City Council Work Session

Catherine ReadCan I ask a question about the fee for the senior center? because I do think there's a lot of interest and people need to more clarity on why this fee is being proposed, where we are now with that, and sort of the reciprocity agreement between the city and the county vis-a-vis, you know, being able to use all the centers. You went over that, but I think there's a lot of questions in the community about it.

Ms. Summerfieldstafffirst registration for bus trips for the senior center you get first registration for those and I know there's been a little confusion with the Vienna programming because the town of Vienna has its own community center that is separate from the county and so some of our seniors do participate in the Vienna programming but that is not a reciprocity agreement because it is town of Vienna's individual community center that is outside the county

No, because we print and mail it. So in this eliminating, would be just eliminating the printing and mailing, we would still, of course, have some printed copies available at places like the Senior Center where we see that people really want to have that physical copy, but we would no longer mail them to all the residents in the city.

Leslie Abashianstaffit anyway the neighborhood and community services I mean is one of the agencies that are in the county that they have a lot of their senior centers and their youth centers and some of those things under them but they also have some coordinated service plan unit and that unit is where it's it's the entryway for the homelessness continuum, but it also, they have a whole huge group of nonprofits that anybody in the city can go to, go through that if they're needing basic food assistance or they're needing crisis assistance. I mean, I have a feeling that they'll really be ramping up with some of the federal workers losing their jobs like they did during the pandemic. the coordinating service planning and those non-profits