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AGE-FRIENDLY REDWOOD CITY PAGE 16 <br />5. Connect the Senior, Youth, and Teen boards. <br />6. Finalize plans for a new senior center. <br />7. Expand services in Redwood Shores and North Fair Oaks. <br />Older adults in Redwood City still experience discrimination and ageism. The <br />Senior Affairs Commission will facilitate meetings with the Youth and Teen <br />Advisory Boards to listen, share ideas, and create programming opportunities <br />together. These multi-generational meetings will offer mentorship opportunities <br />and space to work towards reducing age bias in the community. <br />The VMSC has started a few programs with the residents of Redwood Shores and <br />North Fair Oaks. These diverse communities have limited access to senior services, <br />so the VMSC is working with residents and community leaders to develop new <br />programming and services. Programs in these areas will include Mandarin and <br />Spanish language programming. <br />The joint Veterans Memorial Senior Center-YMCA Project will be a new, multi- <br />generational space that will expand our existing network of recreational and <br />health-promoting resources, meeting the demands of a growing community. The Y <br />will include an aquatics center, wellness center, multi-generational program spaces <br />and an early childhood learning center. The new VMSC will include a theater, a <br />gymnasium, space for adaptive physical education classes, a track, and a garden. <br />Together, the new VMSC-YMCA Project will be a holistic complex where the <br />Redwood City community can come together. Feedback from stakeholders and the <br />public were instrumental defining the project’s guiding principles, which include <br />preserving green space and mature trees, diverse mobility and transportation <br />options, programming for all ages, affordability, smart circulation to minimize <br />parking and traffic impacts, and promoting diverse uses and users of the space. <br />8.B. - Page 38 of 48 <br />95