISTRICT 10.
AND THERE ARE NO OTHER APPLICANTS THAT CAME IN FROM THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
THAT'S WHY THEY WEREN'T NAMED.
UM, SO CURRENTLY WE ARE ACTUALLY LOOKING TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE SENIOR HOME REPAIR AND ACTUALLY ALL THE HOME REPAIR PROGRAMS. SO BASICALLY, INSTEAD OF ALL THE MULTIPLE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, WE'RE LOOKING FOR ONE SOLID PROGRAM TO STANDARDIZE ENGAGEMENT.
UM, SPECIFICALLY WITH THE FUNDS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HOPE TO RECEIVE, UM, BASED ON THE BUDGET, UM, WE ARE FOCUSING MORE ON OUR SENIORS AND EVEN IN THE ALL THE OTHER ADDITIONAL HOME REPAIR PROGRAMS, UH, WE'RE HOPE AND THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES AND THEY VOTE, UH, THAT EVEN IN THE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WE CAN STILL GET THAT SENIOR ENGAGEMENT, NOT JUST SPECIFICALLY SENIOR HOME REPAIR.
SO THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO WORK IN.
ON THE BACK END, UM, MY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WILL BE ACTUALLY PRESENTING TOMORROW TO THE, UM, HOUSING AND HOMELESS SOLUTIONS COMMITTEE MEETING.
UM, AND WE'RE GONNA PROVIDE AN UPDATE THEN AS OF WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE HOPE TO BE, WE'RE GONNA TAKE THE FEEDBACK FROM THERE AND WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO THE NEXT STEPS.
AND OUR GOAL IS THAT ONCE WE GET THE FEEDBACK AND THEN WE GO AHEAD AND GET BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND COME UP WITH THESE SOLID, THAT ONE SOLID PROGRAM, THAT ONCE THEY VOTE ON EVERYTHING, THEN WE CAN UPDATE YOU GUYS ON EACH STEP, UM, AS WE GO ALONG, AS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE MEETINGS, AS IF THIS IS WHERE WE ARE, THIS IS WHERE WE HOPE TO BE, AND THIS IS WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING.
AND I DO KNOW, UM, BASED ON WHAT I WAS HEARING AS WELL, UM, SOMETIMES YOU ARE REQUESTED TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
SO THAT GOES FORM, LIKE I SAID, WHEN YOU ARE GETTING A RECERT, A RECERTIFICATION AS WE'RE JUST MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE CONTINUED TO BE ELIGIBLE.
SOMETIMES THERE ARE CHANGES AND WE HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR ALL OF THOSE CHANGES.
BUT ALSO WE HAVE DIFFERENT LEVELS, DIFFERENT LEVELS OF REVIEWS.
SO ONCE, UH, ONE OF THE STAFF SUBMITS TO, UM, OUR PROJECT MANAGER AND THE STAFF HAS CALLED ALREADY AND SAID, HEY, I NEED THIS.
I NEED THIS IN ADDITION, OR WE'RE MISSING THIS.
ONCE THAT PROJECT MANAGER LOOKS AT THAT AND THEY SAY, HEY, THIS IS GREAT, BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS? AND THIS IS ALL JUST TO ENSURE ELIGIBILITY AND THEN COMPLIANCE ON ALL FRONTS.
SO EVEN WITH OUR INITIAL 10, WE DID RUN INTO THAT ISSUE TO WHERE WE WEREN'T GETTING THE RESPONSES.
UM, I HAVE ONE SPECIFIC SENIOR THAT I WAS SO HAPPY.
UM, I WAS TALKING TO ONE OF MY STAFF AND THEY SAID, OH NO, WE WERE ABLE TO ACTUALLY CONTACT THEM TODAY.
AND THIS WAS THREE WEEKS OF NO COMMUNICATION OF US STILL CALLING AND ME STILL PRESSING AND SAYING, WE'RE NOT GONNA HOLD OFF.
WE'RE NOT GONNA MOVE ON TO THE NEXT PERSON.
I REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET SERVICED BECAUSE THINGS HAPPEN.
UM, WE'RE LIVING IN THIS TIME WHERE PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS ANSWER THE PHONE WITH OUR CALLER ID TECHNOLOGY.
LOOKS LIKE SPAM LOOKS LIKE THIS.
ARE THEY REALLY CALLING FOR THIS? UM, ARE YOU REALLY FROM THE CITY OF DALLAS? SO WE ALSO GET
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THAT SOMETIMES, BUT EVEN WITH THOSE FACTORS, WE WANNA WORK AROUND IT AND STILL BE DEDICATED TO OUR SENIOR COMMUNITY.UM, AND SO DO I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YES.
UM, HOW ARE YOU GETTING INFORMATION OUT TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT THOSE OF US IN ATTENDANCE AT THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION MEETINGS TRY AND GET THAT INFORMATION OUT? OTHER THAN OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS, THERE ARE, UM, LIKE I'M GOING TO A, A HOME IMPROVEMENT FAIR SOON.
UM, SO WE DO HAVE OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT, BUT ALSO, UM, I KNOW THAT WE'VE SPENT, WE INTEND TO, WHEN THE NEW PROGRAM IS OPEN, UM, ON THE PROMOTION AND THE MEDIA AND YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S NEWSPAPERS, RADIO STATIONS, UM, WE DO HAVE A WAY TO ENGAGE THAT WAY AS WELL.
SO OTHER THAN OUR OWN CONNECTIONS INTERNALLY WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT, UM, EXTERNALLY, UM, IN ADDITION TO OUR OWN PROMOTIONS THAT WE TRY TO GET OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THESE PROGRAMS OPEN, UM, THAT'S WHEN WE REALLY GO FULL FORCE WITH MEDIA AND, AND LIKEWISE, AND WEBSITES AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
DO YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR PERSON THAT'S TASKED WITH GETTING THE INFORMATION OUT? WELL, SPECIFICALLY, I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S ONE SPECIFIC PERSON.
UM, WE DO HAVE, UM, DIFFERENT TEAMS AND DEPARTMENTS.
I KNOW FOR SURE, UH, MY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WAS VERY HANDS-ON WITH IT, SO HE WAS REALLY PRESSING OUT THERE.
AND SO I DON'T WANNA SAY IT'S GONNA CONTINUE TO BE HIM, BUT, UM, WITH GETTING INTO THIS ROLE, IF IT IS MYSELF AS WELL, UM, IT MAY POSSIBLY BE, BUT I KNOW FOR SURE, UH, HE, HE WAS DEFINITELY, YEAH.
HEARING ON, I CAN SPEAK WITH YOU AFTER THE MEETING IF YOU AROUND.
BECAUSE, UM, I DO KNOW I HAVE SOME, SOME, NOT REALLY COMPLAINTS, BUT SOME FEEDBACK FROM DISTRICT TWO.
AND OUR NUMBER IS REALLY LOW, BUT NOBODY REALLY KNOWS HOW TO GET INFORMATION AND CALLING THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO GET THROUGH MM-HMM.
SO I'D LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN COME UP WITH A BETTER SYSTEM.
WE DO ALSO HAVE A LINE OURSELVES, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY WITH OUR STAFF, UM, WITHIN THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AS WELL.
THEN OF COURSE WE ALSO UPDATE OUR WEBSITE REGULARLY WITH ANY TYPE OF UPDATES AS IT RELATES TO THAT.
BUT MOST DEFINITELY, WE CAN DEFINITELY GET, GET TOGETHER AFTER.
IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THAT TOO, BECAUSE I WAS, I WAS VERY INVOLVED IN THE SENIOR HOUSING PROGRAM, AND IT ACTUALLY WAS PRESENTED BY, UH, COUNCILMAN RIDLEY IN DISTRICT 14, WHERE WE HAVE NO APPLICATIONS.
AND, AND I'M ALSO VERY AWARE OF THE NEED IN DISTRICT TWO BECAUSE MY NEIGHBORHOOD'S IN DISTRICT TOO.
AND, UH, I KNOW WE, WE PRESENTED AT, AND MR. UH, ERICKSON CAME TO OUR MEETING AT SAMUEL GRAND, AND I KNOW HE AND, UH, MR. COLLINS WERE ON TV AND THERE WAS A LOT OF EFFORT.
IT WAS A SHORT, I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE A TWO MONTH, I DON'T MEAN IT WAS RIDICULOUSLY SHORT.
BUT AT THAT TIME, WE ONLY HAD A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
AND THAT'S WHEN, AS A RESULT, 800 APPLICATIONS CAME IN.
AND, UH, SO I KNOW I'VE ASKED MS. SQUARE TO COME TO THE HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING NEXT MONTH, AND WE WILL WORK VERY MUCH ON WHEN THESE PROGRAMS OPEN UP AGAIN.
AND I KNOW I SPOKE AND OTHERS PUSHED VERY HARD FOR THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT, UH, TO BE IN THE NEW BUDGET.
SO, UH, I REALLY DO WANNA COMPLIMENT, I KNOW IT WAS BEFORE YOU CAME, BUT MR. COLLINS AND MR. UH, ERICKSON HAVE REALLY WORKED HARD AT GETTING THE WORD OUT.
THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AT THAT TIME WAS SMALL, BUT THEY KEPT THOSE APPLICATIONS.
I WILL, UH, FOR THE COMPLIMENTS IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE I WAS ONLINE, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU.
OH, I WAS SITTING BACK VERY EARLY DATA, REAL QUICK.
UM, THE DATA IS IMPARTIAL AT THE MOMENT, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS WHO HAVE APPLIED, UH, IN THE MIDDLE OF ENTERING DATA.
UH, THE NEW COUNCIL BOUNDARIES WERE ANNOUNCED, BUT THE G I S SHAPE FILES FOR THE CITY WERE NOT YET, UM, ACCESSIBLE.
SO WE STOPPED LOOKING UP ADDRESSES FOR THE, FOR THE INTERIM.
SO ABOUT HALF OF THE 726 ADDRESSES, WE KNOW THEIR COUNCIL DISTRICT, THE OTHER HALF OF 'EM WE DO NOT YET, BECAUSE WE WANTED TO ENSURE THAT WE ACCURATELY, UH, UNDERSTOOD WHAT COUNCIL DISTRICT THEY ARE NOW IN BECAUSE THE BOUNDARIES SHIFTED SO SIGNIFICANTLY IN DALLAS.
SO AS WE WORK ON UPDATING THE DATA, YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THESE NUMBERS SHIFT, UM, BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND WHERE OUR APPLICANTS COME FROM SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND, UH, WHERE WE NEED TO DO SOME MORE MARKETING OR CHANGE OUR MARKETING STRATEGY AT THE COUNCIL DISTRICT LEVEL.
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UM, WE WELCOME ALL YOUR FEEDBACK ON WHO REACHING OR NOT REACHING IN YOUR DISTRICT.SO IF THERE'S A PARTICULAR GROUP OR PLATFORM OR A METHODOLOGY THAT YOU BELIEVE IS BEST TO GET TO SENIORS IN YOUR COMMUNITY, UH, LET US KNOW BECAUSE WE ARE COMPLETELY OPEN TO THAT FEEDBACK AND PUT AND BUILDING IT AS PART OF OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS ARE VERY WELL AWARE OF HOW TO APPLY FOR OUR PROGRAM.
ANY OTHER, UH, COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FOR ANYBODY STATE? YES.
SO, UM, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
IF YOU COULD JUST GO BACK THROUGH, UM, FOR DISTRICT THREE AND FOUR MM-HMM.
AND THEN, UM, WITH REGARD TO THE, UM, HOME REPAIR, UH, PROGRAM, WE HAVE HAD, UM, A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT CONTACTED OUR OFFICE AND APPLIED FOR FUNDS, UM, FOR PLUMBING, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ONE THAT COMES TO MIND.
UM, BUT FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, YOU ONLY HAVE A, I KNOW YOU HAVE A LARGE POOL OF PEOPLE THAT APPLY.
YOU MENTIONED, UH, 726 APPLICANTS.
THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE SENIOR HOMEWORK THERE, THOUGH.
THAT'S WHY I SAID WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. SURE.
SO, AND, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS YOU'RE ONLY SELECTING, UH, LIKE 30 TO 40 APPLICANTS PER MONTH.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE A LOTTERY SYSTEM, UH, FOR SENIOR HOME REPAIR.
IT, IT, WE DID, UM, SELECT OUR APPLICANTS BASED ON THE LOTTERY SYSTEM.
SO, SO FAR WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR FIRST 10, SO WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THE OTHERS JUST YET.
IS THERE A WAY, OR DO YOU ALL EVEN HAVE A PLAN TO EXPAND THAT? YES, WE DO.
UM, THAT IS ACTUALLY A PART OF WHY WE ARE, WE'RE GONNA OPEN IT AGAIN.
UM, AND AT THAT TIME, THOSE THAT HAVE ALREADY APPLIED WILL NOT NEED TO REAPPLY AGAIN.
UM, AND SO WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, UM, ONCE EVERYTHING IS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEES AND COUNCIL VOTES, HOW WE'RE GONNA ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO RUN THE NEW PROGRAM.
ARE YOU SAYING THE 10 THAT YOU, THAT YOU, THAT, THAT, THAT'S IT? NO, NO, WE'RE GONNA, NO, WE'RE GONNA REOPEN IT TO GET MORE APPLICANTS AT THE SAME TIME.
BECAUSE REMEMBER WE STARTED OFF WITH ONLY A HUNDRED K I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY.
THE GOVERNMENTS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SENT YOU GUYS YEAH.
I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS JUST, UM, BECAUSE YOU HAVE SUCH A LARGER POT THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR SELECTION PER MONTH MM-HMM.
IT'S ALSO PART OF THE PROCESS THAT IT TAKES BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, IT GOES THROUGH INSPECTION AND AFTER THAT, THEN IT'S THE CONTRACT AND YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE APPLICATION AND REVIEW THE ELIGIBILITY ON TOP OF THE OTHER, UH, PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE AS WELL.
SO THAT'S ALSO WHY WE'RE TRYING TO CONDENSE EVERYTHING TO JUST ONE SO THAT WE CAN GET MORE ENGAGEMENT.
AND I CLEAR THAT WITH THE, THE, WE'RE NOT DOING 20 OR 30 PER MONTH WITH SENIOR HOME REPAIR.
UH, THE INITIAL FUNDING LAST YEAR WAS A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
IT ALLOWED US TO SERVE 10 PEOPLE.
WE'RE WORKING ON THOSE 10 PEOPLE RIGHT NOW.
ON WEDNESDAY, CITY COUNCIL HAS, UM, ADDED $1.5 MILLION FOR SENIOR HOME REPAIR IN GENERAL.
SO IF CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THAT BUDGET WITH THE ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR SENIOR HOME REPAIR INCLUDED, UM, THEN YES, WE WILL BE SERVING MORE SENIORS NEXT YEAR, SPECIFICALLY SENIORS WITH THOSE FUNDS.
BUT AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE NO PLANS TO SERVE 20 OR 30 SENIORS A MONTH.
'CAUSE WE HAVE NO DEDICATED FUNDING FOR SENIORS.
HOWEVER, WE DO ANTICIPATE MORE FUNDING IN THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR TO SPEND.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE ARE WORKING ON AMENDING THE PROGRAM TO BETTER SERVE SENIOR, UM, AND THEN BE ABLE TO SERVE THEM THROUGHOUT THE, THE NEXT YEAR VERY DIRECTLY.
FIRST, LET'S JUST, COULD YOU SUMMARIZE THE STATISTICS THAT YOU HAD JUST, UH, SEND MACKAY AN EMAIL WITH OH, OF COURSE.
WHAT THEY WERE, SO THAT WE CAN DISTRIBUTE THOSE WILL DO SOME GREAT STATISTICS, SO THAT'D BE GREAT TO YEAH, WILL DO.
COMMISSIONER DANIELS IS TRYING TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
SO Y'ALL DON'T HAVE NO PERCENTAGE FOR DISTRICT SIX.
SO RIGHT NOW, THE DATA DOES NOT SHOW THAT.
HOWEVER, AS I SAID, HALF OF THE APPLICANTS, WE DO NOT HAVE THEIR COUNCIL DISTRICT DATA YET BECAUSE THE BOUNDARIES SHIFTED.
SO WE STOPPED LOOKING UP ADDRESSES.
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SET, UH, I EXPECT THESE NUMBERS TO CHANGE, BUT WITH THE DATA AS IS.AND WE DIDN'T WANNA KEEP DELAYING GETTING YOU INFORMATION BECAUSE YOU KEEP ASKING FOR IT EVERY MONTH, AND WE NORMALLY CAN PROVIDE IT BETTER.
UH, BUT CATCHING UP WITH LOOKING UP, UM, 400 ADDRESSES IS A LITTLE TIME CONSUMING ON TOP OF MAKING SURE WE PROCESS APPLICATIONS.
UM, NONETHELESS, WE ARE COMMITTED TO THAT.
AND I HOPE TO HAVE THAT UPDATE TO YOU, UM, NEXT MONTH, UM, AT, AT THESE MEETINGS TO SHOW THE FULL ACCOUNT OF WHO APPLIED FOR THIS FIRST ROUND OF SENIOR HOME REPAIR FUNDING.
WELL, I HAD MET YOU AND MADDEN NASH WHEN YOU AND OMAR WAS THERE TALKING AND Y'ALL WAS GETTING THEM TO LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET ON IT.
SO THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE OF DISTRICT SIX.
BUT I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
IT TAKES TIME AND IT, IT JUST RELATES DOWN TO THAT THE BOUNDARY SHIFTED AND WE STOPPED LOOKING UP ADDRESSES FOR OUR DATA.
AND, UM, I SHOULD HAVE PUT A LITTLE ASTERISK ON THERE TO, TO LET MAKE SURE Y'ALL KNEW THAT THIS WAS AN INCOMPLETE DATA SET.
BUT, UM, IT'S, UH, IT'S, IT'S FORTHCOMING.
NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WHICH WE'RE GONNA HAVE TROUBLE GETTING BEYOND THIS, UH, SENIOR SERVICES, NEVADA.
SO TODAY I'M GONNA PRESENT THE, UH, DATA FOR SENIOR SERVICES OUTREACH.
UH, FOR AUGUST, WE HAD SEVERAL EVENTS THAT WE PARTICIPATED IN THE DALLAS BLACK COLLEGE, UH, BACK TO SCHOOL FAIR.
WE ALSO VISITED, UH, U N I CITIZENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER IN LAKELAND MANOR HEALTH AND WELL, WELLNESS FAIR.
WE PARTICIPATED IN THAT, THE VETERANS RECOVERY GROUP THAT WE DO MONTHLY.
AND THEN IN SEPTEMBER, WHICH IS THIS MONTH, UH, WE HAD SEVERAL EVENTS.
WE WERE AT THE BRADY CENTER, AND WE HAD OVER 60, UH, OUTREACH SENIORS THERE, ALL HISPANIC.
UH, ON THE 11TH WE PARTICIPATED WITH EATING WELL AS A SNAP, THE 13TH, UH, KEY RECREATION CENTER ON THE 20TH BACK AT LA LAKELAND MANOR SENIOR CENTER, UM, ON THE 24TH, WHICH IS A VERY BIG EVENT.
THAT'S THE DALLAS VEG FEST AT THE KEY RECREATION CENTER.
YES, I PARTICIPATED LAST YEAR.
ON THE 27TH, WE HAVE THE VETERANS RECOVERY OUTREACH.
AND THEN ON THE 28TH WE HAVE THE SENIOR ADULT HEALTH FAIR AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
IN OCTOBER, WE HAVE SEVERAL EVENTS, UH, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AT MEADOW STONE PARK WITH DISTRICT EIGHT, UH, ON THE SEVENTH WE HAVE THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL AT M L K.
AND I HAVE FLYERS, BY THE WAY, Y'ALL NEED FLYERS.
WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE FOR, UH, THAT EVENT.
AND THEN ON THE 10TH, WE HAVE EATING WELL AS A SNACK AT MORELAND FAMILY, Y M C A IN OAKCLIFF.
DO YOU WANNA GO THROUGH, DO YOU WANNA STILL HIGHLIGHT EACH OF THE PROGRAMS? EVERYBODY'S GOT THE STATISTICS IN THIS OR SOMETHING OF PARTICULAR SURE.
SIGNIFICANCE THAT JUMPS OUT, I THINK, NO, I THINK, UM, WELL, I WILL POINT OUT, UM, IF YOU WANNA LOOK AT THE COMPARISON OF 2022 AND 2023, HOW MUCH OUR UNDUPLICATED CLIENT NUMBER HAS GROWN AS OF THE END OF AUGUST.
WE'RE, YOU KNOW, JUST CONTINUING TO SEE HIGHER NUMBERS.
AND OF COURSE, THAT'S JUST WITH THE FOLKS THAT WE HAVE STAFF-WISE NOW.
UM, AND, UM, OF COURSE, MANY, MANY MORE OUTREACH EVENTS AND ENGAGEMENTS THIS YEAR THAN THE PRIOR COUPLE OF YEARS.
A LOT OF THAT DUE TO SOME SLOWDOWNS IN THE PANDEMIC, ET CETERA.
UM, BUT YEAH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, WE'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION ABOUT ANY OF THE PROGRAMS. I HAVE A REALLY STUPID QUESTION.
I THINK IT'S REALLY, I'M JUST, I CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND IT.
SO, MR. MONDAY PRESENTED ON CODE COMPLIANCE, AND WHEN THERE'S AN ISSUE ON AN INDIVIDUAL, THEY HAVE NO IDEA IF THE PERSON THEY'RE ABOUT TO CITE IS A SENIOR OR NOT.
SO IS THERE A WAY, I, I JUST, IS THERE A WAY THAT YOUR GROUP KNOWS THAT THIS IS A C I MEAN, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT DO THE TWO DEPARTMENTS TALK TO ONE ANOTHER? RIGHT.
SO, I MEAN, THERE'S A HOUSE ON OUR STREET AND, AND, AND SEVERAL NEIGHBORS HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER AND WE'RE SAYING,
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OKAY, WHAT'S THE DEAL ON THIS HOUSE? RIGHT? MM-HMM.UM, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO CALL CODE COMPLIANCE BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES AND WE DON'T WANT THEM TO GET CITED.
SO IS THAT AN APPROPRIATE PHONE CALL TO YOU ALL? SO SOMETIMES WE DO GET REFERRALS FOR THOSE TYPES OF SITUATIONS.
UM, AND WE'LL REACH OUT TO THEM.
THOSE CAN BE KIND OF PROBABLY COMPLICATED CASES.
I KNOW AS FAR AS US KNOWING WHO'S A SENIOR, WE JUST ASK THEM, UM, PRETTY MUCH IT'S, THERE'S NOT, UH, A REAL WAY OTHER THAN ASKING THEM OR VALIDATING THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, OUR SENIOR SERVICES TEAM DOESN'T TURN SOMEONE AWAY JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE ONLY 59.
UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES THEY'LL GIVE THEM SOME BASIS REFERRALS OR BASIC SUPPORT AND MAYBE CONNECT 'EM WITH, YOU KNOW, OTHER FOLKS ON OUR SOCIAL SERVICES TEAM THAT CAN DO MORE.
UM, I CAN'T REALLY SPEAK TO THE DATA COLLECTION FOR CODE COMPLIANCE OR 3 1 1.
I CAN SAY THAT A SIMILAR QUESTION CAME UP THIS MORNING, UH, DURING THE BRIEFING.
I THINK THE QUESTION WAS POSED TO, UH, REGARDING 3 1 1, AND IF THERE WAS DATA AROUND THE AGE OF THE COMPLAINANT, SO THE PEOPLE SUBMITTING THAT, I THINK THE ANSWER WAS THAT THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, WHEN WE'RE GETTING INTO THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, AND HOPEFULLY THINGS GO AS WE'RE HOPING, UM, BUDGET WISE AND WE'RE ABLE TO DO SOME OF THAT DATA STRATEGIC PLANNING WORK.
I MEAN, THOSE ARE SOME QUESTIONS WE PROBABLY NEED TO POSE AND THINK ABOUT.
SO I'M THINKING OF WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING BY FIGURING OUT NEEDS.
SO IF ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'RE SEEING CO COMPLIANCE IS LIKE, AND ALL THESE PEOPLE, RIGHT? THERE'S MESSES, THEY DON'T HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL PHYSICALLY, FINANCIALLY TO CLEAN IT UP.
SO, YEAH, SO CODE COMPLIANCE, YOU KNOW, THEY KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DO, AND COMMUNITY COURTS CAN DO SOME THINGS.
OUR VOLUNTEERS CAN DO SOME THINGS.
I KNOW THEY'VE DONE A LOT WITH LIKE MAYBE TREES AND FENCE REPORTS.
THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE.
AND OF COURSE, WE'VE JUST HEARD THE UPDATE WHEN IT COMES TO THE, UM, HOME REPAIR, RIGHT? AND THAT IS MORE, I THINK, INTERIOR OR STRUCTURAL ISSUES.
UM, BUT YEAH, WE, I THINK THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME OPPORTUNITY CITYWIDE WHEN IT COMES TO THE DATA SHARING AND CLIENT DATA TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME, WE HAVE SALESFORCE ITERATIONS AND DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, BUT, UM, THERE'S NOT, YOU KNOW, NOT A EASY WAY FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE BOARD.
THAT'S, BUT, UM, I WAS JUST GONNA, I WANTED TO SAY I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET INFORMATION ON CO COMPLIANCE BECAUSE I, WE, I RELATE THAT TO HOUSING AND I HAVE VERY LONG HISTORY WITH CODE COMPLIANCE, NOT JUST PERSONALLY, BUT THANK GOD.
BUT, UM, YEAH, THE COMMUNITY COURT SYSTEM.
AND I THINK I'M TRYING TO GO, I MEAN, I'VE TALKED TO PEOPLE THERE AND HAD SOME REALLY RESPONSIVE PEOPLE.
THEY WOULD BE PROBABLY THE CLOSEST TO HAVING ANY DATA OF AGE.
AND I KNOW SOME OF THEIR PROGRAMS SOMEWHAT RELATE TO AGE.
I MEAN, I MEAN, I WAS REALLY PART OF GETTING THE PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE PROGRAM YEARS AGO THAT'S NOW TRANSFERRED.
BUT I AM WORKING ON THAT, RENEE, AND HOPEFULLY, AND I AGREE, WE, THIS ALL NEED, THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY I COMPLIANCE, WHETHER, YOU KNOW, IT CAN BE YOUR FRIEND AND IT CAN BE YOUR WORST ENEMY, RIGHT? PEOPLE SEE THE TRUCK AND THEY PANIC SERIOUSLY.
RIGHT? AND IF YOU ARE SIGHTED AND YOU ARE 85 YEARS OLD, YOU'VE GOTTA GO DOWN THE COURT.
AND I'M LIKE, SERIOUSLY? SO YEAH, I'LL CONTINUE WORKING ON THAT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
AND I ACTUALLY KIND OF THINK MAYBE SOMEBODY FROM SOMEWHERE IN THAT I HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT WHERE THAT'S WHY I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT PROGRAM NEEDS TO SPEAK TO US.
BUT I'LL, I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I GET MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT WHICH, AND I, I THINK THAT THERE ARE, AND I, WE ACTUALLY RAN INTO THIS WITH A PRETTY COMPLICATED CASE NOT TOO LONG AGO.
SO MUCH, SO MANY OF US WERE INVOLVED IN THIS.
AND ONE, IT SPEAKS TO WHY PEOPLE LIKE JAMES AND MACKAY WHO KNOW HOW TO WORK WITH THESE FOLKS AND HAVE THE WHEREWITHAL TO KIND OF HELP THEM NAVIGATE.
WHEN I SAY THAT OUR SENIOR SERVICES TEAM, WE DON'T JUST DO INFORMATIONS AND REFERRALS, BUT WE HELP PEOPLE NAVIGATE THE CITY.
UM, AND IT, IT IS COMPLICATED.
IT'S NOT, YES, IT'S NOT SUPER EASY.
AND, YOU KNOW, SO WE, WE KIND OF ARE, WE HAVE THESE INTERNAL KNOWLEDGE BANKS AND LISTEN THINGS OF WHAT WE KNOW IS OUT THERE AND WHAT THEY KNOW IS OUT THERE AND WHO HAS FUNDING RIGHT NOW, AND WHO MAYBE RAN OUT OF FUNDING.
AND WE'RE NOT GONNA REFER ANYBODY OVER THERE AT THIS MOMENT, BUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY'LL GET MORE MONEY AGAIN NEXT MONTH.
AND ALL OF THIS STUFF, IT'S PRETTY COMPLICATED, AND WE'RE TRYING TO DO A BETTER, COME UP WITH BETTER
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WAYS TO MANAGE THAT.UM, BUT I THINK THAT, UM, WHAT, WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, THE CITATIONS TOO.
I THINK WE'VE HAD, UM, I'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, FOLKS REACH OUT ABOUT MAYBE OLD CITATIONS THAT HAVE KIND OF LIKE GROWN WITH INTEREST OVER TIME.
I THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT THE CODE COMPLIANCE TEAM MAYBE CAN DO WITHIN REASON OR WITHIN A RIGHT TIMEFRAME.
AND THAT I THINK THAT THE IDEA ISN'T THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO CITE PEOPLE.
THEY'D RATHER, YOU KNOW, I THINK BE ABLE TO GET THINGS RECTIFIED.
SO I THINK THAT THAT SPEAKS TO, UM, THE EFFORTS THAT KEVIN HIGHLIGHTED IN TERMS OF BRINGING THE KEEP DALLAS BEAUTIFUL PROGRAM INTERNAL.
AND, UM, IN TERMS OF EVEN WHAT COMMUNITY COURTS DO, I MEAN, THEY'RE A COMMON RESOURCE FOR US.
WE CALL ON COMMUNITY COURTS ALL THE TIME.
WE'LL REACH OUT AND SAY, HEY, YOU GOT ANYBODY WHO CAN HELP THIS RESIDENT WITH THIS ISSUE? UM, SO THERE'S SOME THINGS OUT THERE.
UM, BUT YEAH, THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME OPPORTUNITY TO STRENGTHEN, STRENGTHEN THE ALIGNMENT.
HE'S TRYING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.
OH, KEVIN'S STILL HERE, KEVIN.
I JUST WANTED TO CHIME IN A LITTLE BIT.
YOU KNOW, OUR FIRST PRIORITY ESPECIALLY IS, IS NOT TO CITE.
WE WANT TO ENGAGE WITH THAT, THAT PROPERTY ON THE FIRST, ESPECIALLY IF NEIGHBORS OR, UH, ADJACENT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING ON THE STREET TO LET US KNOW THAT, HEY, IT'S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE, UH, WITH THIS PARTICULAR RESIDENT, OR WE'VE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT IT'S A SENIOR, UH, WHO MAY BE HAVING PROBLEMS ABATING THE VIOLATION ON THE ACTUAL PROPERTY.
SO, UH, WHETHER IT'S OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CODE REP OR WHETHER IT'S OUR, ONE OF OUR, UM, INSPECTORS, UM, FIRST THING LEVEL IS ALWAYS ENGAGEMENT.
WE WANNA KNOCK ON A DOOR, KIND OF FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON, IS THERE A PROBLEM BEFORE WE ACTUALLY, UM, UH, CITE THE VIOLATION.
IF UP ON OUR ASSESSMENT WE DO FIND THAT THIS IS SOMEONE WHO'S A SENIOR AND UNABLE TO ABATE THE VIOLATION, THEN WE ALWAYS LOOK INTERNAL TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT RESOURCES WE COULD PULL TOGETHER FROM VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS TO SEE HOW WE CAN HELP, UM, THAT, THAT SENIOR TO ABATE THE VIOLATION BEFORE CITING.
SO SOMETIMES IT'S, IT'S GETTING GIVEN THEM EXTRA TIME.
SOMETIME IT'S EVEN COORDINATING ASSISTANCE WITH RELATIVES OR NEARBY NEIGHBORS.
UH, WE CAN SOMETIME PULL TOGETHER VOLUNTEER GROUPS.
AGAIN, WE WORK WITH A LOT WITH COMMUNITY COURTS AND THEIR VOLUNTEERS TO GO OUT TO SEE HOW WE CAN, UH, HELP THAT SENIOR, UH, ABATE THAT VIOLATION ON, ON THE PROPERTY.
BUT EVEN DURING THAT TIME, WE DON'T KNOW THE AGE OF THE PERSON, OR NOR DO WE ASK THE AGE, UH, WHEN WE ENGAGE BECAUSE, UH, FOR VARIOUS, UH, PRIVACY REASONS, UNLESS, UH, THE SENIOR IS ENROLLED IN SOME SORT OF CITY OF DALLAS CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, OR MAY HAVE BEEN ENROLLED OR AWAITING SOME FORM OF SERVICES ACROSS VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, UH, WHERE WE HAVE THE AGE OF THAT PERSON WHO'S LIVING IN A HOUSE, UH, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE PERSON COULD BE A RENTER, UH, OF THAT PARTI SPECIFIC PROPERTY AS OPPOSED TO THE ACTUAL INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNER.
WHAT I, WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO IS JUST GET DATA BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.
AND I KNOW WHEN I TALKED TO MR. ERICKSON ABOUT, THERE ARE SOME, HE DOES SOME KIND OF HOME REPAIR, AND I, I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE DETAILS THROUGH THE CO THE COMMUNITY COURTS.
AND HE HAS NOWHERE NEAR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AND STAFF TO MEET THE NEED.
AND SO WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO IS JUST GET SOME DATA TO FIND OUT WHAT'S OUT THERE, WHAT THE NEED IS.
I DO KNOW, YOU KNOW, LIVING IN A COMMUNITY WHERE, YOU KNOW, CODE ENFORCEMENT'S COME AND GONE, IT'S A HUGE, IT CAN BE A HUGE ISSUE.
AND WE'VE HAD THE CITY'S HAD SOME REALLY GOOD PROGRAMS, AND I THINK THAT WHAT WHAT'S AVAILABLE THROUGH THE COMMUNITY COURTS NEEDS TO BE POSSIBLY STRENGTHENED BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT.
BUT WE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S OUT THERE.
AND I'M, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIND OUT.
SO ANY INFORMATION YOU ALL HAVE SO WE CAN PUT IT TOGETHER, BECAUSE AS, AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS MEETING, THE DATA WE HAVE, BECAUSE MR. KLEIN REQUESTED IT, I THINK HAS BEEN INVALUABLE.
I MAY BE WRONG IN THE FUNDING THAT WE HOPEFULLY WILL RECEIVE THROUGH THE COUNCIL.
AND, UH, WE, WE'VE GOTTA START THERE.
WE CAN'T JUST SAY, I KNOW SENIORS GET CODE VIOLATIONS, WE NEED TO AMEN.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER THEY'RE RENTERS OR THEY'RE HOMEOWNERS OR WHAT.
I MEAN, SO I, I'M HEARING, I'M HEARING THAT, UM, AND WE CAN DEFINITELY, UH, COMMUNICATE THIS WITH OTHER LEADERS, AND I THINK IT, IT REQUIRES A REAL STRATEGIC CONVERSATION.
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YES.'CAUSE IN ORDER TO COLLECT DATA, YOU HAVE TO ASK FOR IT.
AND THERE ARE THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN IT COMES TO HOW MANY QUESTIONS YOU'RE ASKING.
I THINK IT HAS TO BE A BALANCED AND REALLY THOUGHTFUL, UM, CONVERSATION.
THERE ARE TWO OTHER AGENDA ITEMS ON THE AGENDA.
UM, AND TAKE THEM IN IN OPPOSITE ORDER.
UH, ONE IS, WELL, NO, I, THE MEETING SCHEDULE, EVERYONE RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM MAC, FROM MAC, KYLE WITH A PROPOSED MEETING SCHEDULE FOR, UH, 2024.
WOULD EVERYONE ON THE COMMISSION PLEASE CAREFULLY REVIEW THAT AND SEE IF THERE ARE, HE TRIED TO BE SENSITIVE TO JEWISH HOLIDAYS, TO POLITICAL HOLIDAYS, TO, YOU KNOW, ALL THE, ALL THE VARIOUS THINGS THAT GET IN THE WAY OF THE SCHEDULE AND TRY TO, UH, LOOK OUT FOR THAT.
IF, IF YOU HAVE NOT REVIEWED THAT, UH, PLEASE DO AND GET BACK TO MACKAY WITH SPECIFIC COMMENTS ABOUT POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH DATES, AND WE'LL ACTUALLY VOTE TO APPROVE THE SCHEDULE AT THE NEXT MEETING.
UH, AND, BUT IF YOU COULD, IF EVERYONE COULD REVIEW THAT SCHEDULE AND GET IT ON YOUR CALENDARS NOW, SO YOU KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FOR THE NEXT YEAR, UH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND THEN WE'LL FORMALLY APPROVE THAT AT THE NEXT MEETING AS AN EARLY AGENDA ITEM,
AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER THING, UH, THAT WE'RE NOT REALLY, WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR DISCUSSION, BUT, UH, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT DOING, YOU KNOW, CALL IT A RETREAT OR CALL IT AN EXTENDED SESSION.
BUT A, UM, AND I THINK WE WERE TRYING TO LOOK AND SEE WHETHER OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER WOULD WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR REGULAR MEETINGS.
UH, PROBABLY AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME, NOVEMBER IS MORE LIKELY THAN OCTOBER.
BUT WOULD, WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL OR MACKAY? EITHER WAY HE'LL DISTRIBUTE IT.
BUT IF, IF YOU ALL WOULD THINK ABOUT TOPICS OF CONVERSATION THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT, UH, THAT COULD BE PART OF A EXTENDED MEETING WHERE, WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, DEAL WITH THINGS THAT EVIDENT, WHILE I'LL GIVE YOU ONE IS I THINK JESSICA SHOULD HAVE A, A PRESENTATION ABOUT WHO IS IN HER DEPARTMENT.
WHAT DO THEY DO? UH, YOU KNOW, I I THINK THERE'S CONFUSION AMONG A LOT OF THE PEOPLE ON THE COMMISSION, PARTICULARLY NEW MEMBERS, AS TO, IS THIS A HUGE DEPARTMENT THAT YOU'VE GOTTA CALL CENTER AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF? OR IS IT
AND I, AND I THINK IT'D BE VERY HELPFUL TO PUT THE SENIOR, UH, SERVICES GROUP IN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT IT IS THAT, UH, IS GOING ON WITH US, UH, AS PART OF THAT WHEN WE HAVE THAT.
BUT THERE ARE OTHER THINGS, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENTS THAT WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THAT YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM.
UH, ANY, ANYTHING LIKE THAT, UH, WOULD BE HELPFUL IN TERMS OF TRYING TO PLAN THAT.
AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A DISCUSSION AT THE OCTOBER MEETING.
SO YOU THINKING NOVEMBER 13TH, OUR SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION MEETING IS ON, AS OF NOW, IS ON NOVEMBER 13TH.
SO YOU'RE THINKING OF EXPANDING THAT, PETER? YES.
THAT'S A DIFFERENT, WHO, WHO WAS IT THAT WAS TALKING EARLIER? THAT WAS AFTER THANKSGIVING.
OH, NOVEMBER MEETING THE 27TH.
IS THAT YOU? YEAH, NOVEMBER MEETING, THE 27TH.
OH, THIS BECAUSE 2023 IS ALREADY PLANNED, RIGHT? RIGHT.
THE DISCUSSION, THE CALENDAR TO BE DISCUSSED IS FOR 2024.
SO IT'S, I THINK THE 15TH IS 24 PROPOSED DATE.
SO RIGHT NOW I, BUT FOR THIS YEAR, IT'S, AND THIS YEAR'S THE 27TH.
NO, NOT, NOT TRYING TO, NOT TRYING TO CONFUSE ANYBODY, BUT RIGHT.
UH, SO I THINK WE'LL PROBABLY TENTATIVELY TRY TO OKAY.
HAVE THAT EXTENDED SESSION, UH, ON THAT DAY.
AND IT WOULD BE IN THIS ROOM SO WE CAN GET THIS ROOM.
COUNCIL, THAT I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
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I MOVE.YOU'RE THE FIRST OR THE SECOND, BUT WE GOT TO, UH, ALL IN FAVOR A AYE, AYE, AYE.