Inter-generational

===Senior Centers Stayed Open===
In 2003, the swimming pools closed as did all the recreational centers. We had 19 Rec Centers. Meanwhile, only one Senior Center closed. The closed senior center was one that should have closed before and it was one where there wasn't staffing. Can't hire a new senior center director when you just fired 700 people.
The senior centers stayed open, in part, because seniors vote and kids don't. 
The senior centers also stayed open because a good amount of the money to operate those programs come to the city as a pass-through. The city just manages the programs on behalf of the county and the state. So, the city couldn't shut them down. 
The nature of the funding for the senior centers needs to be better understood and announced to the citizens. Most are unaware of the funding sources and amounts.
==Turn Senior Centers into Community Centers==
The trend is to replcae the word "senior" and make these facilities more of a "community" venture. 
== Oil and Water don't mix. But here we are talking about people and relationships.==
In Pittsburgh, in 2003, as the Rec Centers shut and the Senior Centers chugged along, I asked our Market House Seniors to grant temporary "senior memberships status" to everyone ages 4 and older. They had lost their Rec Center. 
The conventional wisdom is that seniors and the kids -- never the two shall mix. That's bunk and shows a lack of creativity. You don't need to mix every hour -- but never is absurd. We've got absurd all around Pittsburgh.
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* Pittsburgh needs to begin to do some programming that mixes seniors and the children.
* Programming among seniors and kids can advance over the years.