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Page 2 exercise rooms, a rooftop garden and track, and a teaching/catering kitchen. The Y will handle aquatics with an indoor and an outdoor pool, and fitness and wellness spaces. There will be more parking spaces. No new parking structure will be built. The buildings will be shorter than the Red Morton Community Center which is 45 feet tall. The YMCA will be approximately 32 feet tall and the VMSC will be about 40 feet high. The current building is about 30 feet tall. There is a culvert under Nevada Street that cannot be built on. It will be a promenade green parkway. There will be separate sites for the Y and the VMSC instead of one. The placement of the new pool will benefit from natural heating by the sun. The current VMSC will remain operational while the Y’s new site is built. Landscaping will be kept at street sides to preserve park atmosphere. There will be a drop off area near the senior center entrance. Electric golf cart type shuttles are being considered to transport people throughout the park. Chris presented conceptual designs of the new VMSC and YMCA facilities. He and Bruce will be meeting with veterans groups to discuss various ways in which to honor them at the new site. The senior center will be about 45,000 square feet. The Y will be about 32,000 square feet. The conceptual design will be presented to the Council, then the schematic design. After that is approved, there will be a representation at the Council meeting on May 21st at 7:00 p.m. Then the environmental and traffic reviews take place followed by construction drawings and putting the project out to bid. Vice Chair Paley stated that traffic continues to be an issue of concern but current trends indicate less car ownership and more shared transportation. Senior permit parking near the new senior center is being considered. She also stated that the new facilities are not being designed for now or the next 5 years but for the next 50 years, so trends are being looked at. Not all seniors need accessibility and not all non-seniors are able bodied. Disabled parking will be available. The details of how much, where, when and for whom designated parking sites will be, needs to be worked out. Regular senior activities typically are over by 2:00 p.m. The Y is typically busiest early in the morning before the senior center opens and after 2:00 p.m. into the evening. The differing times of use lessens the parking needs, though sometimes there will be overlaps of busy site usage. ITEM 3 – Commission Handbook The Commissioners received a printout from the Boards, Commission, and Committees Handbook that states the duties and responsibilities of the Senior Affairs Commission and the Chairperson and were asked to read and familiarize themselves with. ITEM 4 - Commissioner Reports Commissioner Jones reported that Fair Oaks Community Center is currently looking for a new bilingual assistant to the Director. There will St. Patrick’s Day party in March. The Peninsula Hills Women’s Club is sponsoring the Mothers’ Day party at Fair Oaks on Friday, May 11th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Commissioners are invited to attend. Because parking is limited at Fair Oaks, not everyone who wanted to attend the new book club meeting could. The Fair Oaks Library is under construction until June and using the Fair Oaks Community Center until then. Commissioner Britschgi reported that at a recent Planning Commission meeting there was an appeal for a neighborhood undergoing changes that do not conform to current style there. A petition was started by neighbors trying to keep their neighborhood’s character. She stated that many changes have happened downtown and are now coming to neighborhoods. She asked for people to be aware of the coming changes to their neighborhoods and if they are concerned about keeping them as they are, to let Council know of their concerns. Vice Chair Paley added that the discussion is now whether to make certain neighborhoods historical districts which will affect zoning and what can be done there. Vice Chair Paley then reported that Palo Alto and some other cities are now becoming ‘dementia friendly cities’. They are training City staff and emergency personnel to recognize subtle signs of memory impairment, so those individuals can converse with City employees and not feel self -