Recommendation to request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission review senior programing offered throughout the City of Long Beach and make recommendations to the City Council on how senior citizen programming can be improved and/or expanded in the City in order to better serve our senior population; Request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission include in their analysis the following elements and report back to the City Council: • The number of senior citizens we have in the City of Long Beach; • The benefits of senior programming for our senior citizens; • The need for senior citizens to have a safe place to go for a hot meal, during extreme weather, and where senior citizens are presented with learning and/or socializing opportunities; • Senior programing in highly dense neighborhoods; • Proximity of senior centers to our senior population and to mass transit; and Request the recommendations made by the Commission include non-fiscal options such as changing program hours or offering different programs in order to promote variety.
Communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Ranga. Recommendation to request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission review senior programing offer throughout the city and make recommendations on how senior citizen programing can be improved and or expanded. Councilman Price. Thank you. I encourage my colleagues to vote in favor of this item. I'm hopeful that our senior citizen commission will get some opportunities to study this issue for us and come back with some recommendations that will help us enhance our senior programing throughout the city. And I want to thank my colleagues who joined me on this item. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. The second JFC with councilman turanga. Give any comments? Thank you. I want to thank Councilmember Price for putting me for allowing me to participate in this resolution. I think it's going to be wonderful to see what kinds of programs are out there for senior citizens, especially. I'm looking forward to see what we have in seventh District. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. I really want to thank Councilwoman Price for bringing this forward and inviting me to be a part of this, especially, you know, for my district, who has, you know, a very overwhelming number of seniors we hear very often and every single day about how much they need help from us here in the city. And so I know that specifically when we look at this, I know Chavez Park has had a meal program, a senior meal program that was taken away some time ago. So I would certainly like to look into that. In addition, I know that there's also been. A discussion about homebound seniors and including that. So if we can maybe if I can make a friendly amendment into that, including that in our motion, that would be great, because I know that's something that is very important for the research and review of for our commission. Thank you, Councilman. Councilmember Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And also like to thank Councilmember Pryce and the rest of the council members for bringing this forward. This is really consistent with some of the work that we've been doing in my district right now with our eighth District Advisory Senior Advisory Committee. I believe that it actually meets tomorrow and they will be coming back with recommendations on the district level in one of our ah ah ah advisory committee members is actually on the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission. Ms.. Winnie. And so I'm completely supportive of this, and I look forward to to hearing what the recommendations are. I think we do need to do more to to make sure that our seniors are aware of the many great services available to them here in the city of Long Beach. And where we have our shortfalls, we certainly need to address them. Kotsenburg. Yes, thank you. I mean, I am fully supportive, this side of recording, you know, these programs are available to our seniors because it is so important, you know, to all of us to stay as healthy and active as we can. You know, offering a variety of programs added longevity to our lives, I think. And it's very important that we find ways to stay active and keep our social calendar. And I second that motion that Mrs. Gallina made our second in motion. Councilwoman Mango I'm supportive of the motion. I think that when Councilmember Gonzalez brings up the loss of the senior meal program, I know that this is a dialog that I started with our Health and Human Services Director within days of starting in this department. And I don't know that I've received any feedback specifically related to our funding. So for those of you who don't know a lot of the funding for our senior male programs and our homebound seniors that Councilmember Gonzalez and Councilmember Price and Councilmember Austin talk about, that money comes from the federal government. And many of you have heard me say before that when you take the amount of money coming back from the feds to our community and we're only getting back $0.73 on the dollar, where there are communities across this country that are getting $2 and change. And so I'd be really interested in knowing or at least having Health and Human Services provide a report to the commission on those different programs that are coming to us when this gets to them, so that they're informed of the options and then potentially utilizing them as an advocacy group for us at the county and state and federal level for the reallocation of those funds through the state agency that distributes the funds based on a number of factors. So I hope that that report would be available to the Commission and submitted as a two from four to the Council in advance. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? CNN. Please cast your votes. Motion passes unanimously. 24. Communication from Councilmember Richardson, Council Member Suber nor Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Urunga. Recommendation two Respectfully request the city manager to present a report within 30 days on the status of summer youth activities citywide. In addition, host a series of pre summer community briefings to educate the public on the city's coordinated summer efforts.