Haifa's pensioners' lobby: 'Determined to improve the lives of the city's older residents'

(Advertisement on behalf of the pensioners' lobby to the city council)

"No one will take care of us the way we take care of ourselves" • The pensioners' lobby for the Haifa City Council is picking up a gear!

The Haifa City Council pensioners' lobby, headed by Israel Savion, works to promote the status of all Haifa's veteran citizens and their integration into the social and economic fabric in all areas of life in the city.

The lobby will work to increase its power in the city council, by mobilizing the entire electorate to support its actions, to realize its goals and objectives for the welfare of the citizens. The lobby will increase its public influence through representation in the city council and the municipal committees and will work to realize and implement the initiative of the pensioners' lobby in the city council to establish an authority for senior citizens.

A (very partial) list of the lobby's achievements:

• Free parking for all ages 70 and above in all jurisdictions of the city of Haifa
• Increasing the budget of Milav clubs by millions of shekels
• Establishment of an authority for senior citizens and budgeting of NIS 500,000
• Improving personal safety in the public space, improving sidewalks, removing obstacles, adding benches and shade sheds and partnering in the fight to eliminate the nuisance of pigs
• Doubling culture and leisure budgets (in millions of shekels)
• Increasing the number of retirees involved and active in volunteering for others
• Establishment of a bureau to respond to public inquiries on municipal issues, social security, etc., within the framework of the Authority for Senior Citizens.

The priority is personal security for the old residents

The issue of the personal safety of the old city residents in the public space is at the top of the list of priorities of the pensioners' lobby. The faction will work in the city council to promote the personal security of the city's senior citizens by prioritizing the addition of security elements in neighborhoods and neighborhood centers where there is a concentration of senior citizens, the activation of the city security patrol near clubs, sheltered housing and nursing homes
and holding information activities among the older population to raise awareness of the issue of personal security.

Among the many tasks the lobby has set for itself:

• The city network with security cameras in the public space Increasing the number of security patrols in the city's neighborhoods 24/7 - 10 additional vehicles Increasing the lighting in the public areas, public gardens on the streets of the city Stopping the car races around the city.
  
• Continuation of free parking for those aged 70+ in the jurisdiction of Haifa Carmelite and cable car free of charge for ages 70 + | A public struggle to use the Carmel tunnels free of charge for those aged 70+ Demand to increase the property tax discount to 30% for retirees.
  
• Joining a public struggle to increase the old-age pension and comparing it to the minimum wage, from an amount of 2,100 NIS to an amount of 5,571 NIS.
  
• Increasing the Authority's budget by NIS 1,000,000 The establishment of the authority, a decision we made in the city council Improving the service for senior citizens through the Authority. Expanding cultural activities for senior citizens and pensioners | Discount for senior citizens and pensioners in cultural activities, sports.
  
• and leisure Expanding the number of special workshops and lectures for the retired public in community centers and Milav clubs.
  
• A demand for the municipal health committee, headed by a representative of the pensioners' lobby Improving medical services, simplifying and shortening bureaucratic processes Establishment of a hotline for the complaints of the senior citizen public Mapping of the lonely and urban citizens in the city of Haifa.

Time until the plague of pigs in Haifa is eradicated
(90 days from Yona Yahav taking office)

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