{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 1, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\n1. ROLL CALL\nBeth Kenny: I'd like to call to order the meeting of the Commission on Disability for Wednesday,\nFebruary 14th, 2018. Can we start with roll call?\nBeth Kenny: Present.\nJenny Linton: Present.\nJenn Barrett: Present.\nLisa Hall: Present.\nArnold Brillinger: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Anto Aghapekian Susan Deutch Tony Lewis - he has resigned Jennifer\nRoloff We have a quorum.\n[Note: Jennifer Roloff arrived at 6:40 PM.]\n2. MINUTES\nBeth Kenny: Great. So let's get to agenda item number two, approval of the minutes from the\nDecember 13th, 2017 meeting. Does anyone have any changes they'd like to see to those minutes or\nthings that were transcribed incorrectly? Then I move that we accept the minutes as they are. Do\nI\nhave a second?\nJenn Barrett: Second.\nBeth Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Opposed? Thank you. Passed unanimously.\n3.\nORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT)\nBeth Kenny: So item number three on the agenda is Oral Communications, non-agenda. Do we\nhave anybody who would like to make a public comment, any speakers tonight on non-agenda\nitems? Laurie? Okay.\n02/14/18\nPage 1 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 2, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\n4. NEW BUSINESS\n4-A. Alameda Transportation program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities (City\nStaff)\nBeth Kenny: Then let's move on to 4A, we're excited for this. Alameda Transportation Program\nPlan for Seniors and People with Disabilities. Welcome.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you. Hi. Honorable Chair and commissioners, I'm Victoria Williams, I'm\nthe Paratransit Coordinator. My office is at Mastick Senior Center and thank you very much for\ngiving us your time tonight. I'm here to discuss the If I can read in the dark, \"The City of\nAlameda's Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities for the fiscal year\nof 2018 and 2019.\" And with Measure B and BB funding, the county wide sales tax that's set aside\nfor transportation, the city provides supplemental transportation services for Seniors and People\nwho have disabilities. It's beyond the mandated service of East Bay Paratransit. And our funder\nAlameda County Transportation Commission, Alameda CTC, requires that all cities, all\njurisdictions review the plan, the Annual Program Plan. So we come here every year and we bring\nour plans and we ask for your input and we ask for your buy-in and your support as we go forward\nfor funding. Our funding application is due at the end of March, so we come to four different\ncommissions and boards prior to that to get some of your opinions.\nVictoria Williams: So thanks for letting us do that. Our agenda for this evening is a service\noverview, recommended program, a budget, and a planning process overview. And our service\noverview, you might see one of your commissioners there on the bottom, by our new shuttle there,\ncommissioner Brillinger. We have a great bunch of services. Every city gets to choose the services\nthat would meet the needs of their population since every Alameda County city is different. We\ndon't have the same needs as those living in Fremont might. So the items that we've chosen to fund\nare the Alameda Loop Shuttle and you'll hear more about that, and the subsidized taxi services. We\nhave two services that are subsidized.\nVictoria Williams: We've got scholarship programs, several kinds of group trips, capital\ninvestments, customer service and outreach and then management of all that. In 2010, there was one\nshuttle bus put on the road and it's been running well for all that time. However, in 2017, just the\nend October 31st, we were able to replace that one vehicle with two brand new, as you can see\nthey're brand new, shiny. We were the first people in that vehicle. It's not a used car. And they're\nbeautiful, they're accessible, we've got wheelchair lift and Commissioner Brillinger can tell you that\nin his wheelchair, he can do 360 degrees in the back of that vehicle. There's room for two\nwheelchair users in there at a time, so it's a good sized bus, nice big windows and the front has bike\nracks for two bicycles.\nVictoria Williams: Adding a second shuttle to the road means that our headways are 30 minutes\neach. So while the loop takes an hour, if you get on the bus and ride to your destination and come\nback to where you started, that loop takes one hour, but there's another bus 30 minutes later. So that\nmakes it better for those who are doing their grocery shopping and want to get their frozen food\n02/14/18\nPage 2 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 3, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nhome before it melts. You might have other things to do in your day than just ride the bus. So it's\nanother good reason for that. But that's because of the wait time that we thought that would be\nimportant. And there was a survey done. And the name that got the highest number of votes was\nAlameda Loop Shuttle. So we've re-branded as the Alameda Loop Shuttle.\nVictoria Williams: We've made it very visible. I don't know if you could miss it. It says free on\nevery side because we want that to be known, thanks Commissioner, and it's open to all. So while\nour funding offers priorities for seniors and people who have disabilities, because an empty bus is\nreally not a good way to spend money, the funder has said, open it to everyone. When we get full,\nthen we'll have to have those who are not seniors or people who have disabilities find another way\nto ride. But right now, we're not. So, it's open to all and it says that on, I think, on every side of the\nbus. It says it on our schedules. Because we want everyone to know anyone can ride the bus. You\ndon't have to make a reservation. You just get on and ride.\nVictoria Williams: This is a picture of the monthly shuttle boarding starting back when the shuttle\nstarted in 2010. And we started with about 350 average boardings per month. And then service got\nbetter, and then it got down, and now it's back up again. And as it's noted there in 2015, there was\nan average of 424 boardings a month; 2016, 449 boardings a month; 2017, 451. And if I'm not\nmistaken, January, there were 600 boardings. Yeah. So we're going in the right direction. It takes\nmore people to fill two buses.\nVictoria Williams: So in the past, when we had one hour frequency, just one bus, our cost per trip\nwas $16 which is a really good cost. Now with two buses, we have more seats to fill, so the price is\nhigher. It's $27. That was in 2017. We're going to make that better in '18. And our funder's really\nokay with this because they give us two years to get to where they'd like us to be. They would like\nfor our rides to cost $20 a ride or less. But they give us two years to meet that goal because it takes\na\nwhile to ramp up business, in any kind of business. And with shuttles people have to see it coming\na lot of times before they really know they can trust it and they want to ride on it. So the funder's\nfine with that. And we're working hard to try to improve the cost per ride and the ridership.\nVictoria Williams: We also have a taxi service. This is the taxi service status. In the past, there was\na 50% discount to ride the taxis. Now it's increased to 70%. And to qualify to be a rider, you need to\nlive in Alameda, and be 70 or over, or be enrolled with East Bay Paratransit. So it doesn't require a\ndisability. And a lot of people use it to go for cataract surgery or to the airport, things like that where\nthey don't want to drive, those who still drive, who aren't allowed to drive maybe at that point. So a\nperson can buy a voucher that's worth $5 for $1.50. So it's a huge discount and you can go\nanywhere in Alameda county. It is a regular taxi with a meter. We do have a couple of ramp taxis, so\nthose are accessible. The service is provided by a local Alameda taxi service, and he's very happy to\nbe providing service here.\nVictoria Williams: You can see this from the blue line on the graph. The blue line is the premium\ntaxi program. Now that's the one that you can go anywhere in Alameda County for any purpose at\nall. And in 2009, we had 68 trips per month was the average. And you can see, that's the blue line.\nWe've gone down a little and now we're headed steadily up. Our average trips per month are about\n140. It was more than that in January, and I cannot remember the number, but it was more than that.\n02/14/18\nPage 3 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 4, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nAnd then the red line is MR. TIP. That's a different taxi program, which stands for medical return\ntrip improvement program (MRTIP). And that's primarily for folks who use East Bay Paratransit,\nand that is the qualifier for it - if you live in Alameda and you are enrolled with East Bay\nParatransit of any age. Because when you use East Bay Paratransit, it's a big service. You have to\nreserve your ride, going to your doctor's appointment and your pick up afterwards, at least a day in\nadvance. Well, I've never been very accurate at guessing how long it's going to take my doctor to\nsee me because sometimes they send you to the lab or the pharmacy or somewhere else, x-ray, after\nyou've been there. You could miss your East Bay Paratransit ride.\nVictoria Williams: And even if you don't, you can get on the bus and ride, because there are many\nbuses, you could ride through a couple of other towns before you get home. I heard a story just\ntoday, of someone who went to Kaiser, in Oakland, and before she got home to Alameda, she went\nto El Cerrito. And she was exhausted. Already she'd been through physical pain through her\nappointment, and she said, \"I love this program. It is so helpful. It saved my life because, I don't\nhave to ride around. It's great when you feel well and you have plenty of time and you don't have to\ngo to the bathroom, you can be on the bus a long time,\" but that isn't always the case with our\nriders. So you can see that with the red line we had some problems and now we're coming back up.\nAnd that's primarily due to the local transportation provider again, now we have that local\ntransportation provider. So the MR TIP program (red line on graph) back in 2009 had an average of\n100 boardings a month, went up to 136, came all the way down to six boardings a month in 2016\nwhen there was a problem and now we're headed back up with 28 boardings a month and that was\nlast year. This year is going to be better. Yes?\nLisa Hall: What's MR TIP again?\nVictoria Williams: MR TIP stands for Medical Return Trip Improvement Program (MRTIP). It was\nstarted in Oakland and several cities got on the bandwagon and provided in. I believe we may be the\nonly city still doing it. Berkley may still do it but Oakland doesn't. I don't know why that is but it\nworks really well for those people who use it. You can see there are not a huge number of people\nwho use it but the same provider is doing both services so there's not a problem if they're not\ndriving one client, they're driving another.\nJennifer Roloff: So for both graphs, the red and the blue, it's the same provider?\nVictoria Williams: That's right.\nJennifer Roloff: And did it start that way?\nVictoria Williams: I don't know. There were two providers at one point and now we're down to the\none provider.\nJennifer Roloff: Because you had mentioned that there was provider issues, which was part of the\ndip.\nVictoria Williams: There was a provider issue and that was the problem and that's been resolved.\n02/14/18\nPage 4 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 5, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay.\nArnold Brillinger: Now, I just want to say that this is a boon for those people that are in dialysis\nbecause they can get there on Paratransit but they can't always tell when they're going to get back\nand sometimes they're still in having the procedure done and Paratransit comes says, \"Oh, if you're\nnot out of here five minutes you stay here we'll come back later when we want to.\" If they can get\nthe people at the dialysis place to give a call to the provider, say, \"Hey, we need someone here at\n2:30 and it is a good thing.\" We just need people to understand how it works.\nVictoria Williams: That's right. Thank you.\nJennifer Roloff: And is that's way it's called \"return trip\"?\nVictoria Williams: Yes, because that's the only purpose of that trip. No other kinds of trips are\nfunded through this program. It's just to return home from a medical trip that you've gone to on\nsome other way, generally for East Bay Paratransit and that's why it was created because it can be\ncumbersome. And Commissioner Brillinger is right, East Bay Paratransit they can only wait five\nminutes for you. So if you underestimate or overestimate your pickup time, they'll give you a 30\nminute window and they can come five minutes of that 30 minute window and if they don't see you\nthey have to roll because they've got other people to pick up. So if you've already been through an\nexhausting treatment like dialysis that can be very frustrating.\nArnold Brillinger: So this is something that we need to spread around to let people know. If you're\nworking with another group and there are some dialysis patients there let them know. They need to\nsign up with Victoria but once they do, it works pretty good is what I understand, especially with\nour provider now.\nVictoria Williams: Right. Any other questions at the moment? So, then we also offer some\nscholarship programs. One scholarship program assists with the taxi vouchers and a family can\nqualify for $50 of free taxi vouchers once a year if they're within the guidelines and it's a very\ngenerous guidelines. And then we also have a new program that we started in March of 2017\nworking with AC transit, we offer bus passes, the easy passes for people who live at Alameda Point\nCollaborative. So it's affordable housing there. And so people who are trying to stretch their dollars\nas far as possible and we can help them get to where they need to go with this program.\nVictoria Williams: And it started as you can see in March with 1500 riders a month, that's a good\nplace to start and we're up to over 4000 riders a month now. Now, those folks go anywhere they\nwant. It's the regular AC transit bus, so it's not a special bus, it's not a special program. The program\nis the funding for them to travel but it's not noticed by anybody on the bus that they have free trips\nor anything like that, so there's no stigma attached. You live here, you can qualify and it's being\nreally well received. People who weren't going out because it was so expensive can get out now.\nJennifer Roloff: Are we able to track ridership, with that Easy Pass?\n02/14/18\nPage 5 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 6, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nVictoria Williams: AC Transit does that for us. So yes, we do have that information and I didn't\nbring it but we can get it to you.\nJennifer Roloff: Because you could get a pass and theoretically not use it, right?\nVictoria Williams: Right.\nJennifer Roloff: So do you scan on now?\nVictoria Williams: Right. And we're capped at 167 clients. That's how many we can afford to fund.\nThat's a good number of people being served. And you can see, if 167 people are using it 4,000\ntimes a month, they're going places. So that's good for them.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay, so that number is how many rides? The number on the graph is how many\nrides?\nVictoria Williams: Boardings? How many boardings?\nJennifer Roloff: How many boardings?\nVictoria Williams: Average boardings per month.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay. So that answered my question of how often it's being used, and that's within\n167 passes. Are they all getting distributed, all 167?\nVictoria Williams: Yes.\nJennifer Roloff: So we have a wait list?\nVictoria Williams: I don't think so. I think that covered most of the people. We started with one,\nwith Alameda Point Collaborative and I think that was enough to cover the households in that\ncomplex or in that area. But you'll hear more about that in just a minute.\nVictoria Williams: So this is what we recommend for our program for 2018 and '19. We'd like to\ncontinue marketing the rebranded and more frequent Alameda Loop Shuttle. And we'd like a\nsmartphone app for real-time shuttle location. We're really pretty accurate. It takes a little bit of\nextra time to secure a wheelchair, and if there are two wheelchairs on there, that'll take a little bit\nmore time. But we're really within 10 minutes and we allow 10 minutes. It's not like the AC Transit\nBus that has to be there at exactly on the dot, because we allow for some of our riders who are\nslower getting on and off than other riders.\nVictoria Williams: So a smartphone app for those who use a smartphone, not all of our riders do,\nbut some would, would show those folks just where the shuttle is at this time. So we'd like to add\nthat. And with the taxi service, of course, we need to do more marketing and outreach. And then,\nagain, we'd like to have a smartphone app for the real-time of that taxi. So they're very accurate\n02/14/18\nPage 6 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 7, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\ntime-wise, but sometimes you really need to know if it's getting close to your doctor's appointment\nand your heart starts pounding a little faster. It's nice to look down and say \"Oh, they're turning the\ncorner. Let me grab my purse and meet them up front.\" So those are the kinds of things we'd like to\nadd.\nJenn Barrett: For the loop shuttle, is there a sign with the times on the street?\nVictoria Williams: Thank you. It's in the process. Those signs are on order. And underneath those\nsigns, there will be timetables and a map that says, \"You are here.\" so people could really use it. We\nhave the shuttle schedules that you've all got a copy of there. We have those distributed around\ntown, but we don't have them at the stops yet. So we think that'll really improve business.\nVictoria Williams: Okay, next slide. So for the scholarship program, we'd like to continue doing\nthe taxi subsidies that we're doing now, the 70% discount. We'd like to continue with the Alameda\nPoint Collaborative bus passes and we'd actually like to expand that to have free bus passes for\nother Alameda Housing Authority properties. It's working so well. It's such a great way to spend a\nlittle bit of money to get so many people out on the road that we'd like to offer that to more people.\nAnd we currently offer group trips. We'd like to continue doing those. Mastick Senior Center has\none senior trip a month. There's a great annual barbecue at the park where all the skilled nursing\nfacilities in town take their residents there. We help fund transportation for that. It's a wonderful\nevent. And we also have a leisure club, people with disabilities who are 18 or over, and they take\ntwo trips a month. So we'd like those group trips to continue.\nVictoria Williams: And then we have a capital improvement program. The Cross Alameda Trail\nproject has been under funded. We actually have funding that we need to spend. We can help our\nriders by contributing to the Cross Alameda Trail project for a couple of ways. It would be adding\nseparating lanes, so a bike lane and a pedestrian lane would be separate. So those of us who are\nriding bikes wouldn't be running into people who have a wheelchair or a walker. And those of us\nusing a walker wouldn't be frightened that a bike was coming up behind us and we couldn't hear it\nin time to scoot over separate lanes. That section intersects with a couple of shuttle stops. And it\nwould also create a mid-block crossing between Independence Plaza, Affordable Senior Housing\nand the drugstore Walgreens and Starbucks across Atlantic.\nVictoria Williams: So people cross there all the time. We want to make it safer for them and they\nare our clients. And so we think that would be a really helpful way to spend some money that needs\nto be spent and to make it safer for those folks to come across to their drugstore and get their\nStarbucks and not be in the mid-block because they just don't want to go to the ends where there are\ncrosswalks. We'd also like to add some benches at shuttle and bus stops. We do share some stops\nwith AC Transit at a couple of places, but we'd like to add benches. And we were hoping to add a\nflashing beacon at Mastick Senior Center, but a study has been done since we created this report\nhere and we don't really qualify for that.\nVictoria Williams: We do qualify for a paddle sign that can be put up there to slow traffic. So we'll\nbe getting that. But we were hoping for a flashing beacon. And then of course, we need to increase\nthe outreach and the marketing. We've got a website and we send out regular press releases. We do\n02/14/18\nPage 7 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 8, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\npresentations. And if you know anyone else we can present to let us know. We're included in\norientations at Mastick Senior Center. We have advertisements and banners. We're in the process of\nordering a new across the street banner which will look much like our new signs there. The same\ncolors as the old sign. So most of the stops are the same as the old sign.\nVictoria Williams: So we don't think people have really noticed. They don't jive yet. They're really\ngoing to notice when these go up though. And we need shuttle schedules, we get those printed on a\nregular basis to get them out so that people know when and where to catch the shuttles. Brochures\nand mailings cost money and then we were going to offer some program incentives. And that brings\nus to our budget for 2018-2019. Our funding is decided by a formula that Alameda CTC uses based\non the number of people that are aging or have disabilities in a community.\nVictoria Williams: And it's all based on sales tax. So if the economy isn't good, this will change. If\nit's great, this will change. So we're projected to receive $357,109 in Measure B & BB funds next\nyear. We already have a $700,000 balance. We anticipate East Bay Paratransit tickets, which we also\nsell at Mastick Senior Center to bring in about $6,000 and the taxi vouchers I mentioned earlier to\nbring in about $12,000. That would bring our total revenues to $1,075,109. The expenditures that\nwe project are management at $43,666. Customer service at $46,020, trip provision is estimated at\n$295,423 and the capital improvements that I mentioned at $590,000. That would equal our total\nexpenditures at $975,109 and that would save $100,000 in reserves for times when that economy\ndoes dip and we need more funding.\nArnold Brillinger: The East Bay Paratransit tickets, now do you sell them for East Bay Paratransit\nor do they give you a block of tickets that you sell $6,000 worth and that is for this bucket of\nmoney?\nVictoria Williams: We sell them for them. So we don't make any money off of that. That money\ncomes in and goes out.\nArnold Brillinger: In and out. Somewhere there's an out of 6,000.\nJennifer Roloff: Same with the taxi vouchers?\nVictoria Williams: No. The taxi vouchers are all ours. Is there more to add on the taxi voucher?\nNo. Those are our own, so everything that comes in through that taxi voucher program goes here.\nJennifer Roloff: But then we have to reimburse the taxi companies?\nVictoria Williams: Oh yes. And that's included in trip provision.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay. And then where's the in for East Bay Paratransit there's an out, is that in trip\nprovision also?\nVictoria Williams: Well, the revenue is coming in and the expenditure is going out so that would\nprobably go under trip provision also. Comes in and out.\n02/14/18\nPage 8 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 9, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nJenn Barrett: And this is just for 2018?\nVictoria Williams: Yes, '18-19.\nJenn Barrett: Okay. And you have $700,000 balance but you're only going to have $100,000\nremaining afterwards? Does that mean we're going to have an issue with the next?\nVictoria Williams: The Measure B & BB has been extended to 2045 I believe it is. So every year\nthere will be more Measure B & BB money coming in. So if our trip provision stayed the same at\n295,000, well, there are other expenses too. But that should be enough to cover because we won't\nhave any of those signs or there are a lot of things we're doing this first year that we've rebranded.\nJenn Barrett: With the capital?\nVictoria Williams: That we won't need to do again. So we think that should work out okay. Now\nthat's if everything gets approved by the funder. This is what we're asking for. We don't know that\nthey're going to say okay on everything. We're hoping so.\nLisa Hall: Taxi vouchers are for seniors and people with disabilities?\nVictoria Williams: Yes.\nLisa Hall: But not to the general public?\nVictoria Williams: Correct.\nLisa Hall: Like the free shuttle?\nVictoria Williams: That's right.\nLisa Hall: Okay, but how do people know about taxi vouchers? Unless they're senior or disabled?\nIs that the only, if they would know if they heard maybe from the senior center?\nVictoria Williams: Primarily at the Senior Center. I had two people that came in yesterday. They\nlearned in their yoga class from someone else in the yoga class who had it. We've done several press\nreleases. We have a marketing committee. Commission Brillinger sits on our marketing committee\nand one of the things on our agenda coming up is also to make a new brochure for the taxi program.\nWe have those new schedules that you have for the shuttle that have the map and everything, but we\ndon't have a real new, concise one. Our taxi company has also changed names, so we need\nsomething that's updated. So we'll be in the process of that.\nLisa Hall: I think plenty of the seniors know, but, besides Arnold of course, I think the disability\ncommunity needs to know more, where many disabled people are on a fixed budget.\n02/14/18\nPage 9 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 10, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nVictoria Williams: Absolutely.\nLisa Hall: And it would be really helpful to know this.\nVictoria Williams: Absolutely. And so we have connections with CIL [Center for Independent\nLiving], and we've talked to people there and several other organizations, that's not everybody, of\ncourse. We do a survey and I'll mention that in a minute, we do an annual survey, but it goes out to\npeople who use East Bay Paratransit and live in Alameda, and it mentions these things in there too.\nSo we're hoping that that's another way. And quite a few of them have come back saying, \"I don't\nknow anything about it.\" So that tells us we're not doing a good enough job. There's a paragraph at\nthe beginning saying if you need any information, call Victoria at this number about these\nprograms. And my phone number is on the bus and on the signs and everywhere you can think of.\nThat's the one at my desk.\nLisa Hall: And have they done plenty of brochures and information?\nVictoria Williams: I walked into a large room full of people and left information at the Food Bank\njust today. I'd sent over some brochures earlier, but it wasn't enough. But we're still trying to find\nother places. And when we get this brochure, I get calls because my phone numbers on the shuttle\nbus, and people will call and say, \"What is that that just went by?\" But I had a call from one doctor\nin town and he identified himself and he said, \"I just saw a bus go by, tell me about that.' And then\nI\nthought as we're talking about the brochure for the taxi programs, every doctor's office in town\nneeds those taxi brochures because potentially lots of people will be going to their doctor on those.\nAnd if they're going by East Bay, they can use the MR TIP program to come home. Doctor's offices\nand churches, and there's so many places still, we just haven't had time to get to every place yet.\nGail Payne: I'm Gail Payne, Transportation Coordinator here, and I don't think Victoria's\nadequately tooting her horn. Victoria, we are so lucky to have Victoria, she's been on staff part-time\nfor one year now. And one of the reasons why we're so lucky to have Victoria is she focuses only on\nthis program. That's what she spends her time on, is reaching out to the community on this program.\nBefore we didn't have that level of outreach and on page two of your staff report, it talks about the\nenhanced outreach that we've done this year because of Victoria. She has presented at eight\ntransportation orientations to 69 community members, hung the banner, the cross street banner for\n21 days.\nGail Payne: We've advertised in the Alameda Sun, Mastick Senior Center newsletter, and in the\nrecreation guides, issued five press releases, tabled at three events and presented at 14 locations. So\nshe really is doing a great job and she was saying how all these things she still needs to do because\nshe's a perfectionist and that's fine. But we are so lucky.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you, thank you. It is a busy 18 hours a week, I will tell you that. Any\nother questions about this? Did I get all the way through? I got all the way through that one.\nJennifer Roloff: Can you just go back and tell me a little bit more about the Cross Alameda Trail?\n02/14/18\nPage 10 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 11, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nVictoria Williams: I'm going to ask Gail to do that. She's much more knowledgeable about that.\nJennifer Roloff: I don't know anything about it. Is it part of the loop already? Is expansion of the\nloop, I don't know.\nGail Payne: Okay. So the Cross Alameda Trail, is a trail that is proposed and it's a path.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay. I am familiar with that outside of this commission. How does that fit in with\nthis?\nGail Payne: Okay. So it's a path that will go from Alameda Point all the way to the Fruitvale\nMiller-Sweeney Bridge and it'll be almost four miles long. And the part that this program is helping\nto fund is the part from where Jean Sweeney, Cross Alameda Trail is already basically built, west to\nAlameda Point Main Street. So that is an underfunded project. And the original part that was funded\nwas just a multi-use trail that would have been shared by people bicycling and walking. When we\ndid the outreach for that effort, people really said, \"Look, we don't want a multi-use trail. I'm blind,\nI want to walk and I don't want to have bicycles near me, bicyclists say, \"I don't want to be near\npedestrians,\" that this is what we heard time and again.\nGail Payne: So we expanded that project and created not just a bike-way from the Jean Sweeney to\nAlameda Point, a separate bike-way. We also created a path, well, a walkway as well as a jogging\npath. So now that cost more money. So now it's underfunded. So that's why we really are looking at\nother sources and this is a perfect source of money because people who are blind or disabled in\nwhatever way will benefit, and people who are moving slower, seniors will benefit from having a\nseparate path. This is a crown jewel project for Alameda that I don't think Alameda's ever had such\na great project come to us. I feel like it's worth it everyone to contribute a little bit. This is a small\nthing that we can do for this project.\nJenn Barrett: Is this kind of like how we have on Shoreline Drive, where you've got the walking\nand then the bike and then the cars?\nGail Payne: It's mainly a path that's in the dirt path.\nJenn Barrett: Okay, so it's not connected, it's not near the road?\nGail Payne: No, only for a very short time, right by where Starbucks is, because it's a constrained\nright of way. But the majority of it, from Webster Street to Alameda Point, is in that dirt. It's just a\npath. Three different paths, jogging path, a bike-way path, and a walkway path.\nBeth Kenny: When you say \"dirt\", is it going to stay dirt, because it would mean, for accessibilities\nreasons, we'd want a paved\nGail Payne: Right, I see what you're saying. I was not being clear. Right now, it's that dirt patch\nthat's on the other side of the College of Alameda, on Appezzato Parkway. And right now, it's just\nnothing except dirt. So we will make it an asphalt walkway and an asphalt bike-way, and then a\n02/14/18\nPage 11 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 12, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\ndecomposed granite. Is that what it's called? DG. For the jogging trail. So, yes, absolutely, we'll\nmake it accessible. And that's part of what this will fund is accessible curb ramps and all that.\nBeth Kenny: And one thing that we hear from the community quite often is about accessible\nparking near things like this. So please keep that in mind as you're doing this trail.\nGail Payne: We will, definitely. Thank you.\nJennifer Roloff: And I'm sorry, one more question on that. So in this slide, The Recommended\nProgram, does this Cross Alameda Trail, the bus benches and the flashing sign, is that in the capital\nportion of the budget that you showed us?\nGail Payne: That is the capital portion.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay, thank you. So if it's approved, then we go for it.\nGail Payne: Yes.\nArnold Brillinger: And I think also that when you say the \"dirt part,\" it used to be the railroad\nright-of-way. It goes along there by Alameda College and then it continues on, and it goes through\nthe middle of a block. And I've seen them doing a lot of construction in there on the trail. So, when\nshe talks about the dirt path, that's what's left from the right-of-way and now it's being concreted,\nblacktopped, whatever.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you. Any other questions at this point?\nJennifer Roloff: The taxi vouchers. The city only has to or they're only paid for as they're bought\nand used, right?\nVictoria Williams: That's right.\nJennifer Roloff: So essentially, it's hard to budget for them because we don't know how many are.\nLike I know my mother buys them, for example, but then she says she never uses them. So they sit\nin a stack. So it's probably hard to manage the budget based on how that works.\nVictoria Williams: I guess yes, I think it is. Having been here one year, I haven't seen how that\nquite works out yet.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay. Because the shuttle is a fixed cost, right?\nGail Payne: No, it's true, we've always really been very conservative. And we've always\noverestimated the budget, which is one of the reasons why we have reserves always, because we\nhaven't wanted at the end of this fiscal year, at each fiscal year to say, \"Sorry, we ran out of money.'\nSo we're always very conservative with that. And then we also have the vouchers expire after one\nyear. That's why we started doing that because we didn't want people all of a sudden to have years\n02/14/18\nPage 12 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 13, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nof stacks and then all of a sudden, use them for whatever reason, then we would run out. So we\nneeded to control the supply and demand.\nVictoria Williams: And we do have limits on the number of vouchers a person can buy. So if it's\nthe MR TIP vouchers, a person can buy 10 per month and the other, the Premium Taxi program, a\nperson can buy 30 in a three-month period. So it's not endless, they can't buy hundreds of them and\nsave them for years, and they do expire in one year, each of them.\nVictoria Williams: So here we are in the planning process. We did a survey in December and\nJanuary, I now have 110 in. They are not all logged yet. Oh, and that doesn't include the ones that\nhave come through electronically, those are the hard copies, and we come to four commissions. I\nwant to apologize because we sent this off before your name changed. So we see the Transportation\nCommission, the Commission on Disability, the Recreation and Park Commission, and the Social\nService Human Relations Board. We take all of your input and put it into our plan, and then we take\nit forward. Our program plan will be due the end of March. This is a picture of the cross street\nbanner, the old cross street banner that we've had out for several years. We have a new banner, we're\nready to order as soon as we figure out the weight of it. But we've got the design, we're ready to go,\nand so we're very excited about that. You'll see it, it's really visible. I say that. I don't mean to sound\napologetic, but it's very visible. We want it to be seen. And now we're here at my contact\ninformation.\nVictoria Williams: Again, I'm Victoria Williams, Paratransit Coordinator. My telephone number is\n510-747-7513 and my email address is vwilliams@alamedaca.gov. Any other questions or\ncomments, please?\nBeth Kenny: Thank you very much. This is a wonderful presentation and I can't believe you even\ncaught that our name has changed, so good on you. We're trying parliamentary procedure in a\ndifferent way where we're each going to go around and ask, see if anyone has any question. So I'm\ngoing to start with you, Vice Chair, Brillinger.\nArnold Brillinger: No, I don't have any questions.\nBeth Kenny: Okay. Commissioner Roloff?\nJennifer Roloff: I've asked many questions, thank you.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you.\nBeth Kenny: Commissioner Barrett?\nJenn Barrett: Thank you so much for speaking. We really appreciate it. I don't have any further\nquestions.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you.\n02/14/18\nPage 13 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 14, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nBeth Kenny: Commissioner Hall?\nLisa Hall: That you Victoria. Just a ballpark on the financial on the taxi, that it's very liberal as far\nas the 70%. So people have to qualify by what kind of income on the taxi?\nVictoria Williams: For the scholarship? Oh, there is no income qualification on the taxi program,\nnone at all.\nLisa Hall: There's none? All you have to be is senior or disabled?\nVictoria Williams: For the MR TIP, you need to be enrolled with East Bay Paratransit and for the\nPremium, you need to be an Alameda resident and 70 or older or enrolled with East Bay Paratransit.\nWe do have a question about income on our application, not everybody chooses to complete that\nquestion and it doesn't matter. Income is not a criteria that we count.\nLisa Hall: Okay, so for the taxi then, so you have to be 70 or over, or enrolled in Paratransit. You\ncould be disabled and be under 70.\nVictoria Williams: Right. As long as you're enrolled with East Bay. And we have those\napplications and I help people with those too. And we're working on trying to get the recertifications\nand certification appointments done in Alameda. So far it's in Oakland, but they do provide\ntransportation and I help people with that too if I can. Thank you.\nBeth Kenny: Commissioner Linton.\nJenny Linton: I just want to thank you for coming in and presenting. I was here last year and it's\nnice to see over the course of a year ridership increasing as well as the number of bus services per\nday increasing. So, congratulations.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you. It's been fun.\nBeth Kenny: And thank you again. You're very right on Commissioner Linton. Transportation has\nbeen so willing to work with this commission and it's been something that I've enjoyed my entire\nfour years on the commission and seeing you added to the team has really given it an extra boost.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you.\nBeth Kenny: So I want to thank you for all you're doing and I wanted to ask a little bit more about\nMR TIP being connected to the East Bay Paratransit. Because when Vice Chair Brillinger was\ntalking about people going through dialysis, well, I went through dialysis myself, but I wasn't\nhooked up with Paratransit when I went through. And so I would have definitely liked to take a taxi.\nVictoria Williams: Certainly, certainly.\nBeth Kenny: So I'm wondering, is there a way to broaden it beyond East Bay Paratransit? Could\n02/14/18\nPage 14 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 15, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nwe connect it to like the Regional Transit Card?\nVictoria Williams: I recently went to speak to the Managers at East Bay Paratransit and explained\nto them the MR TIP program. They are a huge service. They cover the whole county and you've\nprobably heard some horror stories because they have lots of people to transport and huge service\nareas. So we think that it would be a win-win-win situation, as do they, if they refer riders to us, if\npeople are scheduling their return ride and say, \"Well, I really don't know.\" \"Well, do you live in\nAlameda? Go do this.\" So I took information and I'm working with someone who's the new\nRecertification Manager or Certification Manager and we're hoping to get that news spread through\nEast Bay because we can meet those rides, and they can't always do it.\nVictoria Williams: They do their best. I've used East Bay Paratransit a couple of times in my life\nwith broken bones and I couldn't drive and they do their best, but it's a big service. It's really hard to\nkeep accurate when you're that big. And so with our little service, we can be much more timely. So\nyour points are well taken. We'll look further. It's for Alameda residents, we go anywhere in the\ncounty. So if someone had to go to Fremont for a special medical trip, we can bring them home.\nBeth Kenny: Yeah, or people going to Oakland to receive treatment.\nVictoria Williams: Right. We have a lot of that. We have a lot of Oakland riders, and we don't have\ndialysis, I guess, on the island.\nLisa Hall: Or chemo.\nVictoria Williams: Yes. That's right. And some people are going to Berkeley. That MR TIP\nprogram is great because after those treatments, the wherewithal to ride, to watch someone else go\nhome, it's not as pleasant as it might be another time.\nBeth Kenny: I would love to see MR TIP expanded because that seems invaluable, and echo the\ncomments that are reaching out to the disabled community, anyway that we can help, we want to.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you.\nBeth Kenny: And on the Cross Island Trail, again just if we can make sure it's accessible and that\npeople with disabilities can use it and get to it and all of that good stuff, it sounds like a very\nexciting project.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you. Thank you.\nLisa Hall: We just had a presentation in our church from the wonderful Mr. Kaufman with Meals\non Wheels. And Meals on Wheels is part of the program, and Friendly Visitors, go visit people that\nare kind of home bound. But I think it's also good that they also know that, \"Hey, this is out there\nfor you. If you want to actually get up and possibly get up and get out and try to get out in the\nworld, there is this. \"\n02/14/18\nPage 15 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 16, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nVictoria Williams: I did two presentations for their volunteers. I've started a couple of Friendly\nVisiting programs and been a Friendly Visitor myself in the past for many years. So I've spoken to\ntheir last year's group. Last year I spoke twice to the volunteers and their office is right next door to\nmine. So we have a really good policy. In fact a Friendly Visiting volunteer who thought the\nprogram was so great has offered to distribute some schedules for me. So she's become a schedule\ndistributer too. So, you're right, that's a perfect match for us, thank you. And we need to work closer\nwith Meals on Wheels. They know about us too. We haven't talked to their volunteers in a group.\nThe director knows about us, but we haven't really talked to them as a group. So.\nLisa Hall: Because they're the ones out there with the eyes and\nVictoria Williams: Exactly.\nLisa Hall: And they will see and know some people that maybe can use some help.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you for that tip.\nJenny Linton: Other groups that reach the developmentally disabled community in the area are The\nRegional Center of the East Bay, as well as Alameda Special Olympics.\nBeth Kenny: Are you at Mastick Senior Center? Is that where your office is?\nVictoria Williams: That's right. So, if we could have a hip hip hooray. What do we need? What do\nwe need? Something that recommends what we're going to do? Support, I don't know what we call\nit. We've heard your support and we thank you very much.\nBeth Kenny: So, at this time, we can do a few things. We can vote to endorse this plan. We can\nvote to endorse it, asking them to take into consideration our comments, and that's what I would like\nto move to do is, this is a very well thought out and thorough plan, and I really like seeing those\ngraphs going in the opposite direction because they weren't when I first started.\nVictoria Williams: We're happy about that, too.\nBeth Kenny: I move that we endorse the Transportation Plan presented to us tonight. And ask that\nour comments be interpreted and included whenever possible.\nArnold Brillinger: Second.\nBeth Kenny: Alright, all in favor.\nAll: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Any opposed? It's unanimous.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you very much.\n02/14/18\nPage 16 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 17, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you all. And we'll be at Earth Day with the shuttle bus, so come see the\nshuttle bus Earth Day. You can ride the lift.\nBeth Kenny: Oh, that is one other thing that I did want to ask. I know Commissioner or Vice Chair\nBrillinger in the past has wanted to get the shuttle into the 4th of July.\nVictoria Williams: I've volunteered to work that this year and the boss said yes. So we will be in\nthat. Maybe you could join us.\nLisa Hall: We would love to join you. We would love to join forces with you guys.\nVictoria Williams: That would be fabulous. We would like a full bus. We would like some people\nin the bus. So I'm going to write that down, you'd like to join us. Thank you. That would be great.\nWe'll have a great time. Thank you very much.\nArnold Brillinger: Also, at least one of the street fairs they have the bus there so that people could\nsee it and give out information and I think there are various things that the Transportation\nCommission can do, that we could probably help them if they need the help.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you. Thanks a lot.\n5. OLD BUSINESS\nBeth Kenny: Now we move on to item five. Old Business. And I'm going to start with the meeting\ndate. We are going to go forward and look at changing those to the odd number of months at the\nApril meeting, if we can have that to vote on a couple of different options, that would be great. If\nwe can put that on the agenda for that meeting.\nItem 5-A Commission and Board Liaison Reports\nItem 5A is Commission and Board Liaison reports, which, at this point, we need to vote to give\neach person the right to speak on behalf of the Commission at their assigned Board or Commission.\nSo I move that we empower individual commissioners to speak on behalf of the Commission at\ntheir assigned Board or Commission liaison spot and they must report back anything to us during\nSection 5A Old business at each regularly scheduled meeting.\nJennifer Roloff: I'll second that.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you. That was a mouthful.\nBeth Kenny: All in favor?\n02/14/18\nPage 17 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 18, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nAll: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Any opposed?\nJenn Barrett: Sorry, will there be, in the notes maybe a written list of who's assigned to watch us,\nso we know for reference?\nBeth Kenny: Yeah, I can send that out tomorrow to everybody via email.\nJennifer Roloff: This is what we've put up at the retreat.\nBeth Kenny: Yes.\nArnold Brillinger: Right.\nBeth Kenny: We'll get that out to you guys and, there's probably nothing to report because we're\nswitching over. I'm going to move on to talking about our sub-committee and let you all know that\nTony Lewis has resigned. He said he's just over-committed at this point. He is going to be getting a\nservice dog, so that's another commitment. It's an exciting commitment but, he just felt like he\nwasn't able to attend enough. He does want to still be part of things and volunteered to work any\nfairs that we're doing and is interested in working on the sub-committee that is going to be looking\nat businesses in Alameda to see how they can be more accessible. We'll miss Tony but, he'll still be\npart of things, so we won't miss him that much.\nItem 5-B Election of New Commission Chair and Vice Chair\nBeth Kenny: Item 5B, Election of new commission Chair and Vice-Chair. If anybody would like to\nbe Chair or Vice-Chair, I'd ask that you speak up now. I would ask that if anyone has specifics they\nnominate anyone. Commissioner or Vice-Chair Brillinger, you have been Vice-Chair, is it\nsomething that you are interested in continuing to do?\nArnold Brillinger: Yes, I am at present. Is it like you can be a certain thing for two years or is there\nsome kind of a limit?\nBeth Kenny: No, we do not have any limits in our by-laws as far as how long you can be Chair or\nVice-Chair. Personally I would like to see somebody else be interested in being Chair. I am willing\nto do it, but I think it's good for everybody to kind of get the flavor, so I'll put that out there.\nJenn Barrett: I'm fairly new, but I would be interested in maybe a Vice-Chair if you end up\nIf\nyou want to be Chair or.\nBeth Kenny: Great, yeah. I would like to nominate you as Vice-Chair then. Do I have a second?\nJenny Linton: Second.\n02/14/18\nPage 18 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 19, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nBeth Kenny: All in favor of Commissioner Barrett as Vice-Chair, say, \"Aye.\"\nAll: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Any opposed? Welcome Vice-Chair Barrett. So, for now we just need a Chair.\nJennifer Roloff: Are you interested in continuing as Chair?\nBeth Kenny: I'd be willing to consider, to continue. I want to put it out there that I would like other\npeople to think about it as well.\nLisa Hall: I'm sorry, Arnold do you not want to be Chair?\nArnold Brillinger: Yeah, I've thought of possibly doing that if Beth's were to say, \"Hey, the little\nguy is giving us a lot of things to do.\" But, it's not that I need to do that because I'm the Chair of the\nSRAC committee for Paratransit. But, I'm still involved very much in Alameda as you heard with\nthe transportation things, even though I'm not on the commission. But I would consider if that's the\nway that the group thinks.\nBeth Kenny: So, at this point somebody should nominate. I don't know how else we would do this\nother than nomination. I will nominate Commissioner Brillinger as Chair. Do I have a second?\nJennifer Roloff: Would you prefer to continue as Chair? And, Beth would you like to be Chair or.\nIf you're interested in stepping down.\nBeth Kenny: I am fine continuing Yeah, I'm fine either way. I'm fine stepping aside and I'm fine\ncontinuing. I would, if I do continue this year though, I would like it that next year somebody else\ndefinitely become Chair. That's all I would say.\nLisa Hall: I'm sorry if I missed something because you're Vice-Chair but you're stepping down\nfrom Vice-Chair, right? That's what you had said.\nJenn Barrett: Do you want to be Vice-Chair still?\nArnold Brillinger: Not necessarily. I welcome someone else wanting to go into that position.\nLisa Hall: You have some of these other positions\nArnold Brillinger: I've got other positions.\nBeth Kenny: So like I said, I would be willing to stay on, but I would not be willing to be Chair\nnext year.\nJennifer Roloff: And just, and I'm very interested. I'm so new, but for next year I'd be very\ninterested in a position as well but for this year I'd stay out.\n02/14/18\nPage 19 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 20, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nJenn Barrett: Is anyone else interested for.\nLisa Hall: [inaudible]\nJennifer Roloff: Right. And Arnold, I welcome you to be Chair, but if you have a lot going on and\nfeel like\nArnold Brillinger: It's fine with me.\nJenn Barrett: Would you be interested, Jenny?\nJenny Linton: No.\nBeth Kenny: So, is there a nomination out there?\nLisa Hall: I nominate Beth stays for another year.\nArnold Brillinger: Second.\nLaurie Kozisek: What about the nomination for Arnold?\nArnold Brillinger: There's no second, so it died.\nBeth Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nBeth Kenny: Anyone else? So, that awkward business is over.\nLaurie Kozisek: That was a nomination, not an election.\nBeth Kenny: Yeah. I'm sorry. We did vote Jenn into office. So we asked for a second and then we\nall voted. We were voting for the person the second time, the nomination became a vote.\nJennifer Roloff: Are we legal on that? Do you want to double, do you want to present a slate and\nvote on it just in case, so we're legal?\nBeth Kenny: Sure. So, the slate before us is to have Vice-Chair as Commissioner Barrett and Chair\nas Commissioner Kenny. All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\n6.\nSTAFF COMMUICATIONS\n02/14/18\nPage 20 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 21, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nBeth Kenny: And now, for staff communications.\nLaurie Kozisek: Thank you, Madam Chairman. Can you hear me?\nBeth Kenny: Yes.\nLaurie Kozisek: I can either talk or I can see you. I can't do both. I have two items, one is the email\nblast that I sent out this time about the meeting, I don't know if you noticed but I put a bunch of\nlinks in it, of alternate ways that you can see this particular event that we're having here, that you\ncan do it by video live or video on TV or video tape delayed or a verbatim transcript. And I got\nfeedback from one person who said, \"That's great because of my disability I'm too tired to come in\nperson but I would like to see what went on.\" And so, I would like to continue to do this.\nLaurie Kozisek: If anybody is out there, we'll put it on the website, and we'll try to do it in the next\nemail blast. If you're not on the email blast, give me a call at 510-747-7930, ask for Laurie and I\nwill put you on the email blast and then you'll be able to find out all the different ways that you can\nget this in an alternate way. The other thing I have to say is, the Public Works has a request to put a\nbond on the ballot coming up February 20th. And it's already in the agenda so you can go.\nLaurie Kozisek: You know how to go to City Council website and look at the agenda, you can see\nthe whole program - it's already up there. We want to take out a bond so that we can do many\nmillions of dollars-worth of projects for our infrastructure, some of which are kind of crumbling and\nneed this extra help. That will include sidewalks, curb ramps, better streets, less flooding at\nintersections, and very importantly more ADA improvements inside of city buildings. So just keep\nan eye on that. The Public Works will be presenting it to the Council and if we get four out of five\nvotes from the Council then it will be put on the ballot and voted on by the members of the public.\nSo if you have any strong feelings about wanting better ADA compliance in the city buildings and\non the streets, talk to your council member or, however it is you want to voice your interest. Can't\nreally do it as an agenda item here because I forgot to put it on the agenda. But, take a look at the\npresentation and then let your council member know.\nJenn Barrett: Would it go out on the November ballot if it passed the council?\nLaurie Kozisek: Yes. And so you'll have more chance to discuss it then but first we have to get it\nthrough the council members.\n7. ANNOUNCEMENTS\nBeth Kenny: Next we'll move on to announcements. Does anyone have any announcements they'd\nlike to make?\nJennifer Roloff: Can I ask just a question to Laurie?\nBeth Kenny: Yes\n02/14/18\nPage 21 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 22, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nJennifer Roloff: How many people are on the listserv on your email blasts?\nLaurie Kozisek: It's not very many. Somewhere between 30 and 50 I haven't really counted, but it's\njust anyone who has shown an interest in that. I send them the agendas but I also send them, like\nif\nthere's a meeting about, say, some particular kind of disability, some sort of a presentation or\nwhatever, I'll send that out and I would love to have more people on that list. I try not to bother\nthem with too many emails but I might do two a month on topics of interest. So, maybe you can\nspread it around and we'll have more people on the list.\nJennifer Roloff: And do you have the right kind of email software that supports hundreds, for\nexample, or are you just CC-ing?\nLaurie Kozisek: I'm BCC-ing. And it's just going out with the City email, so I think that's a pretty\npowerful email function. I've never had a bounce.\nJennifer Roloff: Okay. I know sometimes if it goes over a certain number it'll go to spam folders.\nLaurie Kozisek: Yeah. I could break it up into two chunks.\nBeth Kenny: And the people on the listserv also get everything that you send to us as a\ncommission, is that correct?\nLaurie Kozisek: No the commissioners are all on the email blasts, BCC'd. Occasionally I will send\nstuff to just you in which case you're in the \"To:\" because I figure you guys can email each other\nbut, when it's going out on the email blasts it's all BCC so you don't see everyone else's. Because I\ndon't want everyone to have your email addresses.\nBeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Brillinger, you had an announcement.\nArnold Brillinger: Yes. I went to the Commission on Disability in Berkeley, I think it was last\nweek, and they had a program, they had a professor from UC Berkeley. They've got special chairs\nthat are funded by philanthropists, and she's the Chair for the Disabilities, and she's from Japan. And\nit was very interesting hearing her, and I was thinking maybe we could ask her to come and give a\npresentation and also invite some other, like the Oakland group so she doesn't have to do it here for\nsix people and there for eight people and so forth. But it was very interesting because she talks\nabout that handicap is part of the diversity of human beings.\nArnold Brillinger: And it's not a special group, it's just like there's a whole lot of people that are\nshort, a lot of people that are tall but there's, most of people are medium-sized and so forth. And the\nsame kind of things happen with disabilities. And she's got some insights into what they're doing in\nJapan for various things, and she said that the universal design, the word \"universal\" should not be\nthere because universal means everybody. And no matter how many you want to include there's still\nsome people that are on the fringes. They can't be helped by either visibility or special things. And\nso she's got some insights and I'd like to hear her again and I thought maybe we could invite her.\nHer name is Karen Nakamura.\n02/14/18\nPage 22 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 23, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nBeth Kenny: And do you have any contact information for her? You said she's part of the Berkeley\nCommission?\nArnold Brillinger: No. She gave a presentation at the Berkeley Commission. That's where I heard\nher. And also at the Berkeley Commission they had Eric, you remember Eric? Who came with us, to\nthe sub-committees. And then I went to the Transportation Commission last week and I don't have a\nwhole long list like I did last month, or last meeting. Because, mostly they had the same\npresentation from Victoria after a whole lot of other discussion on things that I didn't understand,\nthat didn't really have to do with transportation. So their commission saw pretty much what we saw\ntoday.\nBeth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Arnold. I wanted to make an announcement. I don't know if any of\nyou have been following, there's so much going on right now but, what's been going on in Congress\nwith the ADA. Right now there is an attempt to undo parts of the ADA and make it so that the onus\nis not on the business to become compliant, it's the disabled person will have to let them know they\nintend to come to their business and give them sufficient time before any sort of claim can be filed\nfor them not being accessible, or in compliance with the ADA.\nBeth Kenny: It would be a severe gutting of the ADA and I just want to keep it on everybody's\nradar. I read an excellent piece in The Washington Post, written by Tammy Duckworth, who is a\ndisabled veteran congress person. I want to keep it on everybody's radar, and I think that it also\nmade me really glad that we are getting the sub-committee going to look at making the businesses\nin Alameda more accessible and how we can go about that. That's my announcement. Anyone else\nhave anything to say?\nArnold Brillinger: Could you give us a little bit more information on what you just said about\nbusinesses in Alameda?\nBeth Kenny: Oh, I said that, after reading that article, what made me feel a little bit better was that\nwe had already been talking about the issue of focusing in on how to get the businesses of Alameda\nto be more accessible. We were already thinking about that before reading this upsetting news.\nJenn Barrett: Yeah. And I'm definitely excited to start working with our sub-committee on that.\nJenny Linton: I have an announcement. Next month David and I will be going to a conference\nsponsored by The Arc of California, called the Developmental Disabilities Public Policy\nConference, it's March 11th and 12th, Sunday and Monday. Followed on Tuesday morning by a\nvisit with our legislator, so we'll report back after next month. David's my son. It's in Sacramento.\nLook forward to meeting our legislator.\nBeth Kenny: Yes, I look forward to hearing about it.\nJenny Linton: Did we decide on whether we're going to even months or odd months for meetings?\n02/14/18\nPage 23 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-02-14", "page": 24, "text": "ITEM 2-A\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES OF\nWednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nBeth Kenny: Laurie didn't have a chance between our retreat and today to work out that schedule,\nso we're going to look at that at our April meeting.\n8. ADJORNMENT\nBeth Kenny: If there are no other announcements I'm going to move that we adjourn. Thank you\nfor a great evening. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.\n02/14/18\nPage 24 of 24", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf"}