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SENIOR AFFAIRS COMMISSION MINUTES OF THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chairperson Draeger, Vice Chair Cooperman, Commissioners Britschgi, Jones and Turk COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners James and Paley STAFF PRESENT: PRCS Director Chris Beth, PRCS Manager Bruce Utecht&Administrative Clerk Kathy Bede GUEST PRESENT: Darin Buxbaum of Wider Circle The regular meeting of the Senior Affairs Commission was called to order by Chair Draeger at 1:05 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Avenue, Redwood City, California. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes of the October 13,2016 SAC meeting were approved as written. ITEM 1—Chris Beth—New Facility Update Chris announced that the Environmental Impact Report has launched. The original building was built in 1956. The complex includes 5 buildings—the main Veterans Memorial Senior Center, the Resource building, the Wellness building, Herkner pool and the NFL Alumni building. All 5 are less than adequate, expensive to maintain and included in the plan for the new facilities. The Y's building was also built in the mid 1950's and is too small for their needs. The City and the Y agreed to work together to build new facilities that would serve both organizations. The Y will handle the aquatic programs and the Parks, Recreation and Community Services department will run the senior programs. The City has invested $5 million dollars to the project. Several focus groups, studies, surveys, community meetings have been held in the last 5 years. Parking, traffic, air quality and visit timing are studied by California Environmental Quality Act. CEQA takes 9-12 months to complete and will hopefully be done by August 2017. A Notice of Preparation and a Notice of Planning Commission Scoping Meeting was distributed to neighbors and online so the community could stay informed and comment if they like. The architects will be on board in 2017 and community design meetings will be scheduled. The City will purchase the current YMCA building and consult the community regarding future use of the site. The Y has agreed to apply some of the proceeds of the sale to senior scholarships for their programs. Preliminary design ideas for the new facilities are a 2 story 60,000 sq. ft. building for the Y and a 2 story 65,000 sq. ft. building for the senior center, neither would be bigger than the Red Morton Community Center, and a 400 space parking garage. The cost will be roughly$25 million each for the Y and the City. Hopefully the final design will be ready by 2018 and the project completed by 2020-2021. ITEM 2—Darin Buxbaum—Wider Circle Update Darin stated that the last Redwood City Community Need Assessment survey was in 2015. It asked about interests, preferences and types of activities for Redwood City over 50 residents. He will review the purpose of the survey,the data collected and discuss new questions related to the new facility. A main focus was how to engage older adults, boomers in particular, that are not already engaged in