{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 1, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, December 12, 2017 6:30 p.m.\nLOCATION:\nCity Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Third Floor, Council Chambers\nAlameda, CA 94501\n1.\nROLL CALL\nBeth Kenny: Alright, I'd like to call to order the Commission on Disability meeting for December\n13, 2017. We're starting a little bit late tonight, at about approximately 6:45 [due to recording\ndifficulties].\nLaurie Kozisek: Okay. I'll do the roll call. Beth Kenny.\nBeth Kenny: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Anto Aghapekian.\nAnto Aghapekian: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Lisa Hall.\nLisa Hall: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Jenny Linton.\nJenny Linton: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Jenn Barrett.\nJenn Barrett: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Arnold Brillinger.\nArnold Brillinger: Ho ho ho.\n[laughter]\nLaurie Kozisek: Present. Okay. Tom Mills, is not here. Tony Lewis, not here. And Susan Deutsch\nsaid that she was sick and could not make it.\n12/12/17\nPage 1 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 2, "text": "2.\nMINUTES\n2-A Approval of Minutes for the October 11, 2017 Meeting\nBeth Kenny: Thank you. Agenda item number two. The minutes, does anybody have any changes\nthey would like to make from the minutes from our October 11th, 2017, meeting?\nArnold Brillinger: I make a motion that we accept the minutes.\nBeth Kenny: I'll second that motion. All in favor?\nArnold Brillinger: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Any opposed? Minutes approved.\n3.\nORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGANDA (PUBLIC COMMENT)\nBeth Kenny: Do we have any non-agenda public comment? Any speaker slips?\nLaurie Kozisek: No.\n4.\nNEW BUSINESS\n4-A Retreat Planning\nBeth Kenny: Okay. New business, first thing is we need to select a date for the retreat. Jenn, you\nhaven't experienced this before. Because the City is dark in August, we don't get to meet then, so we\nmake up that meeting in the winter time having a retreat where we just talk about goals for the\ncommission and go over some sunshine ordinance and Brown Acts, stuff like that. It takes place on\na Saturday at Mastick. Laurie has spoken to Jackie Krause from Mastick, and she said she could do\na Saturday in February, but that January is a bad month for them. Does anyone have a Saturday in\nFebruary they need to rule out?\nLaurie Kozisek: Madam Chairman, may I also mention that you have a meeting, a regular meeting\nin February on the 14th.\nBeth Kenny: Okay.\nArnold Brillinger: Is it possible to do it in March?\nBeth Kenny: I don't believe that we checked with Jackie about that. I imagine that it would be, I\nthink that my thought was that we try and plan for the year. And so it might be good to have it\nbefore our first meeting of the year.\nArnold Brillinger: Okay. Makes sense.\nBeth Kenny: Could we do the first Saturday in February?\n12/12/17\nPage 2 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 3, "text": "Arnold Brillinger: What day is that?\nJenny Linton: February 3.\nLaurie Kozisek: Last year it was in March.\nBeth Kenny: Okay.\nLaurie Kozisek: The retreat was in March 11th, of last year.\nBeth Kenny: Alright, so what Is it the second?\nAnto Aghapekian: The third.\nBeth Kenny: I'm going to suggest February 3rd. Does anyone have any objections to that? Alright,\nall in favor?\nArnold Brillinger: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Great. The retreat will be February 3rd. I expect it'll start around 10:00, end by around\n1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon. The other thing about the retreat that I wanted to let people know is\nthat I will be sending out, with the agenda for the retreat, some questions that I want you guys to\nthink about and come prepared to talk about at the retreat. Basically, for those of you who were\nthere last year, the ones that I put up on the board to spark conversation about the commission\ngoals.\n4-B Commission involvement in requests for exemptions to the Universal Design Ordinance\nBeth Kenny: Let's move on to item 4B. I don't know if everyone here is aware, but the Universal\nDesign Ordinance passed City Council and is now in effect as a law in ordinance in the City of\nAlameda.\nArnold Brillinger: Is it that it starts in January or it's in effect right now?\nBeth Kenny: It's in effect right now. Next Tuesday night the Encinal terminals will be presenting\ntheir development to City Council, and they've reached out to make sure it will be in line with the\nUniversal Design Ordinance. They're aware it's the first big development to be under the Universal\nDesign Ordinance. Part of the Universal Design Ordinance is that there is a waiver people can\nsubmit, and they can apply for this waiver at the design review process, which goes before the\nPlanning Board. However, we've asked that the Planning Board let us know when anybody asks for\na waiver of Universal Design elements. And the waivers can be something where it's financially\nimpossible, or the physical location doesn't make it feasible. We've asked to be notified when those\nwaiver requests come in. What we'd like to do tonight is to have three people authorized to speak on\nbehalf of the Commission at these Planning Board meetings when these exemptions, waiver\nrequests come up.\nArnold Brillinger: And we would know ahead of time that it's going to happen.\n12/12/17\nPage 3 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 4, "text": "requests regarding Universal Design. Do I have a second?\nArnold Brillinger: Second.\nBeth Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright, carries unanimously. That was a mouthful.\n12/12/17\nPage 4 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 5, "text": "5.\nOLD BUSINESS\n5-A. Commission and Board Liaison Reports\nBeth Kenny: Now we move on to old business. Section 5-A: Commission and Board Liaison\nReports. I would like to start this off with Vice Chair Brillinger. I was fortunate enough to attend a\nthing in which I got to see his board liaison work.\nArnold Brillinger: Well, okay. I've been to a number of meetings that deal with transportation in\nAlameda. And the first one that I went to was right after our last meeting. It was the ILC [City of\nAlameda and AC Transit Interagency Liaison Committee], and the highlights I'd like to tell you\nabout that. It was on the 16th of October at 10:00 in the morning. It was in this room right next to us\nhere. The ILC is basically people from AC Transit, some of the people from the board of directors,\nand also several people from Alameda; the mayor, the vice mayor, whoever, councilmen. They\nmeet, and they talk about the different transportation, things that happen in Alameda. One of the\nthings that they do have, and I've been to these meetings before, but I never really looked at some of\nthese handouts that they have. And just like for the 51A, for the bus line, they've got all kinds of\nridership and customer trends on what's happening. They have lists of our charts that talk about\nconduct and courtesy of the drivers, the amount of complaints they get on pass-ups, or hazardous\ndriving, or routes and schedule problems, or no shows, or lates, or if there are problems at the bus\nstop. Maybe there's a lot of garbage or something like that at the bus stop. Those are all things that\nthey keep track of, and for each individual bus route. Not just the 51A, but the 21 and the 20 and the\n96. Boy sounds like I know them all.\nArnold Brillinger: That was interesting. And of course it's not like they've got 86 complaints about\nsignage. They've only got one or two complaints on this item or that. But still, it's interesting and\nthen you can compare them month to month or actually quarter to quarter, because they meet four\ntimes a year. Now one of the things that I knew they were going to discuss was service to the Main\nStreet Ferry Terminal. And they had three different options that they were interested in, and it turns\nout that none of them are going to be considered right now. AC Transit can't make it. They want it to\npay for itself, but there are a lot of problems down there with the parking. I've seen it myself along\nMain Street, it's quite horrendous what people have to do. We need to get them interested in taking\nthe bus, but there is no bus going there. That is a problem. And then the line 21, which goes out to\nthe Harbor Bay area, there have been some problems with that because parents need to drop off\ntheir kids and then run over there to hop onto the ferry, but then there's no parking for their cars.\nArnold Brillinger: And if they take the bus it just adds on time between get the kids in the school\nand this kind of stuff but, they're working on it, and they're trying to make sure that the buses get\nthere in time so people can get onto the ferry. And they asked, \"Well can we just say \"We're right\naround the corner of the ferry.\"? They say, \"Well that really doesn't work for us because we are on\ntime, the ferry is on time, they need to keep their schedules.\" Those are some things that they\ndiscussed, but they're going to try and work them out because we need to have a lot of people taking\nthe buses to the ferry. And the fourth thing that they discussed was a Trans-Bay Terminal. That's a\nwhole project that AC Transit has on getting the commuters to San Francisco. It's really interesting.\nThey're going to buy some double-decker buses to get people to San Francisco, but they're not\ngoing to use them in Alameda.\n12/12/17\nPage 5 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 6, "text": "Arnold Brillinger: They're going to buy 12 to 15 buses to begin with, and use them on the routes\nwhere they really have so many people wanting to get into San Francisco, mostly in Emeryville and\nBerkeley. Those were the things that were discussed there. The Salesforce Tower, you see that now\nsticking up, and that's the center of the Trans-Bay, the whole terminal thing. Where the Muni will\nmatch in with AC Transit and Contra Costa, their commuters and all kinds of things and trains, and\nwho knows what. It's going to be really a fantastic thing when they get it all together. Because it's\ngoing to be the tallest building in San Francisco for a while and the second tallest building in the\nstate. That's pretty much it for the ILC meeting.\nArnold Brillinger: And then the Transportation Commission had a meeting on the 15th of\nNovember at 7:00 PM and they approved the AC Transit's Trans-Bay Tomorrow proposal because\nthey got the presentation too. Except, it didn't want to reduce some of the OX frequency, and that's\nwhat AC transit was saying, \"Let's do it this way.\" And the Transportation Commission said, \"Ah,\nthat's the part we don't want to happen.\" And then, there was a status report on a plan for access to\nthe Harbor Bay Ferry terminal. That again is, \"Do we charge for parking? Do we do this? Can we\nget the buses to be there on time?\", and so forth. They had some discussion on that.\nArnold Brillinger: And then, the last thing, and this was really exciting to me, I heard a suggestion,\nand this was during the public comments. And the person who gave the presentation was suggesting\nthat Alameda and, well in the East Bay, that they have a tramway, gondolas, big ones, going from\nthe west end, somewhere there, across the water and I would have thought connect with Jack\nLondon Square or Jack London area. No, they said, \"Let's go to the West Oakland terminal, the\nBART terminal,\" which would make a lot of sense.\nArnold Brillinger: Like I said, that was just a suggestion. They didn't discuss that, but I thought,\n\"Whoa, this sounds really neat. And at least somebody is thinking about trying to work it out, the\ntransportation issues here.\"\nArnold Brillinger: There is one more thing that I need to talk about, and that's that right after\nHalloween the Alameda Shuttle started going around. Have you seen it yet? I'm sorry. Excuse me.\nBut, the Alameda Shuttle, they've got two buses, they're brand new buses. And like the old bus, you\njust kind of look at it and say, \"I wonder what that is.\" This one says, \"Alameda Loop Shuttle, free\nfor all.\" I was on that committee to get the bus wrap and stuff like that, and I really pushed for that\n\"free for all\", and it says that on either side, also in the back and in the front, because we want to get\nas many people on this. It's going to be making the round. People ought to get on it, save some of\ntheir gas and emissions. And it works on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and it used to take an\nhour. Well, it still takes an hour to take the whole trip around. But now, with two buses, every half\nhour, a bus is going by the different places. It makes it easier and you don't have to wait so long.\nArnold Brillinger: The Tuesday loop goes the central part of Alameda, the library, the cinema, the\nKaiser Permanente, those things right here in the center, and also Mastick, and goes out to Alameda\nLanding, around Target, those stores out there. Also, that's where the Center for Independent Living,\nCIL, is out there too. Their office is not really that close to the street, but there is a place to get off\nand get on there.\nSpeaker 1: They're in the loop now?\n12/12/17\nPage 6 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 7, "text": "Arnold Brillinger: They're in the loop, yes. And Wednesdays is when it goes down to the east end\nout to Harbor Bay Isle, and it goes through some of the housing, the HOAs and stuff like that, to\npick up people. And again, comes through the same part in the middle of town to run them through\nand also South Shore Center. And then, on Thursdays, it's a central loop, it goes through the middle\nagain, and Mastick and South Shore, but also goes out this way to Brookside, which is where Nob\nHill is, and also the Park Street Landing, which is where the Dollar store is, or the Dollar Tree is.\nArnold Brillinger: It's worthwhile to get on and to go and I suggest I've even been going around\nto nursing homes and saying, \"Hey, you see this bus that's coming around? Take your loved one,\"\nand I'm telling this to responsible people, \"Take your loved ones just on a ride for an hour. They will\nsee something different than the four walls of their nursing home. Or take them out, go to South\nShore and push them around for a while. Go through the grocery store and stuff. Just make their\nlives a little bit more interesting.\" And the neat thing about this is that it has lifts for wheelchairs\nand even in my wheelchair, I can be in the back of it and I could do a 360. There is some room back\nthere. But they also have bike racks in the front of it. I made up a sign that says, \"Take your bike for\na ride.\" And then when you get to a certain place, you can take it off, ride around for a while. When\nyou come back, there's another shuttle.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you very much for all your hard work, Vice-Chair Brillinger. You're really\ndoing a lot in the transportation department so thank you.\nArnold Brillinger: Yes. Also, I wanted to say that I do travel around to other disability\ncommissions and councils. And I have reported to the Oakland one and also the San Francisco one\nthat the City Council passed the Universal Design Ordinance. I've had some people say, \"Oh, can\nwe get copies of it?\" I said, \"Sure. Here it is online. Download it.\" Because we can't just sit on it.\nWe need to also blow our own horn, as it were, and say, \"Hey, look what we've got going in\nAlameda. You guys get on the bandwagon.\" Whatever. It's not just for Alameda. It's for the East\nBay, for the state, for the country. We just keep on going bigger and bigger.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you. Does anyone else have anything they'd like to report from their\ncommission or board that they're a liaison for?\nAnto Aghapekian: For the transportation. For the transportation, I see them. The shuttle buses. I\nsee them at Mastick's and they're mostly empty.\nArnold Brillinger: You're right.\nAnto Aghapekian: I talked with the drivers and they say that people don't know about the program.\nArnold Brillinger: That's true.\nAnto Aghapekian: If you have an opportunity to talk with the commissioners or the directors to\nadvertise in the paper, let people know and let people know the routes, which bus to take to go\nwhere, to let people know and then they'd start using it because they're going around empty right\nnow.\nArnold Brillinger: They are. That's true. It went around empty before also, but nobody knew what\nit was.\n12/12/17\nPage 7 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 8, "text": "Anto Aghapekian: Right.\nArnold Brillinger: And I once went to one of the meetings and I say, \"This used to be Alameda's\nbest kept secret, the fact that it has a shuttle that's free for everyone and no one knows that it's\nhappening.\" I've also told the person who deals with the different para-transit issues here in\nAlameda. Her name is Victoria Williams and her office is at Mastick and I told her, \"One day I'm\njust going to take a handful of schedules and sit outside wherever, either at the library or at South\nShore or whatever and say, 'Hey! Take a trip! Take a tour!\" Kind of like Gilligan's tour. They had a\nthree-hour tour. Well, this is just a one-hour tour. Take the tour and see where it goes on Tuesdays.\nArnold Brillinger: Then Wednesday take another tour. And I'm just going to have them and just sit\nthere and say, \"Hey, here comes a bus now. You want to go? Get on. It's free.\" And they also have\nthings that we're going to put in the movie theater, like It won't be a video, necessarily, but it'll be\nan advertising slide. Also, and just tell people about it. Just tell people about it. Thank you.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you. If nobody has any other commission or board reports\nAnto Aghapekian: I went to the Planning Board meeting, it was in September. And the main topic\nthat they discussed was auxiliary units on your property. There was a lot of participation and\nopposition because the size of the addition they were talking about it, 1,000 square feet. And where\n1,000 square feet is going to fit on the 100 lots that we have in Alameda is beyond me. But they're\ntalking about it, and no resolutions were made. And at present, I don't know where it stands. But\nthey were talking about it. We may get part of the zoning, to increase the number of available units,\nmostly rented. But that's what their planning.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Hall?\nLisa Hall: Hi. Yeah. I'd just like to say a little word about reaching out to the community for the\nThanksgiving, Christ Church had its annual Thanksgiving dinner. And I'm very happy to see more\ndisabled people and wheelchairs accessible. That was one way of reaching out to the whole\ncommunity, but especially with our disabled people and our seniors. Also, Meals on Wheels served\nover 150 delivered meals on Thanksgiving Day to all those people that were shut-in or disabled or\nsenior or whatever. It was with the meals there and the deliveries, they served almost 900 meals for\nour little Alameda community. That was a good thing. Good day.\n6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS\nBeth Kenny: Great, thank you. Alright, so I am going to move on to staff communications. Agenda\nitem number six.\nLaurie Kozisek: Okay. I want to remind everyone that the next meeting will be February 3rd, the\nretreat. If you have any dietary needs, let me know. Otherwise, you're probably going to get\nsomething like Subway. And then February 14th is a regular meeting, and if you have suggestions\nfor agenda items, let me know or let Beth know. Just send it to me and I'll talk with Beth so that we\nhave agenda items. Or if you think of any speakers, let us know. That's all I have.\n12/12/17\nPage 8 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 9, "text": "Beth Kenny: Thank you very much. I just wanted to add, one thing that I had talked about having\nbeyond the planning of our next year, is talking a little bit more about emergency preparedness. And\nCommissioner Lewis and I have yet to meet, and it's my fault because I had to cancel. But I have\nspoken with Captain Oliver and with Jackie Krause from Mastick. Captain Oliver, obviously, is\ninterested, but Jackie Krause would like to work with us along this issue, too, and has worked with,\nwhen the City did other efforts, to create a way to know who are the people who are going to need a\nlittle bit of extra help in the event of an emergency. I think that would be really great to be able to\nwork with Mastick and Jackie Krause.\nJenn Barrett: I went to the opening of the new fire station, and I saw you there. That was great.\nAnd it's just so great to hear about how seriously they're taking the emergency preparedness, and so\nI think it's a great time, now that they've just had that new ceremony with the new chief, to reach\nout to them and work together. That's awesome.\nBeth Kenny: Wonderful. And I'm glad you guys went to that.\nLaurie Kozisek: I had one more item. As of January 1st, you will be the Commission on Disability.\n[applause]\nLaurie Kozisek: Just wanted to prepare you for that.\n7. ANNOUNCEMENTS\nBeth Kenny: Agenda item number seven. Does anyone have any announcements they'd like to\nmake?\nLisa Hall: More of a question. Going back to the calendar. Generally, we have six meetings a year.\nIs that correct?\nBeth Kenny: We're supposed to have six meetings a year.\nLisa Hall: But because August is closed, we have to put that meeting in some other month. The\nusual months that we would have it is, am I right then? It's February, April, June, October,\nDecember.\nBeth Kenny: Yes\nLisa Hall: Okay. But then we always have to put a special meeting in for retreat because August is\nclosed.\nBeth Kenny: That's correct. And I know that previously, I've inquired about us moving so that we\nwere on January, March, that schedule, but apparently there is a conflicts with another commission\nthat meets in this room at that time. Maybe that's something we can look a little bit more into too. If\nwe maybe did the third Wednesday instead of the second Wednesday. That's something we can look\ninto and definitely talk more about at the retreat. Alright any other announcements? Great than\nI\nwould like to move that we adjourn tonight's meeting. Alright. All in favor?\n12/12/17\nPage 9 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2017-12-13", "page": 10, "text": "All: Aye.\n8. ADJOURNMENT\nBeth Kenny: We're adjourned. Happy holidays everybody.\n12/12/17\nPage 10 of 10", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf"}