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Hi, we're waiting a few minutes, waiting on a quorum at the moment.

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We'll get started in a few minutes.

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But

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We're just waiting on a quorum right now. We'll get started out. It's 1215. If we have a quorum by then.

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I'm assembly. We're doing a sound check right now. Can you hear us?

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Yes. Thank you. We'll get started here in just a minute. Thank you.

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We're ready in the chambers. Good morning. Good afternoon, everyone. This is Denise Daniello, chair of the commission. I would like to call the senior citizen advisory commission to order at 1213.

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So, Clerk, could you please call the roll?

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Yes.

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Mr. Duffy.

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President.

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Mr. Sharp.

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Yes.

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Ms. Wood.

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Ms. Supply.

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Yes.

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Ms. Anthony.

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Yes.

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Ms. Daniela.

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President.

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You have a quorum.

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Oh, very good.

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Thank you.

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So, the next item on the agenda are citizens' comments, which are limited to three minutes.

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This would be for agenda items now scheduled for public hearing.

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Do we have any members of the public signed-up clerk?

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I have no sign-ups.

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Okay, very good.

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And do we have anybody signed up for items other than those appearing on the agenda?

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No sign-ups.

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Okay, very good.

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Okay.

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We move to item C2 disclosure and statement of conflict of interest. Commissioners,

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do any of you have to make any disclosures required by the Code of Ethics for

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conflict

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of interest for this meeting?

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Okay. I get no. All right. Now we move to item D approval

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of agenda and consent agenda. So, as a reminder, approval of the consent agenda passes all

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routine items indicated by an asterisk on the agenda.

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Consent item, agenda items are not considered separately unless any commission member or citizen

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so requests in the event of such a request, the item is returned to the general agenda.

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Commissioner, do you wish to consider any consent agenda items separately?

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Clerk, please read the consent agenda.

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Yes, your consent agenda reads E1, Senior Citizens Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes

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from April 11, 2024, E2, Special Senior Citizens Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes from June

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13, 2024, E3, Senior Citizens Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes from July 11,

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and E4 senior citizens advisory commission meeting minutes from October 10th, 2024, and that concludes your agenda.

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Okay, thank you very much. We have a series of minutes that need approval. Part of the problem was that we were not able to establish

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So today we're able to and we can take action on those minutes.

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So commissioners, do you wish to make a motion to approve the agenda and consent agenda?

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I move to approve the agenda and consent agenda.

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Okay.

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Very good.

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Thank you.

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Commissioner Anthony.

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So we have a motion on the floor to accept the agenda and consent agenda as read by commissioner

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Carol Anthony.

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So Claire can you please call the role?

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Do you have a second? Oh yes I'm sorry do we have a second? Second. Okay thank you commissioner

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Duffy. Okay I miss Mr. Duffy.

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This is the roll call. Oh president. I see. Is that yes? I approve.

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Okay, where's that? Yes. Miss Sharp. Miss Supley.

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Miss Anthony? Yes.

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Miss Daniela? Yes. So the results are 5-0. Okay, very good. Okay, so now we have the minutes approved from last year so that's excellent. So now we're gonna move on to reports.

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reports.

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Do we have a possible from the to get a copy of the minutes we just approved

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from last year? Yes, it's actually emailed to you before the meeting. It's part of your agenda packet.

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I can I can get with you after the meeting. Okay. Okay.

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Well, welcome back everyone. Happy new year.

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I hope everybody had a great holiday.

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I can't believe it's 2025 or 25% into this new century.

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So I, first of all, I want to welcome Mayor Gryer Hopkins to our meeting.

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And we're going to be calling on you in a little bit, but this commission really looks

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forward to working with your administration and to hear about what you would like us to work

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on here recommendations.

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And then secondly, I'd like to welcome our new commissioners, Professor Larry Duffy first

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and let me tell you a little bit about Larry.

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So he is a recently retired professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UAF.

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He also graduated from UAF with his PhD and master's degree and so you talk about growing

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our own, right?

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Right.

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So, during his tenure, Larry conducted cutting-edge research in biochemistry, environmental

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chemistry, and neurochemistry, and he studied a variety of problems specific to life in

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the Arctic, including the impacts of climate change.

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During his career, he received many honors for his research at Antichina UAF, including

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the UAF Award for Professional Achievement, the Use of Belly Distinguished Research Award,

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the Sven Epson Award for Neuroscience and the Chancellor's Award for Diversity on many others.

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He also serves on the Bureau's Air Pollution Control Commission and served as an officer for

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the U.S. Navy. Larry joined this commission because he's interested in the impact of aging on

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Fairbanks.

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So welcome.

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Glad that you're here.

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and then

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And also Teresa Brandt Sharp. She is joined the commission, and she's a lifelong member of the Fairbanks community. She has 35 years in human resources and customer service being employed by the Fairbanks Native Association and Golden Valley Electric Association. According to her application, Teresa wants to serve on the commission because she's interested in strengthening community services to assist people in Fairbanks to remain in their homes in our community.

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as they age. She's also very interested in helping with Senior Recognition Day. So that's awesome.

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And I think he helped flash it. I actually worked here. I was working in the Mayors Office at the time.

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Oh, that's right. It worked that day. It was a wonderful experience.

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Yes, yes. So that's exciting. And Teresa is also a family caregiver for her spouse. So she brings that

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perspective as well. So we're really fortunate to have both of you join the commission and we look forward

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to work with you. So thank you. So for the benefit of our new commission members, I just want

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to quickly summarize some of the work that we do. A big part of what we, one of the main activities,

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is senior recognition day and we're going to be talking about that a little bit later during this

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meeting. And we partner with the Department of Parks and Recreation to host senior recognition day

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in May because May is recognized as older Americans

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month nationally and as well as in our state and last year our theme was empowered

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by connection or powered by connection and this year's theme I looked it up

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right before this meeting. It's called Flip the Script on Aging. So I thought that's

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an interesting theme and it's you know its purposes to transform how society views

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aging and how we talk about aging and how we approach the aging process.

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So senior recognition day will be scheduled for May 8th this year, and we have a nice

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lunch that's given, but most importantly, it's also a day to recognize the contributions

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of older people in the borough for their volunteer efforts for fitness and airgiving, too.

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And so this year, the Commission worked with Parks and Rec to formalize this process

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for how we go about recognizing people for these awards and having supporting guidelines.

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So Brian's going to talk a little bit more about that, just to remind us what we're doing

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this year. And also borough mayors, so that's for the Fairbanks North Start,

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borough, the City of Fairbanks and North Pole Issue Proclamation as well. And so

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they all read those proclamations at Senior Recognition Day. So Senior

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Recognition Day Fairbanks is the largest of all the Senior Recognition Days in Alaska,

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so it's something that we can be proud of and it's at the Carlson Center. And we

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We also have, it's a back-to-back event with the Fairbanks 50-plus Art and Science of

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Aging Summit and that will be on Friday, May 9th.

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And so that's an exciting event for people to come.

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It's open to the public and there'll be a series of activities and presentations about aging

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and other areas of interest.

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So, that will also be held at the Carlson Center.

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We also submit from time to time budget and policy recommendations, their advisory, to

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the mayor and to the borough assembly, and so last, or in 2023, we did the senior transportation

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report, and that was based on a survey of seniors in the borough that Parks and Wreck helped

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us to put together and to distribute. And so that report, if you're interested, is online

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admissions website as well as the boroughs parks and rec department. And we gave that report to

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the mayor to the boroughs assembly as well as to the fast planning group that they're using it for

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their coordinated transportation planning efforts. And we also share with other people as well as with

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public members. So as you know, Alaska is the state with the fastest growing senior population

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and in Fairbanks our population is growing too. So in Fairbanks there are more than 18,000

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people age 60 years and older so they comprise about 18% 19% of the boroughs population are older people

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and we have a fast growing population of people age 80 and older and that's about 2,200.

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So for this reason, the commission teamed up while we supported the resolution 2024-17

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that was passed in July by the Burrow Assembly to include the Fairbank's North Star Burrow

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in AARP's network of age-friendly states and communities.

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So the city of Fairbanks submitted an application earlier and that was approved by the city's assembly and city council members.

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And so Burrow also passed this resolution, which was, I think, supported by Burrow Assemblymember.

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So that was that was wonderful. And so now it's it's it's original wide issue initiative. So we're working on that. And Carol with the commission is helping to spirally lead that effort, which is also supported by the Fairbanks health partners.

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the city of Fairbanks and also now the boroughs so it should be telling us more about this effort later in this meeting.

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So hopefully everybody had boards and were able to participate in boards and commissions training.

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If you weren't here in person maybe listen to it online if you couldn't understood.

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But it's always a great training.

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And yeah, I think that completes my chair report.

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Are there any questions, comments?

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It's a very good extensive report.

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Yeah, so now we're up to item F2, a report from Mayor Gryer Hopkins, which will include

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a question and an answer, so please step up.

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Thank you very much Chair Denise Danielo and members of the committee and those online too for having me and inviting me to come and listen and talk with you guys a little bit about the direction of the commission could go and different things that we've got so

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I in all honesty don't have a lot of specific direction or a report to give

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A much of what I've been thinking of and looking at stems from conversations with Ms.

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Dan Supply before this and meetings and campaign forums with the senior center on senior issues

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out there and the impacts that are coming up well aware before that of the aging population

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for sure the 20% over age 60 and the projected 80 or 5,000 80 year olds by 2035 so understanding

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that issue is not just coming down the line, but it is here today and something that we need to start addressing and looking at.

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The Bureau does a fair number of things, but not a lot in terms of, not enough in terms of supporting our seniors

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and recognizing them and providing opportunities to age and place and support families and multi-generation families here in Fairbanks.

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As Chair Daniela talked about the Senior Recognition Day, we told Senior Pollux at Mary

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Sye.

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We do put on classes and things like that as the pools as they are open as long as we

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have life guards which is one of our biggest shortages at our pools to keep them open

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and operating well.

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So if you have any grandkids or kids or anybody you know who's looking for a decent fun

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job, we will train them and get them signed up and we pay better than the Alaska Club.

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So come get in the lifeguard career and get good training and experience that you can use in the future for anybody out there listening, or if anybody knows anybody.

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The, um, we provide senior activities, booklets, um, we have, uh, programs that Parks and

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Recks puts on to support our seniors, but what, you know, we really need as a, as a

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burrow is a direction and policies and topics that we can do cooperatively, collaboratively

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with the burrow, with the city, with organizations and things like that.

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Um, as you come in and you brought me here and invited me to talk a little bit about direction

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is that we can work with all of you on our ideas that we have,

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you looking for a direction for your commission is very much not unique

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to all of the commissions at the borough right now.

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We have seen on the front page of the Daily News Miner a number of our commissions

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looking at direction, trying to get a direction and a purpose and a mission for them.

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I strongly believe that all of our commissions are fantastic ways for our community to help direct

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our borough and give input for what we need. We can do all of our work every day, but hearing from

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the public and getting that direction from our commissions from people out there is one of the most

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important things that we can do. So we worked hard in our first or last couple months to fill number

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the vacancies on all these commissions including yours and I've approved a few and we'll work with

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Mr. Charlton, to make sure that I see those in my email and get them through,

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we have a little electronic system that is much easier and faster than the older paper system.

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So hopefully we can move those quickly through and as soon as I see them approved,

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I will go so we can make sure we have enough commission members to meet regularly

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and have good input from a broad spectrum.

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This is something that I am hoping to be able to address on the larger scales,

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the direction that commissions can take, understanding everything from the trails commission to the R sac that handles the road service areas or air quality and what their powers are to a number of other commissions out there that are searching for that purpose and that mission and that direction is something I think we need to address so I'm hoping this spring to summer to do this as a more holistic and comprehensive effort of what

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Do they want to do what sort of issues do we at the borough look at that falls under their umbrella that whatever commission it is umbrella of responsibilities and hopes and goals to try and

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Get them all that that mission. That's going to be a bigger effort. But here today with you, we can certainly start that discussion. And you know, our borough, the second cost borough, so it has a limited amount of power specifically that we can do. But one of the big things we can do with bringing people together and try to start

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dialogues and understanding of the multi-level opportunities that we have, whether it's

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borough city, city of North Pole, state legislature, legislative funding, and all of the different

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community groups that we have to come together and start figuring out what specifically the

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policy in roadmap is for the look out of the 10 years from now by 2035 when we do have

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that 5,000 80 year olds.

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What do we need to do to plan ahead for that?

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What do we need to do to make ourselves an attractive community to bring in the healthcare

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care needs, bringing in the multi-generational family needs, provide the housing opportunities

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for seniors and for both Asian place and Asian homes that they can get the assistance

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and support that they need.

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So that is one thing I would love to discuss is how can we hear from you and help you as

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the commission bring together those entities to help guide that roadmap for us on a comprehensive

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community-wide level.

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It's certainly nothing small, it is nothing direct, but it is what we could look at as one of the most important things for our commission as well as if there's specific issues out there to bring forward.

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I do want to make sure, you know, as UE work on making core of each month or each quarter.

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We can reschedule the meetings just like we did with this one to make sure you're able to have those meetings, but in addition to that, you know, while you're scheduled to meet quarterly.

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Secondly, if there are specific topics for meetings that you guys need as a commission

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to work on at a more rapid pace than once a quarter, all you need to do is contact the

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Chief of Staff in my office, Kubejenda, or my office or the clerks to get to us to say

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we'd like to schedule a different meeting to talk specifically about whatever topic it would

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be.

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You can't just be, we want to talk about why this guy is blue but it can be about, we can

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talk about what is happening to seniors that makes the sky blue and how we can change that topic or how we could impact that.

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So that is how we can certainly help make sure you guys are meeting more regularly.

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If needed be as long as you have a specific item that would be difficult to address or a timely item that we can work on.

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So that is what I would have as my report today for issues and topics out there but always happy to answer any questions now as well.

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Very good. Thank you very much, Mayor. So do we have any questions with me?

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So I just have a follow up. So this is something that we can get involved with as a group in the comprehensive planning effort.

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and the current plan, because we're working on the next 10 years.

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20 years, yes. Yes. So where can we find a copy of the current plan? So the current plan would be going back to 2025 was the last time we worked on the boroughs, comprehensive plan. So it sounds like you guys are probably touched on this a little bit. Comprehensive plan is the roadmap for the boroughs next 20 years and issues that we would need to address how we can look at them, what the public input is. And you can do that by going to

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FNSB dot gov slash comp plan two P's in a row COMP PLAN dot gov slash comp plan to

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find a copy of what the work is going on for the new plan and I don't know

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maybe Mr. Charles and could look it up real fast if the old plan is on there

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if not we can certainly get that email to the commission no problem and there's

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currently a survey on there to take right now that would be helpful for all of you and

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to pass along to all of your friends, family and similarly aged demographic and the

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people that you work with and impact on this commission to help put their thoughts into

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that survey.

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So please do that and that link is right there on that fnsb.gov slash comp plan.

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That would be a one way to give input on it.

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It's a slow process and it gives a direction for the next 20 years on a number of topics.

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But, you know, what we would need to do policy-wide, specifically, for senior issues, the

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entire spectrum, could be a different work that the commission leads.

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I don't know what to do with that, it would look like, but as we work with, yeah.

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So I don't know exactly what that specific, what it was.

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because you guys could, how we would structure and address the policy-driven, more pressing

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issues for the senior community today, as I was talking about before in terms of what

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the commission's purpose and mission could be, but the comprehensive plan would be a good

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place to start.

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Yeah.

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So, I'm just kind of thinking out loud, if I may, but I'm thinking maybe we might want to

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take a look at that plan and then hold a special meeting to talk about the plan and how we

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could get involved by the input and collecting opinions from older adults about the plan

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which should be in there, engaging our partner agencies that we work with.

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Something else too and Carol's going to be talking about it here in a little bit is this

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age-friendly Fairbanks, which is that national associate to ARP1.

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Yeah, the ARP1, and that has eight domains of living, and there's like transportation,

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housing, recreation, outdoor spaces, and many others.

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I'm just wondering, again, thinking out loud, if there might be some way in which that effort

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could dovetail with the comprehensive plan, and we could, you know, kind of work both.

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and to produce something that's meaningful.

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Definitely.

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You know, a good way before this,

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a special meeting or the next regular meeting

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to talk about that comp plan,

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a good way to make sure you and the partner organizations

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and everything get their words in,

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would be through that survey that's on that comp plan website,

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sharing that.

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But then also, we have a number of open houses

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starting this Saturday.

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I think we have a half dozen of them

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or so over the coming weeks to attend those plans.

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They're all regionally based, so we have one in,

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present value out in two rivers.

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We have one in North Pole, one at Pioneer Park,

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one at Ken Kunkel Center in Goldstrain

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and one I believe at the Heart Tone Hall in Esther.

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Make sure we get a good geographic,

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yeah, array of opinions and input.

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We also are gonna be adding two more on there,

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one at JP Jones Center and Southside Fairbanks and one at the Tribal Hall as well to work with the Alaska Native community to hear from them because there are a number of elder issues there as well, but working with the senior center of Ravens Landing, other organizations and housing projects or housing entities around town.

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or if there's a clearinghouse like Santa's Center or Santa's

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Santa's Senior Center out in North Pole,

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to make sure they know and get to those open houses

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would be a really good avenue.

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And those dates and times and locations are also

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on that FNFB website, so any ability you have to reach

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out to the partner organizations in a somewhat rapid fashion

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because those dates are coming up would be health.

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I think the ones this weekend are in Valley, and I can't remember where the second one is this Saturday, but if you look at those, we can find them. I can probably look at it up on my phone.

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But that's a quick turnaround in terms of giving input. The comp plan itself in terms of getting results in policy is not as fast acting of a document as we might need.

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So it's good to look at what it was done before because I have not gone through it with a fine tooth comb yet, but

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It'd be a good place to start looking at that

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curious

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You know thinking about the previous comp plan. How much of it?

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Addressed senior issues

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Because you know the senior the silver tsunami as it was all was just kind of coming up at that time

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Mm-hmm, and I don't think it was a large of an issue as it is today

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be kind of interesting to see what was said in the comp plan in 2005. Looks like Miss Subway might

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add a question. Oh, great.

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So the survey closes on February 10th, so there is a quick response

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required. So I thank you for leaving us to that. I will have that emailed out to our

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I'm looking online on my end. Yes, that will be it. The one this weekend from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Pleasant Valley Community Center, 4 to 6 p.m. at Pioneer Hall at Pioneer Park.

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The, which is not the Civic Center, it's the Pioneer Hall, like the museum over in the

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cabins, in the midst of the cabins, so this Saturday, from 4 to 6 p.m.

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Then, yeah, I'm happy to read it in, but you can find it at fnsb.gov, so that's a comp

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plan for us, so you don't have to write it all down, January 28th, 5 to 7 p.m. out in

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Esther January 29th noon is a virtual meeting via Zoom and then 5 p.m. it can

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come can come out in GoldStream and then February 1st at the North Pole

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library from 2 to 4 but that is on there so you don't have to write down as

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fast as I talk. Okay very good so do we have other questions? Yeah. Thank you. As I

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I understand that two groups are presently working

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and those groups are basically informing the plan as well,

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that there's the task group for transportation

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and the task group for housing.

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Is that something that those two groups,

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the outcomes of those groups are feeding

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into the comprehensive plan?

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There's a one that is also a,

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What do they call it, a steering committee, 14 to 16 people from across the community,

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representing a broad array of constituencies in the district.

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That's also helping the planning department guide it.

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So there's those two committees, the housing and the transportation, plus previous plans

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that we've done in the past, the social badger plan, the downtown plan, and the trails plan,

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those sort of things.

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Thank you I did want to comment up appreciated the process for both of those groups in including senior voices. I know darling. So please and part of both of those groups. I've been part of them. And I do hear some reassurance that the needs of older people are being heard through those groups. So thank you.

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I'm glad to hear that that is being heard because we would be remiss if we're not listening to the

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People impacted by your commission

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Anything further commissioners?

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comments

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So I just want to round that out with in addition to the comp plan

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Working as as we try to

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Renew and reinvigor all of our commissions

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And many of them outside of one's built into the ordinance process like planning and planning commission and planning board which are

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Required for things that come in front of the assembly, so they have a busy agenda no matter what but all the other commissions

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You know as we hopefully can meet the spring and summer and try to start getting a direction

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For all of them and how they would like to approach and reiterate themselves whether it's you know a big

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topic of

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of long-term planning like with senior issues,

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how are we preparing, what are we missing,

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and how do we put all the reports

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that are gathering dust on the shelves

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into actual practice.

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Or if there's specific targeted issues,

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how do we deal with housing or something like that,

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specifically how do we bring together nonprofits

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to make sure they're talking together,

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whatever those look like.

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I want to make sure the senior commission

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is also part of that effort

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because you guys are one that certainly impacts

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our community. So let me say tune on when and how we will do that but it might be several

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months from now as we enter the very busy budget process here starting this afternoon

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to for our entire borough administration but coming out of that once that dies down a little bit

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and it's more centered on a few offices to all of them then we can start addressing how we reinvigorate

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our commissions. So that'll certainly be a part of you guys but please do reach out to all of your

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department organizations and community of friends and never said you have to get input

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into that comp plan, the one that's comprehensive plan from 20-year update.

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And if there are questions now, happy to answer them. Otherwise, if you come up with any

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as you're driving home, once you park in our state fee, able to email, please feel free to

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email me. You can either email me at mayor at fnsb.gov or grire.hopkins.fnsb.gov. And we'd

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happy to answer any questions or talk specifically afterwards because sometimes it's hard to come

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up with ideas right now.

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Great, thank you. Thanks so much.

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Okay. Moving on. Thanks so much for

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coming.

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Okay. So next we have item F3, a report from Commissioner Subway and the Fairbank Senior Center.

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Senior

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Center, open, congregate meals with weather found back and forth. We are doing about

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shorter and 10 mils on whales delivery on strength. Still are impacting the wellness of seniors.

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Seniors are following, laying on the floor for the weekend. We deliver on Monday. We're finding them,

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So the purpose of milk on wheels that Denise actually has

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direct reference to is still having a major impact on our community.

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That our focus now is on the senior for living.

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Senior living, I'm sorry, my door is wide open.

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senior living thing and MLH manner, which is assisted living. So we're focusing in on that.

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We have a veterans direct program that has about 15 beds currently that's helping that's

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live independently at home. And so we'll continue to grow that particular program.

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And so I

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want to finish up the board and so the bachelor's direct program is continuing to layer in the necessary services, we have a lot of veterans in our population.

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and we are still adding voices for the legislative component and the

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legislative educational component of seniors in the borough and always

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honored to be a part of this commission as we move forward about that.

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Thank you, Derrily. So do any commissioners have questions or comments for

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and senior center.

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You do such a phenomenal job. Thank you, darling, for all that you do.

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You know, I had a really hard time hearing what you were talking about.

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I am. There's a lot going on in my office today.

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Regarding MLH, man, did you say now it's assisted living because you used to be independent?

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independent living and now that the senior center expansion is completed that we're taking

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our focus and putting it on M.O.H. Manor and the rehab and making sure that that's a vital

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component in our community as far as those 34 apartment units are concerned and trying to keep

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yesterday in 2000, and we tried three unsuccessful times to re-apply for them.

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House credits. The boroughs reporting on vacancy rates has a dramatic impact on the competitiveness

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for that specific focus on seniors and for tax credits to go ahead and rehab. As you

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know, 1994 was the last time that received the rehab. So it's been a long time. So how do we continue

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We just frankly not so that's where our focus is now now that we've solidified our base here and you know we open with every model and an exchange.

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We're taking all of our energy and focus focusing there now.

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So we have a question from Brian.

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Darleen, since we do have the mayor's special assistant here, can you elaborate a little

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bit on how that the boroughs reporting of vacancy rates is affecting what you described

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earlier?

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So, from what I understand that, and there are some voices that would have more knowledge

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on this particular topic, but it's the way that the data is gathered with regards to

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the vacancies rates. So when that goes out and how many apartments you have opened or how many

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facilities you have opened, there isn't a, there's a, when that reporting is done, that high

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rate, that high vacancy rate, that is being overall reported from the inventory, really does leave us

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at the bottom of the pile as far as competitiveness and concern. But that particular question that are

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being asked are one not senior driven, you know, doesn't have steps, right, that is, does

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it have, you know, hot water? Does it, you have to haul your own wood, right? Those, that,

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that, that pocket of information to the best of my knowledge is not also being reported. So when

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there's a vacancy rate, it's not necessarily a vacancy rate for the uniqueness of the interior

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and what units are available.

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So for those of us that are driving grants

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to better the interior as far as housing is concerned

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and the housing market is concerned,

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is there a way in which we can obtain that knowledge

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and be very specific about our reporting

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so that way when that is being done out for the state

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and those numbers are being looked at.

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even for investments in our community, you know, from outside investments. If they're looking

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at a vacancy rate that's extremely high, but it's not drilling it down to you when I first moved

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here, but when I was looking in the newspaper, when I my very first, you know, it didn't have a floor,

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and I was like, holy moly, I need to be very specific about what I'm looking for as far as a

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rentable unit is concerned. So, like, being able to take a look at that and how that information

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is being reported out, which definitely better equip those of us that, especially in the housing that are attempting to further strengthen the interior.

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Was that helpful, Brian?

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Yeah, I believe this commission has talked in the past about whether we could include accessibility information and in that housing report as well as it sounds like you're saying we need to know the quality of the housing as well as the quantity of the housing.

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Yes, because for a senior, as I said, a stairs is not a place where a senior is going to be able to rent, right, being the accessibility, like you said, following your own water, and firewood is, you know, up good until we have a stroke, and then that's not, that's not an accessible senior component anymore, and of course, I'm only speaking from seniors, but I do know that.

424
01:03:59,700 --> 01:04:16,240
But I do know that there are pockets of population that are impacted along the whole scope of the age group with regards to how those numbers are being reported and can we come up with a better way in which to really drill down it and in the specific conversation by and see this.

425
01:04:24,900 --> 01:04:26,820
So this is to the mayor's staff.

426
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:28,760
This question.

427
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:31,240
I'm sorry.

428
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:40,300
What I didn't get your name. Tom Hewitt is his name. Oh Hewitt, okay. So I'm

429
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:54,640
right. Okay, thank you. I'll talk with you later.

430
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:59,760
All right, very good. Anybody else have a question or comment?

431
01:05:00,900 --> 01:05:02,420
for the senior student,

432
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,060
and now we move on to item F4,

433
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:15,200
Brian Charlton,

434
01:05:15,840 --> 01:05:16,580
with Parks and Rec.

435
01:05:20,730 --> 01:05:21,450
Turn my mic on.

436
01:05:22,590 --> 01:05:23,470
Good afternoon everyone.

437
01:05:23,630 --> 01:05:27,230
I'll try to keep this brief in light of so many topics on our agenda today.

438
01:05:28,090 --> 01:05:28,890
As you may have heard,

439
01:05:28,990 --> 01:05:31,610
our long-time Aquatics and Recreation Manager, Michelle Leonard,

440
01:05:31,750 --> 01:05:33,410
is retiring at the end of the month.

441
01:05:34,530 --> 01:05:36,030
We are having a gathering

442
01:05:36,030 --> 01:05:44,190
for her at Mary-Sai on January 30th from noon to one and everyone is welcome. She spent 30 years

443
01:05:44,190 --> 01:05:49,670
here with the borough, so she's leaving some big shoes to fill, but we have some pretty good

444
01:05:49,670 --> 01:05:55,950
applicants for that position, so we're hoping to have somebody brought on in a few weeks, hopefully

445
01:05:55,950 --> 01:06:01,270
at least by the end of February. You know, we're coming out of the holiday season, parks and rec

446
01:06:01,270 --> 01:06:06,930
hosted several large community events. Our biggest being the winter solstice festival

447
01:06:06,930 --> 01:06:16,230
and our part of that was the winter lightswalk. I spent nine hours downtown supporting dog

448
01:06:16,230 --> 01:06:23,950
machine and pictures with the reindeer and the fireworks. There was well over 1,000 people from

449
01:06:23,950 --> 01:06:29,390
our community out and about and our parks and rec staff does a really good job of maintaining the

450
01:06:29,390 --> 01:06:41,370
paths in Griffin Park. So I would consider that part of the event fully accessible. So that was pretty cool. I did see at least one person in a wheelchair down there.

451
01:06:42,470 --> 01:06:51,590
Our next large events are the Tanana Lake Spring Fest that takes place over Spring Break on March 13th and then the

452
01:06:51,590 --> 01:06:58,590
Chino Lake Spring fling on March 22nd. So we have a weekend one and a week day one one in North Pole one in Fairbanks.

453
01:06:59,190 --> 01:07:00,550
So trying to spread the love around.

454
01:07:02,090 --> 01:07:10,970
Tendents that are regular senior programs has been steady. I was able to attend the Christmas themed senior potluck at Mary's side and it was

455
01:07:10,970 --> 01:07:16,170
We were getting about 20 to 25 people at those, and they did a little gift exchange, which,

456
01:07:16,710 --> 01:07:19,310
you know, white elephant style. It was pretty neat.

457
01:07:20,350 --> 01:07:25,710
The next potluck, I believe they are the third Friday of each month, so we're doing one every

458
01:07:25,710 --> 01:07:33,970
single month at MarySci. The other big news for Parks and Rec is we just updated our website and

459
01:07:33,970 --> 01:07:40,210
registration platform. So our admins are very busy getting calls with people saying our website

460
01:07:40,210 --> 01:07:44,830
doesn't work anymore because it's a whole new website address from what we used to advertise

461
01:07:45,410 --> 01:07:54,830
but it is pretty simple it's fnsb.gov slash parks so easy to find but if you are trying to register

462
01:07:54,830 --> 01:07:59,710
for something like senior recognition day that's coming up soon that we're going to get a lot more

463
01:07:59,710 --> 01:08:05,070
calls with that because everyone we transferred all the registrations over but you have to change

464
01:08:05,070 --> 01:08:09,990
your password when you first try to get into there because we did not transfer passwords.

465
01:08:11,830 --> 01:08:12,530
Let's see.

466
01:08:12,950 --> 01:08:17,390
And with that, I'll save the rest of my topics for, well, let me do one more.

467
01:08:18,010 --> 01:08:22,990
The Senior Resource Guide, as some of you know, we're in the process of updating that.

468
01:08:23,630 --> 01:08:25,570
We really need input.

469
01:08:26,150 --> 01:08:31,530
We don't usually get a lot of input on what people like about it or don't like about it

470
01:08:31,530 --> 01:08:36,430
or what's missing, what seniors could use from that guide, so if folks could take some

471
01:08:36,430 --> 01:08:42,630
time going through the senior resource guides, I brought some our last weeks meeting, but

472
01:08:43,650 --> 01:08:45,310
I've given them all out.

473
01:08:45,670 --> 01:08:48,310
So I have 200 more on order if you need a copy.

474
01:08:49,410 --> 01:08:53,530
Let me know directly and I'll make sure you can get a hard copy, but they are available

475
01:08:54,030 --> 01:08:55,650
on our website as well.

476
01:08:57,270 --> 01:09:00,230
And that, for that, I will save the rest for new business.

477
01:09:01,230 --> 01:09:03,290
Okay, very good. Any questions?

478
01:09:08,780 --> 01:09:09,660
All right. Thank you, Brian.

479
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:17,300
All right. Item F5 is a report from Day Johnson, Transportation Manager.

480
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:21,620
I don't see Day. Is there anybody from Transportation?

481
01:09:28,190 --> 01:09:31,290
Okay. Let's move on to Item F6.

482
01:09:31,290 --> 01:09:42,610
is a report about the age-friendly Fairbanks in the boroughs' participation in the AARP's

483
01:09:43,730 --> 01:09:45,170
NAFC Initiative.

484
01:09:45,630 --> 01:09:45,810
Right.

485
01:09:46,430 --> 01:09:52,110
Commissioner Anthony, thank you, and I'm going to get an assist here from Brian on some slides.

486
01:09:52,110 --> 01:10:03,410
So the age-friendly Fairbanks initiative, as we've said earlier, is a partnership between

487
01:10:03,410 --> 01:10:09,210
the City of Fairbanks through the Chief of Staff's Office, the Fairbanks North Star

488
01:10:09,210 --> 01:10:15,170
Barrel through this commission, and then as well from a group that most of you are familiar

489
01:10:15,170 --> 01:10:21,050
with, I hope, the Foundation Health Partners Community Health Improvement Planning for

490
01:10:21,050 --> 01:10:27,770
seniors. That is the mouthful, so we just call our self-chip senior. That is a group that

491
01:10:27,770 --> 01:10:32,930
meets monthly. That's a group of community health and social service organization leaders.

492
01:10:33,890 --> 01:10:41,290
And their goal is to commit to improving care of people who are aging and privates.

493
01:10:46,530 --> 01:10:54,570
So the timeline for having set the goal of becoming an age-friendly community started in year one

494
01:10:54,570 --> 01:11:01,370
by enrolling in the AARP network of age-friendly states and communities since that again was a mouthful,

495
01:11:01,470 --> 01:11:09,230
we just call it age-friendly Fairbanks. And we began that process by using community listening

496
01:11:10,010 --> 01:11:16,630
and piecing together some needs assessments. Many needs assessments have already been published either

497
01:11:16,630 --> 01:11:21,670
through various organizations, through some of our government work, through the senior needs

498
01:11:21,670 --> 01:11:28,190
assessment, and then the listening sessions took the part of key informant interviewing

499
01:11:28,190 --> 01:11:35,170
among those working with the CHIP senior, doing an appreciative inquiry of what are we

500
01:11:35,170 --> 01:11:40,170
already doing in the community where are our strengths and where can we build.

501
01:11:40,950 --> 01:11:46,570
And then some ongoing assessments that we'll talk a little bit more about as we move into

502
01:11:46,570 --> 01:11:53,310
our year two, which I was very happy to hear Mayor Hopkins refer to needing and

503
01:11:53,310 --> 01:11:59,930
wanting a plan or a path or some direction and that's precisely what this is.

504
01:12:00,110 --> 01:12:06,390
In year two, we do commit to a plan of action and that we do that as a result of

505
01:12:06,390 --> 01:12:11,150
what we've heard from people about what's important and what seems doable and

506
01:12:11,150 --> 01:12:15,670
that we set some goals and some strategies and some measures for making some

507
01:12:16,690 --> 01:12:24,750
improvement. And then years three through five we continue to address those and to build on those.

508
01:12:25,210 --> 01:12:32,990
And it's a very welcoming path. There are throughout the nation there are hundreds of examples of

509
01:12:32,990 --> 01:12:39,490
other communities that have done this and that's the benefit of joining us. That's that we don't have to

510
01:12:39,490 --> 01:12:46,990
invent from scratch, we can pretty much ride the momentum of those who are already on this path

511
01:12:46,990 --> 01:12:54,390
and wrestled with many of the challenges of trying to do this. The principle and the steps

512
01:12:54,390 --> 01:13:01,130
involved are very much around including all older residents in all stages of the process,

513
01:13:01,590 --> 01:13:07,970
doing these assessments not as the mayor said to put on a shelf, but to make them

514
01:13:07,970 --> 01:13:15,170
something that then feeds into action and what kind of implementation can

515
01:13:15,170 --> 01:13:21,530
involve those that have an interest in seeing things improve and to continually

516
01:13:21,530 --> 01:13:27,990
track that and report it back to share that impact because you know as

517
01:13:27,990 --> 01:13:37,430
people provide input it's always it's always in everybody's best interest to say

518
01:13:37,430 --> 01:13:41,950
Now that we've got that input, what changed did that help create?

519
01:13:43,270 --> 01:13:51,770
And the mayor referred as well to a local candidates forum that thank you to the senior

520
01:13:51,770 --> 01:13:55,170
center for hosting that back in September.

521
01:13:55,790 --> 01:14:02,910
Every furrow and city local candidate was there and we spoke specifically to the eight domains

522
01:14:02,910 --> 01:14:07,970
of aging and the things that are on people's mind and what rose to the top in

523
01:14:07,970 --> 01:14:13,810
terms of commitments among those who are involved in local government are

524
01:14:13,810 --> 01:14:20,550
housing issues and that's the costs and modifications aging in place and

525
01:14:21,290 --> 01:14:27,770
definition of some service areas. Transportation challenges, so accessibility,

526
01:14:27,770 --> 01:14:31,070
affordability, and efficiency, and transportation.

527
01:14:32,130 --> 01:14:35,970
Emergencies, so how we communicate, how prepare are we?

528
01:14:36,430 --> 01:14:40,470
What is our response to various emergencies that affect the community,

529
01:14:41,110 --> 01:14:44,510
and then to be very planful about emergencies?

530
01:14:45,930 --> 01:14:48,590
Services, engagement, and inclusion.

531
01:14:48,930 --> 01:14:53,630
So that would be including older people in civic, employment,

532
01:14:53,630 --> 01:14:59,970
volunteerism, any number of other things that cause us to...

533
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,060
To appreciate that as we are older, we are very much connected to our community. And governance, the health and social services powers of the city in Fairbanks, North Star, Barrow are something to consider in terms of what is the impact on both health factors and outcomes given our structure of health powers in the community and to perhaps address that as the years go by.

534
01:15:30,780 --> 01:15:39,380
When we speak in terms of age-friendly fairbanks, we follow a model that speaks to eight domains of an age-friendly community.

535
01:15:42,470 --> 01:15:48,670
The three big ones are the built environment, housing, outdoor spaces and building and transportation.

536
01:15:49,650 --> 01:15:55,970
What feeds those and what makes all that come together is considered the social environment,

537
01:15:55,970 --> 01:16:02,630
So, the operations of civic participation and employment, communication and information,

538
01:16:03,730 --> 01:16:11,250
respect and social inclusion, social participation and health services in community supports.

539
01:16:11,550 --> 01:16:17,490
Those would be the eight domains that as we consider what should and will we focus on

540
01:16:17,490 --> 01:16:25,670
to the next year and then into the five year plan, what rises to the top as far as where

541
01:16:25,670 --> 01:16:29,750
where do we want to put our action plan, meet in potatoes.

542
01:16:32,900 --> 01:16:41,960
One of our methods for coming together around that is to host, and that would be the Community

543
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:48,760
Health Improvement Senior Group has hosts the seniors Fairbanks at 50 plus Art and Science

544
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:49,800
of Aging.

545
01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:57,280
This is something that was built off of a long tradition of the community resources, health

546
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:02,780
and social services for seniors doing resource fairs so that they had an opportunity to do

547
01:17:02,780 --> 01:17:07,180
let the public know and to let one another know what was current, what was happening.

548
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:16,140
And with a pandemic, that resource fair kind of died back some and this is how it was reinvented

549
01:17:16,140 --> 01:17:25,160
in 2023 during a pioneer park event was that we conceived of it more as something to perhaps attract

550
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:30,300
the entire public that is starting to wrestle with all those things to think

551
01:17:30,300 --> 01:17:37,800
about as you get 50. At hitting 50, we start thinking in terms of, hmm, I see my

552
01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:42,020
parents struggling with things I took for granted would be easier than it seems

553
01:17:42,020 --> 01:17:47,880
like they are. So now maybe I should be more planful about my retirement, my

554
01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:54,860
future. And at the same time too, it's a huge pivot point for starting to make

555
01:17:54,860 --> 01:18:00,640
some decisions that then support both the community and individual ability to

556
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:05,560
age independently and to remain in our community which over and over we hear

557
01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:09,420
is one of the number one values of aging and fair banks is to be able to stay

558
01:18:09,420 --> 01:18:13,980
here and to be able to stay in our own homes as long and as safely as possible.

559
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:23,760
So that event started at the Pioneer Park and then in 2024 we collaborated with

560
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:31,280
the senior recognition day which made so much more sense and really appreciated the opportunity

561
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:38,180
to do that so that as seniors are together on the Thursday for the luncheon we can

562
01:18:38,180 --> 01:18:44,220
then extend that resource fair and then other events that cause people to celebrate anything

563
01:18:44,220 --> 01:18:51,540
into the following Friday. So we have opportunity to do things that Thursday evening and that Friday

564
01:18:51,540 --> 01:18:56,580
during the day, depending on capacity and ability to piece these things together.

565
01:18:57,540 --> 01:19:06,220
And this season at 2025 May 8th and 9th, we presently have proposal period out for those

566
01:19:06,220 --> 01:19:16,520
who would like to host an event, to have exhibits, or to be part of the volunteerism that puts

567
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:21,680
the group together. And those applications are due by February 28th.

568
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:27,800
A small group of us takes a look at those and decides how the resource fair will be laid out

569
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:35,200
and what kind of schedule will include. What one thing we thought of in terms of a theme and

570
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:44,060
some excitement around this year's event is that AAARP is very much involved in the previous ones

571
01:19:44,060 --> 01:19:49,800
and kind of helps us come up with something that would attract people this time around.

572
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:57,040
We are turning this into what's called a Shred event and they have collaborated with

573
01:19:57,040 --> 01:20:03,280
a local shredding company and if you bring your big box of stuff, you want safely shredded.

574
01:20:04,940 --> 01:20:10,820
This event will be an opportunity for some free and exciting shredding opportunity which

575
01:20:10,820 --> 01:20:15,780
which is perfect because it brings it through that text season and it's coming right along

576
01:20:15,780 --> 01:20:19,880
with some themes that then let us build on that.

577
01:20:20,260 --> 01:20:28,620
So for instance, information safety, fraud, how to protect oneself from those kind of activities

578
01:20:28,620 --> 01:20:30,460
and as well, downsizing.

579
01:20:30,860 --> 01:20:37,380
That is something we start thinking about as we hit the particular ages, how do I stop accumulating

580
01:20:37,380 --> 01:20:44,400
so much and how do I safely dispose of things that I need to dispose of, so we're really excited

581
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:50,500
about having that as somewhat of a theme around what some of the presentations and exhibits will

582
01:20:50,500 --> 01:20:59,320
be all about. And if you move on, what I want to point out is that this is an excellent opportunity

583
01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:06,900
for some listening posts, people. It is very beneficial to survey and have questionnaires, but we're

584
01:21:06,900 --> 01:21:13,880
all a little weary of those and that listening posts have shown and excited to see the borough

585
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:21,040
doing so many more of them as well this is an opportunity for some listening post activities

586
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:30,340
and I would encourage us to get behind helping plan this as an event to be able to both sponsor that

587
01:21:30,340 --> 01:21:36,760
to focus some questions around that and then to build the participation in it.

588
01:21:37,120 --> 01:21:43,100
So I would look for and hope for lots of proposals around how can we make this

589
01:21:43,100 --> 01:21:51,400
opportunity also be a listening post opportunity and on the theme of

590
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:56,760
opportunities. Another has crept up and it is pending and through the community

591
01:21:56,760 --> 01:22:05,040
health improvements senior group we were able to throw our hat in the ring for a livable

592
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:11,500
community's technical assistance proposal. And I want to thank some of the folks that

593
01:22:11,500 --> 01:22:17,400
contributed kind of on short notice to some input on what should we focus on. We have so

594
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:23,460
many opportunities for some technical assistance around age friendly fair banks. What is something

595
01:22:23,460 --> 01:22:29,760
on our mind that we could benefit from and as we rallied that kind of information we honed

596
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:36,480
in on pretty great enthusiasm both from the city, from the borough, on technical assistance

597
01:22:36,480 --> 01:22:43,360
around emergency preparedness and that we have submitted an application, the nationwide

598
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:50,260
process for deciding do we get that technical assistance here in Fairbanks ending and what

599
01:22:50,260 --> 01:22:55,860
But that would bring us, if and when we do here, and I'm very optimistic, would be some

600
01:22:55,860 --> 01:23:02,140
strategic advising on the ground here in Fairbanks, and some perhaps some training around

601
01:23:02,140 --> 01:23:08,840
what are some of the specific needs of older people relative to floods, fires, ice,

602
01:23:09,100 --> 01:23:16,440
snow, mageddon like we had in what year was that, that this photo was from, and that I know

603
01:23:16,440 --> 01:23:24,300
we have some very strong partners who are excited about this opportunity if and when we do realize it

604
01:23:25,010 --> 01:23:28,180
and that is it and I'll leave it open for some questions.

605
01:23:32,310 --> 01:23:33,850
So commissioners, do we have any

606
01:23:33,850 --> 01:23:38,590
questions for Carol? Good job Carol. Thank you.

607
01:23:43,490 --> 01:23:47,970
So I have a question. Yeah so how can this commission

608
01:23:47,970 --> 01:23:51,430
with respect to individual commission members

609
01:23:51,430 --> 01:23:55,610
get involved in the age-friendly Fairbanks effort

610
01:23:55,610 --> 01:23:59,030
in terms of, you know, like attending meetings

611
01:23:59,030 --> 01:24:01,230
or you want to speak a little closer to the mic.

612
01:24:01,990 --> 01:24:03,150
Oh, sorry. Thank you.

613
01:24:04,010 --> 01:24:06,550
So how can individual commission members

614
01:24:06,550 --> 01:24:08,450
get more involved with this effort?

615
01:24:09,530 --> 01:24:10,990
I have, thank you.

616
01:24:11,290 --> 01:24:14,270
I have exhibitor application forms here.

617
01:24:14,950 --> 01:24:16,690
Plus, we have connections for that

618
01:24:16,690 --> 01:24:23,430
on the foundation health partners webpage, our Facebook page, sorry, and so I would encourage

619
01:24:23,430 --> 01:24:28,050
if you are involved in any particular group to perhaps consider being an exhibitor,

620
01:24:28,630 --> 01:24:35,050
to definitely volunteer, to we never turn away volunteer, we need breeders, we need help

621
01:24:35,050 --> 01:24:43,450
planning and piecing these things together, and then if you have an interest in this being a

622
01:24:44,710 --> 01:24:54,550
A listening post, I would absolutely welcome the part of the planning around how do we make this a listening post event.

623
01:24:55,770 --> 01:24:55,930
Thanks.

624
01:24:56,790 --> 01:24:58,230
So, Darleen, did you have a question?

625
01:24:58,410 --> 01:24:59,470
I thought I saw your hand up.

626
01:25:01,110 --> 01:25:01,310
Nope.

627
01:25:01,690 --> 01:25:01,810
Okay.

628
01:25:02,430 --> 01:25:03,110
All right.

629
01:25:03,850 --> 01:25:05,750
Anything else from the commission?

630
01:25:07,150 --> 01:25:07,590
All right.

631
01:25:07,830 --> 01:25:11,670
So, we look forward to your future reports on what's going on.

632
01:25:11,670 --> 01:25:12,630
Okay,

633
01:25:17,810 --> 01:25:25,630
we're getting forward in time here, and we've come up to a new business election

634
01:25:25,630 --> 01:25:27,130
of Chair and Vice Chair.

635
01:25:28,530 --> 01:25:34,130
So before we hold elections, here's a brief reminder of the role in duties of the Chair

636
01:25:34,130 --> 01:25:34,850
and Vice Chair.

637
01:25:35,390 --> 01:25:43,110
The Vice Chair fulfills all duties in the Chair's absence, and the Chair's duties are the

638
01:25:43,110 --> 01:25:49,170
attend agenda setting meetings, calls the meeting to order at the appointed time, determines

639
01:25:49,170 --> 01:25:58,210
a quorum is present, conducts the proceedings in conformity with the FNSB code, determines conflicts

640
01:25:58,210 --> 01:26:04,670
of interest based on whether a member's financial interest is substantial, or the personal involvement

641
01:26:04,670 --> 01:26:12,150
is prejudicial in a manner coming before the body, even a hard time talking today, announces

642
01:26:12,150 --> 01:26:16,650
in proper sequence the next item before the Board of Commission in accordance with the agenda.

643
01:26:17,330 --> 01:26:25,610
Determines who has the right to speak, impartially permits pro and con equal time, explains

644
01:26:25,610 --> 01:26:34,290
clarifies issues without bias, maintains decorum and order during debate, keeps discussion on topic

645
01:26:34,290 --> 01:26:41,890
and discourages repetition, refrains from debate unless passing the gavel, states the motion

646
01:26:41,890 --> 01:26:48,670
and clearly takes the vote accurately and announces the vote so all can hear and adjourns

647
01:26:48,670 --> 01:26:49,170
the meeting.

648
01:26:51,500 --> 01:26:54,140
So do we have any questions about those duties?

649
01:26:58,030 --> 01:26:59,550
So now we move to chair

650
01:26:59,550 --> 01:27:05,590
election. Nominations are now in order for the chair. Nominations do not require a second.

651
01:27:06,310 --> 01:27:08,130
The missionaries may nominate themselves.

652
01:27:11,870 --> 01:27:13,510
We hear any nominations for chair.

653
01:27:13,510 --> 01:27:19,910
I would like to nominate Denise Daniello to remain as chair.

654
01:27:22,410 --> 01:27:22,870
Second.

655
01:27:25,250 --> 01:27:28,070
I would also like to nominate Denise Daniello,

656
01:27:28,370 --> 01:27:30,610
to show acceptance to be in the chair.

657
01:27:31,830 --> 01:27:33,430
Well, thank you.

658
01:27:34,050 --> 01:27:36,530
You know, I've done this for a while now.

659
01:27:39,010 --> 01:27:42,450
Does anybody else want to take on this responsibility?

660
01:27:49,130 --> 01:27:56,190
I want to learn more about the commission first, and I've got to make sure it's not

661
01:27:56,190 --> 01:27:57,590
conflict with my other department.

662
01:28:02,580 --> 01:28:03,300
Okay, I accept.

663
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:06,100
Thank you everyone.

664
01:28:07,820 --> 01:28:11,720
So now we move to the

665
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:16,640
vice chair.

666
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:20,300
So, nominations are now in order for the vice chair.

667
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:22,360
Nominations do not require a second.

668
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:24,820
Commissioners may nominate themselves.

669
01:28:31,270 --> 01:28:33,370
I know that Carol has her plate full.

670
01:28:33,590 --> 01:28:39,170
I would like to nominate Carol if she's willing to continue carrying that on the plate.

671
01:28:40,770 --> 01:28:43,010
I would be willing to nominate.

672
01:28:43,350 --> 01:28:43,770
Thank you.

673
01:28:44,630 --> 01:28:44,790
Okay.

674
01:28:45,090 --> 01:28:46,270
Second that motion, too.

675
01:28:47,510 --> 01:28:48,370
Very good.

676
01:28:48,550 --> 01:28:48,810
All right.

677
01:28:49,690 --> 01:29:04,830
So now we have our officers moving to item G2 review and approved award criteria for the senior

678
01:29:04,830 --> 01:29:12,790
recognition of awards. Well, Brian, you want to talk about that? I think we've already implemented it, but you want

679
01:29:12,790 --> 01:29:19,630
just yeah the nominations are currently open and for lack of some

680
01:29:19,630 --> 01:29:26,510
quarms we moved forward with the well to step back this commission worked pretty

681
01:29:26,510 --> 01:29:33,290
hard on getting three of the award criteria decided and I'll run through it

682
01:29:33,290 --> 01:29:37,570
real quick because we have do have some new commissioners can I share my screen

683
01:29:38,370 --> 01:29:47,810
In case anyone wants to follow along, this is from the Agenda Packet, let's see, then it

684
01:29:47,810 --> 01:29:56,530
pulls up here, still sharing PowerPoint, is there a way to switch to showing what I'm

685
01:29:56,530 --> 01:29:59,430
showing on my web view.

686
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:08,480
So, um, well, Ryan's looking for that, the criteria criteria are listed on the nomination forms too.

687
01:30:53,820 --> 01:30:55,100
I think

688
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:00,260
that's what I don't

689
01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:06,200
know. I don't know how your sharing system works. There it is.

690
01:31:06,380 --> 01:31:07,580
Thank you.

691
01:31:09,860 --> 01:31:11,640
Yeah, that's going to be the screen.

692
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,200
I mean, the background screen on the laptop.

693
01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:14,800
Thank you.

694
01:31:15,300 --> 01:31:15,540
See?

695
01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:16,680
Perfect.

696
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:17,580
Got it?

697
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:18,480
Yeah.

698
01:31:20,480 --> 01:31:21,200
That easy.

699
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:21,780
Yeah.

700
01:31:24,300 --> 01:31:24,780
Sure.

701
01:31:25,020 --> 01:31:26,200
It's kind of up to you guys.

702
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:28,960
I can just read it, and you can read along.

703
01:31:29,340 --> 01:31:29,880
Does that work?

704
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:30,760
We have it.

705
01:31:30,900 --> 01:31:33,920
Okay, let's just do that because I know we're getting late

706
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,060
in the day for folks that are planning.

707
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,380
I will remind the chair that there is no time limit to

708
01:31:39,380 --> 01:31:41,980
our meetings, but there is time to people's life.

709
01:31:41,980 --> 01:31:43,880
But I'm watching the clock because I've got another

710
01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:45,120
Are we coming up after this?

711
01:31:45,480 --> 01:31:46,200
Yes, I hear you.

712
01:31:46,440 --> 01:31:49,820
Okay, so since you guys have it on your screen as well,

713
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,580
we started with a discussion about ethics.

714
01:31:53,580 --> 01:31:55,280
There was confusion about like,

715
01:31:55,360 --> 01:31:58,580
hey, I nominated someone I know them

716
01:31:58,580 --> 01:32:01,140
and we always ask the commissioners to nominate people.

717
01:32:01,460 --> 01:32:03,460
Are they able to actually vote on those nominations

718
01:32:03,460 --> 01:32:06,820
and the commission decided that there is a conflict

719
01:32:06,820 --> 01:32:09,120
of interest if they are direct family member

720
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:11,860
of the nominee or are the nominee themselves

721
01:32:11,860 --> 01:32:14,460
and therefore they could not vote for that nominee.

722
01:32:15,560 --> 01:32:19,560
We also came up with that criteria about how frequently someone could win.

723
01:32:19,740 --> 01:32:23,440
You have to wait at least 10 years to be eligible for the same award.

724
01:32:23,760 --> 01:32:29,800
Someone could be nominated for a different award, but just once every 10 years for the awards.

725
01:32:30,100 --> 01:32:32,640
And we'll get to what those awards actually are here.

726
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:38,800
There was something about how many people can be awarded in each category.

727
01:32:40,700 --> 01:32:46,000
I'm following in some of you probably want to know what the categories are but we will get to that.

728
01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:55,280
There's three individuals can be nominated for the volunteer or can win in the volunteer category.

729
01:32:55,620 --> 01:33:05,020
I think this is an old page here because it says one for male fitness,

730
01:33:05,020 --> 01:33:23,740
one for female fitness, and we combined those to be just one fitness award. And then we have an outstanding one for outstanding caregiver, and I'm going to scroll down to see where the other categories are because we came up with a new category.

731
01:33:28,760 --> 01:33:34,680
There it is. Model of health award and that's really the criteria we need to work on today.

732
01:33:35,980 --> 01:33:41,320
But I'll just go back kind of just through this quickly. Oh, there it is in the next section.

733
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:48,920
So if we have more than five nominations in a category, we do have a scoring criteria

734
01:33:48,920 --> 01:33:58,360
we developed and this commission due to frequency of meetings, we can appoint a work group

735
01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:03,780
of three or less commissioners to kind of score those nominations and then bring them to the

736
01:34:03,780 --> 01:34:10,160
whole commission for final acceptance. And that's if we have five or more, if less than that,

737
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:16,120
we kind of just make a decision on the day of the commission meeting. The award categories,

738
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:22,220
There's lifetime fitness, honored caregiver, outstanding volunteer, and a model of health.

739
01:34:23,500 --> 01:34:27,580
And then there's been questions in the past if you could nominate a whole group, or just

740
01:34:27,580 --> 01:34:32,080
an individual, such as could you nominate the food bank, or could you nominate the meals

741
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:32,920
on Wheels program.

742
01:34:33,740 --> 01:34:39,220
And it was decided that we would limit it to an individual awards rather than a group

743
01:34:39,220 --> 01:34:39,600
award.

744
01:34:40,260 --> 01:34:45,280
And part of the rationale for that is usually those groups do have a champion within the

745
01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:51,040
group that's really making those groups move. It could be more than one, but really focusing

746
01:34:51,040 --> 01:34:58,260
on those individuals. So those topics, whilst I'll open here at this meeting, they were

747
01:34:58,260 --> 01:35:04,060
kind of decided and worked through with this commission. So I'm going to just scroll ahead

748
01:35:04,060 --> 01:35:12,920
because there's really only one category, and it's the second category on your sheet there,

749
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:18,920
and it's the model of Health Award, Ms. Anthony and Ms.

750
01:35:19,020 --> 01:35:24,140
Tarkeian and worked together to, I believe Ms. Tarkeian helped you, yes,

751
01:35:24,600 --> 01:35:31,060
worked together to come up with these criteria and part of the criteria was

752
01:35:31,060 --> 01:35:35,320
well, we didn't, we knew what the award was called but we didn't really know what

753
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:41,640
we were judging nominations, how we were judging the nominations.

754
01:35:41,640 --> 01:35:47,440
It was very subjective, so we want to try to get a little bit of objectivity in there.

755
01:35:48,260 --> 01:35:54,580
So just going through these, we modeled it to match the other categories.

756
01:35:55,860 --> 01:36:04,160
So the first scoring criteria is consistent commitment to healthy aging, and that's two

757
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:04,440
parts.

758
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:11,200
This person would demonstrate long-standing involvement in community activity that promote healthy

759
01:36:11,200 --> 01:36:17,960
aging for self and others, and be provides help to others by way of advocacy, public education,

760
01:36:18,460 --> 01:36:23,780
civic participation, and other program or service development that supports healthy aging.

761
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:32,660
Since you guys can all see this, I'm wondering if there's any comments. Can you all see this,

762
01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:40,160
actually? Yes, okay. Sometimes I'm not sure. Ms. Sharp is telling me what I think is correct or not.

763
01:36:40,160 --> 01:36:47,240
Thank you. So, if you can read through, maybe we'll just start with 1A, and is everyone

764
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:48,800
like the language that is there?

765
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:56,360
Okay, saying no and saying no, and so in 1B that provides

766
01:36:56,360 --> 01:37:01,880
help to others by way of advocacy, public education, civic participation, and or program or service

767
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:07,540
development that supports healthy aging. Does that one make sense to everyone? Okay, and I

768
01:37:07,540 --> 01:37:16,360
So I will say after we're done with this little section here, I think we are going to be completely done with this process, so that is nice to look forward to.

769
01:37:17,220 --> 01:37:22,900
So for number two, the work group came up with trailblazer for healthy aging.

770
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:36,260
That's defined as impacts others by serving as inspiration by contributing in a meaningful way to age-friendly fair bank domains, such as housing, transportation, access to care,

771
01:37:36,260 --> 01:37:43,520
social inclusion, communication, respect, and or civic participation. Is there

772
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:49,120
anything missing in that one? I think they did a really good job. So everybody's

773
01:37:49,120 --> 01:37:53,820
nodding their heads. So we'll move to number three, leadership or involvement. So

774
01:37:53,820 --> 01:38:02,400
this person, a, does volunteerism that demonstrates healthy aging and or has a

775
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:09,060
professional role, that impacts improvements in age-friendly fairbanks, C,

776
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:13,260
inspires growth, and community involvement in age-friendly fairbanks.

777
01:38:14,400 --> 01:38:16,580
Does everybody agree with those concepts?

778
01:38:17,940 --> 01:38:18,180
All right.

779
01:38:19,660 --> 01:38:27,740
So, again, some of these other, oh, I guess this laptop's a little confusing for me.

780
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:37,480
But, um, so I would say maybe it would be time for someone to make a motion to accept these criteria.

781
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:38,640
Does that make sense, Claire?

782
01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:43,460
Okay. First, are there any questions or comments regarding the criteria?

783
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:45,280
Everybody's good?

784
01:38:46,160 --> 01:38:49,940
Because we're going to be using this for this next round of awards for 2025.

785
01:38:51,440 --> 01:38:52,000
Okay.

786
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:58,500
Okay, so does anybody wish to make a motion to accept the criteria for

787
01:39:01,440 --> 01:39:02,640
senior recognition awards?

788
01:39:03,540 --> 01:39:05,180
Can you speak to the mic?

789
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:06,540
Thank you.

790
01:39:11,070 --> 01:39:16,630
Okay, I'll go ahead and make some motion to accept for the senior recognition award.

791
01:39:17,670 --> 01:39:18,390
All right, very good.

792
01:39:18,910 --> 01:39:19,890
Do we have a second?

793
01:39:20,370 --> 01:39:20,530
A

794
01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:23,860
second.

795
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:24,600
Very good.

796
01:39:25,740 --> 01:39:26,140
Okay.

797
01:39:27,260 --> 01:39:34,240
so we have a motion on the floor to accept the award criteria for the senior

798
01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:42,460
recognition boards is already stated does anybody have any comments about

799
01:39:42,460 --> 01:39:50,200
that everybody to vote okay call the roll please all right mr. Duffy yes miss

800
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:26,100
I just want to let you know that I did bring copies of the nomination forms there in the back of or in the front of the chambers so people can take some home or distribute.

801
01:40:26,100 --> 01:40:39,380
I've got a big stack over there and then I'll get the nomination forms in our monthly flip newsletter as well as they are on the senior program page as well for people to download and share.

802
01:40:40,380 --> 01:40:48,440
But we do encourage commissioners to try and find some folks to nominate because sometimes we do struggle to have enough nominations each category.

803
01:40:48,440 --> 01:40:55,040
thank you. But other times we have so many which led to the you know the move

804
01:40:55,040 --> 01:41:04,140
to establish criteria so we have a process. So okay do you know if this will

805
01:41:04,140 --> 01:41:09,880
be the nomination forms will be published in the news minor? We haven't

806
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:13,900
published them in the news minor before it's something we could try to do we

807
01:41:13,900 --> 01:41:20,660
We noticed the meeting, but we put it in our, actually went out in our January senior

808
01:41:20,660 --> 01:41:26,300
newsletter, and I'll get them in our Parks and Rec newsletter, and I'll ask our admins

809
01:41:26,300 --> 01:41:29,140
to get it on our Facebook page as well.

810
01:41:29,980 --> 01:41:33,600
But I can share them with the mayor's office, and I think it would be something they'd be

811
01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:34,980
interested in promoting as well.

812
01:41:35,540 --> 01:41:41,580
That sounds good, because, you know, not everybody uses the computer or has access to a computer.

813
01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:51,520
Okay. Very good. Thank you. And item G3, I'm not sure if we, well, we might have some

814
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:55,980
things to discuss. Review and discuss senior recognition day and Fairbanks at 50 plus

815
01:41:55,980 --> 01:42:04,560
event. So did we still want to, was there anything that we needed to discuss or should we schedule

816
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:11,380
special meeting and then we talked about that or what do you suggest by and where are we with the

817
01:42:11,380 --> 01:42:18,200
planning? I had a very brief little bit. We're just getting started with with the planning for

818
01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:23,480
it. So one is reviewing that senior resource guide because we try to get it published for senior

819
01:42:23,480 --> 01:42:31,060
recognition day with the 2025 version basically goes from May through April. So any feedback on that

820
01:42:31,060 --> 01:42:32,700
That shared directly with me would be great.

821
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:38,280
We did have some questions about what sort of involvement the commission wanted to have

822
01:42:38,280 --> 01:42:39,500
in the preparations.

823
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:46,600
So I made a really short list of things to consider if you'd like me to share.

824
01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:53,140
One is we select the winners or this commission selects the winners.

825
01:42:54,880 --> 01:42:57,680
It is called Senior Recognition Day.

826
01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:02,700
Some people think Senior Rec Day stands for Recreation, but it's actually Senior Recognition

827
01:43:02,700 --> 01:43:02,960
Day.

828
01:43:03,500 --> 01:43:08,560
So, one of the big points is recognizing the winners of those categories.

829
01:43:09,300 --> 01:43:14,660
But sometimes this commission is helped with us, help choose menu items, so food choices.

830
01:43:15,480 --> 01:43:21,700
The commission could help with setup or take down serving, tabling, which operating a resource

831
01:43:21,700 --> 01:43:29,460
The commission has often had a resource table there choosing who will sing the national anthem.

832
01:43:30,180 --> 01:43:39,360
We've had Tom Gross sing at the last two years and we just want to make sure that we could ask him again, but we could also ask someone else if the commission was interested.

833
01:43:39,360 --> 01:43:50,180
The MC Choice, we're working with Jerry Evans, who had done it two years ago, and last year he wasn't available, so we are Lewis, who also did great.

834
01:43:50,800 --> 01:43:59,040
So we're trying to figure out we're going back with Jerry Evans, but if this commission feels differently or he's not available, there could be some input.

835
01:43:59,460 --> 01:44:08,340
Also, we usually have musical performers, if the commission had any input on who they would like to see perform.

836
01:44:08,340 --> 01:44:18,080
And then we could bring potentially like we give out a plaque to the eldest female and male

837
01:44:18,080 --> 01:44:25,220
that are present at that event. And if the commission wanted any input on design of that plaque,

838
01:44:25,440 --> 01:44:29,840
that's what we had come up with as a brainstorm, but the commission may have additional ideas.

839
01:44:33,180 --> 01:44:40,780
Okay, very good. So I'm going to turn to the commission now and ask what would be the best way

840
01:44:40,780 --> 01:44:48,820
We're up to provide input. Do you think we should have a special committee that would work with parks and ruck? I think we did something like that last year.

841
01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:58,580
Or do you want to have a special meeting to discuss all of these topics items that Ryan just read off?

842
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:27,000
What do you think would be the best way for us to be involved? Because we're going to be involved. You know, this is a partnership between the commission and parks and rack. And our next regularly scheduled meeting is April. And that's too late to make decisions. Right. Other than who's going to win. Yeah, because we can get the awards made, but we can't choose food in April. It's chosen sooner than that. So. Yes.

843
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:36,420
Maybe could I suggest we do new time meeting in maybe the late February early March timeframe?

844
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:38,360
Can you speak in the mic a little more?

845
01:45:44,110 --> 01:45:49,610
Maybe late February early March, if that's not too late, we could have a breeze.

846
01:45:50,570 --> 01:45:58,530
new time meeting to discuss this and that where input is in in enough time for

847
01:45:58,530 --> 01:46:07,090
Brian's group to plan and Brian let the group know that I'm willing to

848
01:46:07,090 --> 01:46:11,930
volunteer again this year for the front desk detail because they also

849
01:46:11,930 --> 01:46:16,550
sound that I do not have the physical ability to be white staff.

850
01:46:16,550 --> 01:46:17,650
Right. Yes.

851
01:46:18,590 --> 01:46:26,010
And the clerk showed me some dates earlier when we were putting figuring out whether we need to reconvene at another time and there was

852
01:46:26,010 --> 01:46:28,530
I'm a late February date, I believe.

853
01:46:29,090 --> 01:46:33,290
There was an early and late February date on that list that the chambers would be available.

854
01:46:36,540 --> 01:46:40,760
Right here. So those dates are January 30th and that's probably June.

855
01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:45,160
February 6th or February 27th.

856
01:46:45,160 --> 01:46:52,840
And I think I'm going to be away on February 27th, but I can participate.

857
01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:56,040
Oh, I can't even say that.

858
01:46:56,380 --> 01:46:58,560
I might be involved in a conference.

859
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:01,720
February 6th would be the best date for me.

860
01:47:03,700 --> 01:47:12,980
Should a special committee also work with you in between, you know, after the commission meets,

861
01:47:12,980 --> 01:47:19,100
Just to make sure things move along. That would probably be helpful just to have be able to

862
01:47:19,840 --> 01:47:24,940
You know fill the gaps as necessary. Yeah, so I think that would be a good idea

863
01:47:24,940 --> 01:47:30,380
So we could meet and kind of just get you know like how you suggest Teresa, you know

864
01:47:30,380 --> 01:47:36,740
Just kind of get the broad brushstrokes down and then a point of special committee

865
01:47:37,620 --> 01:47:39,740
anybody who would like to join and

866
01:47:39,740 --> 01:47:43,960
And to meet in between that time and the April meeting.

867
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:46,320
Okay.

868
01:47:47,200 --> 01:47:47,780
All right.

869
01:47:48,080 --> 01:47:51,280
So I guess the next thing that we need to do is-

870
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:53,000
I can start reading, raise your hand there for a second.

871
01:47:53,420 --> 01:47:54,160
Is that-

872
01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:54,940
Oh, I'm sorry.

873
01:47:55,320 --> 01:47:56,060
Yeah, quickly.

874
01:47:56,420 --> 01:48:00,320
But having a committee is almost a necessary component of the needs,

875
01:48:00,440 --> 01:48:05,660
because we meet so far apart and not letting that committee do all the work with good faith.

876
01:48:05,660 --> 01:48:23,020
And then if there is an approval that's needed that we have a quick meeting to give that approval, but you know, I have tremendous trust and Brian and his crew and you and whoever else maybe part of that community, I will not be part of that community because my plate is overly full right now.

877
01:48:23,020 --> 01:48:32,180
But it almost sounds like that's the wisest and most logical solution to moving this successfully forward.

878
01:48:33,060 --> 01:48:36,920
I mean, she did a great job in monitoring suspected visit that last year.

879
01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:41,640
And I think that forming the committee, that's not tied to the restrictions of these meetings.

880
01:48:42,020 --> 01:48:42,780
Really smart.

881
01:48:44,340 --> 01:48:50,060
So, Darlene, some reason I can't hear you very well, but are you suggesting that we just

882
01:48:50,060 --> 01:48:54,800
do this by committee or that we have the committee and a special meeting in February?

883
01:48:55,640 --> 01:49:01,720
Maybe only, unless you need our approval, just do a committee only, that we, I'm raising

884
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:03,560
my voice a little, I hope you can hear me a little better.

885
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:09,160
Committee only makes sense that we all have trust in you and Brian or whoever else is going

886
01:49:09,160 --> 01:49:15,340
be part of that committee. And then that way only me if we have to, right? And if you need

887
01:49:15,340 --> 01:49:19,720
our approval on something, but other than that, I don't think we should be balanced to the

888
01:49:19,720 --> 01:49:23,260
formality of this process, if it's not necessary.

889
01:49:31,440 --> 01:49:35,220
All right. So maybe for now, so I like your idea

890
01:49:35,220 --> 01:49:41,480
Teresa, but I'm thinking maybe the February 6th state might be too soon that we should just

891
01:49:41,480 --> 01:49:49,460
appoint a special committee to work with Brian and his team and then get the balls in motion and

892
01:49:49,460 --> 01:49:55,640
maybe have a meeting in March before the April meeting just to you know get everybody up to speed

893
01:49:55,640 --> 01:49:59,540
us to where we are with senior recognition day and that could be a very short meeting.

894
01:50:01,980 --> 01:50:11,440
We do have kind of a standing group right now that's meeting to plan between this and the

895
01:50:11,440 --> 01:50:12,900
organizing, gracefully.

896
01:50:14,620 --> 01:50:18,080
So getting one or two additional commission members

897
01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:22,060
to come to those meetings would probably support that.

898
01:50:22,260 --> 01:50:22,580
What do you think?

899
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,260
We just have to be sure it's not three or more.

900
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:25,880
Correct.

901
01:50:26,060 --> 01:50:26,920
Or more than three.

902
01:50:27,060 --> 01:50:28,540
You can have up to three.

903
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:30,860
I've written it down 47 times.

904
01:50:30,860 --> 01:50:31,860
It's hard to remember.

905
01:50:32,060 --> 01:50:33,060
We're already at three.

906
01:50:33,260 --> 01:50:35,120
So I don't know if that would work.

907
01:50:36,820 --> 01:50:40,400
I think the special committee should just focus

908
01:50:40,400 --> 01:50:41,920
the Senior Recognition Theater.

909
01:50:42,200 --> 01:50:44,400
No, Teresa wants to be involved with it.

910
01:50:44,780 --> 01:50:47,400
And Darleen and I and Carol already serve on CHIP.

911
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:48,700
That's four.

912
01:50:49,600 --> 01:50:53,180
But no, it's not a CHIP meeting group, right?

913
01:50:53,580 --> 01:50:56,820
Carol, our other group where we meet with just you and me

914
01:50:56,820 --> 01:51:00,900
and Michelle, is that group I was thinking more of?

915
01:51:01,020 --> 01:51:05,460
But that's maybe even two involved for what the commission's.

916
01:51:05,580 --> 01:51:07,640
That's kind of a free for all of anybody

917
01:51:07,640 --> 01:51:10,040
somebody who wants to help with perfect C++.

918
01:51:10,680 --> 01:51:13,500
What if those meetings happen?

919
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:16,500
The half hour check-in on Wednesday morning.

920
01:51:17,280 --> 01:51:19,020
I forget the specific dates,

921
01:51:19,320 --> 01:51:22,420
but right now we meet once a month as it gets closer.

922
01:51:22,660 --> 01:51:25,260
We meet twice a month and then as it gets real close,

923
01:51:25,460 --> 01:51:28,220
we meet once a week just the half hour check-in

924
01:51:28,760 --> 01:51:32,200
over the over teams, Microsoft teams.

925
01:51:33,180 --> 01:51:35,680
I'm happy to organize a separate meeting

926
01:51:35,680 --> 01:51:39,740
and bring that information to our other meetings.

927
01:51:40,980 --> 01:51:46,980
Teresa, what do you think about that idea in Darlene?

928
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:49,060
Do you think we should have a, in Carol?

929
01:51:50,460 --> 01:51:50,940
And Riri?

930
01:51:51,200 --> 01:51:54,120
Should we have a special committee just for Senior Recognition Day

931
01:51:54,120 --> 01:51:55,760
or join this other committee?

932
01:51:57,520 --> 01:51:59,620
That's also involved with the 50 plus.

933
01:52:01,080 --> 01:52:03,540
I think you should have a special committee

934
01:52:03,540 --> 01:52:08,020
because it's focused specifically on what we do and how we contribute to that event.

935
01:52:08,420 --> 01:52:15,520
And then Brian can take that information when he meets with the chip and the 50 plus about.

936
01:52:19,100 --> 01:52:24,940
All right, so it's been suggested. I don't know.

937
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:34,220
So I think we're going to do the special committee for senior recognition day and Brian will organize that and be in contact.

938
01:52:34,220 --> 01:52:41,900
So people who would like to be, who would like to serve on the committee, please raise your hand.

939
01:52:42,520 --> 01:52:42,700
Lisa?

940
01:52:43,540 --> 01:52:44,780
I don't think I

941
01:52:49,260 --> 01:52:51,000
can talk in the mic.

942
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:59,240
I am afraid to make a commitment to a committee right now with my other responsibilities.

943
01:52:59,900 --> 01:53:07,560
I'm willing to help out with the senior recognition, but to chair a committee, I just don't know that I can commit to it.

944
01:53:09,260 --> 01:53:15,460
Yeah, I think we'd be in an informal thing, you wouldn't have to chair it.

945
01:53:17,240 --> 01:53:22,880
It's really, I think of it more of kind of like helping us make decisions so that the

946
01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:28,300
commission is involved, so we would do something like, hey, here's the three food choices.

947
01:53:28,520 --> 01:53:29,260
What do you guys think?

948
01:53:29,800 --> 01:53:29,960
Yeah.

949
01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:30,640
We choose this one.

950
01:53:30,940 --> 01:53:32,300
Hey, here's a couple of plaque options.

951
01:53:32,300 --> 01:53:33,140
What do you guys think?

952
01:53:33,220 --> 01:53:37,440
There's not really any planning involvement, it's more of helping us make the decisions.

953
01:53:37,440 --> 01:53:39,780
being included in the decision making.

954
01:53:40,220 --> 01:53:41,760
We can do it via phone.

955
01:53:42,120 --> 01:53:44,200
Yeah, I can do it sitting in room care.

956
01:53:44,480 --> 01:53:44,640
Okay.

957
01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:45,100
Yeah.

958
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:45,980
Yeah.

959
01:53:46,720 --> 01:53:48,480
I can be flexible at times.

960
01:53:49,560 --> 01:53:49,840
Okay.

961
01:53:50,860 --> 01:53:52,140
Are you interested?

962
01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:52,860
Okay.

963
01:53:53,340 --> 01:53:53,940
Okay, Larry.

964
01:53:54,460 --> 01:53:54,980
I'm looking at you.

965
01:53:55,000 --> 01:53:55,560
Are you interested?

966
01:53:55,860 --> 01:53:56,020
Sure.

967
01:53:56,560 --> 01:53:57,760
Okay, Larry is interested.

968
01:53:58,080 --> 01:53:58,280
Carol.

969
01:53:58,780 --> 01:53:59,900
Carol is interested.

970
01:54:00,120 --> 01:54:00,360
Darling.

971
01:54:00,740 --> 01:54:01,500
You have time?

972
01:54:01,920 --> 01:54:02,040
Nope.

973
01:54:02,660 --> 01:54:02,840
Okay.

974
01:54:02,980 --> 01:54:03,700
I'm interested.

975
01:54:04,040 --> 01:54:05,020
So put me on too.

976
01:54:05,020 --> 01:54:08,060
or can only me three of you so you're going to have to arm wrestle.

977
01:54:09,180 --> 01:54:09,780
Okay, then.

978
01:54:11,900 --> 01:54:24,140
So why don't you let Theresa be a stand-in since she has some hesitation about availability and time and just let it be Denise Carroll and our new commission member.

979
01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:25,800
That's a great idea.

980
01:54:27,120 --> 01:54:29,680
Okay, so Carol needs to go.

981
01:54:30,120 --> 01:54:32,080
So we need to wrap this up.

982
01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:34,880
But I got everything I need.

983
01:54:35,440 --> 01:54:36,120
You got it?

984
01:54:36,580 --> 01:54:37,140
OK.

985
01:54:37,780 --> 01:54:41,580
So our next meeting will be in April.

986
01:54:42,220 --> 01:54:42,600
Oh, yep.

987
01:54:48,420 --> 01:54:48,980
Oh, sure.

988
01:54:54,680 --> 01:54:55,160
Oh, right, right.

989
01:54:55,400 --> 01:54:56,460
On April 10th.

990
01:54:56,860 --> 01:54:57,420
OK.

991
01:54:57,640 --> 01:55:00,120
So that's our next regular scheduled meeting.

992
01:55:00,600 --> 01:55:04,360
If we don't schedule something fire to April 10th,

993
01:55:05,680 --> 01:55:09,340
does anybody foresee not being able to make the April 10th meeting?

994
01:55:09,780 --> 01:55:10,760
Will all be here?

995
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:23,100
So we're running late and does anybody have anything else that they want to say?

996
01:55:23,380 --> 01:55:24,160
Are we good?

997
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:27,000
Okay, this meeting is now adjourned.

998
01:55:27,500 --> 01:55:28,420
Thank you.

999
01:55:28,640 --> 01:55:29,400
Thank you.

1000
01:55:29,500 --> 01:55:29,900
Nice job.

1001
01:55:30,480 --> 01:55:31,040
145.

1002
01:55:31,040 --> 01:55:31,760
Good job, you 45.

1003
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:32,600
I'm kind of proud.

1004
01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:33,180
Thank you.