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I'm meeting of the Senior Outreach Services Committee for August 19th, roll call, please.

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Sure, Kathy Annand, your Diane Michael Bank, your Colleen McCormick, your little pearl.

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Kathy Lyons, your Jerry Adrienne, our bandower.

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Okay, thank you.

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And then we'll go to, I'm going to, let's see, just nobody in the audience and you don't have anyone online.

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Let me just double check. I don't see anybody. No. So I'm going to go right to approval of the minutes of

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To i e 15

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Motion to approve the minute

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So move second motion made in second to approve all those of favor. Hi. Hi.

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Post motion carries. I'll abstain because I wasn't.

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Okay. Okay. Thank you.

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Okay.

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Next, we'll be business, item A, review quarter two report for Senior Outreach Services Department.

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So, this last month, we had a really packed agenda, so we kind of postponed this for a month,

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so this is for April, May, and June, quarter two report.

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I put this in the similar format as last time with a few changes, so again, starts with the programs, the program title, the month and the attendance.

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I highlighted a few different things throughout here that I just wanted to point out.

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We don't necessarily have to go through line by line with us, but I just wanted to give you an idea of how many things we're doing in a month and what kind of engagement we're getting from that.

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April was a really busy month for us because that's also volunteer appreciation month.

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So our department also does the McFarlane Community Service Day.

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That Spritney Leaves position is part of her position.

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It's case management and part of it is community outreach coordinator.

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It's mostly doing that day.

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We had a really great day for that.

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again, I was on the 25th of April that coincided with drug take back day and electronics

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recycling so we are getting a lot of engagement throughout the community for that.

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So that kept us busy as well as volunteer appreciation month, we do a pretty big event every

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year for all of the senior outreach volunteers, we have about a hundred volunteers in our

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This is the second year that we went to the wine house.

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We have snacks, everyone gets a token for one drink of their choice.

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And we have door prize and all sorts of fun things.

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So we got pretty good engagement, 45 people coming for that.

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So that was great.

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And then one thing that we did in April that was quite popular.

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We've never done it before.

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We had a presenter come from UW,

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Dink on a UW extension to teach a seven week course

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called Planning ahead, and that was full.

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She could only take 20 participants, participants,

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and it was full at 20, and then we had a wait list of five.

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So good to know that we'll probably make that an annual class that we teach.

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And Planning ahead was about just planning for end of life.

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So things from finances,

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actually, did any of you attend that?

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You did, do you want to just share briefly what it was very informative?

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Like I said, it was about finding a had making sure your finances were in order and

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everything through the doctor and the doctor was notified of all of your requirements and

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things like that.

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So it was, you know, there were seven different chapters, and we went through them and that

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some more interesting than others, but overall, well done.

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And there was a book that came with it, you were filling out as you were.

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And then they also, you know, it was where, you know, with your finances, you could go through

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and you could list all of your passwords and things like that, but then they were like,

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well, you know, this is not the safest thing, so they were able to download it and we have

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online so you could go in there and then send it on to your whoever you wanted your financial

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representative to have whatever would have those passwords, you know, if anything happened.

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So yeah, it was like I said the booklet was very thorough and yeah, nice. Well, thank you.

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Colleen, thanks for that feedback. So I think that's something like I said we hope to do on a regular basis

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then it really needs to need.

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In May, we had, that's older Americans month, and we're going to try every year to do something

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special in older Americans month.

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This year we kicked it off with our documentary premiere, that was a really big event.

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We had the daytime premiere, we had about 54 seniors come for the daytime event, and

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then we had around 100 people attend the premiere in the evening.

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That also was a silent option fundraiser.

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The money raised went to the McFarlane area outreach endowment,

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which is the nonprofit organization that we work with for grant money,

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for older adults in need and things like that.

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We raised about $2,400 for that from that, which was great,

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and had a lot of wonderful feedback.

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So we're hoping that that's a great kind of inaugural event

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and each year it'll, it'll, more for a little bit and change a little bit, but always be

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something focusing on older adults, celebrating older adults for the entire community.

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We had a vaccination clinic in May. We're planning on doing them twice a year as the next one is

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actually coming up in October with the O'Connell mobile pharmacy and that's starting to gain a

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little bit more steam. Of course, the fall tends to be a little bit more engagement because the flu

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vaccine is out and things like that. But they were pleased with the amount of people that came

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for that in the amount of vaccines that they were given. Other things that have been pretty

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consistent is the meals with melody. We've been doing that on a monthly basis. Our senior

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films have started to gain some attendance, which is exciting. We've been getting a lot of people

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coming to the senior films. I don't know if it's because the words getting out, they like the movies

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we're choosing, I'm not sure, but I'm glad that's going well. And then in June, if you turn

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the page, June, we had planned to kind of like downshift a little bit from our big events

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in April and May, but the root beer float event, we had no idea we'd have 70 people come.

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That was a very well-attended event. We have never had that many people come. I think last year,

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We counted 40 people who came, so we pivoted from having it at Lewis Park to having it here.

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This is kind of a more accessible space and it's a little bit easier for us to our staff.

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We don't have to be hauling things over there and I worked really well, so that we were, we were very pleased with it.

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Before I move on, is there any questions about any of the programming things?

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Yeah, I noticed for June and April that the aging with wisdom thing didn't have any attendance noted was that did that mean there wasn't any attendance?

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Oh, no good question, that was just there are some that we're still trying to get used to taking a regular attendance.

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We don't quite have a program in place or a process in place for that.

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And so those were a couple that we did not work like with Hipper or something or no, no, no, no, we're just not we're not like taking the actual attendance.

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But I think what we might do is come up with a form, I think Diane you mentioned this maybe that it's just a blank form that people need to sign in when they come in

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It's trying to get people to sign in to like yesterday we had an event and no one was signing in and so then I had to like send the thing around and so

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I think it's us getting used to making sure attendance is taken everywhere, but also all of the attendees.

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sure he's designed it. So, but let me see, aging with wisdom, the one on the 28th, we had really

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good attendance for that one. That was, I'm sorry, that was, I'm sorry, I'm talking about April

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to the night. Yeah. That was Diana Grove from UW Health. She did a wonderful mindfulness class

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and I would say we had maybe 18 people, just a ballpark. That one went really well. And then in May,

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I believe that was the month that,

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oh, the song, the May one wait a minute.

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You don't have anything to make.

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That's right, for me, it was,

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we had one speaker who had to cancel it was the one

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about when too much stuff is too much, yeah.

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And so she was not well and had to cancel for that month

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and we rescheduled it for July.

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So that meant that in May we did not have our plans speaker.

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But she came in July and that was a very well-attended one, but we'll talk about that at the Q3 report.

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And then in June, that one was someone from the Swallow Clinic, and that one we had, I would say, closer to around 10 to 12 people were probably at that one.

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And she talked about swallowing concerns as you age was swallowing as well as what they do with the clinic there and how they could help you.

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Um, we did try and tune a Chigong class to just see what kind of interest we had in it.

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It's something we might offer in the future, but since we already have a Tai Chi class,

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there is a lot of similarity in them.

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They are different modalities, but a lot of similarity.

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So, at this time, it was just like a one-off class for that.

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Um, we continued to do our reimagining retirement on a monthly basis, and, um, one thing that

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are finding by the way we're starting to work planning for 2027 in fact tomorrow is our little

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retreat our staff retreat where we plan for 2027 and one thing we're going to do is switch all of our

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lecture series so all the reimagining retirement and aging with wisdoms to days where we have a meal

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and we're going to switch them to more of a lunch and learn format and I feel like that will

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get more people attending since it'll kind of piggyback on our lunch. So that could improve

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our lunch numbers as well as our lecture numbers. So those will be moving to probably

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mostly Thursdays, but we do need to have a certain amount of flexibility with some of our

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speakers, especially when we do the Badger Talks ones. These are like UW professors, they're

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very busy people, and so sometimes we'll switch it up the day to be able to get

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particular speaker to come, but we are thinking Thursdays will probably be an ideal day for a lot of

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our lunch and learn kind of sessions. Any other questions about our programs for quarter to

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two? Lunch and learn that'll be with the meal but do they just come for the session and not the meal

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or not? We've done that the past where you can. You can just come for the session if you want or come

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for the meal beforehand and stay for the session kind of thing. Yeah and we find the times that we've

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that a lot of times our regular diners will hang out and stay too so yeah and just to clarify

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that it was the reimagining retirement series and aging with wisdom. Those are our two lecture

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series that we have.

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Do we have the pay for those people that come like from the WN stuff?

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That's a really good question. Mostly no. So through the Badger Talks program, that's a free series

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And an organization can have two speakers a year for free.

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Now, they are starting a new program there where it's more of a workshop kind of format.

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It's a little bit more extensive and some of those there is a fee for them.

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But we are not sure if we would branch into that quite yet.

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So mostly those are free.

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We did have to pay for Diana Grove.

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She came from UW Health.

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So, she did have a fee associated with hers, but we usually try to do ones that are no cost.

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And actually, the one that Diana Grove did about mindfulness, we did ask for our sponsorships for that.

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And so, we had two different sponsors.

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They were both massage therapists who work in the McFarland area who's sponsored that.

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Because they're kind of like a natural kind of connection.

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Yeah, that's a good idea.

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But, you know, getting sponsors is a fair amount of work too.

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So that's not something that we would want to do on a monthly basis, which we usually try

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to find free speakers.

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Actually, the speaker who did the, when too much stuff is too much, she's one of our volunteers.

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And she, Alison Bonass, is her name.

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And she does kitchen volunteering for us on Tuesdays.

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And she's also a therapist.

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And so she said, hey, I work with people who have struggle with kind of hoarding tendencies

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and I feel like I could do a lecture on that.

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So that's how that one came about.

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Yeah, that's cool.

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The one thing we do pay for on a monthly basis is the musicians.

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So the musicians we pay for those and we also have to pay for the movies that we show.

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But it's not a whole lot, since we are a government agency, it's pretty small amount.

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Does that come out of the regular budget that you plan for, or is it coming out of the endowment fund?

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It comes out of the budget that we plan for for the most part, yes, and on our programming line.

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However, with the musicians, I have been meeting to get sponsors for those more regularly,

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because it is more expensive. I mean, and I also feel like artists deserve to be paid, as well, right, you know.

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So, there's some that offer a lower rate for...

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Coming to a senior center. But there's some that don't, and that's fine. And so I think so far this year,

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I've only asked funding from the endowment for one of the musicians. I always try my best to find

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either a business or an individual who would like to sponsor that. And in our September newsletter that's not out yet,

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we're actually thanking Sue Simpson is a local older adult who attends from our program.

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She is sponsoring the Mad City Yooks who are coming in September and then I put on

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there would you like to sponsor an upcoming musical performance too? So just kind of get the

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word out there if someone would like to sponsor that. Yeah. But that adds up pretty quickly.

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So what's the range of cost for a musician? Just, you know, typical.

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It's about 150 to 300.

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So, Matt's at a use is 150.

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It just kind of depends also how big the musical group is.

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Things like that.

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With the movies, you also have a donation box.

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You know, so people would donate to $33.

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I mean, if you haven't come to a movie, it's great.

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because you can get popcorn you get just like going to the movies is just not quite as comfortable

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seating but it's really darn good and you know just you know if you put in a $5 bill you definitely

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got your money's worth and it's cheaper than going to the theater so I mean those donations must

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cut into that cost somewhat I mean maybe not fully but at least it's yeah yeah yeah that is very

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And yeah, I wish we could have a bunch of like barcolongers in here. Wouldn't that be cool?

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So you're probably for the planning to facility planning.

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the movies have been really fun.

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We actually had our first a weird jaws in July.

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And we were like, I don't know, are people going to come?

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Oh, okay.

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Oh, okay.

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So that was fun.

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Yeah, it's good.

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It's good.

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So health and wellness classes, we've had strong bones, strong bodies, again, both, both

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classes.

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The forever fit with Tammy is also similar in structure.

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She did the same training with the strong bones curriculum.

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Um, she has strong attendance at both classes.

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I, are she full yet?

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You know, I haven't heard, but I think she might.

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Yes, she's getting close.

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I saw in the room just now, the early class looked pretty pretty.

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She does not have as large of a class as Kathy does, um, as she's newer to, to teaching.

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So she's keeping her class a little bit smaller, but, um, that strong attendance in that,

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Balance class.

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So we've been finding the 1030AM class is full.

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It's full again this next session,

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but the 1130AM class, we're having more difficulty feeling.

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I think it's because it's over the lunch hour.

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But the problem is there's no other time earlier in the morning

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to do it, so that's just kind of a crunch with our space.

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The mornings are really popular times for classes.

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So hard to find in earlier time to come in and they want to do one class right and where I'd

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after the other since it's a teacher from so-and-health who comes down here. So we're trying to kind

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of work through that a little bit and see what we can do. Tai Chi, we have about five people who attend

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that on a regular basis. Yoga, we've had about 10 people attending that regularly and line dancing

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has had a little bit of a drop in attendance in the summer that is a drop-in class and they're

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getting an average of about six people attending that class. Just FY we have a few class changes

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that will be coming up in the fall. We are changing the time for a Tai Chi, changing the time for

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line dancing, we're potentially adding another class. So there's going to be some things that

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we're switching up. We're always trying to figure out what times the day work best for different

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classes and try our best to accommodate that before I move on to the nutrition program.

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Any questions about that?

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Any questions?

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So nutrition.

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So overall, our congregate sites have increased.

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So this is from quarter two of 2025 compared to quarter two of 26.

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So our Cambridge meal site has had a 30% increase from the same time last year.

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Our home-delivered meal went down, actually, we had a 7% decrease.

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We actually went from five routes to four routes.

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And I was mapping it out kind of the trajectory over the last couple of years,

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and we had a big spike, and then we had a downturn, now it's kind of correcting itself,

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which happens from time to time.

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I did it do that.

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Hold on just a second.

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Thank you.

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Did the Zoom meeting just stop?

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I see it, Katie.

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You see it on there?

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I have it up, yeah.

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Okay, it says on mine that it's connecting.

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I'm wondering if some glitch happened.

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I could ask Ben if just to make sure

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that it's still recording here.

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Is it?

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Okay, okay, okay. You just have to leave the call. You need to share your screen at all. That's fine.

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Okay, that's fine.

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You're going to the house.

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No.

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Yeah, it's just saying it's it's connecting.

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I have the little.

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Well, okay.

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It looks like it should be fine.

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Sorry about that.

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So we're not concerned about the home deliver meal numbers.

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It's just we kind of had a dip.

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and it's starting to climb back up again.

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Oh, there it is.

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McFarlane congregate numbers were pleased with.

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We have a 32% increase from 2025 numbers.

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So that continues to go up,

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which we've been quite pleased with.

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And those are number meals.

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These, so in 2026, an April manju,

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that's a number meal served in those

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most total numbers meal served.

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And then the percentage is just the percentage

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of meals, increase, or decrease.

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And then our case, any questions about nutrition?

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Case management.

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Here's our case management numbers.

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Like I mentioned last time, the documentation process

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is changing with the county.

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And things are kind of tightening up a little bit about how long

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people we call our sixth 10.

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That's our list, in what I say, openings and closing sets.

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That's our list of who is and is not on case management and that's what we report to the county.

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Some things are changing as far as how long a client stays on their eligibility to be considered a case management client that is reimbursed at the county.

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So some of those things are changing and tightening up a little bit and so we're accommodating and getting used to that.

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We've also started doing targeted case management, which is the word that they use for clients who are in Medicaid.

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That is billed separately from the rest of the case management numbers, and so we've started doing that.

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In, let's see, May we started doing that.

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So a lot of changes right now with the county and we're making a lot of adjustments, but we're working it out.

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And then, how much of a change is, for instance, the federal government has started to withdraw

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some of their funding and so on?

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How much of a change is that going to be for you?

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And it's going to be face to and I assume.

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It is going to be phased in, I guess that's a good question.

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I'm actually meeting with the county today to see what some of the budget outlines are for

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a four-case management and nutrition for the coming year.

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they've been, there hasn't been a lot of information released to us prior to today.

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Okay, question number two deals with a number of people that we're serving and in what locations.

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And so my question is, do we keep separate records for within McFarlane outside of McFarlane

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and how much do we know that we're increasing or decreasing that number of health cases?

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Absolutely, yeah. So we do keep separate, you know, we know how many clients, how many units of service are in each of the communities that we serve.

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So again, we serve the Village of McFarlane, town of Dun, town of Pleasant Springs, Cambridge, Rockdale, and Christina.

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So we actually do reports to all of those communities. And since the county doesn't pay for 100% of our case management costs,

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The villager McFarlane can't subsidize those other communities.

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So there is a formula that we have created to then send out to these other communities and

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say these are the number of service hours that we are providing to your community and this

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is the amount of costs that is associated with that and then they pay us back for that.

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So even if those numbers go up or down,

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that payment from that community would be reflect that.

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Could you sometime in one of your reports reflect back for us?

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How many cases you handle in those locations?

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So it's split out.

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So we can see what the numbers are in the different areas.

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I don't think there's any rush for it.

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I'm just curious, is to how the balance is across the areas

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we are serving and I'm very well aware I know the whole history I went through it as a board member

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as far as the background in payment. I'm not as worried about the payment as I am the service

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we are providing and how much and how it balances. Okay. Yeah, sure sure. I would say the community that we

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have the most hours in is a McFarland, followed by done, would be the second.

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Those other communities tend to be more rural, right?

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So there's less population in those communities, so we don't quite serve quite as much.

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And also, I forgot where I was going with them.

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Anyway, yes, I will definitely, I will definitely do that.

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Any other questions about case management?

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I do have a little bit more of some text here to kind of describe what has been going on taste management wise.

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We've been doing a lot of heat related support in the early summer with the heat waves.

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We actually, there's a local organization called Spartan Samaritans and we've worked with them for a number of different client needs that weren't able to be fulfilled by the endowment for one reason or other.

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And one thing, we have a number of clients who live at the Homestead, which is subsidized housing across the street here, and there is no central AC in that building.

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And a lot of units don't have window units. You'd have to provide your own window unit.

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And we noticed that that was quite a need, and it was a systemic need over there.

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And we have, through the endowment, help people apply for some endowment applications and gotten

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peace meal like one personal get a new AC unit or something like that.

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But it seemed like this was a bigger need.

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So we reached out to Spartan Samaritan and said there's 14 apartments over there that don't

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have AC, we're having these heat waves, it's probably going to be a more regular occurrence,

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and they ended up funding all of them.

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So they funded all the AC units, had them delivered, had them installed.

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So now we know that everyone at the home said is has appropriate cooling over there, which it's really pleased with that.

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And that is...

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How many units are there?

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How many units are there?

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40, I believe, it's a total number of units.

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And that is all people who are either 55 and older or with disabilities.

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So that we were really pleased with.

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We also had some other people who did not live at the homestead that we have utilized

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endowment grant funding for either AC repair or AC replacements, so that was something we

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worked with.

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Oh, and I did not write it this in here, but the other thing was the smoke-related air quality.

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We also had luckily leftover from COVID.

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we still had some of the K95 and 95 masks, and so we did have those available for people that

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we knew who had, you know, a COPD or any sort of breathing issues that they might need that.

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So, distributed as we could.

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Did you give us a little background on Spartan Americans?

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It's a newer group of businessman who has started an aid organization.

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And they, it's not just first seniors, it's for anyone in McFarland.

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They work mostly with organizations kind of helping out.

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So it's not like an arm of the Chamber of Commerce necessarily.

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It's just a group of people.

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Yeah, it's relatively new from McFarland business.

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Yeah, from McFarland business.

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Yeah, from McFarland business.

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people who if you're eligible for a food share you would also be eligible to get

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farmers market vouchers. I believe it's $25 in vouchers that can be used at

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different farm stands, farmers markets, things like that. So we've been working with

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a number of older adults to help them apply for that. They can use it at

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Eucsters, farmer.

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So, we have a lot of people who are keen to get their sweet corn from there. So, our case managers have been able to help get a lot of people hooked up with those.

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Long-class has been very busy, and we have one of our volunteers right here.

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Jerry Adrian and Gordon Kinder are been very busy helping to clean, repair, and store

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the equipment.

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We've also been working with the Wisconsin Medical Project, and they are an aid organization

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that collects durable medical equipment and supplies, medical supplies, all sorts of different

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things and sends them overseas with doctors without orders, so we've kind of gotten a connection

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so that any overflow or things that we don't normally keep in our long closet or other

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medical supplies that are dropped off are sent that way, which is helpful because sometimes

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we'll have a caregiver family member who's had a loved one in hospice who's passed away and

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they have a lot of supplies usually and don't want them to go to waste. We can't necessarily

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use them, but it's kind of nice to have a place for them to one stop shop or drop off all of those

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things and then we coordinate where they can go. A lot of times caregivers have a lot of their

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plate after the loss of a lift one. So whatever we can do to make that a little bit easier.

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Dimension support. So we have had our Dimension caregiver support group running on a monthly basis.

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It's going to be today. It's the third Wednesday of the month that's led by

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I'm Helen Taylor of the Dink County 80 RC and it's been very well attended.

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We're getting a really cohesive group starting to form, but new people come each month.

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Concurrently with that we also have what is turned out to be a dementia activity group.

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So the loved ones who have cognitive changes are in a separate room.

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We have a volunteer. My name is Jamie Kazmersky. She is fabulous and she and a volunteer.

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Another volunteer Lori worked together to create an hour of activities. Sometimes it's crafts.

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There's snack. There's a lot of sensory activities they do with the loved one. So it turns out to be a respite time as well.

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So that's been great.

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Also, they're doing something similar at the Cambridge meal site.

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So one Tuesday, a month after the Cambridge congregate meal,

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they have a similar thing.

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And since Cambridge is on the border of Jefferson County in Dane County,

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it's a partnership between the Dane and Jefferson County

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dementia specialists who run that.

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So we don't run that.

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McCrllan doesn't have anything to do with that.

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run through the county but it's well attended and it's bringing a lot of people to the

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meal site then on that day too. We are seeing more people who are coming in struggling with

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cognitive changes or caregivers of people who are struggling with cognitive changes. I will talk

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about later in the agenda today about our dementia friendly initiative and how that's going

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because we're definitely seeing the need for more education and support in the broader community.

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Other things that we've been dealing with, just kind of the FYI, what we do on a daily basis.

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We've had a number of clients recently with alcohol dependency.

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That can exacerbate cognitive changes. It can also be an increase in falls.

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That's a really difficult thing to work with because addiction is difficult to change.

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It's a disease. It's often something that people have been struggling with for a long, long time.

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And it can become increasingly challenging in when you're an older adult.

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So we're seeing some cases of that.

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A lot of caregivers stress and burnout, nation-wide actually there's a shortage in care workers.

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We definitely see that here as well.

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So more of the burden is falling on our caregivers.

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We've been supporting some veterans.

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We've had a veterans with PTSD.

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We've had veterans with some housing insecurity.

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continued lack of affordable housing in McFarlane but Dan County in general.

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That can lead to a lot of financial stress for older adults, and I'll show you

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on the endowment grant applications below.

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We regularly get requests for help with rent that they're not able to make their rent.

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And we've unfortunately had an uptick in clients who've had their electricity shut off.

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So by law, that electricity cannot be shut off in certain winter months, but in the summer

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it can, for non-bill payment.

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So that's a real unfortunate situation when it gets to that point.

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There is some crisis funding available through energy assistance, but you know, becomes

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so much bigger problem than, for example, we had a client who had their electricity shut

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off that means also then their phone gets shut off, you know, like they can't use

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their phone, their refrigerators shut off,

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all their food goes bad, you know,

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it becomes quickly a snowball situation.

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So that's a challenge with the heat being so high

440
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,120
this summer, people are running their air conditioners

441
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,320
and that brings up their electricity bills.

442
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,120
So that's what we're seeing.

443
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,280
The endowment grant applications down below.

444
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,700
This is something that I've added on here.

445
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:51,780
April we had six, a lot. They were for rent ambulance bill, moving expenses, someone

446
00:35:51,780 --> 00:36:00,160
need a microwave, dental bill, may rent gas cards, gas to get to and from their job.

447
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:05,140
And June, it was an air conditioning unit and you can kind of see the total amount of funding.

448
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:11,780
July, again, there's going to be another peak in numbers in July, unfortunately.

449
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:20,000
Um, RSV, uh, before I move on any questions about case management or any of those, I just

450
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,640
have one, uh, with a dementia support.

451
00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:28,240
Um, I ran into some people at, uh, McFarlane House, which you know is my favorite, one of

452
00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:28,900
my favorite places.

453
00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:30,300
You're almost home away from home.

454
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,140
No, I'm home.

455
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:31,800
Yeah.

456
00:36:32,660 --> 00:36:37,820
And, um, I, I was tracking, I like to track some of the seniors there.

457
00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:52,320
And one of them goes to the dementia support here and said nothing but great things about it and how, you know, it's kind of a great place to, you know, meet others and really, you know, get a lot of support.

458
00:36:52,700 --> 00:37:00,720
But one thing they did mention was the bathrooms that when they bring their spouse, their spouse can't get in the bathroom here.

459
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,760
because I don't know if they were in a wheelchair

460
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,160
or if they were in a walker,

461
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,000
but we don't have an accessible bathroom here.

462
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,440
That's kind of scary and I don't think they're inviting.

463
00:37:14,220 --> 00:37:18,000
But I think we were remodeling or making this

464
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,040
an incredible senior center.

465
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,420
We just, I think we need to think about that.

466
00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:29,760
I guess I'm puzzled because there is a white stall in there.

467
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:35,640
and then there's the one in the little shirt hallway that they should be able during

468
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,780
that's open, right, during regular hours, it's not like locked.

469
00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:43,220
It's not. I don't know if there's install bars though in there.

470
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,640
I don't know. There's only one side.

471
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,920
But it's a private one where the spouse could accompany the, you know, the other end.

472
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,660
Yeah, and I don't know if it's because there wasn't a push button, you know, we didn't go into

473
00:37:56,700 --> 00:38:04,880
She was a female that was the one that and he was pretty upset about that.

474
00:38:05,660 --> 00:38:10,600
Just because that person could not get into the bathroom, I don't know if it was

475
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,160
themselves.

476
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:17,300
But I think that's something we really need to kind of think about is some accessibility

477
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:18,260
for the bathroom.

478
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,840
And then I think the other is just the lack of affordable housing, especially for

479
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:31,060
what all the housing that's going in in McFarland, you know, is can the board do anything about,

480
00:38:31,540 --> 00:38:36,640
you know, people are going to build these huge housing units, is there anything we can do for seniors?

481
00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:40,220
No, bottom floor seniors only.

482
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:51,800
With a party room, very fun party room, but you know, but just just something to kind of help with the seniors a little bit, you know,

483
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,540
become of a kind of a nice thing, and I don't know, I don't know, it just sticks of everything

484
00:38:56,540 --> 00:38:59,440
that happens when you are going to build an apartment.

485
00:38:59,620 --> 00:39:04,180
So the multi-stories, a senior housing that's been going in, like right across from the public

486
00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:08,460
safety building, I assume that there's elevators, if they're not on the first floor, those

487
00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:09,080
are elevators.

488
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,600
I don't know how many units are set up for subsidized housing.

489
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:18,980
But usually those larger developments are they kind of being required to, I could have said

490
00:39:18,980 --> 00:39:23,860
No thing is, it's 45 units in that building, but I thought that was all, all subsidized?

491
00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:26,960
Not all, but that is for senior.

492
00:39:27,220 --> 00:39:29,740
It's for seniors, you know, how many units do they do?

493
00:39:29,820 --> 00:39:30,740
Subsequently, yeah.

494
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,900
So it's not actually subsidized.

495
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:39,120
So subsidized housing is, the rent is set to 30% of the person's income.

496
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:40,680
So it's different for everybody.

497
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:45,860
And there's only one subsidized housing in McFarlane, that's the homestead across the street.

498
00:39:45,860 --> 00:39:55,320
Now, Prairie Creek and Taylor Point, Taylor Point is over on the part of Taylor and

499
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,760
Larson Beach, and then Prairie Creek across from the public safety center.

500
00:39:58,820 --> 00:40:05,280
Those are both called Section 42 housing or affordable housing, and what that is is a certain

501
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:11,500
percentage of the units need to be at a certain decrease percentage of the market rate.

502
00:40:11,500 --> 00:40:20,240
So there's so many units that are 30% market rate, 50, 60, you know, and all of those numbers are negotiable.

503
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:25,860
To usually, when the developers are developing that site, that's negotiated.

504
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:35,980
So usually there's one or two units that are 30% you know, and then more of the up to 90%.

505
00:40:35,980 --> 00:40:39,640
And then there's a certain amount of units that are market rate in there.

506
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,820
So all of that is kind of a negotiation.

507
00:40:42,580 --> 00:40:44,480
All right, the cottages to the very old,

508
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,220
but they've been around for a long time,

509
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,260
but I thought some of those were also for whether they're

510
00:40:49,260 --> 00:40:52,320
market the, again, the section, whatever you use.

511
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,940
Section 42, they are all market right now.

512
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:57,600
It used to be, some of them were section two,

513
00:40:57,660 --> 00:40:58,420
they are all market rate.

514
00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:00,900
The same thing with Williams Town Bay, which is on

515
00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:04,880
D.L. Street, that used to include some reduced

516
00:41:05,460 --> 00:41:07,100
units, they are all market right now.

517
00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:14,820
Okay, yeah, rent is really high, right now, yeah, yeah, it can be challenging.

518
00:41:15,420 --> 00:41:19,860
Yeah, because I'm like the, I can never, I can never, is a Scalin Scalin Scalin

519
00:41:19,860 --> 00:41:25,100
Scalin Village, I think in McFarlane it's up to 235 on the list.

520
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,400
I think it's a seven year wait list right now.

521
00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:31,140
Yeah, so that's, yeah, that's a lot.

522
00:41:31,420 --> 00:41:35,300
And they're supposed to build another development, aren't they?

523
00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:43,980
They have a band, they have a band, but they are doing that when, well, she, that's the

524
00:41:43,980 --> 00:41:48,300
question when, you know, we're moving blifered, but can we?

525
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:56,100
Wasn't I ever the first of also had some property that was going to be for a senior development

526
00:41:56,100 --> 00:42:00,280
is that was that a rumor or out in that direction?

527
00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:01,700
I don't know.

528
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:02,840
I think it's a rumor.

529
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,120
My favorite one, let me just say.

530
00:42:05,380 --> 00:42:10,160
But sounds like there's some discussion happening, you know, about there's a need.

531
00:42:10,380 --> 00:42:13,980
I mean, obviously, we'll 235, 7-year wait.

532
00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:16,740
There's a need.

533
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:18,220
Yeah, we're seeing your housing.

534
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:24,880
But yeah, I mean, if you would like at some point I'd be happy to

535
00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:30,140
create something that talks about the different kinds of housing and what affordable housing is for

536
00:42:30,140 --> 00:42:32,180
to subsidize housing versus section E.

537
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,900
There's all these different words

538
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:36,320
that we use out there and what does that actually mean?

539
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,020
I'd be happy to put something together

540
00:42:38,020 --> 00:42:40,000
if you'd like more information about that.

541
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,000
I think that'd be good.

542
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,080
And when you do that, could you identify

543
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,580
what we have in the village and where?

544
00:42:46,820 --> 00:42:47,960
Oh yeah, that's it, that's it.

545
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,740
But I thought it was a big project, can you?

546
00:42:49,860 --> 00:42:50,120
I know.

547
00:42:51,620 --> 00:42:52,340
I know.

548
00:42:52,340 --> 00:42:56,500
Why don't we tomorrow, we want you, maybe we're on talk.

549
00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:10,980
And then I guess my question is and always always is, you know, and then when we go through the next thing to the municipal center, do we want to go in front of the board?

550
00:43:11,420 --> 00:43:19,500
You know, do we want to make a, you know, like the soccer people and baseball people do and should we go in front of the board with all the information?

551
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:24,240
Well I think there will be an opportunity to do that with a new designer coming.

552
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:26,780
So we can't talk about that in just a minute.

553
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,540
How about I finish up the Q2 report here?

554
00:43:30,740 --> 00:43:32,660
Because there's just one more section on there.

555
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:40,580
You know, Katie, I was just going to add that because my daughter does for living right now

556
00:43:40,580 --> 00:43:46,820
the median income level is 91,000 for Dame County.

557
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,800
So those percentages are based on 91,000.

558
00:43:50,800 --> 00:44:00,380
And so there's a lot of people who have full-time jobs who are taking part of the percentage

559
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:01,940
reduction.

560
00:44:02,940 --> 00:44:10,520
So it's not, I think, a lot of times, people think you're getting a reduced rent, it's

561
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:10,860
you know.

562
00:44:11,020 --> 00:44:12,360
It's still a lot.

563
00:44:13,380 --> 00:44:13,700
Yeah.

564
00:44:13,780 --> 00:44:17,100
A part of all is relative term.

565
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:17,940
Yeah.

566
00:44:18,300 --> 00:44:18,520
Exactly.

567
00:44:20,260 --> 00:44:21,580
It's a challenge.

568
00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:29,680
The last section on here is our RSVP driver escort ride, so again we have Brittany's one of

569
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:34,820
our staff members who coordinate to all of the rides, so these are volunteers giving rides

570
00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:41,740
to and from not emergency medical appointments using their own vehicles for older adults in

571
00:44:41,740 --> 00:44:46,340
our service area, and you can see the number of rides I highlighted June because Holy

572
00:44:46,340 --> 00:44:53,040
smokes. That was a lot of pride. So there was 69 separate rides with 23

573
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:59,980
set unique passengers and nine drivers did that. So that's a lot of of um

574
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:12,620
Rights that our volunteers are giving. A few things to just point out with that is transportation is also something that we're definitely seeing a need for older adults, transportation options.

575
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:21,200
But that's a lot of staff time that we have going into coordinating rides and our volunteers are really doing a great job.

576
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:29,220
We actually just got, we did orientation for three brand new driver escort drivers.

577
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:35,600
So that was a day of celebration in our department because that is something that we're

578
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,600
always looking for as driver escort drivers.

579
00:45:38,540 --> 00:45:44,060
So anyways, that's great to know that that is a service that is being taken advantage

580
00:45:44,060 --> 00:45:57,220
of by our older adults. Any questions about rights? So that was quarter two. I will as Jerry

581
00:45:57,220 --> 00:46:02,760
suggested do some breaking out of the case management numbers just so y'all know the

582
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:09,380
difference of how many we're doing that are from the different municipalities. I will also start

583
00:46:09,380 --> 00:46:15,200
breaking out now our targeted case management numbers versus our regular case management number.

584
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,440
So again, targeted case management is the Medicaid clients that we see that we're going to

585
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,820
start billing separately, which has become a requirement from the county now that we have to

586
00:46:24,820 --> 00:46:25,520
do that separately.

587
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:30,440
So just so that you know that with the number differences on those, anything else that you would

588
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:37,940
like to see different with our quarterly reports, the information that would be helpful.

589
00:46:39,570 --> 00:46:43,210
Okay, it's impossible to get them into the packet.

590
00:46:43,790 --> 00:46:44,630
Yes, I can.

591
00:46:44,910 --> 00:46:46,070
Okay, thank you.

592
00:46:47,030 --> 00:46:47,710
Okay.

593
00:46:48,470 --> 00:46:48,810
Okay.

594
00:46:49,270 --> 00:46:50,070
Thank you.

595
00:46:50,070 --> 00:46:50,410
Yeah.

596
00:46:51,150 --> 00:46:54,830
I'm moving on to the item B is a discussion.

597
00:46:55,810 --> 00:47:00,730
Progress of dementia friendly training for the Village of McFarlane staff volunteers, members

598
00:47:00,730 --> 00:47:02,770
of the Board's Admissions and Committees.

599
00:47:04,070 --> 00:47:08,870
So you all probably know about what we're moving towards the dementia friendly initiative here

600
00:47:08,870 --> 00:47:15,350
in McFarland. So we've started doing training so far the summer we have done two general

601
00:47:15,350 --> 00:47:23,150
trainings and two specialized trainings for police. So the general trainings are for staff,

602
00:47:23,810 --> 00:47:29,110
village McFarland departments, boards committee commission members and volunteers.

603
00:47:31,070 --> 00:47:37,950
And then we have separate trainings for our police and separate trainings for fire EMS.

604
00:47:37,950 --> 00:47:45,090
So so far we've had two of the general ones and two of the police ones that we've completed, we still have some coming up.

605
00:47:46,630 --> 00:47:48,090
We have one tomorrow actually.

606
00:47:49,390 --> 00:47:54,210
Here at the municipal center, there's the August 20th from 11 to noon.

607
00:47:54,870 --> 00:47:59,970
Then we have another one next Monday, August 24th from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. also here.

608
00:48:00,590 --> 00:48:06,150
And Tuesday, September 1st from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. here. Those are all the general ones.

609
00:48:06,150 --> 00:48:10,870
Now, the police ones are separate just because those are longer trainings.

610
00:48:11,350 --> 00:48:14,590
We go through some more in-depth kind of case studies with them.

611
00:48:14,590 --> 00:48:19,130
They have a very different kind of interaction and engagement with the public, so it's

612
00:48:19,130 --> 00:48:20,810
much more specialized for them.

613
00:48:21,310 --> 00:48:27,390
And then in September, we're doing a training, they have a monthly training with the entire

614
00:48:27,390 --> 00:48:33,710
fire EMS with all of the like volunteer firefighters and things like that, so that will

615
00:48:33,710 --> 00:48:38,270
there evening training will be the dementia friendly training in September. So we should be able

616
00:48:38,270 --> 00:48:45,270
to catch most of them there. I know some of you have taken it. I Kathy, you took the training

617
00:48:45,270 --> 00:48:53,730
it. So the idea with this is to give you kind of an overview of basic knowledge of what dementia

618
00:48:53,730 --> 00:49:01,830
is to be able to recognize some of the kind of symptoms progression of dementia and then we're

619
00:49:01,830 --> 00:49:07,250
case, like a little case study at the end of, you know, how you might interact with someone in

620
00:49:07,250 --> 00:49:13,630
the community who may be struggling and what are some strategies tools for you to best support

621
00:49:13,630 --> 00:49:20,470
that person. So I think it's going pretty well. We're getting a lot of people signing up for it.

622
00:49:20,690 --> 00:49:24,830
So that's great. If you haven't signed up for it yet, there is a sign up genius. I'm happy to send

623
00:49:24,830 --> 00:49:32,770
to you again if you like, and yeah, we're hoping to get the majority of everyone trained.

624
00:49:33,350 --> 00:49:40,950
So the next steps for this, so October and beyond, I had a meeting with someone from

625
00:49:40,950 --> 00:49:44,930
the school district, we're hoping to bring it to the schools. I'll also be reaching

626
00:49:44,930 --> 00:49:55,790
out to faith communities, civic organizations, civic groups, and then businesses. So we'll continue

627
00:49:55,790 --> 00:50:00,550
doing trainings throughout McFarlane. When are you meeting with the schools?

628
00:50:01,510 --> 00:50:07,010
So next week they're doing their in-services and so I'll be meeting with going to talk about it.

629
00:50:07,270 --> 00:50:12,070
There. Yeah, yeah, it's great. Yeah, because I love to bring it to the students.

630
00:50:12,850 --> 00:50:19,410
Our hope is, as we move forward, we're going to start gathering people who are really interested

631
00:50:20,590 --> 00:50:26,970
in working with this particular issue and with this population to form kind of a coalition

632
00:50:26,970 --> 00:50:27,790
a group.

633
00:50:28,710 --> 00:50:34,350
And that group of volunteers then will all eventually be able to do their, they do a train

634
00:50:34,350 --> 00:50:41,350
a trainer training so that then they can go out and present in the community as well.

635
00:50:42,590 --> 00:50:47,850
Katie, are you planning to incorporate the dementia-friendly training with your election inspector

636
00:50:47,850 --> 00:50:48,290
training?

637
00:50:48,990 --> 00:50:49,470
Ooh, yes.

638
00:50:50,150 --> 00:50:51,190
I would like to do that.

639
00:50:51,190 --> 00:50:56,210
I don't know full of time to do it before our election this year, but yes, absolutely.

640
00:50:56,370 --> 00:50:57,350
Did you do that in Manona?

641
00:50:57,530 --> 00:51:03,550
We have, and they find it very helpful, and they're asking for it again if there are new

642
00:51:03,550 --> 00:51:09,450
election inspector, so do training anyway, so it's kind of nice to kind of incorporate that in.

643
00:51:10,630 --> 00:51:14,750
In the other thing from the dementia-friendly leaders initiatives,

644
00:51:17,170 --> 00:51:19,290
post-COVID, those of us who

645
00:51:19,290 --> 00:51:25,930
had initiatives going, it's been a struggle finding volunteers, that's why I really compliment

646
00:51:25,930 --> 00:51:31,990
Katie for bringing this on, because it's a challenge to try to find people to do the work

647
00:51:31,990 --> 00:51:34,190
of a community's dementia friendly initiative.

648
00:51:35,110 --> 00:51:37,050
So, Dane County is actually thinking about

649
00:51:37,850 --> 00:51:41,770
doing one whole county meeting,

650
00:51:43,290 --> 00:51:47,730
which then, so like I run a memory cafe

651
00:51:47,730 --> 00:51:50,950
plus the initiative meetings and all the trainings

652
00:51:50,950 --> 00:51:52,830
and all of that, it's just a lot

653
00:51:52,830 --> 00:51:54,330
on very limited staff.

654
00:51:55,350 --> 00:51:57,890
So, the fact that Dane County wants to do just like

655
00:51:57,890 --> 00:52:01,810
one, Dane County, dementia friendly meeting.

656
00:52:02,230 --> 00:52:04,630
I think is a huge help to those of us who

657
00:52:04,630 --> 00:52:06,570
like, just can't do it all.

658
00:52:07,550 --> 00:52:10,830
So as you are developing this, I think,

659
00:52:10,830 --> 00:52:12,530
I think in October, we're going to start

660
00:52:12,530 --> 00:52:15,130
doing some round table discussions and what that looks like.

661
00:52:16,250 --> 00:52:18,870
And but that might just kind of either help

662
00:52:18,870 --> 00:52:23,290
or take some load off as you're trying to climb this mountain

663
00:52:23,290 --> 00:52:25,530
of dementia friendly in McFarland.

664
00:52:25,530 --> 00:52:31,970
Yes. Thank you very much. Yeah, I would be interested in attending that roundtable too. That would be great.

665
00:52:33,670 --> 00:52:41,150
Wonderful. Any other questions about the dementia friendly initiative and where we're at with that?

666
00:52:45,070 --> 00:52:51,970
Okay, very good. Thank you. Moving on to see review status of my Farwon Missile Center Facility Plant.

667
00:52:51,970 --> 00:53:02,250
And you have in a pack that quite a, as you can see the report and it was dated July 31st, 26th.

668
00:53:02,790 --> 00:53:07,010
So yeah, so this was, we had had some questions about this last time.

669
00:53:07,850 --> 00:53:14,730
That was here and it shared kind of where we're at in the process and I just wanted to give you an update, but also make sure you all had access to this.

670
00:53:14,730 --> 00:53:34,650
This is from HGA, the architect company that is going to be doing this process, this next planning study going forward, and I just thought you might find this information helpful, so you understand kind of where we're at.

671
00:53:34,650 --> 00:53:42,510
So, at this point, the village board has approved for HGA to do this work over the next year.

672
00:53:43,070 --> 00:53:46,810
At this point, I believe they are finalizing the contract for that,

673
00:53:46,930 --> 00:53:55,030
and then they will be starting to all sorts of engagement with the different stakeholders

674
00:53:55,650 --> 00:54:00,310
who would be utilizing this building. So, that's different departments.

675
00:54:00,310 --> 00:54:06,130
That would be administration, community development, senior outreach.

676
00:54:06,990 --> 00:54:12,750
There also be reaching out to do engagement with older adults who would be utilizing

677
00:54:12,750 --> 00:54:13,870
this space,

678
00:54:16,030 --> 00:54:17,070
a senior programming.

679
00:54:17,970 --> 00:54:22,130
They would probably be reaching out to different community groups who use this space in the

680
00:54:22,130 --> 00:54:26,550
evenings, like forage, the girl scouts, you know, all of the different civic groups that

681
00:54:26,550 --> 00:54:27,530
utilize this space.

682
00:54:27,530 --> 00:54:35,690
So there will, as Barb said, like, when can we engage with this, when can we share what we want?

683
00:54:35,890 --> 00:54:38,570
So there are going to be some opportunities coming up.

684
00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:43,410
I don't know, Kathy and Lowell, if you have anything to add about that.

685
00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:49,630
I don't believe those meetings will be happening until October, probably at the earliest.

686
00:54:49,650 --> 00:54:50,870
That's my guess.

687
00:54:50,890 --> 00:54:52,170
I think I understand too.

688
00:54:52,690 --> 00:54:52,850
Yeah.

689
00:54:52,850 --> 00:54:58,950
go to the back page 12, and at the bottom, it's 37 meanings, that's a lot of meanings.

690
00:54:59,530 --> 00:55:05,490
And I hope, and then they estimate schedule 8 to 10 months for the study.

691
00:55:05,990 --> 00:55:11,530
I would like to see that cut down what would you say, Kathy, 6, 6 months, 8 months.

692
00:55:12,310 --> 00:55:18,970
Yeah, it's going to be interesting because we really have no other information than what

693
00:55:18,970 --> 00:55:21,070
is in this report about that.

694
00:55:21,070 --> 00:55:30,690
So it's hard to say at this moment, but I mean, spring, 2027 really isn't that far away.

695
00:55:31,250 --> 00:55:34,890
No, it's just, it's often six months or a couple of months, whatever.

696
00:55:35,570 --> 00:55:36,970
And we're into first of April.

697
00:55:38,390 --> 00:55:45,890
So I would think that this timeline's got to be somewhat shortened and whatever.

698
00:55:46,510 --> 00:55:53,170
And one thing on there, under someone on page 11 of this, you see number one immerse.

699
00:55:54,050 --> 00:56:00,050
So they're reviewing all of the pre-existing plans, looking at the space, but under benchmarking tours.

700
00:56:00,650 --> 00:56:05,810
So what I will be able to do is share with them, all of things I've shared with all of you, and all of our meetings, right?

701
00:56:06,830 --> 00:56:11,810
I've toured a number of different senior centers, and like I took all those photos of them.

702
00:56:11,810 --> 00:56:19,410
So all of those kinds of things I'll be sharing with them and any feedback I've received

703
00:56:19,410 --> 00:56:23,710
from all of you in those meetings when I shared all those photos and make sure to incorporate

704
00:56:24,430 --> 00:56:24,950
that.

705
00:56:24,970 --> 00:56:28,990
And then the next part, the Engage part, you can see all those public information meetings.

706
00:56:29,250 --> 00:56:35,190
So that's your opportunity and the broader community, it's the opportunity to come and

707
00:56:35,190 --> 00:56:35,770
share.

708
00:56:35,770 --> 00:56:43,810
And so I will be doing a lot of promotion of that in our newsletters, at our events, things

709
00:56:43,810 --> 00:56:47,970
like that to make sure people are aware of the dates once they're set.

710
00:56:48,650 --> 00:56:51,610
Dates and times and to come with their ideas.

711
00:56:52,250 --> 00:56:53,880
Our picnic is actually coming up.

712
00:56:54,650 --> 00:56:56,910
Our annual picnic is coming up next Thursday.

713
00:56:57,130 --> 00:57:03,130
And one of the things that we're going to be doing is, you know, in our hallway at,

714
00:57:03,150 --> 00:57:04,870
we had everyone write on the board.

715
00:57:04,870 --> 00:57:10,470
So we're gonna do a word cloud of that if you've seen those before where you can put into the system and kind of creates an image

716
00:57:10,470 --> 00:57:16,590
We're gonna do that and then everyone who attends the picnic will have something where they're gonna write their top five things

717
00:57:16,590 --> 00:57:21,690
They'd like to see in the in a senior center just just you know get this idea is starting to

718
00:57:22,510 --> 00:57:27,370
Get it rolling start thinking about this in a different way and start giving some feedback

719
00:57:27,370 --> 00:57:32,870
So I'm gonna be starting to do more of those kinds of things tracking that information and then

720
00:57:32,870 --> 00:57:34,970
encouraging people to start coming to those meetings.

721
00:57:35,210 --> 00:57:37,750
But just so you all know that it's on the horizon here,

722
00:57:37,850 --> 00:57:41,570
it's coming, it's coming, and then when the time is here,

723
00:57:41,610 --> 00:57:44,230
it'll be really important that we have a strong showing

724
00:57:44,230 --> 00:57:47,110
of older adults who use their voice to say

725
00:57:47,110 --> 00:57:49,690
what they really want this project to look like.

726
00:57:51,350 --> 00:57:53,750
So just following up on your degree,

727
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:57,270
you've done a whole lot of footwork by going to these different

728
00:57:57,270 --> 00:58:00,430
senior centers around the area and discussing this with us.

729
00:58:00,430 --> 00:58:06,190
ready, you know, so the benchmarking tours they were saying, the thing you highlighted, that was

730
00:58:06,190 --> 00:58:11,090
their committee might go and see two other centers, but they were thinking, yeah, I mean,

731
00:58:11,090 --> 00:58:16,190
that even necessary, I mean other than maybe from an architectural standpoint, you know, maybe

732
00:58:16,190 --> 00:58:21,150
they'd be looking at how does that translate into that? That's interesting to you, so they can

733
00:58:21,150 --> 00:58:26,350
because it had been more, yeah, go ahead and see what's inside. Well, a tour of one is by chance

734
00:58:26,870 --> 00:58:41,850
They built a new community center and it's really quite the place and a whole tour of it, and I took pictures and I shared them with Matt, the pictures, so that was just for my own, because I knew that community.

735
00:58:42,430 --> 00:58:47,330
If I wanted to see what they had going there, because they just built a new one.

736
00:58:47,330 --> 00:58:53,350
And you know, for senior activities and just, just a really nice place.

737
00:58:54,210 --> 00:58:59,230
Yeah, you know, when I looked at this process and I just, I know it's necessary, but it

738
00:58:59,230 --> 00:59:04,710
made me kind of side because it was pretty much done a year and a half, two years ago.

739
00:59:05,070 --> 00:59:06,090
I feel comfortable.

740
00:59:06,290 --> 00:59:06,550
Yeah.

741
00:59:07,250 --> 00:59:12,430
And I just don't know how much, you know, other than that the class knew and estimate what

742
00:59:12,430 --> 00:59:16,690
the class is going to be to do, things are always changing because of inflation and just

743
00:59:16,690 --> 00:59:22,530
changing time. But other than that, like, what are our ideas? You know, it feels like we've done

744
00:59:22,530 --> 00:59:27,650
a lot of the footwork. So therefore, shortening the whole timeline from ten months down to six

745
00:59:27,650 --> 00:59:34,350
months, doesn't seem unreasonable. And one of the things the board decided actually is they

746
00:59:34,350 --> 00:59:40,390
had, I believe, six, six, five, ten grand, I think. Or something like, yeah, more, they were going

747
00:59:40,390 --> 00:59:45,190
to do more chores. And we kind of said, well, you know, we've already done some of that work,

748
00:59:45,190 --> 00:59:51,810
so they lowered that down, so maybe a couple of tours and then like I said, I can show them

749
00:59:51,810 --> 00:59:58,270
the work that we've already done. One thing that I'm looking for too is having them come

750
00:59:58,270 --> 00:59:59,890
and walk through the space.

751
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,780
Just kind of like, here's the ideas for what we could do with space. Because I believe there's, we are going to have to make a lot of alignments, like with what we have, right? How can we best utilize the space that we have to keep the costs down, right? So what efficiencies can we, can we make, and how can we align it with the structure of the building as much as possible now? And so it'll be, I'm really looking forward to that opportunity just walking around with them and seeing, seeing.

752
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,100
what we can do. I want to add that I actually I towards

753
01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:36,780
Stolened and Anona, so I've got my three.

754
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:44,720
It's great to do, but you know, it's all time continuing too, but.

755
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:50,060
Right, and Diane, I was just asking the last page of this

756
01:00:50,060 --> 01:00:54,260
mentions a kickoff meeting in July or August, because that's been set.

757
01:00:54,660 --> 01:00:59,700
No, that has not been set. It's probably not going to be until September or October, at least.

758
01:00:59,700 --> 01:01:02,800
It was just, I think this went back and forth a little bit.

759
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,720
There were some changes made and so some changes

760
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,040
to contract needed to be made.

761
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:11,080
But I will definitely let everyone know when the kickoff happens.

762
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,940
Kathy and Lowell, you haven't heard of a date set.

763
01:01:16,180 --> 01:01:16,420
Yeah.

764
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,040
That's just a good one.

765
01:01:18,220 --> 01:01:19,620
One more question, probably directed to the board.

766
01:01:19,740 --> 01:01:22,220
So you mentioned there's still the contract

767
01:01:22,220 --> 01:01:26,480
that the hiring this company has been approved,

768
01:01:26,700 --> 01:01:28,320
but there's still negotiating the contract.

769
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:33,100
so that the final amount of money, like it's $225,000 or something,

770
01:01:33,660 --> 01:01:37,460
that kind of depends on how many tours they do and how many hours are invested,

771
01:01:37,980 --> 01:01:39,680
or what we committed to that.

772
01:01:39,780 --> 01:01:44,840
No, they did approve that, yeah, so I'm $1.19, yeah, $1.19, yeah.

773
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,960
And so I'm sorry, negotiating is probably not the right word.

774
01:01:47,980 --> 01:01:50,780
I think they're just finalizing the contract and things like that.

775
01:01:50,780 --> 01:01:52,160
Right, I know. Yeah, yeah.

776
01:01:52,380 --> 01:01:55,900
But I believe the board voted on it and approved it, and it was an action item.

777
01:01:56,220 --> 01:01:56,860
Yeah, great.

778
01:01:57,340 --> 01:02:04,300
So, I think the next part is just the contract and having the meeting and the opening.

779
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:05,360
Yeah.

780
01:02:05,460 --> 01:02:06,180
It's definitely that.

781
01:02:06,340 --> 01:02:07,420
But it is moving forward.

782
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,480
And if you read through this a little bit more, you can also go to their website.

783
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,780
See some of the work that they've done in the past.

784
01:02:13,380 --> 01:02:15,260
And this kind of talks about the process.

785
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,880
And I know there's been a lot of a lot of questions about how can I engage?

786
01:02:19,340 --> 01:02:21,800
Well, there will be opportunities too.

787
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,200
And I'll be very important too.

788
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:24,900
Yeah.

789
01:02:24,900 --> 01:02:28,520
So since this is the same company that we've had before,

790
01:02:29,340 --> 01:02:34,680
can they, without cost, look at the previous plans,

791
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:39,300
and just added them a little bit to the current space

792
01:02:39,300 --> 01:02:42,560
and then start from there instead of starting from the very beginning.

793
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,140
I think they definitely, that's part of the process is looking at the previous plans,

794
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:51,220
but there's a few things that are big to purchase from the last time.

795
01:02:51,220 --> 01:02:54,880
So the last time this space was going to...

796
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:55,840
Two stories, right?

797
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,580
They were talking about two stories.

798
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:58,760
They started with one.

799
01:02:58,980 --> 01:03:05,320
There was also one story option, but that was also with the library having part of this space.

800
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:08,120
And it was also with the use center having part of this space.

801
01:03:08,540 --> 01:03:14,960
So there's been big changes now that those two entities are not going to be incorporated into this building.

802
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,480
So then that changes the footprint quite a bit.

803
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,600
So the use center is not going to be in the center.

804
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:30,000
that's correct. It's going to be a senior center. It's going to be, well, part of this administration is going to be here and, you know,

805
01:03:30,220 --> 01:03:38,620
the community development, community economic development, but not, but not the library.

806
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:40,320
Okay, not that you said, okay.

807
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:44,440
And the village board will still have meetings, they'll still be meeting in this building.

808
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:54,000
So there are, there are other things, but yeah, I think because the stakeholders have changed a little bit,

809
01:03:54,420 --> 01:03:57,520
I think there will need to be some changes to the plan.

810
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:03,720
But still, I mean, it seems like there could be some overlap that they could use some of that.

811
01:04:03,740 --> 01:04:13,800
They will use that, like the, where the HFAC and, you know, those supporting walls or whatever they're called,

812
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:21,300
they'll be able to go back and also that. The one thing about this, this is the same group

813
01:04:21,300 --> 01:04:33,860
that just did the library plan and how they do it is everything has a cost set to it and so

814
01:04:34,860 --> 01:04:42,700
you will be able to see if you want this to happen it costs as much. If you want this next thing

815
01:04:42,700 --> 01:04:51,520
happen in cost as much. So, what's been happening, there's been discussions on the library board as well.

816
01:04:52,640 --> 01:05:01,560
And, you know, we now have the option of picking and choosing, okay, well, we could do these list of things over, you know,

817
01:05:01,660 --> 01:05:10,160
these other things are probably going to have to wait. There's definitely budget issues involved in all of this.

818
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:40,140
One thing I wanted to let everyone know, as the board, as part of the Strategic Implementation Plan, which is setting the goals and the future planning for the village, in the housing and economic development section, the board specifically added senior housing and affordable or more like entry levels.

819
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:44,880
single family housing in the word events in there.

820
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:50,140
So the senior housing comes up quite a bit at our meeting.

821
01:05:51,460 --> 01:05:52,920
So thank you.

822
01:05:52,980 --> 01:05:54,160
Thank you for doing that.

823
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:54,560
Yes.

824
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,460
And I just wanted to note in page nine of their document.

825
01:05:58,460 --> 01:06:04,380
They talk about the conceptual floor plans are already created, reviewing the old plan.

826
01:06:04,780 --> 01:06:08,400
So I think it's part of the plan here that they're not going to recreate the wheel.

827
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,560
They're going to use, you know, what we're going to do.

828
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,060
And also with what Kathy said,

829
01:06:14,420 --> 01:06:17,180
we're, I think we're really looking at a phased approach.

830
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:19,500
So it's not going to be like boom, it's all done.

831
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:24,600
It's going to be phasing, probably four phases over the course

832
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,080
of the entire building, having it done.

833
01:06:27,380 --> 01:06:30,600
Because there's also been discussion about what

834
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,100
happens to all of us who work here

835
01:06:33,100 --> 01:06:34,760
well, the renovations are happening.

836
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:42,440
and the HCA is going to be coming up with a plan so if we can stay here well things are being

837
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:43,280
done, right?

838
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:47,620
So a part of the building hopefully will be being being worked on and we will not be in that

839
01:06:47,620 --> 01:06:49,700
space so some of us may need to shift around.

840
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:51,260
So that's another kind of piece.

841
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:59,360
There's a lot of moving parts to this project and Kathy mentioned that many of services will

842
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:06,480
really be able to have a good idea of what we want to prioritize based on what the costs are

843
01:07:07,340 --> 01:07:07,620
too.

844
01:07:09,290 --> 01:07:11,930
There will be a lot of transparency that way too.

845
01:07:12,190 --> 01:07:18,210
Okay, and I, it's been a budget and schedule for next summer really to put the roof on,

846
01:07:18,590 --> 01:07:23,810
because that's ongoing, a new roof, and now where we're going at one level building, it can

847
01:07:23,810 --> 01:07:29,390
be done so that, you know, for some time it's needed repairs and a new roof.

848
01:07:29,390 --> 01:07:32,590
And the boiler, I believe, is being replaced.

849
01:07:33,130 --> 01:07:35,490
Yep, we're going to have to be good.

850
01:07:35,890 --> 01:07:36,270
Okay, yeah.

851
01:07:36,390 --> 01:07:41,550
So there are some things like kind of infrastructure things that have already started.

852
01:07:43,030 --> 01:07:44,470
What about staffing and stuff?

853
01:07:44,590 --> 01:07:52,130
I mean, are you, you guys, do you need any, like, staffing and stuff now to get ready for all of that stuff?

854
01:07:52,810 --> 01:07:55,670
Or is that pretty status quo for right now?

855
01:07:55,890 --> 01:07:58,510
Well, so that's, you know, going to be part of the budget process

856
01:07:58,510 --> 01:08:03,970
that we're starting right now is talking about staffing and you know it would definitely be

857
01:08:03,970 --> 01:08:08,650
helpful for our department to have a little bit more staffing help but that will be part

858
01:08:08,650 --> 01:08:16,150
of this budget process. It's coming up. Yeah. By coordinator. Yeah. Yeah. The key thing is pulling

859
01:08:16,150 --> 01:08:22,670
smoothly. Right. Yeah. Yeah. One of the things that has followed me over the period of years

860
01:08:22,670 --> 01:08:29,250
literally period of years when we've been looking at developing this building and trying to

861
01:08:29,250 --> 01:08:36,750
make changes with it for the seniors. It's that all of a sudden before everything gets finalized

862
01:08:36,750 --> 01:08:42,870
and set and done, we come up with other projects and all of a sudden becomes a priority.

863
01:08:43,770 --> 01:08:48,850
Good example is the park out there. I'm not opposed to that. Matter of fact, I was on the board

864
01:08:48,850 --> 01:08:56,830
started with it. Okay, but my point with that is very simply we need to set priorities and we can't have

865
01:08:57,690 --> 01:09:03,470
you can't set priorities and say this is the biggest priorities, second biggest whatever, and then

866
01:09:03,470 --> 01:09:09,470
have something jump in and out of it. If you do that you're breaking that whole continuity of what you're planning.

867
01:09:10,190 --> 01:09:15,810
I don't see the board doing that. Supposedly your planning isn't a future going to have a meeting to

868
01:09:15,810 --> 01:09:21,630
make that plan. What you need to come out of that meeting with are dates and sets and

869
01:09:21,630 --> 01:09:27,450
times and say here are number one priorities. There's number three priority. Here's number

870
01:09:27,450 --> 01:09:33,550
five priority. So you do it in that order so that I as a taxpayer I'm going to come out of

871
01:09:33,550 --> 01:09:40,610
that saying I know that this cost is going to be there at that particular time. If you don't do that

872
01:09:40,610 --> 01:09:45,130
You're going to run in conflict with the school district and everybody else at once to act

873
01:09:45,130 --> 01:09:45,570
dollars.

874
01:09:47,290 --> 01:09:51,950
In addition to that, you need to find out what those cost factors when you set those priorities

875
01:09:51,950 --> 01:09:54,010
in general cost factor.

876
01:09:54,810 --> 01:10:00,650
I'll give you an example of what I'm thinking about as a former board member, I would be looking

877
01:10:00,650 --> 01:10:07,150
at the park that we approved for $3.5 million dollars is only a start.

878
01:10:08,030 --> 01:10:15,070
Next thing you got to know is you have to have plumbing, you have to have water, you have to have a side walk, you have to have.

879
01:10:15,070 --> 01:10:17,910
Well, that was included in the 3 million cherry.

880
01:10:17,930 --> 01:10:22,110
Our cost, the well, the well in the septic are included in the 3 million.

881
01:10:22,550 --> 01:10:25,190
That shelter does not cost 3 million.

882
01:10:25,870 --> 01:10:28,910
But my point with the whole thing is there are other costs.

883
01:10:28,910 --> 01:10:31,430
Always cost. Oh, yeah. Oh, we're willing.

884
01:10:31,430 --> 01:10:39,330
When you make that first agreement, then all of a sudden that commitment actually adds more dollars later.

885
01:10:39,850 --> 01:10:43,290
One way or another is going to add more dollars later, okay?

886
01:10:43,550 --> 01:10:49,370
My point with that is when you set those priorities, you know where that is.

887
01:10:49,870 --> 01:10:51,450
I don't see that happening yet.

888
01:10:51,590 --> 01:10:57,530
I hope that the meetings you have coming up are going to be set up to do that, okay?

889
01:10:58,350 --> 01:11:06,690
Well, as you know, lowly and I were not on the board when that project was approved, and

890
01:11:06,690 --> 01:11:16,470
we have spent a lot of time trying to manage some of the project's paid by part funds.

891
01:11:17,490 --> 01:11:26,590
So that is from the impact fees, so that's not the taxpayer general fund that we look at.

892
01:11:26,590 --> 01:11:38,250
But I think my point is right now, we have been trying to manage controlling the property

893
01:11:38,250 --> 01:11:46,950
text increases while dealing with what has already been committed to that happened before

894
01:11:46,950 --> 01:11:58,090
we got there without upsetting the apple cart and managing a project for here that we can

895
01:11:58,090 --> 01:12:07,670
phase in because there is no way that we could do this whole project at once. And if you are

896
01:12:07,670 --> 01:12:16,490
following the meetings, what we did this last time, we have even started to phase in some of the

897
01:12:16,490 --> 01:12:22,730
borrowing because right now the borrowing and the debt,

898
01:12:26,020 --> 01:12:31,760
it is down, we've done so much and probably

899
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:40,300
the last almost two years now, but we still have a little bit to go so we're trying to get

900
01:12:40,300 --> 01:12:45,240
through the next year, we got the school referendum.

901
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:52,280
So you can please tell all the people, because I cannot tell you how many people have told

902
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:57,640
my husband that they are very upset that I raised the taxes for the school.

903
01:12:57,940 --> 01:13:01,420
And he says, Kathy did not vote on that.

904
01:13:01,740 --> 01:13:05,500
That is the school board who proved that, not Kathy.

905
01:13:05,500 --> 01:13:13,720
So, we've kept that, we've been trying to keep that in mind as well, that we're not hitting

906
01:13:14,300 --> 01:13:19,060
taxpayers from all of all the groups at once.

907
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:31,180
We, I think, probably, lower what agree, it's been, it's been a very difficult and sometimes

908
01:13:31,180 --> 01:13:38,480
contentious process because there's been a lot of planning that has gone on and I admit

909
01:13:38,480 --> 01:13:44,360
that and I know sometimes I think administration gets frustrated because all this effort

910
01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:55,520
has gone in but the money has to follow and our top priority for me has been respecting the

911
01:13:55,520 --> 01:14:01,780
taxpayers pocketbook and still accomplishing the things. That's why we started this whole

912
01:14:01,780 --> 01:14:10,300
process out with what needs to be done. And that's how we got the boiler situation fixed.

913
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:17,280
We proved that right away. We got the rough schedule to get fixed. There were a couple

914
01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:25,800
things over at the library that had to be fixed. So we did those, but it's going to be

915
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:33,940
a slow process, probably. It's not going to be like next year, the senior area center area

916
01:14:33,940 --> 01:14:42,680
will be done. It's going to take a while, but I will tell you that it is on the top of everyone's

917
01:14:43,980 --> 01:14:49,340
And as far as possible, I mean, the parks planning will continue.

918
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:57,180
There was just a meeting last night for improvements to Arnold Larson and William McFarlane.

919
01:14:58,020 --> 01:14:59,980
So those that planning continue.

920
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:14,320
One thing that I've been trying to do on the board, because right now, the planning seems to happen kind of in silos, like everyone has their thing, you know, if they plan.

921
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:22,900
And then all of us, it comes together and all these things cannot happen at the same time.

922
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:25,400
So you're exactly right, Jerry.

923
01:15:26,140 --> 01:15:26,200
Yes.

924
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:30,420
The senior center is at the top.

925
01:15:31,880 --> 01:15:33,680
It's on everyone's mind.

926
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:40,200
We all know that the current situation, we have an opportunity here.

927
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,260
We have empty spaces here.

928
01:15:42,260 --> 01:16:03,360
So we have a great opportunity to do this work, so now what, you know, the community park is a big investment and it will not even be operational until the spring season.

929
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:11,500
It was supposed to be operational this fall, but because of delays, it's not even going to be operational to this spring.

930
01:16:12,460 --> 01:16:16,880
In the meantime, the county is redoing AB.

931
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:32,060
So there's been a big, there's been, there was a big meeting with Dean County the other night about the improvements to how we're going to get the kids there safely.

932
01:16:33,300 --> 01:16:40,660
because now especially when I first brought it up that's probably two summers

933
01:16:40,660 --> 01:16:47,420
ago now when I was at on the board I brought up the safety issue of the kids

934
01:16:47,420 --> 01:16:53,080
getting out to the park and I don't think people really thought the kids would

935
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:58,080
ride their bicycles out there well now they have e-scooters and e-bikes and what

936
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:04,140
each stuff they're writing on. So they will be out there. They will be going down,

937
01:17:04,140 --> 01:17:12,900
single-co, they will be on AB. So now we're planning on how we can safely get those kids there.

938
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:20,540
So yeah, the board has right now a lot on their plate. I mean, there are a lot of

939
01:17:20,540 --> 01:17:38,200
things happening, but I promise you that the senior seniors are at their top of my mind at least and I believe me if I think we're getting off track, I have no problem expressing my opinion.

940
01:17:39,020 --> 01:17:45,960
Well, thank you, and I agree both Kathy and Jerry. I appreciate that for our

941
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:51,060
ties and it's important. And there's one item I was left out, and that's a

942
01:17:51,060 --> 01:17:56,080
theoretical road. That's a big ticket item, too. And that's where the big

943
01:17:56,080 --> 01:18:01,960
improvement should be to get people safely out to the park. But that has to happen.

944
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:07,840
So that, you know, I have a priori. We don't have an option as to when to do it.

945
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:13,520
because you're going to work that in conjunction with Madison because they only have the road.

946
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:24,740
So, not as much as what you think anymore, Jerry, because we've got both sides now going down to the interstate.

947
01:18:24,740 --> 01:18:27,840
Well, part of it, but there's part of it still Madison.

948
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:32,880
Yeah, that's from the interstate bridge to A.B.

949
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:36,280
So, it's still, you have to work it out with one of those.

950
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,620
But that will happen.

951
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:43,220
You know, I'm sure we just have to keep grinding away on it,

952
01:18:46,380 --> 01:18:48,800
because time is of the essence of my opinion.

953
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:50,960
Some of these projects.

954
01:18:54,660 --> 01:18:54,820
So, yeah.

955
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:59,980
So, that your explanation of what's been going on Kathy is really enlightening and helpful.

956
01:19:00,300 --> 01:19:00,860
Thank you.

957
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:03,980
I think what you mentioned about the silo planning,

958
01:19:03,980 --> 01:19:08,880
you know, different areas. One thing that, as a citizen, I don't think I fully understand,

959
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,860
you had mentioned that the parks development, I haven't gone to the parks meetings

960
01:19:12,860 --> 01:19:18,760
all admit, but some of what's going on with like community park development, does that fall

961
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:25,880
under like in general development, like when developers propose new developments that a certain

962
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:33,640
proportion, they have to provide some funding towards the parks impact fee rate that gets

963
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:37,860
So, some of that isn't coming directly to the taxpayer, then.

964
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:41,460
Right, some of it is from both park and park fees.

965
01:19:41,620 --> 01:19:47,140
Because I think in general, just from some conversations I've had with other community members,

966
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,120
like all of us in that building pops up out on AB.

967
01:19:51,580 --> 01:19:53,640
How did that happen? How much did that cost?

968
01:19:54,220 --> 01:19:56,820
Again, we're talking about things that are maybe a little more visible.

969
01:19:57,440 --> 01:20:06,640
So again, just understanding those, the logistics and the length of time that all that's been planned and where the funding comes from.

970
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:07,980
I'll be four or five years ago.

971
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:11,040
I mean, I heard about it a while ago.

972
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:15,620
And all of a sudden, there it is because it's been in the works for a while.

973
01:20:17,020 --> 01:20:18,760
But to understand where the money comes from.

974
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:24,500
But the dimension of the silo planning, that's where Jerry's prioritizing process.

975
01:20:24,500 --> 01:20:29,520
you know to know that the village board already has hopefully has some priorities so that

976
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:34,080
when this committee group or that committee group comes with their plans that they're put

977
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,100
into their place.

978
01:20:37,380 --> 01:20:38,460
What last question?

979
01:20:39,820 --> 01:20:48,140
This goes to you probably in reference to space when you are having to schedule not able to

980
01:20:48,140 --> 01:20:55,220
and particularly classes, and yet we have facilities here that has availability square

981
01:20:55,220 --> 01:21:02,920
footage. I think of the bank, that we own, I understand. And if we own that wire, why can't

982
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:09,300
we hold classes that doubt? You know, I think of the training room for the police. That's

983
01:21:09,300 --> 01:21:15,380
a fairly good sized room, so you could have 10, 12 people in that room or space. I'm wondering

984
01:21:15,380 --> 01:21:18,320
why we can't use those spaces or why we don't.

985
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,160
So we do use the training room.

986
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:22,200
No, the police training.

987
01:21:22,260 --> 01:21:23,200
Oh, the police room.

988
01:21:23,540 --> 01:21:28,300
So that room is not really intended for the public.

989
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,560
It's kind of like a lab runth back there.

990
01:21:31,100 --> 01:21:34,860
So it's not ideal right now how it is set up.

991
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:39,800
I think I don't know the story with the bank.

992
01:21:40,660 --> 01:21:42,060
And that's also off site.

993
01:21:42,060 --> 01:21:56,200
So that's not something that I would be super intrigued and moving towards just because that would be difficult for us from a staffing perspective to be off-site with some of our programs, but I don't know.

994
01:21:56,960 --> 01:22:09,160
I'd like to have a program of 10, 12 people, students coming in for the exercise group, it seems to me like that would be an ideal space because there's parking availability and so on.

995
01:22:10,060 --> 01:22:35,560
One of the things also that's in the strategic implementation plan is property inventory of the properties that are owned by the village and with the intention that we should start looking at selling some of those properties and there's an interest in selling that being property.

996
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:48,300
So, at one point when the big construction was going to happen here, there was the idea

997
01:22:48,300 --> 01:22:52,300
that staff would get moved into the bank while this was happening.

998
01:22:53,260 --> 01:22:57,260
Now, staff is staying in here as the phases are done.

999
01:22:58,980 --> 01:23:04,320
But, yeah, you were not the first person to ask about if we can sell them being.

1000
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:11,260
and having some activity going in that space would be a lot better than letting it sit.

1001
01:23:11,660 --> 01:23:19,080
And that the mice and rats do their thing, but if you have people coming in and going out, that will happen.

1002
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:23,560
It just seems to me like it's a better use. Just a fight.

1003
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:27,280
And, you know, it's got those drive-thru's, is that?

1004
01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:33,880
I mean, is there something we could think of that would be useful for, like elderly people

1005
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:39,920
crossing cars have been parked under there, I don't know what they're doing under there bar, but

1006
01:23:39,920 --> 01:23:52,100
I think, at this point, because let's just be honest, we're looking for money wherever we can

1007
01:23:52,100 --> 01:23:58,960
savings wherever we can if we could sell that building. I think that would help

1008
01:23:59,740 --> 01:24:04,280
everybody. Or would that money go to the senior center?

1009
01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:13,720
She's ready to earmark everything. I want to stay in this. I want to stay here, you know, I've got a

1010
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:19,420
little grandchild now and you know I'd like to stay here but I need I need more. I need more

1011
01:24:19,420 --> 01:24:27,580
stimulation stay here and well I pay chance I understand that we all have to keep in mind

1012
01:24:27,580 --> 01:24:36,120
right now on the other hand I've been hearing we we are pricing out our seniors yeah

1013
01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:47,640
because so the balance is how can we not price out our seniors but still have some of the

1014
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:54,200
things that they would like available to them, it will not be everything.

1015
01:24:55,220 --> 01:25:00,240
I can tell you that right now, it's not going to be every type of class that has been

1016
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:08,440
suggested, it can't, we don't have the money, we don't, did we need new soccer fields?

1017
01:25:08,440 --> 01:25:16,660
I, you know, Barb, the decision was made, the decision was made and by the time

1018
01:25:16,660 --> 01:25:26,640
level that I got on there, I think when we asked about it, it was passed the point of no return

1019
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:37,640
because the investment was already there and to just scrap it would have been like throwing money away.

1020
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:39,640
So you just head to

1021
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:46,500
Believe me if you go back and watch that meaning where the approval was made you will see me struggling

1022
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:53,700
To make a decision on it and I maybe there was good reason. I don't know and I don't know and I don't know

1023
01:25:53,700 --> 01:25:57,360
Well, the reason is you know, they want to make money off of it

1024
01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:01,620
So they will you know, there's tournaments that are going to be happening out there

1025
01:26:02,900 --> 01:26:06,120
There's a rental the the shelter will be

1026
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:12,800
rented to people so they're looking as that is the income source. The cross

1027
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:20,980
country will be out there. The tournaments for that will be out there. These are

1028
01:26:20,980 --> 01:26:28,480
all things that, you know, we're in the works way before I got. And we now we're

1029
01:26:28,480 --> 01:26:40,580
making lemonade, a lot of love. So, Diane, just a perspective being another small suburb

1030
01:26:40,580 --> 01:26:49,940
that's surrounded by these big cities. We get requests as well of like, why can't Manona have

1031
01:26:49,940 --> 01:26:56,340
a lone closet in this and this and this and this, we are at a tiny little community of 8,000.

1032
01:26:56,340 --> 01:27:02,140
That's our tax base, but people who see the medicines, the one at keys, the fish birds, the

1033
01:27:02,140 --> 01:27:07,340
verona, they want to see that in their community. But the tax base is still 8,000 people.

1034
01:27:10,660 --> 01:27:18,440
So it's a tough perspective, but you like the small town feel, but it's like you expect

1035
01:27:18,440 --> 01:27:26,220
the big city benefits and that's just a real struggle and I think we try to offer everything

1036
01:27:26,220 --> 01:27:31,120
we can but just a reminder that it's on a small number of taxpayers.

1037
01:27:32,460 --> 01:27:37,880
And I think the more engagement we get with seniors coming and having these conversations

1038
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:44,580
I think that will build kind of awareness understanding from both our board members as well

1039
01:27:44,580 --> 01:27:49,780
the community members of the reality of the situation and what we can do creatively with it.

1040
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:56,680
I do feel like it is important for people to advocate and engage so that they understand what the story is.

1041
01:27:57,300 --> 01:27:58,760
Thank you, Diane. Kathy.

1042
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:02,780
And I'd just like to add a shout out to some of the things that we already have going on.

1043
01:28:02,780 --> 01:28:06,740
I mean, I've been applauding Katie and her staff

1044
01:28:07,460 --> 01:28:10,720
for the expansion of, you know,

1045
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:13,620
variety of programming offered through our senior center,

1046
01:28:13,660 --> 01:28:16,360
making the most with what we have.

1047
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:19,760
And then recently I was over at the high school a couple of times.

1048
01:28:19,900 --> 01:28:21,520
And again, we don't have children in school anymore,

1049
01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:22,640
so we don't go over there a lot,

1050
01:28:22,740 --> 01:28:24,840
but I was went to the Performing Arts Center

1051
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:25,600
for a couple of things.

1052
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,300
And on the bulletin board by the swimming pool,

1053
01:28:28,740 --> 01:28:31,400
Amrap has, and you can see this online too,

1054
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:37,360
the different classes and programming that they have available for everybody in the community.

1055
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:42,320
It's not it's the young, you know, the toddlers up to the seniors and they have, you know,

1056
01:28:42,620 --> 01:28:48,120
water-based exercises. They have pickleball classes in yoga and tai chi and crafts.

1057
01:28:48,940 --> 01:28:52,940
And I mean, it just goes on and on. It was a page with two columns of activities.

1058
01:28:53,780 --> 01:28:59,000
And so our taxes, they have a staff of three, I think, doing that stuff, creating.

1059
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:05,580
And I was just like amazed, I thought I haven't, I haven't felt like I personally needed

1060
01:29:05,580 --> 01:29:06,600
to be tuned into it.

1061
01:29:06,780 --> 01:29:12,220
But you know, if you're looking for things to do, there's just no end to what currently with

1062
01:29:12,220 --> 01:29:16,580
our staff at the school and the community are available in the community.

1063
01:29:16,940 --> 01:29:23,460
And the library has a library, oh yes, all programming, I mean, there are so many activities.

1064
01:29:24,440 --> 01:29:28,880
One thing is that, like if you look at the, we get the leader independent and McFarlane

1065
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:33,180
And I still struggle a little bit, because we're such a great community, but our footprint

1066
01:29:33,180 --> 01:29:38,580
in the McFarlane in that paper is relatively small compared to why the moon lake

1067
01:29:38,580 --> 01:29:39,480
mills with Cambridge.

1068
01:29:39,800 --> 01:29:43,080
I'm like, you know, with the heck, and it's just because of the reporting.

1069
01:29:43,500 --> 01:29:48,140
So the only thing that hardly comes up will be the library activities under events in

1070
01:29:48,140 --> 01:29:50,060
McFarlane, you know, it's all library library.

1071
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:51,280
It's great.

1072
01:29:51,360 --> 01:29:56,900
But I just think, where did Amber have go and where does, you know, it's, yeah, so anyway.

1073
01:29:57,580 --> 01:29:59,980
I'm very impressed with what we have going on.

1074
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:08,000
And I just think that pursuing the best utilization of the space over time in the next year to two years will be excellent.

1075
01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:16,800
Okay, very good discussion, I think, and we'll just continue the week forward.

1076
01:30:19,180 --> 01:30:32,700
So, okay, schedule next meeting, Wednesday's December 16th, 2026, 830 is our motion to adjourn.

1077
01:30:32,700 --> 01:30:33,900
I have so much to it.

1078
01:30:33,900 --> 01:30:34,280
How second?

1079
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:36,800
Motion made in second to adjourn, we're adjourned.

1080
01:30:37,420 --> 01:30:38,340
Thank you everybody.

1081
01:30:39,380 --> 01:30:40,360
We'll see you in September.