e e e committee to order and uh glad to have Sharon with us Patrick welcome Richard nice to have you here and Cara right yes yes we're all here the gang all so uh first item is
petitions proclamations suggestions and complaints anybody have any of those for us go ahead Melissa I love that thing about complaints and oh Proclamation it's even better when that when you guys are quiet specifically about the
complaints you know we're happy to have them you do um but we just have a couple news and events to share with you today um obviously we want to promote our donuts and Victoria Series so we do have a couple um of those topics up on the screen um just a couple of weeks March
we do have our community development team leading a conversation on downtown west and all the development commercial development that's coming to downtown so that's a really good one just to be aware of all the projects um coming and just what the future holds for our
downtown area um April we have our transportation projects so if you're interested in all the crazy Transportation construction projects that are coming up this year and in future years with the highway 5 ARB bedom area transportation plan with the county so would be a really good one to
tap into of course for both of downtown um and transportation projects we have all the information information that we'll be sharing on those two dates available on our website we keep that updated regularly however it's nice because you get to actually meet the
folks that are um working on the project and you can ask them the questions that you have um and then going into may we have um our EAB contractor uh talking about one Emerald ashor but just in general uh just tree care what you can do for your trees and your property and
then lastly uh we have um borrowing from The Lending line Library there's a Carver County lending library that started last year we want to promote that program um what you could or what that program is just a little snippet is um you know instead of like a regular Library where you check out books they
have things like tools or um equipment or grills or yard games that you can check out and borrow for a weekend or a week whatever you might need um just so then you if you don't have it at your house and you don't want to buy one um they can lend it out for you um so that
would be a great program to jump in on as well where's that at this will all be at the Victoria Recreation Center okay great question so where's the L lending library itself at in jasa someplace I don't remember the exact address though
but it is based out of chasa I think down in our uh when you walk in Richard there's a bunch of brochures and I think there's one there for if not we can it up okay well I mean if I need it I'll hunt it up you know yeah you can nice nice we also have Victoria Citizens
Academy and I know many of you have already taken this program but I do want to share it um out there so that's going to be starting soon we are taking reservations so if anyone wants to join in on the fun weeks that we have planned you'll learn a lot about local government and different aspects of
local government and you get to tour different city facilities that you might not otherwise get into um feel free to sign up for that one you can register online but if you have any more questions or if you'd like to register I can take your information as well and you're having it up here or it changes
location location so the first one we'll have at City Hall um and then each location will change so we'll have one on water infrastructure that will be at our water treatment plant you'll get a tour of that we'll bring you to Public Works um we have one at was and Lake Preserve just a couple different areas
to get people um into the different spots around the city and then last slide I have for you is the Community Builders program we are accepting nominations for that so if you do know somebody a group business organization um that really has
demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to Victoria in any way um please feel free to nominate them we keep nominations open until the end of the month and then last but not least we do have new artwork um so I and I do have
voting things on your at your space as well as pens car you might have to sneak over to the one next to grab one but um feel free before you leave today check out the new artwork and vote on your favorite and this is all brought To Us by Deb Deb Zeller and Deb Zeller Studios
she's a Victoria resident but Deb Zeller studios her studio is in Hopkins and this is all by local artist very nice and I will pass it back to you can I can I add an event please that we're doing with the city get on your calendar Saturday May 3rd we're celebrating the
10th anniversary actually this building but of the Victoria library oh really uh we started off with uh some opening remarks from commissioner someone the mayor speaking I believe and then down in the Band Stand we have the row Family
Singers and most importantly and make sure you write this down cake cake what time cake that's very important and what time does it it starts right at 10: 10 we'll actually probably open the doors at 9:30 a little bit early yeah
okay almost like it's into that Lista could you give us quick update on the the new Fire Station project he here yeah yeah I can give a brief update um trying to think if there's anything significant that has
happened since the last time we chatted about this um but just as a recap for anyone that might be watching at home or in the recording uh city of Victoria did approve the prog or the design sign and bids for the new Fire Station last year
so now what's really going on and that that building will be over by Holy Family site at the corner of 18 in coach Elaine um but now what's going on is contracts are being signed and finalized um just to ensure that progress can be started construction um hopefully this
year and then we're still anticipating move in by end of 2026 end of 26 they've done some groundwork I you know Tre that actually wasn't through us that was through the pipeline there's a mellin pipeline that run that area so you
probably did see some work being on site but if you looked across the street on the other side to not they're over there they were over there as well so that was through the mellin pipeline we had to do some tree clearing to for access to obviously the pipeline that's underground but it's a good question and
a good thing to be brought up because a lot of people did ask about that oh okay so will there be a roundabout where the fire station is on 18 NOP not at the new fire station so just use the stop signs yep yeah well and then access to Holy
Family high school that will remain the same going in the side there m in the fire stations right okay all right AA coia M very good there will be U for the fire station an exit only for emergency
respondent vehicles off of 18 but that will be limited just to emergency respond right sounds right sounds good any other comments questions proclamations uh we'll move on to the first item of business then and that's
minutes from February 3D share um before we do I just want to make sure that Cara if you have anything from the county that you have toy let's do the health hi Cara Cassidy with car County Public Health Office of Aging um the first thing I want to put on your calendar is
to hold the date of September 5th for our all commissions meeting at the Arboretum that we do every year it will probably be between 10:00 a.m. and 1: p.m. uh just like we did last year I'm still in some negotiations with the Arboretum but that date is
available and then um I'll give you your quick uh public health update your situational awareness that we believe the flu has peaked and RSV is declining norovirus is decreasing Nationwide but increasing in Minnesota and there are no
cases of bird flu confirmed in Minnesota as well and then finally uh with the measles we're all getting a lot of information about the measles outbreaks and the belief is that if you were vaccinated before 1968 um or have an un vaccination
history you may need to have a booster so um oh really talk to your doctor there is some belief that if you were born be before 1957 I think that uh you don't need need a measles vaccine but it's always good to check with your
healthare provider to see what they are thinking yeah I think that's all I have thank you appreciate it okay now we'll do the minutes is there a motion to approve I so move thank you Richard a second I will and
we're seconded all those in favor say I I any opposed same sign it carries we'll move on to Old business Alissa wonderful for people that were here um
our last meeting this will probably look familiar to you because we will be going through our senior advisory committee 2025 work plan again um and just updating some of the changes that we talked about at our last meeting making sure that seems to be on track for what
the committee's uh thought process is um and if there's any other changes that we want to make before we bring this to council that we do so so up on the screen I do have the senior advisory committee work plan and I did Redline the changes and the ads that we put into
that from um our conversations so first I'll just go through all of them and then I'll just highlight the changes as we go through so the first is obviously conducting the assessment of the Senior Resource packet we've been doing that since mostly day one after the packet was officially created um so we usually
do this at the end of the year just a quick refresh um making sure all the web links the the phone numbers addresses everything looks kosher on that and then with we need any additions or anything that we want to add to it we can make sure that we do that then the next one is recommend ways to
communicate better to Victoria's senior population um this is something that committee does regularly at each and every meeting we have opportunity for this and I think it's a continuous conversation for us it's just better ways to communicate with each other um an addition that was talked about at
last meeting was to specifically harness and think about ways to communicate better to those without um internet or without access to um computers of the digital technology we know what the city we do and just overall we've been really
pushing or just there's been a migration towards digital communication um we saw the removal of the newspaper um last year and so there's just a heightened need to figure out a better way to communicate with those that might not have access to social media or our
City's website um so we wanted to include that on here as well this time around now be appropriate time to recommended to do should we wait till you go through the plan on here um we can talk now yeah sure um as some of you
may know uh there's a Grassroots organization that started something called caror County local news it's online only so it doesn't meet this um yeah goal but at the same time did talk about losing the newspaper so this uh
project was built because there's no longer a newspaper I don't know if the how much the county has used it but we've uh organized with them to have two columns a month um so may is uh coming up um I think it's older Americans month
there's one month it's older Americans month um so I think perhaps something we could do here is look at something you can't just say oh the Victoria commission exists is have a reason to write a short article talking about this
and talking about one initiative that we are engaged with so either we just put out this new resource directory or something else is going to come up on the plan and I'd be happy to work with someone on that I don't think I should write it I think someone else should write it I be happy to be the Lea on
with the people at the car County and you're a great proof reader Patrick so and if if I could putting on my other hat as the chair of the Commission on Aging in the city of Chanhassen um we have a commissioner who has become an approved writer uh with Carver County
local online local news and we he submits articles every once in a while he's also a realtor in town so he you know has a lot to write about I think um and they're happy to publish you know news on older citizens and um they are often looking for
content from what I understand is that's good to know it's great to know so is continuing to be a community Saker in downtown west projects um Council
in January yes it was late January that they approved um an agreement with um Victoria Downtown West LLC um to start thinking about the phase two of the downtown west project um so they're going to start hosting some workshops
related to that I believe the next Workshop to discuss this will be in March um with Council but then obviously we'll need to have that higher Community stakeholder groups I'm including these people at this table um to talk about what does the future of this space look
like there's obviously the the retail and residential components the the actual buildings themselves but we really want to make sure that we're thinking about the community spaces the sidewalks the open engagement areas um and just making sure that we're really thinking through what this space is
going to look like for the future and making sure that it really flows from our downtown today into space this one is red it's actually been uh as shown as redlined um but it it has been on our list for a while but I tweaked it um based on conversations we
had at last meeting but also um just the overall progress that we've been um on this project so we've switched it from what previously was to which was more on walkability study to developing that walkability plan because obviously we've already conducted the study itself you
guys walk through um areas of Victoria so developing that walking and Trail plan based on that walkability study that was completed um 2023 2024 so the idea behind this is really harnessing uh having staff go in and and harness the
results from that study develop some sort of plan um based on the results and the reaction of the committee but then going out and and figuring out what tweaks need to be made and bringing it to this committee and saying you know does this match our observations are we missing things what are our priorities
in these spaces as well because that's another big piece you can have all these listed out but what should come first second third last um so going through all of that and that will be in Partnership program most likely with the Parks and Recreation staff but also the Parks and Recreation
committee the plan would involve things like timelines specific infrastructure improvements or signage or things like that all of the above nice and then scrolling down uh continuing to engage with the Carver
County Office of Aging obviously as Cara is sitting here that's one of the big pieces to that but also as she mentioned that annual meeting too I think is really helpful to get connected with other members in the county um and hear about what projects they're go are doing and impacts they're making in their
community and seeing what we can bring back or share with them of what we're doing here as well so continuing that is is very helpful for us um the next one is continuing to explore uh senior facility programming um we were anticipating to host a
workshop with Council to talk about the survey results that you talked about last year um however that meeting got postponed so we're trying to identify dates to continue to have that conversation with Council from there they'll kind of develop some sort of guidelines for us to then take
um but I also anticipate thinking about the short-term planning of that space you know we've talked a lot about just creating a a space for seniors to gather it can be informal it can be formal it's a mix of both so making sure that you know once we get to that place of
identifying the actual space looking at furniture that this group is heavily involved in making those decisions I'd really like to see when we have this meeting next year one of these red because I feel this is like a really
important thing that during our work this year that that we get that we make sure we create gos do and then last uh this is a new initiative based on the conversations that we've had over the last two months
uh which is participate in community engagement um events throughout the year to really share senior resources and then also receive feedback from our residents and this could technically be brought back brought up to the second option um on better ways to communicate
but we did think um just to keep it on its own because we wanted to make sure that we're highlighting this specific engagement opportunity um opposed to communication communication can be one thing that's a one way form of communication engagement is that two-way
approach so with that um hosting a booth at the Farmers Market participating in parks and Trail uh engagement events and we actually have three of those lined up I put two on here maybe that's our goal is to but um we'll plan for three and then um a popup event as well and then
things like classic car nights um making sure we're getting engaged in those type of activities too so we're still working on summer scheduling and making sure we have dates lined up and then probably at the next meeting I'll have all the dates for this committee to review and maybe sign up um and then get all that stuff
going but want to make sure was added it's good thank you yeah that's very to Patrick's Point would it be okay to on the one about the senior facility to put a date in there for like
one of these activities like create goals or review potential locations like fall of 25 or something like that is it to get more specific we can definitely do that um the one thing I would like to just note is I'd like to
get some more feedback from city council at their workshop before I put in dates because that will definitely change based on what feedback is that meeting should be sometime this spring so I think by the time that Council adopts this work plan we should be able to get dates in here
though thanks and we and U the tour of senior Focus facilities that that's not read we didn't people didn't get to that we did do that I probably should have taken that off so I can remove that piece strike
that there's all there's probably more we can visit I mean I I visited one not County but I don't think I think we there was a few people that visited other areas I think that's always beneficial to see what other communities
are doing obviously Carver County um we have a lot of people in our community that already attend those so looking at elsewhere is helpful for us to get ideas on you know what could we do that's not in Carver County already I think there's definitely benefit to that um I could
change it to maybe con you know as needed or something just to keep it continue to I went to uh the senior center in A din which shares a physical space with their Library so that's that's kind of nice
obviously I'm very interested in because as the population numbers growth of this community we're going to outgrow that space downstairs in some ways we have outgrown it because the demand we get is interesting for places for people to meet seems to be
a along with the space for seniors to meet just a place for people to meet was just FYI most of the ones I visited wona Chan chasa had a section off I mean it was
open space but it was a section off the library so yeah that's yeah we in City Hall yeah it's yeah yeah any other thoughts otherwise I'll pass it back to the committee any other comments I think
we've been through them uh thank you so no action at this point right no not at this point when do we actually approve the plan um so really just having this discussion um get us to probably the next phase and I'll see if we can get
some dates at it I'll make those final changes at the next meeting anticipating the next meeting or it might be the meeting in April I'll bring this back we probably don't have to discuss it as extensively as we did in February and today um but we can just go ahead and approve all those Redline changes and then Council usually reviews it in May
May okay that's the date we'll move on to uh other business in any other business lots of opportunities for input here beginning and end I I'll I'll say something so this I actually got this from lanaa uh who is a
librarian in Chanhassen and public health supports communities of belonging which uh meets at the Chanhassen Library on Saturday mornings it's the great discussion group um for citizens who want to get uh more engaged um they also
meet uh once a month on Thursdays and they paint um I think it's called mandala uh stones and it's just a way for people to get involved and to meet uh different people in the community um and then they're hosting two events in March they have an event called protect
yourself from fraud that will be at the library on uh Saturday March 8th and a cyber security event on Saturday March 22 and then I believe the last time I was here I talked about the wonderful craft supplies swap that the library
does um they're doing another one in May um you can drop off your donate supplies May 9th through 16th during Library hours and then you get a pass for early entrance for to actually get your free craft supplies on Saturday May 17th from
10: to 11: nice thanks I was at the cyber security at our Victoria rec center and it was very informative and there was maybe what 15 20 people there so there
were some that was very informative it was very helpful pass that back to the team we have a wonderful it manager um we don't know what we do without him he did very well please let him know I will definitely do that be happy to hear that yeah seeing no other hands up or
comments will entertain a motion to adjourn Richard he's moving we have a second yes we canj all those in favor say I any oppose same sign thank you kindly we're out early
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