{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 1, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\n1.\nROLL CALL\nChair Kenny: For Wednesday, February 8th, 2017. Let's start with roll call.\nKerry: Very good. Chair Kenny?\nChair Kenny: Present.\nKerry: Vice-chair Arnold Brillinger?\nArnold Brillinger: Here.\nKerry: Commissioner Aghapekian?\nCommissioner Aghapekian: Here.\nKerry: Commissioner Deutsch?\nCommissioner Deutsch: Here.\nKerry: Commissioner Franco? Commissioner Hall?\nCommissioner Hall: Here.\nKerry: Commissioner Lewis?\nCommissioner Lewis: Here.\nKerry: Commissioner Linton?\nCommissioner Linton: Here.\nKerry: Commissioner Tsztoo? Alright. We have seven. We have a quorum.\n2.\nMINUTES\nChair Kenny: Great. Let's move on to our next agenda item. Approval of the draft CDI meeting\nminutes from December 14th, 2016. Did anyone have any changes or corrections they would like\nmade?\nVice Chair Brillinger: I move that we accept them as presented.\nCommissioner Hall: I second.\nChair Kenny: All in favor?\n1", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 2, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nAll: Aye.\nChair Kenny: Anyone opposed? Carries unanimously.\n3.\nORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT)\nChair Kenny: So, our third item is Oral Communications. Non-agenda items. Public comments, do\nwe have anyone who would like to speak on non-agenda items?\nKerry: We do not have any speaker slips for this item.\nChair Kenny: Then we'll move right in to new business. First off, we're going to have Nicole Blake\nfrom the Social Service Human Relations Board, also called SSHRB. Nicole is the vice president of\nSSHRB and she's here to talk to us about their 2017 Community Needs Survey.\n4.\nNEW BUSINESS\n4-A. Provide Comments on the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) Draft 2017\nCommunity Needs Survey (Nicole Blake, Vice President SSHRB)\nNicole Blake: Thank you commissioners. Good evening. My name is Nicole Blake. Thank you for\nthis opportunity to present our draft 2017 Community Needs Survey. First, a little background on our\nhistory. So SSHRB, the Social Service Human Relations Board was established in 1917 with our\noriginal name as The City of Alameda Board of Social Services. And with that we were charged with\nadvising the city council on all matters pertaining to care and relief of the needy. Fast forward to\n1977, SSHRB's name was then changed by way of the city charter to its current name and with it with\na mission to create an environment which encourages and brings about mutual understanding, respect\nand goodwill among groups of people in the community.\nNicole Blake: And in order to further this mission, the charter set forth certain goals. One of which\nis to assess and report to the city council the social service needs of the people and the methods of\nmeeting those needs. In order to achieve this goal, SSHRB created the assessment and awareness\ngroup in order to evaluate the community's social service and human relations needs through surveys\nand focus groups and to also build awareness of those needs among community stakeholders. We use\nthe survey which you have a draft of tonight in your packet as one of the tools to identify these needs.\nSSHRB administers the survey roughly every five years and we use the information in order to help\nus make funding recommendations for both city and federal grants that focus on public service. And\nwe also found that non-profits find the data collected helpful in writing their grant applications to\nhelp Alamedans.\nNicole Blake: And so tonight's purpose, we're reaching out to you, since you are experts on disability\nissues in hopes that you can review the draft survey and we can get some input from you on what you\nthink is working well, what needs to be improved, what gaps need to be filled. We realize that we\nprobably don't have enough time tonight to go question by question, but we can direct comments to\nJim Franz, that's on the next slide. And so we just want to make sure that the needs for people with\ndisabilities is properly represented and included within the survey. If you have any questions,\ncomments or suggestions, you can ask them here tonight, but you can also send them to Jim Franz.\nHe's the Community Development and Resiliency Coordinator.\nKerry: We got this in our packet.\n2", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 3, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nNicole Blake: Okay. So it's all great? Okay. And we also realize that we may not be able to include\nevery single question that you may want to include in the survey, but we are more than happy to\ncollaborate with the commission to maybe develop a more specific survey that meets your needs as\nwell. Any questions?\nChair Kenny: Thank you very much. I will say, the Commission has used your 2012 Community\nNeed Surveys in our work to get a universal design ordinance passed. So it's been very helpful to\nhave those figures available. And I do have some questions, or initial thoughts on the survey itself.\nNicole Blake: Sure.\nChair Kenny: One question I had is, in the first section you have no need, low need, moderate need,\nand high need?\nNicole Blake: Right.\nChair Kenny: I'm wondering if you guys had considered putting in, \"I don't know\" cause for some\nof these things, like I don't really know what the need is for youth services, not having a child of my\nown.\nNicole Blake: Okay, yeah. Yeah, that's helpful.\nChair Kenny: And then, just a more general thing I'd like to see a little bit more fleshed out is mental\nhealth care available in the city, and how many people are in need of that. If there's a need for a clinic\nor drop-in emergency place, because it's been brought to our attention before by members of the\npublic that Alameda has a very high rate of 51-50s, or people detained for the purpose of being\nevaluated for 51-50s. And I know that the police force goes through excellent training, and really\nseems to be doing a good job of being able to flesh out when it's appropriate to 51-50 somebody. So,\nI'm wondering if there's some sort of need that we could fill where it's between being 51-50'ed or if\nthere is some sort of mental health shelter or emergency contact that people could go through?\nNicole Blake: Okay.\nChair Kenny: And then I don't know how to include that in your survey, because it's been something\nI've been hearing it from the public and I've been following it in the newspaper. If you look at the\npolice blogs, almost every day, there is at least one person from the city who is detained for psychiatric\npurposes. And that's pretty high for a city our size.\nNicole Blake: Great.\nChair Kenny: Does anyone else have any questions?\nCommissioner Deutsch: Well, I noticed healthcare is on your list, and I'm just wondering whether\nthere could be some additional questions, like you have housing, and then you have a lot of other\nquestions underneath housing but nothing healthcare specific. And I think healthcare in Alameda is\nchanging right now. Accessing the hospitals, the various insurances available or not - so it would be\nnice to know what people think.\n3", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 4, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nNicole Blake: Okay, yeah. Great.\nChair Kenny: And Susan, your comment brought up another issue for me, in your survey, where you\ntalk about housing, one of the things you're ranking is housing for people with disabilities. I would\nlove to see it more fleshed out so that we can understand this better. One of the things we're working\non is a Universal Design Ordinance. And so I would love to get a little bit more information on how\nmany people have had a family member who lives with them, who has trouble getting upstairs. Or\nhave had to build a ramp into their house to accommodate a family member. So, yeah, again I don't\nhave the exact way of doing this, but I'd like to flesh out a little bit more about those needs around\nuniversal design and visit ability. Does anyone else have anything they'd like to say? Alright, well,\nthank you very much.\nNicole Blake: Thank you.\nChair Kenny: And we appreciate this and feel free to contact us. And we appreciate you bringing it\nhere.\nNicole Blake: Okay. Great. Thank you.\nChair Kenny: Next item, we have Gail Payne to present the Alameda Paratransit Program for the\nfiscal year of 2017-2018. Welcome Gail.\n4-B.\nApprove City of Alameda Paratransit Program Plan for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 (Gail\nPayne, Transportation Coordinator\nGail Payne: Good evening, honorable chair and commissioners. Again, I'm Gail Payne, the city's\ntransportation coordinator, and I'm here tonight to ask your approval for the City of Alameda\nParatransit Program for fiscal year 2017-2018. So the next fiscal year starts July 1st, and I also would\nlike to first introduce our new Paratransit coordinator, Victoria Williams. And I'd like her to come up\nand say a few words about herself. She has a lot of passion about seniors, and individuals with\ndisabilities and providing services. So here she is.\nVictoria Williams: Hi there. Thank you very much for having me. I love to be here already. I've spent\n30 years working with people who are aging or who might have disabilities. 12 years in senior\ntransportation, 10 of those with the city of Hayward as a Paratransit coordinator. And then, 14 years\nin affordable housing, and the balance in other social service programs that serve people who have\ndisabilities and people who are aging, which is all of us luckily. So I'm grateful to be here and I'm\nreally looking forward to working with this great program and making it even better. Thank you.\nGail Payne: Thank you Victoria. And Victoria already has gone above and beyond the call of duty at\nleast once since she's been here, what is it, three weeks? Four weeks? Fourth week, and so we feel\nvery fortunate. Just to step back, what is the city of Alameda Paratransit program? We are very\nfortunate in Alameda County to have passed measures B and BB. They're the transportation sales tax,\nand so that's where this money comes from. It comes directly to each local jurisdiction and we get to\nchoose how we want to use it according to the guidelines by the Alameda county transportation\ncommission. And they do require to apply every year. That application is due in March. So before the\napplication, we always go out to the community, so that's what I'm doing tonight is asking for your\napproval on what I'm about to present. And so, I'm going to provide a service overview, talk a little\nbit about the program changes, the budget that we're recommending, and tell you about our planning\nprocess for this next fiscal year.\n4", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 5, "text": "members say, \"We don't want one-hour's frequency, we want more frequent service.\" That was the\nmost common complaint we received. We have only so much money and so much time, so we decided\nto increase the frequency to 30-minute frequencies. We have three different loops, Tuesday is the west\nend loop, Wednesday is the east end loop and includes Bay Farm Island, and Thursday is the central\nloop. And so instead of operating on one-hour loops, there will be frequency of every 30 minutes. We\nthink that that will be a much better service. It's open to the general public, it targets locations where\nseniors and individuals with disabilities are more apt to go. And we are looking at rebranding it and\nright now it's called the Alameda Paratransit Shuttle. And in our survey, the top name for rebranding\nit is Alameda Loop, and it does makes sense because it does have these loops for each day.\nGail Payne: As for the taxi service, we have the Premium Taxi Program. Right now it's a 50%\nreduction in taxi trips. We want to increase that to 70% because we have money in our budget to do\nSO. Measure BB was just passed in 2014 so we have all these additional revenues, so why don't we\nprovide better service with additional subsidies? So that's what we are recommending. Increasing the\nsubsidy of taxi trips from 50% to 70%. So the voucher cost right now is $2.50 and consumers get $5\nvoucher back. What we're recommending is instead of providing $2.50, they would provide $3 and\nget a $10 taxi voucher back. So they will have to be paying 50 cents more for that travel voucher but\ninstead of receiving a $5 voucher back, they'll receive $10 voucher. Most trips are at least $11 for a\ntaxi trip, so we think this will work well.\nGail Payne: For other program changes, we'll be considering a new program for the Volunteer Driver\n5", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 6, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nProgram, our potential other program. We used to have Mobility Matters which is now defunct in\nAlameda County. So we're looking at what we can do just for the city in terms of maybe it would be\na volunteer driver program, maybe it would be some other type of mobility management program. So\nthat's something Victoria is very excited about, analyzing and looking at other key stakeholders to\npotentially partner with. Group trips, there's Mastick monthly trips, there's the leisure club, there's the\nAnnual Nursing Home Trip. We plan to increase the subsidy for the Annual Nursing Home picnic.\nFor the scholarship program, we'll continue the taxi subsidies and also the Alameda Point\nCollaborative Discounted Bus Passes for those residents.\nGail Payne: We do have a significant reserve because of measure BB that was passed in 2014. So it's\nchallenging to spend it down because then all of a sudden, with these operations, you have to\ndiscontinue it once the reserve is complete. We're recommending spending it down with capital\nprograms, such as improve shuttle stops, poll signs when we do the rebranding, that's necessary. We\nare also looking at other potential infrastructures such as accessible pedestrian signals. You heard\nCommissioner Tsztoo last time I was here talking about the importance of those. That's something we\ncould speed up the progress in installing that type of infrastructure with this money. With the\nrebranding of the shuttle service, we are looking at a push on marketing and outreach to get the word\nout about the rebranding of the shuttle service and the new frequency of every 30 minutes, and it's\nopen to the public. So that, we're also are recommending.\nGail Payne: We have a budget of revenues coming in is $672,000 and I recommend expenditures of\n$608,000 with reserves of $64,000. Keep in mind that we are conservative when doing this budget\nand so we do place contingencies in here, and yet, we still are showing reserves. For the outreach that\nis going into this next fiscal year recommendation, we do a survey every winter that we just\ncompleted, and we also reached out to the commissions like we're doing tonight. Tomorrow night,\nwill be recreation and park commission, and later this month, transportation commission and SSHRB.\nAnd then the application is due next month.\nGail Payne: For survey results of the survey that we just completed this past winter, this is the first\ntime that we had a web survey component, so we had a lot more people reply, 115. We had many\nmore attracted non-users and one of the number one reasons they said they don't use the subsidized\ntaxi program and the shuttle is that they didn't know about it. 33% stated they didn't know about the\ntaxi program, and 27% stated they didn't know about the shuttle service. That's another reason why\nwe're excited to have Victoria here because she's really going to do a big push on reaching out to the\nkey stakeholders and the community members, and going directly to them, explaining the program\nface-to-face. We'll have some marketing pieces, and orientations at Mastick Senior Center. We will\nbe doing quite a bit, thanks to Victoria.\nGail Payne: This year, at least we're planning on keeping with our current taxi provider, and not\ngoing with Lyft and Uber. It still feels like it's quite in flux right now, what's happening with Lyft and\nUber, and the regulations and all that. So this year we're going to let Victoria have time to ease into\nthis position, and then re-evaluate using Lyft and Uber next year. For the survey, when we asked this\nquestion about Lyft and Uber, the respondents did say that if they could get a cheaper ride by sharing\nrides with Lyft Using Lyft and Uber, Uber Pool and Lyft Line, that 61% said that they would prefer\nthis option to just a regular standard taxi. I could see us going in that direction in the future, just not\nthis upcoming fiscal year.\nGail Payne: And this is the last slide, it shows Victoria Williams' contact information, and we are\nhere for questions and comments. Thank you for your time.\n6", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 7, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nChair Kenny: Thank you, Gail. Does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask? Commissioner\nBrillinger?\nArnold Brillinger: Yes. Now that means that you're going to have two vehicles?\nGail Payne: Yes.\nArnold Brillinger: Instead of one. One of the things that you should do because the second one isn't\npainted up yet, to say \"shuttle\" or whatever it says now, is get a big circle or something that says 'free'.\nNobody knows that it's free. Also, now the Alameda Loop, that sounds pretty good, but we need to\nmake sure that it's clear. I would say paint the vehicle in some bright colors so that you can't just say,\n\"Oh, there's another vehicle going down the street,\" that something that says, \"Hey! Here I am and\nit's Thursday. Jump out here and get on me.\" Those are a couple of things. I was wondering, could we\nback up a couple of slides in your presentation? Maybe right there. On the capital and outreach, now\nthere will only be money for that the first year, right? Because we'll be using a lot of the\nGail Payne: The reserves. Right.\nArnold Brillinger: The reserves. And.\nGail Payne: We still will have some money to do outreach.\nArnold Brillinger: Okay, but not like this year?\nGail Payne: We're not expecting maybe it would be as big. We're expecting it to be bigger next fiscal\nyear than in other years, yes. We're thinking of doing a special push especially for the shuttle because\nwe're having a more frequent shuttle. We will be using a shuttle wrap, a bus wrap, and to make it\nreally bright and I wrote down \"free\" so that's something. We can do a better job of saying it's free.\nArnold Brillinger: Because right now it's free to everybody in town, children included. Well, 12 and\nup maybe. Because you don't want the little critters [chuckle] going by themselves. But they could\ngo with their parents, or grandparents and stuff like that. So people need to know that most of the\ntime, that vehicle is making these loops empty. It's got two or three people in it. Once in a while it's\ngot a wheelchair, [chuckle] that's me. But There are couple of other wheelchairs too I've seen on\nthere. And the other thing is that it can only accommodate one wheelchair at a time. If there were two\npeople going from the nursing home, they'd have to go by themselves, with their families and stuff.\nGail Payne: Okay, thank you.\nCommissioner Lewis: I had a couple of questions. The one concern that I have about the taxis are\nthat with Uber and Lyft, there's a shrinking pool of taxis that anyone can use. The wait period to get\na taxi sometimes can be a wait up to an hour sometimes to get a taxi. And I don't know who your new\nprovider is, is it not Welcome anymore?\nGail Payne: It is. They've changed their name to First American Transit.\nCommissioner Lewis: Oh, First American now? Okay, but it's the same company more or less. Yeah,\nand I think that's really the problem that a lot of people have is the wait period that you're having\nbecause of Uber and Lyft, and I'm just kind of wondering why, why wait?\n7", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 8, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nGail Payne: Are you having the problem with this program, with this service using premium or Mr.\nTip, the long wait?\nCommissioner Lewis: I'm just saying, generally when you're using a taxi here in Alameda, because\nwe're not San Francisco where you have DeSoto and Luxor and all that. I mean we pretty much have\none company more or less here in Alameda, and I think that they're struggling. I don't want to put\nwords in their mouths, but just based on the service because of Uber and Lyft, because most people\nare taking Uber and Lyft now as an alternative. I understand that Victoria's great, that we have Victoria\nand she'll be point person in all that, but I kind of think that it's important for us to get going on it\nbecause it's tough. If you're going to go grocery shopping and you're sitting and waiting an hour, you\ngot frozen stuff, could be a potential problem. I just don't know what they're saying. Did they give an\nidea what the wait period is or what the number of drivers they have now? Or.\nGail Payne: Actually, we should not be having that type of wait and I have not been hearing that type\nof problem in the survey. That didn't come out and so we can look at it in more depth. We can also\ntalk to Alameda CTC to see what the potential is on moving forward with Uber/Lyft this fiscal year.\nSo far none of the cities have done Uber/Lyft and so we wanted to not be the guinea pigs, the test run.\nHowever, we can check in with them and see what they recommend since they're the funding agency.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah. I think that would be a good thing. And also the other thing is I'm not\nsure how - the voucher program still will be administered through Mastick?\nGail Payne: Yes.\nCommissioner Lewis: I was just wondering how that gets translated to the public.\nGail Payne: When you say how it gets translated, you mean how the public learns about it?\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah, how they know that.\nGail Payne: Yeah, and that's something that we are going to do, like I said, a bigger push about that\nin general than we have already. Mastick has orientations that they do when new members come on\nboard. There's also an orientation they do, I think its quarterly just on transportation and they talk\nabout transportation for all the new members as well and we have a bunch of print media and then\nwe also go face to face to the various groups and homes to talk about the program. And that's what\nDonatella Zepplin, who retired, was doing and now Victoria's taking her place and there was a little\nbit of a lag time between the two and so that effort will start up again.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah, because I was just thinking mainly also just for people who aren't\nseniors who don't necessarily have a reason to go Mastick, you know somebody who may have\nepilepsy or something, maybe a younger person and all that. What other avenues that they would\nknow that might steer them in that? And to say I know you're not a senior but it's okay because\nGail Payne: Right, Okay. So we can talk more with Victoria about this. There are a number of non-\nprofit organizations, maybe that's one way. Like Center for Independent Living, they may have a\nlistserv for their Alameda consumers so we could do a better job of maybe partnering with Alameda\nMeals on Wheels for example or other groups. And as Victoria gets her head into that she'll have 101\nmore ideas on that I'm sure.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah. And the Mr. Tip program too, that's the, if I'm understanding it, that's\n8", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 9, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nthe one for doctor's appointments, right?\nGail Payne: Yes, and for East Bay Paratransit members only.\nCommissioner Lewis: Right. Do the hospitals know about that program or is that possible that for\nsomebody who may be going to Alameda hospital? Somebody shows up in a crisis situation and it\ngets resolved and they have to go home, they say they don't have any money and they're referred to\nthe social worker, does the social worker have access to that?\nGail Payne: They do and there's also another program that's called the Hospital Discharge Program\nthat is administered directly by Alameda CTC, Alameda County Transportation Commission. So the\nsocial workers do know that they can get a free ride home through that program, it's totally free, or\nthey could use this program.\nCommissioner Lewis: And I have one more, I don't want to dominate this, but I just have one more\nthat I'm just getting to the shuttle. What's happened with the shuttle on occasion is that a driver may\nnot show up at a stop. It could be various reasons, maybe their replacement didn't come at lunch time\nor whatever. Is there any way that the public can know that there may be a two hour wait or not two\nhours, cause you are changing it to every 30 minutes. If there's going to be a delay, how would the\npublic know if there is some glitch in the system?\nGail Payne: Right, We've talked about working with text messages, now that many more people\nnowadays have smartphones and use the texting feature, so that's something that we will continue to\nthink about, and other ways as well.\nCommissioner Lewis: So, telling them to call Mastick probably wouldn't be a good idea to call, then\nGail Payne: They do know to call Mastick, SO that already happens, yet what I was understanding is\nhow we could do a better job of proactively, mentioning to riders that the shuttle is delayed, so that's\none way that we've thought about it is through texting, but they are always welcome call Mastick.\nCommissioner Lewis: So the texting may happen this year?\nGail Payne: That is something that again Victoria will have to look at.\nCommissioner Lewis: Okay.\nChair Kenny: I had a couple of questions. With the loop service, at one point, weren't you talking\nabout having it go to Fruitvale BART?\nGail Payne: We were.\nChair Kenny: And what happened with that?\nGail Payne: We looked at what the tradeoff would be, and the tradeoff would be that it could no\nlonger go to a nursing home on Westline Drive, and then it couldn't serve that whole side of town,\nbecause it requires significant time to get over there. We felt like it would take up so much of the time\nwithin the central part of Alameda, that we felt like it is better to stay on island, the tradeoff was just\ntoo severe because that nursing home in particular is a frequent user of the shuttle and highly\ndependent on it. We have really good AC Transit service, that feeder service to Oakland and the\n9", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 10, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nBART stations and so we talked about it even today is doing a better job of getting the word out about\nthose services. We just have a new AC Transit service line 19 along Buena Vista avenue, for example\nthat goes between Fruitvale BART, and Oakland Downtown BART and so basically we need to do a\nbetter job getting the word out of how to get to Oakland and we're fortunate to have a lot of ways.\nChair Kenny: Okay. With the capital improvements, I believe we have a Commissioner who is not\nhere tonight, Commissioner Franco who has looked at different spots where she thought pedestrian\ncrossings might need a little bit more marking or where we've heard from the public. I would love it\nif she could get in touch with you guys and mention those spots to you if she hasn't already.\nGail Payne: That would be helpful and what is her name again?\nChair Kenny: Commissioner La Donna Franco.\nGail Payne: Okay.\nChair Kenny: It's through the Alameda County Transportation Commission, but I never knew about\nthe wheelchair and scooter breakdown service, that's pretty amazing. I've had plenty of clients who\nhave had issues with their scooters and wheelchairs, so that's a completely free service?\nGail Payne: Yes.\nChair Kenny: Oh wow! That is wonderful.\nGail Payne: Yeah. And so is the hospital discharge service. They are both administered directly by\nthe Alameda County Transportation Commission.\nChair Kenny: Great. Commissioner Brillinger?\nArnold Brillinger: The wheelchair breakdown thing, is that for wheelchairs that are broken down at\nyour house?\nGail Payne: Anywhere, so if you are in an emergency situation.\nArnold Brillinger: Oh, I've called them, and it says, \"We'll get back to you next Monday.'\nGail Payne: Okay.\nArnold Brillinger: They're only open certain days, I mean certain hours per day.\nGail Payne: Oh. I thought it is for emergency. Let me look at.\nArnold Brillinger: I did too, but I called them just to find out and I got an answering machine, it says\nwe'll call you, leave a message, we'll call you tomorrow.\nGail Payne: Okay.\nArnold Brillinger: And to me, that didn't sound like anything I want or needed.\nGail Payne: Okay.\n10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 11, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nArnold Brillinger: That's why I thought, \"Well, maybe it's for people whose wheelchairs break at\nhome,\" they can call up and say, \"Hey, the wheel came off\", or something, but not for someone who\nis sitting down here on Park Street and saying, \"Oh, my wheel fell off,\" or whatever the thing is. You\nknow, they're not going to get any help.\nGail Payne: Okay.\nChair Kenny: One other question that I had is, when you talk about the group trips, is it the social\nclub? Is it just for seniors, or are there other populations that are targeted in this?\nGail Payne: So there's a couple different programs. There's three total that this funding subsidizes.\nThere's the monthly Mastick trips, and those are mainly targeted for seniors. There's also the leisure\nprogram, and so that's targeted for individuals with mental disabilities, and adults specifically. Then\nthe last one is the annual nursing home picnic.\nChair Kenny: Great, thank you. Does anyone else have any more questions? Commissioner Lewis.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah. I just wanted to follow up. You were saying about the money available\nfor accessible signal lights. I think you and I have talked about this before, Gail. What's a little\ncomplicated in Alameda, some streets are managed by the city, and some are managed by Caltrans,\nhow is that going to get resolved?\nGail Payne: We, as a city, have to take the initiative to provide the money to make it happen, and\nthen we work with Caltrans. It's a whole process where we seek encroachment requests, and then we\ninstall, or they may come out and install with us. So it's definitely a little bit more cumbersome, yet\nwe don't avoid those locations. This past batch that just came in, for example, there have been nine\nthat were recently installed. The highest criterion was being near bus stops, so that's how we batched\nthem. Moving forward, we'll have to see what the highest priorities are. If you have some locations\nwhere you'd like to have them installed, it would be interesting to know.\nCommissioner Lewis: I called, I believe it was your replacement, regarding just getting some type\nof notification across from that little intersection at Benton and Encinal, and a gentleman mentioned\nthat I needed to call Caltrans if anything was going to get resolved, because that is a Caltrans high-\nway.\nGail Payne: Wait, so, are you talking about the signal at Sherman and Encinal? Because it's right\nnear.\nCommissioner Lewis: It's not actually that one. I was talking about the one across from Jay's, because\nthere's the school\nGail Payne: Okay.\nCommissioner Lewis: Right across the street. There's just a lot of foot traffic back and forth there.\nAnd just to get a I can't remember what you call those lights\nGail Payne: Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacon.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah, like the one at Peru and Encinal. He was saying that it didn't qualify.\n11", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 12, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nBut I thought it was just a very heavy area, where there's a lot of foot traffic.\nGail Payne: We are installing those around town, and I could look to see if that's a priority location,\nbecause we do install there even if it's Caltrans property. I'll have to look on the future plans for those\nRectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacons.\nCommissioner Lewis: And is there a list of the ones that are going to be coming out, the accessible\nsignals?\nGail Payne: For the accessible signals, we do not currently have a list. However, it is being included\nin this budget, as well as part of the capital improvement program for the next fiscal year. And so this\nis a great time for you to let us know your priorities, and we will check with the pedestrian plan too,\nto see what the priorities there are. There's a list of all the different intersections that need those\ndevices, and it's in the pedestrian plan.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah. Cause there's a set of folks that are blind that live at Encinal and High\nStreet. And there's a light there, of course, but there's also a left-hand turn off of Encinal onto High\nStreet, which go in front of the pedestrian, which is a little daunting. And the one gentleman that Peter\nmentioned that he's called several times about that, and just wanted to know if we can get that as a\npriority. It seems a sensible one, to me.\nGail Payne: Okay. Great. If you think of any others, please let me know. I'm at your convenience.\nChair Kenny: Commissioner Hall.\nCommissioner Hall: I would just like to say that the Commissioner makes a very good point, I think\nany kind of marketing outreach we need to do should be humongous signs, neon signs saying, \"Free!\nFree! Free!\" And the other thing, because it seems like, throughout the city, I haven't seen a lot of\nbrochures or even a flyer in the different areas. Yes, at Mastick Center but I'm wondering about other\nplaces. Like you said for the disabled, and not just the seniors. Do you have flyers at the food bank?\nDo you have flyers at the Alameda Family Center? Basic places where all ages of different people\nare going to be, but especially so the disabled people see it too, not just the seniors. And to know it's\nfree, I think a lot of people, like you said, that in your survey they didn't even know it was free and\nthat it's out there.\nGail Payne: Yeah. And also just keep in mind we've been postponing outreach on the shuttle because\nwe've known for a little bit that we've wanted to change it to 30 minute frequency and we've wanted\nto re-brand it, so we didn't want to do a big push until we get those things done and then do it. So\nyeah. It all feels like it's finally coming together, thankfully, yet it's taken some time.\nChair Kenny: Can I just ask, does the Alameda Paratransit program have a listserv where they can\nlet the people who are already involved in the program know of changes?\nGail Payne: We don't really, but that's something we can look at. We do have a listserv of anyone\nwho has enrolled in the premium taxi program. But we could do a better job of compiling emails.\nYeah definitely.\nChair Kenny: Ah, Commissioner Aghapekian.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: Thanks for your presentation, thank you.\n12", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 13, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nGail Payne: Thank you.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: I need just clarification. The Paratransit stops at bus stops, it's not door\nto door?\nChair Kenny: Yes. The shuttle is a fixed route service. It's a loop. Fixed route with fixed bus stops\nand they have their own bus stops and at times they do share a bus stop with AC transit at some\nlocations.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: And I see in here in your presentation of the program, you have bus\nbenches? Planning to install bus benches?\nGail Payne: Yes.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: I live very close to South Shore, I see a lot of people taking the shuttle\nand/or the bus, and benches are perfect, a great idea. Highly, highly recommend because I see people,\nelderly people, and people that have difficulties, either leaning or standing or sitting on the sidewalk.\nThey have no place to sit. And sometimes during the summer especially, never mind the winter time,\nit gets very hot and the sun is very strong and they're sitting there, standing there for hours. Maybe\nnot hours but for a long stretch of time and if it's do-able I highly recommend that these benches have\nsome kind of sun protection, whether it is possible or not. I can feel their misery. And the other\nclarification that I need is, it's every other day that the loop happen in specific areas, is that the\nprogram?\nGail Payne: It will continue its current days of the week. The shuttle operates Tuesdays, Wednesdays\nand Thursdays. And what it does is it operates at different parts of the town for each day. And so\nTuesdays is West End, Thursdays is East and Bay Farm and then the Central Island is Thursday.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: So if a person needs a ride on a day off, is it possible for them to have\nother means of transportation available to them?\nGail Payne: So that's where the taxi program comes in, the subsidized taxis and also we're looking\nat this mobility management, considering a new program and looking at a potential volunteer driver\nprogram. And so volunteer drivers can help individuals get from their door to the door of wherever\nthey're going, if it's a medical appointment or wherever they need to go.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: Thank you.\nGail Payne: And a clarification on the benches. We're looking at benches not just for this shuttle yet\nfor all bus stops and this will help pay for that.\nChair Kenny: Commissioner Lewis.\nCommissioner Lewis: This is something that I wouldn't know. Are the areas where the shuttle\nstopped, is it marked along with the AC Transit sign?\nGail Payne: It is. It has a bus flag, a bus stop sign, similar look and feel to an AC Transit bus stop\nsign except different color schemes.\n13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 14, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nCommissioner Lewis: And will the - I'm assuming it will be the West End - will that be expanded to\nthe ferry?\nGail Payne: It will not be expanded to the ferry, however, I do have good news in that Line 31, AC\ntransit Line 31, is extending to the ferry in March.\nCommissioner Lewis: Will it go actually to the ferry, though?\nGail Payne: Yes, it will have a layover at the Main Street Ferry Terminal. Yeah.\nChair Kenny: Well, Gail I would like to thank you for presenting this and all the effort that has gone\nin, it's clear that it's been thoroughly thought through and a lot of work has been put into this. At this\ntime I would like to make a motion that we approve the application for Measure B and BB Paratransit\nfunding for the fiscal year '17-'18.\nCommissioner Deutsch: I second.\nChair Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nChair Kenny: Any opposed? No. Great.\nGail Payne: Thank you. Thank you for your great comments I appreciate it.\nChair Kenny: Thank you. Now we go onto old business.\n5.\nOLD BUSINESS\nKerry: And this is really annual business. I'm going to take over from you, Chair Kenny.\nChair Kenny: Yep.\n5-A. Election of new Commission Chair and Vice Chair (City Staff)\nKerry: So in the bylaws it says that we annually elect a new chair and new vice-chair. And basically\nthat being chair or vice-chair entails helping to set up the agenda and discussing things that you'd like\nto see on the agenda. It's definitely more communication with your staff. And both the current chair\nand vice-chair have let me know that while they'd be willing to do this again, they're also willing to\nlet someone else give it a go if they're really interested. I'd like to start by accepting nominations for\ncommission chair.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: I nominate Beth.\nCommissioner Lewis: Second.\nCommissioner Deutsch: I second.\n[laughter]\n14", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 15, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nKerry: Oh my goodness!\nCommissioner Deutsch: And she's doing a great job.\nKerry: Okay so we have a nomination. Are there any others? Okay. So I'd like to For all those who\nwould like Beth to run another year as commission chair, how many ayes do I have?\nAll: Aye.\nKerry: Any opposed? Okay. Ayes have it. You get to keep your name tag.\n[laughter]\nKerry: Okay. Very good. And for vice-chair, do we have any nominations for vice-chair?\nCommissioner Lewis: Nominate Arnold.\nCommissioner Deutsch: I second.\n[chuckle]\nCommissioner Lewis: I like staying consistent.\nKerry: Okay. All those in favor or Arnold Brillinger having another year as vice-chair?\nAll: Aye.\nKerry: Any opposed? Ayes have it. Vice-chair Brillinger, we have you for another year.\nArnold Brillinger: That's also a cost saving measure.\n[laughter]\nKerry: That's right. The city thanks you. Okay, very good. That was nice and simple, thank you. I'm\nexcited about it: I'm excited to work with you another year, Beth; and excited to work with you another\nyear, Arnold.\n5-B. Selection of a Retreat Date (City Staff)-\nKerry: I have then another item for old business but it's really just regular business. We have agreed\nin our bylaws that we meet six times a year. As you know the selection of having it every even month\nof the year, on the second Wednesday has been very convenient for us, except that in August this\nroom (Council Chambers) and it's technology and everything goes dark. We essentially don't support\nbig meetings in this room in August. So that means we move our August meeting to a retreat. Now\nwe had a retreat last year in January because we got it together to set a date I think in December.\nKerry: But now we are up against looking at when to schedule the retreat for this year. I have put\nforward that March might be a good month. The retreat would be probably a morning, or a morning\nto afternoon, over at Mastick Senior Center in a classroom. That's where we did it last time and it\nworked nicely because we have all the conveniences there of a parking lot and restrooms and that sort\n15", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 16, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nof thing. Jackie Krause of Mastick has let me know that the Saturdays in March would be just fine. I\nhave a very faint looking calendar on the screen that is hard to see, but the Saturdays that I'm\ndiscussing are Saturday the 4th, Saturday the 11th, Saturday the 18th and Saturday the 25th.\nKerry: So I guess I'd like some discussion of what day you guys would like to choose for that retreat.\nChair Kenny: Why don't we start with if anybody has days that they cannot meet of the days that\nKerry put out.\nCommissioner Deutsch: I cannot do the 25th.\nChair Kenny: Okay. Great. So if nobody else has any other days they can't do it. I would propose\nthe 4th or the 11th, because I would like to see us do it sooner, rather than later. But I'm, again, open\nto the 18th as well. Last time we did it, I think we started at 10:00 and I think that time worked for\neverybody, and so that we were able to get out by, I think, it was 1:00, so people could have the rest\nof their Saturday. Does anyone have any preference between the dates?\nCommissioner Lewis: 11th.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: 11th.\nChair Kenny: All in favor of the 11th?\nAll: Aye.\nChair Kenny: Any opposed? Great.\nKerry: Great, March 11th at 10:00 AM. So then what will happen next is, I'll send you all an email\nreminding you that we just chose March 11th, and then I'm going to want to post an agenda, because\nwe'll probably have more than a quorum at this meeting, so that means it has to be formally posted.\nBut that's fine. That's easy to do.\nChair Kenny: Yeah, and I did have some things that I wanted to put on the agenda. There are a couple\nof items in our bylaws that I was wanting to propose we make adjustments to. So I can let you know\nthat information to put on the agenda. If anyone else has things that they think we need to talk about,\nlet Kerry know so she can put it on the agenda.\nKerry: I know one item was, perhaps discussing the task force that would get put together for Sharon\nOliver, Captain Sharon Oliver, of the Fire Department who presented to us in December. Maybe some\ngood brainstorming could happen, like we'd have a segment where you could brainstorm how to\ncreate a database of folks who might need help in a disaster, that sort of thing just to recall back to\nthat discussion, as an item. Be thinking of a list and you can always contact your vice chair or your\nchair. It doesn't matter, or contact me directly too.\nCommissioner Lewis: I have a question, I just wanted to go back to Gail's discussion, maybe with\nthat conversation, do know the channel of PSAs (Public Service Announcements) related to the city?\nKerry: You're asking me, and I wish I knew. I am not an Alameda resident, so I don't know but I have\na feeling, yes, that we do.\n16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 17, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nCommissioner Lewis: I don't have cable, so I don't know.\nChair Kenny: Does anyone here have Channel 15, the local Alameda channel?\nKerry: There's usually city public slides that run on that. So, let's say there's an event coming up,\nsometimes they'll show for an event. Let's say there's something about battery recycling. Sometimes\nthat'll slide up.\nCommissioner Hall: I'm sorry, what was the question? About the channel?\nCommissioner Lewis: If there's any PSAs related to Alameda. We were talking about how we get\nthe word out for these, and I'm fairly convinced that a lot of people don't really know or understand\nParatransit, for instance. And I just thought that, I don't know, we could use this. So it'd be nice to\nhave information on emergency preparedness, if you like information on shuttles, those kinds of\nthings. I just don't know if that's how, like I said, I don't have cable, so I don't know.\nChair Kenny: I can tell you in the time that I've been on the commission, we haven't utilized that,\nbut I think that it's an excellent point and we can definitely find out more information about what's\ngoing on. Yeah, I understand what you're saying, especially with the conversation we had with Gail\nbecause that is important that what is offered is somehow publicized.\nCommissioner Lewis: Even in the Alameda Sun, how an ad could help education the public. That\nwould pertain to residents. Like a little picture of a shuttle going around town, like you were saying\nin the branding, or whatever residents in Alameda are most paying attention to.\nKerry: Yeah, and they've left already, but I think that if you have a suggestion for that team to address\nin their marketing push for the shuttle, go ahead and email me and I can forward it onto them. They\nwould love to hear that sort of idea.\nCommissioner Lewis: Or just different things like we were saying like emergency preparedness. I\nlike that!\nCommissioner Hall: Channel 15, I think, if I recall most the time it'll say like, \"The city is offline\nnow.\" It'll just be at the same spiel. Sometime I have seen it there is like slides, and flashes of I don't\nknow and then you could be the very first to find out.\nCommissioner Lewis: It should be like movie trailers.\nChair Kenny: We can put that on there. Right. I mean, why not?\nCommissioner Lewis: Like movie trailers, before the movie comes on before the council meeting\nor.\nChair Kenny: Yeah. Right. I think that's an excellent idea.\nArnold Brillinger: We could also do that kind of information at the theatre.\nCommissioner Lewis: Yeah. Right, because the theatre does a lot of city programs. They do advertise\na lot of city stuff.\n17", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 18, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nChair Kenny: Yeah, we'd have to check with the theatre cause I'm sure that a lot of the stuff that\nthey're advertising, it's fee-based but the Alameda Theatre has been excellent, so it's definitely worth\ninvestigating.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: There is an organization in Oakland that represents the western part of\nUSA in issues with handicap people. And there is a lady over there who did a presentation when we\nwent to that seminar in the city, and I had seen her present in other conferences where she talked\nabout the civil rights that is law. I think it'd be beneficial for us if we can invite her to our retreat.\nMaybe she can talk with us for one or two hours, and give us some information as to what the law is,\nbecause the law is always changing, and if that is agreeable to everybody. And if she needs a fee, if\nwe need to pay her a fee for her coming. Do we have any funds for that?\nKerry: Yes. If you imagine that we have funds for education and conferences. So, that is what paid\nfor\nyour attendance at that I think it was the Pacific ADA Conference class last summer?\nCommissioner Aghapekian: Right.\nKerry: So, I think that we could look into it. It'd be great since you remember her and like her that\nmaybe if you could look up the Pacific ADA Group and see if you could find her, that'd be great.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: I can. I know where she is.\nKerry: Oh great.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: Yeah, and I picked up the pamphlets for distribution for the fair. That's\neasy, and if everybody is agreeable, I'll pursue it and let you know.\nChair Kenny: Yeah, I think that would be a great idea. The only thing I would say is I wouldn't want\nto get it too long. Maybe an hour is a good amount of time because we do have commission stuff also\nthat we have to get done. But I think it's a great idea.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: An hour for her presentation?\nChair Kenny: Yeah.\nCommissioner Aghapekian: Not including our questions.\nChair Kenny: So, if we're done with the retreat, then we move on to the staff communications.\n6.\nSTAFF COMMUNICATIONS\nKerry: Staff communications is really that now we're going to start building a retreat agenda and also\nour April meeting agenda. I have a feeling that the April meeting agenda was something about the\nUniversal Design Ordinance. I do know that there are some updates with the ordinance. I can let Beth\ntalk about that in a second during your announcements. I just want you to be thinking about future\nagendas.\n7.\nANNOUNCEMENTS\nKerry: Also I received something in the mail. I often will receive things in the mail to announce to\n18", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 19, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nyou guys, and it will be too late, like I won't be able to announce it to you in time. So I'll either email\nto you, but this one was something that was timely. This is from the Alameda County Developmental\nDisabilities Planning and Advisory Council. They'd like to invite you to attend the Annual Transition\nInformation Fair for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. It's\nSaturday, March 25th, from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM, at the College of Alameda, 555 Ralph Appezzato\nParkway here in Alameda. It's a collaborative event planned by members of the Alameda County\nTransition team. The target audience for the transition fair is students, younger students, 14 to 22\nyears, with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, regional center staff and\nschool district staff. The Transition Fair includes a showcase of adult service providers and\neducational workshops. This is a wonderful opportunity for families and students to explore the world\nof adult services as they transition to life after high school.\nKerry: Let me know if you want more information about that. It sounds like it's coming up next\nmonth, and not on the same Saturday as our retreat. They also checked in to make sure that they had\nall of the right information for our commission, probably as a resource. That's all I've got.\nArnold Brillinger: Kerry, if you could just send that around to everyone.\nKerry: Absolutely.\nArnold Brillinger: I went to it last year.\nKerry: Oh, you did?\nArnold Brillinger: Because I had a friend who had a son, who is 17, and needed some special\nattention. And what she did is, the several presentations that were going on. Two of them that she\nneeded were at the same time. So, she got me to go and get the information from the one. And then\nthey've got a bunch of tables set up with all kinds of little gadgets to give away and also information\nand stuff.\nKerry: Well that sounds like a great resource then. Yes, I'd be happy to scan this and send this to all\nof you.\nChair Kenny: Alright. So now we'll move on to announcements. And I have a couple that I just want\nto start with. In regards to the Universal Design Ordinance, we had a slow down during the holidays.\nAnd are now picking it back up again. This Monday the 13th, the latest draft of the Universal Design\nOrdinance will be presented at the planning board meeting. And that will be open to public comment\nat that time. And I suggest anyone who is interested, please come and please let us know what you\nwant to see, what you think is missing. Eventually, it will be presented to our commission, the\nUniversal Design Ordinance will be presented here. And I asked, they'll be looking for our approval\non the ordinance. So this will not be your only time to have questions on the ordinance. If you cannot\nmake it.\nChair Kenny: The other announcement I wanted to make is the League of Women Voters of Alameda\nhas invited each of us to an annual mixer and fundraiser that they hold called Meet Your Public\nOfficials. And we're public officials folks. [laughter] So it's Thursday, March 30th from 5:30-7:30\nPM, at the community center on Harbor Bay Island. If you're interested please let them know. I believe\nCommissioner Linton and I are already RSVP'd to go. Hope to see some of you there.\nKerry: And wear your name tags.\n19", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-02-08", "page": 20, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nChair Kenny: Yes. [laughter] Does anyone else have any other announcements they'd like to make?\nCommissioner Lewis: I do, on just. We were invited to go to a church fair of some sort.\nKerry: Emmanuel.\nCommissioner Lewis: Emmanuel. That's what it was. We'll be doing Emmanuel Church Fair. The\nPark Street Fair - that comes up at the end of July, right?\nArnold Brillinger: But there are several other events.\nKerry: Right. There's a Spring Festival that's Mother's Day weekend, on Park Street. But also the Art\nand Wine Fair that you're discussing Tony, in July. And there's one on Webster Street that I don't know\nwhat the date of that It might be June.\nArnold Brillinger: It's around Father's Day.\nKerry: It's moved, yeah. So perhaps the Event Subcommittee needs to get together.\nChair Kenny: Yeah, and I think it would also be good for us to speak about this at our retreat. And\nkind of get a little bit more input on what events we want to go to and how much people are able to\ngive to these events. Cause I don't want it falling all on the event committee.\nCommissioner Lewis: Good idea.\nCommissioner Hall: Mother's Day is coming up in May, and having the little table and some of the\ninformation. Different people, like you said not every day we get invited to events. I think that was\nwonderful, because that was the first time, last summer when I saw the table. And I was like, \"Oh my\nGod. Look. Finally. A table for the Commission on Disability Issues!\"\nChair Kenny: Are there any other announcements? Alright then I am going move to adjourn the\nmeeting.\nCommissioner Lewis: Second it.\nChair Kenny: Alright. Adjourned.\n8.\nADJOURNMENT\nThe meeting adjourned at 7:50 p.m.\nRespectfully submitted,\nKerry Parker\nCity Staff Liaison\nCommission on Disability Issues\n20", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf"}