Human Services Advisory Commission - February 13, 2025

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afternoon I'd like to call to order the
uh Human Services advisory
commission maybe I should Bing the GFF
again i' like to all right let me start
over good afternoon I'd like to call to
order the Human Services advisory
commission could we start with a roll
call yes chair Lori here Vice chair Jung
here commissioner turel here
commissioner dods here commissioner
Shear I am here commissioner kulie here
commissioner
Jameson you have a
quorum thank you uh this is a time for
public comment citizens May address the
members of the Human Services ad
advisory commission during public
comment it's reserved uh for non-
agendized items Arizona state law
prohibits the commission from discussing
or taking action on the item and public
testimony is limited to three minutes
per speaker do we have any comments
chair Lori we do not okay so uh moving
forward with the regular meeting
agenda
um what wait wait for um Vice chair Jung
who got me some
water could I get a motion to approve
the regular meeting minutes from January
23rd so approve or so
moved and second all right thank you uh
and a roll call vote please chair Lori
yes Vice chair Jung yes commissioner
turil yes commissioner dods yes
commissioner Shear yes commissioner kie
yes and commissioner Jameson yes thank
you all right uh next up on the agenda
we will have a public hearing for the
city of Scott program year 2025 annual
action plan and program year 2025
2029 Consolidated plan that was emailed
to us
today um Mary good evening chair Lori
members of the commission tonight um is
public hearing number one of two
required for our 5-year Consolidated
action plan for 2025 through 2029 this
is our needs assessment public hearing
so I'm going to go over um some general
information tonight for the public
regarding um the Consolidated plan some
of the results of the needs assessment
that was conducted as part of this plan
and then seek public input on the
priorities and then at the next
presentation after me you'll hear about
how we plan to spend the funds or our
suggestions for
it so what is a Consolidated action plan
the Consolidated plan is required by Hud
um as a tool for those who receive
Community Development block grant and
home investment partnership funds the
con plan will outline our strategic
vision for use of these federal funds
over a period of 5 years to address
housing needs Community Development
economic needs with a focus on um
assisting those with low and moderate
income residents they lay out the
priority and goals for the next 5 years
each year is accompanied by what we call
an annual action
plan so what is the annual action plan
it helps Scottdale Focus Direct on an
annual basis the goals that we will
outline as part of our needs assessment
in the Consolidated action plan such as
affordable housing public facilities and
infrastructure and public Serv services
for fiscal year 2526 the annual action
plan is year one of the 2025 2029
Consolidated action plan so when we come
before you we will be presenting both
the Consolidated action plan as well as
the year one annual action plan combined
funded by the annual
allocation so in addition to funds that
we receive from the federal government
we also have something called program
income here in the the city of
Scottsdale program income is gross
income generated directly from our cdbg
funded
activities back I don't know what year
but currently the city of Scottdale owns
hsh Academy buildings four and
five we need to go back to this previous
slide um we own buildings four and five
so the rent that we receive on buildings
four and five are considered Community
Development block grant funds and are
when we receive those rental revenues
they do go directly back into cdbg
activities specifically in our case they
fund administrative activities such as
staff to ensure Federal
compliance we also have revolving loan
income fund revolving loans are funds
generated per program income but the
income only retains with that um it's
handled differently from the program
that we made it for with the example we
have um the green housing or major
housing rehabilitation program it's a
loan forgiveness program so once
someone's house undergoes a major
Rehabilitation after a period of 3 years
as long as they stay residing in it the
loan is Forgiven at 50% but a lean is
placed on the property once they decide
to vacate the property sell it um then
that fund loan is then repaid back to
the city at 50% and those funds go back
directly to help additional lowincome
families we also own eight properties on
bellw and that those funds also generate
program
income so as part of the um Consolidated
action plan we do have to have a public
comment
process we did have a public um
community meeting we kicked off the
Consolidated action plan on June 26 2024
at the Civic Center Library um and then
we are we're going to be kicking off um
public comments starting on March 3rd
for the draft version of the
consolidated action plan we will be
using speak up Scottsdale um as a
mechanism to share the draft plan for
feedback with along with a guided
discussion tool we will also offer
feedback and or offer assistance with
anyone who wishes to speak in another
language to provide feedback as well
that public comment will also be kept
open outside of speakup Scottsdale until
April 22nd when it's scheduled to go
before the mayor and city council for
approval
so let's talk a little bit about our
needs assessment out of the needs
assessment affordable housing these are
the four that top the list with regards
to priorities in the Scottsdale
Community affordable housing public
improvements public services and Home
Ownership the survey began on June 26
2024 at the community meeting that I
discussed at the Civic Center Library
196 responses were received from
Scottdale residents in
total looking at the top housing needs
under affordable
housing these were the identified five
heating cooling HVAC replacement or
repairs which is our emergency repair
program senior housing new construction
of affordable housing rental assistance
Energy Efficiency improvements and down
payment assistance
the top priorities overall from the
citizen participation plan in terms of
Public Service needs were homelessness
domestic violence Services Senior
Services neglected and abused children
and Mental Health Services top public
facility needs identified by residents
were community centers Parks and
Recreation and fire
stations so 2025 our priority needs as
identified using the needs assessment
will be public facilities and
infrastructure improvements Public
Services develop and preserve affordable
housing and effective program
Administration using these four
identified priorities we will develop
specific strategic goals as outlined to
improve and expand public infrastructure
improve access to public facilities
public services for low moderate income
and special need residents housing
Rehabilitation a affordable housing and
effective program
Administration our tenative allocations
are listed up above 42526 you'll hear
more about our allocations in the next
presentation we're estimating to receive
about $1.1 million in cdbg allocation
please understand that it is subject to
Federal Regulation we are currently
operating Under A continuing resolution
um and it is uncertain what these
percentages will look like like once
that time expires we will set aside 20%
of our allocation to our administrative
cap as well as 15% to public services at
$160,000 our home investment partnership
we're continuing to utilize this for our
Tena based rental assistance with our
elderly population 62 and older those
who are at 30% or below of the area
median income and 50% or more cost
burdened by housing costs 2023 funds
which have yet to be entered into a
contract with the city of scotdale total
$355,000 and 2024 is
287,000 that concludes tonight's
presentation on the needs assessment if
you have any questions or
comments thank you Mary looking around
yes um thank you Mr chair U Mary
um will this will the final version of
the Consolidated Plan before it goes to
the city council come back to us for a
review and a
vote chair Lori members of the
commission has not in the past that does
not mean that I cannot be directed to do
so at this
time just just as
one um member of the commission it
strikes me as odd that we would see it
at this stage and not see it at its
final stage I can certainly work with uh
Kira to place it on the agenda before
the April 22nd meeting so it would have
to come sometime between March 3rd and
April 3rd okay thank you very much I
just have one other
question um and U I understand you're
going through a survey and using you
know the various website to get all that
done the uh Human Services team just
went through an extensive community
survey I'm certain there is overlap in
some of the categories that are eligible
for uh Federal block grant and home
funds are are you able to consider those
comments from the Human Services survey
in addition to what you receive through
your formal uh survey for this program
chair lri members of the commission it
was part of the strategic planning
process and built in we did share
throughout both ways perfect thank you
so
much Mary thanks again um just a couple
of quick questions home investment
partnership program it looked like it
dipped $68,000 from 2024 to 2023 is that
based on need or just available funds or
chair lurry members of the commission
Federal
allocation and um the point earlier
about developing preserving public
housing is Will those details be shared
at some point
point they will be shared in the draft
needs assessment very good thank
you I had a couple of questions
um actually first a a a comment to my
fellow Commissioners if you don't have
an account on speak up Scottdale and
encourage you to get one and and take a
look at those comments as they cycle in
um remind me the DAT again Mary for the
city council hearing on this April
22nd April
22nd uh
and what is the status on block grant
funds from the federal government right
now um recognizing that there's been
some hold on funds from the federal
government is have have the the uh funds
resumed chair lorri members of the
commission the freeze was list lifted
approximately 254 hours after it was
placed okay we have no additional
information from that all right and uh
last I just want to concur with um
commissioner Sher that that we have a
chance to review those um those
allocations be before they they go to to
the city council sure lary members of
the Commission in terms of our
allocations you'll hear the set
aside after this presentation on our
suggestions but the the the draft of the
entire con plan I can bring back for you
guys to review and vote on okay that
that's what I meant thank you
okay all right oh yes thanks Mary good
presentation on on on the last Slide the
second to last slide um did I hear you
right that these funds have not been
contracted yet is that or did I mishar
that chair Lori members of the
commission we generally receive our
allocation in March on an annual basis
because we are under a continuing
resolution we have not heard what our
allocation will be for fiscal year 25 or
2526 at this point we did receive it
late last year as well because of a
continuing allocation right okay I can't
make any presumptions based on what to
expect makes sense thank
you thank you thank you Mary and I guess
we will move on to Community Development
block grant set aside requests
Chad chair Lori members of the
commission um today I will be presenting
our propo proposed set aside for FY 2526
Community Development block grant also
known as cdbg next
SL so what is a set aside cdbg funds
that are reserved solely for City
programs and projects from the federal
allocation based on priorities and goals
established in the Consolidated action
plan so our our set aside is basically
anything left over from our allocation
that we choose or would like to use for
City funded programs so as Mary stated
earlier our estimated allocation is
about
1.08 million and we take away our 20%
for admin and our 160,000 for public
services that's what the uh proposals
you guys are looking at right now for
public services um we come back with
about 640,000 so with that we are adding
425,000 of reprogram funds um what are
reprogram funds those are unallocated or
unused funds from previous years for
example in 2022 2223 we funded a streets
project for
$450,000 it actually came in under
budget at
$294,000 so we had those savings there
we also had a camera project that we
were going to do in paute park that uh
kind of fell through so we have extra
funds uh unused funds from agencies that
were funded in previous years for public
services we're picking up some of those
funds too so we kind of did a cleaned
out and looked at all of the our left
over funds and we're dedicating them to
uh these programs or hoping to dedicate
them to these programs this
year so with this year our our set aside
uh requests or proposals will be for our
housing rehab
programs and our uh Food Bank expansion
the uh Vista food bank is now moving to
a new location off of melops and
Miller Miller so uh next slide
please so first and foremost our housing
rehab programs they've been in existence
since
1999 I personally manage these programs
for over 15 years
um we have three programs we have our
our major rehabilitation program our
roof repair program and our emergency
repair
program next slide
so first program our major rehab green
rehab program the goals of this program
are to provide cost effective energy
efficient
improvements repair replace uh
structured deficiencies and make
modifications for disabled and elderly
so this is a full comprehensive program
we can almost do anything inside of the
house this is financed through a loan so
up to
$80,000 uh when participating in this
program if you once you complete your
project 3 years after the completion of
the project 50% of the loan is Forgiven
and the remaining 50% is due upon change
of
title when this property is sold they do
pay off the remaining amount of that
loan and that's where we get that
program income that uh Mary was talking
about
earlier Next program is our roof repair
program this is a grant so there's no
loan involved it's up to $20,000 per
client you can use this program once in
a lifetime once per address and it uh to
qualify do need to be low income exactly
same as the major rehab all of our
housing rehab programs and uh the house
the the roof needs to be structurally
dangerous or actively leaking uh with
this program as you can see $20,000 we
we're not making minor repairs we're
we're tearing the roof down to the
sheathing and replacing it so they don't
have to worry about it hopefully for for
the rest of their time in the
house and Next program is the emergency
repair program this is up to $10,000 per
fiscal year so clients can use this
multiple times in a year and it's for
any repairs that uh affect the immediate
livability of the home um air
conditioners do a lot of those water
heaters we also do uh modifications for
the elderly and disabled as
well um widen doorways anything like
that too so um those those are our three
programs over the last couple years
they've been ramping up a bit kind of
got slowed down by covid but uh as of
this year if we can go to the next slide
please oh first of all these are our
requests so for the green re or major
rehab program we're requesting
450,000 for roof repair we're requesting
260,000 and for emergency repair we're
requesting 300,000 so these numbers are
based upon our recent fiscal year our
current fiscal year and for roof and
emergency our last three fiscal years on
based on what we spent and how many we
served so if we can go to the next slide
our our proposed served for fiscal year
2526 would be five of the major rehabs
10 of the roof repair and 48 of the
emergency repair currently this fiscal
year from July 1st we have completed two
major two green green rehab projects and
one is halfway complete so 2.5 we're
about halfway through the year we've re
we've completed seven roof repair
projects so far and we've already
completed 28 emergency repair projects
so far so we're actually on Pace to
exceed what we're proposing next
year uh next up is the food expansion
the food bank Expansion Project so like
I stated earlier food bank has moved
from visisted Del Camino to the new
location on melops correct me if I wrong
but they start a service there on Monday
February 10th so they're up and running
there and we are proposing a $100,000 to
do some repairs in additions to the
interior and exterior of the food bank
next SL
please so uh what we're going to be
looking at today are the restrooms and
then the client service entrance so
facilities has already done some work
here this Warehouse before uh the parks
and rec still have their storage space
but the uh food bank has moved into the
larger sto storage area they've also
upgraded the pantry area so they're in
there as well and what we're looking at
is if we can go to the next slide please
well first we're going to show a couple
pictures so here's the uh
pantry and then the actual food bank
itself the the storage area if you look
really close there there was a gentleman
in there packing food that you might
recognize red
shirt so here is the uh proposed uh
service flow for the food bank um so
right now uh when it was at Vista if you
know Vista the getting in and out of
there was a real pain trying to get the
trucks in there for deliveries was a
real pain so that there's going to be a
whole circular pickup drop off delivery
is what is planned so in the North West
corner there facilities has built a a
double door entry right there where CL
or have they built it or not yet so
there's going to be some double doors
right there where they can Ser as
clients and they're going to pave a
sidewalk out to the parking lot going
north so when clients come up they can
roll out with the bends and load the car
from there so what we're talking about
today is a service area for people that
are walking up and and need Services as
well next slide please so here is is the
uh the client service entrance we're
referencing the the red square right
there will be the double
doors then you see the sidewalk going
out to the pavement and then there'll be
sort of a a waiting area with shade with
for for walk up clients next slide
please so here's a proposed rendering um
this would be the the area where clients
could wait it would include a shade
structure some sort of seeding and uh
potentially some uh some more plants for
shade and coolness and then um also
potentially a Mis system depending on
how bids would come
back in addition to the client service
area we're proposing to update and
upgrade the
bathrooms they haven't been touched
since the uh the building was built so
we need to proposing 88 upgrades to both
restrooms uh that would include uh new
sinks and vanities uh toilets ada8
compliant uh turn radius for wheelchairs
or anything that would go along with
that so those two bathrooms would be
included in the uh proposed funds next
slide so total budget we're looking at
for uh we'll have to get an architect to
design the front and so we can put out
the bid per Federal requirements for our
procurement um we also will need an
environmental review of the
property where oh we can go back real
quick to you please
thinking about 73,000 for the client
entrance area another 6,500 for the
restrooms and a 15%
contingency um if the con contingency is
not needed then we can uh bid out uh sub
projects uh add alternates to the job uh
that could include anything from a
security camera
system
or anything else that they may need at
the
property so total set aside we are
talking for our housing rehab programs
it's 450,000 for the major rehab 260,000
for the roof 300 for the emergency
repair program and $100,000 for the food
Brank for a total of
1.1 and proposed set
aside and I'm free to take any questions
you may
have Mr chair I just had a uh quick
question actually Chad uh good good
presentation very informative I'm
wondering about the general trends that
you're seeing out there you had uh
indicated that the you know we're on
track now to exceed previous numbers or
the projected numbers in our housing
Rehabilitation
programs uh and the emergency and and
repair programs
uh I'm sure the costs for those programs
are going up so can you talk a little
bit in a little more detail about our
projected total Bud budget between from
last year or maybe years previous to
this year and whether those funds are
going as far as they were yeah chair
lurry members of the commission so um
I'll speak back to uh preco um the since
then uh demand went down a lot because
people didn't want us in their house or
any strangers coming in their house to
do the work but once we got over that
hump inflation really took over so in
2020 2021 the max amount for the housing
rehab program was $65,000 per
house after about 6 months of inflation
we were we weren't able to do all the
work that we were used to do uh the roof
repair used to be $10,000 per house now
it's $20,000 per house that kind of that
Trend kind of goes twofold inflation and
also housing stock further north in the
city larger homes tile roofs so we need
more money to accommodate that and then
emergency repair program air
conditioners are probably doubled in
price since 2020 if not more so that
used to be $6,000 per fiscal year now
it's 10 and honestly we could probably
go to 15 cuz some of these AC's right
now heat pumps are running 12,000
$133,000 so um that that has changed
what we're requesting U part of our
lower request in the last couple years
is just getting staff so we had some
turnover um but now we have a season
staff and and we're able to move through
these clients in these projects a lot
quicker than we were say two years ago
even last year to where we're we're
actually actually operating all pretty
much at full capacity
now Mr chairman to ask just a quick um
follow-up question I I really
appreciated that explanation I think
it's really valuable to know the
challenges that that you guys are
facing we have labeled the housing
rehabilitation program as a green
housing rehabilitation
program I kind of look at that and I'm
fine with it but I I I wonder if the
public realizes what green means in that
context could you speak to that a little
bit
yes chair Lori members of the commission
um a part of uh when when I spoke
earlier that we were upping the amount
of dollars we would allocate per client
to that program um back about 2015 2014
our maximum amount available was 50,000
per household
and we it it wasn't cut in the Bild then
inflation so we needed to justify why we
wanted to move it up so we worked with
our uh Green Building coordinator
Anthony Floyd with the city and we came
up with a basically a checklist of what
would make these homes green and we kind
of tinkered with it for about a year and
went through so we have a a checklist
which um you know lowf flow water
filters um certain amount of insulations
they got to be r R 49 value in the attic
and we came up with this whole checklist
so in order to participate in the
program because when people see this
they're like hey I want to get some new
cabinets some new car no they got to go
in and like get the nuts and bolts and
make this home uh sustainable for a long
time so um they have to do all those
things and if there's money left over
we'll talk about cabinets or some of the
aesthetic type of things but um so
that's where we came up with and how it
is the green rehab program
thank you Chad um Mr chair I appreciate
it I'm just going to I've got a three or
four things I want to run by you I'm
going to tag on to Pat's Adroid
observation that the term green is a
political lightning rod these days when
you explained what can happen under that
category you talked about ADA
modifications and a variety of other
very beneficial improvements I would ask
staff uh to the extent you have latitude
to consider changing that to Major
housing rehab program or whatever might
fit other than uh leading with the word
green I love everything about what
you're doing here it has my full support
um one of the things that I wanted to
ask you is and you don't have to do it
now but before before this goes forward
to the city
council I would really like to know the
data that we have going back whatever
period of time makes sense five years
three years five years 10 years I don't
know what the data is that you have how
many homes in our community have
benefited from one or more of those
rehab
programs this is the backbone of what we
do and I think it's incredible important
that the city council understands how
vitally important this program is to the
people we
serve the next thing I wanted to um ask
you about is on the food bank and with
the modifications and again I think this
is a great
location
are are we because it looks like there's
there's an expansion underway or plan
are we creatively
maximizing the square footage of
additional
footprint um even if it's a future phase
that we can plan are we factoring that
into um that particular facility it's
been a while probably a couple years
since I was down there um so I I I don't
know if there's potential for expansion
um I raised this question because there
would be enormous Synergy um with a food
bank um and day relief
opportunities um and you know I think um
I can't think of a better location um
where it has access to Transit it's not
super intrusive in the context of a
neighborhood so I don't know if there's
room but if I would ask staff to um to
give that full consideration because
space as we know is extremely limited
and day relief seems to be um an orphan
looking for a home at some point in time
thank
you thanks Chad appreciate that on back
on slide three reprogrammed funds
unallocated or unused of four and a
quarter let's Round Up 426
is is there any threat of that being
clawed back or reallocated in in ways
that uh don't fit that we would want to
spend them
quicker chair lur members of the
commission the funds that cdbg funds do
have in expiration uh none of these
funds are close to that that period so
with these uh reprogram funds we did go
back as far as 20
program year 2021 and we had little bits
and pieces left but uh the the the
biggest portions came with the recent
funding years okay great is is there a
um Slide Five you talked about the these
different programs um is there a backlog
of any of these programs currently um
major housing Rehabilitation for lack of
a better term roof repair that sort of
thing chair Lori members of the
commission the major rehab program does
have a weight list um it varies from
time to time um at its peak it was up to
about 22 to 24 uh right now we're
sitting around 10 um we've had some uh
some folks been on there for over 18
months uh so when we are pulling them um
they forgot about it or they're over
income so when we do do a pull we go
through like three or four clients at a
time until we get someone that's
eligible very good and uh I think it was
slide 14 the uh the pickup and delivery
maybe it's just because I'm used to
driving on the right side of the road
but it seems to me like the arrows uh I
I've got to come in on the left side of
the driveway an exit on the left side
going out uh just seems OD to me but I'm
sure it makes sense to whoever did the
study chair coie members of the
commission I will talk to the person who
it was myself that put the arrows on
there and make sure they're on the right
side of the road next time right it it
works in London thank you I thanks very
much Mr chair could I ask just one more
technical question so we are being asked
to uh approve this set aside request
tonight and then just to make clear so
this then this gets incorporated into
the Consolidated plan that goes to the
city council is that correct chair
lowary members of the commission this
will be a part of our annual action plan
which is connected it to the col
Consolidated plan so
yes I'm sorry Chad if I didn't hear this
and it was clearly spoken um is the $1.1
million set aside uh is that all of our
available set aside
dollars chair Shear well former chair
sheer chair Lori members of the
commission the no this is not all of our
or set aside that's available we are we
will be using all of our entitlement
that is available for this year but we
still do have unused funds from previous
fiscal Years thank
you thank you Chad for your work on this
and in great
presentation uh I I I also want to
concur on former chair
share uh commissioner shar's comment uh
about that term green being a lightning
rod uh and I will ask in voting on this
can we uh make a motion that includes
removal of the word Green from that yeah
okay okay um and um also like the
suggestion that perhaps we readdress uh
day relief at at some future date as
well um my last comment is now that the
food bank has moved and as evidenced by
the photo I have been over there I can't
deny it uh but but I do Wonder for all
those Commissioners that are interested
if we could get uh a collective tour of
the
facility
and perhaps I work with Sue
on coordinating that
Lori members of the commission Sue and I
you will be invited to a ribbon cutting
ceremony at the food bank so oh
excellent okay great thank you with that
said could I get a
motion Mr chair I'm happy to make a
motion to approve the Community
Development block grant set aside
request for
25 uh 2025 2026
seconded okay roll call vote please
discussion oh does that also include the
senent about the name change and the day
relief how does that fit into the
conversation I I'll just speak to my
motion I
um I think staff heard the sentiments of
some of us relative to the name and day
relief I don't want to
um hold up or burden um this particular
set aside amount with that
additional um obligation I think I would
prefer that we just vote per my motion
on what we saw on the screen here and
trust that staff will do what they can
with regard to the nomenclature
and future day relief
considerations so I guess the answer is
no Je I'm I'm looking more for um just
kind of straight down the middle here
but I think staff has certainly heard
our
sentiments
understood so we have a motion to Second
a second okay roll call chair Lorie yes
Vice chair Jung yes commissioner turil
yes commissioner dods yes commissioner
Shear yes thank you commissioner
yes and commissioner Jameson yes
and Cara you're up for the director's
report all right good evening chair Lori
Vice chair Jung members of the Human
Services Commission before I jump into
the Human Services director's report um
I have a little exciting announcement we
have a new member of our team who is
with us in the audience so Pablo I hate
to put you on the spot but I would like
to introduce in the white shirt Pablo
fles Flores is our new operations
supervisor at pyute Neighborhood Center
so um we're really excited to have him
Pablo comes to us from the city of
Phoenix where he was a senior program
supervisor um he has a lot of experience
overseeing programs leading teams case
management he's bilingual so um those
three things alone make him a wonderful
fit for um pyute neighborhood center and
Pablo welcome we're really excited to
have you here with us on the team and
just wanted to make sure our commission
got to meet you so thank you for being
here all right so with that next slide
please
Jean speaking of exciting you will see
on here the Vintage voice and what this
is is going to be the senior podcast
that is going to be going live tomorrow
so we will be sending out a link to all
of you um right now um human services
manager Jessica R who is here with us
and myself are going to be the co-host
of the podcast and we are really hoping
that this is going to be a dynamic
exciting podcast not just for the Aging
Community but for caretakers for adult
children the gamut of senior care we
want to touch on the Vintage voice so
episode number one is just an
introduction to Senior Services what we
do what we want this podcast to be we
are going to get some exciting guests on
the show and our next guest will be um
social worker extraordinaire Jennifer
Murphy who is one of our top notch case
workers she's actually the supervisor
social worker that manages both um works
at both the senior centers so we're
going to be talking to her about topics
that she is seeing in the senior
community and all the resources that we
have so again this is just um I'm going
to be giving an update at a future
meeting about our strategic plan but one
of our big focuses as this commission
knows is Outreach and awareness of Human
Services and we really are finding that
there is a need in our community not
just for people who are aging but for
the people who are those are loved ones
of theirs and the resources available so
um please stay tuned for the link for
the Vintage voice with a Snappy little
music at the front and and good content
so we're really excited about the
Vintage voice which as you see here will
be on Spotify Apple music Amazon and
YouTube so we are totally cool and hip
with the Vintage voice thank you Jean
next slide and speaking of cool and hip
we had the all things Senior Expo
yesterday at the Scottdale Center for
Performing Arts and it was amazing if
anybody got to go we're estimating about
1500 to 18800 people I came towards the
tail end and that Atrium was jam-packed
and what I liked about this I've been to
Expos before where people just peruse by
the vendors but at this Expo sincerely
people are stopping they're engaging
with the vendors they're getting
information on such a wide array of
services that are available in our
community it takes a lot of work to
coordinate this and I know Jean Jessica
their team Kevin harck spent a lot of
time coordinating this and organizing
the vendors but this continues to be one
of our Signature Events and something
that we all feel is very much needed in
the community and it's continuing to
prove to be a very successful event so
just wanted to shout out to the Senior
Expo thank you to everyone who did all
that work next slide please Jean um had
already alluded to this but we are
Beyond thrilled that the Scottsdale food
bank is now open for business that's
what we're going to be calling it The
Scottsdale Food Bank a couple of things
I just wanted to expand upon outside of
what Chad already talked about is that
this um just want to recognize the work
that went into this I had no idea Sue
who's an expert in this field I don't
think she had any idea when we were
meeting with the county and trying to
get permits and all the things that that
are required to offer us safe and
healthy food bank we now know um and
that is just passing the county health
department inspection um you know just
moving the amount of refrigerators and
pallets of food over there um so it's
it's really been a long process but
we're very very happy and thank you Cher
Lori for recognizing the space and again
we will be offering a ribbon cutting
ceremony to officially recognize this um
I do want to point out with the
expansion of the food bank it's really
important to us the one thing about this
food bank is it is not on the trolley
route so we notice that we want to work
on that um so for clients who do not
have transportation we are still
offering access to food at vistad Del
Camino and we continue to offer
emergency food at our other Human
Service Centers so it's really important
that we are still serving at Vista and
we'll do that until we feel we have got
a good handle on transportation to the
Scottsdale food bank so just wanted to
make sure the commission was aware
of that so um very exciting that the
Scottdale Food Bank is open next slide
please um we did the point in time count
on January 28th and that is where um
agencies across our country go out and
do a count of unsheltered in our
communities this is the first time that
I have done the point and time count and
I want to recognize that commissioner
kulie was there with us at 5:30 a.m. as
we were getting the instructions from
Sue and her staff and this was really um
a very powerful experience I will say
for those of you who have not
experienced the point in time count I
thought it was very very successful we
really worked uh very well with
Scottdale PD was with us we had 38 38
volunteers and that did include
Scottdale staff CBI Phoenix Rescue
Mission commissioner kolie and PD so the
way that that would work is we would
load up in a police car park in an area
where we knew there might be people
experiencing homelessness we would get
out as City staff um PD would stay in
their cars and we would go and interview
and I was pleasantly surprised that I
think I might have done 13 and people
were very willing to give information
which I really appreciated so more
information will be coming out we take
all of our information submit it to the
county then they will come out with a
report I am sure that we can share back
at a future time so point in time count
very successful for
2025 next slide is we continue to be
really excited and proud of the
recreation programming that's happening
at Vista and we love to show the
pictures here um so I just want to make
sure that the commission knows and if
you ever get a chance to come out to one
of our Recreation nights they're really
fun they're wildly popular we just had
the painting night um coming up is the
um Heritage night we're going to have
talent night and then um Planes Trains
and Automobiles I believe that is the
movie unless we're making those crafts
but um just as a reminder we were able
to get two Rec Recreation staff specific
to help us program Recreation open up
the center to the community um and it
just really makes me happy to see this
programming happening and now with the
expansion of the food bank the space
where the food bank was we're going to
be able to open that up as just a
general community space um to have open
Recreation for the community to stop in
and use that space at any time so um
very happy about that next
slide okay this is the mayor's youth
Council and I am going to have to refer
to my notes because manager Christy Han
gave me a list of all the things that
they've been doing and it's it's really
exciting um the mayor's youth Council
participated in the unity walk um in
honor of Dr Martin Luther King and they
also were in the pirada Dell soul I saw
their float it was really good I want to
know how they did that chrisy because it
was really
impressive and they also this week on
the 10th participated in a mock city
council meeting so I believe they were
sitting right where all of you are
sitting and they have been working on a
vaping ordinance um that they want to
present to our very own Maron Council so
really excited to see that um happening
with the mayor's youth Council also we
have got five students from the mayor's
youth Council who will be participating
in the scare Scottdale car's funding
process so they're excited to work with
all of you on that um so really proud of
the work that the mayor's youth council
is doing and recognizing Christy Han and
all of her work coordinating those
pretty talented and amazing
youth so here we have Scottdale cares
and I know there's several members of
the commission who are on this committee
with me um wanted to just we are going
to continue to meet as a committee and
I've got more information to share after
our next committee meeting which I think
is coming up in March should be on
everyone's calendars but the point of
this slide is that Scottdale cares is
turning 30 so this committee has talked
a lot about how are we going to
celebrate Scottdale cares as we're
working on increasing donations via the
utility bill what else can we do to
bring awareness and simply celebrate
Scottsdale care is turning 30 so we've
been working with our partners in Parks
and Recreation we've talked to the
McCormack Stillman Railroad Park and
what we are going to be able to do and
this still has some flushing out but
just preliminarily is um the city of
Scott still has the big Bonanza event
coming up and it's kind of like their
spring celebration I should have the
date but I don't have it in front of me
I'm sorry about that but it's coming up
I think right beginning of April where
the Parks and Recreation staff said they
would be happy to pass over the stage to
Scottdale cares so that we can talk to
the community this event draws in 5,000
people is to the event so it is very big
it's families it's seniors it's
everybody it happens out on the brand
new Scottdale Civic Center space so they
really said they could highlight
Scottdale cares turning 30 I picture
everybody singing happy birthday we can
have a booth we can have the stage so um
we're really thinking this will be a
good way to to um celebrate Scotts Del
K's turning 30 and hopefully hook this
into our camp our campaign to increase
donations to Scottdale cares which then
in turn as all of you know benefit the
nonprofits that we work with in our
community so more to come on
that and then we have had some
organizational changes happening within
the city so high level um just to let
all of you know um Judy Doyle which is
who I reported to was overseeing Human
Services in some other areas Judy is now
going to be taking on roles at um the
airport mccor MC stowman Railroad Park
westw world stadium and the tourism so
Judy is going to be a very busy woman so
effective this week um Judy started
working on those areas and then for
those of you who know Nick mulliner
who's been the Parks and Recreation
director he is going to be overseeing
the Parks and Recreation Department and
The Preserve two very big departments
very important to our community and then
I will be overseeing um Human Services
Scottdale Public Library system and I'm
really excited that I also get to
oversee the Housing and Community
Assistance office which made perfect
sense since I feel like we're lock stpp
with a lot of the work that we do so
these pieces are all kind of falling
into place in terms of title and all
that kind of business but um it's
exciting that it's happening and I've
gotten the opportunity to work with our
new interim city manager which I really
like because I think our programs can be
brought to the Forefront um as necessary
so just wanted to let the commission
know about those organizational
changes and with that in this pretty
picture I thank all of you and that is
the conclusion of my director's report
thank you okay thank you so much car a
lot lot there and lot lot to
appreciate uh and I know we can't really
comment on it but uh if nothing I I want
to make sure that we do welcome Pablo
thank you um we're glad to have you in
the city Mr chair I would I would just
off for that I believe we have the
ability to ask questions and to comment
even though the agenda doesn't say that
I'm mirring it based on how the city
council operates with regard to these
kinds of things but we can't obviously
take action we can't vote on action we
can't direct staff but I think it's hard
to listen to all the great things that
Kira just went over and not want to
offer a comment and maybe have a
question uh if yeah it it says cannot
discuss but but let's let's do it
sure thank you I'll take the first run
at that that Kira I can't tell you I
mean your reports are so invigorating
and it's great to see how much is going
on the way you package it um your new
podcast is extremely exciting and right
on track with your strategic plan and
the need to get the word out and I'm
just extremely pleased with everything
that uh is happening and congratulations
to you relative to the important
additional responsibilities I'm so
grateful that um Mary is um going to be
a dotted line as part of everything that
we do which is critical
um I was struck that the trolley doesn't
serve melbs and Miller but I know that
you're working on it and I think that's
important to continue to push on and the
last thing that I will say is thank you
for everybody involved in the point in
time count
um just speaking
personally um it strikes me as odd that
we would want a police cruiser um parked
um adjacent to where we are going to
seek information from unsheltered people
so I would suggest politely deining The
Marked Cruisers to the program next year
um for obvious reasons thank
you may I too bend the discussion you
man well thank you just it's an
observation it's not really a discussion
so I'm not I'm just saying a few words
vage voice what a great idea and how
perfect for the Strat plan for outreach
and awareness that's that's super great
um if I had were able to ask a question
I'd ask if all things Senior Expo was U
more than once a year I don't think it
is but no it's not well that's that was
on me uh point in time count yeah if you
haven't done it I you've done it and
Neil's done it uh what what a great
thing I plan to do it every year this
that's just one of the most important
things we do um what else can I say oh
had an idea for Scottdale cares uh if
it's turning 30 and we're only asking
folks for a dollar a year or a dollar a
month rather for in their utility bill
we could up that to $30 a year and
collect $18 more just saying uh might be
a nice turn of the uh turning 30 thing
uh that is my um observations and not
discussion thank
you anyone
else K very good stuff and welcome Pablo
uh a straight out question what what are
the hours of the food
bank I might have to look at sue for the
exact hour Sue sorry about that
chair Lori members of the commission um
so the food bank appointments go from
900 am to 4 pm um but we are open until
5 with volunteers and
staff okay thank you um I would concur
with a former chair sheer on the idea of
the police cars uh I think it'd be uh
pretty much of a deterrent um to have
that uh that openly out there and uh I
think
that's all I have and and good luck on
the Vintage that sounds great
yeah I too am excited for the podcast
can't wait for that
um back to the food bank topic
um correct me if I'm wrong but but there
are satellite locations so even though
the main food bank is not served by the
trolley they do have food boxes
available able at Vista Del Camino and
some of the other locations chair Lor
yes that is correct thank
you
um all right and and and again welcome
Pablo so glad to have you and Jean uh
and the rest and Jessica the and the
rest of the staff that worked on the
Expo yesterday congratulations great
work on
that
um we are to the point of the agenda to
identify future agenda items and I would
like to propose uh to add an agenda item
to our next meeting for us to discuss
the impact of ordinance
4662 that was adopted on Tuesday of this
week uh to for us to have a
discussion uh regarding the impact on
human services from that ordinance
passing
um do you need a a second for that or no
I I do not believe we do um and a point
of order just reminder to submit your
scores for the uh grants by next
Thursday February
20th um any other future agenda items
that want to be raised yes I have one uh
I would like to do a follow up on the
shower trailer at some
point uh follow up on the shower trailer
that was uh being repaired or Y thank
you a motion to adjourn the meeting
then second second all right roll call
vote all right chair Lori yes Vice chair
Jung yes commissioner turil yes
commissioner dods yes commissioner Shear
yes commissioner coie yes and
commissioner Jameson
yes we are a jour
right wow boom boom