Do I get my three minutes back?

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I was just stalling for time, but the issue I was talking about was in the area of elders programs in our communities, especially a lot of the elders need some maintenance of their dwellings. We talk about trying to keep elders in their homes. Especially it seems like a lot of times there are challenges to get people to do the work in the communities. I think that we as a government have to find a way that we can provide the service but also do it in a way that it is… If we can’t do one community, maybe look at bundling these programs.

I know the Housing Corporation does annual maintenance on their housing units. A lot of times they hire summer students to help them clean out water tanks and things like that. If possible, I think that we have to look at some way of ensuring that the elders programs are being delivered, especially on the maintenance side of maintaining the elders service and maintaining their homes. In most cases we do put out tenders on them, but a lot of the times we don’t get a response. Is there a possibility of working this somehow into the responsibility of the local housing authorities?

The idea in the past was give the money to the housing authorities. Let them hire a couple extra people with the money we gave them and then add the seniors in the communities to that list of maintenance that have to be done on public housing and include the elders on that so we benefit both the Housing Corporation and we provide the service to the elders in the communities. I think that idea is still a good idea. I

think that we should be seriously considering it. Thank you.