{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 1, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\n1. ROLL CALL\nChair Beth Kenny: Laurie, would you start with roll call?\nLaurie Kozisek: Thank you Madam Chairman. Beth Kenny?\nChair Beth Kenny: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Jenn Barrett?\nChair Beth Kenny: She's walking in.\nLaurie Kozisek: Jenn Barrett. Okay. Hi. Jennifer Roloff?\nJennifer Rolloff: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Anto Aghapekian?\nAnto Aghapekian: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Lisa Hall is not here. Susan Deutsch?\nSusan Deutsch: Present.\nLaurie Kozisek: Arnold Brillinger?\nArnold Brillinger: Here.\nLaurie Kozisek: And Jenny Linton.\nJenny Linton: Here.\nLaurie Kozisek: And our new person is not here yet.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes, let's just read her name anyway.\nLaurie Kozisek: Leslie Morrison.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you, Laurie.\nLaurie Kozisek: We have a quorum.\n2. MINUTES\nChair Beth Kenny: All right, let's move on to agenda item number two - approval of the minutes\n09/12/18\nPage 1 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 2, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nfrom our May 9th meetings. Does anyone have any changes or corrections they'd like to see in the\nminutes from our May 9th meeting? I move that we accept the minutes as is.\nArnold Brillinger: Second.\nChair Beth Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nChair Beth Kenny: Any opposed?\n3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS\nChair Beth Kenny: Let's move on to agenda item three, oral communication, non-agenda public\ncomment. Do we have any public comment for today on non-agenda items?\n4. NEW BUSINESS\n4-A Parking Strategy for Dockless Bikeshare\nChair Beth Kenny: Then we'll get right into new business. We have Rochelle Wheeler here to talk\nto us about parking strategies for the Dockless Bike Share. Thank you Rochelle.\nRochelle Wheeler: Thank you Madam Chair, and thank you to all you commissioners for having\nme here. I see some familiar faces and I'm excited to hear your input tonight on this bike parking\nstrategy for the Dockless Bike Share provider. I am Rochelle Wheeler, I work in the transportation\nplanning unit, and I'm a senior transportation coordinator for the City of Alameda. So you have a\nstaff report and a couple of attachments in your packet, and I'm just going to start off. I don't have a\nPowerPoint, but I'm just going to walk through the staff report, but again, what we're looking for\ntonight from the commissioners is input on this bike parking strategy that we have. So I'll start off\nkind of high level. Dockless Bike Share, what is it? Probably you are all are familiar with what\nit\nis\nnow, but it is basically bikes that can be taken from point to point, picked up anywhere where\nthere's a bike, using an app, and then you can ride it to and leave it.\nRochelle Wheeler: You don't have to leave it at a dock, but you do have to leave it properly parked,\nwhich means not in the sidewalk right of way. And there are parameters and instructions for how to\ndo that. So it's another mobility option for Alameda which we're always looking for new ways to get\npeople around, not in single occupant vehicles; through transit, paratransit. Gig was started recently,\npoint to point car share, biking, walking, all sorts of options, rolling, all of those things. Well, in last\nOctober, well about a year ago actually, we were approached by Dockless Bike Share providers\nwhich were starting to come into the US. And we saw this as a great new technology that was\navailable; new emerging technology, and so we started a six month pilot program with LimeBike. I\nwould assume you're all probably familiar with these Lime Bikes which have been in the City since\nthey launched in October of 2017.\n09/12/18\nPage 2 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 3, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nRochelle Wheeler: And in six months, 50,000 trips were taken on the bikes. We have an average of\nabout 300 bikes in the City at any one time that are operable. What we did, we did this as a pilot,\nand the reason we did that is we wanted to see how it worked in Alameda before we made it a\nconcrete ongoing program here. And so, at the end of six months, we took the time to evaluate the\nprogram, we did that in a bunch of different ways. We talked to a lot of the stakeholders, both\ninternally within the City, all the different staff that are interacting or interfacing with the program,\npublic works, police, community development. We talked to stakeholders outside the City such as\nthe East Bay Park District, AC transit, others, and then we also did a community survey. Some of\nyou may have filled that out. We had 1500 responses within about 10 days, so a huge amount of\ninput on the program.\nRochelle Wheeler: And what we found overall was very, very high level of support for the\nprogram. People generally thought it was a great program, definitely worth continuing; but\naddressing two major issues. And the two major issues that were addressed, the top one was bike\nparking. And 51% of respondents said that the top problem with the bikes, is the bikes being mis-\nparked. The second top issue was helmet use, and particularly concerns around youth helmet usage.\nSo we heard those issues, we heard the support for the program and we brought all of that to the\nCity Council in May. And with the recommendation that we continue having a dock-less bike share\nprogram in the City but making refinements to the program to address those top issues, and\ndefinitely the bike parking issue. And we ask Council to approve going out with a request for\nproposals to bring in a vendor who we would contract with for two years with the option to extend\nfor another two years. And so the Council approved that recommendation to release that RFP and to\nmove forward with having a dock-less bike share program after the pilot program.\nRochelle Wheeler: I'll back up for a minute. The council also did direct us to come to the\nCommission on Disability, which is why I'm here tonight. And to bring the bike parking strategy,\nwhich is one of the requirements of the contract that we'll have with the new provider, is having this\nbike parking strategy. And so, the Council wanted us to get input from this commission. So we did\nthat RFP process in May and June, was our time frame for doing that. We received two proposals\nfrom two different vendors. We did a very thorough evaluation of those proposals. We had a team\nof, I think it was, about eight people reviewing those and scoring those proposals. And then we had\nan even larger team who we did interviews with those two providers. And your Chair, Beth, was on\nthat interview panel. And through all of that evaluation process the top ranked provider was\nLimeBike, or as they're called now Lime. They go by Lime because they also provide electric\nscooters. So I think that's why they changed their name, I'm assuming, so they're called Lime now.\nRochelle Wheeler: This RFP, just to be clear, was only for bikes, not for scooters. This is not to\npermit electric scooters and in fact we have a referral from our City Council to ban electric scooters\non City sidewalks and to kind of make sure that is into perpetuity. So that's something staff are\nworking on and will be bringing, I think, in November, back to the Council. So, right now the stage\nthat we're at, is that we are still evaluating, contracting with Lime and our acting City Manager has\nto approve this and that has not been done yet, so I want to be clear, we have not contracted yet with\nLime, we are still in negotiations.\nRochelle Wheeler: But during that process of evaluating and making that final decision we wanted\n09/12/18\nPage 3 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 4, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nto get input from this committee and see if we can work towards an agreement on a contract with\nLime and then in the next couple of weeks we'll also be working with the City Manager to make\nsure that she is comfortable with us moving forward with this. So, what you have in your packet, I\nthink it's the second exhibit, is LimeBike's parking strategy. And per the contract that we will have,\nwhich we attached a draft of that or an agreement to our RFP, so it was very clear what our\nrequirements would be. We have a whole section on bike parking in that agreement, which was the\nfirst exhibit. You don't have to open up the first one, but the second one is fine.\nRochelle Wheeler: So, two of those requirements for bike parking in that agreement, with\nwhichever provider we select, are to develop this bike parking strategy. And that strategy is\nsupposed to have two parts: Part A is about identifying. You can see Part A, identifying appropriate\nparking locations. And then Part B, which I think is what we'll focus on tonight, although I'll go\nthrough this whole thing, is on enforcement strategies. So this is what we're looking for input on\ntonight from the commission.\nRochelle Wheeler: Before I go into what's in that strategy, I just want to say that, in addition to\nwhat the provider, what Lime would be doing, we also as a city will be setting performance goals\nand will be monitoring those goals and part of that will be about what percentage of bikes are\nproperly parked. Through payments that Lime would be making, we will be using an independent\ncontractor to do some verification of bicycles actually being parked correctly and the\nresponsiveness to the other contract requirements. That's something that came out of our evaluation\nprocess, is wanting to have a better handle on the responsiveness to complaints, to mis-parked bikes\nor to bikes that are broken and need repair or things like that. So we will be also monitoring that and\nwe will have in our agreement the option to impose penalties if performance measures are not met.\nRochelle Wheeler: So with that, I think I will go through the parking strategy unless there are any\njust general questions on what I've described so far. Okay, great. So, like I said Part A is about\nidentifying appropriate bike parking locations and LimeBike has a method of doing that, looking at\nwhere people are wanting to use them and they can see, because this is all app based, they can see\nwhere people are wanting bikes and so that's where they tend to put the bikes. Through this process,\nthey would be working with us to also, maybe, designate areas where we don't want any bikes\nparked.\nRochelle Wheeler: There are some, for example, some HOAs or the East Bay Regional Park\nDistrict may decide they don't want any bikes in the Crown Memorial Beach area or certain parts of\nthe Crown Memorial Beach area. So we can designate areas where no bikes would be parked as\nwell, as well as where bikes can be parked. And obviously, on the positive side, the places that they\ntend to get located and the people want them are the ferry terminals. Those are the top, the Main\nStreet ferry terminal is the top pick up and drop off location for the LimeBikes, which we were\nreally happy to see in our evaluation because that means a lot of people are using that as a first and\nlast mile connection to the ferry terminal and to transit.\nRochelle Wheeler: So, I think the bulk of what we'll focus on tonight is probably the next section,\nPart A, which is about enforcement strategies. The first one is geo-fencing and this is actually a\nrequirement for our agreement, that they use geo-fencing in their parking strategy. And so the idea\n09/12/18\nPage 4 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 5, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nbehind this is that you can see on a map that would be on the app like you see in these visuals here,\nthese screenshots. There are areas that can be designated as no parking zones, and those would\nshow up as areas when you're picking up a bike, say, so that you can know when you drop off your\nbike, \"Oh I can't park it on that one block\" or \"I can't park it in that commercial zone, so I'm going\nto have to be thinking about where I park it before I get to my end destination.\" There also can be\nthese pop-up messages which you see on the right which can say, \"Remember this is a no parking\nzone as well.\nJenn Barrett, Vice Chair: Sorry, is there anything that physically prevents them from parking the\nbike there? Like does it not lock back in or something?\nRochelle Wheeler: So we have Albert Lin here, who is the Operations Manager in our area for\nLime, and I think I know the answer but I'm going to let him describe that.\nAlbert Lin: Yes, sure. So currently right now we do not have any sort of physical thing that will\nprevent them from locking it. That's something we're looking into certainly six months' time. But\nwe're also looking into alternative ways of, maybe, imposing fines, violations, etc.\nRochelle Wheeler: And that is something that I know that Lime is doing in other areas where they\nreally don't want these bikes. If you have people who are repeatedly mis-parking them, those can be\nidentified easily and you can start fining them when they're putting the bikes in the wrong place or\nyou can just delete their account and say, \"You're a bad player, so we're taking you out.\" And we can\ncome back to all of these. I'll just give a big overview. And the second one that they propose is\ngamification. So that is generally used for positive, to enforce positive behavior and create\nincentives for good behavior. So when you do good things like park in the right place, you get little\nbadges or bonuses.\nRochelle Wheeler: I'm sure some of you have seen this in other social media apps. So that is\nsomething that they have said they are working out and testing and rolling out and would be using.\nThe next thing is actual physical signage to encourage people to park in the right place. That can be\na decal in the proper parking areas on the sides of the sidewalk, generally in that landscaping strip\nthat's between the curb and the sidewalk.\nRochelle Wheeler: Also, some cities have tested out and we could work with Lime to paint boxes\nand maybe have some sort of signage so that then you know that that's where the bikes would get\nparked to be used and then at the end of your ride you would use those. And you would use these in\nselect locations where you have maybe a really congested area and people keep mis-parking the\nbikes. We would not do this for every single location around the city. It's just a way to kind of create\nsome order where you're having a lot of problems. And this would probably be used in places like\nPark or Webster street where we have a lot of congestion of uses and people and objects and\nparking meters and a-frame signs and things like that.\nRochelle Wheeler: Then there's, obviously, education. So they have said that they provide\neducation at events and then they also can do that with in-app messaging also to remind people\nabout proper riding, using a helmet and also proper bike parking and what the acceptable places are\n09/12/18\nPage 5 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 6, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nper the City's direction on where to park. There's also, the next item is something called hub locks.\nThis kind of, I think gets to your question earlier. So do you want to explain the hub lock idea?\nAlbert Lin: So currently on our electric scooters, we can have the ability to lock them through an\napp. And SO when I mentioned to you, \"Oh we don't have the current functionality,\" that's for our\npedal bikes only that don't have any sort of e-assist or any hardware or software that we can\ncommunicate directly with. So that's essentially what this would be.\nJenn Barrett, Vice Chair: Okay.\nRochelle Wheeler: I didn't quite understand that explanation, but it's a little technical, but just to\nalso explain like that, in order to lock the bike, you have to open up the app again. That means that,\nthen there's I think an opportunity for you to get direct alerts or like, \"No, you are not in the right\nplace, definitely. Do not park your bike here.' Whereas right now with the bikes we have now, you\ndon't have that. You can just close the lock and walk away. You don't have to open your app again\nand interact with it.\nRochelle Wheeler: And then the last thing is actually something that came up, which was a great\nidea that came up through the interview process, which was being able to integrate with the City's\nSeeClickFix system, which probably many of you guys know about, where when you see a\nproblem, a pothole, a car blocking the sidewalk, a tree limb that fell down, you can alert the City\nthrough SeeClickFix. It's online, and so the option would be to integrate Lime Bikes, reporting\nproblems with Lime Bike with SeeClickFix so that through that system, you could report Lime\nBikes being a problem, and that is helpful for people who don't have the app on their phone already\nfor Lime Bike. You can do that if you're a Lime bike user, or even if you're not and you download\nthe app, but I think a lot more people are familiar with SeeClickFix. That's generally where we're\ntrying to funnel people's concerns and complaints, and then that could kind of automate that\nprocess, this relieves, I think the staff burden of responding to complaints, and I think also is\nprobably ultimately easier for Lime as well.\nRochelle Wheeler: Those are the strategies that Lime has presented. They proposed in the proposal\nto have a rate of 90%, at least at minimum, a target of 90% of bikes being parked correctly on\naverage. I think that would be per month, and these are the strategies they would use to get to that.\nWhat we're looking for you guys, and I will also be giving input on this strategy, but we're looking\nto the commission now to get any input on whether you think this is adequate, whether you have\nother concerns, whether there's more we should be doing, or things we should be doing differently.\nChair Beth Kenny: Great, thank you very much. And as Rochelle stated, I was fortunate to be part\nof the interview process, and it was apparent in that interview process that a ton of work had gone\non before we got to the interview process. So I want to thank you for all the stuff that you've been\ndoing to make this happen. We generally go around and ask questions, so I'm going to start with you\nCommissioner Brillinger.\nArnold Brillinger: Yes. Has the City proposed any equivalents for disabled people?\n09/12/18\nPage 6 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 7, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nAlbert Lin: It's a great question, unfortunately as of now, we do not.\nArnold Brillinger: I just want to tell the rest of the commission that cities like Oakland, Berkeley\nand San Francisco, are looking into various vehicles, some of them being trikes. Or for people who\nare disabled like below the waist, that they would be hand-powered bikes and stuff like that. Not to\nstart anything right here in Alameda, but I think that we'll be able to get some information as they\ngo through their selection process, and also have some good ideas on what to do here in Alameda\nalso.\nChair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Brillinger, in the interview process, I actually sat next to the\ngentleman who does this sort of stuff for the City of Oakland, and he was telling me that the City of\nOakland has partnered with BORP [Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program], and that's how\nthey're starting to think about doing the accessible Bike-Share. I think that you're right on.\nAnyways, I wanted to share that information with you.\nRochelle Wheeler: Also from the City's perspective, that's something that I think we would like to\nsee going forward too, and we will continue to work with Lime or whoever the provider is on that,\nfor Dockless Bike Share, on bringing that into the program, bringing accessible vehicles in. It\nreminds me too of two things, one is that, this is a pretty rapidly evolving field and technology, and\nso one of the things that we'll continue to do during this whole contract period is continue to\nmonitor what the direction is of this technology, what's new, what's coming in, what's feasible, and\nthen responding to that as we can. This would be a two-year contract, is what we've committed to\nwith the possibility of extending it for two more years. And so, that two years really is kind of a\nwindow where we thought after two years, we might be in a very different place and we might want\nto do another RFP, or change things up and have different requirements and that might be to have\naccessible bikes.\nRochelle Wheeler: The other piece I just wanted to mention is that when we have done an RFP, and\nwe'll have an agreement. There is no direct cost to the City for dock-less bike share. The City is not\npaying for this service. And in fact, LimeBike is paying the City some fees to help cover our\nmanagement of it and if we have to remove bikes, they would pay for us to do that. I'm open to your\nother questions.\nArnold Brillinger: I think I'll pass it.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Roloff.\nJennifer Rolloff: I had a question and I just lost my train of thought. So I'm going to pass, but\nI\nmight jump back in.\nChair Beth Kenny: Sure. Vice Chair Barrett.\nJenn Barrett, Vice Chair: I'm really excited to hear about these potential strategies. I think that'll\nhelp a lot in eliminating bike parking issues. I think the major issue is when it's parked in a sidewalk\nand it's no longer accessible for people who are in wheelchairs or mobility issues or just a number\n09/12/18\nPage 7 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 8, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nof reasons. Have you considered at all putting language on the actual bike? So that when they're\nriding, it's right there like, \"Do not block sidewalks\" or something.\nRochelle Wheeler: Yes, I think that we have talked about the best opportunity for that is generally\non the basket and that we could have something that is specific to Alameda because the bikes are\nmanufactured the same for all of their markets, but we could attach something to the basket, I\nbelieve.\nJennifer Rolloff: Can I jump back in now? So with some of the apps that I have downloaded on my\nphone, I can opt in or out of, I think they call it push notifications. And so you just get periodic\nthings, whether it's anecdotes, updates, so is there a way to almost mandate push notifications like\nreminder, and everybody gets a reminder once a month, once a quarter, or various reminders for\ncertain weekends to not block or things like that? Do you do push notifications now?\nAlbert Lin: I don't think we do, but that seems like it's pretty simple to do with our engineering\nteam, especially we could tailor even for Alameda itself and maybe it's a big event coming up and\nusers that are opening up the app within a set area can get push notifications.\nJennifer Rolloff: Right. As they go to use it, it comes up.\nAlbert Lin: Yes.\nJennifer Rolloff: Yes. Or as they come up, they get that alert.\nAlbert Lin: Yes.\nChair Beth Kenny: And just to clarify, Commissioner Roloff, are you suggesting that that would\nbe directly about education around the bike parking that would be pushed regularly to people?\nJennifer Rolloff: Yes. Or I think I'm just sort of brainstorming out loud.\nAlbert Lin: So yes, I think it would be good for parking, but you could expand on that for\nwhatever. For the community.\nChair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Deutsch.\nSusan Deutsch: Well, I really think you've done a really good job in exploring issues related to the\nbike parking because I think in driving around Alameda, I have seen a lot of bikes parked in odd\nplaces. So I think that all the suggestions have been great. I'd like to echo Arnold's idea of maybe\nhaving some bikes that older people can ride, people who are not comfortable riding on a regular\nbike, like a trike, or something that a disabled person could ride. That would be a great addition.\nAnd I also I'm a little bit concerned about the helmet issue.\nSusan Deutsch: I think there's potential for head injuries, especially the ways I see some teenagers\nriding the bikes. So it would be great if we could come up with a strategy for the helmet issue. I\n09/12/18\nPage 8 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 9, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\ndon't know. I did hear something, which I didn't have time to look into, but I heard that there's\nsomething like a collapsible helmet or some helmets that might work with not just Lime but all\nthese city bikes everywhere where nobody's wearing helmets.\nRochelle Wheeler: Yes. We agree definitely, especially for youth, because those under 18 are\nrequired to wear a helmet.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes.\nRochelle Wheeler: And so there are some strategies for that too that we've incorporated because\nthat was the second top issue. So Lime will be required to do helmet giveaways and to give out a\ncertain number per year. They're also setting up a program where you can actually get a helmet on\nrequest, and they'll have different locations around the City where you could get those. They'll give\nthem away at free events. They will also be helping to fund some education to let people know\nabout, not just helmets, but safe riding.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes.\nRochelle Wheeler: And then there can be education also through the app and through websites and\nthings like that. Yes.\nChair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Aghapekian.\nAnto Aghapekian: Thanks for the presentation. The bike, it's a good program and I like it. I have a\ncouple of questions. One of the questions, after your test period, that lasted how long?\nRochelle Wheeler: So the pilot period was six months, however, we've extended it, so it's still\ncontinuing until we get a new provider onboard, but the evaluation, the period that we evaluated\nwas six months.\nAnto Aghapekian: And during that six months did you have any kind of conflicts between bikers\nand pedestrians and people in wheelchairs?\nRochelle Wheeler: What we mostly heard about was bikes that were mis-parked. I don't think I\nheard of any collisions where people were riding and hit somebody, that a bicyclist hit a pedestrian\nor someone in a wheelchair. But it was more we got complaints about the bicycles blocking the\nsidewalks or blocking the curb ramp. So, we definitely did get complaints about that.\nAnto Aghapekian: And with the popularity of these bikes increasing, we'll have more bikers in\nbike lanes and people use the bike lanes also in their wheelchairs. And I can see conflicts, I can see\naccidents happening in the future with the increase of these bike users, and I don't know what the\nanswer is, but I'd like you to have that in the back of your mind. And my last question is, you said\nthat there is an organization that in case a tree falls down, they'll come and clear it up.\nRochelle Wheeler: That's the City that does that.\n09/12/18\nPage 9 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 10, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nAnto Aghapekian: That's the City?\nRochelle Wheeler: Yes, SeeClickFix is a way to get that request to the City or to give that\ncomplaint to the City. I don't know if you want to bring that up, that's in the bottom of this strategy.\nYou can see it written out there. So you see it, you click like on the website. I think that's what the\nclick means. And then fix, is the City fixes it. So if you look that up online you can find the City's\nwebsite. Laurie might look it up for you right now, SO you can see what that looks like.\nAnto Aghapekian: Well, the question I have is, a few weeks ago on a street, on a sidewalk where\nit\nmeets the street, it was not for wheelchairs, but there was a lady stuck in her wheelchair and she\ncouldn't get back on the sidewalk, she couldn't get back on the street and we happened to be there.\nWe helped her out and we talked and she said, she's been sitting there for almost an hour, people\nzipping by her. So do you think I have any chance of calling SeeClickFix and see if they can include\npeople in wheelchairs that are stuck? Maybe Arnold has had experiences like that yourself, where\nstuck with your wheelchair because of the street, the sidewalk.\nArnold Brillinger: Okay, okay, can you tell us again what the problem was?\nAnto Aghapekian: Oh, the problem was a person, a lady in her wheelchair was stuck between the\nsidewalk curb that slopes down to the street. It was not done properly, it was haphazard, no asphalt\nand she was stuck there. She couldn't back out and she couldn't go forward and she was sitting there\nand we happened to be there and we helped her out. And my question is, can we have an\norganization like SeeClickFix in order to make the wheelchair people, excuse me, to assist people in\nwheelchair that are stuck. And I was thinking that maybe with your experience in the wheelchair,\nyou may have had occasions where you're stuck.\nArnold Brillinger: Okay, I think we're getting off the topic.\nChair Beth Kenny: Our staff person, Laurie, is actually the SeeClickFix administrator. So that's\nsomething that maybe you guys can talk about together.\nLaurie Kozisek: Yes, I'm not the administrator, I use it.\nChair Beth Kenny: Oh sorry.\nLaurie Kozisek: But SeeClickFix is so that we can schedule to do the maintenance a few weeks\nfrom now. If you have an immediate emergency, you call 911 if it's really bad, or you call Public\nWorks or you call the non-emergency police or Fire number and Fire does a lot of what they call lift\nassist, where they come and they help somebody who's fallen down. So that would be the best\nthing.\nAnto Aghapekian: Okay.\nRochelle Wheeler: And just quickly on your second point about the increasing popularity, I think\n09/12/18\nPage 10 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 11, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nthere are more people just generally biking around the City and generally as long as they're on the\nstreet, in the bike lanes, and unless they're allowed to be on the sidewalk, I think that's a good thing\noverall for the City. For the bike share program in this agreement, we have a maximum of 300 bikes\nwhich is what we have now that will be allowed. So basically the number of bikes that you've been\nseeing will continue to be the same unless the City authorizes them to increase that, because we\nwant to get a handle on this bike parking issue. And the helmet issue and once we feel like that is\ngoing well then we can consider maybe increasing the number of bikes, but we first want to know\nthat we're getting good compliance with bike parking now.\nAnto Aghapekian: Thank you.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Linton.\nJenny Linton: Thank you for coming to present. It's very interesting, it's been very interesting to\nwatch all these bikes arrive in the City. I have a question about the ferry terminal, it's not quite\nabout the bike program, but you said that the top use is the ferry terminal, the last mile getting from\nthe City on other public transportation to the ferry. I'm concerned that if this is such a popular\nsolution, what do we do about those who can't use bikes, people with blindness or other physical\nlimitations? Is the City going to continue to look for solutions for that last mile for our whole\npopulation? Or do you think that this might limit the interest in the need because the able population\nhas been served?\nRochelle Wheeler: I think we're always looking for transportation solutions to serve all the users to\nget to these hubs or the terminals. We have a very robust paratransit program in the City that can\nserve those populations as well, but it's interesting to think about that. And that's something we can\nbring back, but I don't feel like having this in place is going to decrease our efforts to provide\nmobility choices for all users. We always want to expand choices.\nJenny Linton: Good. And I have a question specifically about the about the LimeBike program.\nYou talked about signage and I was wondering, are we going to put signage on our public street? It's\nalmost a branding of a specific company in a public environment. We wouldn't allow a company\ntake over a public park.\nRochelle Wheeler: Yes, generally, I think what cities are doing is they're just kind of having some\nsort of symbol with a bike and a P or something like that so that you know that that's a bike parking\narea or it might say dockless bike share or something like that. So yes, I'm not sure we would allow\nthe Lime logo on the decals or the signs. Good point.\nJenny Linton: Thank you.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you. And I have a few questions for you guys. First, the 90% parking\nsuccess, people parking as a goal, I would like to see that higher especially over two-year period, if\nyou can step that up to a higher number as the contract goes on, that would be great. I would like to\nsee some sort of commitment to getting the hub lock because it's my understanding that the only\nway that we can actually have people check in the app is to have the hub lock on the type of bikes\n09/12/18\nPage 11 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 12, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nthat we're looking at when they park. That's the time to remind them, \"Park correctly.\" And so in the\nproposal, it talked about six months for electric bikes, but I don't think we're having electric bikes,\nwe're just having the pedal bikes. And so I'd like to see a commitment towards getting that, certainly\nwithin the life of the contract.\nChair Beth Kenny: Another suggestion, gamification if you're going to do that, it would be great to\nsee some sort of like where you enable LimeBike riders to get points for re-parking somebody else\nwho might have misparked. And then I wanted to ask about how geo-fencing might work as far as,\nwould it be something where we could say, in an area where we know, like at the Waters Edge\nLodge, there's lots of people with mobility concerns. Could we block off that area from parking\nyour bike or would it have to be the whole block or how specific is it? I know it can't get between\nthe sidewalk and the grass area. And then would that be something where organizations that are\nproviding services to people with mobility concerns could come to the City and say, \"We want our\narea fenced-off.\" Or come to Lime and say, \"We want our area fenced off.\"\nRochelle Wheeler: Why don't I answer the second part of the locations, but do you want to talk\nabout more of the technology and how specific you can get with that?\nAlbert Lin: Yes, so we currently in our kind of dashboard, if you will, where we can control,\nvisually see where everything is, where all bikes, everything are, as well as kind of establishing\nthose geo-fences. So we basically, once we get the GPS coordinates, we just enter those in and then\nthat will basically create however big of a parameter or however more specific, obviously, it can't be\njust one address.\nChair Beth Kenny: Right.\nAlbert Lin: But yes, it's relatively easy.\nRochelle Wheeler: And then I think that the blocking off, if it's a public area, we would want that\nto come through the City and we'd want to work with whoever it is. We don't want to see half the\nCity end up getting blocked off because one person is complaining for instance. But definitely the\nsituation you're describing could be a place where there's a heavy concentration of people coming\nand going with mobility issues, or visual impairments that might be a good place to block off. And\nso I think we would work with individuals. Then there's also private property, when they work\ndirectly with Lime to say \"They're in our apartment complex, we don't want your bikes at all in\nhere\". And so Lime works with those people directly.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes, I would want it to be a need-based thing. And how likely would it be for\nus to be able to get the hub locks on the LimeBikes?\nAlbert Lin: That's a really good question. I think I'd have to talk to our product and engineering\nteams to see how much they can expedite that process, as right now it's just the pedal bikes alone.\nWe'd have to outfit them with additional hardware, so that the biker could communicate with our\nservers to kind of establish that hub lock. So I'd have to get their take on that.\n09/12/18\nPage 12 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 13, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nRochelle Wheeler: I'd say that is a concern also that the staff has in accelerating that and having the\nhub locks come sooner rather than later to our City because that does feel like a really strong way to\ndo the parking enforcement.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. And do you have any sense about how Lime go about increasing that 90%\ngoal?\nAlbert Lin: 90% goal of? Oh, of properly parking.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes.\nAlbert Lin: I'd say, main things that come off the top my head is, number one, just the community\nevents that we're going to contribute to, and make a presence to be there and educate as many\npeople as possible. So that means holding as many as we can. And then also I'd say in addition to\neducation through those events, I'd say beefing up our staff to be more kind of just patrolling. We\nalready have a good feel of what are the kind of the problem areas where it's congested like Park\nStreet etcetera, so kind of making them incorporate it into their daily routine, and have them patrol\nthat on a daily basis.\nAlbert Lin: I mean as of now, two weeks ago, I established kind of a mid-shift patrol, that will go\nthroughout Alameda and Oakland since they're relatively close. And that's just patrolling the hot\nspots and taking care of our customer service tickets or complaints that we get.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. I guess those are my recommendations for this. And thank you very much\nfor coming and all the work that you guys have put into this.\nRochelle Wheeler: Thank you. Thank you all. These are very, very helpful suggestions and input,\nand we'll take this into consideration and really appreciate your time tonight.\n4-B Accessible Playgrounds\nChair Beth Kenny: Now we'll move on to the next agenda item. We're going to have a presentation\nby Commissioner Deutsch on accessible playgrounds.\nSusan Deutsch: So my son and daughter-in-law live in Marina, which is a little north of Monterey,\nnear Salinas, and I took my grandson to the playground called Tatum's Garden in Salinas, and I was\njust really impressed with this playground. And I decided to do this presentation. And it's an\naccessible playground and it's an inclusive playground. So, I'll go into that.\nSusan Deutsch: So what is an accessible playground? An accessible inclusive playground, things\nthat are available to typically developing children, children with neurological disabilities such as\nautism, children who have intellectual disabilities, children who require wheelchairs or medical\nequipment, children with physical disabilities, social and emotional disabilities, and also to be\navailable for families, siblings, grandparents, and other people in the community that might be also\ngoing to the playground with children.\n09/12/18\nPage 13 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 14, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nSusan Deutsch: So the disabled population is 12% in our country, but if you start including people\nwho are involved with this group of people, like their parents, their siblings, their grandparents,\ntheir friends, then one in three people are touched by a person who has a severe disability. And\ndisability challenges are affecting individuals and their families, spend a day at the park. So, if\nyou're a grandparent and you're in a walker, you might still want to go to the park with your\ngrandchild. So all these things have to be considered when you're looking at what is an accessible\nplayground.\nSusan Deutsch: So an inclusive playground addresses the needs of all people, including those who\nhave autism, intellectual disabilities, hearing impairments, visual impairments, cerebral palsy,\nphysical disabilities, and any other impairment that somebody might have. It addresses the needs of\ntypical children and it accommodates everyone and provides challenges at all the children's\ndevelopmental level, so all children can be challenged to explore.\nSusan Deutsch: The mission is that it's an important time. Childhood, it is an important time for\nopportunities to interact socially and strengthen the imagination. An inclusive playground provides\ninclusive play areas for all children, regardless of their ability. And unfortunately special needs\nchildren are often excluded from activities when facilities are not capable of accommodating these\nchildren. They're left out of play experiences that most children get exposed to. An inclusive\nplayground has play features for both abled as well as disabled kids, and that both typical children\nand disabled children should be able to play together.\nSusan Deutsch: So the background on Tatum's Garden, I'm not going to read all of this, because\nyou have the handout, but two parents of a child with spina bifida went to Idaho and found this\ninclusive playground and saw their child start to play with her siblings. And they live in Salinas,\nthey came back to Salinas, and they got approval from the City Council to build this playground in\nan abandoned parking lot. And they started raising money. Well, there was a non-profit agency in\nSalinas that they used to do the fund raising. And they thought there were going to be so many\nobstacles and this was going to take years, and they did it in a few months, they collected a million\ndollars from people all over Monterey County, and it was kind of amazing. And there was an\nincredible number of volunteers also that helped in the building process of this playground.\nSusan Deutsch: The playground was built by a company called Leathers and Associates, and\nthey've designed many playgrounds all over the United States, and they specialize in inclusive,\naccessible playgrounds. The playground cost $750,000. A lot of local artists donated their time.\nYou'll see, when I show the pictures of these murals that are in the playground. So it's a playground,\nbut it's very artistic and it's very interesting.\nSusan Deutsch: So in terms of fund raising, when people donated money, there's an area in the\nentry way that has bricks and you can get your name engraved on a brick for the money you\ndonated. There are sponsors that donated money that are on a list, and a lot of those are companies\nall over Monterey County that donated significant amounts of money. And then parts of the\nplayground have these picket fences and people's names are on those picket fences, and all these\npeople have donated and their names are there, and some of them are families and some of them are\n09/12/18\nPage 14 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 15, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nindividuals. But it was just a real community effort, and that also really struck me as something\nreally good that a community could come together and do something like this.\nSusan Deutsch: And this is just an overview of it from up above, but it doesn't really show the\nwhole playground. It's actually a very large playground, and there's a whole grassy area off to the\nside where kids can run around and kick a soccer ball. And there's an area with picnic benches and\nSo, there's a lot more there but it's just an overview. My husband got very excited, so I'm including\nsome of his videos.\n[Video Voiceover] Robert Deutsch: This is Tatum Gardens in Salinas, California. This is the most\nincredible playground for children of all ages, families, disabled, you name it. This is so unique, so\ninteresting. It's themed to be the farm and the land and gardening and fruits and vegetables and how\nwe eat, how food reaches our tables and all over there are themes, and all the spices and beans and\nherbs.\nSusan Deutsch: So you could see, it's a farm theme and you could also see in that video, there were\nbricks, the bricks over there. Those have people's names on them, the donations that they made.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes. So this is just showing the surface of this playground is a foam surface, if you\nfall on it, you won't get hurt. My grandson has fallen many times and he's always surprised that he's\nnot crying. And also it's colored. So, I think that's a good thing too, that there's different colors in\ndifferent parts of the playground so that you could really see the contrast on how to get from place\nto place.\nSusan Deutsch: And this is showing the structures and there are ramps that go everywhere. So a\nperson in a wheelchair can get on to these wooden structures. There's tunnels that kids can crawl\nthrough and this surface doesn't splinter and that's another good thing. So I'm not sure what it is,\nmaybe it's not real wood. But that's another good thing, about how they created it. And so, here's a\nchild in the wheelchair, using the ramp and that might be Tatum, I'm just not sure because that looks\nlike her mother following her.\nSusan Deutsch: So you could see that kids in wheelchairs can really get around on this climbing\narea. There's also an area where kids can just explore things cognitively and visually. So these are\ngears that kids can just spin and watch these gears move. It's just one example of some of the things\nthey had, they had some other kinds of things that kids could explore cognitively and visually and\nsensory-wise, and this is a pretty popular place for kids to go, especially the younger ones. And so,\nhere's another.\n[Video Voiceover] Robert Deutsch: Strawberries. This area, lot of strawberries are grown. Some\nlittle houses with themes, again mostly things from the land, little houses to go in, inside the houses,\ninteresting items. The sun, little wheels to spin.\nSusan Deutsch: So there are a lot of little homes, little structures like that, that kids can go into and\nI think that is really important for some kids with disability. Here's another one, it's a farm stand.\nBut there are kids that get over-stimulated at a playground. And actually, when I was there, I saw a\n09/12/18\nPage 15 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 16, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\ngirl who clearly had a disability who was just running all over the place. Her father was constantly\nchasing her, she was clearly over-stimulated and I didn't want to interfere but it would have been\nnice if he just brought her into one of these little structures so that she could just calm down and\nrelax, and then go out and play again.\nSusan Deutsch: The other thing about these structures is that they encourage imaginative play,\nwhich is great. You see a lot of kids in that farm stand pretending to sell fruits and vegetables, and\nalso it provides some shade, because it's a pretty sunny location, and they didn't put a lot of trees in.\nThey provided shade in other ways. And this is one of them, and there's many of these.\nSusan Deutsch: There are also these little climbing structures that are very unique and artistic, little\nclimbing walls. There's many of them all over and this is a simple one that you just step on the\nbottom. And this is a swing for a disabled child. That is pretty safe, and the child can be strapped in.\nAnd then there's also regular swings right next to it.\nSusan Deutsch: And this is a Braille panel, and on one side they have numbers in Braille, on the\nother side is the Braille alphabet. And I didn't see any visually impaired kids by this, but I took a\npicture because my grandson loves this. Everything is tactile and he traces the numbers and he\ntraces the letters with his fingers, because those are raised also. So in addition to the Braille, the\nletters and numbers are raised. And here's another. This is another video.\nSusan Deutsch: You could see the path, there's a path to help kids find their way around and see\nsome of the structures. And this is a swing.\nSusan Deutsch: Oh. My husband doesn't know what it is, he's calling it a \"tadpole swing\", but it's a\nswing that I saw some parents taking their disabled child and sitting with them on that swing. And\nthat was a really nice. It was just a really nice interaction to watch that. These see-saws are safe. So,\nwhen I was growing up, if the top person got off the see-saw, you'd crash down. You don't on this.\nAnd then, there's a music area on the next slide, which is really cool. More swings. You could see\nthis is a very large playground, this is really large.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, the parents have been very involved with their kids. That's a picture of that\nstructure from another angle. It was like a big house. And this is the tractor from the other side. You\nwere seeing that there was a slanted way to climb up. There's also a way for someone in a\nwheelchair to get onto that tractor from a ramp. And then there's a little ladder there, so there's many\nways to get on to that tractor for any child. And here's just another mural that artists volunteer their\ntime and painted with help from people in the community.\nSusan Deutsch: Other murals, mosaics, butterflies, caterpillars, kids. I thought this was interesting\nbecause I'm an occupational therapist, I've worked in the schools. And this is like a conveyor belt\nthat you roll boxes down, but it's a real sensory experience and kids go on that and they feel all the\nrollers on their back or on their stomach, and a lot of kids with disability need that sensory input.\nAnd there were a variety of items in this playground that provided that. This is one of them and my\ngrandson didn't like it, but I think it's great. And then they have items that spin, which a lot of kids\nneed that kind of movement. And this is lettuce, it's like a head of lettuce, that's been cut open, and\n09/12/18\nPage 16 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 17, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nkids sit on it and spin. Behind it, there's another item that also spins, but this is one that you could\nsit in and be safer.\nSusan Deutsch: So, this playground is owned by the community. They clean it once a month,\nthey've been taken care of it. There are still donations coming in to help take care of it. When I was\nthere, I saw a group of developmentally disabled adults going in, and they were cleaning the\nplayground, which I thought, Wow, that's just a great opportunity for vocational training for some of\nthose adults.\nSusan Deutsch: I felt like, when I was there, that people were valued, and people with disability\nwere valued. And you could just see it in the way that playground was built. And I'm just saying this\nis a worthy goal, a community based effort to build an inclusive playground. This kind of play for\nall kids, it's just a worthy goal to work towards, I just see it as maybe a long range plan. But I think\nit provides for kids cognitive development, sensory development, physical development, and social\ndevelopment.\nChair Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Commissioner Deutsch. Can we just go around?\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, sure.\nChair Beth Kenny: And have comments.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, I didn't show everything in the playground because that just won't be possible.\nChair Beth Kenny: Seems like it's pretty huge.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, well, I mean, it's big enough, I mean it's small enough, that my two and a half\nyear old grandson gets all over there. But it is a good sized playground compared to some of the\nones that I've been to here.\nChair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Brillinger, yes.\nArnold Brillinger: Yes. It seems to me that Alameda has a park that was built to be inclusive of all\npeople. Maybe we could get a little bit of it at another time?\nChair Beth Kenny: I don't have an exhaustive report on that. I think that what you may be thinking\nof is when we did the 25th anniversary of the ADA. We did our celebration in conjunction with the\nParks and Rec Department. And they opened up a playground at that point that was their most\ninclusive. They are trying to include things with every new playground to make them more\naccessible. But I think the one that you're thinking of is the 25th anniversary ADA celebration. And\nso it had some of the elements in here.\nSusan Deutsch: But there's no access for a child in a wheelchair to get on to a climbing structure in\nthat playground. But the surface of that playground allows kids with wheelchairs to roll around. So\nit's not like bark or sand. It's a surface that allows a wheelchair to roll. But there's no accessible\n09/12/18\nPage 17 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 18, "text": "interesting.\nArnold Brillinger: Because like Alameda is maritime. And the whole thing with ships and things\nlike that.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes, and the Bay.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, could be. The way they did it, they actually worked together. They had a\nwhole committee working together. The community came up with this theme, and this committee.\nSo I think that's a good way to do it too.\nArnold Brillinger: Thank you. Thank you Susan.\nSusan Deutsch: Thank you.\nChair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Rolloff.\nJennifer Rolloff: Thanks so much for sharing that, that's fantastic. I know, I believe you're the\nliaison to Parks and Rec. Are you already in the work to present this to them? I think that would be\nreally worthwhile.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, well I wanted to present it here first, and get feedback. I was on kind of a time\ncrunch, and I didn't realize when I started that I had to get my PowerPoint to Laurie, like 10 days\nbefore this, SO. But I might need to make some changes, but I do want to pursue this.\nJennifer Rolloff: Yes, I think there's so many ways to incorporate this into our community, whether\nit's a dedicated park, or as we start replacing antiquated pieces of parks, they get replaced with some\nof these. And I know Jean Sweeney Park has multiple phases of the park being rolled out, and not\nall of them are in stone. And I know I've seen one that has some very creative areas that are not\njungle gyms typically, but they're not being built yet. This might be a time to see if any of this could\nbe incorporated. Because I think it's important, and the impact is so positive. So, thank you.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, I also thought that the West End might be a good place, because there's a lot\nof land there, and they're going to be building there. So that might be another possibility where\nthere's a good chunk of land.\nJennifer Rolloff: Yes. What's it called on Alameda Point? The new one that just broke ground?\n09/12/18\nPage 18 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 19, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes.\nJennifer Rolloff: Do they have plans for their parks already? That might be another place for this\ndiscussion as well.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes. I know. Yes, thank you.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Thank you so much for the presentation. I think it's fantastic, and I\nwould love to see that kind of thing in Alameda. I really like the community ownership, because\nthey relied on the donations and help building it. I think that would be a real strength for our\ncommunity if we had that as well. I think people would really have some ownership. And yes, I\nthought it was a really good presentation. I think it will go well with the Parks Department. So I'm\nexcited to see where it goes.\nSusan Deutsch: I hope so.\nAnto Aghapekian: Same with me. It's a very nice presentation. Thank you. And I like the item that\nyou have in there, the dollar sign, where it says that it costs $750,000. The Parks and Rec, they look\nat numbers. And it's doable. And also, the emphasis that everybody uses it, not only for people. It's\nfor everybody.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes.\nAnto Aghapekian: That makes life so much easier. It's not very expensive. It can be done. Thank\nyou.\nSusan Deutsch: Oh, well, it sounds expensive to me.\nJenny Linton: I want to thank you as well Susan. I would just reiterate what you both said about it\nbeing a community park aspect. I think both looking for donations from community members and\nthe participation of the community is what drives an inclusive park. In 1990, we lived in Davis with\na\nthen four-year-old, and the community park was built. I think parents went and worked on it. It\nhad just been opened when we arrived. But David and I were there last weekend and we had to go\nvisit the community park, hadn't been there in 30 years, and there it was all rebuilt. But probably I\ndon't think I saw anything all that inclusive about it. Well, it was chaos.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you. This is I know something that you've been interested in for a while.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes.\nChair Beth Kenny: So I'm glad that we're here talking about it, and this is great stuff. I echo what\neverybody says about getting the community involvement. I think that's what can make this really\nspecial. And I have a few ideas of places or organizations that might be interested. The Alameda\nSpecial Education Parents Group is a great organization. And they have talked about wanting to\n09/12/18\nPage 19 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 20, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nwork with us more, and I think this would be a great time to do that. The other thing is I got an\nemail from Amy Wooldridge, who is head of the Parks and Rec today, and she had been meeting\nwith the people of Kiwanis, and they are looking at starting a new branch that focuses more on\npeople with disabilities. And then wanting to see if somebody from the Commission wanted to be\npart of that with them. So this might be a good opportunity.\nSusan Deutsch: Oh, wow. Yes, great.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. So, yes I love that. And then I think I just misheard you, and maybe it's\nbecause I'm going to so many playgrounds myself right now. Where you talked about the\nplayground and being inclusive. Did you say it was inclusive for the caregivers as well? Or like\naccessible for caregivers as well?\nSusan Deutsch: Yes.\nChair Beth Kenny: Because I find that is a problem I'm coming across in some of these\nplaygrounds.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, I mean not every aspect.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes.\nSusan Deutsch: I've been playing with my grandson, and he wants to play hide-and-seek with me,\nright, so I'm trying to crawl into these little spaces. So, no, you can't do that. You definitely, as a\ngrandparent with a walker, or a wheelchair, or somebody with a disability could definitely go to a\nplayground like this with their kids.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. Wonderful. And then, the other thing, that specialized swing that you\nshowed us, is that a wheelchair swing?\nSusan Deutsch: No. They didn't have a wheelchair swing, and that is something I think they should\nhave.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes, I was at the Alameda Makers Fair this weekend, and there was a woman\nthere who was showing some adaptive sports equipment that she had been making. She works for\nSan Leandro, doing PE for them, and she had said that she really wanted to see a wheelchair swing\nin Alameda. So, I would love to see that.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, I would, too. At one point, when I first started working in the Berkeley\nUnified School District, there was one wheelchair swing for this one student, the parent fought for it\nand got it, but then the playground was redone, the student wasn't there, there was no other student\nin that school with a disability, with a disability that required a wheelchair, so it came down. But\nthat was It would be nice to have one with a wheelchair.\nChair Beth Kenny: And, my final question is how do you see the best way, going forward, towards\n09/12/18\nPage 20 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 21, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nmaking this happen with the commission? Should we get a sub-committee on this, or?\nSusan Deutsch: It would be helpful to work with other people. If people are interested, it would be\ngreat. But I do need to present to Parks and Rec. I do know that, and I guess I'll contact Amy\nWooldridge and the Kiwanis Club. But I was also thinking that in order to fundraise, you need a\nnonprofit organization. I guess the Kiwanis is a nonprofit. And then I also thought of this, maybe\nthat Center for Independent Living, they might have an interest. So, just finding an organization, a\nnonprofit organization to fundraise through would be great. But yes, working with other people is\nalways the better. I don't know how much time people have. I don't see it as something that it is\nprobably going to happen very quickly, so I don't want people to feel pressured. I think it's\nsomething that's going to be a process.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. My sense is, if we form a sub-committee, that a lot of it could be done\nover email. Would you say that's correct?\nSusan Deutsch: Yes. If there are people that want to meet one-on-one, then we can set up those\nmeetings at some point, but the initial contacts would probably be email, unless somebody from the\nKiwanis wants to meet. And I don't know if the whole committee has to meet, unless that's what we\ndecide, depending on people's time. But if they do, it's great. The more people, the better.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. With the Kiwanis situation, they're actually looking for one person to be a\nliaison. But in my sub-committee experience, I would say it's great to have a few people, because a\nlot of these meetings come up at inconvenient times, so if you can have a few different people who\ncan go to them, it's better.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes. And, I think, when we did Universal Design, it was better having a\ncommittee. It clearly worked out better. And just to even get ideas off of each other, otherwise you\njust feel like you're in this zone and you don't hear what other people are thinking and you can't get\nother people's ideas. So, having other people is a good thing.\nChair Beth Kenny: So, I would like to propose that we form a sub-committee towards getting a\ninclusive accessible park built here in Alameda, playground here in Alameda. Is anyone interested\nin joining that? I am certainly interested. Maybe a little self-interested.\nAnto Aghapekian: I am too.\nChair Beth Kenny: All right.\nChair Beth Kenny: So, for now, it'll be the three of us, and we can report back to the commission\non how things are going.\nSusan Deutsch: Okay. And just, then, for your information, for everybody's information, there was\nsomething that I meant to put on my presentation that I didn't. So if you Google \"Inclusive\nplayground design guide\", there's a whole guide about it. I can't even read the whole thing, I haven't\nread it all yet. I've read parts of it. But it's a huge guide about how to build inclusive playgrounds,\n09/12/18\nPage 21 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 22, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nand, actually, Anto, you probably would understand some of the things that I don't understand. But\nyes, the architectural parts of it.\nArnold Brillinger: Thank you. I want to say Susan, I think that you've got the support of the\nCommission on going forward to this and making it come to fruition. I think everyone will be\nbehind you and to help in whatever the way they can. Thank you.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes. And just one other thing is that my husband really would like a playground\nlike this in Alameda, and so at some point, he might jump in and help out because he has some\ncontacts, like on City Council if it gets to that.\nChair Beth Kenny: He's welcome to be part of our sub-committee or be an adviser to the sub-\ncommittee.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes, okay. I had to include his videos.\n4-C Move November 2018 Meeting [Note: Also covered in Item 6\nChair Beth Kenny: So we'll move on to agenda item 4C. We need to move our November 2018\nmeeting. I'm still trying to figure out. There's another commission that had already rescheduled their\nNovember meeting for the second Wednesday of that month before we had changed to odd months.\nSo, do you have some proposed dates?\nLaurie Kozisek: Well, it's just that the Transportation Commission meets on the fourth Wednesday\nof the month and they don't want to meet on Thanksgiving Eve. And so they've always traditionally\ngone with the second Monday or Wednesday for November and they are not willing to change that.\nSo we could go with the first or third. I would recommend the first because the third is getting\npretty close to Thanksgiving also.\nChair Beth Kenny: And it's confirmed that on November 7th, there's nobody else in City Council\nchambers.\nLaurie Kozisek: Not that I know of at this point.\nChair Beth Kenny: Okay. So I would like to propose that we move it to November 7th which is\none week earlier. It's the first Wednesday of November.\nJennifer Rolloff: I'll second that.\nChair Beth Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nChair Beth Kenny: Any opposed?\n09/12/18\nPage 22 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 23, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\n5. OLD BUSINESS\n5-A. Commission and Board Liaison Reports\nChair Beth Kenny: Now, we'll go on to agenda item five, Commission and Board Liaison Reports.\nCommissioner Billinger.\nArnold Brillinger: Okay. If you were at the parade, you probably saw the shuttle go by. You\nprobably saw me go by too because I made it all the way around. I would just want to say that we're\nworking on doing all kinds of things to get people to ride the shuttle. Again, just like using the bikes\nis good for getting people out of single-person cars and the bus is also especially for older people\nand for those that are disabled. Right now, it's open to anybody. We're even going to have a couple\nof things like Gilligan's Island, there was a three-hour tour and turned into a long thing, right? Well,\nI came up with the idea.\nArnold Brillinger: Let's have a free hour tour. Means that it's free. You don't have to pay anything\nto go on it, but we're going to have Dennis from the Alameda Sun come on and we're really sorry\nthat we can't do this for as many people as we think that will be wanting to go on this to kind of\ngive a historical tour as we go past some of these things in Alameda. And as we know, it goes on\nthree different tours, three different routes, one on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday,\nbut we're going to also get some of the information and on 11 X 17 sheets, and have them laminated\nso that people can as they're going by, say, \"Oh, look at there's where the peanut butter factory used\nto be for Skippy's.'\nArnold Brillinger: Because it did start here in Alameda, and so forth. So those are just some of the\nthings that we're getting to get people interested and aware because we realize a lot of people are\nworking during the hours when it runs. But their older, their parents and their neighbors that are\nolder, they need to know about it. So we're trying to get the information out to the various groups.\nSo that's it for the shuttle. Now in Alameda, and we've had the presentation here from Victoria\nWilliams on the Paratransit Program, where people can buy vouchers.\nArnold Brillinger: They can have these tickets, they will bring them back from a doctor's\nappointment or a hospital or wherever they had to go for $2.50. Wherever it is in the county, and\nAlameda will pay the rest of it that way. And also, people of a certain age can get vouchers to ride\nregular taxis at a very much discounted price, like they get a $5 voucher for $1.50. And it helps\nthem with making their budgeting work out. So, we do have those things. And I just wanted to say,\nbesides the fact that I do go to the Oakland Commission on Disability and also Berkeley and stuff\nlike that, they all seem to have representatives at the last meeting in Oakland where they talked\nabout several things, one of them being the whole thing of shared bicycles and also accessible\nbicycles.\nArnold Brillinger: And also, how to work with Uber and Lyft in getting rides that were equipped\nto handle wheelchairs. And there's an SB and I don't know the number of it, but just recently I heard\nabout it, where in the legislature in Sacramento, they're considering this where a certain amount of\neach ride has to be specified to work or get some vehicles that can handle wheelchairs. So that's\n09/12/18\nPage 23 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 24, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\npretty important, and it might be something that we can get an overview for the next meeting and\nmaybe see if the City Council also wants to endorse it, as are city councils like in San Francisco and\nOakland are going to endorse, and in other places in California.\nArnold Brillinger: So, what I'll do is I'll send the information on what that bill is to Laurie and she\ncan send it out to everybody, so that if you're interested you can see how it's working. And also,\nmaybe then we can discuss endorsing it to our City Council to say, \"Yes, we want to sponsor this\nalso.\"\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes, get that to Laurie and we can have it on the agenda for next time if we can\nall review that and we will have a discussion about that. That would be great. I'd love to hear about\nthings that are coming down the pipeline.\nArnold Brillinger: Yes.\nChair Beth Kenny: Great. Commissioner Roloff?\nJennifer Rolloff: So, let's see for School Board. I didn't get a chance to attend the meeting where\nthey talked extensively about the merging of schools, but I will do some investigating on that. I\nthink that puts a lot of the population that we're advocating for at risk. A lot of these services are\ngoing to fall through the cracks, so I'll follow up on that. But what I did want to talk about was,\nthere was a committee put together that did a needs assessment for mental and emotional wellness\nneeds. So Kirsten Zazo, do you know Kirsten? She's the Chief Student Support Officer in Alameda\n[Unified School District], and she presented the needs to the Board. The purpose of the needs\nassessment is to identify student behavioral needs, inventory existing school and community-based\nservices and identify gaps in services.\nJennifer Rolloff: The goal is to develop recommendations, create a more coordinated and\nintegrated behavioral health service system and make services more accessible to all students.\nWhich I felt was very thematic with what our board is doing, with what Commission is doing with\nfocusing on mental health needs. Essentially just to net out, she presented the findings but I think\none of the takeaways was per Sean McPhetridge [Superintendent at AUSD]. Unfortunately, there's\nnot a lot of money to address these. We can work on addressing the zero-cost solutions that they\nhad. So one of the thoughts I had was that Kirsten or a delegate could possibly come and present her\nreport to us. We could do a little Q&A and see how possibly us, on behalf of the City could make\nrecommendations for supplementing some of those gaps that don't have proper funding since it is\nfor Alameda residents as well. So if maybe we could get that on an agenda for a future date. I could\neven contact Kirsten.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes, if you could contact Kirsten and include Laurie and myself on the email,\nthat would be great. And so I would love to have her on the agenda to present that report.\nJennifer Rolloff: Okay. Okay, great. Thank you. That's all I have for today.\nChair Beth Kenny: Vice-Chair Barrett.\n09/12/18\nPage 24 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 25, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nJenn Barrett, Vice Chair: Yes, I didn't have anything from the Planning Board for this particular\nupdate. And then for the businesses, I got some contacts. Thank you, Beth, for providing that. I'm\ngoing to get in touch and hopefully have it start rolling before our next meeting. And then one other\nthing I wanted to bring up, when you were presenting, I was thinking about beach access. My aunt,\nwe were in Cape Cod, and she's in a wheelchair, and they had a beach buggy. Just there were two\nthat you could just take and you just transfer them onto this beach buggy that has these huge wheels\nthat can go on the sand. And it just was so awesome, and it allowed her to come out on the beach\nwith us. So I think that's something else we can talk to the Parks Department about maybe adding.\nSusan Deutsch: Yes. And another, I have a relative who has a house in Martha's Vineyard and what\nthey have on their beaches is something built right over the sand that you can just push a wheel\nchair on to get out to the beach.\nChair Beth Kenny: And we have heard from people wanting to be able to access things like the\nSand Castle Contest. So I like what you guys are thinking.\nChair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Deutsch?\nSusan Deutsch: The Parks Department cancelled their meeting, which I think was last week. Oh,\ntomorrow? Yes, it's cancelled the meeting.\nChair Beth Kenny: Yes. Commissioner Aghapekian?\nAnto Aghapekian: I have three items that I'd like to talk about. The first one is in our local\nnewspapers, they announced all the City meeting. There's the City meeting calendars, and all the\ncommissions are listed. Their schedule of the commission meetings are announced in the\nnewspaper, and it comes out weekly. And I'd like us to be on this schedule so that people know\nwhen we meet and hopefully they're coming. That's one item. The other item is on Clement Avenue,\nyou probably have heard about.\nAnto Aghapekian: They're calling it the Clement Avenue Corridor. It's about a mile and a half\nstreet that's going to be converted into amenities and leisure, amenities and circulation area. The\nCity has about $5 million donation, not donation, but a grant from the federal government to work\non this project. And the lady who is responsible for this project from the City planning department\nis Gayle Payne.\nAnto Aghapekian: And so she is the contact person. And what happened during the Central Avenue\npresentation with Gayle, it was after the fact. All we were told or this commission was informed\nwas, after the fact, this is what we're going to do. What I would like to see happen this time around\nis before the planning department starts planning and hiring designers to do the design, I think that\nwe should get in touch with Gayle and I volunteer to do this. I will walk that one and a half mile to\nClement Avenue and highlight all the areas that are hazards for people in wheelchairs and highlight\nit on a map and pass it on to her through this Commission, of course, so that they do include all the\nthings that are necessary to make that one and a half mile promenade to be accessible for a\n09/12/18\nPage 25 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 26, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nwheelchair. That's my second item.\nAnto Aghapekian: The third that I have is, there was a forum composed by the League of Women\nVoters here in Alameda, and during that forum, there were four or five people that talked, and,\nThomas, the City Planner, was also there. And they talked about the new housing state laws that I\nwas very curious about to find out what this new laws are. And it's not code. It does not impact\nwheelchair. It's not code related. It's all number of housing. Each city is required, not requested. It's\nrequired by law to provide. And cities have been bucking this for about two, three years, but the\nstate is making it very clear that if a city does not comply by providing a certain percentage of\nhousing, per income\nAnto Aghapekian: All the details, then the state will stop all funding with that city, and that's\nparalyzing. That's a very serious threat. And they can do it and cities cannot do anything about it.\nSo, cities have been approving housing projects on many fronts, as much as they can. Alameda is\none of them. And the thing that is ironic is, the developers have put in a lot of money, getting their\nplans prepared and approved by the city, it takes sometimes years. And after they receive their\napproval, their permits to go ahead with the construction, they find out that the banks are refusing to\ngive them the money, because they're creating low-cost housing or market value housing, and the\nbanks say, \"The numbers don't jive. There is no way your income is going to be able to pay your\nloan, so we're not going to give you any money.' So, that's why some of the projects that have been\napproved that we know of, that's been advertised, or spoken of, written about in the papers, one of\nthem being the brick building that used to be a factor - Del Monte.\nAnto Aghapekian: I think the guy had his approval, his permit about two or three years ago and it's\nstill vacant. Nothing is going on and I saw a sign on it that says that it's ready for lease, but I don't\nknow what that means. So this is really not much to do with what we're all about and yet it has\nimpact as to availability of housing. The monies to build parks, the developers have promised to\ncreate parks, but they cannot do it. It's all at a standstill. And I just wanted to share that with you.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Linton?\nJenny Linton: I joined a group this year called Genesis. They are a group of community organizers\nin Oakland over by the eastern edge of Lake Merritt. And this year they're focusing on Disability\nJustice. They've created a Disability Justice League, in particular, focusing on exactly what the\nanthropologists from the Haas Center of Disability Studies came and spoke to us about, which is\naround the intersection of multiple disabilities, being a woman with disabilities, a minority with\ndisabilities. And along with their focus on disabilities, they're looking at housing and getting young\npeople out of jail, and these things are all related. Housing is an issue for those with disabilities.\nJenny Linton: Those without housing tend to find themselves in jail or in trouble earlier on and\ncould or could not be disabled as well. And so they're working to organize groups, people willing to\nspeak. We did a training this week at the Arc in San Leandro where we took a group of people from\nthe day program and got them. Actually, my son and I both went to two different sites. Gave them a\nchance to talk about themselves and see who could develop the confidence to come speak to their\nassembly about what they need in their population, and they're called genesisca.org, and their\n09/12/18\nPage 26 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 27, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nnumber is 510-882-3404 and they're meeting again on Tuesday night. And I just wanted to share\nthat. Thank you.\nChair Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Commissioner Linton. So I think I misspoke a little bit\nabout the Kiwanis Club. What it is, is they're starting a service club within the Kiwanis Club that is\nthey're interested in getting people with disabilities to come join Kiwanis. So I think we should be\nin touch with them and reaching out. And I would love to be a part of that. It's called the Aktion\nClub and I encourage anyone who's interested to please check it out.\nAnto Aghapekian: I know the person.\nChair Beth Kenny: That sounds great. So on the housing stuff that you were discussing, last night\nat City Council, they approved a master plan for the Marina Shores Project, which is, I believe, part\nof the Clement Street Corridor that you're talking about and the project would include 760 new\nresidential developments. So by my math, that's over 220 universally designed units that should be\npart of this project, and that's 760 visitable units that will be part of this project, so I was pretty\nexcited about that.\nChair Beth Kenny: But the other thing that came up at City Council last night was, they were\ndiscussing the rent control ordinance or ballot measure, rather. The current ordinance is going on\nthe ballot, and I just wanted to let you all know, because what the ballot measure basically does is\nput the current ordinance in the City Charter and by putting that ordinance in the City Charter, it\nmeans that no changes can be made to that ordinance, without a public vote. So, if we decide, \"Oh,\nwe really want to push to protect disabled people from no cause evictions,\" or ask for extra\nrelocation costs for people who are disabled, or extra relocation time.\nChair Beth Kenny: That would require, if this ballot measure passes, it would require a citywide\nvote. So it would have to go on the ballot. And honestly, for very small things, if they wanted to\neven change punctuation, it's my understanding that it would then have to go on a City ballot. And it\nmade me think we should be thinking about what our disabled population faces in terms of rent,\nissues in rent stability, and certainly relocation if they have to move. I think there are some good\nissues we can be thinking and making some recommendations to the City Council regarding that.\nAnd I'd like it to be on our radar, and perhaps we can get an agenda speaker at some point to talk\nabout that.\nChair Beth Kenny: The November ballot has a ballot measure that is asking about, \"Should we put\nthe current rent control ordinance into the City Charter?\" Well, I don't think that we can address\nreally, the ballot measure. I wanted to let you guys know what that is, but it also sparked in me that\nwe should just kind of proceed with, whether the ballot measure goes through or not, it might be\nsomething we should be looking at, protecting the disabled population who are renters in Alameda.\nAnd what sort of recommendations, if we need to make recommendations, what kind of\nrecommendations we can make. Those are my announcements, and I think we'll go on to staff\ncommunication.\n6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS\n09/12/18\nPage 27 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 28, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nMore on 4C:\nLaurie Kozisek: Thank you, Madam Chairman. I did a quick check on my phone while we were\ntalking and found out that City Council will be meeting on November 7th. I don't know why, but\nthey'll be meeting on a Wednesday that week. So, I would recommend that you do a vote saying you\nwould like to meet on November 21st, because there's nobody on the City calendar for November\n21st.\nChair Beth Kenny: Is City Council meeting November sixth?\nLaurie Kozisek: That's a Tuesday.\nChair Beth Kenny: Right.\nLaurie Kozisek: I don't know, I didn't check that. I just noticed that they are meeting on a\nWednesday, for some reason.\nChair Beth Kenny: I was just thinking that on the 21st the 22nd is Thanksgiving.\nChair Beth Kenny: So, I don't really want to do the 21st. I can recommend, I would put out there\nthe 28th, if that's available?\nLaurie Kozisek: That, I believe, is available.\nChair Beth Kenny: Okay, so that's the last Wednesday of November.\nLaurie Kozisek: Which ironically is when the Transportation Commission will not be meeting, so\nit will be available.\nChair Beth Kenny: So, I would recommend the 28th. Do I have a second?\nAnto Aghapekian: Second.\nChair Beth Kenny: All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nChair Beth Kenny: Any opposed? The 28th, it is.\nLaurie Kozisek: I will double check that again.\n6-A Fa\u00e7ade Response\nLaurie Kozisek: And then, my other item, somehow it didn't get on there. For the facade response,\n09/12/18\nPage 28 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 29, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nI sent an email asking about if facade moneys could be used to make entrances more accessible, and\nthey said, no. It's got to be used for making it look more beautiful. I'm sorry, but we might be able to\nfind some other grants, so that we could push for ADA grants to make entrances more accessible.\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you, Laurie. I spoke with Linda Asberry, who is head of the West\nAlameda Business Association, and she's actually on that Facade Grants Program. She's part of the\npeople who approve who gets the facade grants. So she might be a good person to just figure out\nhow they got the facade grants going in the first place, and instead of facade grants, we can have\naccessibility grants.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Yes, that's a great idea.\nChair Beth Kenny: And she is also very interested in the program that you're putting together.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Great. Do you have our email?\nChair Beth Kenny: I do.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Okay, that'll be great.\nChair Beth Kenny: I'll shoot that over to you.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Thank you so much.\nChair Beth Kenny: Sure.\nLaurie Kozisek: Okay, That's all I had.\n7. ANNOUNCEMENTS\nChair Beth Kenny: Thank you very much. If there are no other announcements\n8. ADJOURNMENT\nChair Beth Kenny: I'd like to adjourn our meeting.\n09/12/18\nPage 29 of 29", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "LibraryBoard", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 1, "text": "CITY\nOF\nof\nof\n$\nORATEIO\nMINUTES OF THE\nALAMEDA FREE LIBRARY BOARD MEETING\nWEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 2018\nThe regular meeting of the Alameda Free Library Board was called to order at 6:00 p.m.\nROLL CALL\nPresent:\nKathleen Kearney, President\nAmber Bales, Board Member\nCynthia Silva, Vice President\nDorothy Wismar, Board Member\nAbsent:\nTravis Wilson, Board Member\nStaff:\nMarlon Romero, Supervising Librarian\nLori Amaya, Recording Secretary\nORAL COMMUNICATIONS, AGENDA (Public Comment)\nNone.\nCONSENT CALENDAR\nAn asterisk indicates items so enacted or approved on the Consent Calendar\n*A.\nReport from the Library Director Highlighting Activities for the Months of May and June, 2018.\n*B.\nDraft Minutes of the Regular Library Board Meeting of May 9, 2018.\n*C.\nLibrary Services Report for the Months of April and May, 2018.\n*D.\nFinancial Report Reflecting FY17/18 Expenditures by Fund for May and June, 2018.\n*E.\nBills for Ratification for the Months of May and June, 2018.\nSupervising Librarian Romero shared with the board that the summer reading program is underway and\ngoing well. The Children's End of Summer Reading Party is scheduled for Wednesday, August 1 at\n6:30pm and the board should have received invites. The computer lab update is complete. Katrina\nDikitanan is the new part-time Library Associate for the lab and new classes should start in September. A\nreport by Barclay Ogden was included in the packet as part of the California Preservation Program.\nDirector Chisaki welcomes any questions or recommendations.", "path": "LibraryBoard/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "LibraryBoard", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 2, "text": "Page 2 of 3\nMinutes of the\nAlameda Free Library Board\nJuly 11, 2018 Meeting\nBoard Member Wismar moved to accept the Consent Calendar. Board Member Bales seconded the\nmotion, which passed with a 4-0.\nUNFINISHED BUSINESS\nA.\nNone.\nNEW BUSINESS\nA.\nElection of Officers. (K. Kearney)\nPresident Kearney nominated Vice President Silva as President, and Board Member Dorothy Wismar as\nVice President. Board Member Bales seconded the motion, which passed with a 4-0 vote.\nB.\nFriends of the Library. (J. Chisaki)\nSupervising Librarian Romero shared with the board that they should have received an invite to Library\nVolunteer Recognition event at Dragon Rouge on Thursday, July 19. The Alameda Sun had a nice article\nabout the Docent program held at the library, which was sponsored by the Friends. Vice President Silva\nmentioned there is an upcoming Art Docent program which will be held on Wednesday, July 18 from 6:30\n- 8:00pm.\nC.\nPatron Suggestions/Comments (Speak-Outs) and Library Director's Response\nNone.\nLIBRARY BOARD COMMUNICATIONS\nPresident Kearney shared that she attended the Mini Makers Fair at Alameda Point as a volunteer, and\nwore her Library Board nametag. Many attendees asked her for information. She recommends the board\nparticipate at the next fair. Supervising Librarian Romero mentioned that he and California Library\nAssociation are holding a Maker's Space event in November and he will bring ideas from that event to the\nnext Maker's Fair.\nDIRECTOR'S COMMENTS\nPacific Library Partnership will host a breakfast for the Library Board and Friends. Invitations will come,\nbut the board should save the date of September 15, 2018. Director Chisaki wanted to acknowledge Carl\nHalpern, who passed away two weeks ago. He played a major role in the Measure O campaign that raised\nfunds to build the New Main Library. The library received a Certificate of Recognition from the\nAmerican Red Cross for the 218 units of blood collected in 2017 at our location.\nORAL COMMUNICATIONS, NON-AGENDA GENERAL", "path": "LibraryBoard/2018-07-11.pdf"}
{"body": "LibraryBoard", "date": "2018-07-11", "page": 3, "text": "Page 3 of 3\nMinutes of the\nAlameda Free Library Board\nJuly 11, 2018 Meeting\nNone.\nADJOURNMENT\nThe meeting was adjourned at 6:17 p.m.\nRespectfully submitted,\nJane Chisaki, Library Director and\nSecretary to the Alameda Free Library Board", "path": "LibraryBoard/2018-07-11.pdf"}