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LET'S CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
UH, THE, UH, WE HAVE A HUNDRED PERCENT ATTENDANCE.
UM, I THINK WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE VIRTUALLY AND, UH, EVERYBODY ELSE IS HERE TODAY.
WHAT'S THAT? DID US SIT HERE? I JUST SAID, YOU SEE EVERYBODY? I HAVEN'T, I HAVEN'T SEEN HER YET.
LISTEN, HE SAID EVERYBODY HERE, I SAID I, I MISSED THAT.
I DIDN'T HAVE AN X NEXT DOOR NAME.
OKAY, WELL, YEAH, THEY'RE ON, THEY'RE ON THE SCREEN.
AT ANY RATE, LET'S, UH, LET'S GO FORWARD.
UM, I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS HERE TODAY, BUT WELL, WE ALWAYS, YEAH, THAT'S A SCHEDULE JUST ON THE PUBLIC.
OKAY, SO, UH, NO, NOBODY SPEAKING FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
UH, COULD I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF OUR MAY 19TH C MEETING? I THE APPROVE OF MINUTES I ASKING, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
UH, ANYBODY HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR CORRECTIONS OR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE MINUTES BEFORE WE VOTE ON APPROVING IT? NO.
THERE NO OBJECTIONS? UH, COULD WE, DO WE GET VOTE? EVERYBODY IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE MAY MEETING? SAY AYE.
LISA KELLY'S HAVING TROUBLE LOGGING IN? NO, BUT SHE WAS, SHE WAS ON, SHE JUST 1 0 1.
UM, EVERYBODY KNOWS ON VIRTUALLY KNOWS WHAT THE RULES ARE REGARDING BEING VISIBLE AND, UH, HAVING YOUR AUDIO WORKING.
THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ASKED ME TO, UH, GIVE EVERYONE A REMINDER REGARDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN OPEN MEETINGS ACT, AND THAT IF WE HAVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS OR ANY MEETINGS WHERE WE HAVE A, UH, A FORUM OF WHATEVER IT IS.
SO IF THE COMMITTEE HAS FIVE PEOPLE ON THE BIG FORUM WOULD BE THREE.
IF THERE'S A MEETING OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT'S REQUIRED TO BE A PUBLIC MEETING AND WE HAVE TO POST IT AND WE HAVE TO HAVE IT ON, ON, UH, VIDEO AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
SO THAT REMINDER IS SAID AND DONE.
UM, NEXT ITEM IS, UH, A BRIEFING TODAY.
Z SHAW IS HERE TO PRESENT TO US, UH, AS A RESULT OF, UH, COMMISSIONER AUSTIN MAKING A RECOMMENDATION SEVERAL MONTHS AGO NOW THAT WE HAVE, HAVE YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION COME AND PRESENT TO IT.
AND IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET IT ALL SCHEDULED, BUT WE'RE HAPPY THAT YOU'RE HERE.
AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN THIS OVER TO YOU AND LET YOU, UH, GO FORTH AND
I, UH, WENT TO SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, ARLINGTON.
I WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL AT ARKANSAS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, AND THEN I CAME BACK TO DALLAS PRESBYTERIAN, WHERE I JUST COMPLETED MY INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY.
BUT, SO, UM, I'M, I'M A SUB INVESTIGATOR WITH KERWIN MEDICAL CENTER, AND I JUST WANTED TO TALK TO YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND CLINICAL TRIALS IN GENERAL.
SO, UM, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE IS THE MOST COMMON FORM OF DEMENTIA.
IT ACCOUNTS FOR 60 TO 80% OF CASES.
IT IS A PROGRESSIVE DEGENERATIVE BRAIN DISORDER THAT SLOWLY DESTROYS OUR ABILITY TO DEAL WITH MEMORY THINKING SKILLS, AND EVEN OUR ABILITY TO DO SIMPLE EVERYDAY TASKS THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED.
IT'S NOT A NORMAL PART OF AN AGING, ALTHOUGH AGING IS THE GREATEST RISK FACTOR FOR DEVELOPING ALZHEIMER'S.
SO IN THE UNITED STATES, MORE THAN 6.9 MILLION AMERICANS, AGE 65 AND OLDER ARE LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER'S.
AND THAT NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO TRIPLE, TRIPLE BY 2050.
THE, UM, IN ONE IN NINE PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 65 HAS ALZHEIMER'S, AND TWO THIRDS OF AMERICANS WITH ALZHEIMER'S ARE FEMALE.
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TO KEEP IN MIND.BUT, AND ALZHEIMER'S AND OTHER DEMENTIA'S COST OF THE UNITED STATES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM OVER $350 BILLION IN 2024.
UM, IF THESE, IF NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT, ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S BY THE, UH, YEAR OF 2050, IT'S GONNA COST THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM $1 TRILLION A YEAR.
SO, VERY PROGRESSIVELY BUILD UP AS FAR AS ECONOMIC COSTS.
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST NUMBERS, RIGHT? UM, MORE THAN AME, 11 MILLION AMERICANS PROVIDE UNPAID CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIAS, AND THAT TOTALS 18 BILLION HOURS OF, OF, UH, CARE ANNUALLY.
UM, SO WHAT ARE, UH, THE MAIN CAUSES AND, AND, AND RISK FACTORS? UH, AGE IS, LIKE I MENTIONED, THE BIGGEST, UH, RISK FACTOR.
THE RISK ASSOCIATED DOUBLES EVERY FIVE YEARS AFTER THE AGE OF 65.
THE WHAT MOST WELL-KNOWN GENETIC FACTOR IS THE A OE GENE.
HAVING, UH, TWO COPIES OF THIS IS, UH, VERY WELL KNOWN TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HEARD ABOUT, UH, CRIBS.
AND HE WAS RECENTLY SCREENED AND HAD TWO OF THESE, UH, UH, A POE MUTATIONS.
SO THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN HE'S GOING TO DEVELOP ALZHEIMER'S IN THE FUTURE, BUT HIS RISK COMPARED TO THE GENERAL POPULATION
UM, OTHER FACTORS THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE ARE, UH, FAMILY HISTORY, CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH, UH, HEAD INJURIES, AS WELL AS LIFESTYLE FACTORS LIKE PHYSICAL INACTIVITY, SMOKING, AND POOR DIET.
THEY CAN ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASE.
AND WHAT ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU GUYS CAN DO ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS TO PREVENT THAT? UM, YOU CAN DO SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT TO HELP REDUCE THE RISK.
SO GETTING TOGETHER, TALKING, UM, DOING PLAYING GAMES AND PUZZLES ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS CAN HELP, UM, REDUCE THE RISK OF DEVELOPING ALZHEIMER'S IN THE FUTURE.
AND, UM, AS FAR AS SYMPTOMS GO, WE, WE, UH, CATEGORIZE ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIAS INTO THREE MAIN STAGES.
THE EARLY STAGE, WHICH INCLUDES MEMORY LOSS, CONFUSION, AND TROUBLE WITH, UH, THINKING AND PLANNING.
THIS IS WHERE YOU, YOU MAY NOT EVEN REALIZE THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM.
UM, AND THEN MID STAGE, YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH DAILY TASKS.
YOU, PEOPLE AROUND YOU MAY START TO NOTICE MOOD SWINGS AND PERSONALITY DISORDERS.
AND BY THE LATE STAGE, YOU HAVE SEVERE MEMORY LOSS, DIFFICULTY SPEAKING AND SWALLOWING, THINGS THAT YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT ON A DAY TO DAY.
YOU KNOW HOW MANY, UH, PEOPLE THINK ABOUT EVERY TIME YOU SWALLOW, RIGHT? IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU, YOU DO AS A REFLEX AND, AND THAT IS LOST IN LATE STAGE ALZHEIMER'S.
AND THERE IS A LOSS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTIONS AS WELL.
AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE WARNING SIGNS TO LOOK OUT FOR, RIGHT, IF YOU HAVE MEMORY LOSS THAT DISRUPTS DAILY LIFE CHALLENGES, CHALLENGES AND PLANNING OR SOLVING DAILY TASKS AND DIFFICULTY COMPLETING FAMILIAR TASKS THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE HAD ISSUES WITH THE FIRST PLACE.
UM, CONFUSION WITH TIME OR PLACE, THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING TO REMEMBER.
AND THEN TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING VISUAL IMAGES AND SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS.
SO WHAT ARE, UH, THE CURRENT TREATMENT OPTIONS? PRIOR TO RECENTLY, THE ONLY THING WE HAD AVAILABLE WERE SYMPTOMATIC MEDICATIONS LIKE CHO NEASE INHIBITORS, LIKE DONEPEZIL AND RIP ASIG, AND THEN GLUTAMATE REGULATORS.
LIKE TI IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTICE THAT THESE MEDICINES ARE NOT THERE TO ACTUALLY CHANGE THE DISEASE COURSE.
IT IS JUST THERE TO MODIFY YOUR DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITY, SO HELP WITH COGNITIVE TESTS ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
BUT THE DISEASE COURSE REMAINS THE SAME WITH THESE MEDICATIONS.
NOW, MORE RECENTLY, WE'VE MADE SOME BREAKTHROUGHS AND WE HAVE DISEASE MODIFYING TREATMENTS AVAILABLE.
THE MOST RECENT, UH, FDA APPROVAL IS, UH, EMBI AND, AND, UH,
AND THESE ARE NEW MEDICATIONS THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT HERE IN A LITTLE BIT.
BUT PRIOR TO 2021, THE ONLY THING WE HAD WERE SYMPTOMATIC TREATMENTS.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD NON-PHARMACOLOGIC THERAPIES LIKE COGNITIVE TRAINING, PHYSICAL EXERCISE, AND SUPPORT GROUPS.
UM, AND THEN, UM, WHY DO WE NEED TO DO CLINICAL TRIALS IN THE FIRST PLACE? RIGHT? UM, ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH IS ESSENTIAL FOR DISCOVERING NEW TREATMENTS AND ULTIMATELY A CURE JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DISEASE THAT WE'VE COME UP WITH.
NOVEL TREATMENTS, UM, IN THE PAST, CLINICAL TRIALS OFFER A WAY TO TEST SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF NEW DRUGS AND THERAPIES.
AND OVER 100 CLINICAL TRIALS ARE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
SO, YOU KNOW, BRIEFLY, HOW DOES, HOW DO CLINICAL TRIALS WORK? IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THIS AS WELL.
AND KERWIN MEDICAL CENTER DOES PHASE ONE THROUGH FOUR TRIALS.
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DO ALL STAGES.SO PHASE ONE IS TYPICALLY JUST TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY AND DETERMINE SAFE DOSAGE AND, UH, IDENTIFYING THE SIDE EFFECTS OF ASSOCIATED WITH NOVEL THERAPIES.
IN THIS STAGE, YOU HAVE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS, PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE DISEASE, AND YOU TYPICALLY RECRUIT 20 TO A HUNDRED CANDIDATES AND SEE HOW THE DRUG IS ABSORBED, METABOLIZED AND EXCRETED.
AND THEN WHEN YOU HAVE DATA FROM THIS STAGE, YOU MOVE ON TO PHASE TWO TRIALS, WHICH TEST THE ACTUAL EFFECTIVENESS AND CONTINUE SAFETY ASSESSMENTS OF THESE DRUGS.
AND AT THIS POINT, YOU'RE TESTING BETWEEN 100 TO 300 PARTICIPANTS TO SEE BASICALLY IF THE DRUG WORKS IN PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE DISEASE, IT'S NOT PEOPLE WHO ARE HEALTHY, LIKE IN PAGE ONE.
AND IN PHASE THREE, THIS IS WHERE WE EXPAND THE EVEN MORE.
AND THIS, UH, WE RECRUIT 1000 TO 3000 PARTICIPANTS, AND WE BASICALLY CONFIRM EFFECTIVENESS, CONTINUE TO MONITOR SIDE EFFECTS, AND COMPARE WHAT THE STANDARD THERAPY IS TO, TO THE NEW THERAPY.
AND THESE, THESE ARE THE STUDIES THAT ARE OFTEN, UH, RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLINDED, AND THEN FINALLY SUBMITTED TO, UH, REGULATORY AGENCIES LIKE FDA AND EMA.
AND THEN, UH, PHASE FOUR IS POST-MARKET SURVEILLANCE.
SO AT THIS POINT, THE DRUG HAS BEEN APPROVED AND THEY JUST CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND, UH, WE LOG SIDE EFFECTS AND, AND SEE HOW THE DRUG IS DOING AFTER, AFTER APPROVAL.
SO, UM, LIKE I HAD MENTIONED PRIOR, WE HAD ONLY SYMPTOMATIC TREATMENTS IN, IN RECENT YEARS, WE'VE HAD ACTUAL REAL BREAKTHROUGHS IN ALZHEIMER'S.
IN 2021, WE HAD OUR FIRST FDA APPROVED MEDICATION, UH, AT, AT KINUMAB, IT IS A MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY, AND BASICALLY IT, IT FUNCTIONS BY FINDING THE PLAQUE IN THE BRAIN.
ACTUALLY, WE'RE MOVING TO THOSE MISFOLDED PROTEINS IN THE BRAIN.
NOW, WHILE THIS MEDICINE RECEIVED APPROVAL IN 2021, THE RESULTS ARE, ARE KIND OF MIXED.
YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THERE WAS NO, UH, THERAPY AVAILABLE PRIOR, THAT WAS THE BEST OPTION THAT WE HAD.
AND, AND SOME STUDIES SHOWED THAT IT DID DELAY PROGRESSION OF ALZHEIMER'S, SOME SHOWED THAT IT DIDN'T.
BUT IN 2024, WE, UH, WE HAD ANOTHER DRUG APPROVED KINUMAB, AND IT IS ALSO A DISEASE MODIFYING THERAPY, AND IT, IT, IT BASICALLY WORKS BY BINDING TO THESE MISFOLDED PROTEINS AND REMOVING THEM.
AND STUDIES SHOW THAT, UM, UH, CLINICAL TRIALS SHOWED THAT IT SLOWED COGNITIVE AND FUNCTIONAL DECLINE BY ABOUT 27% OVER THE COURSE OF THE 18 MONTHS.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY SLOWING DISEASE FORCE RATHER THAN JUST TACKLING SYMPTOMS. AND THE, THE OTHER MEDICATION THAT'S CURRENTLY, UH, AWAITING FDA REVIEW AND APPROVAL IS UMAB.
IT IS ALSO A MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY ANTIBODY, AND IT, IT ALSO FUNCTIONS TO REMOVE THESE PLAQUES.
SO, I MEAN, THESE ARE HUGE, HUGE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF ALZHEIMER'S.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WAITING ON FDA APPROVAL AND THEN, UH, SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO.
BUT THIS HAS BROUGHT HOPE TO PATIENTS, WHEREAS HOPE EXISTED IN THE PAST.
YOU WOULD JUST KIND OF WATCH PEOPLE TO CURATE BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES.
SO, UM, HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED? RIGHT.
PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO PARTICIPATE IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVE CARE OVERALL.
UM, THERE ARE MANY CLINICAL TRIALS AVAILABLE CURRENTLY, AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS AT ALL DIFFERENT STAGES OF ALZHEIMER'S.
THOSE, THOSE NEW DRUGS, KINUMAB AND UMAB, THOSE WERE DRUGS THAT HAD CLINICAL TRIALS DONE AT KERWIN MEDICAL CENTER.
SO WE DIRECTLY PARTICIPATED IN THOSE TRIALS.
WE RECRUITED PARTICIPANTS AND WITH, WITH NEW TRIALS ONGOING, YOU KNOW, WE ARE LOOKING TO ACTIVELY RECRUIT PEOPLE.
SO, YOU KNOW, TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE, UH, HOW THE CLINICAL TRIALS ARE DONE AND WHAT WE DO AT GERWIN MEDICAL CENTER, YOU CAN, UH, VISIT OUR WEBSITE OR, OR OUR, UH, NETWORK WEBSITE@CLINICALRESEARCH.COM.
UM, AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO VISIT CLINICAL TRIALS.GOV TO FIND STUDIES IN YOUR AREA.
SO, UM, HOW DO YOU SOURCE THESE PARTICIPANTS? YEAH, DO YOU RUN ADS OR, I KNOW SOMETIMES THE ADVOCATE NEEDS TO TELL US IT'S, YEAH, SO I MEAN, A LOT OF IT IS IS WORD OF MOUTH.
UH, CURRENT MEDICAL CENTER HAS BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME.
UH, WE JUST HAD A MOVIE EVENT, UH, LAST WEEK WHERE WE, UH, WENT, UH, BASICALLY TALKED TO DIFFERENT CARE FACILITIES, NURSING HOMES, AND HAD THEM COME TO OUR, OUR LOCATION AT PRESBYTERIAN AND OUR LOCATION AT CLIFF.
AND WE BASICALLY TRY TO DO EDUCATION WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND, AND WE HAVE VARIOUS, UH, EVENTS THROUGH THE YEAR THAT WE ADVERTISE FOR AS WELL, JUST TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S, TO TELL THEM ABOUT OUR CLINICAL TRIALS AND HOW THEY CAN GET INVOLVED.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE DO A LOT OF GRASSROOTS, UH, STUFF AS WELL.
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BUT FOR, FOR HOW LONG WE'VE BEEN AROUND WORD OF MOUTH THAT HAS GOTTEN AROUND, WE NATIONALLY ACTUALLY COULD GET A FREE CHECKUP.I'M ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT OTHERS.
JUST, JUST THE ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIORS ON THE FIELD.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT'S THE FUTURE OF ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH LOOK LIKE? YOU KNOW, EVERY DAY THERE ARE ONGOING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND DIAGNOSTICS.
THERE NOW BLOOD TESTS THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN HELP CONFIRM ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
WE CAN SEE LEVEL OF THIS FOLDED PROTEINS THAT YOU HAVE IN BLOOD TESTS, WHEREAS THAT DIDN'T EXIST BEFORE.
WE HAVE, UM, UM, CSF STUDIES, RE SPINAL FLUID THAT WE CAN DRAW IN AND CHECK THAT.
AND THE GOAL IS, IN THE FUTURE, TO HAVE PERSONALIZED MEDICINE TAILORED TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S GENETIC MAY GO, THAT THAT IS YEARS DOWN THE LINE, BUT THAT IS WHERE ALL THE MEDICINES GOING.
UM, AND THAT IS WHERE WE'RE HOPING TO GET ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AS WELL.
SO, UM, ALZHEIMER'S REMAINS A MAJOR GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGE, AND CLINICAL TRIALS ARE BRINGING HOPE TO PEOPLE.
UM, EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY IN ADVANCING RESEARCH, WHETHER TO, THROUGH PARTICIPATION, ADVOCACY OR AWARENESS.
AND TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
I, I'D ALSO LIKE TO JUST BRIEFLY MENTION, UH, SOME OF OUR, UM, UH, PATIENTS THAT WE'VE HAD AND, AND THE SUCCESS THAT WE HAD.
I, TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RESEARCH.
UM, ONE IS, WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON, WE CUT BACK ON ALL KINDS OF RESEARCH.
IS THAT GOING TO IMPACT YOUR ORGANIZATION? AND HOW WILL IT IMPACT THE BROADER RESEARCH ON THAT? SO I MEAN, THE, THE, THE IMPACT IN WASHINGTON IS MORE GEARED TOWARDS, UH, RESEARCH IN UNIVERSITIES AND, AND, UH, UNIVERSITY PUBLIC, PUBLIC FUNDING.
OUR RESEARCH IS MAINLY WORKING WITH THESE DRUG COMPANIES DIRECTLY AND, AND THEY FUND US TO CONDUCT THESE CLINICAL TRIALS FOR MEDICATIONS THAT, THAT THEY'RE MAKING.
AND THE SECOND HALF OF THE QUESTION IS, IN THE MOST RECENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION, THERE WAS THE EFFORT TO CREATE THE ALZHEIMER'S, UM, EQUIVALENT TO SECRET FOR CANCER AT THE STATE LEVEL.
AND THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL AS YOU YES.
HOW DO YOU EXPECT THAT TO IMPACT? YEAH, HONESTLY, I'M NOT TOO FAMILIAR WITH THE, WITH THE DETAILS OF THAT.
SO I, I, I WOULDN'T WANT TO SPEAK SPEAK TO YOU ON THAT UNLESS, UH, I ACTUALLY YOU CAN'T HURT THAT, RIGHT? YEAH.
IT CAN'T HURT JUST $2 BILLION.
THE MORE MONEY, THE MORE ADVOCACY, THE MORE PEOPLE WE HAVE INVOLVED, THE FASTER WE CAN MAKE A BREAKTHROUGH.
RIGHT? SO THAT'S, UH, ALRIGHT, I DIDN'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT.
SO THIS IS, UM, ONE OF OUR CITIZEN SCIENTIST CHAMPION AWARD RECIPIENTS.
UM, AND, AND SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE FEARFUL, FEARFUL IN FOR TRIALS DUE TO THE UNFAIR TREATMENT IN THE TUSKEGEE STUDY.
AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
YOU KNOW, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF, UM, MISINFORMATION, A LOT OF, UH, MISTRUST WITH THE MEDICAL, UH, COMMUNITY AFTER TEST THE TUSKEGEE TRIALS.
SO THERE'S ALWAYS AN UNDERREPRESENTATION IN AFRICAN, UH, IN AFRICAN AMERICANS AND CLINICAL TRIALS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S ALZHEIMER'S OR ANY SORT OF, YOU KNOW, CLINICAL TRIALS.
ANYTIME WE REVIEW JOURNAL ARTICLES, WE LOOK, THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN CLINICAL TRIALS ARE CAUCASIANS.
AND SO IT IS HARD TO GENERALIZE A STUDY, UM, FOR POPULATION AS A WHOLE WHEN AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE UNDERREPRESENTED.
AND SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE REPRESENTATION FROM EVERYBODY IN, IN THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND AS WELL.
AND, UM, HERE ARE TWO OF OUR, OUR STORIES.
THIS IS GAIL YOUNG, UH, UH, GAIL, DALE, AND TERRY.
SO GAIL IS AN, UH, IS A ONGOING STUDY PARTICIPANT IN AN ALZHEIMER'S TRIAL, AND SHE'S BEEN PARTICIPATING FOR OVER FOUR YEARS NOW.
UH, SHE WAS IN TOUCH WITH KERLIN MEDICAL FOR OVER A YEAR BEFORE SHE DECIDED TO ACTUALLY TAKE THE LEAP AND TRY TO GET INVOLVED WITH CLINICAL TRIALS.
AND, UH, TERRY IS HER DAUGHTER, AND SHE HAS BEEN HER MOTHER'S BIGGEST ADVOCATE.
SHE WAS A VERY ELOQUENT SPEAKER.
BUT BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, GAIL WAS INVOLVED WITH OUR TRIAL IN KINUMAB FOR THAT ACTUAL DISEASE MODIFYING THERAPY.
SHE HAS NONE OF THIS MISFOLDED
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PROTEIN, UH, IN THE BRAIN ANYMORE.THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE ALZHEIMER'S, BUT IT MEANS THAT THE HER DISEASE COURSE HAS BEEN HELPED BY THIS.
AND, YOU KNOW, UH, TERRY AND GAIL BOTH SAY THAT THEY'VE SEEN A, A APPRECIABLE DIFFERENCE AS FAR AS THEIR DISEASE.
UM, TERRY WAS ACTUALLY TELLING US ON, UH, OUR EVENT ON THURSDAY THAT HER MOTHER IS LOOKING TO ACTUALLY GET MARRIED.
SHE'S FOUND, UH, LOVE AT THIS STAGE AND, UH, IS, IS LOOKING TO GET MARRIED.
SHE'S HAD PROVE WITH HER EVERYDAY TASKS.
AND SO IT'S A STORY OF HOPE, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THESE, THERE ARE ACTUAL HUMAN FACES TO CLINICAL TRIALS, ACTUAL HUMAN FACES TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GETTING BETTER.
AND IT, IT AFFECTS BOTH THE PARTICIPANTS AS WELL AS FAMILY MEMBERS.
SO, UM, HERE ARE SOME, YOU KNOW, COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS.
I WON'T GO THROUGH AND, UH, TELL YOU DO A SHOW OF HANDS.
I DON'T WANNA EMBARRASS ANYBODY IN CASE SOMEBODY HAD FALLEN ASLEEP.
BUT, UM,
SO DEMENTIA IS ITSELF IS NOT A DISEASE, IT'S JUST A GENERAL TERM.
IT'S AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT WE USE FOR DECLINE IN MENTAL ABILITY WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, ABILITY TO INTERFERE WITH EVERYDAY LIFE.
WHEREAS ALZHEIMER'S IS A SPECIFIC DISEASE, UM, AND IT'S MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DEMENTIA.
UH, THE SYMPTOMS ARE CAUSED BY UNDERLYING BIOLOGIC CHANGES THAT ARE ACTUALLY RELATED TO A SPECIFIC DISEASE.
SO THEY'RE LIKE MR. FO PROTEIN, THERE'S MULTIPLE COMPLEX ISSUES THAT CAUSE ALZHEIMER'S IN PARTICULAR.
IT'S, IT'S NOT THE SAME AS DEMENTIA.
THAT'S WHAT I WANNA GET ACROSS.
AND, UM, THE NEXT SLIDE IS ONLY OLD PEOPLE CAN GET ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AND THAT IS ALSO FALSE, RIGHT? UM, WHILE 6.9 MILLION AMERICANS DEAL WITH ALZHEIMER'S, THERE ARE 200,000 AMERICANS UNDER THE AGE OF 65 THAT ARE DEALING WITH ALL STAGES OF ALZHEIMER'S PEOPLE AS YOUNG AS IN THEIR THIRTIES, ALL THE WAY, YOU KNOW, THROUGH FORTIES AND FIFTIES AS WELL.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT AS WELL.
IT'S NOT JUST A DISEASE OF THE, UH, 65 AND OLDER.
SO, UM, TRUE OR FALSE CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPATION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.
IF YOU AGREE TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDY, YOU MAY STOP AT ANY TIME.
THAT WOULD BE WRONG OF US TO FORCE SOMEBODY TO GO THROUGH CLINICAL TRIALS IF AT ANY POINT THEY, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY WANTS TO WITHDRAW REGARDLESS OF REASON, THEY'RE FREE TO DO SO.
SO, UM, ANOTHER TRUE OR FALSE HEALTH INSURANCE IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLINICAL TRIAL THAT IS FALSE, RIGHT? HEALTH INSURANCE IS NOT REQUIRED, AND PARTICIPATION SHOULD BE OF NO COST TO YOU.
SO DOCTORS CAN NOW USE BIOMARKERS SUCH AS GENETIC BLOOD TESTING TO DIAGNOSE ALZHEIMER'S, AND THAT IS TO A DEGREE TRUE.
SO, UM, THERE IS STILL, UH, IT IS STILL A CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS, BUT NOW WE DO HAVE BLOOD TESTS THAT CAN CONFIRM ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE TO SEE HOW MANY, HOW MUCH OF A MISFOLDED PROTEIN IS PRESENT.
UM, SO, AND THAT IS A RECENT, UH, CHANGE AS WELL.
THAT WAS NOT THE CASE, UM, NOT TOO LONG AGO.
WE HAVE BLOOD TESTS, WE HAVE CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID THAT WE CAN CHECK.
WE HAVE IMAGING THAT WE CAN USE TO CONFIRM AS WELL.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF HERE ARE TWO LOCATIONS, WE ARE ON WALNUT HILL AT PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL, WE ARE ALSO IN OAK CLIFF ON, ON LANCASTER ROAD.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT OUR NEW LOCATION IN OAK CLIFF.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST COME IN FOR A FREE MEMORY SCREENING.
NOT NECESSARILY YOU GUYS, BUT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT, YOU GUYS HAND AND CIRCLE.
SO, UH, YOU TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GENETIC ONE.
SO, UM, HOW MUCH DO YOU GUYS KNOW RIGHT, OF, OF A PART TO GENETICS PLAY? YEAH.
SO IS THAT THE FULL FALL? THAT'S THE FULL, IN OTHER WORDS, SO IF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE ALZHEIMER'S YEAH.
WHAT'S THE LIKELIHOOD? YEAH, THAT'S GREAT.
UM, I, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I CANNOT REMEMBER THE PERCENTAGE CHANCE, BUT BASICALLY WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN, UH, DO THIS BLOOD TEST AND SEE HOW MANY COPIES OF THE EPO E GENE YOU HAVE.
AND BASED ON THAT, YOU CAN SEE, UM, WHAT THE PERCENTAGE RISK OF INCREASED CHANCES.
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE GET THIS GENETIC MARKER AND THEY SAY, OH MY GOSH, THAT MEANS I'M, I'M GOING TO GET ALZHEIMER'S, YOU KNOW, WHEN I'M OLDER.
AND THAT IS NOT, NOT THE CASE.
YOU HAVE AN INCREASED RISK, BUT YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DISEASE,
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GENETICS PLAYS A ROLE, ENVIRONMENT PLAYS A ROLE.UM, THERE ARE MANY FACTORS, UH, THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UH, CONTRIBUTING DISEASE.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WAS THRILLED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION AND REALLY IT KIND OF DOVE IN TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE AND YEAH.
UM, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT IN TERMS OF GATHERING MORE PARTICIPANTS YEAH.
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT IRWIN MEDICAL FACES AS FAR AS DOING THAT? FOR INSTANCE, I LEARNED AS I WENT THROUGH THAT Y'ALL HAVE JUST BEEN, UH, PURCHASED BY A VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM.
SO I'M SURE WHEN PEOPLE HEAR THAT, THEY THINK, IS THIS ALL FOR PROFIT? WHAT IS THIS? YEAH.
SO WHAT, WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE CHALLENGES AND HOW CAN WE HELP YOU OVERCOME THOSE? YEAH, I MEAN, THE MAIN CHALLENGE IS EDUCATION, RIGHT? UM, OFTENTIMES PEOPLE ONE, DO NOT RECOGNIZE THAT THEY HAVE, OR SOMEBODY AROUND THEM IS EXHIBITING ALZHEIMER'S.
THEY JUST THINK, OH, MOM, UH, DAD IS JUST GETTING OLD, RIGHT? UM, AND, AND THEY BLOW IT OFF.
AND THEN BY THE TIME SOMEBODY REALIZES THAT THEY'RE ALREADY IN LIKE MID TO LATE STAGE OF ALZHEIMER'S.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO ALWAYS HESITANCY TO GET INVOLVED IN CLINICAL TRIALS OR NOT KNOWING HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN CLINICAL TRIALS.
AND WE DO OUR BEST BY DOING THESE EVENTS, BY TALKING TO ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE METROPLEX, UH, ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
SO WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING OUT TO GET INVOLVED TO TALK TO PEOPLE.
UH, YOU KNOW, WE WERE, WE JUST DID TWO OF OUR MOVIE EVENTS, LIKE I HAD MENTIONED, WE'RE GOING AROUND TO FACILITIES AROUND OUR AREA IN DALLAS AND IN OAK CLIFF, AND TRYING TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS NOT ONLY AT THESE FACILITIES, BUT ALSO WITH PHYSICIANS.
SO PHYSICIANS WHO, YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZE THAT THEIR PATIENTS ARE, UM, HAVING DECLINE IN, IN THEIR MENTAL, UH, CAPABILITIES THEY CAN ALSO REFER TO TO US.
SO IT'S, IT'S BASICALLY ABOUT MAKING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, EDUCATING PEOPLE SO THEY RECOGNIZE, UH, THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS AND THEN REFERRING TO US.
SO YOU THINK, DO YOU THINK THAT NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTERS WOULD WORK? WELL? THAT'S WHAT I WAS, I WAS THINK THIS PAGE, I'M GONNA FORWARD THIS PAGE TO MY CITY COUNCIL WILL.
YEAH, THAT'S PUT IT IN BIWEEKLY.
P HAND HAS BEEN, AND OUR PARKS AND REC PUT IT ON THE BOTH BOARDS.
I MEAN, WE GET A LOT OF STUFF.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS, DOES IT MATTER OR IS THERE, IF YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY YEAH.
THAT EITHER HAVE ALZHEIMER'S OR HAS PASSED FROM ALZHEIMER'S, DO YOU, DOES THAT MEAN YOU HAVE AN INCREASED RISK BOARD? AND THEN THE SECOND QUESTION IS, WILL YOU BE AVAILABLE TO TALK AFTER THIS MEETING IS OVER? BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, IF YOU'RE NOT, I'D LIKE TO GET YOUR INFORMATION TO CONTACT YOU, BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO, WE NEED TO BE MORE AWARE OF IT IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE DON'T FREQUENTLY HAVE PEOPLE THAT SEE US EVERY DAY.
SO I JUST WANNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT AND HOW WE CAN GET MORE INVOLVED WITH THAT.
SO I MEAN, IF, IF YOU HAVE IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE ALL ALZHEIMER'S, YOU ARE AT AN INCREASED RISK.
NOW, WHETHER IT IS ONLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE THIS SPECIFIC A-P-O-E-E-G MUTATION, THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE.
THERE ARE OTHER MARKERS AND GENETIC FACTORS THAT WE ARE STILL EXPLORING.
WE DO NOT KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS DISEASE, BUT WE DO KNOW HAVING IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE IT MAY PLACE YOU AT AN INCREASED RISK.
SO AT THE VERY LEAST, PEOPLE NEED TO GET SCREENED.
PEOPLE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT THE WARNING SIGNS ARE.
AND AS FAR AS, UH, THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR ANY, YOU KNOW, MINORITY GROUP OR, UH, GROUP THAT DOES NOT TYPICALLY GET THE HEALTHCARE THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE REST OF US, IT IS IMPORTANT, AGAIN, TO BE DOING THE EDUCATION, TO TRYING TO GET, UH, YOU KNOW, SPEAK TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
DOES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION A LITTLE BIT OR? YEAH, IT DOES.
I AM, I AM AVAILABLE, I HAVE INFORMATION IN THE BACK, UH, REGARDING CURRENT MEDICAL.
IF SOME, IF YOU GUYS CAN FILL OUT A CONTACT FORM, WE CAN ALWAYS GET INVOLVED WITH YOU.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION AS WELL, SO I CAN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GUYS CAN REACH OUT TO US, WE CAN REACH OUT TO YOU.
NOW, AS FAR AS MY FIRST QUESTION, UM, I HAVE A GRANDFATHER, TWO GRANDFATHERS SAID, PASSED FROM ALZHEIMER'S.
AND THEN MY FATHER DIED FROM ALZHEIMER'S, AND MY SISTER A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO PASSED WITH ALZHEIMER'S.
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WITH THE, THE FACT IS I'M CONCERNED BECAUSE SO MANY OF MY RELATIVES WERE AFFECTED.DOES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN YOUR FAMILY THAT HAD ALZHEIMER'S, DOES THAT AFFECT YOUR, YOUR RISK FACTORS? IT, IT, IT CERTAINLY SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS A GENETIC POSITION, RIGHT? SO I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY IF YOU KNOW, EVERY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE THE MORE NUM, THE HIGHER NUMBER OF FAMILY MEMBERS YOU HAVE NECESSARILY NEEDS THAT YOU ARE AT AN INCREASED RISK.
BUT DEFINITELY IF YOU ARE HAVING THIS MANY FAMILY MEMBERS AND YOU KNOW, YOUR GRANDPA HAD IT, YOUR FATHER HAD IT, YOUR SISTER BROTHER HAS IT, COME GET A FREE MEMORY SCREEN, COME, COME GET THE BIOMARKER TESTING DONE.
RIGHT? MAYBE THERE IS A GENETIC COMPONENT TO IT, BUT YOU CAN'T SAY THAT FOR SURE UNTIL YOU GET IT TESTED.
ERIN, I JUST WANTED TO ASK ABOUT HOW MUCH TIME WAS INVOLVED IN BEING, UH, A VOLUNTEER IN YOUR CLINICAL TRIAL? YEAH, SO I MEAN, IT DEPENDS ON CLINICAL TRIAL TO CLINICAL TRIAL, BUT THE MEMORY, THE MEMORY SCREENING ITSELF, IT SHOULD NOT TAKE MORE THAN AN HOUR, AN HOUR AND A HALF IN THE, THE, SO THAT IS ALWAYS THE FIRST STEP AND OKAY.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT YOU DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT YOU QUALIFY, YOU
SO EACH STUDY HAS DIFFERENT, UH, OKAY.
DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ALLOW YOU TO QUALIFY.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, IT'S, IT'S GOOD TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU HAVE THE GENETIC MARKERS, SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANNA KNOW.
AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, THAT'S OKAY TOO.
UM, GROUP OF SENIORS, WHY DON'T YOU BRING THE KIT WITH YOU? I KNOW.
NEXT I'M GONNA BLUR OUT BABY ALERT.
NOW, UNLESS I WENT TO SLEEP ON THIS PART, I WAS HEARING YOU SAYING THAT, UM, SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS THAT YOU CAN KIND OF TELL, BUT IS IT SOMETHING WITH THE GENETICS LIKE PORT WAS SPEAKING OF, OR SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT IT? IT, CAN IT BE PREVENTED LIKE ON THE ONSET? OR HOW WOULD THAT TAKE PLACE? YEAH, SO I MEAN, IF YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU ARE GOING TO GET ALZHEIMER'S IN THE FUTURE, YOU'RE GOING GET, NOW YOU'RE GOING, YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT.
LIKE, THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT THE PROGRESSION AND ONSET, RIGHT? LIKE BEING IN THIS ROOM, TALKING AND DISCUSSING ALZHEIMER'S AND YOU KNOW, DOING YEAH.
UH, PLAYING GAMES WITH OTHER PEOPLE, DOING PUZZLES.
LIKE THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY DELAY A LITTLE BIT.
UM, AND THEN GENERALLY ARE GOOD FOR YOU ON A DAY TO DAY.
BUT IF, IF YOU ARE GOING TO GET ALZHEIMER'S THERE, IT IS HARD TO SAY THAT YOU CAN PREVENT IT.
YOU KNOW? UH, THE STUDIES ARE STILL ONGOING AND WE, WE NEED SCREEN EARLIER AND EARLIER GO FORWARD BECAUSE MAYBE WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
I MET WITH TERRY AND I WANT TO SAY THAT SHE WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN TELLING US, UH, DEBBIE, MYSELF MET WITH HER.
LIKE, IT'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING THE ALZHEIMER'S AND JUST BEING FORGETFUL.
'CAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE THINKING THEY HAVING THAT, AND SHE WAS TELLING ME SOME OF THE STUFF THAT YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF.
SO THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING, IS THIS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO IN A ROOM AND SAY, WELL, I COULDN'T HEAR A FALL.
SHE SAID, THAT'S NOT A, WELL, YEAH, THE FIRST ONE, WE'D ALL BE IN TROUBLE.
I MEAN, IF THAT WERE THE CASE, YOU KNOW, I WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT MYSELF.
BUT, BUT, BUT YOU FORGET WHAT THE REALITY ARE.
THERE ARE ACTUAL MEMORY SCREENS THAT YOU CAN DO, LIKE ACTUAL TESTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER THE PRESIDENT BOASTS ABOUT HOW GREAT HIS MEMORY IS, THAT'S, THAT'S BECAUSE HE'S GONE THROUGH A, AN ACTUAL COGNITIVE TEST.
UM, HE SAYS HE, WELL, I'M NOT POLITIC CAN'T WALK.
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION ABOUT THE CLINICAL TRIAL ITSELF? BY DEFINITION, SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE TRIAL ARE GETTING PLACEBOS AND OTHERS.
HOW LONG DO THESE TRIALS TYPICALLY LAST BEFORE YOU KNOW THAT EVERYBODY OUGHT TO BE GETTING THAT DRUG, AS YOU KNOW? YEAH.
I MEAN IT DEPENDS FROM TRIAL TO TRIAL, RIGHT.
PERSON TO PERSON TO, NO, SO NOT PERSON TO PERSON GENERALLY, BECAUSE, BECAUSE THE, UM, THERE'S A SET, UH, THERE, THERE HAVE TO BE SET CRITERIA AND SET GUIDELINES THAT ARE DONE.
SO THE, UM, RESULTS OF THE STUDIES CAN BE GENERALIZABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
IF YOU STARTED OR STOPPED BASED ON WHEN SOMEBODY WAS GETTING BETTER OR SOMEBODY WAS GETTING WORSE, THEN YOU COULDN'T GENERALIZE THESE STUDIES LATER.
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YOU WERE IN A TRIAL AND YOU BEGAN TO SHOW A DIFFERENCE IN SIX MONTHS, THAT NOT, MAY, MAY NOT BE THE SAME AS ME BEING IN TRIAL.AND IT MAY TAKE A YEAR FOR ME TO GET BETTER.
YOU KNOW, SO THAT IS WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE SET STRICT GUIDELINES IN THESE TRIALS.
AND IT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DURATION OF THE TRIALS DEPENDS FROM TRIAL TO TRIAL AND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO STUDY.
SOME CAN BE A FEW MONTHS, SOME CAN BE YEARS.
I WOULD IMAGINE THAT MANY OF THE PERSONS THAT ARE COMING FORTH FROM YOU AND THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS YES.
DO YOU ALL WORK DIRECTLY WITH THEIR PHYSICIANS TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S NO ADVERSE REACTION TO SO, SO TYPICALLY THE, THE PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR KNOWS THAT THEY ARE INVOLVED IN THE CLINICAL TRIALS.
AND WE AS A SITE AND AS ANY CLINICAL TRIALS IN GENERAL, HAVE STRICT INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY, THE MEDICINES HAVE BEEN TESTED ON HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS, THEY'VE ALSO NOTED, YOU KNOW, WHAT INTERACTIONS THEY MAY HAVE.
PHASE TWO TRIALS, WE HAVE THE ACTUAL DISEASE, WE'RE ALSO MONITORING FOR, UM, AND, AND THEN INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER DRUGS AS WELL.
AND THERE ARE STRICT CRITERIA AS WELL FOR, YOU KNOW, IF A PATIENT IS ON THIS DRUG, THEY CANNOT BE INVOLVED IN THE TRIAL OR IF THEY'RE ON THIS DRUG, YOU HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR SOMETHING.
YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME, UH, SIDE EFFECT PARTICULAR.
BUT THE REASON THAT PEOPLE DO CLINICAL TRIALS IS, IS SO THAT PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE KNOW WHAT THESE INTERACTIONS ARE, KNOW WHAT THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE.
AND HONESTLY, THESE PEOPLE ARE HEROES WHO, WHO ACTUALLY DO CLINICAL TRIALS.
NOT ONLY ARE THEY TRYING TO FIND AN AVENUE OF HOPE, BUT THEY'RE INSPIRING HOPE FOR OTHERS WHO COME AFTER THEM AND AFTER WE HAVE A SUCCESSFUL DRIVING FUTURE.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT DOES.
UM, ARE THERE, UH, DOCTORS NOW THAT SPECIALIZE IN ALZHEIMER'S? YEAH, SO I MEAN, THERE IS A WHOLE FIELD OF, UH, PHYSICIANS THAT ARE DEDICATED FOR PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 65 GERIATRICIANS.
AND THEN IN NEUROLOGY SPECIFICALLY, YOU CAN SUBSPECIALIZE IN ALL, ALL, UH, DIFFERENT KINDS OF DISEASE STATES.
PEOPLE HAVE, UH, SPECIALIZATIONS IN MOVEMENT DISORDER.
PEOPLE HAVE SPECIALIZATIONS IN SEIZURES, AND THERE ARE NEUROLOGISTS THAT SPECIFICALLY, UH, SPECIALIZE IN, IN MEMORY CARE DISORDERS AND ALZHEIMER'S AS WELL.
AND AS A FOLLOW UP TO THAT, THE DRUG THAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED TO BE ABLE TO HELP, YEAH.
EVERYONE, HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? SO, UH, KINUMAB, I OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE, WHAT THE COST IS.
I MEAN, IS IT LIKE SOMETHING THAT YOU TAKE EVERY DAY AND IT'S BEEN YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH OR THOUSAND.
IT'S A ONCE, IT'S A ONCE MONTHLY INFUSION.
IT IS MULTIPLE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
SO, UH, OBVIOUSLY INSURANCE AND STUFF WILL, UH, DEPENDING ON INSURANCE TO INSURANCE, DEPENDING ON, UM, YOU KNOW, DECEASED STATE INSURANCE WILL OR WON'T COVER IT.
SO IT, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF THE HEALTHCARE OF THIS COUNTRY, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN, BUT AT, AT THE VERY LEAST, WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S AVAILABLE.
AND WITH TIME, WITH EDUCATION, WITH, YOU KNOW, IT'S SHOWING THAT IT DOES MAKE AN, A PROFITABLE DIFFERENCE.
BUT THE THING AT THE END OF THE DAY FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES IS WHAT IS THE COST TO THEM GOING TO BE IF A PATIENT WERE ON THE DRUG OR IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE DRUG? RIGHT.
IF SOMEBODY CAN, UH, NOT HAVE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE FOR 18 MONTHS, FOR TWO, THREE YEARS, THAT IS LESS BURDEN ON THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
AND OVER TIME, AS THESE DRUGS GET BETTER, AS THEY'RE MORE AVAILABLE, IT WILL BE MORE AFFORDABLE.
SO YOU GUYS ARE NOT DOING ANY TREATMENT? YOU'RE JUST DOING RESEARCH? WE'RE DOING, WE'RE DOING DO THE ACTUAL RESEARCH.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, UM, SHE ASKED IF YOU ALL WERE ACTUALLY DOING TREATMENT.
UM, BECAUSE TERRY'S MOM, UH, LIKE WE TOLD TERRY'S MOM'S STORY, TERRY'S, UM, MOM HAD, UH, ALZHEIMER'S AND SHE WAS PROGRESSING.
AND, UH, SHE STARTED THE CLINICAL TRIALS WITH DR.
KERWIN'S GROUP AND THEY NOTICED, UH, THAT SHE WAS BETTER, SHE WAS FUNCTIONING BETTER, THINKING BETTER ABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS AND THINGS.
AND SO IT DIDN'T CURE ALZHEIMER'S, BUT IT STOPPED THE PROGRESSION.
AND, AND WE TELL TERRY'S STORY BECAUSE TERRY SAYS THAT WHEN HER MOM STARTED THE TRIALS, THEY WERE PLANNING A FUNERAL BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT SHE WAS GOING TO DIE FROM ALZHEIMER'S.
BUT NOW THAT SHE'S ON THAT MEDICATION, THE
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QUIMBEE, HER MOM HAS MET HER.SHE WENT TO HER CLASS REUNION, SHE REUNITED WITH HER MIDDLE SCHOOL SWEETHEART, AND THEY ENGAGED.
AND RIGHT NOW THEY'RE, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE DOING ROAD TRIPS.
SO SHE WAS IN TORONTO LAST WEEK.
AND SO IT'S JUST SUCH A WONDERFUL STORY.
AND IT GIVES HOPE TO PEOPLE BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE ARE DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER'S, THEY GIVE UP END.
AND THIS LADY HAS A LIFE AHEAD OF HER THAT HER FAMILY THOUGHT SHE DIDN'T HAVE.
BUT THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO SAY WAS PETER ASKED ABOUT FEDERAL FUNDING.
AND I KNOW WE WERE TALKING, UM, I WAS TALKING TO A MEMBER OF
AND THERE'S BILLIONS OF DOLLARS COMING INTO ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD THING.
IT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF WHAT THEY DID FOR CANCER RESEARCH.
IT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF WHAT THEY DID FOR CANCER RESEARCH.
SO MY GUESS IS THAT'S GONNA GO TO A UT SYSTEM.
BECAUSE I AM AN AIMS ADVOCATE FOR ALZHEIMER'S.
AND SO MY UNDERSTANDING FROM MY PERSONAL WORK UNDER ALZHEIMER'S IS THAT IT IS GONNA BE ALLOCATED BECAUSE ALZHEIMER'S IS JUST ONE OF THE DEMENTIAS.
THERE'S PARKINSON'S, LEWY BODY DEMENTIA.
AND SO THAT MONEY IS FOR RESEARCH ON ALL THE DEMENTIAS, AND IT'S NOT GEARED TO JUST ONE UNIVERSITY.
S GROUP IS GONNA GET SOMETHING.
SO ANYHOW, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT.
BUT EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO IS FREE BECAUSE THEY'RE FUNDED BY A GRANT, AND IF A PERSON DOESN'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION TO GET THERE, THEY HAVE A BUS AND THEY WILL GO OUT AND PICK THEM UP AND BRING THEM TO THEM.
HER OFFICE IS, IS EQUIPPED WITH THE PHARMACY.
UH, TESTING, SCREENING AREA, UH, UH, WHAT ELSE? UM, EVEN A FUSION INFUSION LAB.
YOU CAN TOUR THE ONE OVER ON LANCASTER ROAD AND IT IS AWESOME HOSPITAL AUSTIN.
LET US KNOW WHEN YOU WANT COME AND WE CAN, UM, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ONLINE, UH, DO ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'VE BEEN TRYING TO KEEP AN EYE OUT.
I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYBODY, CASEY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE, UH, YOU HAVE? YEAH, I, I HAVE, I CAN ACTUALLY BRING THOSE AND THAT BE, THANK YOU.
SOMEBODY, UM, ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN OUR DISTRICTS CALL ME BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN ASKED TO DO A DEMENTIA STUDY AND SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T WANNA DO IT BECAUSE THEY TOLD HER THAT THEY WERE GONNA HAVE TO DO A SPINAL TAP.
I TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO HER THAT WAS NOT DR.
THAT IS, UH, THE BRAIN INSTITUTE AT UT SOUTHWESTERN IN IT.
OR THE CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH.
THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG THANK YOU.
THEY, THEY WANT FLUID AND THEY'RE LOOKING TO SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY BIOMARK.
BUT ALL, ALL, UH, STUDIES DO NOT HAVE TO BE INVASIVE.
THE, THE CLARIFICATION IS DIRECTED TO THE DOCTOR.
I, I, I THOUGHT I HEARD, HEARD SOME QUESTION ABOUT VENTURE CAPITALS.
ARE YOU FOR PROFIT AND OR HOW DO YOU GET YOUR RESEARCH FUNDING? SO, UM, YEAH, THE PINNACLE, PINNACLE, UH, RESEARCH HAS FOUGHT KERWIN MEDICAL IN, IN, UH, IN A FEW MONTHS.
UM, WE GET OUR FUNDING WORKING WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, UH, DIRECTLY.
AND, AND THEY ALREADY INTERESTED IN DOING THESE CLINICAL TRIALS BECAUSE THEY WANNA DEVELOP THESE DRUGS.
SO WE HELPED WITH THE, WE HELPED THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ACTUALLY RECRUIT AND DO THESE CLINICAL TRIALS, UM, TO DEVELOP THE NEW DRUGS.
DOES DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YEAH.
AND IT, AND IT TELLS ME THAT YOU ARE FOR PROFIT.
UM, I WORKED, I WORKED 30, I WORKED 30 YEARS IN THE MEDICAL, UH, COMMUNITY, IN MEDICAL DEVICE, IN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, SALES AND EQUIPMENT.
I, I, I'M JUST GONNA SAY, I'VE ALWAYS HAD SOME CONCERNS WHEN I HEAR THAT THERE ARE COMPANIES CONNECTED WITH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN THE AREA OF FOR PROFIT.
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YEAH.I IT IS, THE SKEPTICISM IS, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT UNWARRANTED, BUT THE ONLY, IF, IF, IF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES DID NOT HAVE THAT FOR-PROFIT MOTIVATION, NO DRUG DEVELOPMENT WOULD OCCUR.
THE ONLY DRUG DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD OCCUR IS IF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WAS, YOU KNOW, CONDUCTING THESE TRIALS ON THEIR OWN.
BUT THE REASON THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN ABLE TO MAKE SO MANY OF THESE DRUGS IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE ACTUAL PRIVATE COMPANIES THAT WANNA FUND THE DEVELOPMENT.
THESE, THESE DRUG DEVELOPMENT COSTS ARE HUGE.
THE AVERAGE COST TO DEVELOP A DRUG IS $5 BILLION.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IN RECENT YEARS, NOT ONLY WITH ALZHEIMER'S, BUT, UH, HEPATITIS C WAS AN INCURABLE, INCURABLE ILLNESS.
AND IN 2011, THEY, THEY CAME UP WITH, UH, UH, A DRUG THAT HAS A 97% CURE RATE FOR HEPATITIS C.
THAT, THAT WOULD TYPICALLY LEAD TO CIRRHOSIS CANCER.
AND THAT PART OF THE FUNDING IS ALWAYS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
BUT THERE IS A FOR-PROFIT MOTIVE FROM PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES.
BUT THAT ALLOWS THESE COMPANIES TO, TO MAKE THESE DERIVES.
AND WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY PROFIT, THEY TURN IT AROUND AND, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, INVEST IT IN IN NEW G NEW TREATMENTS AS WELL.
SO IT, IT IS NOT, YOU KNOW, IT IS NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING, YOU KNOW, HOPE VACCINE.
IT'S ALWAYS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.
ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE WRAP THIS UP? THANK YOU.
GOOD TO, I DON'T REMEMBER NOW.
DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ALL WILL HAVE ANOTHER MOVIE DAY? WE'RE PLANNING ON DOING A MOVIE EVENT IN EARLY AUGUST.
WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE DOING THAT, BUT, UH, IF YOU GUYS GIMME YOUR EVENT CARDS AND WE CAN, UH, WE CAN BE IN CONTACT ME.
SO IF IT WAS, IF IT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN NO CLIFF, TRY TO HAVE IT AT THE GROUND.
WHERE'S YOUR HOME? WHERE'S YOUR HOME ADDRESS? WE'LL DO IT THERE.
THAT WAS THE TECH HIGH SCHOOL.
THAT'S WHY I SAID YOU HAVE KNOW I'M KIND, BUT NO, MY, MY QUESTION IS, UM, I KNOW THAT THE FIRST ONE WAS, I, IT WASN'T LEWY BODY, THE SECOND ONE WAS EARLY ONSET.
'CAUSE IT WAS, UM, STILL ALICE.
THE FIRST ONE WAS, UM, ROB, UH, BILLY CRYSTAL.
WAS THAT EWY BODY? IT WASN'T LEWY BODY, IT WAS ANOTHER KIND OF DEMENTIA.
HONESTLY, I JUST STEP AFTER THE MOVIE.
SO I'M JUST, NOW MY QUESTION IS, WILL EACH MOVIE EVENT SHOW A DIFFERENT KIND OF DEMENTIA? YEAH.
THAT, THAT IS HARD TO PROGRESSION AND, AND HOW THEY DEAL WITH IT.
WE'RE TYPICALLY JUST LOOKING FOR FILMS THAT DEAL WITH ALZHEIMER'S OR ANY SORT OF DEMENTIA IN PARTICULAR, BECAUSE WE WANNA REMIND PEOPLE THAT THIS IS A VERY REAL DISEASE.
YOU READ ABOUT IT, I TELL YOU ABOUT IT.
BUT UNTIL YOU SEE IT, UNTIL YOU, YOU KNOW, HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER WHO UNFORTUNATELY EXPERIENCES IT, IT, IT, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE A VERY ABSTRACT CONCEPT.
SO DOING A MOVIE EVENT, YOU KNOW, SHOWING HOW THIS DISEASE AFFECTS PEOPLE, IT'S, IT'S AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
NEXT UP ON THE AGENDA, UH, STEVEN BAKER AND LATRICE BROWN FROM PARKS AND REC GOING UPDATED.
HOW ABOUT GREAT BIG, LIKE THAT AC I'M SCOOT COMING RIGHT THERE.
NO, WE, NO, MY PARTNERS IN THIS PLACE WE'RE FINE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, AFTERNOON, AFTERNOON.
UM, I HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET ALL OF YOU.
I'M THE INTERIM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UH, FOR THE RECREATION SERVICES DIVISION IN THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
AND JUST REALLY HONORED TO, TO BE HERE, UM, BE ABLE TO SIT WITH, UH, MS. BROWN TO ABLE PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION, UM, ON SOME OF OUR RECENT SUCCESSES AND THE DIRECTION WE'RE GOING.
AND, UH, JUST KIND OF GETTING SOME, UH, SHARING SOME UPDATES WITH YOU ALL.
SO THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND THAT I'LL TURN IT OVER TO THERESE.
THANK YOU AND GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.
IT'S GREAT TO SEE EVERYBODY'S SMILING FACES AND I'M SO EXCITED TO BE HERE WITH A GREAT UPDATE FOR YOU TODAY.
I WILL BE GOING OUT GIVING YOU AN OVERVIEW, TELLING YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR ASAP PROGRAM, REVIEWING REGISTRATIONS, OUR DEMOGRAPHICS, AS WELL AS TOUCHING ON OUR FUNDING AND
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SPONSORSHIP AND LEAVING YOU GUYS WITH SOME GREAT SAVE THE DATES.SO THE ACTIVE SENIOR ADULT PROGRAM, OR UH, ACRONYM THAT YOU MIGHT HEAR OUT HERE IN THESE STREETS IS AAP.
OUR ACTIVE SENIOR ADULT PROGRAM IS DESIGNED WITH THE PURPOSE AND ATTENTION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR SENIOR POPULATION.
AND WE DO THAT THROUGH OUR THREE PROGRAM CORE AREAS.
THAT INCLUDES HEALTH AND WELLNESS, SOCIALIZATION AND ARTS AND CULTURE.
THESE PILLARS ARE USED TO GUIDE OUR DAILY OFFERINGS AND ALSO ENSURE THAT OUR PARTICIPANTS HAVE ACCESS TO MEANINGFUL, ENGAGING, AND ENRICHING EXPERIENCES.
UM, ON THE SLIDE, YOU GUYS CAN SEE A PICTURE OF OUR CALENDAR.
THE CALENDAR YOU SEE IS A SAMPLE OF ONE OF OUR ASAP LOCATIONS CALENDAR.
AND IT REALLY IS JUST HERE TO PROVIDE A SNAPSHOT OF THE WIDE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES OF OUR PARTICIPANTS.
SO FROM FITNESS CLASSES TO HEALTH SCREENINGS TO CREATIVE ART WORKSHOPS AND SOCIAL GATHERINGS, WE TRY TO KEEP OUR CALENDAR FULL OF FUN THINGS TO DO AND ENSURING THAT EACH ACTIVITY IS THOUGHTFULLY, UM, CURATED JUST TO PROMOTE ACTIVE AGING AND ALSO IMPROVE AND PROMOTE GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR SENIOR 60 AND OLDER.
ALRIGHT, SO A LITTLE BIT CLOSER.
SO EACH RECREATION CENTER WITHIN THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION TAILORS THIS OFFERING TO REFLECT THE UNIQUE NEEDS OR INTERESTS AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF ITS LOCAL COMMUNITY.
SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THE ACTIVITY CALENDARS FOR TWO REC CENTERS, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE THE SAME BECAUSE NO TWO NEIGHBORHOODS ARE THE SAME.
AND OUR PROGRAMS ARE TRULY DESIGNED WITH THAT IN MIND.
BY OFFERING A WIDE VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES, SERVICES, AND ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, EACH CENTER IS ABLE TO ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC PREFERENCES, CULTURAL DYNAMICS AND CHALLENGES OF THE SENIORS IT SERVES.
AND THIS APPROACH ALSO ENSURES THAT OUR PROGRAMS REMAIN RELEVANT, THEY'RE IMPACTFUL AND RESPONSIVE TO THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE SUPPORT.
ALL RIGHT, ON OUR NEXT SLIDE, WE'RE GONNA TAKE A LITTLE CLOSER LOOK AND GIVE YOU GUYS AN UPDATE ON OUR REGISTRATION NUMBERS AND SOME TRENDS THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING.
SO OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE CITY OF DALLAS HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT GROWTH, HAS SEEN CONSISTENT GROWTH ACROSS MULTIPLE KEY AREAS, PARTICULARLY WITHIN OUR SENIOR PROGRAMMING.
SO WE'LL LOOK BACK FROM 21 TO 22.
AS YOU GUYS CAN REMEMBER, MANY OF OUR OLDER ADULTS, THEY WERE STILL PRETTY CAUTIOUS ABOUT GETTING BACK INTO OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS, OUR REC CENTERS, AND SENIOR CENTERS TO RECREATE BECAUSE WE HAD JUST GONE THROUGH COVID AND THAT HAD A PRETTY BIG IMPACT NOT ON OUR PROGRAMMING, BUT ALSO OUR CONGREGATE MILL SERVICES.
UM, OVERALL OUR SENIORS WERE REALLY THE LAST GROUP TO RETURN BACK TO THE REC CENTERS AND SENIOR CENTERS.
AND AS A RESULT, PROGRAM ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION WERE ALSO UNDERSTANDABLY LOW DURING THOSE TIMES AS WELL.
HOWEVER, SINCE THEN OUR NUMBERS HAVE CONTINUED TO RISE.
THEY HAVE BEEN STEADILY INCREASING AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE OUR SENIORS COMING BACK IN THE BUILDING.
OUR CONCRETE MILL PROGRAMS HAVE RETURNED AND WE ARE STARTING TO SEE A UPWARD TREND, WHICH IS A TESTAMENT TO THE DEDICATION OF OUR STAFF AND THE SAFETY MEASURES IMPLEMENTED ACROSS OUR FACILITIES TO REGAIN THAT TRUST FROM OUR COMMUNITY.
AND WE ARE PROUD OF THIS CONTINUED MOMENTUM AND REMAIN COMMITTED TO PROGRAM PROVIDING MEANINGFUL HIGH QUALITY PROGRAMS THAT ARE, THAT SUPPORT THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND SOCIAL CONNECTION OF OUR SENIORS.
NOW OUR GOAL THIS YEAR IS TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION BY AT LEAST 5% BUILDING ON THE PROGRESS AND TO EXPAND, EXPAND OUR REACH AS FAR CITYWIDE AS WE CAN.
DO THESE NUMBERS REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS OR INDIVIDUAL VISITS? ARE THEY UNIQUE? THEY ARE UNIQUE NUMBERS.
SO THIS IS A SNAPSHOT FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS AND OUR RECREATION CENTERS AND THEN OUR PARTNERSHIP, THAT'S A SINGLE LOCATION.
THAT'S THAT WELLMED CITY OF DALLAS, BEDFORD LOCATION FOR WELLMED.
SO, SO IN 23, 24, 7,014 DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CITY OF DALLAS UTILIZE THE ASAP PROGRAM.
SO DO THEY REGISTER? I MEAN HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S DIFFERENT PERSON AS OPPOSED TO SOMEONE THAT COMES EVERY WEEK? SO WE HAVE THE WELL MADE CHARIT BA FOUNDATION GRANT AND SO EACH MONTH WHEN A PARTICIPANT IS RENEWED, THEY'RE COMING INTO THE REC CENTER, WE'RE LAYING EYES ON THEM AND THEN WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT RENEWAL OF THEIR MEMBERSHIP BY THAT.
CHANCE ISN'T THERE? I HAVE A CARD AND THEY DO HAVE A CARD.
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SCAN IN EACH DAY AND THEN UM, EACH MONTH THAT MEMBERSHIP IS RENEWED ON THAT SAME CARD.SO THEY CAN CONTINUE THAT PROCESS OF SCANNING IN AT ANY LOCATION THAT THEY VISIT.
WELLMED IS BEING TRACKED BECAUSE THEY DO HAVE A DIFFERENT SYSTEM, BUT ALSO TRACKING THOSE SAME NUMBERS AS WELL.
UH, IF YOU'RE A MEMBER OF YOUR REGULAR, UM, COMMUNITY CENTER, CAN YOU ALSO USE THAT AT WELL AS WELL OR YOU HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER MEMBERSHIP FOR WELL, UM, FIRST, SECOND ONE I CAN REDBIRD YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A DIFFERENT CARD BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT SYSTEMS USE WHEN YOU'RE CHECKING IN AND SIGNING IN.
BUT THE BENEFITS LIKE THE ASAP PROGRAM IS THE SAME.
IT'S JUST THEY WILL ASK YOU TO SIGN UP AND BE GET THEIR CARD.
AND IF YOU LOSE YOUR CARD THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE, WHAT DO YOU DO AT THE WILM FACILITY? IF YOU
UM, THEY CAN ALSO GIVE YOU A NEW CARD IF YOU CHECK IN AT THE FRONT DESK WITH THEM.
UH, CITY OF DALLAS SIDE, IF YOU LOSE YOUR CARD FOR $2, YOU'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO GIVE YOU A NEW CARD.
FRANK PARK IS MY RIGHT AND YOU HAVE, UH, FRIENDLY STAFF, WE CAN LOOK YOU UP TOO, RIGHT? WE CAN ALWAYS MANUALLY LOOK YOU UP AND THEN THEY WON'T TURN YOU AWAY.
I MEAN, WE DON'T TURN YOU AWAY.
WE WANT YOUR SMILE FACE TO COME IN AND WORK OUT.
YOU MADE THE TIME TO GET THAT FAR.
WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANNA TURN YOU AWAY.
OVER A LITTLE HICCUP BY THE CARD
SO ANY, I'M GONNA SAY IT'S TRUE.
I I WOULD, I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THAT THE ANNUAL TOTAL TO BE THIS YEAR? THIS IS SEVEN MONTHS WORTH YOU'RE SHOWING HERE.
UM, I, I THINK OUR, OUR GOAL, OUR SENIOR RECREATION ASSISTANTS, OUR FRONTLINE WORKERS HAVE MADE A GOAL FOR US TO REACH 10,000 THIS YEAR.
UM, AND OF COURSE WITH OUR SENIOR POPULATION, WE NEVER KNOW, BUT THAT IS A BIG, BIG AMBITIOUS GOAL THAT WE HAVE THIS YEAR.
DOES IS THERE SEASONAL FLUCTUATION? I MEAN, YOU, YOU HAVE FEWER PEOPLE IN THE SUMMERTIME THAN YOU DO YEAR OF COURSE.
WE DEFINITELY SEE THOSE FLUCTUATIONS.
UM, A LOT OF OUR, SO THIS IS AN ACTIVE SENIOR PROGRAM IN THAT A LOT OF OUR SENIORS ARE ACTIVE, SOME OF THEM NOT EVEN RETIRED IN SOME CASES OR SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN FACED WITH RETURNING BACK TO WORK.
A LOT OF THEM ARE ALSO TAKING CARE OF GRANDCHILDREN.
SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE DO SEE A DIP DURING THE SUMMER WHEN THERE IS NO CHILDCARE IN PLACE FOR THOSE CHILDREN.
A LOT OF THEM ARE NOW FULL-TIME, FULL-TIME BABYSITTERS OR UM, HAVING TO TAKE ON DIFFERENT ROLES DURING THE SUMMERTIME.
SO THAT'S THE BIGGEST DIP THAT WE SEE.
AND THEN ONCE SCHOOL STARTS BACK, WE THINK THAT THEY WOULD RETURN, BUT THEN THEY'RE KIND OF COMING IN AND BEING THAT START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR SUPPORT, MAYBE TUTORING, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO WE ALSO WANTED TO GIVE YOU GUYS A SNAPSHOT OF WHO'S ATTENDING OUR CENTERS.
SO NEXT YOU SEE A BREAKDOWN OF GENDER WISE.
AGAIN, THIS BREAKDOWN IS SHOWING YOU IN THE CITY OF DALLAS AT OUR REPARATION CENTERS, UM, OUR FEMALE VERSUS OUR MALE COUNT, AS WELL AS AT OUR WELLMED LOCATION.
UM, THIS SNAPSHOT IS A BREAKDOWN SO THAT YOU GUYS CAN SEE HOW WE WERE LOOKING IN 23 AND THEN OF COURSE HOW WE WERE LOOKING IN 24 OR 25.
SO NOT TOO, TOO, TOO MUCH CHANGE.
UM, SO THIS NUMBER, WE ALSO SEE THAT OUR NUMBER OF MEN IS NOT AS HIGH.
SO THAT'S WHY OUR EVENTS LIKE OUR, OUR ANNUAL FATHER'S DAY LUNCHEON ARE SO IMPORTANT.
UM, AND THIS OVERALL, WHILE WE'RE PROGRAMMING, WE REALLY DO TRY TO ENCOURAGE AND HAVE PROGRAMS FOR OUR MEN AS WELL TOO.
BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH OUR FEMALE NUMBERS ARE HIGHER, WE REALLY WANT THIS TO BE SOMETHING FOR ANYBODY.
BEING ACTIVE IS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.
'CAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO USING IT SO YOU DON'T LOSE IT, THAT AFFECTS EVERYBODY.
UM, THIS PRESENTATION, OUR NEXT SLIDE ALSO CAPTURES THE AGE BREAKDOWN.
SO IT GIVES YOU A SNAPSHOT OF THE AGES OF OUR PARTICIPANTS.
SO AS I MENTIONED, UM, SOME OF OUR SENIORS THOUGH, YOU HAVE TO BE 60 TO COME INTO OUR PROGRAM.
THEY'RE NOT QUITE RETIRED, BUT THIS IS GONNA GIVE YOU A SNAPSHOT OF THAT BREAKDOWN.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW OF THAT 75 PLUS IN OUR PROGRAM.
ALRIGHT, NEXT I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE ASAP PROGRAM IS FUNDED.
SO THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION IS FUNDED THROUGH A COMBINATION OF CITY RESOURCES AND KEY PARTNERSHIPS THAT TRULY HELP US EXPAND ACCESS AND SERVICES FOR OUR OLDER ADULTS.
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DALLAS HAS ALLOCATED A $1.4 MILLION BUDGET FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO SUPPORT THE SENIOR PROGRAM DIVISION, WHICH DEMONSTRATES A STRONG COMMITTEE COMMITMENT TO SERVING OUR AGING POPULATION.AS I MENTIONED, WE ALSO HAVE THAT WELLMED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION GRANT.
WE'VE RECEIVED $742,992 FROM THE WELLMED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
AND THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT PARTNERSHIP THAT ALLOWS US TO OFFER FREE, LET ME REPEAT FREE ACCESS, UH, TO ELIGIBLE SENIORS.
AND IT ALSO HELPS REMOVE FINANCIAL BARRIERS AND REALLY ENCOURAGES GREATER PARTICIPATION AMONGST OUR DALLAS RESIDENTS.
IN ADDITION TO THAT YEAR TO DATE, WE'VE RAISED $60,000 IN SPONSORSHIP.
AND THESE COMBINED RESOURCES TRULY DO HELP ENSURE WE CAN CONTINUE TO DELIVER HIGH QUALITY ACCESSIBLE PROGRAMMING THAT SUPPORTS THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF OUR SENIORS THROUGHOUT DALLAS.
UM, TODAY I'VE ALSO BROUGHT A SAMPLE OF THAT SPONSORSHIP PACKET SO YOU GUYS CAN SEE WHAT TYPE OF OPPORTUNITIES, UM, YEAH, GO AHEAD AND PASS THAT AROUND.
UM, WHAT KIND OF OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE TO THOSE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WE WORK WITH? AND AS I MENTIONED, THIS FISCAL YEAR, WE HAVE REALLY BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
UM, WE DEVELOPED A NEW SPONSORSHIP PACKET AND WE DID THIS TO HELP US BETTER COMMUNICATE OUR MISSION, WHAT EVENTS WE HAD GOING ON.
AND TO BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES WITH EXIST.
THIS RESULT HAS BEEN PROMISING AND AS I MENTIONED, HAS HELPED US RAISE OVER 60 K IN DONATIONS AND IT ALSO MARKS A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD IN OUR EFFORT TO BUILD LONG TERM MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE ORG DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WHILE SOME OF THESE PARTNERSHIPS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING, WE ARE CONFIDENT THAT EVEN GREATER OPPORTUNITIES AND OPERATIONS FLY AHEAD.
SO, UM, ON THESE SLIDES YOU'LL SEE WHO WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH.
SO AT OUR PLATINUM LEVEL, UM, YOU SEE THE WELLED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AND WELLMED.
WE ALSO HAVE UNITED HEALTHCARE AND BAYLOR SCOTT, WHITE SCOTT.
AND THEN, UM, GOLD LEVEL WE HAVE WELLCARE, OUR SILVER, SILVER LEVEL, BLUE CROSS, JP MORGAN AND THEN, THEN OUR BRONX LEVEL ADVOCATE HEALTH, HEB, DART, ENCORE, AND
UM, AND THESE PARTNERS ARE NOT ONLY ONE-TIME PARTNERS THAT MAYBE HELP SUPPORT US THROUGH A BIT.
UM, THEY'RE COMING IN OUR CENTERS AND PAIRING UP, UM, INVITED CLASSES IN OUR RECREATION CENTER.
SO IT'S GREAT TO HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE DART BECAUSE JUST LIKE US, THEY'RE BEING ASKED TO DO MORE WITH LESS.
SO US COMING TOGETHER HAS BEEN VERY BENEFICIAL.
WE GOT STOCK TALKS, LUNCH AND LEARNS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AS A RESULT OF THESE PARTNERSHIPS ALSO GENERATING IN OUR, OUR REC CENTER.
UM, AND WITH THIS, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO CONCLUDE AND GIVE YOU GUYS SOME GREAT SAVE THE DATES, UM, MENTIONED WE JUST HAD A SUCCESSFUL FATHER'S DAY EVENT ON FRIDAY, UM, BUT WE HOSTED 150 OF OUR JAS AND CELEBRATED THEM.
UM, IT WAS A WONDERFUL EVENT AT THE RIVER RANCH, TEXAS HORSE PARK, BUT I ALSO WANTED YOU GUYS TO KNOW ABOUT SOME OTHER GREAT THINGS WE'LL BE DOING WITH OUR SENIORS.
UH, WE HAVE KICKED OFF OUR SENIOR SUMMER CAMP, AND THE THEME THIS YEAR IS DOWNTOWN ART WALK.
SO WE'LL HAVE THE SENIORS OUT DOING SOME GREAT THINGS WITH THEM, THAT OF WHICH IT INCLUDES VISITING OUR DALLAS MUSEUM OF ARTS, THE CROW MUSEUM, NORTH PARK MALL, FOR A GREAT LITTLE SCAVENGER HUNT.
AND OUR GRAND FINALE, OUR MEDIEVAL TIMES TRIP.
EACH YEAR UP AT THE CONCLUSION OF CAMP, WE DO OFFER A SURVEY TO OUR SENIORS TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO DO THE NEXT YEAR.
THAT HELPS US DRIVE OUR SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMMING.
UM, AND ALSO JUST, YOU KNOW, DURING THE, THE SUMMER, OUR KIDS ARE OUT ON CAMPUS, SO THE SENIORS ARE LIKE, WELL, WE'RE NOT KIDS, BUT WE LIKE TO GET OUT TOO.
SO THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT WAY FOR US TO GET OUR SENIORS OUT, UM, AND PARTNER WITH SOME OF THOSE GREAT PLACES LIKE THE DMA THAT ARE OF COURSE, FREE TO US, BUT A GREAT RESOURCE.
ANOTHER THING THE DIVISION IS EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE IS WE'RE GONNA BE BRINGING BACK THE DALLAS GOLDEN GAME
I HAVE A WE LINE WON ONE YEAR.
I WELL, I HOPE EVERYBODY WILL, UH, START PRACTICING AND GET EXCITED.
GET READY, COME OUT AND JOIN US FOR THE OPENING CEREMONY THAT IS SET FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND.
WE'LL BE HOSTING THAT EVENT AT OUR OLD CITY PARK.
MAC, KYLE WILL BE SENDING OUT.
I'LL MAKE SURE TO GET WITH HIM AND SEND ALL THESE FLYERS AND GOOD THINGS TO HIM AS WELL SO THAT THEY WILL BE SHARED WITH YOU.
AND THEN, UH, WE'LL ALSO BE PLANNING, ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO IN NOVEMBER, UM, AND LOOKING TO HAVE GREAT VENDORS, UM, AND CLINICAL RESEARCH GROUPS
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AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF AT OUR EXPO.SO THAT'S A LITTLE
UM, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I WANNA THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR LISTENING TO THIS UPDATE.
AND THEN I WANNA OPEN THE FLOOR FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE FOR STEVE OR I? NO.
I JUST NEED TO KNOW WHAT DAY, BECAUSE I, ME TOO.
I, YOU GET UPDATED THROUGH MY, UH, CENTER, BUT I CAN TELL THE PEOPLE WHO NOT PART OF THEIR RECREATIONAL CENTER, PLEASE JOIN BECAUSE IT'S A LOT OF ACTIVITIES THAT GOES ON AT THE CENTERS AND YOU CAN'T BE CONNECTED.
AND I REALLY WANNA GIVE MY HEADS OFF TO YOU, BECAUSE I GOTTA GO BACK TO THAT DR.
PEPPER TRIP BECAUSE OUR SENIORS DO HAVE, UH, DIFFERENT PLACES.
THEY TAKE THE SENIORS IN ONE TRIP WHEN WE WENT, UM, WAS DOWN TO DR.
PEPPER, PLAYED PLANS IN WACO, AND, UH, WE MET AT KEITH PARK, AND I THOUGHT THEY MOVED A BED.
AND SHE, AFTER OVER THERE AND SHE SAID, COME ON, GET ON THE BUS.
IT'S JUST GOOD THAT SHE KNEW ME AND I KNEW HER NAME.
BUT IT WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL TRIP AND WE HAD A GOOD TIME.
AND WE DO HAVE ACTIVITIES FOR DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND OVER AT, UM, ONE DID A CRAFT, ONE DID A CRAFT IN ELOISE LONDON, JUST TWO WEEKS AGO.
IT WASN'T TEXAS, IT WAS DALLAS.
WE WENT TO NORTH DALLAS AROUND THE STATE THEATER BACK TO THE PARKS.
BUT THEY WERE CALLED, IT STARTED OUT WITH NEGRO PARK BECAUSE THEY TRAILER BRIDGE PARK, ELOISE LONDON, ONE PARTS AND I THINK EIGHTH STREET.
SO I'M SAYING IT'S A LOT OF TEMPERATURE THAT GOES ON, AND IT IS REALLY GOOD.
AND YOU CAN HAVE SEWING, YOU CAN HAVE COOKING.
WE HAD, UH,
AND, UH, WHAT WHATEVER BLOOD PRESSURE.
AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU JUST TO GO GET IT FOR HUG.
AND I DO KNOW YOU OVER, UH, I MEAN, YOUR PARK IS, UH, I'M TALKING TO COMMISSIONER, UH, MITCHELL.
SHE'S AT, UH, URG, THURGOOD MARSH, THURGOOD MARSHALLS HILLS, DEBBIE'S AT SINK HILLS.
AND WE YOU ALL AT THE CHURCH, CHURCHILL.
I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IT WAS.
BUT ONE OF OUR PEOPLE LEFT MY
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING I WANTED TO SAY.
I ENJOY THE PROGRAM AND IT WORKS.
YOU'LL GET YOUR CHECK IN THE MAIL.
DAVID, YOU HAVE YOUR HANDS UP.
I WANNA UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT IS QUALIFIED SENIOR, WHEN YOU SAY QUALIFIED SENIOR AS PART ONE.
AND, AND SECONDLY, UH, 60 ANSWER, ANSWER, ANSWER ONE, ANSWER'S FINE.
BUT WE CAN MOVE ON TO MY, MY, TO MY NEXT QUESTION.
MY, MY NEXT QUESTION IS, UH, HOW DO WE GO ABOUT GETTING SOME OF THESE, UH, VERY NICE EVENTS IN DISTRICT 10? UH, SPECIFICALLY LIKE THE HAMILTON PARK COMMUNITY, WE'VE GOT A GREAT PARK THERE.
WE'VE GOT A GREAT PARK AT THE LAKE HIGHLANDS, UH, NORTH COMMUNITY CENTER.
HOW DO WE GO ABOUT GETTING SOME OF THESE GREAT EVENTS, UM, IN DISTRICT 10? OKAY, WELL, FIRST I'M GONNA JUST CIRCLE BACK AROUND ABOUT THE QUALIFICATIONS.
SO TO BE A MEMBER OF OUR ASAP PROGRAM, YOU MUST BE 60 AND OLDER AND A DALLAS RESIDENT TO QUALIFY FOR THE WELLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION GRANT.
HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE NOT A DALLAS RESIDENT AND 60 OLDER, WE STILL WANT YOU TO BE PART OF OUR PROGRAM.
HOWEVER, YOU WOULD PAY THE NON-RESIDENT FEE OF $25.
UH, THEN FOR OUR EVENTS, THE BIGGEST THING WITH OUR EVENTS, LIKE OUR MOTHER'S DAY EVENT, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, SOMETIMES OUR BIGGEST BARRIER IS MOTHER'S DAY IS A 700 PERSON EVENT.
AND OUR REC CENTERS DON'T REALLY HOLD 700 MOMS.
UM, OUR FATHER'S DAY HAVE BEEN 150 DADS.
AGAIN, WE SOMETIMES RUN INTO THAT BARRIER WHERE OUR A HUNDRED FEET 50 PEOPLE GONNA PARK.
UM, HOWEVER, FOR OUR SMALLER EVENTS, SO LIKE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO, WILLIE B. JOHNSON WAS OUR HOST SITE LAST YEAR FOR OUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO.
AND THEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE DO HAVE OTHER SMALLER EVENTS LIKE OUR HOLIDAY PARTIES THAT WE BREAK DOWN INTO SERVICE AREAS, AND WE DO ROTATE THOSE AROUND.
SO, UM, WILLIE B. JOHNSON MAY BE HOSTING EVENT, OR WE MIGHT TAKE IT TO LAKE HIGHLANDS IN THAT AREA.
SO IT JUST REALLY DEPENDS ON THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WE'RE EXPECTING FOR THE EVENT THAT WILL DRIVE WHERE WE'RE HOSTING THINGS.
SAME THING AS WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE OUR DALLAS GOLDEN GAMES OPENING CEREMONY.
WE ANTICIPATE 400 TO 500 PEOPLE FOR THAT EVENT.
SO AGAIN, SOMETIMES OUR BARRIERS REALLY JUST THAT LOGISTICS AND WHERE ARE WE GONNA PARK ALL THOSE PEOPLE.
SO, SO I, I JUST BRING UP WHAT YOU'VE JUST INDICATED.
I, I APPRECIATE YOU SHARING THAT WITH ME.
IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THE LAKE HIGHLANDS AREA WOULD
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NOT HAVE A BARRIER WITH THAT.WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COMBINATION OF, UH, THE LOCATION, UH, PARKING RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE, FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE, WE, WE, WE CAN CERTAINLY CROSS ALL THOSE BARRIERS.
I JUST WANNA PUT THAT OUT THERE.
I DON'T THINK LAKE, THE LAKE HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CENTER, ESPECIALLY WITH THE OLYMPIC SIZED SWIMMING POOL AND ALL THE EVENTS THAT THEY HAVE THERE, ACTIVITIES THAT THEY HAVE, THERE SHOULD BE A, SHOULD BE A HIN HINDRANCE.
I JUST WANT TO PUT IT OUT THERE.
AND WE WILL DEFINITELY BE BRINGING THE GAMES TO YOUR CENTER.
SO LAKE HIGHLANDS SHOULD BE HAVING SOME GAMES COME IN.
SO ONCE THE GAMES START, IT'LL BE TWO WEEKS WORTH OF GAMES.
AND THOSE WILL BE HELD AT VARIOUS RECREATION CENTERS.
SO SOME OF THE EVENTS LIKE CORNHOLE OR PICKLE BALL, THOSE THINGS WILL BE HOSTED AT A VARIETY OF OUR REC CENTERS.
UM, OUR SCHEDULE AND FACILITIES HAVE NOT BEEN SET.
HOWEVER, ONCE THEY ARE SET, I'LL MAKE SURE AGAIN THAT THAT INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH THE COMMISSION AS WELL.
I'M A COUNTY, BUT NOW I HAVE A TICKET.
I, I DON'T JOIN Y'ALL CENTER AS MAD.
N SO I, MY SENIOR, WE LEAVE, I SEND IT IN THE EVENING AND GO DOWN TO MADISON, NASHVILLE, WE CAN PAY THAT SEAT, VOLLEYBALL AND STUFF.
AND THEN WE, WE JUST HAVE FUN DOWN THERE AFTER WE LEAVE THE COUNTY.
BUT GIRL, Y'ALL HAD A GOOD THING GOING DOWN THERE.
ME AND MY GRANDKID, WE GOT T-SHIRTS.
THEY GOT US, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL GAVE US A WATER PARK, A BASKETBALL FIELD.
A BASEBALL FIELD, AND A A AND A A BASKETBALL GO.
I JUST LEFT MY BABIES HOUSE AND I TRIED TO FIND MY CHURCH MAD.
N YES, BABY MAD AND ASH GOT IT GOING ON.
THAT'S HOW WE GOT TO THE, UH, WOMEN'S BREAST WOMEN'S, UH, MOTHER'S DAY DINNER.
I TOOK ALL MY SENIORS DOWN THERE AND
AND WHILE THEY WAS THERE GIVING UP THEIR $20, UH, OMAR AND THEM CALLED AND SAID THEY WERE PAYING FOR THE CITY WITH IT.
Y'ALL HAD A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
DIDN'T THEY MISS DEBBIE? NICE.
BUT I WANNA LET YOU KNOW, I'M COUNTY AND I GO TO THING.
I HAD TO SIGN UP, PAY MY MONEY AND GET ON IT.
BUT AFTER THAT, WE ALL I TO DROP US OFF DOWN THERE.
WHAT MONEY YOU PAY? HUH? WHAT MONEY YOU PAYING YOU? 60? YEAH, WE PAID $5 BURN NEXT.
I JUST WANTED TO PIGGYBACK ON, ON PHYLLIS'S REQUEST FOR THE DATE, UH, FOR MEDIEVAL TIMES, OR AT LEAST A MONTH.
UM, IT IS A SEPARATE TRIP FROM OUR CAMP TRIP, SO A SEPARATE REGISTRATION WILL ROLL OUT.
SO THAT HAS NOT ROLLED OUT YET, BUT AUGUST 1ST IS OUR DATE.
AND COULD IT'LL BE AT YOUR CENTER, YOUR LOCAL CENTER, AND IT'LL BE INFORMATION OUT AT YOUR LOCAL CENTERS? YES.
AND COULD YOU ALSO GET THE INFORMATION TO THE COP? YES, I SURE WILL.
SO WE WANT TO GO MAKE SURE WE GET IT FROM MY CENTER.
YOU ALL WILL SEND IT THROUGH MACAB, MR. HOGE.
UM, WE WILL SEND IT THERE, BUT REGISTRATION WILL STILL HAVE TO HAPPEN AT YOUR CENTER.
YEAH, BECAUSE THIS IS AN, IT'S OUR GRAND FINALE TRIP.
IT'S STILL A TIER OF OUR SENIOR SUMMER CAMP FINALE.
DEBBIE, I'M NOT SURE WHO WAS FIRST, BUT GO.
I JUST WANTED TO ASK, UH, I KNOW THAT ELOISE LUNDY HAS A PARTNERSHIP WITH TEXAS A M AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
SO IS THAT SOMETHING OFFERED TO ALL OF YOUR, UH, SENIOR PROGRAMS OR IS IT JUST CERTAIN PROGRAMS? IT'S OFFERED TO ALL OF THEM.
SO I KNOW WE NETWORK WITH THEM.
A REALLY POPULAR PROGRAM IS THE NUTRITION PROGRAM.
UM, I FEEL THAT WHEN I'M OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, A LOT OF OUR POPULATION, THEY'RE GETTING DIAGNOSIS.
THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY HAVING THAT TIME IN FRONT OF A NUTRITIONIST OR THEIR DOCTOR TO FULLY UNDERSTAND IT.
SO THEY'RE HEAVILY RELYING ON US TO BRING IN NUTRITIONISTS TO TEACH 'EM ONE, ONE-ON-ONE, HOW TO PREPARE MEALS HEALTHIER.
AND SOMEBODY THAT'S GONNA TAKE THAT TIME TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE TOO MUCH SALT, THESE ARE THE FIX.
THESE ARE THE THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR.
UM, SO THEY ARE DEFINITELY ACTIVE.
THE PROBLEM IS USUALLY THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TEACHERS
UM, SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A WAITING LIST, BUT THEY DO A GREAT JOB GETTING AROUND TO ALL OUR CENTERS.
I KNOW THE LAST PLACE I JUST RECENTLY BOOKED A CLASS AT WAS FRIST.
UM, BUT THEY HAD BEEN AT WILLIE B. JOHNSON JUST PRIOR TO THAT.
SO, UM, DEFINITELY THE NUTRITION PROGRAM'S A HUGE HIT ACROSS, HAVE SENIOR HEELS TOO.
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MARCY TEACHES THAT WAS SENIOR HANDS.I, WELL, YOU KNOW, ON FACEBOOK, UM, IF YOU, IF YOU FRIEND THE ASAP PROGRAM, THEN YOU GET THE UPDATES AND THE PICTURES AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE CENTERS MONTHLY AND LIKE, UM, UH, HE WAS ASKING ABOUT THE CALENDAR AND STUFF.
UM, ALL OF THE CALENDARS ARE PRINTED ON FACEBOOK, AND YOU CAN PICK AND CHOOSE LIKE WHERE YOU WANNA GO OR WHO YOU WANNA DO.
BUT MY QUESTION WAS LIKE, LAST YEAR, I WANNA GO ON A FIELD TRIP WITH THEM TO WAKE COVID.
UM, WHEN A, A REGULAR SENIOR WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE THINGS, DO THEY JUST PAY AN EXTRA FEE, A SEPARATE FEE TO GO ON FIELD TRIPS? OR DO THEY DRIVE THEIR OWN CAR AND PAY THEIR OWN, YOU KNOW, HOW IS THAT DONE? IS IT A PLUS ONE? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? UM, WE TRY NOT TO EXCLUDE ANYBODY.
SO TYPICALLY WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IS THAT SCHEDULING MISHAPS OCCUR AND WE ALWAYS HAVE A WAITING LIST.
AND WE TRY TO BE REALLY PROACTIVE WITH OUR PLANNING SO THAT AS PEOPLE DROP OUT, WE'RE ABLE TO FILL THAT WAITING LIST IN FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
AND WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT USUALLY WE ARE ABLE TO FULFILL EVERYBODY'S NEEDS.
NOW WE'RE NOT ALWAYS ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND IF IT'S AN EVENT THAT SOMEBODY REALLY WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US ON, THEY ARE DEFINITELY WELCOME TO JOIN THEIR, LIKE, DRIVE THEIR OWN CAR IF THEY WANT.
UM, BUT WE'RE GONNA TRY TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE.
WE KNOW THAT OUR COMMUNITY BEING ACTIVE AND OUT AND ABOUT IS WHAT IS ALL ABOUT.
SO WE'RE GONNA DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER, EVEN IF WE GOT A NETWORK WITH ANOTHER CENTER TO MAYBE BRING IN ANOTHER BUS AND ADD ANOTHER GROUP, ATTEND TO THAT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT COMMUNICATION INTERNALLY.
AND JUST EVEN AS YOU SEE HERE TODAY, STEVE BEING HERE TO BE A SUPPORT, UM, THAT GREAT COMMUNICATION HELPS US REALLY BE ABLE TO, OKAY, WE GOT A SITUATION, LET'S PULL TOGETHER AND MAKE SURE THAT THOSE SENIORS JUST KIND OF, LIKE PHYLLIS SAID, AREN'T LEFT OFF THAT BUS.
WELL, THOSE WERE, UM, THOSE PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED HIS EVENT AT THE TECH HIGH SCHOOL.
MOST OF THEM CAME FROM THE CITY OF DALLAS CENTERS.
AND THEY, THEY CAME IN ON BUSES.
UM, I DON'T KNOW WHICH CENTERS, I DON'T NEED THAT BECAUSE I, I DON'T HAVE A, A ROSTER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
BUT, UM, THEY CAME IN FROM OF THE CITY OF DALLAS.
THAT WAS, THAT'S WHAT JENNIFER SAID.
UM, I'M SORRY, PORTIA, ONE MORE QUESTION.
I, I KNOW THAT I HAD TALKED TO STEVE BEFORE ABOUT THE CARDBOARD PROJECT AND THAT WAS WHEN THEY WERE ACTUALLY GIVING AWAY LAPTOPS.
AND I KNOW THAT SINCE THEN THAT THE FUNDING HAS CHANGED AND EVERYTHING AND POSSIBLY THEY'LL DO IT AGAIN LATER ON THIS YEAR.
BUT I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING THE SENIORS TO PARTICIPATE IN THEIR PROGRAM BECAUSE IT'S REALLY AWESOME THAT ALL OF THE THINGS, THEY TEACH COMPUTER SKILLS AND THEY
I'M NOT SURE IF THEY STILL DO THE HOTSPOTS AND THE FREE INTERNET RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE, THE LAPTOPS RIGHT NOW.
BUT THEY ARE TEACHING THOSE SKILLS.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL FOR EMBRACING DEFINITELY SINGING HILLS.
JUST HAD A GRADUATING CLASS THIS LAST MONTH.
SO THEY PROBABLY WILL BE THE LAST CLASS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
BUT WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU GUYS SHARING THOSE RESOURCES WITH US BECAUSE YOU, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT YOUR GUYS' SUPPORT, THOSE SENIORS WOULD'VE MISSED OUT ON THAT VALUABLE, VALUABLE RESOURCE.
SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT.
YOU CAN THINK OF COUNCILMAN BA DO MARIAN AND PHYLLIS.
MARIAN, IF I CAN, EXCUSE ME, IF I CAN ADD TO THAT THERE, IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES.
YOU KNOW, MY JOB PA THERESA'S JOB, MY JOB IS NOT TO SAY NO, IT'S, IT'S HOW, RIGHT.
LET'S, HOW, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS HAPPEN? OH, LET'S, LET'S FIND A SOLUTION THAT ACCOMMODATES EVERYBODY.
SO THE BEST WE CAN, I MEAN, AND WHAT WE CAN DO, IF AGAIN, I DON'T WANNA SAY NO, I WANNA SAY, HOW CAN WE DO IT? WHAT'S WITHIN, WHAT'S IN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY? HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER? HOW CAN WE FIND A PARTNER? HOW CAN WE MANAGE SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY? CITIZEN DALLAS AS A WHOLE, WE'RE HERE FOR THE CITIZENS OF DALLAS AND THAT'S WHO WE'RE HERE TO SERVE.
AND THAT, AND THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN HIRED TO DO AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANNA DO.
SO THEN MY QUESTION IS DIRECTED TO YOU.
UM, WHAT ACTIVITIES DO YOU HAVE THAT ARE LGBT SENIOR SPECIFIC? AND IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY, HOW CAN YOU MAKE THAT HAPPEN? OKAY, SO SPECIFICALLY IMMEDIATELY, I DO NOT KNOW THAT, THAT WE HAVE THOSE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU AGAIN, ALL OF OUR PROGRAMMING IS WELCOMING TO RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF
THEY BE YOUTH, TEENS, ADULTS, SENIORS.
THEY, WE ARE, WE OPEN OUR DOORS FOR EVERYBODY.
SO, HOWEVER, AND AGAIN, AS I'VE SAID, WE CAN WORK TO TRY AND IDENTIFY HOW WE COULD WORK TOWARDS, UM, SPECIFIC PROGRAMMING.
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'CAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAD SOME, IS IT SILVER SENIORS, SILVERSNEAKERS? I'M CLOSE.SO I KNOW WE INITIALLY HAD STARTED SOME PROGRAMMING A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, AND THAT IS KIND OF THAT WANED OFF.
I DON'T KNOW ALL OF THE DETAILS ON THAT, SO FORGIVE ME FOR THAT.
UM, BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE CAN REVISIT.
BECAUSE IF YOU, IF ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS GOING TO THE REC CENTERS AND THERE ARE NO LGBT SENIORS ATTENDING THE REC CENTERS FOR VARIOUS REASONS, MOST OF WHICH ARE KNOWN, UM, THEN WE DON'T GET THAT INFORMATION.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO MEET WITH YOU SURE.
AND SILVER PRIDE PROJECT WAS MY ORGANIZATION.
I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, WITH THE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM.
THAT'S YOUR STAFF IS WHO SOLICIT SOLICITS THE SPONSORSHIPS? YEAH.
IS, IS THERE ANY ORGANIZATIONAL PARKS AND RECS THAT'S FRIENDS OF TYPE THING? LIKE THE LIBRARIES HAVE FRIENDS OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES WHO RAISE MONEY TO HELP SUPPORT PROGRAMMING IN PUBLIC POPULATION.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT WITHIN PERSONS REC? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE A SPECIFIC, SO WE HAVE 'EM FOR PARKS.
UH, WE HAVE 'EM FOR DIFFERENT, UH, PORTIONS OF, UH, THROUGHOUT OUR AGENCY, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT'S SPECIFIC FOR SENIORS FAR AS A FUNDRAISING EVEN.
WE DO HAVE OUR PARTNERSHIPS AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES.
WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS WITH, WITH THEM.
WELL, BUT REALLY THE, THE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM THAT YOU HEAR, THAT YOU SEE HERE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY STAFF, COMMUNICATE WITH OUR PARTNERS, UM, SOME THAT WE'VE HAD LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH, BUT WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN ABLE TO FORM SOME NEW RELATIONSHIPS HERE OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS.
UM, IT'S BEEN REALLY POSITIVE AND, AND, UH, IT'S GAINED A LOT OF MOMENTUM WITH STAFF AND GIVEN THEM A BOOST OF CONFIDENCE AS WELL.
AND IT'S GIVEN US SOMETHING THAT, UH, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO BRAND, PROVIDE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPOSURE FOR THOSE PARTNERS.
AND WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO DO, IN OUR EVENT THAT FRIDAY WAS ANOTHER EXAMPLE, UH, FOR US TO DEMONSTRATE TO THOSE PARTNERS, UM, ON WHAT A, WHAT A BENEFICIAL INVESTMENT WE ARE FOR THEM, UH, TO, TO HELP IMPROVE THEIR AUDIENCE AS WELL.
ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT I HAVE THIS IN THE PAST WHEN I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH SOME OF THE SPECIFIC CENTERS, THEY, THERE WERE CERTAIN ACTIVITIES ON THE CALENDARS THAT WERE ONLY AVAILABLE PERIODICALLY BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDING RESOURCES TO HAVE THOSE PROGRAMS THAT EVERY CENTER AND THEY, THAT THOSE ACTIVITIES ROTATED AROUND VARIOUS CENTERS.
IS THAT STILL THE CASE? AND WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO EXPAND THAT SO THAT EVERY CENTER THAT'S CONVENIENT FOR A SENIOR SURE.
TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PROGRAM, WHETHER IT BE CHEER YOGA OR ART CLASSES OR SOMETHING ELSE? YEAH, SURE.
I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD SOME, UH, WE'VE HAD SOME VERY POPULAR PROGRAMS AND YEAH, JUST TO TRY AND SPREAD THE WEALTH, IF YOU WILL, WITH, WITH THE BUDGET THAT WE DO HAVE AVAILABLE TO US, IT IS TRYING TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY ON A ROTATING BASIS.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO RIGHT NOW, AGAIN, AND WE ARE DOING IT FREE OF CHARGE TO THE PARTICIPANT AS WELL.
AND SO THAT IS GONNA CREATE SOME, SOME LIMITATIONS, IF YOU WILL.
UM, BUT THAT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING, THE FRENCH GROUP, I, I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE, HAS ANYONE EVER TAKEN THE TIME TO ACTUALLY FIGURE OUT HOW MANY DOLLARS WOULD BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE UNIFORM PROGRAMMING ACROSS THE WHOLE SYSTEM? UM, WE COULD, WE COULD PUT THAT TOGETHER, BUT I CAN'T SAY THAT, I CAN'T SAY THAT IT'S BEEN DONE IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR THIS BODY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND.
BECAUSE IF YOU'RE, IF IT WOULD TAKE A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, THAT OUGHT TO BE PART OF OUR FUNDING PRIORITIES MEMO AT MINIMUM.
AND, AND IF IT'S NOT THAT WE MAY KNOW, WE MAY KNOW ORGANIZATIONS THAT MIGHT BE POTENTIALLY WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN TRYING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
BUT, UH, KNOWING QUANTIFYING THAT, SO THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
SHOULD YOU COULD GET THAT GUY WITH PRESENT MEDICAL, THEY GOT MONEY AND THEN LOOK AT THE, YES.
UH, I WAS, I'VE ASKED THIS BEFORE IN TERMS OF GETTING THE INFORMATION
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OUT, AND I KNOW MS. TAYLOR'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS SHE'S WORKED BACK.I THINK YOU HAVE SOME FABULOUS PROGRAMS, BUT WHEN I LOOK AT YOUR NUMBERS, I MEAN, 10,000 SENIORS OUT OF THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND I WILL SAY THAT YOU ALL HAVE GREAT PROGRAMS AT THE PARK, THE REC CENTER NEAR ME, AND I DON'T GO BECAUSE I AM INVOLVED IN OTHER THINGS.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I, YOU GO IN THE LIBRARY AND THERE'S NOTHING FROM THE CENTERS AND YOU GO IN THE CENTERS, THERE'S NOTHING FROM THE LIBRARIES.
AND I, I JUST THINK WE NEED MORE ADVERTISE, NOT ADVERTISING COMMUNICATION, COMMUNICATION COUNSEL.
I'M TRYING TO BE UP TO GET, AND, AND, AND I DO WANNA REINFORCE WHAT, UH, CHAIR KLEIN SAID, YOU KNOW, AND SPECIFICALLY THE CHAIR YOGA.
I'VE BEEN CALLED ON VERY SELDOM AS A COMMISSIONER, BUT THE CHAIR YOGA PROGRAM TAKING DYING OFF AT SAMUEL BRAND WAS A BIG DEAL IN MY COMMUNITY.
SO, UH, THOSE THINGS ARE REAL IMPORTANT.
BUT I, HOW, THE OTHER QUESTION IS HOW MANY CENTERS HAVE NEW PROGRAMS? BECAUSE I THINK, I MEAN, MY DISTRICT HAS ONE SENIOR CENTER, AND IT'S LOCATED IN ROSELAND HOME.
SO I'M A SECOND OR FOURTH FLOOR OR SOMETHING.
AND I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO STEP ONE UP TO SAMUEL GRANT, BUT I REALLY AM CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
I KNOW LATRICE CAN PROBABLY ANSWER THIS BEST.
I KNOW WE HAVE A GOOD, SO WE HAVE SEVEN LOCATIONS RIGHT NOW.
UM, PRIMARILY THEY'RE IN OUR SENIOR CENTERS THAT ARE OPEN ALL DAY, AND THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE THAT SUPPORT BACK.
SO BIG ATTENDANCE IN THE BIGGER ATTENDANCE, BECAUSE DALLAS COUNTY DOES REQUIRE US TO HAVE A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF PARTICIPANTS.
BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONE ACTUALLY SEEKING THE FUND FUNDING AND GRANTS.
SO SOME OF THAT RULE IS GETTING PASSED DOWN FROM THE COUNTY, UNFORTUNATELY.
BUT WE DO WITHIN OUR, OUR SYSTEM HAVE SEVEN FEEDING SITES.
SO THERE WERE TWO RECENT ONES ADDED.
I KNOW THAT DOESN'T HELP FOR YOUR SPECIFIC AREA.
BUT, BUT IF YOU'VE ADDED, WHICH IS GOOD, AND WHAT ARE THE NEW AREAS? UH, LARRY JOHNSON AND, UH, PHELPS ARE THE TWO LOCATIONS.
THAT'S DALLAS, LARRY JOHNSON, WEST PHELPS, UM, PHELPS, SOUTH DALLAS.
SO, AND WITH THAT, SO THE COUNTY WAS MONITORING A PROGRAM AND THAT COMMUNITY WAS GONNA, SO THEY'VE LOST THOSE PROGRAMS COMPLETELY.
ALL THOSE SENIORS WERE UPROOTED AND THEN MOVED IN AND NOW HAVE BECOME ASAP PARTICIPANTS TOO.
SO DALLAS COUNTY IS VERY MINDFUL AND INSTEAD OF A PROGRAM GOING AWAY COMPLETELY, THEY DO TRY TO INTEGRATE 'EM INTO OUR REC CENTERS AND SENIOR CENTERS, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE A CAUSE TO SAY, HEY, WE REALLY WANNA DRIVE A NEW ONE BEING OPEN HERE.
ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT AS IT RELATES TO THOSE FEEDING, THOSE ARE, THAT'S A COUNTY PROGRAM.
AND THEY DO, THEY DO PROVIDE LOCATIONS THAT ARE NOT IN CITY OF DALLAS WORK CENTERS IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CITY.
BUT I, I WAS JUST THINKING OF WHERE DALLAS, AND I'VE BEEN TO
BUT, UH, AND I'VE BEEN TO, UH, HAMILTON PARK AND THEY, THEY'RE FABULOUS.
AND I, I'M, I'M THRILLED THAT YOU CAN HAVE THOSE.
BUT I, I THINK THAT THE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT IS SINGING HILLS IS A SPECTACULAR PLACE.
THEY'RE ONLY FEEDING 50 PEOPLE A DAY IN SINGING HILLS.
AND I KNOW BASED ON RESEARCH THAT I'VE DONE WITHIN A MILE OR TWO RADIUS OF SINGING HILLS, THERE ARE ABOUT FIVE OR 675 PLUS EIGHT SENIORS LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY.
WELL, THAT'S, AND AND TO, TO HAVE A PROGRAM'S THAT CONVENIENT, THAT THAT IS, THAT IS NOT BEING UTILIZED ON MORE THAN THAT IS, IS A PROBLEM.
SO THE QUESTION I HAVE THAT'S SO PUBLICITY, RIGHT? SO I'M, I'M SITTING HERE STRUGGLING, UH, DR. SHAW, I'M TRYING TO THINK, AM I HAVING AN ALZHEIMER'S EXPERIENCE?
UH, DISPLAY BOARDS WHERE THEY WILL ADVERTISE WHAT PROGRAMS ARE HAPPENING IN SPECIFIC CENTER.
UM, I'M NOT SEEING THAT, AND I'M JUST WONDERING, THAT'S SUCH OLD FASHIONED COMMUNICATION, RIGHT? UM, BUT THINK ABOUT PEOPLE THAT DRIVE BY THAT MAY NOT THINK OF WALKING INTO A CENTER, BUT IF THEY'RE SAY, WOW, LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY.
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SOME YOU, YOU WILL NOTICE IT IN SOME BUILDINGS, THEY WILL DO THAT, THAT HAVE PRIVATE BUSINESSES.YOU WILL SEE, UH, I'M THINKING PARTICULARLY LIKE IT'S 6 35 IN HILLCREST.
THERE'S A, UH, WHERE MAYBE HEB IS GONNA GO, BUT THERE IS A BUILDING THERE, RIGHT? THAT IS ALWAYS ADVERTISING.
LIKE, WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IN THAT BUILDING AND WHAT SERVICES THEY OFFER.
WOULDN'T THAT BE FABULOUS IF WE COULD PUT THAT OUTSIDE OF THE RESTAURANT YOU SPEND ON THAT YOU CAN BUY, WE, WE ADDED IN DALLAS COUNTY, IT'S A HUB FOR THE PURPLE CEILING.
THE OTHER, WHAT IS IT CALLED? THERE'S A VETERAN.
THANK YOU, MAR LIKE AT THE SCHOOLS.
UM, I KNOW SEEING HILLS IS GORGEOUS, BUT I'VE HEARD PERSONS THAT LIVE IN THE OAKLAND AREA, THEY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO FIND THE FACILITY ITSELF.
AND SO IT WOULD BE GOOD, I, I, I THINK I'VE SEEN ONE SIGN MAYBE ON LANCASTER ROAD THAT THAT KIND OF GIVES INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GET TO THE FACILITY.
BUT THAT MAY BE A HINDRANCE THERE BECAUSE IT IS KIND OF IT, AND IF YOU GO PAST THE DARKS, YOU MAY NOT GO FURTHER AND AROUND.
UH, THAT, THAT'S JUST ONE THING.
THE OTHER THING, UH, THURGOOD MARSHALL IS NOT BEING REALLY, REALLY USED.
AND THE REASON IT IS NOT BEING REALLY, REALLY USED, THIS IS ME SAYING THIS, I'VE DONE NO RESEARCH.
I HAVE NO DATA
AND SO MANY OF THE SENIORS ARE GOING TO, WELL, MED WELLED IS JUST OVERFLOWING AND PEOPLE ARE LEAVING THERE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET IN, BUT THEN THEY'RE NOT TAKING THE OTHER OPTION, WHICH WOULD BE VERY GOOD OPTION.
I, I WANTED TO KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON THAT BECAUSE WHEN PETER WAS ADDRESSING THE FACT THAT, UM, ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WERE BEING SERVED AT SINGING HILLS, IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S SOME OTHER CONGREGANT MEAL SITES IN THAT AREA.
I KNOW THAT CARBO HEIGHTS HAS ONE.
AND, AND SO, UM, FOR THE SINGING HILLS RECREATION CENTER IS, IT'S NOT IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA.
THERE AREN'T HOMES, THERE ARE THE APARTMENTS OVER THAT WAY.
THERE'S DAR AND THEN THERE'S THE POLICE STATION THAT YOU TURN IN FRONT OF TO GET TO THE THING.
SO IT'S NOT IN AN ACCESSIBLE AREA FOR PEOPLE TO WALK PEOPLE ON WALKERS CAN'T GET THERE.
PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS CAN'T, UNLESS SOMEBODY'S TAKING THEM.
BUT THERE ARE OTHER CONGREGATE MEAL SITES IN THAT AREA THAT SERVE THOSE SENIORS.
SO THEY'RE NOT, I MEAN, THERE'S RESOURCES.
SO THAT'S ALL I KEEP THINKING.
I, I WORKED IN HEALTHCARE AND AT THESE I WAS AROUND WITH THE GERIATRIC CENTERS I STARTED, AND I THAT'S A GOOD PLACE TO SHARE YOUR INFORMATION.
I MEAN, EVEN MAKE A VISIT AND LET AND TAKE YOUR INFORMATION.
I MEAN, YOUR DOCTOR WANTS YOU TO GET OUT THERE AND MOVE, I TELL YOU.
AND TO BE, I MEAN, I KNOW YOU CAN'T GO TO ALL THE DOCTORS IN DALLAS, BUT THOSE GERIATRIC CENTERS AND YOU MENTIONED WELL, MET ARE A GREAT PLACE TO, ESPECIALLY, I MEAN, IT'S, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HEALTH AND, UH, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST A SUGGESTION.
I KNOW ONE PART OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO INSTILL UPON OUR, OUR TEAM, UM, REINFORCE, I SHOULD SAY, IS, YOU KNOW, OUR TAGLINE IS BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER.
AND SO REALLY TASK OUR STAFF WITH MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING OUT AND ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES, WHETHER THEY'RE CITIZENS OR BUSINESSES OR LOCAL PARTNERS, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, SO THAT WE CAN UNIFY EVERYBODY AND TIE THESE DIFFERENT RESOURCES TOGETHER.
OR FIND OUT WHAT'S THE NEAREST RESOURCE OR MEAL LOCATION FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO GO VERSUS TRYING TO FIND SINGING HILLS THAT'S TUCKED BACK IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD BY THE DARK STATION BEHIND THE POLICE STATION.
SO THERE, THERE'S SOME OF THOSE CHALLENGES.
THAT'S REALLY THE TASK IS TO GET EVERYBODY OUT AND CONNECTED.
SO, I MEAN, I CAN SEE AL PARK GOING TO BAYLOR GERIATRIC FORM PARTNERSHIP AFTER THE MEETING.
I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO EITHER MS.
BECAUSE MYSELF AND, UH, COMMISSIONER AUSTIN, THAT'S HOW WE REALLY STARTED WORKING CLOSELY TOGETHER, TRY TO BRING PEOPLE FROM BEING INCLUSIVE.
SO I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO TELL HER WHAT THEY DID TO PARTS AND RICK'S, THEY WANT SOMEBODY TO COME THERE AND SPEAK ON.
AND I DIDN'T HAVE AN INFORMATION ON WHAT DATE.
SO IF I CAN GET THAT INFORMATION,
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CAN I GET IT TO YOU ALL? AND Y'ALL CAN GIVE ME A DATE WHERE Y'ALL CAN GO TO THE VA HOSPITAL, WHICH CAROLYN IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET.AND THEN THAT WAY, THESE PEOPLE, BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE CONFINED IN THEIR OWN LITTLE COCOON ON CALL IT COCOON.
AND THEY AFRAID TO GET OUT, BUT IF THEY KNOW ABOUT THE POISON AND REGS, MAYBE THEY'LL GET LITTLE STORY TO TRY TO GET AT AND NOT BE INCLUSIVE.
SO WE NEED A REPRESENTATIVE WHEN I, BECAUSE SOMEBODY JUST APPROACHED ME THAT, BUT IT IS AT THE VA HOSPITAL, BUT THEY HAVE SENIORS AND JUST REGULAR VA.
SO THAT BE SOMETHING THAT Y'ALL COULD DO, MAYBE.
BECAUSE CAROLYN IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO ACCESS VA REMEMBER, AND THEY'RE HAVING PROBLEMS TRYING TO GET INSIDE THE VA AND TALK TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE JUST BEING SENT ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE.
LIKE, YOU NEED TO GO TO THAT DEPARTMENT.
YOU NEED TO GO, YOU NEED TO EXIT THE BUILDING.
YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO BE HERE.
SO THEY REALLY DO NEED, SHE ACTUALLY, WE THANK PHYLLIS, WE HAVE ONE MORE AGENDA AND THANK YOU STEVE.
DAVID, DID YOU HAVE ONE? YEAH, YEAH, I DID.
I REALLY KIND OF FOLLOWING UP ON YOUR, ON YOUR QUESTION, AND IT REALLY HAS TO DO WITH, UH, I'M THINKING, I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX OR TOO FAR IN THE BOX, WHATEVER THE CASE MIGHT BE WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT FUNDING, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A FUNDRAISING MODEL THROUGH PARKS AND RECREATIONS, UH, SPECIFICALLY FOR, FOR SENIOR EVENTS? AND, AND I WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW WHO IS THE HIGH, WHO, WHO HAS THE, WHO, WHO USES PARKS AND RECREATION IN TERMS OF USAGE MORE? I HEARD SOME PEOPLE SAY SOME THINGS WEREN'T BEING UTILIZED.
YOU KNOW, WHO ARE THE, WHO, WHAT'S THE HIGHEST, WHO ARE THE HIGHEST, WHAT, WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE HAS THE USAGE AT THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE? BUT THE FIRST ONE IS, IS REALLY FOCUSED ON, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A FUNDRAISING MODEL? AND IF, AND IF, WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAYBE ENHANCE THAT, OUR HIGHEST, OUR HIGHEST USAGE, LET'S SAY RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD IS GONNA BE OUR 17 AND UNDER AGE GROUP.
BUT I THINK, BUT I THINK OUR, OUR, OUR NEXT CLOSEST IS GONNA BE PROBABLY THAT SENIOR, THAT SENIOR 75.
SO, SO IT WOULD IT SEEM, IT WOULD SEEM TO ME LIKE WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO CREATIVELY THINK ABOUT HOW TO CREATE SOME KIND OF FUNDRAISING MODEL, UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE THAT, THAT COULD BE SEEN AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESSES THAT ARE FOR PROFIT TO, TO GENERATE, UM, FROM, FROM, FROM SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
IS, HAS THAT DISCUSSION BEEN HAD, IS THAT JUST TOO FAR OUT OF THE BOX OR IS THAT NOT, OR IS THAT AGAINST, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF DALLAS CODE OF ETHICS? WELL, I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S AGAINST THE CODE OF ETHICS.
UH, WE DO, UM, OTHER, UM, AGAIN, WE DO, WE DO THE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE PUT OUT THERE TO, TO BUSINESSES AND OTHER PARTNERS.
UH, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY DIG A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO.
AND, UH, MR. CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE THEM TO KNOW THAT THE, UH, UH, FATHER'S DAY LUNCHEON WAS VERY, VERY NICE.
UH, BOTH, UH, FE AND I ATTENDED THE EVENTS AND THE GUYS, WE HAD A LOT OF FUN.
AND UH, UH, STEVE, I DON'T THINK YOU HEARD US.
WE WERE JUST SAYING EL AND I, HOW NICE THE LUNCH WAS LAST WEEK.
YOU COULD BOTH ATTEND TO MAKE IT.
UH, MIRACLE NORMAN SUPERVISOR COMMUNITY CARE SERVICES WITH THE AGE FRIENDLY SENIOR SERVICES TEAM.
SO JUST TO RECAP, OUR PURPOSE AND GOAL MISSION IS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, RESOURCES, AND EDUCATION TO ALL OUR OLDER, 60 AND ABOVE OLDER RESIDENTS HERE IN THE DALLAS.
HOW WE DO THAT, WE OFFER THE HEALTHLINE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
WE ALSO OFFER OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES AND EDUCATION.
SO TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON, UH, HELPLINE WISE, WE CONTINUE TO GET PRETTY MUCH THE SAME NUMBER OF CALLS.
UM, I THINK THE ONLY THING THAT I NOTICED RECENTLY IS THE FINANCIAL NEED, UH, HAS HAD AN INCREASE FOR THAT.
WE REALLY, THE TEAM IS GREAT STAYING ON TOP OF, UH, ALL THE RESOURCES AND WHO IS OFFERING ASSISTANCE, WHETHER IT'S RENT, MORTGAGE, UTILITIES, UM, WHAT TIME OF THE MONTH IS THE BEST TIME TO APPLY.
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CONTINUE TO TACKLE AND STAY ON TOP.CAN I ASK THE QUESTION? 'CAUSE I READ YOUR REPORT AND I NOTICED THE TWO WERE, UH, HOUSING REPAIR, RIGHT? UM, AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
UM, HOW, WHEN YOU, HOW SUCCESSFUL, SO WHEN SOMEONE CALLS AND SAYS, I NEED RENT MONEY, FOR EXAMPLE, OR UTILITIES ARE SOMETIMES EASIER, BUT I MEAN, HOW, WHAT RESOURCES ARE YOU ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR THEM WHEN THEY CALL SOMETHING LIKE THAT? BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT.
SO WHEN IT COMES TO RENTAL ASSISTANCE, THAT VARIES.
THAT'S A LARGER AMOUNT OF MONEY.
UH, DALLAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING HAS SOME FUNDING, UM, UNDER ONE ROOF, MANY FOUNDATION.
UH, SOME OF THE CHURCHES, AND THIS CAN'T VARY, SO AT TIMES THEY SAY, WELL, WE'RE OUT OF FUNDING FOR THIS QUARTER.
MAYBE IT'S BEST TO APPLY THE FIRST OF THE MONTH.
SO THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE TRY TO STAY ON TOP.
SO WHEN PEOPLE DO CALL US, SAY, I'M NEEDING RENTAL ASSISTANCE, BUT WE KNOW THAT IN, IN THIS AREA THAT YOU'RE CALLING FROM, THIS AGENCY COULD POSSIBLY, NOW WE CAN'T MAKE ANY GUARANTEES, BUT, UH, WE HAVE THOSE PARTNERS THAT WE KNOW THAT MOST OFTEN HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HELP UTILITIES.
IT'S A LOT EASIER TO DEFINE ASSISTANCE, UM, AS IT'S A SMALLER AMOUNT.
THEN NOW, UM, I DID NOT HAVE UPDATED PARTNER INFORMATION, BUT UH, WE'LL HAVE IT AGAIN FOR THE NEXT MEETING AS IT'S THE EARLIER PART OF THE MONTH.
SO THAT'S ALWAYS THE STRUGGLE, GETTING THOSE UPDATED NUMBERS.
UM, VERY BRIEFLY, I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT OF THE OUTREACH.
SO WE CONTINUE TO TRY TO KIND OF LOOK AT EVENTS THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN IN A WHILE OR WE HAVEN'T DONE BEFORE.
UM, WE HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF BEING AT THE TOMMY ROBBINS AMERICAN LEGION POST 802 FATHER'S DAY LUNCHEON THIS PAST SATURDAY.
UH, AND THEN WE HAVE THE MLK JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL.
AND JUST AS A REMINDER, JUNETEENTH IS THIS THURSDAY THE 19TH.
SO SOME OF THE CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED AS OUR OFFICE ON THAT DAY.
CERTAINLY SOME OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE OPERATING AS NORMAL, BUT THERE COULD BE CHANGES TO EACH OFFICE.
UM, ALSO COMING UP, THERE'S A LOT OF SUMMER EVENTS.
UH, I THOUGHT OUR JUNE CALENDAR WAS LOOKING PRETTY SLOW, BUT EVERY WEEK WE GET NEW INVITATIONS.
SO IT'S GETTING BUSIER AND BUSIER.
UH, FEED THE HEAT EVENTS ARE COMING UP.
ALSO, I'VE INCLUDED THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER INFORMATION ON THEIR, UH, COOLING CENTERS AND THEIR AC PROGRAM.
YOU'LL FIND A CALEN, UH, THE FLYER ON THE TABLE AND IT'LL BE SHARED WITH EVERYBODY.
AND THEN, UM, WE WILL BE AT THE WALNUT HILL REC CENTER FOR THE A RP SOCIAL SECURITY 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT'S COMING UP.
AND THE FINAL THING, I WANTED TO KIND OF BLOW OUR OWN HORN 'CAUSE THE ESTATE PLANNING EVENTS.
WE'VE HAD A GREAT PLEASURE PARTNERING WITH THE LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS.
AND I CAN'T EVEN, MAYBE THIS WAS THE SIXTH OR THE SEVENTH EVENT WE'VE NOW DONE.
UH, WE HAD A REALLY GOOD TURNOUT AND TON OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THIS.
UH, IT'S REALLY BEEN A GREAT, UM, PARTNERSHIP AND GETTING PEOPLE CONNECTED TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY FOR FREE LEGAL SERVICES AND GETTING THEIR ESTATE PLANNING COMPLETED.
UH, AND ALSO THEN IF THEY DON'T QUALIFY FOR THOSE SERVICES, THERE ARE SOME OTHER OPTIONS FOR OLDER ADULTS AS WELL.
BUT WE HAVE AN UPCOMING EVENT, UH, AT MARCUS ANNEX ON THE AUGUST 6TH.
THAT'S THE NEXT ONE ON THE BOOKS.
SO REGARDING THE, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN, THEY'LL BE HERE BACK IN AUGUST, PROVIDE UPDATE.
SO THAT OPEN FOR QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY.
UH, PREVIOUSLY WE'D HEARD THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN WOULD BE COMPLETED IN JUNE.
SO HAS IT BEEN COMPLETED AND THEN WE'LL HEAR AN UPDATE IN AUGUST? OR IS IT STILL IN PROGRESS? YES, STILL IN.
SO HAVEN'T THE TAYLOR AGE FRIENDLY OFFICER.
SO THE PLAN IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS AS FAR AS BEING WRITTEN, UM, FOR THE STRATEGIC, UH, PLAN ITSELF SO THAT ALL OF THE OTHER, UH, PHASES ARE NOW COMPLETE UNTIL THE PROCESS OF JUST WRITING THE STRATEGIC PLAN THIS TIME.
WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL THAT, IT WILL BE COMPLETELY JUNE YOU AND SO DO WE NEED TO WAIT UNTIL AUGUST TO SEE IT OR CAN YOU SEND IT OUT PRIOR TO THAT? SO THAT IS GOING TO BE, I WILL SPEAK WITH JESSICA REGARDING THAT.
UM, INITIALLY WHENEVER WE HAVE A DOCUMENT THAT WE ARE SHARING OUT, GENERALLY WE WOULD SHARE WITH EVERYONE AT ONE
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TIME.BUT I WILL REVIEW THAT WITH JESSICA, WE'LL DR.
G BE MISSED SHAW, AND WE'LL GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT.
AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION IS ON THE FUNDING PRIORITIES MEMO, UM, I SAW THAT WE RECEIVED IT WITH THIS UPDATE OR FOR THE MEETING, BUT IT WAS SENT ON MAY 20TH.
IS THAT CORRECT? SO THE PARTICULAR MEMO, IT ACTUALLY GOES THROUGH OUR LEADERSHIP AND THEN FROM THERE OUR LEADERSHIP SEND ON TO OUR COUNCIL.
SO LEADERSHIP IS AWARE THAT YOU HAVE IT.
UM, AND FROM THERE IT WILL BE DISPERSED TO A CITY, UM, MANAGER TO OFFICE.
AND THEN OUR CITY MANAGERS WILL PROVIDE, UM, THE UPDATES OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
SO IS THAT, I'M NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND.
SO IT STILL HASN'T BEEN SENT TO THE CITY MANAGER YET.
CITY MANAGER HAS NOT RECEIVED AT THIS TIME.
SO THAT THE CITY SECRETARY RECEIVED IT ON MAY 20TH, CORRECT? CORRECT.
AND SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT CAUSES THE, 'CAUSE NOW IT'S JUNE 16TH, SO WE RECEIVE INAUGURATION AS WELL.
UM, AND THE, UM, NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM THE BOARD, BECAUSE WE DO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE ALREADY IN THEIR SEAT SO THAT THEY WOULD HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WAS GONNA BE THE BUDGET.
UM, BUT I, JESSICA'S MEAN, EXCUSE ME, MS. GALLISHAW IS ALSO ON, SO SHE CAN SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL.
AND IF SHE ISN'T, I CAN PROVIDE, UH, A RESPONSIBILITY EMAIL.
I, I WOULD SUGGEST, I MEAN, THERE'S A PROCESS THAT ALWAYS TAKES LONGER THAN ANYBODY CAN EXPLAIN TO ME WHY, UH, NOT GETTING THINGS DISTRIBUTED.
I WOULD, THIS IS PUBLIC INFORMATION.
IT WILL BE POSTED ON THE, UM, SENIOR AFFAIRS WEBSITE.
THERE'S A TAB THAT'S A LITTLE CONFUSING.
WHAT'S IT CALLED? IT'S GONNA BE UNDER THE RESOURCE TAB.
IT WILL BE, IT WILL BE UPLOADED TO THAT.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A TAB FOR NOW, BUT IT HASN'T BEEN UPLOADED, BUT IT WILL BE UPLOADED TO THAT FOUR OF FOUR OF THE DISTRICTS HAVE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND I WOULD SUGGEST THAT EVERYONE SHARE THEIR COPY OF THIS WITH THEIR CO WITH THEIR COUNCIL PERSON.
I WAS GONNA, I I'M ONE OF THOSE.
SO I WAS GONNA JUST, THAT WAS MY QUESTION.
YOU FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE IT.
AND THE CITY, WE'RE GONNA RUN THE DISTRIBUTING INFORM, GET SOME LIKE IN FUTURE, WAS IT PUBLIC INFORMATION ON MAY 20TH? YES.
BUT WHEN IT WASN'T, UH, POSTED.
SO WHAT IS, I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR WHAT IS POSTED.
WHAT CAN WE SHARE? YOU CAN POST THE, YOU RECEIVED THE COPIES FOR THE PACKET TODAY.
OF THE FINAL VERSION, SIGNED AND SEALED AND DELIVERED.
FINAL VERSION OF THE FUNDING PRIORITIES MEMO.
YEAH, WELL I ACTUALLY, I'M SORRY I WAS HAVING A SENIOR MOMENT BECAUSE I THOUGHT I TWO DIFFERENT QUESTIONS.
DON'T START THINKING LIKE THAT BECAUSE HE DID HIM.
WELL, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS THINKING, UM, THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND THAT I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO GET A REPORT AT THE NEXT MEETING AT THE AUGUST MEETING.
IT'S ON THE AGENDA FOR OUR AUGUST MEETING.
AND THAT FOR THE CONSULTANTS TO GIVE US US FEEDBACK REGARDING THE EXPANSION OF THEIR DATA AND ALL THAT KIND.
SO THEY'RE GONNA GIVE YOU A COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION ON THE STUDENT PLAN OVERALL.
IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL FOR US TO HAVE A COPY OF THE PLAN AHEAD OF TIME IN ADVANCE.
AND, AND NOT JUST THE FRIDAY BEFORE.
I'M ASSUMING THIS DOCUMENT'S GONNA BE IMMENSE.
AND YOU KNOW, IF IT'S GONNA BE COMPLETED IN JUNE, I SEE NO REASON WHY WE SHOULDN'T HAVE IT IN JULY.
AND I WOULD APPRECIATE FEEDBACK BECAUSE THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN JULY.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY AND WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IT.
AND, AND SO THE PLAN, YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN WE HAD OUR MEETING THAT PRESENTED TO US, AND I REALLY LEFT HERE JUST BASED IN YOU SAID RATHER ASTONISHED.
SO HAVE, SINCE THEN, HAVE THEY COLLECTED ADDITIONAL DATA? I MEAN THERE WERE 59 SURVEYS OR SOMETHING.
51 AND, AND AND HALF OF 'EM CAME FROM MY DISTRICT, WHICH WAS ONE ZIP CODE.
NOT EVEN DISTRICT, I MEAN ONE ZIP CODE.
SO HAVE THEY EXPANDED THAT? I I'VE NEVER, THAT HADN'T BEEN ON THE AGENDA.
SO I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBER IN FRONT OF ME, BUT WE WERE,
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UM, A LITTLE BIT UNDER 500 TOTAL IN OUR SURVEYS.WELL, I, I'M JUST GONNA SAY I, I DON'T FIND THAT AT ALL ACCEPTABLE.
AND I'VE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH MY COUNCILMAN ABOUT IT, AND I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER, BUT HE WAS, HE SENT ME A TEXT ABOUT SOME YOUTH SURVEY THEY DID THAT THEY COLLECTED ALMOST 4,000 SURVEYS.
SO 500, I MEAN IT, I I I'M NOT THAT, THAT'S A VERY REPRESENTATIVE VALID SURVEY.
I MEAN, I, I UNDERSTAND STATISTICS AND I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
RIGHT? SO THE INFORMATION THAT, SO WHEN WE COMPLETED THE SURVEYS, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? IT WAS OVER COURSE OF JUST ABOUT LITTLE LESS THAN SIX WEEKS.
UM, THAT'S INFORMATION WE RECEIVED FROM OUR CITY AS A WHOLE.
SO WHAT'S THE QUESTION? SO IT HAS NOT CHANGED? NO, NO, THAT IS, THAT WAS OUR FINAL NUMBER.
WHAT WE DID ALSO, UM, HAVE SOME ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS AND ALSO SMALL FOCUS GROUPS AS WELL TO HELP INFORM AS WELL.
SO, SO HEY, SO THE, THE, THE, THE CONSULTING PROJECT WAS, THE GOAL OF THE CONSULTING PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SENIOR SERVICES FUNCTIONS FOR
AND THE METHODOLOGY THAT WAS GOING TO GO INTO THAT WAS NEVER, IT DIDN'T, AS I UNDERSTAND, I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN THE RFP OR THE PROPOSAL THAT WOULD, THAT CAME FROM THAT.
SO I, I CAN ONLY SURMISE SOME OF THESE THINGS, BUT IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THE IT IT IN IT INVOLVED DOING SOME RESEARCH USING THEIR PAST HISTORY OF DOING THESE KINDS OF PROJECTS ELSEWHERE AND RESEARCH FROM OTHER CITIES TO PUT TOGETHER STATE STRATEGIC PLANS FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
AND THE DEPARTMENT IS REALLY FOR THE CITY.
THEY'VE ALREADY SPENT OUR MONEY, SO I KNOW, I THINK, I THINK THAT WHAT WE NEED IS TO GET THE DAMN REPORT AND DOWN THE FLOOR HAVE REPORT SO WE CAN REVIEW IT.
AND I'M, I'M PREPARED TO BE IMPRESSED WHEN I GET THE REPORT RATHER THAN SAYING THAT I'M NOT HAPPY WITH SO YOU'RE SAYING WE NEED TO BE PREPARED TO, I'M SORRY.
WE NEED TO BE PREPARED TO ACCEPT THE REPORT.
NO, WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY AUTHORITY OVER ANYTHING IN TERMS OF INSPECTING.
NO, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET WHAT YOUR TERMINOLOGY WAS.
YOU, I, I JUST DIDN'T GET THE TERMINOLOGY THAT HE USED.
WE'LL ALL SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
I REALLY PROUD AND HE'S ALREADY ASKED ME ABOUT PLAN.
WELL, IT'S, IT'S NOT OUR PLAN.
IT'S NOT THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION'S PLAN.
AND WE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO OPINE.
WHILE IT IS THE CITY'S PLAN, YOUR INFLUENCE ON MAKING THIS, WELL, PERHAPS THE COMMISSION WAS, HAD SOME INFLUENCE OVER MAKING IT HAPPEN.
WE HAD VERY LITTLE INVOLVEMENT IN ACTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
SOMETHING LIKE THEY SAY YOU WROTE UP ALL THAT STUFF AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT.
WHAT'S THAT? I SAID SOMETHING LIKE THEY SAID YOU WROTE UP THEIR PLAN AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE NO OPINE THAT YOU ROLLED UP, THAT YOU CUT AND PASTE.
WITH THAT I WILL ACCEPT MOTION MEETING, ADJOURN.