QUESTION
How many Senior Adult Day Cares (SADCs) does the NYC Department for the Aging operate, and is there consideration for expansion?
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The NYC Department for the Aging contracts with 9 Senior Adult Day Cares (SADCs) and is considering expansion with additional council funding.
- The Department contracts with 9 SADCs funded through a specific account.
- Funding through discretionary funding and model programs supports these contracts.
- Potential expansion of SADCs is dependent on more funding from the council.
- Financial transactions, collection of fees, and monitoring of complaints and investigations are handled by the Department.
- The department acknowledges the establishment and contributions of former Council Member Margaret Chin towards its development.
Adrienne Adams
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How many SADCs does NYC aging operate?
Jose Mercado
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There are only, for example, we have contracts with, I believe, 9 of them but they are funded through this through this account.
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So those are the only ones we have.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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Yeah.
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We only have.
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We Just 9.
Jose Mercado
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Just 9.
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Yep.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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I mean, the 300 and odd No.
Jose Mercado
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I'm sorry.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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Yeah.
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Then
Adrienne Adams
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they're contracted.
Jose Mercado
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Right.
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They're contracted with us Mhmm.
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Through through discretionary funding.
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Alright.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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And model programs.
Adrienne Adams
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Are you consider considering expanding this?
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If counsel gives us more money, we would
Jose Mercado
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That was a trick question.
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We can give you some numbers right now if you want.
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We have in terms of actually number of trans number of actual transactions for fiscal year 25, sorry, 24, it's 357 transactions of those registering.
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Reregistering is actually an additional 14.
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Total of 323.
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Total collection of fees so far for this year is a 108,000.
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Total accumulation over since the creation of the unit has been 671,000.
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So it's actually increasing every year.
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Okay.
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So
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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And the other thing wanted to that we submit a local law report to the council every year that talks not only about the 2 collections, but also the investigations.
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So and I I will make sure that we can bring you the most common data.
Jose Mercado
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Right.
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Really quickly, we get we get ports every 2 weeks of actually this program.
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So we had last of last week.
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We had 6 complaints during last week.
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We had 7 17 investigations.
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So it's something we do monitor every 2 weeks.
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So we're getting this solved.
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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And we thank Margaret Council member Chin for me because she was the one that created the office and then added the additional money so that we can go from one staff person.
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To 5.
Adrienne Adams
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We miss her a lot.
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We we really do.
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We really do, though, wanna get our seniors back with NYC aging.