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ME SO FAR, THE SILVER.[Senior Affairs Commission on October 21, 2024.]
SHOWTIME.IT IS STRAIGHT UP NOON ON 10 DAYS BEFORE HALLOWEEN, UH, AND
UM, WE DO HAVE A FORUM, UH, OF THE PEOPLE WE KNEW THAT, UH, COMMISSIONERS OUTTA THE COUNTRY AND WILL NOT BE HERE.
THE ONLY ONE MISSING RIGHT AS OF RIGHT NOW IS PORTIA AND RELL.
UH, AND WE WILL PROCEED WITHOUT HER AND HOPEFULLY SHE'LL JOIN US SHORTLY.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ONLINE, I JUST WANNA REMIND YOU OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
UH, HAVE TO BE VISIBLE AND YOUR SOUND AUDIO HAS TO BE WORKING, UH, IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED PRESENT.
AND THEN THE LAST THING ON, I WILL, BEFORE WE GO TO THAT, LET ME GO BACK AND ASK FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FROM THE SEPTEMBER MEETING.
SO DO YOU VOTING, HEAR, NOTES, MAKE NOTES.
SINCE I WAS HONOR, DOES ANY, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY, UH, COMMENTS, CHANGES, CORRECTIONS, ANYTHING IN THAT BEFORE WE VOTE? IF NOT, I'LL ASK FOR VOTE.
ALL IN FAVOR? APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER MEETING, SAY AYE.
UM, THE OTHER THING I HAD ON, UM, THE CHAIR'S REPORT REALLY IS AN UPDATE ON THE SENIOR LISTENING SESSIONS.
AND WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF THEM RECENTLY.
WE'VE GOT SOME MORE COMING UP.
UM, I STARTED GETTING CONCERNED ABOUT THE, UH, LISTENING SESSIONS WHEN, AFTER WE DID THE FIRST FEW, UH, THAT, THE GOOD NEWS WAS, THE GREAT NEWS WAS THAT I THINK EVERYBODY WHO ATTENDED THESE SESSIONS THOUGHT THAT IT WAS WELL WORTH THEIR, WHILE.
THAT TIME WELL SPENT, THEY LEARNED, THEY LEARNED SOME THINGS, AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS POSITIVE.
UH, BUT WHEN I LOOKED AT WHO WAS THERE, IT REMINDED ME OF, UH, SOME ADVICE THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME 50 YEARS AGO BY MY MENTOR IN THE CONSULTING BUSINESS.
I WAS WORKING AT A RESTAURANT AND I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY ARE, WHY ARE THEIR, THEIR CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS SO LOW? WHY, YOU KNOW, WHY, WHY AREN'T THEY DOING? SO? I SAID, WELL, WELL, WHY DON'T WE SURVEY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SHOWING UP AND THEY GO LOOK FOR MORE OF 'EM.
AND MY MENTOR SAID, WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO BE DOING IS LOOK AT WHO'S NOT HERE AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET 'EM HERE.
AND I THINK THE LISTENING SESSIONS HAVE BEEN ALONG THOSE SAME LINES.
I THINK WE'VE, WE'VE, THEY'VE SERVED A GREAT PURPOSE.
I THINK WE'VE DEMONSTRATED THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM PEOPLE CITYWIDE AND EVERY DISTRICT.
UH, I THINK THEY'VE, I THINK ALL THE ONES THAT I'VE ATTENDED, I'VE BEEN TO MOST OF THEM.
I, I THOUGHT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE WERE ENGAGED AND WERE DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN SHARING THE STORY.
BUT I LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM AND SAID, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHO AREN'T HERE IN THESE LISTENING SESSIONS.
AND ALMOST, BY DEFINITION, IF SOMEONE IS MOBILITY IMPAIRED, IT'S VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE TO GET TO A MEETING LIKE THAT.
AND WE'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE, WHEELCHAIRS.
I KNOW WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD SOME SHOW UP.
BUT, UH, IT GOT ME THINKING EARLIER IN THE YEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO BE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO ARE WE NOT REACHING THAT WE SHOULD BE REACHING? 'CAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, UH, THE, THE OVERALL SITUATION, I THINK THERE'S A LARGE SEGMENT OF THE SENIOR POPULATIONS WHO ARE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF WHAT IS BEING OFFERED BY THE NONPROFIT WORLD AS WELL AS, AS WHAT THE CITY CAN OFFER, UH, BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT, OR THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS IT, OR THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO SIGN UP FOR IT, OR, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
JUST, WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED 'EM WITH THESE LISTENING SESSIONS, UH, BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN IN THE, IN THE GROUP.
AND, UH, THE PEOPLE WHO DID SHOW UP TENDED TO BE PEOPLE WHO ARE AWARE OF WHAT THE CITY DOES.
THEY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF SENIOR
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SERVICES, PER SE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY KNOW ABOUT THE ASAP PROGRAM AND THEY'RE, THEY GO TO THE, SOME OF 'EM GO TO SENIOR CENTERS THAT WERE IN THE AREAS THAT WE WENT TO.AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAD GOOD REPRESENTATION OF THOSE PEOPLE, BUT I DON'T THINK WE GOT THE BREADTH OF INFORMATION THAT THE CITY NEEDS AND THAT THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY NEEDS IN ORDER TO REALLY TRY TO DO A BETTER JOB OF REACHING THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE.
UH, AND THEN ALONG THE SAME TIME IN JUNE, I HAD BEEN ASKED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE AGING AND PLACE CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD IN DALLAS.
AND I MADE A PRESENTATION USING SOME OF OUR DATA SETS THAT WE HAD DONE TWO YEARS AGO BY DISTRICT AND, AND TALKED ABOUT THAT, AND TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THERE, AND FOLLOWING THAT, IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR, THERE WAS A MEETING, UH, HELD AS A FOLLOW UP TO THAT BY SOME OF THE, THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT SPONSORED IT AND SOME OF THE SPEAKERS TO, UH, GET TOGETHER AND JUST TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WENT WELL, WHAT DIDN'T GO WELL, ALL THAT THING.
AND AT THAT, UM, AT THAT MEETING, I HAD BEEN INVITED TO GO TO THE MEETING.
AT THAT MEETING I TALKED ABOUT THE DATA PROJECT THAT I WAS TRYING TO GET STARTED.
UM, AND EVERYBODY JUMPED ALL OVER IT.
AND THAT DATA PROJECT WAS, YOU KNOW, BEING REALLY TRIED TO IDENTIFY, UH, WHERE ARE THE SENIORS LIVING IN POVERTY ACROSS THE STATE? WHERE ARE THE CONCENTRATIONS? YOU KNOW, AND, AND THAT'S, SO THAT LED TO A PROJECT THAT THE DATA ANALYTICS GROUP WAS HELPING ME WITH.
WE SUFFERED THROUGH A PREGNANCY AND A NEW BABY AND SOME OTHER THINGS, AND A PART OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE HELPING ME WITH THE PROJECT.
SO IT TOOK A LITTLE LONGER THAN THAN WE HAD EVEN INTENDED.
BUT, UH, THEY GOT A SERIES OF MAPPING, UH,
AND IT, IT, THERE'S A LOT OF SILOS IN THE CITY AND THERE'S A LOT OF SILOS IN THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY.
BUT THIS GROUP OF NONPROFIT PEOPLE, UH, THAT WERE AT THE MEETING WERE, UM, WERE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT JUMPING ON BOARD AND, AND DOING SOMETHING COLLECTIVELY TO TRY TO REALLY BE ABLE TO BETTER DEFINE WHAT ARE THE REAL NEEDS THAT ARE NOT BEING MET IN THE CITY.
SO, GETTING THAT, I PREPARED A POWERPOINT TODAY SO THAT I COULD HOPEFULLY BRING EVERYBODY UP TO DATE WITH WHERE THAT ANALYSIS CAME FROM, WHERE IT'S GOING, UH, AND SOME PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA HAVE TODAY, BUT I DON'T HAVE IT, IS THE INDIVIDUAL MAP FOR EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
WE WILL, UH, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE GOT A COPY OF THEM, BUT, UM, THERE WAS A CITYWIDE MAP, YOU'LL SEE IN A MINUTE IN THE PRESENTATION, THERE WAS ALSO, UH, MAPS OF EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
AND WITH THAT, LET'S GO TO THE PRESENTATION ITSELF.
THE FINE PRINT AT THE BOTTOM THAT NOBODY CAN READ, UM, BASICALLY SAYS THAT ALL OF THE DATA IN HERE REALLY COMES FROM, IT'S BASED ON DATA FROM THE US CENSUS BUREAU'S, AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY FOR 2018 AND 2022.
AND, UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF DATA ANALYTICS AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE USED THAT SOURCE DATA TO CREATE POVERTY, HEAT MAPS, UH, FOR THE CITY.
AND THEN I DID A LOT OF FURTHER ANALYSIS ONCE I GOT THE HEAT MAPS IN, TRYING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE DETAILS BEHIND IT AND THE NUANCES AND ALL OF THAT.
AND, UH, THERE'S SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TODAY, UH, WAS, WAS MY ANALYSIS THAT I GOT IN ORDER TO GET TO A SUCCINCT DEFINITION OF WHERE THE HOTSPOTS REALLY WERE.
UH, AND I, I WILL TAKE CREDIT OR BLAME FOR HOW THAT CAME TOGETHER, BUT I THINK, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT I DID NOT PICK THE HOTSPOTS.
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OH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE HOTSPOTS PICKED THEMSELVES BASED ON THE MAPPING THAT WAS DONE OF THE CENSUS DATA.SO LET'S GO TO THE FIRST SLIDE, I GUESS TECHNICALLY THE SECOND SLIDE.
DOES EVERYBODY HAVE A COPY OF THE, DOES EVERYBODY THAT'S ONLINE HAVE A COPY OF THE SLIDES? ERICA, YOU'RE ON THE THIRD SLIDE.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING FOR ONE THAT SAYS TODAY'S OBJECTIVES.
UH, SO TODAY, MY OBJECTIVES TODAY IS, UH, UH, THREEFOLD.
ONE, I WANNA BRING EVERYBODY UP TO DATE ON THE, THIS ANALYSIS THAT I'VE BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT.
AND, UH, EVERYBODY WILL GET COPIES OF ALL THE MAPS THAT SHOW BY CENSUS TRACK ACROSS THE CITY WHERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONCENTRATIONS OF SENIORS SEVEN, FIVE YEARS AND OLDER ARE LIVING, LIVING IN POVERTY OF THOSE SENIORS WHO ARE LIVING IN POVERTY.
THEN I WANNA TALK ABOUT A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.
UH, AND THIS IS NOT A TRUMP CONCEPT.
THIS IS A, THIS IS A
UH, UH, A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR A NEW APPROACH TOWARD, UH, OUTREACH TO OUR MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS AND SENIORS.
AND THEN TO HAVE A DISCUSSION, UH, AMONGST THE, UH, SAC AND, UH, ANYBODY ELSE WHO HAS AN OPINION OR A COMMENT OR ANYTHING ELSE, UH, TO, UH, DISCUSS HOW CAN WE GET TOGETHER WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND MAKE THIS CONCEPT COME, COME TO LIFE.
UH, IN THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU GO TO, THE SENIOR PROGRAMS SLIDE, UH, ALL OF THE AGENCIES THAT WERE LISTED ON THIS SLIDE IN THE CITY, UH, HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN MANY OF THESE PROGRAM PROGRAMMATIC THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
I THOUGHT WE MIGHT HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE, BUT WE'VE GOT, UH, THE SENIOR SOURCES REPRESENTED, UH, WITH RENEE PERRY AND CHRIS LIK IS HERE REPRESENTING, UH, VNA AND THE, UH, MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM.
AND THEY'VE BEEN KIND OF, UH, THEY'VE BEEN INSTIGATORS TO TRY TO GET ME TO, UH, TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION AND TO SEE HOW WE WORK TOGETHER TO, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY COME TO SOME, YOU KNOW, GOOD QUALITY INFORMATION THAT EVERYBODY CAN USE.
SO, I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE TO SHOW SUPPORT THAT, UH, THIS SEEMS TO BE A WORTHWHILE EXERCISE, NOT JUST ON THE PART OF THE SENIORS AFFAIRS COMMISSION, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, COLLECTIVELY AMONG THE, UH, THE COMMUNITY, THE, THE NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY THAT'S ACTUALLY PROVIDING SERVICES, UH, THAT EVERYBODY'S EXCITED AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO A BETTER JOB REACHING ALL THE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO REACH.
ALL THE, UH, MEALS ON WHEELS, ALL YOUR, I DON'T WANNA SAY CUSTOMERS, YOUR RECIPIENTS, ARE THEY HOME BOUND? I MEAN, IS THAT THE YES.
YEAH, BECAUSE SOMEONE AT MY CHURCH I WAS TRYING TO HIT, WE HAVE, WE'RE A DISTRIBUTION POINT, AND THEY SAID, MIKE, THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT GONNA COME HOME.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO OUT WITH THE VANS AND PICK 'EM UP.
SO I, YOU CONFIRMED WHAT I THOUGHT.
WE'RE HAVING OUR LISTENING SESSION BAR EAST DALLAS AND EAST DALLAS, AND WE JUST, I DIDN'T APPROACH, YOU KNOW, SO ELSE FOR THAT REASON.
UM, LET'S MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
THE NEXT SLIDE, BASICALLY JUST, I, I I WOULD CALL IT A SERIOUS LACK OF AWARENESS ON THE PART
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OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE.THIS IS REALLY TRUE ACROSS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF SENIOR COMMUNITY IN DALLAS.
I KNOW A LOT OF WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET ON MEDICAID, MEDICARE, AND, AND PICK THEIR PROGRAM AND, AND WHEN SHOULD THEY DO IT, AND ALL OF THAT.
AND I, AND IF THEY'RE CONFUSED, I, I THINK YOU PRETTY WELL ASSUME THAT EVERYBODY'S CONFUSED ABOUT IT.
UH, AND, AND THEY'RE NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE.
AND I THINK THAT'S BEEN MADE CLEAR IN OUR LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD GROUPS THAT, YOU KNOW, BROKE BREAKOUT GROUPS, AND I WAS LEADING ONE WHERE NO ONE IN THE GROUP HAD EVER HEARD OF VNA, ALTHOUGH THEY, WHEN I CALL IT MEALS ON WHEELS, THEY HAD HEARD OF THAT.
UM, AND NO ONE HAD EVER HEARD OF THE SENIOR SOURCE IN THAT PARTICULAR BREAKOUT GROUP.
THAT WAS NOT A SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE REPRESENTATION, BUT IT WAS SHOCKING THAT YOU COULD HAVE A GROUP OF, OF PEOPLE THAT, AND AN AGENCY THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR 62 YEARS, IS THAT RIGHT? UM, THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT.
AND, AND IT'S A SIGNIFICANT ORGANIZATION.
SO I THINK THAT THE, IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT MOST OF THE SENIORS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REACH, PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE SENIORS, ARE SIMPLY UNAWARE OF WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO SIGN UP FOR IT IF THEY DO KNOW THAT IT'S AVAILABLE, AND THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET HELP TO SIGN UP FOR IT.
AND MY CONCLUSION FROM THAT WAS THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH TOWARD GETTING HERE.
UM, THERE'S 140,000 DALLAS RESIDENTS, AGE 65 AND OLDER.
WE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT NUMBER FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SERVED BY VARIOUS SENIOR CITY SENIOR PROGRAMMING AND ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE TOUCHING, I, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT WE'RE TOUCHING MORE THAN 15% OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SERVICES, UH, THROUGH ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING.
AND THEN SOME OF 'EM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TWO PROGRAMS IN THE CITY THAT TOUCH THE MOST PEOPLE THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THEIR PROGRAM WOULD BE MEALS ON WHEELS AND THE, AND THE, UH, UH, OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM AT THAT, THAT GO TO THE NURSING HOMES.
AND THEY SEE ALL THOSE PEOPLE BECAUSE, AND IT'S ROUGHLY THE SAME.
THERE'S ABOUT 5,000 PEOPLE BEING TOUCHED IN THE CITY OF DALLAS IN EACH OF THOSE PROGRAMS. AND, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY'RE EASY TO IDENTIFY OR EASIER TO IDENTIFY, AND, AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, ONCE, ONCE WE'VE GOT A HANDLE ON IT, IT GOES THERE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PARKS AND REC PROGRAMS AND THE LIBRARY PROGRAMS AND ALL THESE OTHER PROGRAMS, THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY PRETTY SMALL.
UH, EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE COUNTY, UH, CONGREGATE MEAL PROGRAM, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO TO THE SENIOR CENTER, THERE'S ABOUT 50 PEOPLE THERE TYPICALLY.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AND THEY, THEY DO THIS FIVE DAYS A WEEK AND, AND A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO GO ARE THERE EVERY DAY, AND THEN THERE'S SOME THAT COME AND GO ALONG THE WAY.
UM, AND SO WE'RE, WE KNOW THAT WE, WE JUST ARE NOT TOUCHING A BIG ENOUGH PERCENTAGE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ARE THAT THEY'RE SENSING THE SAME THING.
YOU'RE SERVING A LOT OF PEOPLE.
EVERYBODY WHO'S BEING SERVED IS GETTING GREAT SERVICE.
I'M NOT BEING CRITICAL AT ALL OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED.
IT'S, IT'S MUCH MORE RELATED TO HOW DO WE FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT WE KNOW NEED SERVICE AND AREN'T GETTING IT.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT A LOT IS THE, THE DATA AND FACTS, AND I THINK IT'S BEEN INTERESTING IS WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THE, THE NONPROFIT FOLKS, AND WHEN WE ASK, YOU'RE SERVING X AMOUNT, WHAT'S THE TOTAL POPULATION OF PEOPLE THAT YOU COULD BE SERVING OR YOU SHOULD BE SERVING? MY SENSE IS THERE'S NOT A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION OUT THERE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT NUMBER IS.
AND SO IT MAKES IT REALLY HARD TO UNDERSTAND HOW EFFECTIVE ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE WITHOUT KNOWING THE TOTAL POPULATION.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE DATA HAS TO BE SUCH A KEY FACTOR IN, I, I, I AGREE WITH PROGRESS.
I, I THINK THAT, UH, THAT THAT'S WHAT PROMPTED THIS WHOLE, UH, ANALYSIS.
OBVIOUSLY, THE AGING PROCESS IMPACTS EVERY
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OLDER PERSON IN THE COMMUNITY IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.AND, AND, UH, THE MOST DIFFICULTIES, MOST DIFFICULTIES, IF YOU HAVE ADEQUATE RESOURCES CAN BE MITIGATED.
AND ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, YOU CAN FIND HELP, AND YOU CAN, AND YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF THOSE PROBLEMS. BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE RESOURCES, IT'S, IT'S A LOT DIFFERENT.
THERE ARE ABOUT 30,000 PEOPLE, SENIOR SENIORS, AGE 60 AND OLDER, WHO LIVE WITH AN ANNUAL INCOME AT OR BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, 30,000 PEOPLE.
SO IF WE'RE SERVING MAYBE 20,000 PEOPLE IN THE, IN ALL THE PROGRAMS WE'VE GOT, AND THAT WE KNOW IN ALL OF THE PARK AND REC PROGRAMS, THEY'RE ACTIVE ADULT PROGRAMS. IF YOU'RE 80 YEARS OLD AND YOU GOT TWO DISABILITIES, AND YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LIVING ON LESS THAN $14,000 A YEAR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF, OR ARE NOT GETTING ACCESS TO THE, THE THINGS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.
AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO, UH, HOW TO APPROACH THIS IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
WE, WE NOW HAVE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE AAA AND THE GOOD, HOW ARE YOU? WELCOME.
UM, SO WE'VE HAD, I CAN'T COUNT THE NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION ABOUT HOW WE DON'T DO A GOOD JOB OF COMMUNICATING TO SENIOR POPULATION OF WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DON'T DO A GOOD JOB OF EVALUATING, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE GOT SERVED IN EACH DISTRICT, AND HOW DO WE KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THAT.
AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF FOCUS ON, ON THE, THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT ARE TRUE, BUT THEY'RE NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT DETAIL.
I MEAN, IT'S, WE, WE JUST ARE NOT, WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE TO 140,000 SENIORS ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT EVERY ONE OF 'EM OUGHT TO KNOW.
AND, AND SO IT DAWNED ON ME THAT WE NEED TO TRY TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT'S LESS TRADITIONAL.
WE, WE CLEARLY KNOW THAT THE COMMUNICATIONS EFFORTS HAVE BEEN INEFFECTIVE IN TRYING TO GET SCALE OF THE POPULATION, BUT THAT'S TRUE FOR THE CITY.
AND THIS PROGRAMS. I THINK IT'S TRUE FOR VIRTUALLY ALL, IF NOT ALL, THE NONPROFITS AS WELL.
YOU'RE NOT, YOU, YOU FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMMUNICATE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNOW ABOUT YOU.
BUT TRYING TO COMMUNICATE TO THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BAIL WAY.
AND FOR THE MOST PART, MOST OF THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE ARE BUSY AS HELL TRYING TO RESPOND TO, UH, THE PEOPLE WHO DO REACH OUT TO 'EM.
AND, AND THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO A LOT MORE THAN THEY'RE DOING, EVEN THOUGH THEY'D LIKE TO.
UH, AND I'VE, AS I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, WE HAVE VERY LITTLE PHILANTHROPIC PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT FOR THE WHOLE AGE FRIENDLY CONCEPT.
IT JUST, LESS THAN 2% OF PHILANTHROPY FROM A MAJOR FOUNDATION GOES TO SENIOR CAUSES.
AND, AND WE REPRESENT 11% OF THE POPULATION IN TOTAL.
AND, UH, IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT WE CAN'T MAKE MORE PROGRESS ON THAT.
AND I THINK BY DOING THIS KIND OF ANALYSIS, I THINK WE CAN APPEAL TO A MORE BUSINESS ORIENTED, UH, PHILANTHROPY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT IF WE'VE GOT GOOD FACTS AND WE'VE GOT GOOD INFORMATION AND A SPECIFIC PLAN FOR WHAT WE WANNA DO ABOUT IT, I THINK WE CAN RAISE MORE MONEY FOR THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY, OR HELP THEM RAISE MORE MONEY THAT WILL HELP US IMPACT MORE PEOPLE.
AND, UM, IT'S CLEAR THAT WE NEED TO ENHANCE HOW WE REACH OUT FOR THE POPULATIONS, UH, THAT ARE IN THE MOST NEED.
AND I, IT'S ALSO CLEAR THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE MANPOWER, FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO ADDRESS EVERYONE'S SPEED SIMULTANEOUSLY.
IT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
NEXT PAGE FOR, SO KNOWING THAT, AND I, I TALKED ABOUT THE MAPPING.
UH, I ACTUALLY HAD THE DATA ANALYTICS PEOPLE, UH, AND I SHOULD MAKE A CALL OUT TO MARI, MARISSA, GAR GARZA, WHO ACTUALLY, UH, RAN THE
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ANALYSIS PART OF THIS AND GETTING THESE MAPS PRODUCED FOR ME IN, IN THAT DEPARTMENT.UM, I FIRST LOOKED AT IT AND SAID, WELL, WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE FOR 60 AND OLDER? AND SO WE GOT THAT INFORMATION ON MAPS, BUT THAT BECOMES A VERY LARGE POPULATION PRETTY QUICKLY, AND IT JUST, IT'S NOT FINITE ENOUGH.
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BETWEEN 60 AND 75 WHO REALLY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF LIMITATIONS, AND MANY OF 'EM ARE STILL ACTIVE IN THE WORKFORCE AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS.
AND, AND THAT, SO I, I ARBITRARILY SAY, LET'S, LET'S DO ANOTHER SLICE OF PEOPLE WHO ARE 75 AND OLDER AND SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
AND, UH, SENIOR 75 OR OLDER ARE CERTAINLY MORE, ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE VULNERABLE.
THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO LIVE ON FIXED INCOMES.
THEY HAVE A GREATER INCIDENCE OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL LIMITATIONS.
THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO LIVE ALONE.
THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.
AND THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE OF THAT GROUP.
SO THEY DID THE MAPS FOR THE 75 PLUS CATEGORY, AND THEY GOT BACK TO ME WITH THIS WHOLE PACKAGING MAPS, UM, ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I GUESS.
AND THE, AS I SAID BEFORE, IT'S ALL BASED ON THE, UH, CENSUS BUREAU'S DATA FROM THE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES MADE.
AND THE POVERTY THRESHOLD FOR 2022 WAS $14,040 FOR, THAT'S, THAT'S THE THRESHOLD THRESHOLD ANYBODY LIVING AT OR BELOW THAT LEVEL, LIVING POVERTY, 40, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PLUS.
THAT'S, I THINK THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO THIS IS THE CITYWIDE MAP THAT SHOWS WHERE THE GREATEST CONCENTRATIONS OF, OF NUMBERS OF PEOPLE AGE 75 PLUS WHO ARE LIVING OUT OF BELOW THE POVERTY LINE, ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND IT'S COLOR CODED WITH FOUR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
UH, THE DARKEST BLUE, THERE'S FIVE CENSUS TRACKS THAT ARE LIT UP WITH THAT DARKEST BLUE HAVE THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION, UH, ACROSS THE WHOLE CITY.
AND THE LIGHTER BLUE IS THE SECOND, SECOND HIGHEST.
THE DARK GREEN IS THE NEXT ONE DOWN.
AND JUST TO PUT IT INTO PERSPECTIVE, THE DARK BLUE, UH, IF, IF A CENSUS TRACK IS LABELED DARK BLUE, IT MEANS THERE'S BETWEEN 179 AND 292 SENIORS, 75 PLUS LIVING IN POVERTY IN THAT CENSUS TRACT.
IF IT'S THE LIGHT BLUE, THERE'S BETWEEN 93 AND 178.
IF IT'S GREEN, THE, THE DARK GREEN IS 46 TO 92, THE LIGHT GREEN IS 15 TO 45.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE, UM, UM, WHAT THEY GAVE US TODAY, IT WAS ON WHAT? THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SENT US WHEN YOU SENT IT.
HERE'S SENT, GONNA SEE WHAT THEY, OH, SECTION.
AND, AND THE YELLOW IS, UH, ZERO TO 14.
SO CLEARLY THE, IT'S PRETTY EASY.
SOME OF THIS IS PRETTY INTUITIVE.
WE KNOW WHERE THE, UH, FOREST PARTS OF TOWN ARE IN GENERAL, AND WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE KIND OF THE SAME KIND OF THING GOING ON.
UH, BUT WHEN YOU GET BEHIND THESE NUMBERS, AND AGAIN, AS I SAID, WHEN I WAS TRYING TO IDENTIFY HOTSPOTS, I WAS, WAS NOT TRYING TO, I WAS NOT TRYING TO PINPOINT WHERE THE HOTSPOTS WERE.
I WAS TRYING TO, NOW THAT I KNOW WHERE THE HOTSPOTS WERE ACCORDING TO THE MAPS, I WAS TRYING TO GET GOOD INFORMATION ABOUT THOSE CENSUS TRACKS WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED.
AND WE WENT IN THAT DIRECTION ON THIS ANALYSIS.
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SO THERE'S 54,000 RESIDENTS OF DALLAS WHO ARE AGE 75 OR OLDER.ABOUT 8,200 OF THEM ARE LIVING AT OR BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL OF 14,000.
AND THOSE ARE THE, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MAPPED OUT ON THIS MAY.
IF YOU LOOK AT CITYWIDE, THERE'S 350 CENSUS TRACKS, ABOUT THREE, ABOUT 350 CENSUS TRACKS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
ALMOST HALF OF THE IMPOVERISHED SENIORS LIVE IN JUST 28 OF THOSE 350 CENSUS TRACKS.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S SIGNIFICANT TO LOOK AT THIS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS SENIOR POVERTY AGE 75 PLUS, AND WE THINK WE HAVE TO DO THIS CITYWIDE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
UH, IT'S, IT'S AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT AND YOU SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD FOCUS ON THOSE 28 CENSUS TRACKS THAT REPRESENT ALMOST HALF OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY, AND WE LEARN FROM THEM AND WE PRODUCE SPECIFIC PROGRAMMATIC THINGS FOR THEM, WE COULD DRAMATICALLY IMPACT HOW WE IMPACT THESE PROBLEMS AND HOW WE DEAL WITH IT.
AND I'M REMINDED OF GOING TO A CITY COUNCIL MEETING, OR NOT A COUNCIL MEETING, BUT A, UH, DISTRICT 13, UH, MEETING WHEN EDDIE GARCIA GOT UP, AND SHORTLY AFTER HE HAD COME ON AS CHIEF AND STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW HE HAD DONE HIS MAPPING OF THE, OF THE CITY AND CREATED ALL THE ZONES, AND THEN FIGURED OUT WHICH ZONES WERE, WHERE THE, WHERE THE PROBLEMS WERE, AND APPLIED RESOURCES TO THAT AND MADE ALL THE SENSE TO THE WORLD TO ME THAT WE WERE DOING THAT HE WAS DOING THAT.
AND THAT CAME BACK IN MY MIND IS WHY THE HELL IF ISN'T THE WHOLE CITY DOING THIS, AND WHY AREN'T THE NONPROFITS DOING IT? WHY DON'T WE GET FOCUSED ON WHERE THE PROBLEMS ARE AND COMING UP WITH MEANINGFUL WAY TO GATHER INFORMATION AND DISPENSE INFORMATION TO THOSE PEOPLE.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, TO ACTUALLY GO FORWARD TWO LATE THEN.
THE, UH, AS I, AS I INDICATED, SOME OF THESE WERE NOT SURPRISING IN TERMS OF WHERE THE CONSTANT WERE.
UH, THE CENSUS TRACK WITH THE HIGHEST DENSITY OF 75 PLUS SENIORS IN POVERTY HAD 292 PEOPLE.
AND THAT IS LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICT THREE.
UM, THE CENSUS TRACK WITH THE SECOND HIGHEST DENSITY OF 75 PLUS PEOPLE, OR 2 76 PEOPLE IS ACTUALLY LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 13, WHICH IS MY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
AND I WAS SHOCKED THAT TO LEARN THAT WE HAD A DISTRICT, LIKE I KNEW THERE WERE POCKETS OF POVERTY IN D 13, BUT THIS AREA IN D 13 IS JUST SOUTH OF JUST JUST WEST OF PRESTON ROAD, BETWEEN PRESTON ROAD AND THE TOLL ROAD JUST SOUTH OF LBJ, UH, NORTH OF FOREST, AND MOSTLY PIPES WITH IT.
THERE ARE A ZILLION OLD APARTMENTS IN THERE, AND YOU HAVE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR A LONG TIME, AND SOME OF 'EM ARE CONDOS, SOME OF 'EM ARE APARTMENTS.
AND SO ONCE YOU ACTUALLY GO AND YOU DRIVE THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SAY, OKAY, WELL THIS KIND OF MAKES SENSE THAT IT COULD BE LIKE THAT, UH, THE, SO THAT'S TWO OF THE, THE TWO HIGHEST, THEN THE OTHER THREE DENSITY PRETTY HIGH DENSITY TRACKS.
THERE ARE ONE MORE IN DISTRICT THREE.
SO THERE'S TWO OF THE HIGHEST DENSITY TRACKS IN DISTRICT THREE, AND THERE ARE TWO DISTRICTS, OR TWO CENSUS TRACKS IN DISTRICT FOUR THAT, UM, THAT FIT THAT, THAT HIGHEST DENSITY PART.
AND WHEN YOU GO LOOK AT THE, GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
UH, THIS IS, THIS IS A, THIS MAP BLOWN UP.
IT'LL ONLY SHOW, UH, DISTRICT FOUR AND IT SHOWS WHERE THE TWO REAL HOTSPOTS, HEAVY HOT SPOTS ARE.
AND THEN THERE ARE THREE OTHER CENSUS TRACKS WITHIN THE DISTRICT THAT ARE SPREAD OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE THAT, UH, THAT ALSO HAVE, SO THERE'S 728 PEOPLE LIVING IN THOSE FIVE CENSUS TRACKS THAT ARE BLUE ON THAT MAP.
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OKAY.THE DISTRICT THREE HAS THREE CENSUS TRACKS THAT BETWEEN WITHIN THOSE THREE THERE ARE 594 RESIDENTS, AGE 75 AND OVER LIVING IN POVERTY.
AND WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS ONE IS THAT IT'S A PRETTY TIGHT GEOGRAPHIC AREA THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, WAS PRETTY FOCUSED, UH, THAT FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD PERSPECTIVE WOULD, WOULD BE A PRETTY, I THINK A PRETTY DESIRABLE TARGET BECAUSE YOU'D BE ABLE TO FOCUS IN ON THAT GROUP.
UH, WE, WE NOW HAVE THESE, THESE HOTSPOT MAPS, AND IF YOU PICKED UP THIS HANDOUT, WHICH IS EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY GOT THIS IN THE, IN THE EMAIL, AND IT WAS ALSO SITTING UP ON BUTTON.
EVERYBODY GOT IT? I NOT
I'M ONLY THAN YOU, I CAN READ IT ONLY WITH MY GLASSES AND FOUND
UM, SO THIS, THIS WAS INTERESTING TO ACTUALLY TAKE THE INFORMATION FROM THE MAPS AND PUT IT INTO EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT AND SEE HOW IT PLAYED OUT.
AND AS YOU SAW FROM THE BIG MAP, THERE WERE SEVERAL COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY BLUE IN THEIR, ON, ON THEIR MAP.
I MEAN, THEY BASICALLY, DISTRICT FIVE MEANS THAT ALMOST NOBODY'S LIVING THERE THAT, UH, THAT, THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED BY THIS.
AND IN THE CASE WHERE I GOT TO A COUNCIL DISTRICT THAT DID NOT HAVE ANY BLUE, I PICKED THE HIGHEST POPULATION, UM, GREEN TRACK AND PUT IT IN HERE SO THAT THERE'D BE REPRESENTATION OF THERE ARE PEOPLE, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT WHO, WHO NEED HELP.
BUT THE, UH, THE, THIS, THIS GIVES YOU A PRETTY QUICK PICTURE OF KIND OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF WHERE THIS IS ALL THESE LITTLE CALCULATIONS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, THE CENSUS BUREAU DOESN'T TIE NICE AND NEATLY WITH THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
AND SO I HAD TO MAKE SOME GUESSTIMATIONS OF, THERE'S A, IF THERE'S A DE LIKE CENSUS TRACT ONE 13, FOR EXAMPLE, IS THE DARK BLUE ONE FURTHEST TO THE RIGHT ON THAT MAP OF DISTRICT THREE, AND THE REST OF THE CENSUS TRACT GOES DOWN BELOW IT.
BUT THAT'S ALL THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, DALLAS CAMPUS, AND NOBODY REALLY LIVES THERE.
AND SO I ATTRIBUTED ALL OF THAT POPULATION TO THE PORTION NORTH OF THAT, WHICH ALL FELL INTO DISTRICT THREE.
UM, AND SOME, SOME OF THE OTHER ONES, THEY, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS ABOUT A THIRD OF THE HOUSES WERE THERE AND BACK AND FORTH.
I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DOUBLE COUNT THOSE PEOPLE.
SO WE, I SPLIT THEM BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT CENSUS TRACKS SO THAT WE ACCOUNTED FOR EVERYBODY, BUT WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T OVER REPRESENT A PARTICULAR DISTRICT.
I JUST HAVE A QUICK COMMENT OR QUESTION.
UHHUH, CAN I JUST NOW INTERJECT? YEAH.
SINCE WE HAVE THE HIGHEST, I'M LOOKING AT FOUR AND THREE, AND I KNOW FOUR IS IN MY DISTRICT.
SO WHEN MONEY IS ALLOCATED TO THOSE COMMUNITIES FOR CERTAIN, UM, THINGS LIKE HOUSING AND STUFF, DON'T YOU THINK IT'LL BE AS COMMISSIONERS OR AS CITY COUNCIL PERSON, I JUST HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHY THEY GO BY INCOME.
WHEN YOU ALREADY SAYING THEY ALREADY CAN'T AFFORD NOTHING, CAN, IS THERE A PROGRAM WHERE THEY CAN GET, UM, ADDITIONAL FUNDS WITHOUT BEING ON A CAP OF INCOME? I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING YOU BECAUSE I'M LISTENING TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
I'M LISTENING TO HOW WE ARE SOME OF THE, UH, UM, MOST IMPACTED PEOPLE WITH POVERTY, YET WE STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH RIGOROUS, UH, APPLICATION AND STUFF AND NOT BE ABLE TO GET HELP.
'CAUSE YOU MAKE 50 CENTS MORE.
OH, SOME OF THE QUALIFICATIONS CAN BE.
SO IS THERE A WAY WHY WE CAN, UM, ALL THE PROBLEMS. IS THERE A SOLUTION THAT WE CAN HELP THE MOST DISENFRANCHISED
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PEOPLE, LIKE THE FOURS AND THE THREES? I I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT ISSUES HERE.ONE, ONE ISSUE IS HOW THE CITY RESPONDS TO THINGS IN VARIOUS COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
AND THE OTHER IS HOW THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO THE SAME ISSUES.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS EXERCISE IS NOT FOR NECESSARILY INFLUENCE AT THIS STAGE, NOT NECESSARILY TO TRY TO INFLUENCE COUNCIL FOR HOW THEY ALLOCATE MONEY THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR TO THESE.
IT'S TO TRY TO DEFINE, ACCURATELY DEFINE WHAT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT NEEDS THAT WE SHOULD ALL BE FOCUSED ON TRYING TO FIND PROFIT THAT CAN HELP THEM MAYBE IS WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
OR DO IT ON A, ON A COLLECTIVE BASIS.
BUT THE CITY'S NOT GONNA, THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH BUDGET MONEY TO DO HALF OF WHAT WE'VE SUGGESTED THAT THEY DO MUCH LESS DUE EVERYTHING THAT'S NEEDED.
WE KNOW THAT, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S A POLICE, UH, PENSION PROBLEM, AND IT'S GONNA BE, WE'VE GOT ALL KINDS OF REASONS WHY THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE A BIG POT OF GOLD THAT THEY'RE GONNA REDISTRIBUTE FOR ANY PARTICULAR REASON.
WHAT I THINK OUR ROLE IS, IS TO DEVELOP QUALITY INFORMATION THAT REALLY DEFINES WHAT ARE THE THREE OR FOUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS CONFRONTING PEOPLE IN THIS POPULATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE.
AND, AND, AND REALLY, AND THEN ONCE YOU DEFINE, YOU KNOW, HOW TO HELP REALLY ADD THAT AND THEN DEVELOP A COLLECTIVE PLAN ON HOW ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE IT.
I MEAN, WE KNOW FROM LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS THAT ALL WE HAVE TO DO, I MEAN, IN, IN THE AGGREGATE, ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS, UH, FOCUS ON ABOUT SIX OR 7% OF THE CENSUS TRACTS IN THE WHOLE CITY.
THAT'S WHERE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE LIVE.
UH, THAT, THAT, THAT WE, WE COULD, WE COULD MAKE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE PROBLEMS. MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE IN THE DISTRICT THAT YOU'RE IN.
AND, AND WE KNOW THAT, BUT WE DON'T HAVE GOOD ENOUGH INFORMATION ABOUT WHO'S NOT GETTING SERVED AND NEEDS TO BE SERVED, AND WHY ARE THEY NOT GETTING SERVED.
AND, AND IT'S NOT, IT, IT'S MUCH BIGGER THAN A CITY ISSUE IN MY OPINION.
I, I THINK IT'S, AND AND I THINK THAT THE NONPROFIT, UH, COMMUNITY HERE WOULD FEEL, FEEL FREE TO INTERJECT IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS CURIOUS WITH YOU BECAUSE, UM, I'VE BEEN PART OF ANOTHER COALITIONS, YOU KNOW, AND WE ADDRESSING THE NEEDS, BUT ALSO THE UNDERSERVED POPULATION.
AND THAT'S WHAT I, I THINK WE, THE PROJECT WE TRYING TO DO, UM, AND PUTTING TOGETHER AN ACTION PLAN WITH NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION TO BE ABLE TO SATISFY THOSE NEEDS, OR AT LEAST BE ABLE TO CONNECT RESOURCES TO THOSE SENIORS IN NEED.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, ONE OF OUR TOP CONCERN IS THE LONG TERM, LONG SUSTAINABILITY OF THOSE NEEDS.
SOME SENIORS HAVE TOP NEEDS THAT NEEDS TO BE SUSTAINED LONG TERM.
YOU KNOW, MOST OF OUR, I INCLUDING OUR NON-PROFIT IS BASICALLY SATISFYING A TEMPORARY NEWS BECAUSE THAT'S THE FUNDING THAT WE ARE GETTING.
BUT, UM, OUR CONCERN MAYBE IS LONG TERM, YOU KNOW, HOW WE CAN PROBABLY SUPPORT A SENIOR THAT IS LIVING IN A FIXED INCOME, WHICH IS BASICALLY PROBABLY LOW INCOME AND THEY PROBABLY NEED A TRANSPORTATION.
OKAY, WE CAN PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION, BUT IT WILL BE TEMPORARY TRANSPORTATION.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME TO COME OUT WITH A PLAN, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, YOUR PLAN IS TO, UM, HAVE A COALITION OF COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATION TO ADDRESS THOSE THINGS, WHICH BASICALLY IS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IN ALL THE COALITION WITH DALLAS COUNTY.
BUT I MEAN, OUR MAIN CONCERN, AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS GETTING INTO EVERYONE, IS WHAT WE GONNA DO LONG TERM.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PROBABLY, UM, AT THE STATE LEVEL, FEDERAL LEVEL, WE NEED PROBABLY TO FUNDING FOR THAT.
BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A MAJOR CONCERN ALSO CALLED.
AND I THINK THAT A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER QUANTIFICATION OF HOW BIG IS THIS PROBLEM AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT BEING SERVED AND WHAT ARE THEIR NEEDS.
AND THE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS ANALYSIS IN MY MIND IS TO PROVIDE US WITH A VEHICLE TO DO A PILOT PROJECT IN ONE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND LITERALLY AS SOME OF THE NONPROFITS
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MENTIONED AT THE MEETING THAT WE HAD IN SEPTEMBER, IF WE HAVE TO GO DOOR TO DOOR, THEN THAT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, AND IT'S A SMALL ENOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD, SO IT'S FEASIBLE TO DO THAT, THEN LET'S GO DOOR TO DOOR.AND, UH, THE AGENCIES HAVE GOT SOCIAL SERVICE PEOPLE AND THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN THEIR, THAT CAN REALLY ADDRESS THESE THINGS AND DO A GOOD INVENTORY IN A PILOT AND A PILOT PLACE THAT STILL THEY'RE GONNA, IF YOU DO A PILOT IN DISTRICT THREE, THERE'S STILL A HOME OF THE 8,000 PE PEOPLE, THERE'S 500 LIVE, 500 OF THEM LIVE IN THAT LITTLE ONE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I THINK YOU CAN, YOU CAN, WE CAN DRAW SOME CONCLUSIONS ABOUT WHAT ARE THE REAL NEEDS.
THEY'RE NOT ALL GONNA BE THE SAME, BUT THERE'S GONNA BE A PATTERN FOR SURE.
AND IF WE KNOW WHAT THAT, IF WE KNOW WHAT THAT PATTERN IS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, AT LEAST GIVES US GOOD INFORMATION TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT KIND OF SERVICE SERVICES THAT ARE NEEDED TO BE PROVIDED TO PEOPLE.
AND WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COME UP AT THE BEGINNING OF IT WITH A SERVICE FOR EVERYBODY.
AND IT, IT JUST, THERE ARE FINANCIAL REALITIES THAT ARE GONNA HAVE TO BE PLAYED OUT.
BUT I, I THINK THAT IF WE GET THAT, AND THEN WE USE THE PROTOTYPE TO DEVELOP PRO PROGRAMMATIC THINGS WHERE WE GO INFORM PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT'S AVAILABLE, I THINK THERE ARE TWO ISSUES.
ONE IS THE ISSUE YOU BRING UP, THERE'S, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SERVICES AVAILABLE BECAUSE THERE'S NO MONEY FOR IT.
AND THE OTHER PROBLEM IS THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S AVAILABLE TO 'EM ALREADY, AND THEY'RE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS IT.
SO I THINK THIS, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT I'M SUGGESTING IS THAT WE MOVE FROM THESE MAPS TO, WE'LL PICK A HIGH DENSITY SENIOR POVERTY NEIGHBORHOOD AND FORM A TASK FORCE THAT'S NOT JUST A CITY TASK FORCE.
THE CITY WOULD PLAY A ROLE IN IT CLEARLY, BUT SEVERAL OF THE NONPROFITS SHOULD BE PLAYING A ROLE IN IT AS WELL AND FIGURE OUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO ORGANIZE A TASK FORCE TO GO DO THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN THAT ONE DISTRICT, THAT ONE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM THAT CAN BE CUSTOM TAILORED TO THIS TARGET AUDIENCE IN THOSE AREAS? AND HOW DO WE GET TO 'EM? WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE.
WELL, IN, IN THE TARGET ONE WE'RE GOING TO, IF WE GO TO EVERYBODY'S HOUSE OR VIRTUALLY EVERYBODY'S HOUSE, WE, WE WOULD KNOW WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE.
I THINK THERE'S OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO HONE IN ON THE TARGETS.
BUT I ENVISION SOMETHING THAT MAYBE STARTS WITH COFFEE AND DONUTS IN THE MORNING AND GOES THROUGH LUNCH, A PROGRAM THAT GOES THROUGH LUNCH WITH THE TOP.
AND I'M, I'M BEING TOTALLY ARBITRARY.
MAYBE THERE'S MORE THAT SHOULD BE THERE.
BUT IF THERE WERE 10 AGENCIES THAT MADE PRESENTATIONS DURING THE COURSE OF THE MORNING AND CLEARLY DELINEATED ALL OF THE SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE TO SENIORS, 75 AND OLDER, AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'LL BE PEOPLE THERE PROBABLY TO SHOW UP THAT FIT THE DIFFERENT CATEGORY.
BUT THAT, THAT, THERE'S A COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION OF THAT.
I GO TO THESE THINGS AND YOU GET BITS AND PIECES, BUT NOBODY HAS A COMPREHENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF FIGURING OUT WHAT ARE ALL THESE THINGS.
AND IF I, IF I NEED IT DOWN, YOU KNOW, DOWN THE ROAD, WHO DO I CALL? SO HAVE THAT PRESENTATION MADE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING.
EACH OF THOSE AGENCIES WOULD HAVE A TABLE WITH THAT WOULD BE STAFFED SO THAT THEY ANYBODY AFTER, AFTER THE PRESENTATION COULD GO ACTUALLY GET SIGNED UP FOR THINGS OR THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I ENVISIONED THIS TURNING INTO.
I THINK THAT'S KIND OF WHAT IS COMING TO FRUITION AFTER OUR LISTENING SESSION.
BECAUSE TOMORROW WE'RE MEETING WITH OUR FOCUS GROUPS.
WE HAVE FIVE FOCUS GROUPS, AND THE PLAN IS TO, UH, AND I'M SURE EACH OF YOU IS FAMILIAR WITH TRAINING OF TRAINERS KIND OF THING, WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, UH, SPECIALISTS THAT ARE THERE ACTUALLY WITHIN THE DISTRICT THAT PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE.
NOT SAYING THAT THE NONPROFITS SHOULD NOT COME IN, BUT I, I I THINK SOMETIMES WE START AT THE TAIL RATHER THAN AT THE HEAD.
AND YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT I NEED AND WHAT YOU CAN OFFER ME.
BUT RIGHT NOW, IN MY MIND, I'M NOT REAL SURE WHAT IT IS TO, AND SO WE HAVE TO BEGIN AT THAT POINT.
I, I AGREE WITH YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT ON ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU SAID.
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I, I THINK THAT THE DIFFERENCE THIS GO ROUND IS WE WILL BE BASING IT ON A PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH TO REALLY TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES AND, BUT WHO'S ACCORDING TO WHO, ACCORDING TO PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE, SO THAT YOU'RE GONNA GO INTO THAT PARTICULAR TARGET AUDIENCE AND, AND, AND ASK THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY NEED.I'M, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET SOME FEEDBACK.
BUT THE, THE NEXT PHASE, WILL YOU TOSS UP THE NEXT SLIDE, THE NEXT MAP SLIDE THAT'S ON THERE.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING? UH, MORGAN NORMAN, SUPERVISOR SECURITY CARE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY REAL QUICK, IF THE AGENCIES THAT ARE HERE TODAY WANT TO SPEAK, THEY CAN DO SO AT THE END OF YOUR PRESENTATION.
THEY DO NEED TO COME AND BE ON CAMERA AS WELL AS ON THE LINE THAT EVERYBODY CAN HEAR TESTIFY.
UM, WELL, ONE OF THE OTHER MAPPING THINGS THAT I ASKED THE, UH, AND NOBODY CAN READ THE MAP, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S AN OVERLAY OF A MAP THAT WAS ALREADY THERE.
AND IN THE PACKAGE, THERE'S ONE FOR DISTRICT HEARING AND ONE FOUR, THE, THE PURPLE DOTS THAT ARE EVERYWHERE ALL REPRESENT, UH, PURCHASE AND PLACES OF FAITH THAT ARE IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
UH, THE, THE CONCEPT ALONG THE LINES, I THINK TO GET, TO GET TO THESE PEOPLE, WHETHER IT'S IN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT PIECE OF IT OR WHETHER IT'S IN PUTTING ON A PROGRAM AND GETTING PEOPLE TO ATTEND CONCEPTUALLY, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS TRY TO IDENTIFY USING ALL OF THE RESOURCES OF, IF WE WERE DOING DISTRICT THREE OF YOU AND THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'VE GOT ROUNDED UP ALREADY WORKING ON THIS, AS WELL AS THE COUNCIL PERSON WHO'S VERY SUPPORTIVE IN YOUR DISTRICT.
AND THEY WOULD BE A LOGICAL PLACE TO GET INFORMATION OUT ABOUT.
THERE'S THE PROGRAM THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
THERE ARE MANY MORE THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON HERE.
WHAT'S THAT? I SAY WITHIN THE PARTICULAR COMMUNITY THAT YOU'RE DESIGNATING I SEE THAT THERE'S SOME LISTED HERE, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM ARE LISTED.
THE, THE ONES THAT ARE LISTED HERE ARE ONLY THE ONES THAT, UH, WE DIDN'T DO A LOT OF.
WE, THESE WERE AVAILABLE LISTS OF THINGS THAT THE CITY ALREADY HAD THAT THEY KNEW ABOUT EXISTED, AND WE JUST PLUGGED THEM IN HERE.
UH, THIS IS ANYTHING BUT A FINISHED PRODUCT.
AND, AND I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY TO UNDERSTAND THAT I, I, I DON'T WANNA TALK TOO MUCH AND I DON'T WANNA WASTE OUR TIME.
WELL, BUT I MAY I JUST MAKE ONE STATE THEN I'M FINISHED.
IS THAT I, AND I'M, AND I'M JUST SAYING ME AND, AND I'M, AND MAYBE I'M BEING SELFISH.
I DON'T WANT US TO GO IN TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED.
WE'VE ALREADY SURVEYED, THEY'VE GIVEN US THEIR PRIORITIES.
BUT NOW WE ARE GONNA GO BACK AND SAY, OKAY, WHAT DO YOU NEED? I HAVE THIS ORGANIZATION, THIS ORGANIZATION, THIS ORGANIZATION, AND THEY HERE THEY CAN DO THESE THINGS.
WELL, I'M SITTING HERE WHAT I NEED AND I ARE YOU, AM I COMING THROUGH? IS THAT HELP? I'M A SENIOR SOMETIMES.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I NEED CONCEPT DEAL WITH WHEN WE, AND THOSE MAY NOT BE THE ONES THAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT THAT WE NEED TO TARGET.
WELL, THAT, THAT'S THE OTHER, THAT'S THE OTHER POINT THE PEOPLE CAME TO, TO YOUR LISTENING SESSION.
DID NOT INCLUDE VERY MANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
BECAUSE WE, WE BROUGHT THEM IN AND, AND BUSTED.
WELL, I KNOW THAT YOU ROUNDED UP MORE PEOPLE ANYWAY.
NO, I MEAN, WE BROUGHT PEOPLE STARTED THERE IN JUSTICE.
LET'S, MY HAND HAS BEEN UP FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
WE NEED TO HAVE SOME WATER PLEASE.
COMMISSIONER AUSTIN HAS HER HAND UP AS WELL TO SPEAK, DEBBIE.
AND IT'S, IT'S BEEN UP FOR A LONG TIME.
UM, I, I WANTED TO ASK, I WANTED TO ASK YOU,
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I WANTED TO ASK YOU NOW, SO I APOLOGIZE.I WANTED TO ASK YOU CHAIR KLEIN, UM, TO, NOT TO, IN ORDER TO, UM, I, I, I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER MITCHELL.
YOU DON'T, SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT YOU INTRUDING.
I DON'T OPEN THE DOORS FOR ANYBODY IN MY HOUSE UNLESS I INVITED THEM HERE.
SO YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET INTO MY HOUSE IF YOU WERE COMING AND KNOCKING ON MY DOOR TO ASK ME QUESTIONS.
I DON'T LIKE BEING ASKED PERSONAL QUESTIONS, SO I'M NOT GONNA ANSWER.
AND THE DATE, A LOT OF THE DATA THAT YOU ALL HAVE IS FROM THE CENSUS, UH, INFORMATION.
SO THINGS MIGHT HAVE CHANGED SINCE THEN.
BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT EVERYBODY THAT HAS, UH, WATER, ELECTRICITY, UM, SOME PEOPLE HAVE, UH, TELEPHONE BILLS THAT THEY RECEIVE IN THE MAIL, UM, EVERYBODY THAT HAS UTILITIES COMING INTO THEIR HOUSE WOULD BE A GOOD TOOL.
LET ME REPHRASE THAT 'CAUSE I THINK I'M PHRASING IT WRONG.
BUT YOU KNOW, I'M SAYING THAT IF YOU CONTACTED PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR UTILITY BILLS OR THROUGH THAT VALUE PACK THING THAT COMES TO EVERYBODY'S HOUSE, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT, MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE A SOFTER APPROACH TO GETTING PEOPLE TO, UM, REACH OUT TO THESE DIFFERENT AGENCIES FROM COMMISSIONER MITCHELL'S SENIOR LISTENING SESSION, THE DALLAS COUNTY BOOK THAT HAD THE LIST OF ALL THE SENIOR SERVICES ON THE BACK.
I TOOK THAT OFF AND I INCLUDED IT IN A RESOURCE TABLE AT A RECENT EVENT THAT I WAS A PART OF.
WE ONLY HAD THAT ONE COPY, AND I ASKED THAT PEOPLE TAKE PICTURES OF IT AND NOT TAKE IT.
AND THERE WERE PEOPLE TAKING PICTURES OF IT ALL DAY.
SO YOU CAN GET INFORMATION TO THEM.
YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER, BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE 'EM DRINK.
IS, IS BASICALLY WHAT I'M SAYING.
SO IS THAT AN IDEA THAT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER OR THEY MIGHT CONSIDER CONTACTING PEOPLE THROUGH UTILITY BILLS? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY IDEA THAT WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED.
I, I WANT TO REEMPHASIZE THAT TODAY WAS A, JUST AN UPDATE TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
AND THERE IS NO TASK FORCE AS OF TODAY.
THERE, THERE IS NO PLAN AS OF TODAY.
AND ALL OF THIS FEEDBACK WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO HOW WE PROCEED FROM HERE.
AND I THINK THAT, UH, I THINK THE ONLY UNACCEPTABLE ANSWER IS TO SAY THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA WORRY ABOUT 8,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN POVERTY, WHO ARE 75 YEARS AND ABOVE WHO, WHO ARE NOT BEING SERVED.
AND SOMEHOW OR UNACCEPTABLE, WE NEED TO PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING.
AND I DON'T THINK, I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE A MULTI ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITY SO THAT IT DOESN'T GET VARIED IN A CITY DEPARTMENT.
IT DOESN'T GET VARIED IN ONE SINGLE NONPROFIT, BUT EVERYBODY COLLECTIVELY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE PERFECT.
AND, BUT I, I THINK THAT AT A MINIMUM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THINGS ARE.
UH, CHRIS, WOULD YOU COME UP SO YOU CAN BE BIRD ON MIC UP HERE AND ON SCREEN, BECAUSE WOULD YOU PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT YOU RECENTLY ADDED, THE MEALS ON WHEELS WITH YOUR SOCIAL WORKERS THAT ARE, THAT ARE DEALING WITH THE POPULATION YOU'RE ALREADY SERVING AND WHAT'S YOU'RE DISCOVERING.
SO BEFORE YOU SPEAK TO LINE WITH ALL POLICIES, WE WILL HAVE TO LIMIT EVERY COMMENT TO TWO MINUTES.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOW.
AND ALSO PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME IN YOUR ORGANIZATION.
UH, CHRIS ACK, VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS.
UM, SO TO ANSWER PETE'S QUESTION, IT WAS REALLY AROUND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING, UH, AT, UH, VNA.
AGAIN, WE ARE THE MEALS ON WHEELS PROVIDER, UH, FOR DALLAS COUNTY AS WELL AS A HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE PROVIDER FOR ALL OF TEXAS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, UH, HAVE IN PLACE FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS NOW, WE HAVE FOUR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS, NO SOCIAL WORKER WHO ARE ACTIVELY GOING OUT AND, AND SEEING CLIENTS WHO, UM, END UP HAVING A HIGHER LEVEL OF NEED.
SO WHEN WE DELIVER MEALS, WE USE THAT MOBILE APPLICATION, WE'RE ABLE TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE THAT, UH, QUITE POSSIBLY ARE HAVING CHALLENGES OR ISSUES RELATED TO HEALTH OR MOBILITY OR TRANSPORTATION OR ANY OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE TALKED ABOUT.
WE SEND OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS OUT WHO THEN CONNECT THEM TO OTHER SERVICES.
UH, WE ALSO THEN CONNECT THEM TO OUR CLINICAL SIDE OF DM SO THAT A NURSE OR A CLINICAL PRACTITIONER CAN GO OUT AND DO AN ASSESSMENT.
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UH, WE ALSO CONNECT THEM TO DOCTORS THAT IF THEY DON'T HAVE DOCTORS, WE DO THAT WORK TOO.UM, A BIG PART OF WHAT WE ARE SEEING THAT IS HAPPENING IS, UH, A LOT OF OUR SENIORS ARE ISOLATED AND LONELY.
A LOT OF THEM, UH, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, THEY LIVE ALONE.
UH, AND SO NO ONE IS CHECKING ON THEM.
AND SO MEALS, OBVIOUSLY EVERY DAY, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY IS DOING THAT OF THOSE CLIENTS AND OFFER THEM, UH, OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN SERVICES.
CERTAINLY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE MENTIONED TODAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU HAVE TO, THEY ASK THOSE SENIORS WHAT THEY NEED AND YOU HAVE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT ARE OUT THERE IN ORDER FOR THEM TO SORT OF MAYBE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE THESE THINGS THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE HAD ABSENT TO BEFORE OR MAY NOT HAVE REALIZED.
THERE ARE THINGS LIKE THE SENIOR SOURCE OF OTHER GROUPS OUT THERE CAN REALLY OFFER THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH, IMPROVE THEIR LIVES, GET TRANSPORTATION ACCESS, GET ACCESS TO OTHER HEALTHCARE BENEFITS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, BUT WE ARE ACTIVELY, AS WE DO DELIVERIES EVERY DAY, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, FOLKS MAKING SURE THAT IF THERE IS A SPECIFIC NEED, IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE CAN GO OUT AND VISIT WITH THEM ON A ONE-ON-ONE BASIS, WE CERTAINLY CALL 'EM AND THEY SAY, PLEASE COME OVER.
OBVIOUSLY, UH, EVERYBODY DOESN'T WANT SOMEONE COMING TO THEIR HOUSE.
BUT WE DON'T, WE DON'T DO THAT UNTIL WE'RE INVITED.
UH, AND THEN WE'RE THERE ABLE TO OFFER, OFFER ANY ASSISTANCE, CERTAINLY WHAT WE CAN DO, AND THEN WE REFER OUT.
ARE YOU ABLE TO SHARE WITH US, UH, WHERE YOU ARE DISTRIBUTING OR YOUR MAJOR DISTRIBUTION AREAS? YES.
UM, IN FACT, UH, WHEN PETE WAS WORKING ON THIS, HE AND I, WE'VE SHARED OUR ENTIRE LISTING OF WHERE ALL OF OUR CLIENTS ARE AND WHAT ZIP CODES THEY'RE FROM.
UM, YES, WE SERVE 5,000 HOME DELIVERED, UM, MEALS A DAY.
AND THEN WE ALSO ARE THE CONGREGATE FEEDING PROGRAM.
WE DON'T RUN THE CONGREGATE FEEDING PROGRAMS. WE MAKE MEALS FOR THOSE.
UM, SO WE CERTAINLY KNOW THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE.
UM, WE, WE DON'T GENERALLY SHARE A PERSON'S NAME AND ADDRESS.
WE GENERALLY SHARE THE NUMBERS OF LIKE WHERE PEOPLE LIVE.
'CAUSE UH, CERTAINLY THEY WOULD HAVE TO GIVE US THE, UM, GO AHEAD TO, TO SHARE THEIR ACTUAL NAMES AND SO FORTH.
BUT NO, THAT WE CAN BY UNABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, UM, DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT WE CAN SOMEHOW THEM AND SEND THEM OUT.
SO OUR PARTNER AGENCIES AS WE WOULD LIKE FOR THOSE TO BE ANSWERED.
BUT WE DO HAVE TO FOLLOW, UM, STANDARD FOR HER.
UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE AWESOME TO KNOW BY DISTRICT MM-HMM.
THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T COME BECAUSE THEY'RE HOME BOUND.
THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T TRUST THE CITY AND, AND, AND USE THE RESOURCES OF COMMUNITIES, NONPROFITS THAT ARE TALKING WITH THESE PEOPLE.
OR AT LEAST MAYBE HAVE SOME MORE INFORMATION OR HAVE THE STAFF, BECAUSE IT AIN'T GONNA BE ME KNOCKING ON THE COURSE, THEY'D RUN THE OTHER WAY.
AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE HIM EITHER.
'CAUSE THEY REALLY RUN, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S GOTTA BE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE RIGHT TALENTS AND RIGHT.
AND THAT'S WHY WE, I THINK THE IDEA OF INCLUDING COMMUNITY CENTERS OF INCLUDING FILM PANTRIES, EVEN IN CHURCH, SOME HOSPITALS THAT OFFER, I KNOW METHODIST HAS GOT A GREAT PROGRAM.
THEY GOT A LOT MORE NEEDS THAT JUST THAT.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT PETE HAS GONE, HEY, WE CAN DO MORE THAN JUST BE THIS.
AND, UM, SO I SUPPORT YOUR INITIATIVE AND, AND ONE OTHER COMMENT THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE ON THE, THE IDEA OF HAVING THIS HALF DAY PROGRAM OR SOMETHING IS THAT MY VISION OF THAT WOULD BE THAT NONE OF NONE OF THE AGENCIES AND NONE OF US WOULD BE SPONSORS OF THAT.
THAT WE WOULD TRY TO GET TRUSTED SOURCES IN THE COMMUNITY.
I'LL WRITE A CHECK AND WE, WE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'LL PAY FOR THE COST OF DOING IT, BUT WE DON'T WANNA BE THE HOST.
WE WANT TO BE, WE WANT TO BE A PARTICIPANT IN IT.
WHEN IT COMES TO AFTER THE FACT,
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MATTER OF BRINGING ALL THESESO YES, I, I'D JUST, UM, LIKE TO KIND OF SUMMARIZE MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING, TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTAND IT, AND MAYBE THIS WILL HELP OTHERS, BUT I THINK IT STARTS WITH THE UTILIZATION OF THE DATA AND UNDERSTANDING WHERE ARE THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE MOST AT NEED IN THE CITY, THE DATA AND THE FACTS.
AND THEN FROM THERE, IDENTIFYING THOSE THAT ARE MOST AT RISK AND ESSENTIALLY FORMING WHAT I THINK OF AS A COALITION THAT'S GOT THREE PRONGS.
IT'S THE CITY, THE NONPROFITS, AND I THINK PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE TRUSTED COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP.
FORMING THAT ALL INTO THE COALITION, FIGURING OUT HOW, AND I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW IT IS GOING TO BE BEST DONE, BUT HOW DO YOU SOLICIT THE INPUT FROM THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE MOST AT RISK? SO ESSENTIALLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR SPECIFIC NEEDS AND THEN DRIVING THOSE TOWARDS SOLUTIONS.
SO DIRECTING THEM TO THE RIGHT NONPROFITS, THE RIGHT CITY SERVICES, COUNTY, FEDERAL, WHATEVER IT IS TO GET THEM THEIR NEEDS MET.
BUT USING THAT COALITION, THAT THREE PRONGED COALITION TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, IS THAT A A FAIRLY ACCURATE WELL, I'M AN IDEALIST
UH, IT'S, IT'S A LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT THIS STUFF THAT IS A CONSTANT FRUSTRATION AND WE KEEP TRYING TO THESE DIFFERENT THINGS, WE KEEP DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT, THAT DOESN'T WORK.
SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS THROW SPAGHETTI AGAINST THE WALL AND SEE IF ANY OF IT STICKS SO THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME SPECIFIC RIGHT.
ACTIVITIES THAT WILL HOPEFULLY GATHER BETTER QUALITY INFORMATION THAT WE CAN HELP THE NONPROFITS USE TO GO RAISE MORE MONEY TO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT.
HAVE, HAVE IT TO DEFINE WHAT ARE THE TARGET AREAS THAT THE NONPROFITS OUGHT TO BE FOCUSED ON IF WE REALLY WANNA MAKE A DENT.
I MEAN, THE, THE, THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE OVER HERE WERE VERY ACCURATE.
WHY, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET PEOPLE FOCUSED ON THE AREAS OF GREATEST NEED? AND EVERYBODY KIND OF KNOWS WHERE IT IS, BUT IT, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IF, IF WE HAVE GOOD INFORMATION ABOUT WHO LIVES THERE, NOT, NOT BY INDIVIDUAL, BUT, BUT IN, IN CONCEPT, WHAT ARE THE NEEDS THAT EXIST? THAT WE HAVE DONE ENOUGH LEGITIMATE WORKS THAT WE KNOW WHAT THOSE NEEDS ARE AND TRY TO PRIORITIZE THEM.
WE CAN'T SOLVE EVERYBODY'S PROBLEM ALL AT ONCE, BUT IF WE CAN PRIORITIZE WHAT THE BIGGEST ISSUES ARE, AND THEN GET A OL, YOU KNOW, CONSORTIUM OF CHURCHES AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS, TO START WORKING TOGETHER TO FOCUS ON THE HOTSPOTS, YOU KNOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN IF YOU FIX THE PROBLEM, YOU FIX THE PROBLEMS IN DISTRICT FIVE, I MEAN DISTRICT THREE AND FOUR IN, IN THE THINGS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
JUST LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THERE.
THAT'S 10% OF THE TOTAL PROBLEM OF THIS, OF THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
TAKE THOSE LEARNINGS AND APPLY IT TO DISTRICT 13.
THE OTHER HOTSPOT, YOU'VE GOT A HOTSPOT IN ANOTHER, IN, IN OTHER DISTRICTS, YOU KNOW, THEN, THEN WE'LL HAVE BETTER INFORMATION.
ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT I THINK WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS, IF WE'RE SMART ABOUT HOW IT GETS DONE, IS WHEN WE DO HAVE WHATEVER, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THAT HALF DAY MEETING, THAT'S AN INFORMATION THING.
WE NEED TO HAVE THAT RESULT IN GOOD QUALITY INFORMATION OF WHAT'S THE ORGANIZATION, WHAT ARE THE SERVICES PROVIDED? WHO DO YOU NEED TO CALL? MM-HMM.
THAT IS USER FRIENDLY QUESTION.
I THINK SHE WAS, YOU GO SOME, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE'S FAMILIAR WITH, UM, COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT DAY.
UM, SO COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT DAY IS PUT ON BY THE STATE BAR, TEXAS.
AND, UH, WE MEET LIKE TWO OR THREE TIMES A YEAR.
AND IT'S A BOOKLET THAT ENCOMPASSES ALL OVER 700 NONPROFITS AND WHAT THEY DO.
AND AT THIS MEETING, IT IS DURING THE FAIR, ALL THE NONPROFITS COME TOGETHER AND, UH, TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY DO AND WHAT THEY OFFERING.
SO THERE'S A BOOK AND IT'S ONLINE.
YOU GO IN AND PUT, UH, TO THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS AND PUT A, UH, COMMUNITY
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INVOLVEMENT, UH, ANNOUNCEMENTS.AND IT, IT GIVES YOU AN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS.
SO THEY HAVE A BOOKLET THAT YOU CAN GET.
IT'S PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW, 15, 20 PAGES WITH ALL THE NONPROFITS AND WHAT THEY DO.
SO IT WILL HELP YOU TO KNOW, TO KNOW WHICH ONES AND WHERE THEY ADDRESS WHERE THEY WORK.
SO THAT MAY HELP WITH, WITH SOME THE INVOLVEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS.
YOU SAID RESOURCE COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT DAY.
WHAT DID YOU GO UNDER? YOU SEND THAT OUT THERE.
I, I'LL SEND IT TO, THANK YOU.
COULD I, COULD I SAY SOMETHING IN REGARD TO WHAT MARIAN JUST SAID? SURE.
UM, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT DAY IS A PRODUCT OF THE BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS, IS A PART OF THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS.
THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.
THEY HAVE THE BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND THE BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE MADE UP OF NONPROFITS.
THE PROCEEDS THAT ARE MADE FROM THE FAIR AT THE END OF THE YEAR, LIKE RIGHT NOW, THEY, SOME OF THE PROFITS GO BACK INTO REFURBISHING, REPAIRING ANY DAMAGE OR WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE UPKEEP AT THE FAIR.
THE REST OF THE MONEY IS GIVEN BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE BIG TEST COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE IN LINE TO RECEIVE THOSE DONATIONS AND, AND IN KIND THINGS, UM, FROM FOOD TO, UH, MONEY TO SCHOLARSHIPS.
BUT IT IS PART OF BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND IT'S ON THE SAFE FAIR WEBSITE.
AND LIKE TODAY I BEEN LEFTOVER FOOD FROM THE FAIR.
TODAY YOU'RE VERY PATIENT, BUT IT IS, IT IS ABOUT 200 TO 300 NONPROFITS.
THE EVENT THAT WE HAD LAST WEEK, UH, THEY HAD A TOTAL OF 700 NONPROFITS THAT RESPONDED.
SO THESE ARE NOT THE, THE MOST PROMINENT NONPROFITS THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT ON THE NEWS AND ON TV.
SOME OF THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE, HAVE FOUND NEEDS IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND HAVE STARTED THEIR OWN NONPROFITS AND BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS ALSO HAS A, UH, A TUTORIAL PROGRAM TO HELP THEM GET STARTED AND TO FUND THEM AND OFFER GRANTS TO THEM.
IT'S A VERY INTERESTING, WORTHWHILE PROGRAM.
I'M GONNA PAUSE BACK TO THE BIG PICTURE.
BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I THINK WE NEED TO BE.
AND I THINK THAT YOU REALLY HAVE, UH, I THINK THIS IS A EXCELLENT PLACE TO START.
I MEAN, I'VE ALWAYS FELT LIKE THE DATA COLLECTION WE'VE DONE, WE AS IN SOMEBODY HAS BEEN INVALUABLE FOR THIS GROUP.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, OVER AND OVER THE YEARS I'VE BEEN COMING, WE KEPT HEARING WAS COMMUNICATION IS A BIG PROBLEM.
AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS WE'VE GOT, NOW WE'VE HIRED A CONSULTANT TO HELP US WITH COMMUNICATION.
AM I STRATEGIC? WELL, A STRATEGIC PLANNING THAT'S NOT, IT'S A STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULT.
I KNOW, I KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME, BUT I MEAN, COMMUNICATION WAS, WE KEEP COMING ACROSS COMMUNICATION AS A PROBLEM.
AND, AND I THINK THAT YOU'VE, YOU'VE IDENTIFIED WHAT ONE OF THE BIG GAPS IS BECAUSE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST IN NEED ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE LEAST ABLE TO GET THE COMMUNICATION.
I WORKED FOR 25 YEARS AS A HOME HEALTH SOCIAL WORKER.
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES THE FAMILY SAID, I HAD NO IDEA.
AND MY ANSWER WAS, THAT'S WHY I HAVE A JOB.
UM, THERE REALLY ARE AN AMAZING NUMBER OF PROGRAMS OUT THERE.
SERVICES, RESOURCES, AND I THINK WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE WITH THE COMMUNITY, THE, UH, HEALTH WORKERS IS AMAZING AND OH, WELL, WELL NEEDED.
UM, AND THIS IS A PLACE TO START.
AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO, I THINK FORMING A TASK FORCE AND HOW WE CAN GO ABOUT, WE GOTTA ORGANIZE.
WE GOTTA LOOK AT WHO, WHO WOULD BE PART OF THIS TASK FORCE.
THEN WE LOOK AT WHO WOULD BE THE PARTNERS IN DELIVERING THE SERVICE OR WHATEVER WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
AND WE NEED, WE HAVEN'T, WE DO NEED A NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
AND IT NEEDS MAY, MAYBE NOT JUST WHAT INDIVIDUALS NEED, BUT WHAT DOES THAT COMMUNITY NEED? MM-HMM.
WHAT'S ALREADY THERE? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK MY, MY RECREATION CENTER HAS AMAZING PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS.
I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT TILL I STARTED THIS JOB.
AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF PLACES WE DO NEED MORE RESOURCES, I MEAN MORE COMMUNICATION.
BUT I THINK IF WE CAN START FILLING IN THESE GAPS AND CONNECT, BECAUSE I WOULD SU I WOULD
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SUSPECT HAVING BEEN A SOCIAL WORKER ALL THESE YEARS AND THOSE LOW INCOME AREAS THAT WERE ALWAYS, I WAS ALWAYS CALLED TO THEM.THERE ARE A LOT OF RESOURCES THERE.
IT'S CONNECTING, CONNECTING, CONNECTING.
AND SO I THINK, PETE, THIS IS INVALUABLE AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO START.
AND I THINK THE IDEA OF DOING THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THIS COMMISSION CAN BE PROUD OF.
WHEN WE HAD, UH, MY LISTENING DAY WITH MY COUNCILMAN, I WAS SO PROUD TO INTRODUCE HIM TO MS. TAYLOR AND SAY, YOU HELPED US FUND THIS POSITION.
AND HERE WE HAVE FINALLY GOT THAT POSITION FILLED.
AND HE WAS THRILLED TO KNOW SHE CAME FROM AUSTIN AND WE'VE GOT SOMEONE FROM AUSTIN
AND I LOOK FORWARD TO US FOLLOWING THROUGH ON IT.
SO A LOT OF GREAT DISCUSSION AROUND THIS.
A LOT OF GREAT DISCUSSION AROUND THIS.
UH, I'M KIND OF A GUY THAT I'M NOT THE READY, YOU KNOW, POINT, POINT, POINT AND AIM GUY.
I'M THE, I'M THE READY TO SHOOT.
SO IT'S BEEN A WHOLE LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.
WHEN DO YOU WANT TO DO IT? HOW ABOUT
AND IT SHOULDN'T BE A TOTALLY A NONPROFIT TASK FORCE.
IT NEEDS TO BE A COMMUNITY TASK FORCE THAT TRIES TO PULL TOGETHER A BUNCH OF RESOURCES SO THAT WE'RE NOT CONSTRICTED BY PUBLIC MEETING RULES FOR THE CITY TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY GO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.
AND, AND I, I THINK THAT WE'RE THERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ORGANIZATIONAL CONVERSATION HELD BETWEEN THE NONPROFITS THAT HAVE CLEARLY INDICATED THAT THEY'RE ON BOARD AND WANT TO WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
WE NEED TO GET SENIOR SERVICES GROUP AND TABITHA AND ALL INCORPORATED INTO THAT AS A PLANNING GROUP AND SOME OF US, BUT WE CAN'T HAVE ALL OF US BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN, IN THAT.
BUT WE NEED TO BE ON TOP OF THAT.
THEN THE OVERLAY TO THAT IS THE CITY'S EMBARKING ON A, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN EXERCISE THAT IF IT'S GONNA BE AN EFFECTIVE SENIOR, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN SHOULD BE STUDYING A LOT OF THE SAME STUFF THAT WE'RE SAYING WE'D LIKE TO SEE STUDIED.
AND THE CONSULTANT THAT'S BEING PAID MORE MONEY THAN YOU AND I GET SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR, FOR GETTING ENGAGED IN THIS.
ALSO, BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT RESOURCES AVAILABLE THAT WE DON'T ALL HAVE.
THE OTHER, THE OTHER PRELIMINARY THING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IS THERE ARE A LOT OF REAL COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION AVAILABLE.
PARKLAND, PPCI, UH, DATA, IF WE GIVE THEM THE THREE OR FOUR CENSUS TRACKS THAT, THAT WE'VE DEFINED AS THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN, THEY CAN RUN AN INCREDIBLE ARRAY OF THINGS THAT DEAL WITH THINGS THAT GO WAY BEYOND WHAT THE CITY DOES, BUT PUBLIC HEALTH RELATED.
AND, AND, AND WE NEED TO DO THAT.
WE NEED, WE NEED TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN SAY, OKAY, THIS IS THE AREA WE'RE GONNA STUDY AS A PILOT PROJECT, AND THEN WE NEED TO PULL ALL THESE THINGS TOGETHER AND, UH, FIGURE OUT WHO OUGHT TO CHAIR.
SO THAT SOUNDS LIKE 2026 MM-HMM.
WELL, I'M HOPING THAT THERE CAN BE SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY TAKING PLACE BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE YEAR, BUT REALISTICALLY, YES.
I THINK IT'S 2026, BUT WE'VE STARTED, IT'S A START.
DO YOU MEAN 2025? NO, I MEANT 2026.
WELL, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BEING DONE.
I MEAN, THIS IS, THIS IS NOT A, THIS IS NOT GONNA BE AN EASY TASK BASED UPON WHAT YOU JUST SAID.
THE LIFT, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS IS, THERE'S A LOT OF BUREAUCRACY BASED UPON WHAT YOU JUST STATED.
AND BUT, BUT IF THE LEADERS OF THE VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THIS WILLING TO MAKE THIS A PRIORITY, I THINK THAT I THINK WE CAN MOVE SOME THINGS FORWARD.
BUT I'M A REALIST AS WELL AS AN IDEALIST.
AND, AND THE REALISTIC PART IS, YOU KNOW, IF THIS HAPPENS IN MY LIFETIME, I THINK IT WOULD BE A, UH, IT WOULD BE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT.
BUT PETER, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING TO KEEP US AS DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS TO BEGIN A PROCESS.
WELL, DO YOU WANT ME TO STOP WHAT I'M DOING? I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I SHOULD, WHAT I SHOULD.
I THINK, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING MAKES ALL SENSE IN THE WORLD.
AND SO I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT'S STOPPING US FROM MOVING FORWARD, BECAUSE WHAT I VISUALIZE IS THAT
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THE COMMUNITY TAKES OWNERSHIP OF THIS.AND IF THE COMMUNITY IS TAKING OWNERSHIP OF IT, THEN TO HELP WITH BUREAUCRACY, YOU GO ON AND WE CAN HANDLE IT.
WE'LL GET THE PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO DO IT.
SO I I, I DON'T SEE IT BEING 26.
I SEE US, WE, WE CAN START RIGHT NOW.
I THINK WE SHOULD INCLUDE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
DISTRICT ONE IS DOING THAT RIGHT NOW, WE'RE GETTING A LIST OF DISTRICTS, DISTRICT, OUR TASK FORCES, THE TASK FORCE COURSES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE NOW.
AND BY SHARING INFORMATION, I ALWAYS TELL MY NEIGHBORS, IF YOU HAVE A NEIGHBOR THAT YOU KNOW, DOESN'T COME OUT OF THE HOUSE, DOESN'T OWN A COMPUTER, RIGHT.
I MEAN, THERE'S NO, GIVE THEM A PHONE NUMBER FOR A SINCE THEY MIGHT NEED, BUT WE HAVE TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH OUR NATHAN AND WE HAVE TO GET STARTED EXACTLY THIS PIECE ON LIKE, BIG TECH COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAD HEARD OF THAT BEFORE, BUT THAT, THAT'S, I'M, I'M GETTING READY TO LOOK THEM UP.
THIS, THAT JUST SOUNDS AWESOME.
I THINK WE HAVE, UH, TEXT, I THINK WE'VE PROBABLY GOTTEN ABOUT AS MUCH DONE ON THIS TODAY AS WE'RE GOING TO, DO WE NEED A MOTION OR ANYTHING? NO, THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM.
THE QUESTIONS THAT I ASKED WERE FOR CLARIFICATION.
AND I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD ON THIS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.
AND, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE A COLLECTIVE.
THIS IS, THIS IS NOT, I MEAN, IT'S HARD ENOUGH TO GET PEOPLE TO SHOW UP TO OUR MEETINGS THAT I'M, I'M NOT ABOUT TO TRY TO RUN THIS AS A SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION PROJECT.
AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE STUFF THAT I'VE DONE TO COLLECT DATA FOR IT MM-HMM.
BUT THIS IS, THIS IS MOSTLY TO LIGHT A FIRE, BUT SOME, HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET SOME FIREFIGHTERS OUT THERE WHO WANNA DOT THE FLAMES.
AND, AND I KNOW THAT WE HAVE WILLING PARTNERS IN THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY THAT HAVE THE SAME FRUSTRATIONS THAT WE'VE GOT.
AND IT JUST NEED THE, THE ENTIRE EFFORT NEEDS TO BE MORE STRATEGIC AND, AND TARGETED FOR HOW DO WE ACTUALLY START SOLVING PROBLEMS AND DON'T TRY TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS RIGHT.
MAY I GET YOU TO SOMETHING WITH YOU? I'M SORRY.
OH, I JUST WANTED TO ADD, UM, IN REFERENCE TO THE, THE STATEMENT THAT I MADE ABOUT THE INSERTS FOR UTILITY BILLS.
AND, UM, I'M NOT BEING, UH, FACETIOUS OR ANYTHING, BUT I KNOW THAT IN ONE OF OUR UTILITY BILLS, I THINK IT'S ENCORE OR SOMETHING, THERE'S A COUPON FOR WHATABURGER.
AND WHEN IT COMES, MY HUSBAND GETS VERY EXCITED.
AND HE ASKS ME, DO YOU WANT ONE? AND HE'S OFF THE WHATABURGER.
SO I KNOW THAT THOSE INSERTS DO GET ATTENTION, ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE'S NOT ANY OTHER THING THING, UH, INVITING IN THAT BILL.
'CAUSE THE BILL IS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA TAKE FROM YOU.
SO I, I THINK THAT THE INSERTS WOULD HELP SOME.
I SAID PEOPLE DON'T GET, I, I THINK THAT THE, I KNOW THAT, I KNOW THAT, BUT I'M SAYING IT WOULD HELP SOME.
AND I DID SAY SOME, I, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DISCOUNT ANYTHING COMMUNICATIONS WISE, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE SHOULD INSIST THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN HAVE THAT AS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF WHAT THEY'RE GONNA, OF, OF WHAT THEY'RE GONNA BE RECOMMENDING HAPPEN AT THE CITY, UH, AND, AND WHAT ROLE THE CITY SHOULD HAVE.
BUT I, I THINK IT'S BIGGER THAN THE CITY IS, IS THE, UH, BOTTOM LINE ON THAT.
PETE, WOULD IT BE OKAY IF WE SHARED THIS WITH OUR CITY COUNCIL? ABSOLUTELY.
I DOING THAT TOMORROW, ESPECIALLY, I THINK WE CAN GET SUPPORT BY OUR COUNCIL GUYS THEN.
THAT'S ONE OF THE WHO SHOULD BE IGNITING THE BOXES.
THAT'S WHO WE HOPE PARTNERSHIP.
WELL, AND, AND WE ARE, IF IT HASN'T HAPPENED ALREADY, UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE SENDING OUT COPIES OF THE MAPS.
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED COPIES, THE FULL DECK OF THE MAPS THAT HAVE THE CITY, UH, CITYWIDE MAP AND ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS.
SO YOU CAN REVIEW THOSE, UH, AT YOUR LEISURE.
AND, AND I WOULD SHARE THOSE ALSO WITH YOUR CITY COUNCIL PERSON IN ADDITION TO JUST WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'RE, I, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY INTERESTING DATA HERE THAT CAN HELP START APPROACHING THESE THINGS DIFFERENTLY.
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AND, AND I, I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHAT MY MOTIVATION WAS IN TRYING TO GET STARTED ON THIS.AND THE ONE THING THAT I PICKED UP FROM WHAT YOU SAID WAS THAT YOU CAN'T DO ALL OF IT AT ONCE.
THAT YOU HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO PICK WHATEVER THAT
AND THAT WE GOT THE SAME ISSUE HERE IN THESE, YOU KNOW, AND THAT MEANS THAT THE CITY SHOULD BE FOCUSING CITY RESOURCES ON THOSE DISTRICTS AS WELL.
'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM, THE CHIEFS ARE GONE.
ALSO
HE WAS A GOOD, COULD I ADD ONE MORE THING? YEAH, NO, I KNOW, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT, I'M JUST PRACTICING THAT.
I, COULD I ADD, COULD I ADD ONE MORE THING? UH, THE NEIGHBORHOODS, THE NEIGHBORHOOD COALITIONS OR WHATEVER IT IS CALLED IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, IF THEY WILL INVITE THEIR COUNCILMEN TO THEIR MEETINGS, THEN HE CAN HEAR FIRSTHAND FROM THEM.
ALSO IN OUR DISTRICT, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS OR WHATEVER THEY'RE CALLED, THEY DO INVITE COUNCILMAN ATKINS.
HE JUST DID A PRESENTATION LAST WEEK AT ANOTHER ONE.
WHEN THEY HAVE CONCERNS, THEY CALL HIS OFFICE DIRECTLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE OFFICE NUMBER, THE LOCAL OFFICE, AND THE DOWNTOWN OFFICE.
THEY CALL THOSE NUMBERS DIRECTLY AND ASK FOR SERVICES.
AND WHEN THEY ASK FOR SERVICES, HE REFERS 'EM TO ME OR TO THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY CARE OR WHATEVER.
BUT THEN THE COUNCILMAN ALSO KNOWS FIRSTHAND SOME OF THE NEEDS, SOME, AGAIN, OF THE NEEDS THAT ARE IN HIS COMMUNITY.
SO BEING THE COUNCILMAN, BEING IN, IN CLOSER COMMUNICATION WITH THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS ASSOCIATIONS WOULD HELP.
UM, WE'RE GONNA WRAP UP ON THE, UM, AND THIS PRESENTATION, AND WE'LL, WE'LL SEE WHERE WE GO FROM HERE.
UM, I WANNA THANK THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK TIME OUTTA YOUR SCHEDULE TO COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE, THE CONCEPT BEHIND THIS THING.
AND WE WILL REGROUP AND BE IN TOUCH WITH YOU ALL.
WE, WE GOT A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA DRAG THE COMMISSIONERS THROUGH, UH, VERY QUICKLY, I HOPE.
AND THANK YOU TO PETE FOR PULLING THIS TOGETHER.
UM, IF TOMORROW THERE'S A, UH, SENIOR LISTENING SESSION FOR D EIGHT AND SINGING HILLS REC CENTER.
AND IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO SINGING HILLS REC CENTER, IT'S FANTASTIC.
YOU OUGHT TO GO THERE JUST TO SEE THE CENTER.
AND YOU CAN ALSO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE, FOR THAT DISTRICT'S, UH, LISTENING SESSION BECAUSE IT'S AN INCREDIBLE FACILITY.
IT'S, UH, IT'S WHERE DISTRICT THREE AND EIGHT AND OTHERS COME TOGETHER.
NEIL ATKINS AND SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER DEBBIE AUSTIN.
UM, CAN WE QUICKLY, UM, WE GOT THE HANDOUT ON THE STATUS OF THE CITY SERVICES FROM THE STAFF.
I'M NOT GONNA HAVE THEM READ THAT TO YOU.
UM, BUT I PROMISE IN OUR NEXT MEETING, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO HAVE THEM MAKE A PRESENTATION.
'CAUSE IT'S BEEN A WHILE BEFORE, SINCE WE'VE GOT TO 'EM.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GO AROUND DISTRICT BY DISTRICT AND, UH, HAVE ALL COMMISSIONERS TELL US WHAT IF, UH, WHAT WHAT HAS, IS HAPPENING OR WILL BE HAPPENING IN THEIR DISTRICT, UH, OVER THE NEXT 30 DAYS.
IF
WHAT, WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR DISTRICT THAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? WE ARE HAVING A FALL FESTIVAL OVER IN, UH, WEST OAK CLIFF AT THE MARTIN WE PARK, UM, WHICH HAPPENS, I BELIEVE THIS WEEKEND OR NEXT WEEKEND.
MAYBE IT IS NEXT WEEK, LIKE FOR HALLOWEEN TYPE THING.
AND THEY'RE GONNA HAVE CANDY FOR THE CHILDREN AND SO FORTH.
AND, UM, WE'VE, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON MY LISTENING SESSION, SO WE HAVE JUST A LITTLE HICCUP, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE, THANK GOODNESS ME IS TAKING CARE OF IT FOR US.
VERNA, YOU GOT ANYTHING? YOU KIND OF GAVE US A LITTLE BIT OF AN UPDATE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING A LITTLE BIT AND JUST INDICATED THAT WE ARE HAVING OUR FOCUS GROUPS MEETING
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ON TOMORROW, AND I CREATED A FORM, UH, THAT'S MORE LIKE AN ACTION PLAN.AND WE WILL BE ENCOURAGING EACH, UH, FOCUS GROUP TO AT LEAST HAVE ONE TASK THAT THEY WANT TO, UH, COMPLETE.
AND THE FORM INCLUDES CITY CONTACT, DISTRICT CONTACT, AND ALL OF THAT KIND OF THING.
PLUS WHATEVER THAT FIRST TASK IS AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO GO ABOUT ACCOMPLISHING IT AND WHO ALL NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED.
AND SO I'M JUST EXCITED ABOUT TOMORROW AND SEEING HOW THAT'S TURNING OUT.
ONE OF THE AREAS THAT YOU WERE SPEAKING OF IS BEING A HIGH TARGETED AREA FOR POVERTY.
UH, WE HAD A COMMUNITY MEETING THERE LAST WEEK AND, UH, UH, UH, RESIDENTS THERE WERE JUST SO EXCITED, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAME TO THAT AREA BECAUSE I'D NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE.
AND, UH, WHERE DID YOU MEET? WE MET, IT'S AT A HOTEL.
UH, IT'S OFF OF 20 AND WESTMORELAND.
BECAUSE MANY OF, MANY OF THE PEOPLE, UH, WELL NOT OFF ON MANY, SOME OF THEM ARE HOMELESS AND OTHERS RESIDE IN THAT HOTEL.
THAT HOTEL IS THEIR PERMANENT RESIDENCE.
I HAVE BEEN, UM, PRIVY, UH, PRIVILEGED TO GO TO A, UM, I THINK, UH, POLICE, YOU'VE PROBABLY SAID SOMETHING ABOUT IT, NOELLE AND THOSE APARTMENTS, UH, THE OAK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND, UM, SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT'S, UM, JUST IN NEED AS A WHOLE.
AND, UH, WE ARE GONNA HAVE A VETERANS DAY PARADE ON NOVEMBER THE NINTH FOR ALL TO COME, FOR ALL THE VETERANS AGE, NOT RESTRICTED.
AND IN DECEMBER, I THINK AROUND FOUR, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BIG HOLIDAY IN THE PARK AT KEITH PARK FOR ALL TO COME.
BUT THE BIGGEST THING IS THE HOMELESS IS, IS, UH, WE ARE WORKING ON HAVING, UH, AND THAT'S REALLY NOT IN MY DISTRICT PER SE, BUT LOU EZ IN DISTRICT FOUR, WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO, I THINK IS, UH, DISTRICT EIGHT IS WHERE THE PROPERTY IS GONNA BE.
THEY'RE TRYING TO DO, THEY'RE NOT GONNA DO THE TINY HOUSES THEY'RE GONNA DO, THEY CALL 'EM, UH, DAU HOUSES, LIKE LITTLE BITTY HOUSES, BUT ANY OTHER NAMES, SHE SAY, WELL, JUST TO HELP THE AGING, THE PEOPLE WITH, UH, LOW INCOME, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE YOU JUST WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH THE OLDER PEOPLE.
AND THEY'RE GONNA ALSO JUST THROW THIS IN FOR THE UNT STUDENTS CAN ALSO LIVE THERE ON CAMPUS FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME.
SO ONE OF OUR BIGGEST THING IS, UH, HOME, UH, PEOPLE WITHOUT HOMES AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TRYING TO GET THEM SOMEWHERE TO LIVE.
SO THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON WITH MY COMMUNITY.
ELISE, I'VE DONE NOTHING IN DISTRICT FIVE OVER THE, I'VE HAD
WE HAVING A COALITION ON THE 25TH AT OUR CENTER.
THAT'S WHERE WE BRING EVERYONE IN TO DISCUSS WHAT'S NEEDED.
IT SAYS HALLOWEEN, BUT THE CENTER LAST YEAR HAD 25 COALITION ORGANIZATIONS AS VENDORS, PROVIDERS WITH INFORMATION TO HELP THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE GONNA DO THE SAME THING THIS YEAR ON THE 28TH AND, UH, SO FORTH.
RIGHT? THEY AIN'T THEY DOING THE SAME THING.
WHAT, WHAT TIME AT 1130? I ALWAYS TRUST EIGHT, BUT WE HAVE THE STATE OF THE ART DISTRICT THAT'S DOWN THERE BY THE TRINITY THING, THEY GONNA HAVE THAT THIRD ON THE 27TH THEY SAID.
SO IT'LL BE JAZZ MUSIC AND EVERYTHING, AND ART TO BE SHOWN
MARILYN, DO YOU HAVE A, A FLYER ON THE JAZZ ON THE 20 STUFF? I EVEN BRAG, BUT I'M GONNA SEND IT TO YOU, YOUR, OR COME ON.
I'M SURE THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE PROMOTING AND IT'S FREE.
UM, D SEVEN IS HAVING A, AN OPENING OF THE D SEVEN OFFICE AND A TRUNK OF TREATS.
AND THEY'RE CALLING ALL OF, NOT JUST SENIOR COMMISSION, BUT ALL THE COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONS, UH, FOR DISTRICT SEVEN TOGETHER TO HELP WITH IT.
AND IT'S GONNA BE OCTOBER THE 30TH FROM FIVE TO
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EIGHT AT THE VI VISITOR CENTER AT FAIR PARK.AND IT'S A TRUNK OF TREATS, EVENT COSTUMES ARE ENCOURAGED, WELCOMING, WELCOMING CENTER.
AND THEN, UH, EACH, THAT'S THE MAIN THING.
AND THEN DIFFERENT NONPROFITS, UM, ARE HAVING QUEEN CITY, UH, FRAZIER REALIZATION, UM, ARE HAVING DIFFERENT, UM, HOMEOWNERS SESSIONS TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO, TO OWN A HOME.
THEY'RE HAVING A HOUSE PARTY, UH, FOR HARAMBE FESTIVAL.
SO JUST, THOSE ARE JUST A FEW THINGS.
LISA, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM DISTRICT NINE? I, I'M SORRY, I JUST, I JUST BYPASSED DEBBIE AUSTIN.
UM, IN DISTRICT EIGHT, ACTUALLY IT'S, IT'S REALLY DISTRICT FOUR DR.
UM, DIANA KERWIN WILL BE OPENING A MEDICAL CENTER IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF DALLAS.
HER MEDICAL CENTER WILL BE ACROSS FROM THE VA HOSPITAL.
CURRAN IS THE DOCTOR WHO IS THE GERONTOLOGIST FROM UT, I'M SORRY, FROM TEXAS HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN.
SHE'S A MEDICAL DIRECTOR THERE.
SHE ALREADY HAS A MEDICAL CENTER.
AND THIS WILL BE HER SECOND ONE.
THIS ONE IS OPENING IN THIS AREA BECAUSE HISPANICS AND BLACKS ARE MORE PRONE TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA.
AND SHE'S A DEMENTIA SPECIALIST.
SO THAT WILL HAVE ITS GRAND OPENING NOVEMBER 8TH.
IT'S ALREADY HAD A SOFT OPENING AND IT ISN'T ACTUALLY COUNCILMAN ARNOLD'S DISTRICT, BUT BECAUSE I WORK WITH ALZHEIMER'S, THEY HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATING WITH ME AND I HAVE BEEN RELAYING THE INFORMATION TO COMMISSIONER LEE.
ALSO THE ADU THAT COMMISSIONER LEE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
UH, VALERIE BALLARD IS THE, UM, FOUNDER AND CEO OF, IT USED TO BE OPERATION TINY HOUSE FOR VETERANS, BUT SHE TOLD ME LAST WEEK THAT SHE WAS REBRANDING HERSELF AND THAT IS NOW BEING CALLED UNIVERSITY HILLS VETERANS ASSOCIATION FOR HOUSING INITIATIVES, BECAUSE THEY HAVE UNDERTAKEN SOME OTHER, UM, THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND VALERIE IS THE ONE THAT HAS BEEN TAKING SENIORS ON FIELD TRIPS ON BUSES SUPPLIED BY TRIP BY, UM, A A RP TO SEE DIFFERENT HOUSING OPTIONS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26TH.
UM, HOPE FOR TOMORROW IS A CAREGIVER SUMMIT SEMINAR THAT IS BEING SPONSORED BY ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION.
UH, IT WILL BE AT METRO CREST.
IT WILL BE AT, UM, IT WILL BE AT THE METROCREST SERVICE CENTER AT 1145.
NORTH JOSIE LANE IS A CITYWIDE EVENT, AND IT WILL BRING TOGETHER EXPERTS ON CAREGIVING OF PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S.
THE TOPICS WILL BE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE TREATMENT, FUTURE SOLUTIONS, GUIDANCE THROUGH ESTATE PLANNING, UNDERSTANDING MEDICARE COSTS FOR CAREGIVERS.
AND THERE IS A CAREGIVER PANEL LUNCH IS PROVIDED IF YOU REGISTER AND YOU CAN REGISTER ON THE ALZHEIMER'S SITE.
AND MY, MY LISTENING SESSION IS TOMORROW.
YOUR EX, OTHER THAN LISTENING SESSION LAST WEEKEND, WHICH I THOUGHT WENT REALLY WELL.
UM, I GUESS THE, THE BIG THING, UH, ON THE 30TH OVER AT THE WILLOWBY JOHNSON SENIOR CENTER, UH, THERE'S A BINGO, I GUESS MY, MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN PICKED TO BE THE BINGO, UH, RINGLEADERS.
SO, SO I GOT A CALL FROM
I WAS OUT THERE FOR A LISTENING SESSION WITH DAVID, DAVID DIGITAL, AND I GOT APPROACHED BY, BY THE ASSISTANT THERE.
CAN YOU BE A SPONSOR OF BINGO? YEP, SURE.
YOU KNOW, SO
SO
IF YOU EVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY, IF ANYONE CALLS YOU TO, UH, SPONSOR BINGO, YOU GET TO CALL THE, THE NUMBERS AND YOU GET TO BRING GIFTS AND YOU GET TO SEE THE SENIORS WHO ARE GOING TO
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THOSE.IT'S NOT A SOCIAL EVENT, BUT IT'S A SOCIAL EVENT.
AND OF COURSE, IF, UH, YOU HAVEN'T TRIED PICKLEBALL YET.
UH, WE HAVE THAT AT THE, THE ADULT LAKE HALL, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER EVERY DAY.
AND IT IS COMPRISED OF SENIORS.
OUR LISTENING SESSION IS NEXT MONDAY AT 10:00 AM AND SO I HOPE THERE IS STRONG TURNOUT FOR THAT.
UH, TARA IS ALSO SPONSORING QUITE A FEW INPUT SESSIONS.
ONE OF THOSE IS ON A SENIOR HOUSING PROJECT THAT'S SLATED TO GO IN AT THE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUTCH TURNPIKE IN THE TOLLWAY.
SO WE'LL BE GETTING INPUT ON THAT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO THIS IS FAR NORTH DALLAS? FAR NORTH DALLAS, YES.
UH, DALLAS COUNTY IS DOING A, UH, WELL GET WELL THING AT THE FRIENDSHIP WEST BAPTIST CHURCH.
SO, YEAH, IT WASN'T A SENIOR ACTIVITY, SO THAT'S WHY IT WASN'T PARTICULARLY A SENIOR ACTIVITY, SO THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T MENTION IT.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT? HUH? AND THEY JUST GONNA HAVE VENDORS THERE.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S JUST A BIG RALLY AGAIN TO PROMOTE, UH, VOTING AND, UH, FRIENDSHIP WEST IS A VOTING SITE.
IT'S A COMMUNITY EVEN BECAUSE I WENT TO CONCORD.
UM, KAREN, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD? WELL, WE, WE, SO WE HAD A BIG, UH, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND IT, IT, IT INCLUDED BECAUSE OF OUR GEOGRAPHY.
IT INCLUDED DISTRICT TWO AND DISTRICT 14.
BUT, UH, ONE OF THE PRIMARY, UH, AFTER, UH, ACTORS IN AND SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS WAS FOWLER OF COMMUNITIES.
AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO SEE THEM.
I DID, I DID GO PERSONALLY TO FOWLER COMMUNITIES ABOUT OUR LISTENING SESSION AND SHERIDAN.
I WENT PERSONALLY TO ROSALYN HOLMES.
I WAS SORRY, THERE WEREN'T MORE PEOPLE OR ANY PEOPLE FROM THERE, BUT WE DID HAVE OUR LISTENING SESSION.
I WISH THERE'D BEEN MORE PEOPLE THERE, BUT GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE ROOM AND I HAD GREAT REPRESENTATION FROM THE COMMISSION AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I THINK SOME GOOD THINGS CAME OUT OF THAT.
AND I, I CAN TELL YOU COUNCILMAN RIDLEY, I THINK IT WAS SUCH A DELIGHT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND GIVE AWAY ARBORETUM TICKETS.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS A RELIEF AFTER THE WEEK AND MONTHS HE'D HAD.
WELL, MR. CITYWIDE, YOU GOT ANY UH, WELL, I JUST WANTED, I THINK LISA WAS BEING OPEN.
WE HAD, UH, UH, TWO DISTRICTS.
WE HAD DISTRICT TWO AND DISTRICT NINE.
AND LISA, WHAT DO WE HAVE? 45 ATTENDEES.
GREAT SUPPORT FROM THE CITY STAFF.
AND, UH, WE HAD SOME, I THINK SOME GREAT FEEDBACK, WHICH I HOPE, UH, MERCA CAN CONFIRM AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
I HAVE, UH, THREE COMMISSIONERS.
TOMORROW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAD FIVE, UH, THE GREATER RESTYLE CHAMBER.
WE'RE HAVING OUR ANNUAL ECONOMIC SUMMIT, AND I'M MODERATING A PANEL OF, UH, UA BLACKMAN AND, UH,
UM, UH, STEWART CANNOT MAKE IT.
SHE'S GOT SOMETHING, I THINK SHE AND MORENO HAVE THE SAME EVENTS DO WITH THE POLICE TOMORROW.
AND, UH, I TOOK SOME SIDE NOTES.
IT'S NOT ON MY LIST OF QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL SEE IF I CAN WORK IN SOME SENIOR STUFF.
WELL, THE HOT BUTTONS ARE, IT'S A MAJOR VOTE ON THIS CHARTER STUFF.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON AND, UM, UH, WE'VE HAD TO PEEL BACK SOME OF THE QUESTIONS.
I MEAN, THEY'RE ROCKETS, BUT, YOU KNOW, IN OTHER WORDS, HOW, HOW SHOULD WE DO, WHY IS THIS EVEN THERE? UH, JUST QUESTIONS.
ALTHOUGH LISA, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAD A GREAT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, DIDN'T YOU TURN OUT THERE AT THE SHOPPING CENTER? YEAH, WE DID ONE UP AT THE SHOPPING CENTER, EE SHOPPING CENTER AND I BELIEVE WE HAD A LITTLE UNDER A HUNDRED PEOPLE SHOW UP.
WELL TURNED OUT AND PASS OUT A LOT OF FLYERS FOR OUR LISTENING SESSION THERE.
I HAVE TO SAY THIS BEFORE WE LEAVE, I WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO KNOW THESE LIST.
THESE LISTENING SESSIONS ARE VERY INSTRUMENTAL AND FOR MS. UH, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY AT HERS, I WENT TO HERS AND I MET THE MAN FOR THE CARDBOARD
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PROJECT AND THAT'S WHERE THEY GET, UH, FREE COMPUTERS FOR THE SENIORS AND THEY OFFER, UH, CLASSES.SO I DID LEARN SOMETHING AND I WAS A PARTICIPANT OF THAT AS WELL.
SO IT IS GETTING, NOW THE WORD IS GETTING OUT.
YOU HAVE TO ATTEND SIX CLASSES.
BECAUSE I GOT, BUT THE THING IS FOR SENIORS AND PEOPLE SAY THEY DON'T KNOW, SO WE TELLING THEM CARDBOARD PROJECTS.
MY LIST IS OVERSTAY THEIR WELCOME.
UM, SHALL I MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? YOU MAY.
IF I MAKE A MOTION TO SECOND AUR.