Hudson asks about capital improvement pipeline for OACs

Thank you so much, and good morning.

Good morning.

When I chaired the Committee on Aging, I had the privilege of visiting many older adult centers across the city, as I know you have.

And one of those was the William Hudson OAC at Butler Houses up in Council Member Stevens'district in the Bronx.

It also happens to be...

I suppose arguably the first senior center in the United States, and so certainly something to be proud about.

And so I'm wondering how you determine a pipeline for OAC facilities that are in need of capital improvements.

And my question really stems out of the conditions that I saw at the William Hodson OAC.

Everything from floorboards coming up, holes in the ceilings, lack of heat, I think, at times.

And so I'm just wondering what it takes for the pipeline to be created for or how you identify specific

sites to be on the pipeline, if there are some facilities that are given priority, how the money is moved, et cetera.

Thank you, Council Member.

We do not have a pipeline for capital improvements at older adult centers.

We are very grateful to the support we receive from the city council as well as other federal and state earmarks to support capital projects at our community centers.

So once funding is allocated, then we can implement the capital project, and the funding is typically identified for a specific site.

It's not necessarily a pipeline that we choose.

So it comes from the elected official directly saying, I'd like to give money for this community center or this older adult center.

So that is right now the primary resource we have for doing comprehensive improvements outside of our pact conversions.