TESTIMONY
Representative from the Chinese American Planning Council on Challenges Faced by Seniors and the Need for Increased Support Amid COVID-19
3:02:08
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8 min
A representative from the Chinese American Planning Council highlights the isolation and safety challenges faced by seniors amid COVID-19 and anti-East Asian sentiment and calls for increased support for meal delivery and facility maintenance.
- The COVID-19 pandemic and heightened anti-East Asian sentiment have significantly impacted the mobility and safety of the senior population, leading to increased isolation.
- The meal delivery service faces logistical challenges with a reduction to just one driver, affecting the council's ability to distribute meals effectively.
- There has been a decrease in financial support for essential services such as facility maintenance, contributing to service delivery challenges.
- The representative urgently requests additional support, including funding for more drivers and facility repairs, to better support the senior community.
UNKNOWN
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Good evening.
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Our honor label, you know, and the chair of the Hassan and all the CTA members.
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First of all, I thank you you give me opportunity to save you work.
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I am the last one, but I'm thinking about are you going to selling with you very, very important information.
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And AI on behalf of the Chinese American Penning Council is the huge run by the social service organization.
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In the, you know, citywide, we provide a different kind of services.
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But the one thing, I you know why our lovely husband to visit our center But I know you are very busy.
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I have seen everything.
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We think we think for you, but you don't show up.
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And so that's why we are the 2 disappointed.
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So today, I really want to sharing with you.
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I really want you paid special attention for us.
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Special during the COVID 19, we are our senior feel very suffering.
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Not only the COVID 19 really, you know, and make our difficulty to survive.
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And also anti eastern elderly.
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I was seen very afraid to take the subway and pass even walk on the street because, you know, their children always, you know, give them the warning.
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Don't go And I think if you go out, you were facing a lot of safety problem.
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So that's why they if I keep them at home, they will feel very lonely.
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You know that the lonely is very serious problem for the senior.
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I'm sorry, so that's why I don't want to.
Crystal Hudson
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That's okay.
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That's okay.
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You can continue.
UNKNOWN
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Only 2 minutes.
Crystal Hudson
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You can continue.
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That's okay.
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Take your time.
UNKNOWN
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Okay.
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Let me talk.
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I think you're giving me 12 hours.
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I will talk better than 2 minutes.
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The one thing, so that's why this moment, you know, and we isolate our sin.
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Because this very difficult time, we should pay more special attention for our a senior.
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But right now, I don't want to talk so many because open talk I am only one director over there.
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He's 52 years.
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Only one director.
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So that's why I really know what is the problem, what's the need for the senior.
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Right now, I had 2 or 3 major questions, I really want you to help me to resolve the problem right now.
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Cannot wait.
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The one thing, yes.
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Yeah.
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Be polite.
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The meals on meals.
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Okay.
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And go, come with skim pills, emergency meal, everything.
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But Why now, before we had a free driver, but now we dropped down to 1.
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So how could we run the so many different nutrition program, only one driver.
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But it's transferred not only for the music wheels and also for the target game meal, for the emergence meal.
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And you understand that special meals or meals.
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We should deliver from meals to our clients, hot food, hot,
Lorraine Cortes-Vasquez
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hot.
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Hot.
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Hot hot, hot hot.
UNKNOWN
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Hot hot hot.
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Hot hot.
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Hot but we deliver a very poor area.
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The longest I that need to eat earlier Chinatown, very poor area.
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Only one driver.
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So that's why I give our already put name, not only bills on bills.
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Reading bills on bills.
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Because, you know, we don't have money for the vehicle, for the insurance, for the, you know, driver, your part, we had a very good heart.
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We want to deliver more meals to our needy person.
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So that's why this one person, I really want you to give me more money to hide the more driver more insoles everywhere as a expensive thing.
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The second are facing the very suffering Fine.
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Before I know Hassan, you really know our formal chair of the city council on Asian is Margaret Chen.
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She every year, she gave us more than 80 to a $100,000 a year for open door, for facility, repair, repaste, and fix.
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But right now, our lovely new council, Martin, After he beat the city council, give us lunch.
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So you know that right now, the the food cost is very high, and maintenance fee is very high.
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But we never get the additional money from the city council.
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From the CEO, for the CEO, from the CEO, from your big number to the 0.
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You think that's fair for us.
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Asian American population is increasing really high.
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The leading person, you know, increasing very high.
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Why damage our our your senior.
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No money to fix for the facility.
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The driver from free to 1.
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How could we deliver meals?
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Because I have so many persons who want to ask you But right now, and I remember that last week, I was in a very exciting for the emergency to the New York state, we want to break state our assembly our senator, our congress, whatever, but we don't have chance to open our mouth.
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To sharing the information.
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So we just say, you know, the one thing, I'm sorry.
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Not compare, because the department for the agent feels very well.
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But, you know, and I think who played a very important role to resolve the problem?
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In putting our funding agencies, our Sponsor agents really depend on our lovely chair, Hassan, and all the men brothers of city council.
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Please, please, come to we seek our our center, then you know how great our job to compete.
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But we've done Monday We cannot do anything.
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I know you had a good heart, you care of the lead person, special duty senior, I care of that too.
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So that's why, please please come to fixing us.
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Then later on, Today, I open my mouth.
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Next time, you should open your pocket.
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Give us money then we will do the thing is good.
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Okay?
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I'm sorry if you want me to talk to talk.
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I had laughing to talk.
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The one thing Monday.