{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 1, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\n1. ROLL CALL\nThis was not recorded on the video. Those present at the roll call at 6:32 p.m. were:\nChair Elizabeth (Beth) Kenny\nVice-Chair Arnold Brillinger\nAnto Aghapekian\nTom Mills\nLisa Hall\nJenn Barrett\nSusan Deutsch\nQuorum established.\nAdditional commissioners arriving soon after roll call:\nTony Lewis (arrived 6:35 p.m.)\nJenny Linton (arrived 6:45 p.m.)\n2. MINUTES\nElizabeth Kenny: Item number two; minutes?\nKerry Parker: There will be no approval of minutes tonight. The minutes from the June meeting\nwill be presented in October for approval. And the minutes from tonight's meeting will be submitted\nin October for approval.\n3.\nORAL COMMUNICAITONS\nElizabeth Kenny: Wonderful. Moving on, item three; Oral Communication/Non-Agenda Items. Do\nwe have any public comments tonight?\nKerry Parker: I have not received any speaker slips.\nElizabeth Kenny: Alright.\nElizabeth Kenny: There's no speaker slips out there.\nKerry Parker: Oh, oh no Would you like one?\nElizabeth Kenny: Okay, he is going to speak on video. Yes, I'm just making sure.\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 1 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 2, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nKerry Parker: So, for non-agenda.\nSpeaker 3: Will be on the end.\nElizabeth Kenny: Okay.\nKerry Parker: Okay.\n4. NEW BUSINESS\nElizabeth Kenny: Alright. Let's move on to new business.\nKerry Parker: I don't think we have any new business for tonight.\n5. OLD BUSINESS\nCDI Universal Design Staff Report\nElizabeth Kenny: And old business. First, we have Andrew Thomas, from the city planners to talk\nto us about the Universal Design Ordinance. Welcome Andrew.\nAndrew Thomas: Good evening, Chair Barrett [sic], members of the commission. My name is\nAndrew Thomas, I'm the Assistant Community Development Director for the City of Alameda. I am\nvery happy to be here tonight to present to you our final draft of the first ever City of Alameda\nUniversal Design Ordinance. This has been a long time coming. We made a promise to the Alameda\ncommunity, to the Alameda City Council, and to this commission. It was almost five years ago to\nthe date; July 2012, that we are going to create, as a community, a draft Universal Design Ordinance\nfor Alameda and we are going to get it to you, city council, for your consideration. Now, we were\nsort of thinking within a year or SO.\nAndrew Thomas: It's been five. And it would not even be here at all if it weren't for the efforts of\nthis commission and some of your former commissioners, Audrey Lord-Hausman, to just keep\npushing this issue. And then pushing it also not only with the community and with the staff but also\nwith your Planning Board. And the City of Alameda Planning Board really embraced this idea five\nyears ago, and was also pushing us and we have David Burton here from the Planning Board,\nformer chair of the Planning Board who's also been very instrumental in getting this draft to this\nstate. About three weeks ago, the Alameda Planning Board. Let me just back up for a minute. You\nthen set up a sub-committee for the new members here. Your board in about a year, or so ago,\nidentified a sub-committee to work with a sub-committee from the Planning Board to bring this\nover the finish line, and that sub-committee did just that. And the Planning Board, the full Planning\nBoard, recommended this draft ordinance to the city council last month.\nAndrew Thomas: This draft ordinance it is really the result of your work, your members, your\nconstituents. And the Planning Board is going to city council with a recommendation from the\nPlanning Board, and what I would like to get tonight from this board is your recommendation on\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 2 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 3, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nthis same ordinance. So that I can report to the city council that this ordinance is supported by the\nCity of Alameda Planning Board and the City of Alameda Commission on Disability Issues. If\nthings go well tonight I hope to have this on the agenda for September 20, I believe it's the second\nmeeting in September. I believe it's September 29th or 24th. We'll let you know, but it'll be the\nsecond city council meeting in September. If we get there and things go well tonight, and we get\nthere on September, I'd hope that some of you might think about coming to that meeting and help\npush this forward. This is an important ordinance and there's just a few things I'd like to highlight\nabout this ordinance. So that if people ask you about this ordinance, and there will be people who'll\nstart to ask as it tees up to council, it'll get more and more attention.\nAndrew Thomas: It is a unique ordinance. It is unlike any ordinance that I know of that any other\ncity in California has adopted. It sets a very high standard. What I have been telling people, and\ntelling people in the business industry and elsewhere in California, because that worries people,\nthey are like, \"Oh my goodness, Alameda is setting a new standard.\" Some people look at that as a\nvery positive thing. Other people in some industries will be like, \"Oh gosh, we don't want a new\nstandard that other cities will reflect.\" And what I have said to people is, \"This is a very unique\nordinance and it's unique to Alameda, and Alameda is a unique place.\" And it's not just all of you\nand the kinds of people who live in Alameda, our physical geography makes a lot of the things in\nthis ordinance possible.\nAndrew Thomas: City of Berkley couldn't adopt this ordinance, it's just too much topography. The\ncity of San Francisco couldn't adopt this ordinance. We have the benefit of having geography, a flat\nisland with not a lot of topography that makes a lot of this possible, allows us here in Alameda to set\na high standard. It does set a high standard, and that makes some people nervous and the way I\ndescribe it is Since 2012 your Planning Board, and this commission, and this community, has\ndemanded that with every single project we discuss, negotiate, twist arms to try to get Universal\nDesign into every project. And thanks to your Planning Commission you have. Each project's a little\ndifferent, each negotiation goes a little bit differently, but the Planning Board here in Alameda has\nnegotiated Universal Design elements into every single housing project that's been approved since\nJuly of 2012.\nAndrew Thomas: What this ordinance does, it sets a new standard. And those conversations have\nalways started at zero. The developer comes in, \"What are your requirements?\" And we give them\nall the city requirements and then we say, \"Oh, and by the way.\" This is me downstairs at the permit\ncenter, \"Oh, by the way there's one more thing we need to tell you about, Universal Design.\" And\nthey're like, \"Oh, where's the ordinance? What's the standards?\". \"Well, let's talk about that.\" And\nthat's kind of how the conversation goes. City staff we push a certain amount of Universal Design\ninto the project through various negotiation tactics and arm wrestling and threats. And then they get\nto the Planning Board and the Planning Board always makes it a little bit better. What we're doing\nwith this ordinance is we're saying we're setting. Rather than starting at zero on every\nconversation, when you come in with a housing project in Alameda, we've set a standard, it's this\nhigh. Now you know what our standard is. If you can meet that standard, if you look at our standard\nand you say, \"You know what I can do that in my project.\" That conversation's over, we're done! We\ndon't have to debate it, you as a developer you don't have to have the uncertainty of not knowing.\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 3 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 4, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nAndrew Thomas: The problem with the current system, the developer, the people who are\ninvesting in housing, and let's be honest, 90% of the housing built in California and in Alameda is\nbuilt by private sector investors, they need to know. They need to know what's the cost. It's these\nlast minute things, these things they don't know until the very, very end of the project that are the\nmost damaging. So what we're saying is here, we'll tell you right now what it is, on day one, it's up\nhere. But what we're also saying is we get it, each project's a little bit different. We get that this\nmight be a very high standard. And we're not saying we won't have the conversation, we will have\nthe conversation if you want to have a conversation with us and our Planning Commission you are\nmore than welcome to. But we're starting here, you tell us what you cannot do with your project,\nand why you can't do it and let's have the Planning Board come up with some alternative ways to\nmake the project as good as it can be. So we're not saying that these conversations go away entirely,\nbut we're trying to set our new city standard. That's where the conversation starts.\nAndrew Thomas: I think the other just thing that I'll point out about this, I'll let you ask any\nquestions that you have and I won't try to go through every piece of this ordinance. But I think this\nordinance does something that - I'll be honest with you - 20, 30 years of working and planning as\nplanners we just didn't talk about it. We talk about Universal Design, we talk about ADA, we talk\nabout access. This concept of visitability, your Commissioner Brillinger, really was the one who\nstarted pushing this. This concept of it's not just about where people with mobility issues can live,\nthat's obviously an important issue. We as Alamedans we have friends with disability issues, they\nshould be at least visit us in our homes and that's just a very powerful concept. When I think about\nwhat this ordinance does that's a concept that really comes out loud and clear in this ordinance and I\ndo think you're going to start seeing other cities looking at this ordinance.\nAndrew Thomas: They may not adopt this ordinance exactly the way it is, but they're going to pick\na lot of the things that you all came up with and we've sort of crafted in this ordinance. And I think\nit will influence not only the way we build buildings here in Alameda but ultimately I think this\nordinance is going to have an effect statewide, because what'll happen is other cities will start\nlooking at this ordinance, they'll pick up pieces of it, they'll adopt sections of it and it's really going\nto move the ball forward here in California on this issue. With that I'm here to thank all of you, I'm\nhere to thank Audrey and David, and everyone else who has worked on this. And staff is very proud\nand happy to be recommending it, not just to the Planning Commission and not just to this board\nbut also ultimately to the city council. I'm available to answer any questions.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much. Now we will go around and if you have any questions\nabout the Universal Design, it's your chance to ask them. And then we'll have public comment, and\nthen we'll go around once more and you can make any comments that you want and then we'll take\na vote. Let's start with you Commissioner Brillinger, Vice Chair Brillinger.\nArnold Brillinger: I'm not so sure that I have questions, but comments. I think that we need to\nremember that this is a plus. This is a plus for Alameda. This is a plus for the home builders, and a\nplus for the people who buy the homes. The builders need to make sure that their buyers understand\nthat they've got something special. It's not just like the houses in the next city, in the next county.\nThey have something special. They are accessible. They are visitable. And Andrew said something:\nI've been championing this. I've done it in front of the city council. I've done it in front of the\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 4 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 5, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nPlanning Board. I've done it out on the streets of Alameda. I've got signs on the back of my\nwheelchair and on the sides that talk about visitability. And I'm really glad to see that we are coming\nto the point where we can bring it to the city council, and where they can say, \"Okay, you guys did a\ngood job, and we're ready to take it on.\"\nElizabeth Kenny: Great. Thank you Commissioner Brillinger. Commissioner Lewis, do you have\nany questions or comments?\nTony Lewis: No. I would just echo what Arnold had said. And also a long time for Alameda. I think\nit's great that we're doing this. We have a large population that are getting older that will really\nbenefit from. I do hope that My gut feeling is that there's going to be a lot of developers that aren't\ngoing to be very pleased because the cost and better I've not seen but I'm happy for the ones that\nwill adopt it, or are willing to go along with developing.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Lewis. Commissioner Deutsch, who was one of the\npeople working on this five years ago.\nSusan Deutsch: Well, I don't have any questions. I just want to say that I'm very pleased that we're\nat this point after five years working on this and I'm really looking forward to something positive\nhappening.\nElizabeth Kenny: Great. Thank you. Commissioner Barrett?\nJen Barrett: Hi, all. Thank you so much for that presentation. Just so you know my background, I\nworked for two and a half years as an accessibility consultant in the New York City area, and\naround the US. So I'm involved with a lot of the laws and enforcement, as well as for Universal\nDesign for a few clients. I just had one question in 18.4 b, Section 2. It's talking about the\nrequirements for the 30% of the new residential units, in developments of five or more. California\nbuilding code, correct me if I'm wrong, is 10% of multistory dwelling units are covered. So that's\nwhat the state requires. The Fair Housing Act does not apply to this if it's a multistory dwelling unit.\nMy question is, for that section it's talking about accessible bathroom, accessible common use area,\naccessible bedroom, kitchen, common area and laundry would have to be on an accessible route. So\nthat means that everything in that multistory unit would have to be on the first floor.\nAndrew Thomas: Right.\nJen Barrett: Okay.\nAndrew Thomas: For example, let's say a developer is building single-family homes, detached.\nThey can meet the 30% requirement with this by having all of the main features of the room of the\nhouse on the ground floor. That doesn't mean they can't have bedrooms upstairs. They can have two,\nthree stories above, all accessed by stairs, but on that ground floor you have to have the kitchen,\nliving room, at least one bedroom, at least one accessible bathroom. Concept being, there's\nsomebody who has mobility issues. They can live their life on that one floor. Kids can run up and\ndown the stairs all day long. That was the idea.\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 5 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 6, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nJen Barrett: Great. Thanks.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Barrett. Commissioner Hall?\nLisa Hall: Thank you Andrew, once again, for all your hard work. I just really want to say thank\nyou to Susan, Andrew, and Audrey for their work the last five years that they've done. I know it's\nbeen a lot of hard work on your part, and I'm so happy to see it coming to fruition.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Mills?\nTom\nMills: Yes, how does this apply I own my own house. I'm eventually going to be disabled,\nwhere I've already earthquake-proofed the basement, raised the house, but every time I've gone and\napplied to do some work underneath there I was stopped by a city council member of long ago.\nShe's dead and gone. And I just wonder, if. I agree with 90% of what's in here. That's the only\nquestion.\nAndrew Thomas: Yes, these are a set of regulations for new housing developments. So if it does\nnot apply to existing home owners, who are coming in to remodel their kitchen or add a bedroom,\nthey're exempt. Accessory dwelling units, which are now heavily regulated by the state are exempt.\nIf you're just building a little cottage in your backyard. Although we think, actually the ones that\nwe've approved when you actually look at the little floor plan or cottage in the backyard of an\nAlameda property it's actually very easy to make it accessible. But there's a number of things that\nare changing. This certainly won't get in your way of being able to modify your basement, and for\ndifferent reasons with different ordinances, the Planning Board and the city council have recently\nadjusted a number of city regulations to which had making it very difficult for Alameda residents to\nconvert basements to living space and things like that. So you should try again.\nTom Mills: The closeness of the houses, my neighbor's house is only 3 feet, 2 feet at the roof line.\nAnd it's been empty since Kerr passed away, and they want put four units in. Now there's been\nhomeless people living in there. I'm like a cat on steroids all the time waiting for the place to go up\nin flames. And nobody's watching. Are they going to do something there?\nAndrew Thomas: You should give our building official Greg McFann a call, I can get you hooked\nup, their code enforcement. I know of the property you're talking about. Laws in California make it\ndifficult. There's a process but the idea that the city can just go in there and clean things up and\neverything has to go through the court system when you're dealing with a situation like this. It's a\nvery slow, very tedious, very time consuming process. If somebody in the family or somebody in\nthe ownership structure of the property doesn't take control and do it themselves, when the city has\nto step in and try to do the things it's brutally difficult.\nTom Mills: I had an issue with the CDC had come in and did a soil sample in the back of their yard,\nand it was not habitable for humans.\nAndrew Thomas: I can get you hooked up with the right people who can answer your questions.\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 6 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 7, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nTom Mills: Yes, I'd appreciate that.\nAndrew Thomas: Sure.\nTom Mills: I can't even go in my backyard.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Mills. Commissioner Aghapekian.\nAnto Aghapekian: I've been a latecomer, us two. But I have watched and listened and I know that,\nI get that, and I know all the orders and areas physicians. I'm very proud to say this. But I don't\nthink that the matter is exciting or urgent as much as important. It will be a tough fight for council.\nAndrew Thomas: First of all, thank you. I wanted to say again, this would not have happened if it\nweren't for members of this community, of this commission just taking this on. I guarantee you,\nstaff alone could not have done it. We wouldn't have done it. It was this partnership that worked so\nwell. And you're absolutely right. You watch sports, let's celebrate the little victory tonight, but the\nbig game is in September. And then I think we also all need to take the attitude. We worked really\nhard. We have a good ordinance, it's ready to be adopted. Is it perfect? It may not be. We're going to\nstart using it and let me tell you I've been writing ordinances and implementing ordinances my\nentire career. You can work and work and work and work to try to make it perfect.\nAndrew Thomas: You'll find out in the first year what isn't working right and you know what, we\njust have to have the mindset. We're going to discover those little problems, and then we're going to\nfix them. Our second unit ordinance in Alameda, we've amended it 15 times. Needs change.\nPriorities change. Our parking ordinance we amend that like every four years, it's okay. But until we\nget this adopted, until we actually run it through, it's like a test drive on a car. We need to start using\nit, then we'll know what's not quite right and we'll fix it. I just think the battle's not over, I agree\nwith you and we just have to take the attitude, this is just. It's a continuing process and we'll just\nkeep getting better and better at it, but thank you.\nElizabeth Kenny: I want to say a couple of questions for you.\nAndrew Thomas: Yes.\nElizabeth Kenny: First I want to say I love this. It's amazing how all the ideas that we had have\nbeen distilled into this. I have seen the different versions, and I'm really happy with this, and thank\nyou for everything, and thank you Audrey, and David, and Arnold, and Anto. Thank you all for this.\nAnd Susan. Kelly Harp was a former commissioner, also worked on this too, and I want to put her\nname out there. I do have a couple of questions.\nAndrew Thomas: Yes.\nElizabeth Kenny: In 18.5 Section c, under the list of features that can be substituted in. Under the\nnumber two, it says blocking with all the walls of the hallway. One thing that I really liked about\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 7 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 8, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nthis version is that I think that's covered under visitability because doesn't the visitability part of this\nsay 100% you put the blocking in the walls?\nAndrew Thomas: It's in visitability what we're saying is blocking the walls in all bathrooms.\nElizabeth Kenny: Okay.\nAndrew Thomas: And so that's one of the little distinctions, we're saying, \"Just bottom-line you\nwant to meet our standard, we definitely want blocking in all bathrooms.\"\nElizabeth Kenny: Okay.\nAndrew Thomas: But not necessarily hallways.\nElizabeth Kenny: The hallways, okay.\nAndrew Thomas: You want to start trading something.\nElizabeth Kenny: Yes.\nAndrew Thomas: Somebody says \"Oh, we can't do quite 30%, we can do 29%.\" Alright. How\nabout you do blocking in all the walls, in the hallways, and the bathrooms and suddenly they go,\n\"Oh, well we can do that.\"\nAndrew Thomas: But that was this idea of putting this list in. It really came from your\ncommission. We're going to let people do waivers, let's give them a list of things that we would like\nin return and that's a really a nice idea.\nElizabeth Kenny: And then in that same section, number 5, accessible shower stalls in all\nbathrooms, I was just wondering if we could just say accessible shower stalls or tubs because\nthey're making accessible tubs these days.\nAndrew Thomas: If you have support of everyone else it's certainly from staff, we see no problem\nwith that from staff's perspective.\nElizabeth Kenny: And yes, those were my two main questions. Thank you again. I am ecstatic\nabout this. So as many of you know my wife is about to give birth and I feel like two births are\ncoming this week.\nElizabeth Kenny: Yes. Commissioner Linton did you have any questions about this or should we\nmove on to public comment?\nJenny Linton: Oh, no.\nElizabeth Kenny: Okay. First public comment is David Burton.\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 8 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 9, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nDavid Burton: Thank you. David Burton. I'm a member of the Planning Board and was a member\nof the subcommittee that worked with the members here to help craft the ordinance. First wanted to\nthank subcommittee members who were at the meetings that I was certainly at. Commissioner\nAghapekian, Commissioner Brillinger, Commissioner Deutsch, Commissioner Kenny. Thank you\nvery much for all the work you put in. Your input was instrumental in making this ordinance better\nand better every time that we met. Special thanks to Audrey Lord-Hausman for her perseverance\nover the years, and being on the commission, and then even off the commission helping to get this\nput in place. Couldn't happen without her. I wanted to thank Andrew Thomas and the rest of the\nstaff for putting in the time to make this happen. And wanted to extend the thanks John Knox White\nwho's on the Planning Board with me, he wanted to be here tonight, he had a meeting in the city\nthat wouldn't let him be here, but he wanted to extend his thanks also for all the work that you guys\nhave done on this.\nDavid Burton: You guys have taught me a lot, and I think you have taught the entire Planning\nBoard a lot. There's been a great good bit of education that has gone on and it's invaluable and so\nthank you for doing that for us and for the community. I've been uncomfortable for a long time that\nwe've been doing this, the Planning Board, on a kind of negotiation project by project basis and so\njust so happy to see us getting this put in place to set a very high standard, and to be able to have\nthat as a tool to use with the builders and developers that come into town to build new housing. It's\ngoing to be an invaluable tool for us. It sets a very high standard, but it's a reasonable and flexible\nordinance, because as we talked a lot about in our subcommittee meetings there's a ton of things\nthat impact. Sites these days when people are doing multi-family housing. So I think we've built in\ngood flexibility but we'll hold folks to a really high standard and we'll get some good results. So,\ncongratulations to all of you. Congratulations to Audrey. Congratulations to staff. Super excited to\nsee this going forward, and thank you for all that you do.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Next public comment is Audrey Lord-Hausman.\nAudrey Lord-Hausman: Good evening, Chair Kenny and commissioners. I'm thrilled to be here.\nI\ncouldn't be happier. I know the journey isn't quite over yet but there's been a lot of thoughtful,\nthoughtful work that has been put into this, and you all have continued this journey. And I thank you\nfor acknowledging Kelly Harp in addition to Susan in the beginning in my living room and around\nthe dining room table, and certainly the subcommittee as we all came together with the Planning\nBoard. But it's been an extraordinary example of passion and collaboration with the Planning\nDepartment and with the Planning Board. When first brought it to Andrew's attention, I think it was\na one-beat, two-beat. He wasn't quite sure what we were talking about. But over time, he just\njumped right into it with us. And Andrew, I can't thank you enough. I nagged him constantly. You\nall should take a great deal of pride in this. Be there in September, have people there to speak to it.\nBut when the final vote is in, and I'm going to assume it's unanimous, we can all take a great deal of\npride in the fact that Alameda is a standard bearer on behalf of so many people. Thank you very\nmuch.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Audrey. Now we're going to go around. If anyone has any questions\nor comments on public comment. Commissioner Linton? Commissioner Brillinger? Commissioner\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 9 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 10, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nLewis? Deutsch? Hall? Commissioner Mills? Aghapekian?\nAnto Aghapekian: I forgot to thank [did not record].\nElizabeth Kenny: And I would like to reiterate what Commissioner Aghapekian said, the Planning\nBoard has been really wonderful during this process, and I have learned a tremendous amount from\nyou, David. I have the passion but not the knowledge. And it's been a pleasure to work with you.\nAnd I appreciate that at the Planning Board you have been implementing some of this stuff without\nthe ordinance. That's been really wonderful. But I also would like to have the ordinance in place.\nSo, with that said, I would like to offer a vote with the addition of the accessible shower stall and\ntub on Section 5 of 18.5 waivers. Section C5 rather. I move that we vote to approve the ordinance\nand resolve to What?\nJenn Barrett: Recommend.\nElizabeth Kenny: Recommend the council approve this ordinance, the Universal Design\nOrdinance. Commissioner Lewis seconded. All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nElizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Any abstained? I think it's unanimous.\nElizabeth Kenny: And I made some cupcakes. We have some cupcakes and sparkling cider for\neverybody after this.\n6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS\nElizabeth Kenny: But we still have to finish up this meeting. So, let's move on to item number 6,\nStaff Communications.\nKerry Parker: Okay. Quickly, it sounded like a CDI's event planning for this weekend's\nDowntown Alameda Art & Wine Faire happened right before this meeting. On Sunday, the CDI will\nhave a table located in front of Walgreens on the park street side. And there's a schedule of people to\nperform outreach on that day. I think you guys have kind of discussed it amongst yourselves. The\nmore the merrier.\nAudrey Lord-Hausman: It's Saturday?\nKerry Parker: It's this Saturday. What did I say?\nElizabeth Kenny: Saturday, not Sunday.\nKerry Parker: Yes, Saturday. If you've not yet spoken with the event committee about your\nparticipation that day or if you're wondering about the details, please check in with Vice-Chair\nBrillinger immediately after this meeting while you're having a cupcake. And then I have one more\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 10 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 11, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nthing. Just about two years ago this month, I was asked to staff a commission on disability issues as\npublic works program specialist in charge of overseeing the trash recycling needs of the residents\nand businesses of Alameda, I was admittedly not as technically skilled as I could be for this area. I\nknow a lot of details about the goings-on of your garbage company's operations, and can recite what\ngoes into the blue and green curbside carts, but I did not know much about accessibility or the needs\nof the needs of the disabled community in Alameda.\nKerry Parker: However, I am good at pulling together an agenda and assisting in meeting\nmanagement, because I worked with the Alameda Public Works Department for 14 years, I do know\nhow to locate just the right person for whatever issue that might come up, including Andrew\nThomas, a city planner. I did commit to streamlining commission processes and to add some\nformality to the commission by moving into this room.\nKerry Parker: We quickly established a rhythm of an increase in regular meetings in 2015. And\nthe fact this meeting is now televised to the residents of Alameda, it's now a meeting that is more\naccessible to the public. I'm pretty sure you have sensed what I'm leading up to. This will be my\nlast meeting as your city staff liaison for this commission. I will miss working with you guys. I have\nlearned so much, and I've enjoyed working with you all for the past two years. And I'm celebrating\nthis Universal Design ordinance, like the rest of you.\nKerry Parker: And so I'm handing off this set of duties to another public works staffer, Laurie\nKozisek. Laurie will you please step up to the podium? I would like to read her bio to you, which I\nthink you will agree makes a clear argument of why this staffing shift is happening. Laurie Kozisek\nis a licensed civil engineer and a certified access specialist, which is CASp for short. With a BS in\nCivil Engineering and a Masters of Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures. She has been\nworking for the city of Alameda Public Works for the past 12 years, and has been a Bay Farm\nresident for the past 10 years.\nKerry Parker: Her current work with the city includes managing the five million dollar Street\nRepair Program and reviewing private development plans and permits. She has also been active in\nemergency management planning, sea level rise planning, floodplain management, remodeling the\nWest End in Bay Farm libraries, dredging the South Shore lagoons, and renovating Woodstock\nPark.\nKerry Parker: Before coming to work in Alameda, she lived and worked in Alaska, designing\nairports, roads, cemeteries, and utilities. She served as a member of the Public Right of Way Access\nAdvisory Committee representing the Municipality of Anchorage. This was a nationwide committee\nthat worked for several years to develop ADA guidance for the public right of way. As part of that\neffort, she co-edited \"Building a True Community\" 2001 and co-wrote \"Accessible Public Rights of\nWay Planning and Design for Alterations\" in 2007.\nKerry Parker: She also served on several boards and commissions concerning transportation and\nurban planning. In her spare time - Can you imagine she has spare time - Laurie is a phone\nvolunteer for Contra Costa Crisis Center and 211, a disaster response team captain for the American\nRed Cross, and an usher for the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. She regularly assists\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 11 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 12, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nher 94 year old father, who is legally blind and has mobility issues. She is a member of the Alameda\nDragonflyers dragon boat racing team and enjoys camping and hiking. Please join me in welcoming\nLaurie Kozisek.\nKerry Parker: If you have any words to say, you can, but she will be beginning with you in\nOctober at your October meeting.\nLaurie Kozisek: I didn't really have anything prepared, but I did work briefly with this group about\n10 years ago when Ed Sommerauer was doing it, and I was the alternative staff member when he\ncouldn't make it. And because of my background in working on ADA regulations, I'm really looking\nforward to using my expertise to answer your questions and try and assist you wherever I can.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much, and welcome.\nArnold Brillinger: Welcome, Laurie.\nLaurie Kozisek: Thank you.\nKerry Parker: Thank you, Laurie.\nLaurie Kozisek: Thank you. Question?\nArnold Brillinger: I think that it needs to be said that without Kerry, we couldn't have gone on for\nthe last couple of years. Behind the scenes of just about everything that we've been putting on, and\nshe comes up with all the e-mails and the work, and so forth so thank you very much, Kerry. We\nreally appreciate it. In fact I can't even tell you how much I appreciate what you have done for us,\nthank you.\nKerry Parker: Thank you.\nLaurie Kozisek: Yes.\nLaurie Kozisek: From what I've learned from Kerry so far, I have some very big shoes to fill, but\nthank you.\nKerry Parker: I will give you my shoes. We'll figure it out. I'm going to be working behind the\nscenes for the October meeting with Laurie, so I think you're going to send some of that stuff, but\nthank you. It's been wonderful working with you. Even though I didn't get a chance much to work\nwith the two of you, but I'll still be there in public works, if anyone wants to call.\nElizabeth Kenny: Thank you, I'll probably be calling for recycling tips.\nKerry Parker: Okay, good. Appropriate.\nElizabeth Kenny: So, does anyone have any announcements?\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 12 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-07-25", "page": 13, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES\nMEETING MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING ON\nTuesday, July 25, 2017 6:30 p.m.\n8. ADJOURNMENT\nThe meeting was adjourned at 7:15 p.m.\nRespectfully submitted,\nLaurie Kozisek\nCity Staff Liaison\nCommission on Disability Issues\nOctober 11, 2017\nPage 13 of 13", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-07-25.pdf"}