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[Senior Affairs Commission on December 15, 2025.]
MY NAME'S LINDA RUIZ.I'M THE ATTORNEY WITH THE, UH, CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR DALLAS.
THE TIME IS NOW 1206 ON DECEMBER 15TH, AND THE SENIOR CARES COMMISSION IS NOW IN SESSION, A MEETING OF A STATE GOVERNMENTAL BODY OR A GOVERNMENTAL BODY THAT EXTENDS INTO THREE OR MORE COUNTIES MAY BE HELD BY VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL ONLY IF THE MEMBER OF THE, OF THE, UM, SIDING MEETING IS PHYSICALLY PRESENT AT ONE LOCATION OF THE MEETING THAT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
DURING THE OPEN PORTIONS OF THE MEETING, THE CHAIR SHALL PRESIDE AT ALL MEETINGS OF THE BOARD.
IN THE ABSENCE OF THE CHAIR, THE VICE CHAIR SHALL EXERCISE THE POWERS OF THE CHAIR.
IF NO CHAIR, VICE-CHAIR A GLOBAL, THE BOARD MAY APPOINT A TEMPORARY CHAIR.
THE FIRST ADJOURNMENT PUTS AN END TO THE APPOINTMENT.
IS THERE A MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY CHAIR? I MOTION.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? SICK? ANYONE OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT, THE MOTION PASSES.
I'LL NOW CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ATTENDANCE.
FIRST OF ALL, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS TODAY? I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
LET'S MOVE INTO OUR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
DO I HAVE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES YOU WERE SENT LAST WEEK? I SO MOVED.
ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
NOW THE NEXT ONE ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN UPDATE ON OUR ANNUAL REPORT, WHICH MOST OF YOU KNOW, SINCE YOU WERE SENT A REQUEST FOR SOME INFORMATION IS DUE FEBRUARY 1ST.
AND IN OUR LAST MEETING, UM, KAREN ROBERTS, RENEE CARB VOLUNTEERED TO BE CO-CHAIRS.
PHYLLIS LEE AND MARILYN DANIELS JOINED THE COMMITTEE.
ARIAN WILLIAMS ASKED TO BE REMOVED FROM THE, UH, COMMITTEE.
AND VERNA OFFERED TO, I MEAN, VOLUNTEER TO JOIN THE COMMITTEE.
SO THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR THIS VERY VITAL, UH, PRO, UH, PROJECT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH.
NOW, WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS? MORE THAN ANYTHING, THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME VISIBILITY.
IT IS ALSO OUR OPPORTUNITY TO BRING ISSUES TO THE FOREFRONT.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LAY OUT DEFINITIVE PLANS, I MEAN, A REPORT ON WHAT WE DID THIS YEAR AND TO FOCUS SOME IDEAS ON FOR NEXT YEAR.
SO IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT.
THIS COMMITTEE CANNOT DO IT ALONE.
IF THEY ASK YOU FOR SOMETHING, PLEASE GET IT BACK FAIRLY QUICKLY.
AND JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW IMPORTANT IT IS, WE'VE GOT A LITTLE LEFT FOOT START HERE.
WE'RE BEHIND THE TIMING MACHINE.
WE MAY HAVE AN EARLY MEETING IN JANUARY BECAUSE OUR REGULAR MEETING IN JANUARY ON THE 19TH IS MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY.
SO WE'D BACK THAT TO THE 26TH.
SO IT'S TOO LONG TO HAVE ANY FINAL INPUT, YOUR INPUT AND THOUGHTS.
SO WE MAY HAVE A MEETING JANUARY 6TH.
THEY'LL GET INTO MORE OF THIS.
UH, I'D LIKE KAREN TO GO AHEAD AND PRESENT, I THINK YOU WERE THE ONE THAT ONE, THAT COIN TOSS,
UM, TO PRESENT WHAT WE NEED TO KIND OF COVER, BRING EVERYBODY UP TO SPEED.
HAS EVERYONE GOTTEN THIS? YOU HANDED THIS OUT THERE? YEAH.
YOU SHOULD HAVE KAREN PICKED UP FROM THE, THE, THE HANDOUTS AND LOOKS LIKE THIS.
YEAH, THIS, I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO STAFF FOR GETTING THIS PRINTED FOR TODAY.
THERE'S THREE ITEMS THAT RELATE TO THIS REPORT, AND I'LL GO OVER THE FIRST ONE IS THIS SECTION, UH, EIGHT 1.1.
THAT'S JUST CORRECT ME IF THIS ATTORNEY IF I'M WRONG, BUT THAT'S THE RULE THAT SAYS WE HAVE TO HAVE AN ANNUAL REPORT.
THIS REPORT IS DUE TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE THE 1ST OF FEBRUARY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW WHAT, BASICALLY NEXT WEEK.
UM, THE OTHER PART THAT YOU GOT IS THIS CHECKLIST OF THE THINGS THAT NEED TO GO INTO THE REPORT.
AND SOME OF IT WE CAN GET FROM LAST YEAR'S REPORT.
UH, SOME OF IT WE NEED TO DO OURSELVES.
AND I, I'VE PUT TOGETHER THIS LITTLE OUTLINE OF WHAT I THOUGHT WE COULD TALK ABOUT TODAY.
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BRIEF BECAUSE PRESENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS PRIORITY TODAY.BUT, UM, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE IS, AND THIS IS THIS REPORT, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, WE'VE BEEN BLESSED TO HAVE PETER KLEIN DO MOST OF THE WORK.
AND SOME OF, WE, WE ALL ADDED OUR COMMENTS THIS YEAR.
YOU HAVE A GROUP THAT'S STRUGGLING TO DO ALL THIS WORK.
ON TOP OF THIS IS, YOU KNOW, NOT THE SLOWEST SEASON OF THE YEAR.
WE WOULD LIKE ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO SUBMIT ANYTHING FROM THEIR DISTRICT THAT THEY CONSIDER IMPORTANT TO HAPPEN DURING THE YEAR OR THAT THEY WANTED TO SEE HAPPEN DURING THE YEAR.
THE OTHER IS ANY GOALS YOU HAVE FOR YOUR DISTRICT.
I KNOW I MET WITH MY, UM, MY, ONE OF THE, THE LIBRARIANS.
SHE WANTS MORE PARTICIPATION IN THE LIBRARY THING.
ANYTHING YOU HAVE FOR YOUR DISTRICT THAT IS YOUR GOAL, WE WOULD LIKE TO PUT IN THE REPORT.
BUT THEN THE NEXT THING IS YOUR, SO OUR GOAL FOR 2026.
FOR 2026, RIGHT? AND THE NEXT THING, YOU KNOW, ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 25 OR EVENTS, ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT.
BUT THEN, UH, YOUR DISTRICT GOALS FOR 26 AND THEN, THEN YOUR GOALS FOR THE COMMISSION.
I THINK WE'LL TAKE A LITTLE NEW LOOK AT THE WAY WE PROCEED AS A COMMISSION.
AND I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ON HERE HAVE SERVED A LONG TIME AND YOU HAVE GOALS AND, AND THINGS YOU'D LIKE TO SEE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE COMMISSION, NOT JUST IN YOUR DISTRICT.
SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PUT ALL THAT IN THE REPORT.
UM, AND THEN WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF IS, IF YOU COULD GET 'EM TO US BY THE 5TH OF JANUARY, IS THAT DATE OKAY WITH EVERYBODY? I KNOW IT'S A RUSH.
I KNOW WE'VE GOT CHRISTMAS AND HANUKAH AND OTHER THINGS.
WELL, CHRISTMAS WILL COME IN ON, AND THEN WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS HAVE A MEETING ON THE 6TH OF JANUARY.
WE'RE GONNA NEED STAFF'S ASSISTANCE BECAUSE, BECAUSE IT'S FIVE PEOPLE AT A MINIMUM.
UH, WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS BE A FORMAL MEETING.
I HAVE ZOOM IN HERE OR THE BRIEFING ROOM OR SOMEWHERE WHERE WE CAN BE ON VIDEO.
'CAUSE I KNOW THE WHOLE CITY OF DALLAS WANTS TO WATCH US AND, UH, BE, BE PRESENT, YOU KNOW, WITH A QUORUM.
WE'LL LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT IS, THAT MEETING IS NOT LIMITED TO WHAT THE PEOPLE THAT VOLUNTEERED TO BE ON THIS COMMITTEE.
ANYONE FROM THE COMMISSION THAT WANTS TO PARTICIPATE, WE WELCOME.
SO ACTUALLY YOU CAN PARTICIPATE FROM HOME OR WHEREVER IF YOU PREFER.
SO, UM, IF YOU'LL PUT THAT ON YOUR CALENDAR.
AND IS THE 6TH OF JANUARY, RIGHT? ACCEPTABLE.
I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S ONE MORE THING RIGHT? TIMING.
BUT WE'RE PLANNING THE TIME THAT WE'RE DOING IT NOW, RIGHT? YEAH.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS DUE TO THE CITY MANAGER FEBRUARY 1ST, WHICH TO ME IS QUICK AND FAST.
BUT ASK ANYWAY, UM, ANY OTHER COMMENTS YOU ALL WANT TO MAKE ABOUT THIS? YES, SIR.
WELL, YEAH, I GUESS IT'S A COMMENT AND, AND A QUESTION IN COMPARISON TO THE GOALS THAT WERE SET FOR 2025.
DO WE HAVE A WAY OF COMPARING THAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED OR NOT ACHIEVED THOSE GOALS? WELL, WE HAVE THE REPORT FROM LAST YEAR.
YOU ALL HAVE THAT REPORT? WE ALL HAVE.
WE ALL HAVE, SHOULD ALL HAVE IT.
AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, MAKE SURE STAFF, IF YOU WOULD SEND THE, I MEAN YOU CAN JUST GO ON GOOGLE AND TYPE IN THE, THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE SACS SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION.
MS. TAYLOR, WOULD YOU SEND IT OUT AGAIN? YEAH.
WE, I MEAN I KNOW WE ALL JUST GET SO MUCH STUFF, BUT WE EACH HAVE THAT REPORT AND I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU LOOK AT THAT AND I KNOW WE WILL LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHERE WE STAND WITH WHAT WE, WHAT WE SET AS GOALS.
THE OTHER DOCUMENT TO LOOK AT IS THE, UM, THE, THE, UH, FUNDING PRIORITIES REPORT THAT IS SENT TO THE COUNCIL.
I KNOW BY AUGUST, HOPEFULLY SOONER.
THAT'S A SEPARATE REPORT THAT WE SENT TO THE COUNCIL MIDYEAR REGARDING THE BUDGET.
AND SO, AGAIN, IF YOU CAN'T FIND THAT, LET ME KNOW OR LET LET MS. TAYLOR KNOW.
DID WE GET THAT MAYBE TWO MEETINGS AGO? DID YOU SEND A COPY OF MATCHING OUR BUDGET PRIORITIES TO ACTUAL, WE ALREADY GOTTEN THAT FROM YOU GUYS.
DR. TAYLOR, AGE FRIENDLY OFFICER.
UM, WHAT WE SENT OVER TO YOU ALL, YOU KNOW, CAMERA, WHAT WE SENT OVER TO YOU ALL WAS THE LAST AND PRIOR TWO YEARS, UM, OF THE ANNUAL OKAY.
WE'RE HAVING TO SHARE ANY ADDITIONAL, UM, DOCUMENTS WE NEED BUDGET EITHER.
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YOU MIND SENDING THAT? YOU CAN SHARE THAT WITH YOU AS WELL.SO, SO THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.
UM, ONE IS WHAT COMES FROM YOUR DISTRICT? SOME MEMBER DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN UNBELIEVABLY BUSY.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER IS US AS AN ADVOCATE.
SO THERE ARE TWO DOCUMENTS, ONE WE'LL WORK ON TOGETHER.
DO YOU THINK KAREN? WELL, YEAH.
WE'LL WE'LL WORK ON THE BILLS FOR THE COMMISSION, COMMISSION TOGETHER.
THE OTHER TAKE EVERYBODY'S INPUT.
I MEAN, I, I'M NOT, I DON'T SEE US LEAVING ANYBODY'S GOALS OUT, BUT, UH, YEAH, THAT'LL BE A GROUP REPORT AND YES.
MS. LEE PHYLLIS, LEAD DISTRICT FOUR FOR CLARITY.
UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS I WANT THE COMMISSIONERS HERE AS WELL AS MY DISTRICT TO PARTICIPATE.
UH, I'VE BEEN CONTACTED BY, UM, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM, UHHUH
NOW THEY WANNA START A, UM, SENIOR PROGRAM WITH SENIOR INCOME.
WANTS A MOM MAYBE ON WE, WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT THE COMMISSIONERS, I CAN BRAG UP.
THAT'S NOT MY ABSOLUTELY RESPONSIBILITY TO BRING IT UP HERE.
SO THIS IS WHAT MY COURSES WOULD BE.
WHAT AM I ALLOWED TO BRING IN AS A COMMISSIONER FOR THE COMMISSIONERS? WOULD THAT INCLUDE MY DISTRICT AS WELL? SURE.
'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA SAY WELL, NO, YOU GOING OVER YOUR, UH, NO STEPPING OVER YOUR BOUNDARIES WHEN YOU ASK.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO ABSOLUTELY.
DO WE HAVE A LIST OF WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T DO? I THINK YOU SUBMIT IT.
IF IT'S WRONG, WE'LL LET YOU KNOW.
BUT I, I JUST, I DON'T, I DON'T SEE THAT BEING AN ISSUE.
SO WHEN YOU SAY GOALS, THIS IS WHAT I'M THINKING FOR MY GOAL NEXT YEAR IS TO SEE US MORE INTERACTIVE AS A GROUP HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT COHESIVE AB ABSOLUTELY.
WHEN I GO TO, UH, A FAKE PLACE, I ONLY SEE COMMISSIONER AUSTIN, COMMISSIONER, UH,
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE US TO BE MORE ACTIVE AND QUIT SAYING WHO WE CAN'T REACH AND GO OUT AND SEE WHO WE CAN REACH AND THEN BE WORD OF MOUTH.
WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GO TO MORE, UH, PLACES TO GET THE WORD OUT OF WHAT WE ARE DOING.
IS THAT PART OF MY MISSION? ABSOLUTELY.
I THINK THAT'S, THAT UNDER COMMISSION GOALS.
WHAT WE'RE, THAT'S ONE OF OUR GOALS.
UH, ONE THING, WHEN I WAS REVIEWING THE REPORT FROM LAST YEAR, EVERY, EVERY PRACTICALLY EVERY PARAGRAPH MENTIONED THAT WE DEL COMMUNICATE MM-HMM
AND I GET PHONE CALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT FROM MY SENIORS, WHICH IS FINE BECAUSE I GIVE THEM MY CARD WITH MY NUMBER AND YOU KNOW, I HAVE PEOPLE FROM PLEASANT GROVE CALLING ME AND I GO, NOW WHAT DOES CROOK IS THIS, YOU KNOW, BUT I GIVE THEM THE INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ANYONE COMMUNICATING.
SO IF I CAN ADDRESS THAT PARENT AS A WHOLE, JUST SEND OH, YOU'RE NOT, OH, SORRY, I'M NOT THROUGH.
SO I HAVE SPOKEN TO MY COUNCIL PERSON WHO I HAVE ASKED, WHEN I HAVE INFORMATION, I LIKE TO GO AND HAVE HIM PUT IT IN THE NEWSLETTER.
AND I PERSONALLY HAVE NEVER ASKED ANYONE IS THAT OKAY? SO I'M HOPING THAT'S OKAY.
UH, OUR, UH, COUNCIL GOT, OUR DISTRICT GOT TOGETHER MM-HMM
AND I WAS SHARING WITH KAREN AS WE WERE WORKING ON THIS THAT ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY EVERYBODY THAT SERVES FOR MY DISTRICT ON ADMISSION SAID EXACTLY THE SAME THING THAT YOU'RE SAYING.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY, I MEAN NO COMMUNICATION AND, AND TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT, WHICH BECAME A GOAL FOR OUR, UM, DISTRICT.
SO, AND, AND I WAS TELLING KAREN WE DID EXACTLY.
GONNA CALL ALL THE HOAS AND MAKE SURE EVERYBODY GETS, GETS ALL.
SO, ONCE AGAIN, POINT OF CLARIFICATION FOR ME.
SO WHEN WE DID THOSE PRIORITIES, EARL, EARLIER THIS YEAR, THOSE WERE PRIORITIES THAT SHOWED GOALS FOR 2026.
AM I NOT 2025? IT WAS FOR, FOR THE BUDGET RECORD.
ARE YOU TALKING THAT WAS IN AUGUST.
AND, AND SO WHAT GOALS INCLUSIVE OF THAT? SO ARE WE GOING BACK AND DUPLICATING SOMETHING THEN? OR IS THIS A WHOLE DIFFERENT FASHION THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FOR 2026 IN TERMS BE REINFORCING? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
THIS IS A REPORT OF WHAT ACTIVITIES TAKEN IN 2025.
NOW WE'RE BEHIND PART OF THE EIGHT BALL, I THINK AS A BODY
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PERSONAL OPINION BECAUSE WE DIDN'T JUST, WE'RE GETTING THE STRATEGIC PLAN IN THE 12 MONTH AND A HALF MONTH.BUT THIS IS JUST A REPORT OF WHAT WE DID FOR THE YEAR.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, GO AHEAD AND LIST OUR GOALS.
NOW, ROB, FILL ME IN ON, ON THE BUDGET PRIOR, WHICH YOU DID, DID A HELL OF A JOB.
WHAT DID WE DO? WE TIE THE THINGS TO OUR GOALS, NOT NECESSARILY JUST WHAT OUR PRESIDENT WELL, THEY, THEY WERE, THE, THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS ARE VERY CLOSELY TIED TO OUR PLANS FOR 2025 AND FOR SOME OF THE GOALS.
WELL, AND BUT IT WAS ALSO TIED TO WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY OUTLINED.
AND SO THEY SHOULD BE COHESIVE.
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH MIKE'S COMMENT THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN TIMING CAUSED A BIT OF A CHALLENGE FOR ALL OF THESE EFFORTS BECAUSE WE'RE WAITING FOR THAT TO BE FINALIZED SO THAT IT COULD ALL TIE TOGETHER, WHICH MAKES COMPLETE SENSE IS TO HAVE OUR STRATEGIC PLAN THAT HAS JUST BEEN DISTRIBUTED, TIED TO OUR BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS AND TIED TO OUR 2025 IN 2026 PLANS.
SO WE, BUT WE DO HAVE A, WE DO HAVE A REFERENCE POINT.
WE HAVE SOME REFERENCE POINTS THAT WE, SO WE'RE NOT GOING AT THIS COMPLETELY COLD.
IT WAS SOUND WELL IT WAS SOUNDING LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOTTA GO OUT AND WE CREATE THE WILL.
I, I THINK WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THROUGH WE DO IS INCLUDE EVERYBODY'S OPINION AND DESIRES AND GOALS.
WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO RECREATE ANYTHING.
AND WE'RE NOT TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, YOU MAY NOT EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD AFTER YOU READ LAST YEAR'S REPORT, BUT OTHERS HAVE THE, I THINK THE THING YOU MENTIONED MS. LEE IS RELEVANT.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE, I THINK THAT'S FULL, FULL BOLD.
UH, SO WE'RE, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE INCLUSIVE.
THIS IS A REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION.
IT'S NOT A REPORT FROM FIVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.
SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THEIR INPUT.
AND I DON'T EVEN SEE US ELIMINATING ANYBODY'S IDEAS.
I THINK THEY'LL ALL BE INCLUDED.
MS. S, UM, I, I NEED CLARIFICATION.
SO LIKE SHE SAID, I PASSED MY CARD OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE.
AND SO THE ADVOCACY THAT I'VE DONE, ESPECIALLY MAJOR PROJECTS, DO YOU WANT THEM INCLUDED? IF YOU FEEL LIKE INCLUDING THEM AGAIN, THIS IS THE REPORT YOU WANT FROM YOUR DISTRICT.
SO DO YOU DETERMINE WHAT YOU WANNA INCLUDE? YEAH.
I MEAN THIS IS, BELIEVE ME, WE, WE JUST COME TO THIS LIKE, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH THIS? OR WHY ARE WE SO STUPID TO SAY YES? YEAH.
WELL, HOW DID WE END UP SAYING YES, Y'ALL VOLUNTEERING TO DO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORDS, PHILLIP.
FERN MITCHELL, DISTRICT THREE, UM, QUESTION.
WE DO HAVE A TEMPLATE THAT WE CAN FILE A CHECK.
AND SO WE ARE NO, WE HAVE A TEMPLATE.
THE TEMPLATE WOULD BE OUR PLAN FOR LAST WEEK.
AND SO WE CAN GO BACK TO THAT.
IF WE AS A DISTRICT HAVE DONE SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS OF THINGS THAT WE FEEL ARE QUITE INTERESTED THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE, THEN WE WOULD INCLUDE THOSE THINGS.
I BE SO WE'RE, WE'RE NOT STARTING AT GROUND ZERO THEN.
MY, UH, MY QUESTION WOULD BE REGARDING THE DATE, JANUARY THE SIXTH, YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE WILL COME TOGETHER AS COMMISSION? I DIDN'T.
THAT THAT WOULD BE THE, HOPEFULLY THE PEOPLE ON THE COMMITTEE, THEY VOLUNTEER, BE ON THE COMMITTEE FOR CERTAIN.
I I'VE ASKED EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY IF WE COULD DO THAT.
THE WHOLE COMMISSION CERTAINLY IS WELCOME AND INVITED.
SO WE ESPECIALLY NEED TO NEED AS A GROUP, BECAUSE THIS IS, TO ME, THIS IS AN OVERWHELMING TASK.
AND I'M USED TO DOING STUFF LIKE THIS, BUT NOT, I MEAN THINGS.
I ASKED A QUESTION OF THE CITY ATTORNEY.
SO AT MY DISTRICT MEETING I SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO FOLLOW THE RULES.
ONLY TWO OF US ARE TALKING AT A TIME.
AND THEY, SOME MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT WERE LOOKING AT ME LIKE I WAS ON CRAP.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY SAID IS, OR ONE PERSON WHO SHALL REMAIN TOTALLY NAMELESS, CALL YOURSELF A TASK FORCE AND YOU CAN GET THE WORK DONE.
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ONCE YOU USE THE TERM COMMITTEE, YOU HAVE TO DO ALL HAVE TO DO IT DOWN HERE IF YOU'RE A TASK FORCE, SHE SAID YOU DON'T NEED TO.IS THAT TRUE? THAT'S WHAT I DID GET THAT QUESTION BOAS TO YOU BEFORE.
SO THAT'S NOT EXACTLY TRUE WITH THE TASK FORCE.
THERE'S STILL RULES THAT YOU WOULD WANNA FOLLOW.
UM, AND WHAT WE CAN DO THOUGH, IT SEEMS LIKE THIS IS AN AREA OF IMPORTANCE FOR YOU.
UM, I CAN HAVE A MORE FORMAL ANSWER FOR YOU ALL AS A STAFF, SO THAT WAY YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO MOVING FORWARD AND HOW YOU MIGHT WANNA PLAN.
BECAUSE IF WE COULD, IT'S NOT WORK TOGETHER, RIGHT? WE COULD GET THIS DONE SO MUCH EASIER THAN HAVING TO, TO COME AND ASK.
SO IF WE HAVE A QUESTION, ONE OF US HAS TO DECIDE WHO'S GONNA CALL THE OTHER PERSON.
'CAUSE 'CAUSE THERE CAN'T BE THREE OF US ON THE PHONE.
SO WHEN IT COMES TO A TASK FORCE, THAT'S STILL A, A BODY THAT'S LIKE IN MOTION AND MAKING DECISIONS.
SO THERE WILL STILL BE GOALS FOR YOU FOLLOW, UH, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THAT AND THAT WAY I'LL MAKE THAT A DECISION ON HOW YOU WANT TO WORK CONNECTION.
I GUESS THAT'S THE FORMAL PAPER DOING.
I I DO HAVE SOME OTHER CLARIFICATIONS ON.
NOTE THAT THIS DATE OF FEBRUARY 1ST, IS THAT A SOFT DEADLINE PARK? DEADLINE PARK.
AND WHO MADE THAT DECISION? CITY.
SO CAN WE, IF WE FIND OURSELVES IN A SITUATION, CAN WE ASK FOR A DEFERMENT OF OUR TIME? NONE.
WHEN DID YOU ASK? WELL, NO, I'M, YOU SAID THE CITY.
SO BY CITY I THOUGHT YOU MEANT THE CITY COUNCIL.
NO, WE ARE AWARE THE RUBBER MEET THE ROAD.
AND THIS IS OUR GREAT SUPPORT FOR, OKAY, SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THAT QUESTION.
'CAUSE THIS, THIS IS ALL COMING AT US AS VOLUNTEERS, RIGHT? LIKE, LIKE RIGHT NOW.
AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THIS IN A MORE TIMELY MANNER.
SO NOW WE'RE BEING PUSHED AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING.
PUSHED OR FULL, HOWEVER YOU WANNA LOOK AT IT.
HAVING A DEADLINE BY FEBRUARY 1ST.
THAT'S THE REASON I'M ASKING, ASKING THE QUESTION.
IF YOU DON'T REACH THAT DEADLINE BY FEBRUARY 1ST, WHAT HAPPENS? WE GETTING FIRED
I'VE BEEN ELECTED TO OFFICE BEFORE, SO I KNOW WHAT THAT'S LIKE.
WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THAT QUESTION BACK.
UM, AS WE HAVE NOT BEEN IN POSITION TO, UM, NOT REACH THE DECLINE IN THE PAST, UM, GIVEN THAT WE'RE IN A VERY UNIQUE, UH, SITUATION WHERE THERE IS NO SHARE AND NO BOX SHARE, WE CAN'T LIFT THAT BACK TO, UM, HOWEVER THAT WE, AND SEE IF THERE IS ANY, UM, CHANGES THAT COULD BE MADE FOR US.
HOWEVER, I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE CONDITION TO PRESS BOARD TO REACH THE DEATH.
OKAY, WE'VE GOT THREE MINUTES LEFT.
KAREN, YOU WANNA WRAP UP? I GOT TWO SECONDS.
THE NEXT THING I JUST WANNA MAKE REFERENCE.
I DON'T WANT A CONVERSATION THIS MOMENT, BUT IF STAFF, IF YOU CAN LET ME KNOW IF THE, THE, THE FIVE THINGS OR WHATEVER, HOWEVER, MAY I SECTION FIVE ON THIS PRINTOUT.
IF YOU CAN LET ME KNOW, IF, LET US KNOW.
THAT'S SOMETHING YOU ALL CAN HELP WITH HERE.
AGAIN, THAT MAY COME OUT OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN IN THERE.
AND THEN, YEAH, SOME OF IT IS ALREADY, I THINK PART OF WHAT WE'RE BEING PRESENTED TODAY, QUESTION AND, AND, UM, OKAY.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I I MEAN I KNOW FEBRUARY 1ST IS JUST, I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, IT'S NEXT WEEK.
I MEAN, MAYBE WE COULD SAY IT'S AFTER CHRISTMAS, BUT, UM, BUT I ALSO THINK THIS IS A, A GROUP THAT IS DETERMINED AND LET'S GET THIS PUT TOGETHER AND TRY TO GET IT DONE.
I MEAN, BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S HEADING INTO CHRISTMAS, RIGHT? YEAH.
DON'T YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I DID AN OUTLINE OF MY DISTRICT.
I PROMISE YOU IT'S GONNA BE LEANING GREAT.
I MEAN, SO DON'T, DON'T KILL YOURSELVES.
UM, 'CAUSE WE HOPE SOMEBODY READS IT MAYBE.
VERN MITCHELL, DISTRICT THREE, UH, DO WE HAVE A TIMELINE FOR EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE NEED TO DO? WELL, BUT THE, I'VE HEARD A DATE OF JANUARY THE SIXTH, RIGHT? THAT THE MEETING, WELL, SOME OF THE COMMISSION HAS BEEN ASKED BEFORE FOR THEIR REPORTS FROM TAB.
WE ALL GOT EMAILS THAT GUESS WHAT HAPPENED NOW WEEKS AGO.
SO WE'RE A LITTLE BEHIND THAT EIGHT BALL.
SIR, I DON'T THINK MAYBE YOU'VE TURNED YOURS IN.
THE QUESTION IS DECEMBER END, UH, JANUARY 5TH.
WE'D LIKE TO HAVE YOUR BRIEF ITEMS RIGHT HERE ON NUMBER THREE.
COMMISSION THE CONTRIBUTION BY THE COMMISSIONERS.
THIS IS ONE OF THE RARE TIMES THAT WE ARE CALLED ON
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TO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, DO SOMETHING.AND I DON'T THINK IT NEEDS TO BE, I LOVE WHAT YOU SAID.
I THINK THE BRIEFER THE BETTER.
LISTEN, WE ARE LOOKING AT SOMETHING WAS LIKE WRITTEN ON THE MOUNTAIN AND BROUGHT DOWN PETER SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND WE'RE NOT HAVING TO DO THAT.
IF WE MEET THESE CRITERIA RIGHT HERE, WE'RE IN BUSINESS.
THE MEET, I'M INQUIRING ABOUT THE TASK AND THE LIMITS FOR THE TASK IN ORDER TO REACH OUR GOAL.
AND SO I HAVE ONE DATE JANUARY 5TH, WELL, TWO LATE JANUARY THE FIFTH.
I DISTRICT GOALS AND THESE OTHER ITEMS ARE DUE IN, AND WE ARE SENDING THOSE TO YOU, MA THEN WE HAVE TO SEND THEM TO TAB, SEND TAB WE HAVE TO SEND, BECAUSE WE'RE LIMITED IN COMMUNIC, HOW MANY HAS TO GO? WE'RE SENDING EVERYTHING TO TAB.
IS IT TO YOU, TABITHA? THAT'S FINE.
AND, AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, THIS WAS THE EMAIL WE GOT ABOUT A MONTH AGO ASKING FOR IT TO BE SUBMITTED BY DECEMBER 9TH.
IS THAT CORRECT? WHEN I SENT MINE TO RIC ON DECEMBER 9TH? I'M NOT DISAGREEING WITH THAT POINT.
BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT'S NOT, THIS ISN'T SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
WITH A LITTLE ADDITION OF I SENT TWO PAGES.
I READ IT AND I HAVEN'T IMPRESSIVE.
AND I DON'T ANYBODY ELSE READ IT BECAUSE HE WILL INTIMIDATE HIM.
OKAY, LET'S GO BACK TO ERNEST'S QUESTION.
I SHOULD HAVE TWO DATES IN MIND.
JANUARY 5TH IS YOUR, UH, TURN IN DATES NUMBER THREE, TURN IN DATE.
AND, AND THEN JAN, UH, FEBRUARY 1ST.
YOU'RE ON THE COMMITTEE AND WE NEED YOUR RSVP SOON AND WE WILL BE REVIEW.
WELL, I WON'T BE ABLE TO ATTEND.
I HAVE A COMMITMENT BACK THEN.
BUT, UH, WE ARE, THE COMMITTEE WILL BE REVIEWING THOSE YES.
AND COMPILING THOSE ON THE SIXTH AND, AND AT THAT POINT DECIDING WHAT ELSE WE NEED TO DO.
ALTHOUGH I, I INTEND TO WORK ON THIS AS MUCH AS I CAN BETWEEN NOW AND THEN.
AND, UM, I MEAN HONESTLY, I I THOUGHT WE SHOULD HAVE A MEETING WHERE WE CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE NEED AND HOW CLOSE WE ARE AND WHO'S GONNA DO WHAT.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THIS THING'S GONNA GET PUT TOGETHER.
SO AGAIN, DO WE HAVE A SCHEDULE OR TIME WITH WE AS A COMMITTEE OR AS A GROUP? WE'LL GO THROUGH THE PLAN FROM 2020.
WE'LL HAVE TO, WE'LL HAVE TO DO IT.
THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG CHALLENGES.
AND SO, UH, I MEAN EACH ONE OF US, I THINK, INDIVIDUALLY NEEDS TO GO THROUGH THE LAST REPORT.
IN FACT, I'VE GOT THE LAST TWO REPORTS.
UM, AS A GROUP, WE, WE, WE CAN THEN COME TO THAT MEETING WITH THE THINGS YOU THINK FROM THOSE OTHER REPORTS THAT ARE RELEVANT.
YOU, YOU'RE SAYING DOING THIS ALL SAME MEETING JANUARY 26TH, RIGHT? GO TO FIVE.
WE'RE GONNA DO THE BEST WE CAN.
SO, SO WE'VE GOT A JANUARY 5TH MEETING AS A SUBCOMMITTEE.
JANUARY 5TH IS WHEN JANUARY DOCUMENTS.
AND, AND THE GOAL WILL BE, WHICH KAREN AND I HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT THIS, BUT AS I'M SITTING HERE, I'M THINKING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE THAT, SUMMARIZE EVERYTHING YOU SENT IT OR PUT IT TOGETHER AND A PACKET IT AND THEN PRESENT IT ON THE 26TH.
THAT'LL BE THE YES, BECAUSE THE DRAFT, DRAFT DRAFT, THE COMMISSION WILL NEED TO VOTE ON IT ON THE 20, ON THE 26TH.
AND, AND, UH, MS. DANIELS, IF YOU PLEASE WOULD CONSIDER SUBMITTING YOUR REPORT FOR YOUR CON, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW.
I HAVE YOUR DISTRICT YOU WORK PART.
ANYTHING ELSE QUESTION? WANNA WRAP THIS UP? TAB STATEMENT ON THIS, THE AGENT FRIENDLY OFFICER, UM, HER SHOULD BE, UM, WESTON WHO SERVES AS THE SUPERVISOR FOR BOARD AND COMMISSION HAS STATED THAT, UM, CODE DOES NOT STATE AN EXCEPTION, UM, OR LATE, UM, REPORTS.
HOWEVER, IF YOU ALL THINK THAT YOU ALL WILL BE LATE, YOU ALL CAN SUBMIT A EMAIL OR A MEMO TO THE CITY MANAGER STATING THE REASON FOR THE LATE SUBMISSION.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
UM, ONE OTHER COMPONENT, COMPONENT I WANTED TO SPEAK UP TO IS THE, UM, BUDGET.
SO AS IT RELATES TO THE REPORT THAT YOU GUYS PUT TOGETHER DURING THAT TIMEFRAME, UM, WE WERE PRETTY MUCH NEEDY WITHIN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND ONE THING I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO IS TO MEET WITH COMMISSIONER FRIEDMAN TO KIND OF DISCUSS WHERE WE WERE AS IT RELATES TO COMMUNICATIONS.
AND SO, UM, WHILE THINGS MAY SEEM AS IF A REGURGITATION OF AREAS REGARDING COMMUNICATION, IT WAS THAT WE DID HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT WHERE WE UM, LIKELY WOULD END WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS IT RELATES TO SOME OF THE GOALS AROUND COMMUNICATION AND STRATEGY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR, UM, THAT THIS REPORT
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MAY HAVE SOME VERY SIMILAR, UM, INFORMATION IN THERE, BUT IT'S BECAUSE WHERE WE WERE IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN WHEN YOU ALL NEEDED TO WRITE THAT REPORT.AND, AND MS. TAYLOR, I DID NOT GET MR. FRIEDMAN'S REPORT.
I CAN YOU MAKE SURE WE ALL GET THIS REPORTS? THANK YOU.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? OKAY, GOOD.
ALRIGHT, NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE MEAT OF OUR MEETING.
THE COST OF, I GUESS, SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND OUR PRESENTER TODAY IS, UH, RICK HENLEY.
WE GOT, RICK SHOULD REMEMBER DON HENLEY
AND I'M GONNA LEAD US, UM, I'M GONNA TAKE THE PODIUM IF THAT'S OKAY.
AND THEN I'M GONNA TURN OVER TO MR. RICK HENLEY AND, AND, UH, CHAIRMAN IS IT NO OR N MARY, JUST LIKE MURRAY PUT IN? NO.
PART, PART OF OUR, UH, PRESENTATION WILL BE, UH, CONDUCTED BY MY COLLEAGUE JAY WRIGHT, WHO IS ALSO WITH US TODAY, BUT ALL VIA, HE'S REMOTELY, SO HE WILL BE, UH, IN SEVERAL OF THESE SLIDES AS WELL.
UM, AND I'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE, UM, FOR, UM, OUR INTENTS AND PURPOSES.
I HAVE THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS THE AGE COUNTY OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND TODAY DURING THIS AGENDA, WE'RE GONNA DO AN OVERVIEW OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, THE PLANNING PROCESS AND REVIEW, UM, SOME OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILES.
WE THEN WILL HAVE A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, UM, OUR KEY FINDINGS ALONG WITH OUR BOLD AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
WE WILL THEN CONCLUDE WITH OUR NEXT STEPS AND ACTION ITEMS. I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT BEFORE WE GET ANY DEEP IN AND JUST EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO THE COMMISSION AT LARGE, UM, FOR BRINGING THIS FOR, UM, A FEW YEARS AGO AS A BUDGET RECOMMENDATION, UNDERSTANDING THAT OUR, UM, COMMUNITY IS NEVER CHANGING AND THAT THE CITY OF DALLAS NEEDS TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY AND ITS CHANGES.
SO AS IT RELATES TO THE STRATEGIC, UM, PLANNING PROCESS IN OUR, WE HAD SEVERAL DIFFERENT AREAS IN WHICH WE LOOKED AT.
WE CAN GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
UM, WE DID LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE CITY OF DALLAS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHO OUR OLDER ADULTS WERE.
WE EXAMINED A FULL RANGE OF SERVICES AVAILABLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT RELATE TO FREE TO LOW COST SERVICES, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY BOTH THE CITY OF DALLAS AND ALSO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND THEN THAT THEN HELPED US TO UNDERSTAND THE OVERALL, UM, SERVICES, THE LANDSCAPE WE HAVE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
WE LOOKED AT THE PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS AS WELL.
UH, WE DID SPEAK WITH OVER 20 STAFF MEMBERS THAT SUPPORT OLDER ADULT PROGRAMMING.
AND WE REVIEWED HOW WELL THE CITY PROGRAMS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE ACTUAL NEEDS OF THE, OF THE OLDER ADULTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
WE THEN COMPARED THE SERVICES OFFERED, UM, WITHIN THE LEVEL OF DEMAND TO ALSO DETERMINE HOW WE NEED TO START MOVING FORWARD.
YOU GUYS WILL HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT AND HOW WE NEED TO PREPARE TO, UM, SHARE AND UNDERSTAND, UH, RESOURCES AND WHERE WE SHOULD FOCUS.
WE DID ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGE-FRIENDLY ACTION PLAN TO DETERMINE HOW MANY, UM, ACTION ITEMS WE ACTUALLY COMPLETED AS IT RELATES TO THE GOAL.
WE ALSO LOOKED AT THE AGE-FRIENDLY ACTION PLANS TO HELP US DETERMINE WHAT WE NEED TO DO IN REWRITING THE NEXT ITERATION FOR THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE YEARS BASED ON THE DATA.
UM, THEN ALL OF THIS HELP US TO UNDERSTAND, UH, WHAT WE NEED TO DO, NOT JUST WITH THE AGE FRIENDLY ACTION PLAN, BUT THEN ALSO HOW WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR OLDER ADULTS AND UTILIZE CITY PLATFORMS AND ALSO LOOK BEYOND.
NEXT SLIDE, I'M GONNA DISCUSS JUST A LITTLE BIT REGARDING THE DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF OUR DALLAS OLDER ADULTS.
SO AS WE ARE ALL AWARE, OUR OLDER ADULTS ARE LIVING LONGER AND DALLAS SHOWS A SIGNIFICANT RISE IN POPULATION OF OLDER ADULTS AGE 60 YEARS AND OLDER.
IF WE LOOK AT THE YEARS 2000 TO 2023, THERE WAS AN INCREASE OF NEARLY 62%.
THIS IS THE UPWARD TREND THAT CONTINUES TO RISE IN THE COMING YEARS.
AND ACCORDING TO THE US CENSUS BY 20 20, 20 30, EXCUSE ME, UM, JUST ABOUT 20% OF OUR POPULATION WILL BE OLDER, JUST AGE 60 YEARS AND OLDER.
WITH THAT SAID, WE UNDERSTAND ONCE AGAIN THE NEED IN PREPARING FOR OUR OLDER ADULT COMMUNITY.
NOW LOOKING AT OUR CITY, WE HAVE OVER 219,000 OLDER ADULTS AGE 60 YEARS AND OLDER.
AND WITH THAT SAY, SAID 46,000 LIVE ALONE HIGHLIGHTING POTENTIAL, UM, THE POTENTIAL FOR SOCIAL ISOLATION CONCERNS OVER 32,000
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LIVE BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LINE SHOWING SOME ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY AND NEARLY 30,000 LIVE WITH TWO OR MORE DISABILITIES IN TERMS OF OUR RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION.47% WHITE, 27% BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN, AND 20% BELONG TO THE HISPANIC LATINO POPULATION.
THIS RE REPRESENTS OUR CITY DIVERSITY.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE SUMMARY OF OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT, AND AT THIS TIME, I'LL TURNING IT OVER TO MR. JASON WRIGHT WITH GUIDEHOUSE.
AND BEFORE WE DO THAT TAB, WE CAN GO BACK TO THE DALLAS DEMOGRAPHICS.
UH, WHAT YOU ARE REPORTING IS, HAS SOME OF THE NUMBERS CHANGED SINCE THIS THEY HAVE? OKAY.
SO IF YOU ALL CAN REFLECT, UM, THE DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT WAS DONE VERY, VERY EARLY ON, UM, IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE, UM, CENSUS DATA WAS NOT RELEASED UNTIL NEXT SPRING.
AND SO I'M HAPPY WE'RE GOING BACK TO KIND OF LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE DATA PIECES.
HOWEVER, WE DID NOT WANT TO DELAY THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BE LONGER WITH THOSE MODIFICATIONS.
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU GUYS WENT OUT FOR A SO CAN YOU UPDATE FOLLOWING? AND I SAID WAIT A MINUTE.
CAN YOU UPDATE THAT FOR US? YES, WE UPDATE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, COMMISSIONER.
AND AT THIS TIME I'LL TURN YOU OVER TO MR. JASON WRIGHT.
UM, GOOD MORNING AND AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
IT'S, UH, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE ABLE TO SEE EVERYBODY AGAIN, EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE VERY TINY ON MY SCREEN.
SINCE WE ARE PRESENTING, UM, I'M GONNA PROVIDE JUST A LITTLE BIT OF REVIEW, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL REMEMBER, UH, WHERE WE, UM, WHERE WE WENT IN ORDER TO GET TO THE FINAL WORK PRODUCT OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID IS WE DID A COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT THAT, UM, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THESE DIFFERENT BLUE TILES, THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY NINE KEY RESEARCH EFFORTS, BOTH WITH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA COMPONENTS THAT WE CONDUCTED OVER THE COURSE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAN.
AND THAT WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THE RIGHT DATA, UM, BOTH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE IN ORDER TO CREATE THE FINAL PRODUCT.
SO EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THESE, UH, WERE, UM, LISTENING SESSIONS BOTH FOR OLDER ADULTS, UM, AND PROVIDERS, AS WELL AS, UH, CREATING A VERY COMPREHENSIVE DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF, OF HEALTH DASHBOARD SPECIFIC TO THE INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
SO ON OUR NEXT SLIDE, WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL ABOUT THESE.
UM, SO, UM, WE HELD GROUP INTERVIEWS AND TALKED TO OVER 20 EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF DALLAS.
UM, WE DID A SURVEY, UM, OF, AND, UH, AN INDEX, UH, OF 36 SERVICES, UM, 36 ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING 92 SERVICES.
WE RECEIVED OVER 470 PAPER AND DIGITAL SURVEYS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO, UH, WERE INTERESTED IN PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE CITY OF DALLAS.
WE ALSO DID CITYWIDE VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON LISTENING SESSIONS.
UM, THEN WE ANALYZED, UM, AND REVIEWED THE KEY THEMES AND THOSE WERE USED TO DRIVE THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS ON WHICH TYPE OF, UH, DOMAINS AND ACTION ITEMS WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE PLAN.
ON THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS BY SERVICE TYPE.
THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF DATA THAT WE COLLECTED.
AND THIS IS THE TYPE OF SERVICE THAT IS PROVIDED, UM, BY, UH, EXCUSE ME, THIS IS THE NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE A SPECIFIC TYPE OF SERVICE.
SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THERE IS ROOM FOR GROWTH, UM, IN CERTAIN SERVICES AS WELL AS AREAS WHERE, UH, INDIVIDUALS AND OLDER ADULTS ARE, ARE, ARE, HAVE OPPORTUNITIES AND OPTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO RECEIVING PARTICULAR SERVICES.
NEXT, WE'LL TALK JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF OUR KEY FINDINGS, AND ON THE FOLLOWING SLIDE, THERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF OUR SOCIAL DETERMINANTS, UH, DASHBOARD.
WE USED, UM, A LARGE VOLUME OF US CENSUS DATA ALONG WITH SOME OTHER DATA, DATA DOWN TO THE ZIP CODE LEVEL.
AND WE ASSIGNED VALUES TO, TO A, A LARGE VOLUME OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH CATEGORIES.
AND WHAT WE DID WAS WE, UM, WE SHOWCASED THE, HOW THE STATE WAS DOING AND HOW THE CITY WAS DOING, COMPARING IT TO A NATIONAL AVERAGE.
AND THAT IS JUST TO SHOWCASE WHERE THE CITY OF DALLAS IS IN RELATION TO THE STATE AS A WHOLE.
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THE NATION AS A WHOLE IN, IN HELPING DECISION MAKERS DECIDE WHAT MIGHT BE A PRIORITY, UM, BECAUSE SOMETHING MAY BE A PRIORITY IN A DISTRICT OR IN A ZIP CODE.UM, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY IN LINE WITH NATIONAL AND STATE AVERAGES.
SO MAYBE THE DECISION IS, UH, TO ADDRESS, UH, AN AREA THAT HAS TO USE RESOURCES TO ADDRESS AN AREA THAT HAS A, A LOWER RATING, UM, COMPARATIVELY.
UH, AND THAT WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION WAS HAD ON THOSE TYPES OF, UH, ANALYSES WHEN IT CAME TO DECIDING THE DIFFERENT DOMAINS AND ACTION ITEMS. SO THAT'S IT FOR THE HIGH LEVEL RECAP.
UM, I'M HAPPY TO, TO FEEL ANY QUESTIONS OR, OR COMMENTS BEFORE I HAND IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE RICK HENLEY, WHO'S GOING TO DISCUSS THE PLAN IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.
I, I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE, ONE STATEMENT IS, UH, REQUEST IF YOU WOULD PROVIDE US THE LIST OF THE ORGANIZATIONS OR AGENCIES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THIS SURVEY.
I'M JUST CURIOUS AND I MEAN THAT'S WHERE YOU KNOW WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.
WHAT THIS, THIS SOCIAL DETERMINANT, I'M SORRY, I I I'M NOT CLEAR WHAT THIS IS AND HOW YOU SAID DALLAS VERSUS THE STATE.
WE COMPARED THE CITY OF DALLAS TO THE STATE OF TEXAS, BUT ALSO TO THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.
AND WHAT DOES, WHAT, WHAT DID YOU CONCLUDE FROM THAT? SO WE CAN CONCLUDE FOR EXAMPLE, IF FOOD INSECURITY WAS A, A DESIRED, UM, METRIC THAT THE CITY WANTED TO ADDRESS, THIS ALLOWS THE CITY TO LOOK ZIP CODE BY ZIP CODE AND MAKE A DETERMINATION OF THE ZIP CODES THAT ARE DOING, UM, WELL ON THE FOOD INSECURITY METRIC.
MAYBE DON'T NEED RESOURCES ALLOCATED TO THEM, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE DISTRICTS OR ZIP CODES THAT ARE FAR UNDER THE NATIONAL OR STATE AVERAGE.
IT'S EXCELLENT FOR DETERMINING THE BEST USE OF RESOURCES IN A TARGETED WAY RATHER THAN MAKING, UM, A PLAN SORT OF TRY TO ADDRESS THE CITY, UM, AS A WHOLE RIGHT THROUGH BLANKET POLICY.
IT ALLOWS US TO BECOME VERY TACTICAL IN THE DELIVERY OF RESOURCES TO BOLSTER CERTAIN SERVICES.
SO ARE YOU JUST EDUCATING AS TO THE FACT THAT THIS TOOL EXISTS? YES.
UH, COMMISSIONER ROSS? YES MA'AM.
AND THE FACT THAT IT WAS USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAN.
AND, AND IF I MAY ADD, UH, THERE IS A SECTION IN THE PLAN THAT TALKS ABOUT THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH DASHBOARD.
AND IT ALSO GIVES A RATING AND IF REMEMBER SEARCH ME CORRECTLY, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD INSECURITY, UH, THE CITY OF DALLAS ACTUALLY, UH, IT WAS QUITE LOW COMPARED TO BOTH THE NATION AND THE STATE OF TEXAS.
AND THAT'S ALSO CONSISTENT WITH THE DOMAINS THAT WE HAVE LISTED HERE.
FOOD INSECURITY ACTUALLY, UH, FELL INTO THE HIGHEST PRIORITY NEED, UH, IN TERMS OF THE BUCKETING THOSE DOMAINS.
SO THERE'S A WHOLE SECTION THAT EXPLAINS IT.
THANK, THANK, I JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT AND, AND I'M GONNA SHY CHIME IN HERE TOO, RICK.
SO THIS REALLY SPEAKS TO WHEN, KNOW, YOU PROBABLY CAN'T SEE IT VERY SMALL, BUT WHEN WE ACTUALLY TAKE THE DATA THAT WE RETRIEVE FROM THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND WE ACTUALLY PUT THAT INTO A DASHBOARD, WHAT THE POWER COULD BE OF IT, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, AND HOW WE CAN RETRIEVE INFORMATION TO HELP US NAVIGATE WHERE WE SHOULD GO NEXT.
UM, THEY HAVE SHOWED US NOW A TOOL THAT CAN BE UTILIZED AND HOW IT CAN UTILIZE.
SO WHAT WE KIND OF NEED TO DO, AND I'M GONNA KIND OF GO AHEAD AND JUMP BACK, BUT, UM, THIS LETS US KNOW IF THE CITY WAS TO HONOR OR IF THERE WAS FUNDING FOR US TO TAKE A DASHBOARD, THEN WE CAN UTILIZE SOME DISPATCH.
SO I JUST WANTED TO THAT BACK.
CAN I ASK ANOTHER QUESTION? SO SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOD INSECURITY, WE ARE VERY AWARE OF THE FOOD INSECURITY WE READ ABOUT IN THE PAPERS.
OUR CITY KNOWS WE HAVE A REAL PROBLEM IN CERTAIN SECTIONS OF OUR CITY.
SO IF, AND PARTICULARLY WITH SENIOR POPULATIONS.
SO I'M GONNA MOVE US AHEAD AND ASK WHAT MAY SEEM LIKE A STUPID QUESTION RIGHT NOW.
SO LOOK AT, SO WE'RE GONNA DECIDE THAT FOOD INSECURITY IS AN ISSUE PARTICULARLY FOR THE SENIORS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION, YOU'RE REALLY IN TROUBLE.
UM, SO IF WE DECIDE AS A COMMISSION THAT WE WANT TO MAKE THAT A PRIORITY, THIS IS, THIS IS NOBODY BUT ME TALKING.
NOW, IF WE DECIDE THAT WE WANNA MAKE FOOD INSECURITY FOR SENIORS A PRIORITY FOR COMMISSION, CAN WE DO THAT? AND WHERE WOULD THAT GO? SO, OH, I I I'M JUST TRYING FIGURE OUT THE EFFICACY OF WHAT WE'RE DOING BY
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TRYING, SO MA'AM, UM, YOU ACTUALLY BROUGHT THAT UP SEVERAL TIMES.SO IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THAT, UH, IF GETTING A LITTLE AHEAD OURSELVES, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT GOAL TWO WHERE WE TALK ABOUT EXPANDING OUR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION, BUILDING UPON WHAT ALREADY WORKS AND EXPANDING THAT FOOD INSECURITY, UH, WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE DOMAINS THAT WE ADDRESSED.
IN FACT, WE FOUND IT TO BE SO IMPORTANT THAT WE ACTUALLY TASKED OCHE WITH DEVELOPING A FOOD INSECURITY PLAN.
BASICALLY A, YOU A SECURITY PLAN, A PLAN WITHIN A PLAN, IF YOU WILL, THAT IT INCORPORATES CERTAIN ACTION ITEMS THAT WE'VE LISTED IN HERE.
I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE 'EM ALL LISTED IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT IT IS VERY COMPREHENSIVE AND IT'S VERY ROBUST ANTICIPATED THAT YOU WOULD ASK THAT PUNCH SHEET.
ALRIGHT, SO THEN WE WOULD, EXCUSE ME PHIL, IF I CAN JUST FINISH MY THOUGHT.
SO THEN WE WERE TO READ WHAT YOU HAVE COMPREHENSIVELY PUT TOGETHER AND SAY THIS IS PART OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
WE ONLY HAVE SO MUCH BANDWIDTH.
SO THEN WE WILL HAVE THE RIGHT AS A COMMISSION RIGHT, TO SAY, UM, WE REALLY WANT TO ADDRESS THE FOOD INSECURITY ISSUE FROM A STRATEGIC PLAN.
THEN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN CAPITA AFTER THAT? SO AS DO ALL, WE HAVE ALREADY FOR STATED THAT THE, THE REPORT HAS AS A LARGE WILL GO TO THE CITY MANAGER.
UM, AND AT THAT TIME WE'LL COME BACK.
SO OUR DEPARTMENT TO SEEK OUT WAYS THAT WE CAN COL CONTINUE OUR COLLABORATION.
WHAT YOU ALL WILL FIND, I'M SORRY, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE JUMPING AHEAD, BUT WHAT YOU ALL WILL FIND IS THAT A LOT OF THESE, THIS WORK WE ARE DOING IN SOME TYPE OF CAPACITY, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THE NEED TO CONTINUE THE COLLABORATION AND TO ALSO SEEK ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
UM, AND THAT'S WHERE I BELIEVE, UM, IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHERE EVERYTHING KIND OF MEETS, UM, AS WE COPE ALL TOGETHER IS REALLY TO EXPAND WHAT WE'RE DOING OR REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS STILL SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER A PRIORITY WITHIN THE CITY.
AND, AND I THINK COMMISSIONER CARTEL SOMETHING THOUGH, 'CAUSE AS YOU ALL READ IN THE ACTUAL REPORT ITSELF, WHEN WE ASKED THAT QUESTION, UH, THROUGH THE SURVEYS AND THROUGH ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS, HAVE YOU HAD TO CHOOSE BETWEEN BUYING DRUGS OR BUYING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, PAYING YOUR UTILITIES OR FOOD? HAVE YOU HAD TO MAKE THAT CHOICE? I THINK IT WAS 27% RESPONDENT IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
IT'S WAY TOO, I DON'T WANNA JUMP AHEAD, BUT I THINK HE SAID SOMETHING IMPORTANT.
SO WHEN YOU GET YOUR PLAN AND YOU SEE FOOD INSECURITIES, DID I UNDERSTAND HIM TO SAY THIS IS NOT A ONE FIT ALL Y'ALL GO TO THE PERSON OF THE ZIP CODE THAT MAYBE HAVE THAT NEED THE MOST AND TRY TO ATTACK THAT NEED.
SO IT STILL GONNA KEEP SITTING AND I'M JUST SORRY FOR THIS LANGUAGE, BUT IT INSTEAD JUST KEEP SITTING HERE TALKING.
I SAYS A STRATEGIC PLAN, WE GONNA IMPLEMENT THAT PLAN WITH THE ZIP CODES OF THOSE WHO ACTUALLY NEED IT.
BECAUSE WHAT I FOUND OUT IN MY OVER 21 YEARS OF LEAVING, EVERYBODY DON'T HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS. SO WHEN 7 5 2 16 I SAID, OH 7 5 2 16 MIGHT NEED FOOD, YOU'LL TRY TO HELP THAT 7 5 2 0 3 MIGHT NEED HOUSING.
AND THAT, THAT'S WHAT I THINK I HEARD AND THAT'S WHAT I HEARD.
JUST TRY TO MEET THE PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE OR NOT.
JUST TAKE ONE THING, OKAY, EVERYBODY GONNA GET FOOD? WELL, I DON'T NEED FOOD.
I MIGHT BE, SO I THINK I HEARD THAT.
SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS LET Y'ALL FIT.
I'M SORRY, I'M ALWAYS TALKING THAT Y'ALL FINISH AND THEN WE CAN SEE 'CAUSE IT LIKE Y'ALL GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THIS.
AND I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I THINK THE NEXT SLIDE IN WHICH MR. HENLEY IS GOING TO TAKE REALLY TALKS ABOUT THOSE SIX GOALS, THE OVERARCHING GOALS, AND THEN THE TIMEFRAME.
'CAUSE WE UNDERSTAND WE CANNOT, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENT EVERYTHING ALL TIME, RIGHT? SO WE DO NEED TO SET OURSELF UP, OF COURSE IT SAYS, AND SEEK OUT OUR PARTNERS, OUR COLLABORATORS TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD.
AND I WILL BE TR VERY TRANSPARENT WHEN I SAY THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE ALL OF US AND ALL OF OUR STRENGTHS TO REALLY MOVE THE STRATEGIC PLAN FORWARD.
ONE THING THAT GUIDEHOUSE TEAM AND I, WE SPOKE IN THE VERY INITIAL STAGES.
WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I DID NOT WANT THIS PLANT TO BE ONE TO SIT ON THE SHELF.
AND EVEN WITH, UM, THE LACK OF SOME FINANCIAL ALLOCATIONS, WE DO NEED TO FIND VERY, UM, INNOVATIVE WAYS TO MOVE THIS FORWARD GIVEN OUR POLITICAL CLIMATE AND OTHER, UH, SITUATIONS THAT WE CURRENTLY SEE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO AT THIS TIME, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MR. UM, LEY AND THEN WE CAN REPORT FROM THERE.
AND, AND THANK YOU MR. CHAIR FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
I DID NOT BRING THIS COLD WEATHER WITH ME.
I CAN ASSURE YOU LAST TIME I HERE WAS A HUNDRED DEGREES, SO Y'ALL BLAME JAY.
AND SO IF I'M LOSING MY VOICE, IT'S LITERALLY BECAUSE OF 24 HOURS.
I'VE GONE FROM 80 DEGREES TO 29 AND I I DON'T LIKE GOING
SO, UH, THE, JUST A VERY GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN, I'M NOT GONNA LIE TO Y'ALL.
IT'S GOT SIX GOALS OVER, UH, APPROXIMATELY FOUR STRATEGIES AND APPROXIMATELY 90 ACTION ITEMS. THESE ARE HOW WE'RE GONNA CARRY OUT THESE STRATEGIES.
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ITEMS SUCH THAT THEY WEREN'T SO SPECIFIC, THAT WE DIDN'T TIE Y'ALL'S HAND, THAT WE DIDN'T GET TOO IMPACTFUL IN HOW WE WERE GOING TO APPROACH HOW WE WERE GONNA ACHIEVE THESE GOALS.WE WANTED TO GIVE OCA AND Y'ALL SOME LEEWAY BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THE PUBLIC, UM, HEALTH EMERGENCY TAUGHT US THINGS CHANGE OVERNIGHT, RESOURCES CHANGE OVERNIGHT, POLITICS CHANGE OVERNIGHT, HUMAN RESOURCES CHANGE OVERNIGHT.
SO WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL THAT ADEQUATE FLEXIBILITY WHEN WE, ONE THING I ALSO WANTED TO POINT OUT, WHEN WE DEVELOPED THESE, WE LOOKED AT OTHER CITIES, UH, WHO HAD DEVELOPED SIMILAR STRATEGIC PLANS THAT WERE OF SIMILAR SIZE, UH, AND DEMOGRAPHICS OF DALLAS.
TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU, THERE WEREN'T A LOT OF THEM.
AS I STATED TO YOU ALL LAST TIME WHILE I WAS HERE, YOU ALL ARE ONE OF THE FOREFRONT, YOU'RE IN THE FOREFRONT OF DOING THIS, DEVELOPING THE, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN FOR YOUR SENIORS WITHIN THE CITY AND YOU SHOULD BE APPLAUDED FOR THAT.
BUT WE DID LOOK AT OTHER STATES AND OTHER CITIES WHO HAVE DONE THIS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BOSTON, MIAMI, UH, SAN MATEO AND IRVINE, CALIFORNIA.
WE LOOKED AT SOME OF THEIR STRATEGIES, LOOKED AT SOME OF THEIR GOALS, AND I WANT TO ASSURE YOU ALL WORKING WITH NER SHOP, WE DIDN'T JUST PICK UP THOSE GOALS OF STRATEGIES TO POP HERE.
WE REALLY TRIED TO MAKE THE, UH, RESPONSIVE TO WHAT WE HEARD YOU ALL QUANTITATIVE SOURCES, QUALITATIVE SOURCE AND MAKE THEM DALLAS SPECIFIC AS STAFF TO SODA.
I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU MET WITH US BACK IN NOVEMBER, YOU TOLD US THAT WANTED THIS PLAN, YOU WANTED IT TO BE TIME LIMITED IN TERMS OF YOU WANTED, YOU DIDN'T WANT THIS TO SIT ON THE SHELF AND, AND HEY, YOU WANTED THINGS TIME WHETHER, SO THESE STRATEGIES, GOALS, AND THESE ACTION ITEMS ARE IN THREE DIFFERENT BUCKETS.
AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE HERE, THINGS THAT ARE, WE WANNA HAPPEN TO 12 MONTHS, MEDIUM, ONE IN THREE AND LONG TERM THREE TO FIVE.
THE BULK OF THE THINGS THAT ARE, THAT WE HAVE LISTED HERE ARE GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST YEAR.
SO TAP THEM ONCE YOU GET THIS THROUGH.
OKAY, SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE SIX OVERARCHING GOALS.
UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL ABOUT ALL THESE.
SO, UH, GOAL ONE WAS TO CREATE A CITYWIDE DEPARTMENTAL REGION EDUCATION PLAN.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE CITY OF DALLAS AND SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO WE FELT LIKE WE WOULD BE REMISS IF WE DIDN'T FIRST START OUT WITH WHO THE CITY.
WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHY GOAL TWO TALKS ABOUT THE STRONG COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES SERVICES TO SENIORS IN IN THE DEPTH CITY OF DALLAS, UH, METROPOLITAN AREA.
YOU HAVE A GREAT ROBUST, UH, CBO INFRASTRUCTURE.
THIS TALKS ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GONNA STRENGTHEN THAT AND EXPAND THAT.
UH, GOAL THREE, ONE OF THE THINGS WE HEARD FROM YOU ALL AND EVERYWHERE WE WENT IS VOLUNTEERISM.
UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY PREVALENT, SO WE FELT LIKE IT NEEDED ITS OWN GOAL.
IT'S BIFURCATED IN THE FACT THAT IT ACTUALLY TRIES TO ACHIEVE TWO PROMPTS.
ONE, WE TRY TO CREATE, UH, OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS TO VOLUNTEER MORE WITH OLDER ADULTS.
HAVE THAT INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION THAT WE FEEL IS LACKING AS WELL AS TO CREATE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR OLDER ADULTS THEMSELVES.
GO FOUR IS TO CREATE A STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN OUTSIDE OF YOUR CBOS, OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF DALLAS EDUCATIONAL, UH, HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS, EDUCATIONAL, UH, FACILIT BUSINESSES.
WE WANTED TO BRING THEM IN THE FOLD AS WELL AS THEY START THINKING ABOUT HOW THEY'RE GOING TO CREATE BENEFITS AND SERVICES AND, AND, AND START BRINGING AGE FRIENDLY PRINCIPLES INTO THE THINGS THAT THEY WANT TO DO TO HAVE THE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WITH THE, TO US WHEN SHE DEVELOP, WHEN WE WERE TASKED WITH DEVELOPING THE SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN IS SERVICES IS THE KEY.
THE SERVICES SHOULD BE READ BROADLY, NOT JUST IN TERMS OF ACTUALLY ONE-ON-ONE SERVICES, BUT THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY HELP BENEFIT PEOPLE, BENEFITS, SERVICES, PROGRAM, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THIS, UH, HELPS BROADEN THAT AND FIVE, ESTABLISHED AND SUPPORT HAVING TO THE, UH, CIVIC, UH, ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM DOING THIS FOR SEVERAL YEARS IS IT'S GREAT TO HAVE A SNAPSHOT OF TIME AND TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA EXPAND WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
BUT WE KNOW TECHNOLOGY'S CHANGED, DEMOGRAPHICS ARE CHANGING.
LET'S START BEING FORWARD THINKING.
SO THIS ACTUALLY, UM, THIS ACTUALLY TRIES TO CREATE MECHANISMS SO THAT WHEN PROGRAMS OR SERVICES OR BENEFITS ARE DEVELOPED, THE SENIORS HAVE A VOICE AT THE FRONT END SO THAT IF SOMEONE IS SETTING ASIDE HOUSING, UH, THAT SENIORS ARE CONSIDERED WHEN THAT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IS BUILT, SO THAT THE FOUR FIRST FOUR UNITS ON THE BOTTOM, ON THE BOTTOM ARE ACTUALLY SOME SIDE FOR SENIORS.
SO THIS ACTUALLY TRIES TO GET THEM THE BOTTOM PER RESPECTIVELY.
SO THAT MOVING FORWARD AS THE CITY OF DALLAS DEMOGRAPHICS, UH, GROW, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF VERSUS AGE 60 AND OH, THEN WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO MEET THAT.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, UH, COMMUNICATION.
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WANNA GET AHEAD OF MYSELF, BUT WHEN WE ACTUALLY WERE TASKED WITH DEVELOPING THIS, UH, SENIOR SERVICES STRATEGIC PLAN, THERE WERE EIGHT DOMAINS THAT WE WERE ASKED TO.YOU SAW THOSE IN THE PLACE, UH, AGENT IN PLACE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UH, MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION.
WHAT WE HEARD FROM SEEN OLDER ADULTS, THE MOST PREVALENT THING WE'VE HEARD OVER AND OVER, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THIS ECHO THROUGHOUT, IS I DON'T KNOW WHAT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE AND IF I DO KNOW WHAT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE, HOW DO I ACCESS THEM? SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE THIS BOOKEND GOAL ONE IS BASICALLY INFORMATION AND GOAL SIX IS HOW WE COMMUNICATE THAT INFORMATION.
THAT'S WHY THERE'S STRATEGIC BOOKEND.
SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GOAL ONE.
UH, CHAIRMAN MILLER, AS I GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE GOALS, YOU WANT ME TO SAY QUESTIONS UNTIL IF YOU DO IT ALL OF THEM OR JUST STOP IT? EACH ONE.
I WANTED TO JUMP IN ALSO, UM, TO SAY THAT WHILE WE SEE VERY YOU, UM, OF THE STRATEGIES LISTED ON THE PAGE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT.
I DON'T WANNA SAY, OKAY, I DON'T WANNA TAKE YOU.
IT'S A NOT EX RIGHT? OKAY, AWESOME.
WELL, HE, HE, HE'LL SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.
BUT ONE THING WE WANTED TO DO IS THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE BUILDING, WE'RE BUILDING ON A FOUNDATION THAT'S ALREADY BEEN LAID.
WE UNDERSTAND SOMETIMES THERE MAY BE SHIFTS IN A FOUNDATION, THERE MAY BE CRACKS AND THERE MAY BE GAPS, RIGHT? AND SO WHAT I WANT AS WHAT WE WANTED TO DO AS WE LOOK FOR THIS LEVEL OF PRESENTATION IS TO LOOK TO SEE, HEY, WHAT IS SOMETHING NEW THAT WE HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE? LET'S PUT THAT IN THE PRESENTATION.
YOU ALL CAN READ THE OTHER STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS WITHIN THE REPORT ITSELF, BUT FOR THIS INTENT AND PURPOSES OF THIS PRESENTATION, WE'RE PULLING OUT THINGS THAT WE FEEL THAT THE MISSION WE HAVE NOT DONE AS A WHOLE, THE CITY.
SO GOAL ONE IS CREATE CITYWIDE DEPARTMENT OUTREACH AND EDUCATION PLAN AS I THINK TAPA AND OR JAY STATED EARLIER THAT AT THE OUTSET OF THE PROJECT, WE, UH, INTERVIEWED, UM, OVER 20 CITY OFFICIALS.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEARD OVER AND OVER IS WE, WE'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT THIS DEPARTMENT DOES, WHAT THIS OFFICE DOES.
WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S OUT THERE.
SO, UH, THIS GOAL HERE IS VERY ROBUST.
THIS GOAL HAS 10 STRATEGIES WITH OVER 26 ACTION ITEMS. AND, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE THE ACTUAL PLAN IN FRONT OF YOU, BUT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT MOST OF THE STRATEGIES SAVED MAYBE ONE OR TWO ARE AROUND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION.
SO MOST OF THESE ARE AROUND, UH, HOW TO ADDRESS WHAT WE HEARD, THE LOUDS, HOW DO I KNOW ABOUT SERVICES AND HOW DO I ACCESS THEM.
SO THAT'S WHAT THESE ACTUAL STRATEGIES THROUGH THESE ACTION ITEMS ARE, UH, ARE MEANT TO ADDRESS.
THIS STRATEGY IS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE INFORMATION, AVAILABILITY, PROVIDE YOU ALL AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH REAL TIME VISIBILITY.
UH, PROVIDE A ONE STOP SHOP FOR CITY SERVICES.
AND, UH, I THINK THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT TASK THAT YOU MENTIONED THIS, YOU TOLD US THIS, THAT YOU DON'T WANT SIT ON THE SHELF.
SO WITHIN THIS ACTUAL GOAL, WE CREATED A CONTINUOUS MONITORING PROCESS THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF DASHBOARDS AND AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
SO WHAT THAT DOES IS THAT ENSURES THAT ONCE THIS PLAN GETS OUT THERE ON THE STREETS AND TAB AND HER TEAM START IMPLEMENTING THIS, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A REAL TIME IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT TRACKS, UH, WHAT IS OUR PROGRESS? IS THIS WORKING? DO WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO THIS? DOES THE DATA TELL US THAT WE NEED TO SHIFT GEARS HERE? NOW, KNOWING WHAT I KNOW ABOUT YOU ALL, UH, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GONNA LET THIS PLAN JUST GO OUT THERE AND SIT ON THE SHELF, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND FROM OTHER CITIES AND OTHER STATES WHO HAVE DONE THIS, AND SOME OF THE PE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TOLD US, IS THAT'S OFTEN WHAT HAPPENED IS A PLAN WOULD GET APPROVED AND WE GET PUT OUT THERE AND NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.
SO WE BUILT THAT COMPONENT IN HERE.
ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE, YOU'LL SEE THE WORD DASHBOARD SEVERAL TIMES IN THIS PARTICULAR, UM, IN THIS PARTICULAR GOAL, THERE'S A DASHBOARD THAT SHOWS PROGRESS TOWARD THE, UH, TOWARD THE ACTUAL SENIOR SERVICES PLAN.
THERE'S AN INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD SO THAT PERSONS CAN GET ON THERE AND, AND ACTUALLY APPLY FOR SERVICES.
THERE'S ALSO A TRACKING COMPONENT SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT TYPE OF SERVICES THE PEOPLE ARE APPLYING FOR, WHAT DO THEY APPLY FOR, WHERE ARE THEY APPROVED, WHERE ARE THEY NOT APPROVED, UH, WHEN IS THE REQUEST FOR THIS PARTICULAR SERVICE INCREASE, ET CETERA.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE NOTICED FROM WORKING WITH YOU ALL IS YOU ALL LIKE THAT.
YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO THIS ATTEMPT TO GIVE THIS TO YOU IN REAL TIME, SO THIS IS ONE THAT WAS VERY SPECIFIC TO DALLAS.
IT'S ONE WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S VERY ROBUST.
IT'S ONE THAT I'M SURE THAT ONCE, UH, WE GET APPROVED, TABITHA,
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THAT YOU'RE, THIS IS GONNA KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT.UH, AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE STRATEGY FIVE HERE.
THIS IS, UH, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE STRATEGIES THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THIS PARTICULAR GOAL.
SO THIS IS JUST BUT ONE, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S FAIRLY NEW CREATION OF AN INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD.
THE CITY OF MIAMI ACTUALLY TRIED TO IMPLEMENT THIS IN THEIR PLAN.
THEY HAVE NOT DONE SO YET, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DO.
ADDITIONALLY, UH, I KNOW YOU ALL LIKE, UM, UM, YOU ALL LIKE DATA AROUND, UM, UH, DEMOGRAPHICS.
SO THIS IS ATTEMPTS TO GIVE THIS TO YOU ALONG WITH THE, UH, GENERAL PUBLIC AND REAL TIME.
ARE WE READY FOR QUESTIONS? UH, THIS GO ONE, IT PROBABLY WOULD BE BEST WE TAKE THE QUESTIONS.
UH, I JUST DON'T, I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA AND YES.
YOU KNOW, AND WHAT TO DO FOR US.
WHAT ABOUT COST? IS THIS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO, UH, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO GET FUNDING FOR? WHAT, WHAT'S COMPONENT MA'AM? THIS DASHBOARD AND THIS FOLLOWING UP THIS TO CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT AND FOLLOW UP.
I LOVE THE IDEA OF YOU, YOU KNOW, UH, DOING CONSTANT MONITORING TO SEE ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.
I LOVE THE IDEA OF REALLY MONITORING WHAT KIND OF REQUESTS AND SERVICES ARE GOING ON.
IS THAT GONNA BE AN ADDITIONAL COST? THAT'S THAT SOMEHOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE CITY FUNDS, I KNOW LYRICA AND HER TEAM ALREADY TRACKS THIS, SO I THINK THE ONLY ADDITIONAL COST AND TAB, PLEASE KEEP ME HONEST HERE, WOULD BE THE VISUALIZATION OF THAT DATA THAT YOU ALREADY TRACK.
SO I WOULD, BUT I WOULD AGREE YOU, SO IT'D BE CREATING THE INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD IS WHAT WOULD BE THAT'S CORRECT.
UM, I, I DON'T WANNA GO AHEAD ON MYSELF.
I KNOW THAT, UM, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, GALA SHAW, UM, I BELIEVE SHE IS PRESENT ONLINE, BUT I WILL SAY WE COME AT A VERY, I KNOW FOR SOME WE SAY, WELL, WE'RE A LITTLE, WE'RE NOT LATE WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
BUT WE ALSO COME AT A TIME WHERE, UM, WE ARE, WE JUST ACTUALLY ADOPTED THE DRIVERS OF OPPORTUNITY.
AND MUCH OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REGARDING THE DASHBOARD THAT WE HAD ALREADY FOR STATED MANY MONTHS AGO IS THEY ACTUALLY SPOKE TO COUNCIL ABOUT DOING SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR TRACKING, MONITORING, THINGS OF THAT SORT.
SO WHILE WE'RE VERY MUCH SO IN OUR EMPHASIS STAGES, AND I BELIEVE THEY'RE JUST STARTING THE DISCUSSION, THIS IS MAYBE SOMETHING THAT WE MAY BE, UM, ABLE TO ADOPT ALONG WITH THEM.
UM, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW MUCH FUNDING WILL BE TIED TO THIS.
UM, THAT IS SOMETHING WE WILL CONTINUE TO REVIEW, ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE IMPLEMENTATION, UM, STAGES.
BUT HOWEVER, I WILL SAY THAT, UM, WE'RE IN A VERY UNIQUE POSITION THAT WE DO HAVE AN AREA WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT THAT IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON GATHERING INFORMATION TO CREATE SUCH A DASHBOARD.
I MEAN, I JUST, I ASK THAT JUST SO I KNOW WHAT WE'VE GOTTA YES.
AND THINGS THAT WE KNEW WERE GONNA REQUIRE FUNDING, WE GENERALLY TRY TO PUT THOSE IN THE LONG TERM BUCKET.
BECAUSE WE KNOW ABOUT THE REALITY.
IS THIS, IS THERE A GOAL COMPLETION TIMEFRAME FOR EACH OF THE GOALS? OR IS IT, ARE THEY ALL SET UP IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY'RE LONG ONGOING? UH, WE, OUR GOAL, NO PUN THEN, IS THAT ALL GOALS WOULD BE COMPLETED IN FULL BY THE END OF THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
SO THAT'S WHY EACH GOAL WAS BROKEN UP INTO SHORT TERM, LONG TERM AND MEDIUM TERM.
AND SO DOES IS, DOES THAT PUT PRIORITIES ON EACH OF THOSE GOALS? I WOULD THINK SO.
I WOULD THINK TABITHA, YOU WOULD PUT PRIORITY ON THE SHORT TERM GOALS.
AND I ALSO JUST WANNA STATE THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE REVIEW THIS AND AS THE COMMISSION AS A WHOLE, UM, AND IN RESPECT OF EACH ONE OF YOUR POSITIONS, THIS MAY BE SOMETHING WHERE WE WANNA URGE YOU ALL, EXCUSE ME, MAY WANNA URGE CITY COUNCIL TO TAKE ACTION OR PRIORITIZE ONE HERE AREA ONLY.
THE OTHER, AND SO I WANNA MAKE THAT CONSIDERATION AS WELL, IS THAT, UH, WE DO HAVE TIMEFRAMES, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LITTLE ACTIONS THERE AND SAY THAT THESE ARE NOT, UM, ALL DEFINED IN THIS TOTALITY THAT THERE IS AREA FOR US TO MOVE, UM, THESE TIMEFRAMES, AS YOU ALL KNOW.
ONE LAST FOLLOW UP TO THAT, OF THOSE PRIORITIES, AS YOU PRIORITIZE THOSE, WHAT ARE THE MUSTS, THOSE THE NEED TO BE ACHIEVED? SO THE OVERARCHING GOALS ARE THOSE SIX AS AS IT STATES HERE.
I THINK WE'RE STILL ON VOTE TWO AT THIS POINT.
UM, BUT SO THOSE SIX OF THOSE MUST GOALS TO ACHIEVE, YES, THOSE ARE WRITTEN IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND THEN WE HAVE AREAS WITH HAVE STRATEGIES AND THEN ALSO ACTION ITEMS. AND SO THOSE ARE AREAS IN WHICH, IF THE COMMISSION AT LARGE, UM, WE HAVE ALREADY HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY, BUT IF WE WANNA IMPLEMENT THAT IN A DIFFERENT TYPE OF MANNER, KEEPING IT IN, KEEPING IN OUR FOREFRONT WHAT THE GOAL SAYS, THEN WE DO HAVE LIBERATION TO DO THAT.
UM, I READ THIS LAST NIGHT AND I UNDERGO TO, UM, ACTION PLAN, ACTION ITEM THAT DISCUSS FOOD PANTRIES AND, UM,
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RESOURCES PROGRAMS, UH, AGENCIES AND WHATEVER AROUND THE COMMUNITY THAT PARTICIPATE IN, I NOTICED THAT ONE OF THE MAJOR ONES WAS NOT LISTED, AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU ALL WEREN'T AWARE OF IT OR WHAT, BECAUSE CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAS ONGOING FOOD PANTRIES, RIGHT? THEY PUBLISH THEIR CALENDAR EVERY MONTH AND EACH DAY THERE'S A LONG LIST OF AVAILABLE PANTRIES.AND I DIDN'T SEE IT LISTED HERE.
YEAH, THEY'RE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS MEALS ON WHEELS BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE WALK UP, SOME OF THEM ARE DRY UP.
UH, TAB YOU MAY RECALL WHEN WE WERE DEVELOPING THIS ONE THAT YOU HAD THE LISTED OF THOSE FOOD PANTRIES AND WE VACILLATED WHETHER OR NOT THE HAD NEEDS PUT THEM IN THERE, THERE, BUT WE FELT LIKE THAT WAS TACTICAL.
THAT WOULD ACTUALLY GO TO THE FOOD INSECURITY PLAN.
BUT IF WE DIDN'T MENTION FOOD PANTRIES IN GENERAL, I, WE CAN CHANGE THAT.
AND ONE OTHER THING, AND THIS IS GOING BACKWARDS.
UM, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT SOMETHING I READ AND I REREAD AND REREAD AND REREAD IT, AND I THOUGHT, IT'S NOT ME.
SO ON PAGE NINE, UM, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, THE SECOND FROM THE LAST PARAGRAPH, IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT 2.3% OF BABY BOOMERS BORN BETWEEN 1946 AND 1946.
AND I KEPT READING THAT, LIKE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? THANK YOU.
YEAH, I THOUGHT BE 66 I'S MY TWINS.
AND SO GOAL TWO IS, IS MEANT TO EXPAND UPON THE THAT CDO ORGANIZATION BY GETTING MORE PEOPLE INTO THE BOAT AS WELL AS YOU SAW SOME GAPS IN, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS, ET CETERA, THAT IS ALSO MEANT TO TRY TO BRIDGE THAT GAP A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WELL.
SO GO TO ACTUALLY ADDRESSES ALL THE EIGHT DOMAINS, UH, THROUGH THE EXPANSION OF COMMUNITY BASED PARK.
SO AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THESE, THESE ARE VERY HIGH LEVEL STRATEGIES.
I DO BELIEVE THE PLAN, THEY ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, SPECIFIC, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO GET SO TACTICAL IN THE ACTUAL GOAL ITSELF, I'M SORRY, IN THE ACTUAL STRATEGY ITSELF, BUT LISTEN TO THE PLAN.
UH, WE WANTED TO GIVE IN TERMS OF, UH, TACTICS.
ONCE THIS IS, UH, OUT THERE, THIS WOULD GIVE O-C-H-E-A LITTLE BIT MORE LATITUDE IN HOW THEY WERE ACTUALLY GOING TO ADDRESS THESE.
BUT ALL EIGHT DOMAINS IN GOAL TWO ARE ADDRESSED.
THERE'S A 14 STRATEGIES AND OVER 50 ACTION OUT OF THE FACULTY IF MEMBER SERVES ME CORRECTLY.
THIS IS THE MOST VOLUMINOUS GOAL THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE CITY OF, THE CITY OF DALLAS CAN'T PROVIDE ALL THE SERVICES THAT SEEM TO BE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO CREATE A VAST CDO ORGANIZATION THROUGH PRODUCT AND PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS ATTEMPTS TO DO.
DEBBIE AUSTIN, DISTRICT EIGHT.
UM, IN MY NOTES, I PUT SOMETHING IN RELATIONSHIP TO THIS GOAL ABOUT, UM, THE DALLAS COUNTY TOOL PROGRAM.
AND I GUESS, AND I'M, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT NOW WHAT I WAS ADDRESSING, BUT THEY HAVE A TOOLS PROGRAM THAT THEY, UH, BEND GIVE TOOLS OUT TO PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING COMMUNITY GARDENS, UH, CHURCH GARDENS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND I WAS WONDERING WHY IT WASN'T LISTED HERE AND 'CAUSE IT WOULD BE A PART OF THE SOCIAL ISOLATION PROGRAM AND FOOD INCUR.
SO THIS IS NOT A, SO THESE ARE THE ACTIONS NOT A RECOMME LIKE ALMOST RECOMMENDATION.
AND SO WE FIND IT AREAS, AS YOU JUST STATED FOR THAT WE NEED TO INCLUDE.
AND THAT WITH IT PERFECTLY IN THE ONE WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE GARDENING CLASSES MM-HMM
I THINK THAT'S, I'M MISSING WHAT I READ BECAUSE I WAS JUST MAKING NOTES.
AND THE CITY OF DALLAS HAS A VERY SIMILAR PROGRAM AS WELL, UM, WHERE THEY, WE EVEN SHOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS HOW TO UTILIZE, UM, CERTAIN TYPE OF INSTRUMENTS TO CUT GRASS AND ALL OF THAT TOOLS RIGHT THERE TO CUT GRASS AND SO FORTH.
SO, UH, WE HAVE SOME, LIKE I SAID, BUT THE ACTION ITEMS ALL, WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE, IF THERE IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE IMPLEMENTATION, YOU KNOW, EXACTLY PLAN AT THAT TIME, THAT IS THE TACTICAL HOW, WHEN, WHAT METRICS, HOW THE METRICS AND ALL OF THAT.
THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO THEN PLACE IT THERE.
SO, UH, JAY, A A QUESTION IF I MAY, ABOUT THE AGING IN PLACE.
IT COMES UP AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
DID YOU SAY YOU WORKED IN BOSTON? YES, MA'AM.
SO, YOU KNOW, BOSTON FOR A VERY LONG TIME HAS ADDRESSED THE AGING IN PLACE AND THERE'VE BEEN PRIVATE GROUPS THAT HAVE CREATED THAT IN HIGH RISES AND BOSTON.
HAVE YOU GUYS LOOKED AT THAT? BUT SOME OF THE, THEY'VE DONE
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THE WORK ON SOME OF THIS STUFF.AMAZING WORK ON AGING IN PLACE IN YEAH, I ACTUALLY HAVE IT ON MY COMPUTER AND WE'VE SHARED IT WITH TABITHA.
UH, YES, WE HAVE THAT THE THEY HAVE SEVERAL, UH, COMMUNAL HOUSING.
THEY HAVE THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES.
WE, WE WE DO HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THAT.
YEAH, IT'S A VERY UNIQUE PROGRAM, VERY BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.
THEY'RE ONE OF THE ONLY THAT I'VE SEEN THAT, UH, CALIFORNIA, UH, HAS ONE, AND I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER, THE SMALLER COMMUNITY IN CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN VERY PROACTIVE IN LOOKING AT AGING IN PLACE INITIATIVES.
SO THERE YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE ARE NOT A WHOLE LOT.
AND BOSTON WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME.
IT'S CREATING ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS TO PROVIDE OLDER ADULTS WITH, UH, VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL AS TO INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHERS TO VOLUNTEER TO ASSIST WITH OLDER ADULTS.
SO IT'S KIND OF A BIFURCATED APPROACH.
THERE'S FIVE STRATEGIES AND 12 DIFFERENT ACTION ITEMS. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I IS REALLY UNIQUE THAT I THINK THAT WE'VE SEEN DALLAS WOULD BE THE FIRST TO DO, UH, IS LIKE FOR TOMORROW I HAVE A, A DR.
I'VE ALREADY GOTTEN THINGS SAYING, HEY, FILL THIS, THIS OUT ON MY PHONE.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA FILL THIS OUT ON MY PHONE.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT.
I THINK IT'S CALLED MYCHART APP.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO PUT ALL THE INFORMATION I'M GONNA GET THERE TOMORROW AND I'M GONNA HAVE TO FILL OUT THE SAME THING ON A PIECE OF PAPER.
AND YOU GOT MAKE UP OR PASSWORD.
MEANING ONE OF THE THINGS WE HEARD IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A TECHNOLOGY GAP IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, IN FACT, IF I HAD SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY PHONE, MY 12 YEAR, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE PUT IN HERE IS VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR, TO HAVE SOME INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN YOUNGER FOLKS AND AND PERSONS WHO ARE OLDER.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT WAS A MODEL THAT WAS DEVELOPED, I THINK IN MIAMI WHERE LOCAL, UH, HIGH SCHOOLS, UH, WILL VOLUNTEER GO TO ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES OR LIBRARIES AND THEY'LL ACTUALLY SIT DOWN AND ACTUALLY TEACH FOLKS HOW TO USE THEIR PHONE.
LIKE THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN WHO DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE COULD, YOU KNOW, DO THIS AND IT WOULD DELETE ALL HIS MAIL.
AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ACTUALLY RECOMMENDED AND THAT I, THAT I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR CINDY DO.
WELL, THAT'S A COMPONENT, BUT THAT'S WHY WE'RE ALREADY DOING THAT.
RICHARDSON, ISD DALLAS AS WELL.
WE DOING IT IN DISTRICT ONE WITH PEOPLE DOING IT.
AND AGAIN, I THINK THAT INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION THAT WE DON'T SEE A LOT OF ANYMORE.
AND SO, SO, SO ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE SHIP PROGRAMS ABSOLUTELY.
GET POINTS TO MORE ELEVATOR AND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WELL, I WANNA, UH, ERICA, I WANNA HOLD FOLKS.
UH, MARION, UH, COMMISSIONER MARION, UH, WILLIAMS HAD A, UH, THE LISTENING SESSION THAT WE HAD, AND IF YOU ALL ARE NOT FAMILIAR, THEY HAD THE CARDBOARD PROJECT.
AND THE CARDBOARD PROJECT RIGHT NOW IS CALLING THE SENIORS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THERE.
AND I WAS A PARTICIPANT AND I GRADUATED.
I WASN'T A TORIAN, BUT I GRADUATED.
AND, UH, THEY'LL CALL YOU AND JUST WHAT YOU SAID, HELP YOU TO LEARN HOW TO USE YOUR INSTRUMENT OR COMPUTER.
NOW, I MIGHT BE OUTTA LINE TO SAY THIS, BUT IF YOU GO GET THOSE LITTLE KIDS TO TRY TO HELP MY CHILD WANT AN IMAC, UH, APPLE, THEY LIKE 1700.
YOU COULD GET HIM ONE ANOTHER.
HE COULD COME SHOW SOME PEOPLE
BUT WE DO HAVE THAT CARDBOARD.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CARDBOARD, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU GET FAMILIAR WITH IT.
AND I WAS, UH, CONNECTED WITH, UH, FAMILIAR WITH THE OWNER AT MARY'S THING.
SO THESE LISTENING SESSIONS, SOME STUFF DO COME, IT DOES COME.
AND SOME OF THESE, THEY STILL CALL YOU.
NO, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THEY WERE A VENDOR AT MY, UH, LISTENING SESSION.
I CC YOU SO YOU COULD CONTACT THEM.
AND I'M FAMILIAR WITH MANY OF THESE, UH, DIFFERENT, UM, PROJECTS THAT, OR PROGRAMS THAT YOU ALL HAVE BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT.
HOWEVER, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SAW, AND I THINK JAY TALKS ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME ABOUT IT BEING LOUD.
UM, AND WE CALL THAT WHEN IT REPETITIVELY CAME UP, UM, WITH OUR OBSERVATION.
AND SO WE'LL BE REMISS NOT TO PUT ASIDE THE PLAN, EVEN THOUGH WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT WE NEED TO MAKE, MAINTAIN THE PRIORITY OF IT ALL.
AND YOU PROBABLY PICKED UP ON THIS, IF THERE WAS A PARTICULAR DOMAIN NEXT TO A PARTICULAR ACTION ITEM, IT WASN'T BY ANY MEANS, YOU KNOW, EXCLUSIVE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THESE CROSS SECTOR WOULD BE OTHER, LIKE THIS WOULD BE AGENT IN PLACE.
ARE, YOU KNOW, YOUR PICTURE WAS THERE.
WE'RE RUNNING OUTTA TIME THERE.
THAT IS GO FOR AIMS TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE COMMUNITIES, DEPARTMENTS, AND BUSINESSES.
AND WE DID THIS STRATEGICALLY BECAUSE, UH,
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WHILE PREVIOUS GOALS TALK ABOUT IN, UH, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION AND ENHANCING SERVICE DELIVERY WITH YOUR CURRENT CBOS AND YOUR FUTURE CBOS AND INCREASING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES, WE WANTED TO BRING IN THE BROADER DALLAS COMMUNITY THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR GOAL, UH, SO THAT THEY CAN CONSIDER THE NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS, UH, FOCUSING ON IMPROVING THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE, HEALTH, AND ABILITY TO FULLY, UH, PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY.FOR INSTANCE, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH A PARTICULAR IN A PARTICULAR, UH, BUSINESS MAY NOT PROVIDE ANY CURRENT SERVICES OR PROGRAMS OR BENEFITS TO OLDER ADULTS TO CONSIDER THE NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS, WHETHER THEY HAVE A CIVIC OUTREACH, UH, UH, EVENT, OR WHETHER THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, UPCOMING EMPLOYMENT OR UPCOMING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY.
SO THIS ACTUALLY HAS THREE STRATEGIES WITH OVER 13 ACTION ITEMS BECAUSE WE WANTED TO GET THE BROADER DALLAS COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN THIS.
WE KNOW THIS ISN'T, UH, AN A A RP, UH, AGE FRIENDLY PLAN, BUT THERE ARE COMPONENTS THAT WE DID WANT TO, UH, THAT WE DID WANT TO, UH, TOUCH ON IN THE ACTUAL SENIOR SERVICES PLAN.
AND GO FIVE IS ONE THAT I'M VERY PROUD OF.
IT'S THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.
UH, YOU ALL ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAS THIS INCLUDED IN YOUR PLAN.
UH, THAT IS TO ESTABLISH A AND SUPPORT ADVOCACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS.
UH, THIS ENSURES THAT OLDER ADULTS HAVE A VOICE AND THAT THEIR NEEDS ARE CONSIDERED PERSPECTIVE WHEN SERVICES ARE CONSIDERED OR BENEFITS ARE CONSIDERED AND OR CREATED OR MODIFIED.
SO THIS GIVES THEM A SEAT AT A POINT.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE ECHO THROUGHOUT THIS PARTICULAR GOAL IS THAT THERE IS A CALL TO HAVE ACTUAL CAREGIVER ADVOCATES WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS, AN AGING ADVOCATE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, ET CETERA.
UH, SO THAT THERE'S ANYTHING BUS ROUTES OR TRANSPORTATION ISSUES THAT SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS FOR OLDER ADULTS IS AT THE TABLE WHEN THESE ARE CONS, WHEN THESE POLICIES ARE CONSIDERED AS OPPOSED TO ACTIVE FACT.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT REAL QUICKLY, UH, WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT THE MEDICAL PART.
NOW THIS IS A PERSON THAT CAN REALLY HELP US OUT.
COMMISSIONER AUSTIN KNOWS SO MUCH ABOUT, UH, DIFFERENT MEDICAL, UH, FACILITIES AND THE PEOPLE THAT CAN HELP.
NOW, SHE'S BEEN VERY INSTRUMENTAL WITH ME AND MY, UH, SENIORS.
NOT ONLY IN MY DISTRICT, BUT I HAVE OTHER SENIORS IN THEIR DISTRICT.
LIKE WHEN THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO TO GET, UM, OH, THIS IS GONNA BE A MISPRONUNCIATION, ALZHEIMER'S AND WHAT ALL THAT OTHER STUFF.
THAT'S THE LADY RIGHT THERE SHE CAN HELP YOU WITH.
INSTEAD OF, I'M, I'M LISTENING WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
AND THAT MIGHT BE A PLAY A PART IN WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING TO TURN IN WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.
WE CAN JUST PIGGYBACK ON SOME OF THIS STUFF AND IMPLEMENT IT IN OUR PLANS BECAUSE WE'RE DOING SOME OF THE SAME STUFF.
AND I LIKE THAT ABOUT THE MEDICAL DEBBIE, UM, GORDON ION TO WE, OUR PEOPLE RIGHT HERE.
BUT ARE WE ACTUALLY TELLING EACH OTHER AND GETTING IT OUT? AND I THINK'S, THINK YOU THE TOP ABOUT COMMISSIONER LEE, THAT THAT ACTUALLY SHOULD GO INTO THE, UH, TACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
THAT IS PEOPLE THEN GO, HOW ARE WE GOING IMPLEMENT THIS? HOW ARE WE GONNA ACTUALLY PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND MAKE THIS TAP LIKE WHAT I'M FANS AT? PUT THE BOOTS ON GROUND.
I'M IN DISTRICT SIX AND WE HAVE A THING CALLED, WELL, WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO EVERY FRIDAY WE GOT A FOOD TRUCK.
BUT MONDAY TO TUESDAY, EVERY CHURCH IN WEST DALLAS HAS A LINE OF PEOPLE'S COMING TO GET THEIR FOOD.
WHEN ALL WHEN SENIORS LIKE ME CAN'T GET TO THE DOCTOR, THEY CALL CIRCUIT AND CIRCUIT IS RIGHT THERE PARKED IN THE SHOPPING CENTER IN WEST DALLAS.
COME AND TAKE YOU TO THE DOCTOR, TELL 'EM WHAT TIME YOU COMING BACK AND THEY'LL BE THERE TO PICK YOU UP.
AND UH, I'M TALKING ABOUT THEY DO IT ALL IN WEST DALLAS.
THERE BE TRUCKS LIKE SATURDAY THEY GAVE OUR BLESSING BOXES AND I WANTED KNOW WHY WOULDN'T NOBODY GET NO BLESSING BOXES? NOWHERE ELSE, BUT HOW DO KNOW ME? THE CHARITY THING, YOU COULD CALL THE CHRISTIAN CHARITY AND THEY WILL DELIVER Y'ALL BLESSING BOXES THAT Y'ALL SENT.
BUT THEY DELIVERED US BLESSING BOXES AND WE IN WEST DALLAS, DISTRICT SIX ALWAYS HAVE TRUCKS WITH FOOD ON THEM.
SOMETIMES SOME OF 'EM DON'T GO BECAUSE THEY GOT ENOUGH.
BUT WE HAVE CHURCHES, CHARITY, AND THEN WE HAVE CHURCHES OUT THERE THAT THEY DELIVER FOOD TOO AND THEY PASS IT OUT.
SO WE GOT LIKE SIX CHURCHES PASS OUT FOOD DURING THE WEEK, AND THEN WE HAVE PEOPLE COMING ON FRIDAY FROM THE CHARITY THING AND BRINGING FOOD FOR SENIORS.
AND EVERYBODY'S WELCOME TO WHEN THEY NEED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.
WE HAVE THIS CIRCUIT THAT MR. OMAR PUT IN SO THEY HAVE A CIRCUIT TO GO TO.
BUT ALL THAT FOOD, IT COMES EVERY WEEK OVER THERE.
EVERY, SO, SO MARILYN, UH, ISN'T THAT MS. T? AND THAT'S UH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
I GOT TROUBLE FOR TRYING TO GET YOU GUYS TURKEYS.
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A COUNTY PROGRAM, AM I RIGHT? YES.BUT ALL IN WHAT IT IS NOT ALL COUNTY.
DOES CITY DO SOME OF THAT? YEAH, WE GOT YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE GOT, UH, MADDIE NASH.
WHAT IS THAT OWNED BY THE SCHOOL? ZOGA.
YEAH, THOSE ARE, WE ARE TOWN YOUR COUNTY.
BUT SEE, WE ALL COME TOGETHER THERE AND WE WORK TOGETHER.
I KNOW YOU GOT INTO IT, BUT IT'S ALL RIGHT.
AND THEY FOUND ME DOING THAT
OKAY, LET'S GO BACK TO THE TOPIC.
THIS IS BEING RECORDED, SO BE CAREFUL.
I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA TAB.
I JUST WANNA REMIND THE COMMISSION THAT, UH, WE CAN GO TO, UH, BOTH UNDER THOSE VARIOUS DOMAINS, BOTH IN TERMS OF THE TRANSPORTATION TO MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS AND CREATE THE INVENTORY FOR OUR FOOD INSECURITY PLAN.
THIS IS SOMETHING YOUR OFFICE IS TASKED WITH DOING IN INVENTORY, ALL THE THINGS.
SO WE DO, BUT I CAN GET THE NAMES OF IT.
AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, UH, MR. CHAIRMAN, UM, AGAIN, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SAW IN THE REPORT, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE ECHOED SINCE WE STARTED THIS PROJECT IS I DON'T KNOW ABOUT SERVICES.
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS THEM.
SO WE STARTED THE GOALS WITH INFORMATION AND WE BOOKEND IT WITH COMMUNICATION.
GOAL ONE IS WE COMPILE ALL THE INFORMATION TO GET A GOOD REPOSITORY.
WHAT THE SERVICES ARE, WHAT ARE THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.
IF THERE'S PEOPLE WHO ARE GETTING DENIED, IF THEY MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY, WE HAVE A, AN INVENTORY OF WHAT THESE SERVICES ARE AND HOW WE CAN HELP.
GOAL SIX, BASICALLY IN THE NUTSHELLS, HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE? THAT'S RIGHT.
AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT, COMMISSIONER LEE, IN TERMS OF
YOU WILL SEE THAT LISTED IN GOAL SETS.
OKAY, SO WHAT'S NEXT? FINAL RECOMMENDATION? I MEAN, COMMISSION.
WHERE, WHERE DO WE STAND? I MEAN, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE PRESENTED.
I APPRECIATE YOUR HOPE ON THIS.
UM, MY, MY QUESTION THAT I'M SITTING HERE IS NOW, SO NOW WHAT? I MEAN, I KNOW YOU BRIEFED THE QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE WITH THE CITY.
I KNOW THE, WITH THE CO THE COUNCIL, I KNOW THEY WERE ASKING ON WHEN THIS HAD COME BACK.
BUT MY, MY QUESTION IS, WHERE ARE WE WITH THE, AS A COMMISSION, WHAT, WHAT IS OUR NEXT RESPONSIBILITY? I WOULD LOVE TO JUST BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN AND READ THIS, REVIEW THIS BEFORE WE, I MEAN, WE HAVE TWO IDEAS TO APPROVE THIS OR RECOMMEND WHAT DO, WHAT IS OUR NEXT? OKAY.
SO, UM, AS OF RIGHT NOW, THIS STRATEGIC PLAN HAS BEEN TAKEN.
UM, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY SAYING THAT YOU ALL HAVE TO APPROVE IT.
WE WOULD WANT THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMISSION MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PLAN ITSELF.
UM, WE WOULD NEED TO GO BACK TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE, UM, COMMITTEE.
AND AFTER THAT, WE WOULD NEED TO GO TO COUNCIL BEFORE ADOPTION OF THE PLAN.
UM, IN TERMS OF KINDA LIKE WHAT'S NEXT IS REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW NOW DO WE IMPLEMENT AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
BRINGING OUR, UM, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TOGETHER.
UM, SPEAKING WITH OF COURSE IF YOU ALL AS COMMISSIONERS TO KIND OF SEE LIKE, LIKE I TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE, WHERE ARE THE AREAS THAT WE REALLY WANNA PRIORITIZE AND THEN HOW CAN WE MOVE THAT FORWARD? AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE NEXT STEP IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IT ALL AND STARTING THOSE DISCUSSIONS AT LARGE.
I WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND, UH, TABITHA, DOES THE CITY COUNCIL NEED TO APPROVE THIS AND WOULDN'T THAT BE THE NEXT STEP BEFORE WE MOVE IMPLEMENTATIONS? SO THE ADOPTION MM-HMM
SO I SAID GOING BACK TO THE QUALITY OF BLACK COMMITTEE, EXCUSE ME IF I WASN'T CLEAR YOU ALL, DID Y'ALL HEAR ME? ADOPTION.
THE ADOPTION OF IT BY CITY HOUSE.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT NEXT YES, THAT IS CORRECT.
BUT THAT, THAT ISN'T NECESSARILY A GIVEN AND YOU HAVE TO CONDENSE THEM THROUGH THE PRESENTATION THAT THIS IS A PLAN THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE.
WE WILL PRESENT OR, OR, SO I WANNA IF RENEE CAR TO, UM, SO I WANNA PIGGYBACK ON WHAT WE AS A COMMISSION SAY, AND IF YOU'RE GONNA GO TO QUALITY OF LIFE AND THEN TO CITY COUNCIL AND SAY THE, THE SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION ENDORSES THIS PLAN, RIGHT.
UM, WOULD IT BE WISE OR NOT FOR
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US TO CALL OUR COUNCIL PEOPLE? THAT'S EXACTLY.AND YOU KNOW, YOUR WORD TO US WAS DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH THIS PLAN YET.
SO MY WORD VIA EMAIL, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP, WAS WE ARE STILL MAKING SOME SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS.
I BELIEVE YOU BROUGHT FORTH, UM, THERE WAS THAT PAGE THAT WE NEED TO CORRECT IN SOME THERE COMPARISON AND THEN ALSO WORKING ON JUST SOME SLIGHT ALIGNMENT OF IT.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT'S TOP, YOU KNOW, IN TOP TIER FORMAT BEFORE WE ACTUALLY SHARE WITH EVERYONE.
BUT WE DIDN'T WANNA WITHHOLD THAT 'CAUSE WE SAW A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED IN THE PLAN FROM YOU ALL.
SO WE ASKED THAT YOU GIVE US, YOU KNOW, MORE JUST TO GET THAT, UH, PLAN, BUT ON WHAT, BUT WHAT, BUT WHAT ROB FRIEDMAN SAID, KEN, WHEN YOU SAY YOU CAN TALK TO YOUR COUNCIL PERSON, I MEAN, I MEAN WE SIT HERE, WOULD THAT BE A GOOD THING FOR US TO DO? SAY WE LOVE THIS PLAN, IT'S COMING TO THE CITY COUNCIL, WOULD YOU PLEASE SUPPORT IT? YEAH, BUT LET LET ME ASK SOMETHING.
OH, I, I'D LIKE TO PROPOSE SOMETHING.
UM, TO ME THAT I TAKE THIS THING VERY SERIOUSLY.
AND MY COUNCILMAN WAY BACK EARLY SUMMER HAD ASKED ME DID WE HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SENIOR? SO MY COUNCILMAN TAKES THIS VERY SERIOUSLY AND I WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH DISTRICT TWO ALSO BECAUSE MY NEIGHBORHOOD'S THERE.
AND I THINK THAT COUNCILMAN TAKES IT SERIOUSLY.
UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST IS WE COME BACK NEXT WEEK, NEXT MONTH, SINCE WE'RE NOT BUSY NEXT MONTH, AND WE, UM, WE, WE, WE, YOU KNOW, I, I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO READ THIS IN THE, IN THE COMM OF THE DAY AND, AND COME BACK NEXT MONTH AND THEN WE PRESENT ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, GET YOUR UPDATES.
UM, AND THEN WE DECIDE AS A COMMISSION IF WE WANNA MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AS A BODY TO THE COUNCIL.
NOW, I KNOW THE COUNCIL'S ANXIOUS TO GET THIS OR THE QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE'S ANXIOUS TO GET THIS, BUT I MEAN, I'LL BE GLAD TO LET MY COUNCILMAN KNOW AND I KNOW HE'S ON THAT COMMITTEE.
UH, BUT IS THAT, IS THAT A REASONABLE THING TO DO? I MEAN, THIS IS, THIS IS OVERWHELMING IN, IN A GOOD WAY.
I DON'T MEAN THAT AS A CRITICISM, BUT THERE, THERE'S A LOT HERE TO ABSORB.
WHEN IS THE SCHEDULE TO GO TO THE COUNCIL AS SCHEDULE? WELL, THAT'S WHAT I MEANT HAS NOT JUST GIVEN OUT AS OF YET.
UM, AS OF RIGHT NOW, I BELIEVE IT'S QUARTER ONE.
SO WITHIN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE NEW YEAR OH, OKAY.
OF COURSE WE DON'T WANNA CONTINUE TO DELAY THINGS.
BUT ONE THING I WANNA SAY IS, I TALKED ABOUT IT EARLIER IS THAT WE'RE BILLING ON A FOUNDATION, RIGHT? AND SO THIS IS THE PLAN THAT WILL BE A LIVING DOCUMENT WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
IT DOES NOT RESTRICT ME AS AN AGE FRIENDLY OFFICER TO ALREADY LIKE, WORK ON SOME OF THESE ITEMS. FOR EXAMPLE, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, REALLY ENGAGING WITH OUR OTHER DEPARTMENT AND BEING BROUGHT IN TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS AS IT RELATES TO OLDER ADULTS.
WELL, I CAN SAY THIS ON THE RECORD THAT I MET WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, UM, JUST LAST WEEK TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE ZONING THINGS THAT'S TAKING, TAKING PLACE AND HOW THAT WILL IMPACT VOTER ADULTS.
AND, AND SO WITH THAT SAID, ONCE AGAIN, THE PLAN DOES NOT RESTRICT ME AS A FRIENDLY OFFICER FOR US TO CONTINUE WORKING ON THESE, UM,
RIGHT? AND SO, ONCE AGAIN, JUST BECAUSE THE PLAN HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY ADOPTED AS A LIVING, UH, DOCUMENT, I'M STILL WORKING ON THESE AGE-FRIENDLY PRINCIPLES TO SUPPORT OLDER ADULTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND I THINK WHAT YOU SAID AT THE VERY BEGINNING, HOW SIGNIFICANT THIS IS, IS WHY WE NEED TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE TIME TO REVIEW IT AND BE PREPARED TO RESPOND TO OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, SO I MEAN, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE REVIEW THIS AGAIN NEXT MONTH AND CONSIDER IF WE WANNA ADOPT IT AND, AND, AND HANDLE THE OTHER INFORMATION.
IS THAT APPROPRIATE? AND, AND I WILL ALSO SAY, UM, SPEAKING WITH, UM, INDEX FUNDS, THERE WAS A QUESTION REGARDING CPD, UM, AND, UH, LEAVING THEM COMING TO ADDRESS ANY CONCERNS THAT THE MISSION HAS HAD.
AND WE HAVE TOUCHED BASE WITH THEM FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
UM, SO THEY HAVE FREE TO COME IN IN JANUARY ON THE 26TH, IF THAT IMPACTS ANYTHING.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU ALL, ALRIGHT, WELL WE HAVE THAT AND THEN WE HAVE THE ANNUAL REPORT.
WE, DEBBIE, UH, YEAH, IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE REALLY QUICK, BUT I, I WAS HOPING THAT HE WOULD STILL BE HERE.
UM, WHEN TABITHA SENT US THIS IN AN EMAIL AND I WAS READING IT ON THE, UH, DISTRIBUTION OF SERVICES BY COUNTY.
AND WHEN IN, WHEN YOU PRODUCED IT ON THE EMAIL, IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHICH DISTRICT WAS WHAT.
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BUT I'M ASSUMING THAT DALLAS WAS THE LARGEST BECAUSE THEIR LINES WERE LONGER AND THEY'RE BIGGER THAN COLLIN COUNTY OR DENTON COUNTY.BUT IT WOULD HELP IF THOSE COLORS WERE CONTRASTING POST AND NOT SIMILAR POST.
ARE YOU REFERRING TO THIS DOCUMENT? NO, I'M REFERRING TO THIS PAGE.
ONE ON EIGHT AND TWO I COULDN'T SEE.
AND I WANNA THANK DEBBIE FOR REPRESENTING THOSE OF US WHO ARE COLORBLIND.
MY HUSBAND'S COLOR BLIND AND SO YEAH, THAT'S WHY I'M THINKING THAT IF THEY WERE CONTRASTING COLORS, IT'LL BE EASIER FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S COLORBLIND.
MAY I SAY SOMETHING? HELLO? OH YEAH, THAT'S ARIAN.
YEAH, I TRIED TO GET IN SEVERAL TIMES, BUT I, I COULDN'T GIVE, UH, COUPLE OF THINGS.
ONE, BACK, THIS IS WAY BACK WHEN YOU, DID SOMEONE SAY THAT I RESIGNED THAT I DECIDED NOT TO BE ON THE COMMITTEE FOR THE PLAN? NO, WAIT, I THINK THAT WAS MS. IT WAS MARILYN.
IT WAS, AND THEN THE, THE LITTLE BOOKS THAT WE RECEIVED LAST MONTH OF THE SENIOR, UH, ALL THE RESOURCES.
BLUE BOOK PHONE, BOOK, BOOK, BLUE BOOK.
I TRIED TO CALL THAT NUMBER BECAUSE THEY DON'T ANSWER.
UH, AND THE PERSON THAT IT DOESN'T, YOU CAN'T LEAVE A MESSAGE.
SO IS ANY WAY WE CAN GET MORE BOOKS OR HOW DO WE DO THAT? UM, I CAN ANSWER THAT.
UH, SHE IS OUTTA THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
ALLOWED TO LEAVE A MESSAGE BECAUSE IT SHOULD SAY PRESS ONE FOR KATHLEEN PLUS TWO, PRESS TWO OR SOMETHING FOR BRITTANY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU DIDN'T GET THAT MESSAGE? NO, I DIDN'T GET THAT.
WELL, I KEPT CALLING THE SAME NUMBER, BUT IT, IT DIDN'T SAY THAT.
I'LL, I'LL, THERE WAS A BOOK ON THE, IN THE NUMBER ON THE INSIDE OF THE BOOK.
ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BOOK? MM-HMM.
AND THEN THERE'S A WEBSITE TOO AND YOU CAN ORDER FROM THE WEBSITE ALSO.
AND THEN THE DIGITAL, UM, THAT WAS BROUGHT UP ABOUT, UH, THE CARDBOARD PROJECT.
THEY ALSO HAVE FOUR AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
UM, ALSO TELEPHONE, HOW TO USE YOUR SMARTPHONE.
IT ALSO HAS CLASSES ON THAT TOO, THAT WE CAN DO CITYWIDE.
SO, BUT THE SENIOR SOURCE IS DOING IT.
OH, THE DALLAS C SENIOR NCE ALSO, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF INFORMATION.
SORRY, PHYLLIS IS ON TOPIC ABOUT THE YEAH, I WAS GONNA, UH, JUST, UH, UM, GIVE KUDOS TO TABITHA AND MIRACLE JAMES.
WHENEVER WE HAVE SOMETHING I KNOW IN MY CENTER, THEY'RE ALWAYS THERE IN DIFFERENT CENTERS.
AND ONE THING THAT I WAS SO TAKEN ABACK WITH IS WHEN WE WENT TO LIKE WHITE ROCK, A LOT OF THE SENIORS WASN'T THERE.
AND THEN WE TALKING ABOUT COMMUNICATION, BUT THEY WILL SHOW UP THE POLICE DEPARTMENT 3 1 1.
I KNOW PERSONALLY DEBBIE KNOWS 'EM IN ED BECAUSE WE ARE ALWAYS AT THE MEETINGS.
AND WHEN YOU SAID JOINING WITH OTHER, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GONNA BE, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY CALL IT, OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
THAT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PUT ON A, A PROGRAM AT HAA.
A THURGOOD MARSHALL OR WAS SOMEWHERE, UH, I KNOW COMMISSIONER, UM, MITCHELL HAS STUFF.
BUT IF WE COULD, GOING BACK TO MY POINT, IF WE COULD JUST GET TOGETHER AND SEE WHAT THE OTHER PEOPLE DOING, THEN SPREAD IT OUT.
I THINK WE COULD GET MORE, UM, PARTICIPATION WITH THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY WILL COME FIRE DEPARTMENT 3 1 1, THE, UH, SANITATION DEPARTMENT CALL ENFORCER, UH, POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THANK YOU FOR NO, ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON THIS? I, I JUST HAVE AN OBSERVATION.
UM, AS IT RELATES TO THE PLAN, SINCE WE'VE JUST RECENTLY BEEN ABLE TO SEE THESE IN, IN DETAIL IN TERMS OF PRESENTATION AND, AND GAINING SUPPORT, I BELIEVE REALLY HELPFUL ASPECT THAT'S NOT INCLUDED.
IT IS SORT OF DESCRIBING WHY THIS IS A BURNING PLATFORM, WHY IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS TO PROVIDE RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR SENIORS.
SOME OF THE TRENDS, THE FACT THAT THEY'RE THE LARGEST GROWING A LOT, THE FASTEST GROWING SEGMENT OF OUR POPULATION.
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AND I KNOW WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT ON HERE.IT SHOWS, YEAH, THERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF SENIORS IN DALLAS AND IT, AND IT'S A LOT MORE THAN IT USED TO BE, BUT JUST SOME OF THE LOCAL TRENDS AND NATIONAL TRENDS AS IT RELATES TO HEALTHCARE AND THE, THE HUGE CRISIS THAT MIGHT BE COMING IN TERMS OF PROVIDING FOR HEALTHCARE, FOR HOUSING, A VASTLY AGING POPULATION.
BUT JUST REASONS WHY IT MAKES SENSE FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS TO GET IN FRONT OF THIS WITH NOT JUST WHAT OUR CURRENT SITUATION IS, BUT WHAT THE FUTURE OUTLOOK IS.
AND THERE'S A TON OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THAT.
UM, I HAD FORWARDED AN ARTICLE TO IKA THAT THOUGHT WAS REALLY INTERESTING.
IT WAS IN DALLAS MORNING NEWS ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO ABOUT WHAT'S CALLED NOAA, NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOW IT'S EXPECTED TO DROP BY 98% THE CITY OF DALLAS IN THE NOW 25 YEARS.
AND SO THAT OF COURSE IS A HUGE, UH, IMPACT TO SENIOR POPULATION.
AND SO INCORPORATING SOME OF THOSE FACTS AND SOME OF THOSE PROJECTIONS TO GAIN THE SUPPORT THAT WE'LL NEED TO DO ALL OF THIS BECAUSE THERE IS A TON IN HERE AND WITHOUT A LOT OF RESOURCE AND FUNDING, I'M NOT SURE THAT IT'LL HAPPEN.
SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE SUPPORT TO DO THAT.
THE DATA'S THE DATA FROM LAST THAT WE HAD IN THOSE OTHER REPORTS.
UM, POINT, UH, UNDER GOAL TWO, THE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH.
UM, IN THE BOOK THAT THEY WERE REFERRING TO THE SENIORS BLUE BOOK, IT LISTS THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE, WHICH ALLOWS A SENIOR TO TAKE SIX HOURS FREE OF TUITION COSTS AT ANY STATE SUPPORTED SCHOOL.
AND, UM, LATELY, UH, OUR JUNIOR COLLEGES HAVE BECOME COMMUNITY COLLEGES.
AND THAT'S WHAT SHE WAS JUST SAYING ABOUT THE ONE IN HER AREA.
MOUNTAIN VIEW HAS THE TECHNOLOGY CLASSES.
BUT THERE'S THOSE YOU PAY FOR THOUGH, RIGHT? NO, THEY'RE FREE.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE SENIORS FOR THE SENIORS.
BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IF TECHNOLOGY WAS INCLUDED, BUT I KNOW THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE ALLOWS US TO HAVE THOSE PROGRAMS, SENIOR SOURCES OFFERING ALL KINDS OF, UM, TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION CLASSES.
THEY DO FINANCIAL LITERACY, THEY ALSO DO COMPUTER TRAINING, UH, PHONE TRAINING, WHATEVER.
BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS IN OUR AREA THAT NEED TO BE INCLUDED, NEED TO BE DONE.
SO I WAS JUST TRYING TO, IN RELATION TO WHAT, UH, ROB WAS SAYING, THE DATA CO THAT WE'VE HAD COLLECTED IN THE PREVIOUS COUPLE YEARS WITH THIS COMMISSION IS OUTSTANDING.
AND IF YOU WILL, MA, I, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN IT, I WOULD'VE THOUGHT YOU'VE SEEN IT.
I MEAN ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THINGS IN THAT DATA IS THAT UM, THE SENIORS ARE THE ONLY GROUP OF POVERTY THAT'S INCREASING IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND I THINK THAT'S A VERY POWERFUL PART RELATES TO A LOT OF WHAT YOU WERE SAYING AS FAR AS CONCERNS.
BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, I KNOW, UH, MS. TAYLOR CAN PROVIDE IT.
'CAUSE WE HAD SOME INCREDIBLE DATA COLLECTION THE LAST COUPLE YEARS FOR THIS COMMISSION.
UM, SO JUST TO WRAP US UP, I JUST WANT TO UM, TO SHARE MY APPRECIATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO THE COMMISSION, UM, TO CITY OF DALLAS LEADERSHIP, UM, WHO ARE ALLOCATING FUNDS FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT THEN ALSO TO OUR, MY STAFF AS WELL.
UM, WHEN SURVEY NUMBERS WERE EXTREMELY LOW, UM, THEY DIVIDED AND CONQUERED, UM, TO GET, ENSURE THAT WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS SPEAKING SPANISH.
UM, WE HAD SOME, UH, REPRESENTATION THERE AND SO THEY WENT OUT AND DEPLOYED OUT ALONG WITH OUR PARKS AND REC TEAM.
THEY ALSO DEPLOYED OUT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DID REACH CLOSE TO THAT 500 MARKS.
I JUST WANT TO SHOW MY APPRECIATION TO THEM OR SHARE IT RATHER.
AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, SO OUR GUIDE HOUSE TEAM, UM, THAT REALLY DID, UM, GO ABOVE AND BEYOND IN MANY DIFFERENT AREAS AND THEY DEALT WITH ME FOR ALMOST A YEAR WITH, UM, ASKING THEM TO REVISE THINGS AND MAKE ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS JUST SO, JUST TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD A MORE HOLISTIC REPORT.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE.
UM, THIS REPORT IS NEAR AND DEAR TO ME.
UM, ONE BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST LARGE PROJECT THAT I'VE HAD SINCE I'VE STARTED HERE, THE CITY AT DALLAS, BUT THEN ALSO, UM, TO SUPPORT OUR OLDER ADULT COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
AND SO, UM, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU AND IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT DEPUTY DIRECTOR HAW WOULD LIKE TO SAY, I WANNA TURN IT OVER TO HER IF SHE'S AVAILABLE.
AND IF NOT, I'LL JUST SAY THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN.
ALRIGHT, DEBBIE, BEFORE WE GET A MOTION TO ADJOURN, I WANNA REMIND YOU THIS IS OUR TIME TO SHINE JANUARY 5TH.
THERE ARE FIVE GOOD ITEMS ON HERE.
LEAN IN GREEN, LEAN IN GREEN, LEAN IN GREEN.
SERIOUSLY, SERIOUSLY, THIS IS THE TIME FOR US TO STEP UP AND DO SOMETHING.
WE'VE ALL BEEN ONES THAT COME AND ENJOY THE MEETINGS AND LEARN A LOT,
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GO TO OUR ACTIVITIES, BUT THIS IS TIME FOR US TO BE SURE WE MAKE IT.I THINK WE CAN MAKE THAT VERNON.
LET JUST WANNA MENTION THIS, MY COMPUTER CRASHED AND I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET ANY OF MY CITY COMMUNICATIONS FUNNY, JOE SING
SO UNTIL I CAN GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF, IF YOU JUST, I, I GET IS IT OKAY FOR THEM TO USE MY PERSONAL, LET'S TALK AFTER THE MEETING.
COMMISSIONER, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I'D LIKE TO SAY TABITHA HASN'T BEEN HERE A YEAR, BUT SHE'S DOING A FABULOUS JOB.
I MOVE, I ADJOURN THE MEETING SECOND.
UH, SOMEBODY IS, IS TRYING TO SPEAK ON, OH, SORRY.
OH, I SEE A HAND, BUT I CAN'T READ THAT BAR.
LISA, LISA, ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING? NO, SHE SAID GOODBYE.