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Santa Fe staff pitch age‑friendly task force as senior services face capacity strains
Summary
City and county staff outlined joint senior services, noting program capacity limits, large volunteer contributions and recommended a joint age‑friendly task force; officials agreed to create an action group and report back through the joint process.
County and city senior services staff told the joint meeting that both jurisdictions provide congregate meals, home‑delivered meals and transportation services and that demand and capacity warrant stronger regional collaboration. County staff said they contracted with the UNM Center for Applied Research and Analysis to run a senior survey and to help develop a 10‑year prioritized plan.
City staff described the city’s senior programs in detail, saying the city provided ‘‘over a 150,000 meals for both congregate [and] home delivered meals’’ and provided roughly 21,000 rides to seniors last year; staff also cited volunteer program statistics (256 volunteers and tens of thousands of volunteer hours across RSVP, foster grandparents and companion programs). Several elected members supported creating a joint age‑friendly task force to produce actionable items and to coordinate senior and child‑care services across jurisdictions.
Commissioners and councilors agreed the senior services topic was amenable to an action‑oriented task force and that work on the topic could proceed in parallel with housing and land‑use action groups.
