Residents should not deal with residents. We have to live with each other. We have a management company, and that's why you hire them.

This simplification of 'Wellness' to the 'Power to Be Happy' is part of a larger social trend to embrace personal pleasures and comforting values. Consumers anticipate that being happy makes them healthier, and that when they take better care of their health, they are better able to be happy.

We felt it was very important to let commissioners know we cannot support it because it violates the plan. We've used it for 10 years. It works.