Long Beach, CA
File #: 15-0458    Version: 1 Name: CD 3, 1, 6, 7 - Senior Citizen Commission
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 5/14/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: 5/19/2015 Final action: 5/19/2015
Title: Recommendation to request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission review senior programing offered throughout the City of Long Beach and make recommendations to the City Council on how senior citizen programming can be improved and/or expanded in the City in order to better serve our senior population; Request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission include in their analysis the following elements and report back to the City Council: • The number of senior citizens we have in the City of Long Beach; • The benefits of senior programming for our senior citizens; • The need for senior citizens to have a safe place to go for a hot meal, during extreme weather, and where senior citizens are presented with learning and/or socializing opportunities; • Senior programing in highly dense neighborhoods; • Proximity of senior centers to our senior population and to mass transit; and Request the recommendations made by the Commission include non-fiscal options such as c...
Sponsors: COUNCILWOMAN SUZIE A. PRICE, THIRD DISTRICT, COUNCILWOMAN LENA GONZALEZ, FIRST DISTRICT, COUNCILMAN DEE ANDREWS, SIXTH DISTRICT, COUNCILMEMBER ROBERTO URANGA, SEVENTH DISTRICT
Attachments: 1. 051915-NB-22sr.pdf
TITLE
Recommendation to request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission review senior programing offered throughout the City of Long Beach and make recommendations to the City Council on how senior citizen programming can be improved and/or expanded in the City in order to better serve our senior population;
 
Request the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission include in their analysis the following elements and report back to the City Council:
 
      • The number of senior citizens we have in the City of Long
        Beach;
 
      • The benefits of senior programming for our senior citizens;
 
      • The need for senior citizens to have a safe place to go for a hot
        meal, during extreme weather, and where senior citizens are
        presented with learning and/or socializing opportunities;
 
      • Senior programing in highly dense neighborhoods;
 
      • Proximity of senior centers to our senior population and to
        mass transit; and
 
Request the recommendations made by the Commission include non-fiscal options such as changing program hours or offering different programs in order to promote variety.
 
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact with the delivery of this report.
 
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
 
 
Respectfully Submitted,
COUNCILWOMAN SUZIE PRICE
THIRD DISTRICT
 
COUNCILWOMAN LENA GONZALEZ
FIRST DISTRICT
 
COUNCILMAN DEE ANDREWS
SIXTH DISTRICT
 
COUNCILMEMBER ROBERTO URANGA
SEVENTH DISTRICT