{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 1, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nNOTE: The first 30 minutes of video for this meeting were lost. This set of minutes has a summary\nof actions for those missing minutes, then goes into a verbatim transcript after that.\nSUMMARY OF ACTION\n1. ROLL CALL\nMeeting Started at 6:41 PM\nPresent: Chair Elizabeth Kenny, Vice Chair Jenn Barrett, Commissioners Jennifer Roloff,\nAnto Aghapekian, Susan Deutsch, Lisa Hall and Arnold Brillinger. Quorum established.\nCommissioner Leslie Morrison attempted to teleconference in, but was unable to do so.\n2. MINUTES\nThe minutes for the July 11 meeting were corrected to reflect the correct last name of a\ncommissioner, and were accepted. Moved by Beth Kenny and seconded by Jennifer Roloff\nand approved unanimously.\n3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT)\nNone\n4. NEW BUSINESS\n4-A Doug Biggs, Executive Director, Alameda Point Collaborative\nAlameda Medical Respite and Wellness Center\nThis presentation was lost, but a similar presentation was given by Mr. Biggs to the Planning\nBoard on October 8, 2018. The video for this presentation can be found by going to\nhttps://alameda.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx, and selecting 2018 and Planning Board in the\npull down menus. The introduction by staff starts at 1:10:00, and Doug Biggs starts to speak\nat 1:18:10.\nVERBATIM TRANSCRIPT\n[The remaining video starts right after Doug Biggs finished his presentation. Chair Elizabeth Kenny\nasked \"Where is it?\"]\nDoug Biggs: So this is McKay Avenue down here [points on screen]. And the entrance to Crab\nCove, the little parking lot here So it's right across the street. I will point out, McKay Avenue is\nowned by the State of California. It's managed by the East Bay Regional Parks, it's a road that needs\n09/12/18\nPage 1 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 2, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\na lot of work. It will never meet the conditions required for the City to take over it, it's not built the\nright way, but we think there's some work that could be done on improving the sidewalks, and\nimproving the paving. We also think and I've already had some initial discussions that it'll be a\nfairly compelling project for the State in doing one bit of road that's going to support both an East\nBay Regional Parks site and a large medical program for the homeless and there's already some\ninterest from the State in supporting that. I'll also point out that, if you're familiar with the area,\nthat's where the market is and Neptune Cafe, there's a little square building behind a fence down\nthere, that's the pump station that serves both our site and Crab Cove. It doesn't serve any of the\nresidents down there but it serves those two facilities. We now own that pump station or we will\nonce the lease is signed, so we'll be responsible for that.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: What's a pump station?\nDoug Biggs: It pumps the sewage up to the top just because there's that steep climb up there. And\nstaff has already told me that's where my office is going to be. [Laughter] But I don't know.\nCommissioner Arnold Brillinger: Now, you were talking about Building 1, do you have any other\nideas on what the other buildings would be used for?\nDoug Biggs: So building two, the twos, 2A, B, C and D, will be the buildings for our senior\nhousing and that will contain 90 units. Building one will be the health center and the medical respite\nand the building twos will be senior housing. It'll have the individual units, it'll have a dining room.\nProbably kitchen facility, recreation space. So you can see here we'll also add on a community\ngarden, a multipurpose terrace for people to have kind of an indoor/outdoor living area here.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, Commissioner Roloff.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: First of all, thank you, and thanks for all you do on the Point. I\nknow it's so important to our community. I have a couple of tactical questions and then some bigger\npicture questions. And I'm suffering from a cold, so forgive me. So with this program, what's the\ndefinition of homelessness?\nDoug Biggs: So the definition of homeless is a literal definition defined by HUD in that they are\nliterally homeless, and living in a place that's unfit for human habitation or in some type of\nemergency or transitional shelter. So it's people living in their cars, under the freeways, in a tent\nencampment or in an emergency shelter or transitional housing.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay.\nDoug Biggs: That's limiting to some extent. And that's also why we want to set up this Resource\nCenter as a very independent separate little space there because it doesn't include people who are\ndoubling up, which we see a lot of in Alameda; it doesn't include people who are living\nin\nsomebody's garage. The HUD definition doesn't count those as homeless.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Oh right, okay. And then, of all of the programs is the Resource\nCenter, the only one that has a walk-in option? So, the rest you're referred there?\n09/12/18\nPage 2 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 3, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nDoug Biggs: Yes. The test are all referred in, checked in, checked out.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay. And then it sounds like you mentioned you don't really need\napproval from the community, and I guess that means the City because it's all through state and\nfederal funding, but as far as the satellite medical and behavioral wellness clinic, you mentioned\nthat that's for City of Alameda residents.\nDoug Biggs: The Resource Center is for City of Alameda residents.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Oh, it is, okay, so will there be City funding or do you need\nanything from the City?\nDoug Biggs: The city has already allocated some funding for it $100,000 a year and that was\napproved by the Council as part of their homeless policy report that they accepted about five or six\nmonths ago. We're really going to be looking for private donations to operate that. The Realtors\nAssociation is interested in setting up a fund, some of the corporations because they're having a\nhard time keeping people housed, they're interested in donating to a fund for that. We want it to be\nas few strings attached as possible if we were to take federal funding for the Resource Center then\nwe have to serve everybody. We don't really want to be in that position, we want to focus on\nAlamedans. So we're going to be doing a lot of private fund raising for that.\nDoug Biggs: I will also mention though that the areas where the City does have some authority over\nthis is, the land is currently zoned Administrative Professional, which allows all of the uses we're\nproposing, but it has a G overlay which means a government overlay, because it's owned by the\ngovernment now. When that property is transferred to us then the City has to remove that G overlay,\nthat's going to be going before the Planning Board October 8th, and it'll be going to City Council\nprobably in one of their November meetings, we're not sure what yet. It's an administrative\nprocedure because they can't again, by right, deny us removal of the G overlay because we're not\nthe government. They just can't keep it on, but it will be one of the opportunities for anybody to\ncome out and speak in opposition of the project or in favor of the project, and that's fine. I think\npeople need their concerns need to be heard, and we need to know kind of what, how folks want a\nprogram to run well. There will also be a design review process and again, as I said, we want to\nbring some of the designs to you as well, the Planning Board will approve the designs, there will\nalways be, there could be an appeal applied for those in the City Council, could further review.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Sure. Can you categorize the opponents of this project, generally\nwhat their issues are with it?\nDoug Biggs: So the primary opponents of the projects are from the two gated condominiums on\neither side: Park Webster, in front of the project and Crown Harbor behind it. When the first federal\nproperty was declared surplus, they led the effort to make sure it was It was originally, the city\nwas originally going to sell it to a developer, for market redevelopment. Crab Cove very clearly had\nan interest in that piece of the property and they were able to mobilize the community to stop that\nfrom happening and overturn it, and the property was eventually sold to the East Bay Regional\nParks. GSA should have done that to begin with. They didn't, they were kind of caught in doing that\n09/12/18\nPage 3 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 4, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nand the community prevailed. They have made the statement, and some of you may have seen\nthey've been out there gathering signatures on an open space measure, to have this declared open\nspace in the hope that it would also become parkland.\nDoug Biggs: East Bay Regional Parks has been adamant that they do not want the space, it's not in\nany of their master plans, it's not in any of their acquisition strategy, it just would not do anything to\ncomplete that park. The City of Alameda has also been very clear. Both entities also had the\nopportunity to apply for it the same time we did, and then they chose not to. There was one other\napplicant, it was another nonprofit from Los Angeles that applied for it.\nDoug Biggs: The level of concerns people have had are Some of the statements and if you check\nout the website Friends of Crab Cove, it's pretty clear there, a sense that Crab Cove is used by a lot\nof youth, and it is, and a lot of children, it is, we totally get that. There's a sense that those kids\nshouldn't be exposed to homelessness. I think we've gotten past that in this community, but also\nwhen you look at what the uses are, this is about as nonactive use as you can get. These are going to\nbe people who are interested in medical recovery, not in being out partying all the time. They're\ngoing to be pretty fragile. So we think we put in an array of services that fit well with the\ncommunity.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay, thank you, those are all my questions.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Roloff. Vice Chair Barrett?\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Thank you so much for coming to speak with us. I really enjoyed\nlearning more about the program, and I'm looking forward to seeing it come into fruition, and thank\nyou for asking such great questions. That was great. I don't have any, so thank you so much.\nDoug Biggs: Thank you.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Deutsch?\nCommissioner Susan Deutsch: Thank you very much, this was very informative because I have\nseen people outside of supermarkets asking me to sign petitions and I didn't know that much about\nit, so I didn't sign. But those petitions are to get something on the ballot? And what if that passes?\nDoug Biggs: Good question. So first off, they've missed the deadline for getting it on this\nNovember's ballot. They missed that at least a month, maybe two months ago. And so the next\nballot it could get on, assuming there's no other election is called and I'm not even going to get\ninto that whole discussion now, but the next election, it could get on is two years from now. The\ngeneral election in 2020. Way prior to that, we will actually own the land. I'm anticipating that we'll\nget a three-year lease but that'll automatically convert to a deed of trust which means we own the\nland, once the G overlay is removed. So, I'm expecting that'll occur in December or JanuaryOn one\nhand, it won't really matter if that gets changed to Open Space because it wouldn't take effect until\nwe sold the property or we stopped using the property, whenever it is that we stopped doing it. It\nwould just be like if somebody came in and changed the zoning for your house, as long as you're in\nyour house, as long as you own it, it doesn't matter, you're grandfathered in.\n09/12/18\nPage 4 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 5, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nDoug Biggs: And so we would be grandfathered in. If there was an attempt to deny the\ngrandfathering, then that's a legal term called a taking which is kind of like eminent domain, or even\nharder where they would be forcefully taking property from us and would have to compensate us\nfor not only all of our expenses we've incurred but the cost of not having that service. When the\nother piece of property was transferred, part of what the city was prepared to do was to put a\ncompanion ordinance on the ballot, that would have set aside money from the general fund to pay\nany legal costs, and that's probably what they would have to do in this case as well. I think doing\nthe signatures, in some ways, that's fine, it's okay, it's good. It allows them to present, \"These are\npeople that are concerned about it\", so that we do have to take notice. And I think for that in that\nsense, it was effective. And I get it, that it's not the most popular thing people would want in their\nneighborhood given a myriad of choices, but there aren't choices. But it's enough of a presence that\nwe have to acknowledge it and we have to and we want to work with them.\nCommissioner Susan Deutsch: Thank you.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: And thanks for the presentation. And the same with me, I've\nhave seen them at shopping centers and stuff. And the question I have is, you say you have 73, 78\nparking spaces?\nDoug Biggs: Yes.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: Do you need them? Do you really have so many people?\nDoug Biggs: No.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: So what's going to happen?\nDoug Biggs: Very good question. We don't. Currently, I think there's 95 or 100 parking spaces out\nthere, and so we're taking out one row to put in the multipurpose area and a community garden. City\nCode requires you to have a certain number of parking spaces. And so we've kept that in for now,\nwe don't think we'll need anywhere near that many. In the interim period we're definitely open to\nallowing East Bay Regional Parks to use that. Like for example, when they have Concerts at the\nCove or a special event like that, we could see opening up our space to allow them to park there or\nallow them to park their facilities vehicles there, then other people could park in the other space. So\nwe're talking to them about that. As soon as we mentioned they could borrow our space, their first\nquestion was, \"Well can we have it?\" because they want more parking and we're definitely open to\nhaving that discussion. We can't give away the land now because, one, we don't have it and two, we\njust need to get further in the design phase, then we'll know exactly how many units we need and at\nthat point we're perfectly open to have them used for other purposes.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: And when you say community garden, would the neighbors be\nable to use the garden?\nDoug Biggs: We could certainly create that opportunity, if there was interest in it. We really see it\nmore as a therapeutic for folks to get out and be active but if there's interest in it.\n09/12/18\nPage 5 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 6, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: And the Central Street skirts this area, doesn't it?\nDoug Biggs: I'm sorry?\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: Central Street, Central Avenue.\nDoug Biggs: Central Street [Avenue] is up on this side, yes.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: So people that are going to come and visit you, some of them\nwould probably be in wheelchairs?\nDoug Biggs: Well, people that we're going to serve are clients who will be in the senior housing or\nmedical respites, and we'll transport them there and back. In some cases, we may need to transport\nthem by ambulance, but we'll also have our own vans, so that we could transport people elsewhere.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: Okay.\nDoug Biggs: Other visitors may come and they may be in wheelchairs. I know, I recognize that that\nstreet needs some work and we're definitely going to work with East Bay Regional Parks on\naddressing that to the extent that we can. I will, just for the night's history lesson, point out, all of\nthis property was started in 1942. It was built to train captains for the Liberty ships that were built\nup in Richmond, they were churning out a Liberty ship a day and they needed pilots, they needed\ncaptains. So they trained them here. There was a dock that went out in the water, they would\nactually bring Liberty ships in there and train them on that. The apartments that are up on Central\nAvenue are the old officers' housing for that whole development down there. Which I thought it was\npretty classic. We've actually located all of the original blueprints in the facility and we're keeping\nthem and we'll turn them over to East Bay Regional Parks.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: Last question I have is, do you have any ideas as to why they\nmissed the deadline to submit their petition?\nDoug Biggs: I just don't think they had enough signatures.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: Thank you.\nCommissioner Arnold Brillinger: Thanks, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Hall?\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: Hi, Doug.\nDoug Biggs: Hey.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: Doug, you're super star. I know Doug and\nDoug Biggs: Write that on Facebook, because not everybody's calling me that right now.\n09/12/18\nPage 6 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 7, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: He's done so much and as you know he's working with the Food Bank\nand we have many of our clients that come to the food bank are homeless.\nDoug Biggs: Yep.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: And just yesterday it really got me. I was going to the laundromat up off\nPark Street and a lady came up to me and her gentleman friend came up to me and said, \"She would\nlike to talk to you.\" And she was in a wheelchair and she's homeless, and she asked me, because she\nsaw my sign on my car and she asked me if I could help her in any way, like refer her. So that kind\nof brought it home for me, because I do have the Food Bank and everything, and I was like, \"I know\nthere's 211\" but I was like Just as an FYI. What I did is I went home, I wrote pertinent numbers\nand made it on a piece of paper and made copies to keep in my car for when I run into people or\nanybody that asks, even at the Food Bank or whatever, because that really got to me, I felt very\nhelpless with this woman, and she was obviously in desperate need and she was a resident of\nAlameda, she used to live on Lincoln Avenue. So it was very distressing. But also being disabled\nand a senior, I understand that I could be one, a couple of months away from being homeless,\nbecause as, in just the last two months, it's interesting you say Central Avenue Three families were\nevicted out of 470 Central for no other reason other than money.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: And that's why we're trying to fight, the homeless epidemic is definitely\nhere in Alameda, and because it's everywhere and this is the problem we have. I understand, and I\ncan't say thank you so much for doing this because I know it's something we desperately need, just\nlike the warming center we hope we can also put together. Because if you are a senior or a disabled\nperson and you're on a fixed income, right off the bat, if you lose your place, you cannot qualify\npretty much for anything because the realtors and the apartment owners and everyone, they\nbasically want you to make at least two times your salary. And if you're on disability, you don't.\nYou're in a fix income. So you can't. There's not even anywhere you could actually go to say, unless\nyou happen to know somebody or something like that, you can't even apply to rent somewhere else\nbecause you don't qualify. So this is another thing that's so needed for, especially with our disabled\nand our seniors. Our seniors are struggling. I mean we see them every week coming to get food and\nthey're doing the tradeoff, \"I can't afford my pills this month or my housing\" or whatever. So keep\ngoing dear, you do it.\nDoug Biggs: Thank you.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: Thank you.\nDoug Biggs: Thank you.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: My question was actually covered by Commissioner Roloff. I just have a\nlittle bit of a finer point on it, is the definition of homeless. Because I often have clients who may\nhave several family members who they can couch surf with and they won't qualify under this. So\nunder the HUD definition of homeless. And even though they don't have a home.\nDoug Biggs: Right.\n09/12/18\nPage 7 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 8, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: So the Resource Center is not going to be accepting federal funds. Is there\ngoing to be any chance where we can expand that definition of homeless?\nDoug Biggs: For the Resource Center absolutely. Being very clear that we're talking about people\nwho are at risk of becoming homeless because there's no reason to send somebody on to the streets\nand then take them off. If you could divert them from that then, by God, let's try and divert them\nfrom that.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I think especially with the senior housing, I know of several seniors who\nare in that situation right now where they're couch surfing, and I know we'll have enough\nunfortunately seniors to fill up the senior housing who are homeless.\nDoug Biggs: Yeah, perfect.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: By the HUD definition, but I would love to see that definition expanded.\nDoug Biggs: Yes. Part of it, if I could say, the situation is changing almost daily now. We're at such\na hyper crisis, that what was true yesterday isn't true today, there's potentially a lot of funding\ncoming down the pike. The State is releasing three pots of money, they've already released it this\nmonth. One pot focused on emergency shelters, the homeless emergency assistant project, another\nproject focused on longer term subsidies, there's two propositions on the ballot in November, they\ncould bring in additional significant funding for services. So if we have something in place, I think\nwe could take advantage of some of these fundings. Alameda is loosening up and has loosened up\nthe regulations around JADUs, Joint Accessory Dwelling Units. And Alameda's a great place for\nthese. You've got these seniors living in these huge Victorians that don't need all that space. Well, if\nthey could split off one piece of it to become a studio where they could live and somebody else can\noccupy the rest of it. And there's funding coming down the pike for those kind of things. So if we're\ncreative, and if we're ready to start taking advantage some of these resources, we think we can have\nan impact.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. And I would love to see the designs come before us. As you know\nwe worked on Universal Design Ordinance and when I was working on that with the folks here, one\nof the organizations that I reached out to was Mercy Housing. So I'm glad to hear that you're\nworking with them because they've actually done a few buildings completely universally designed.\nDoug Biggs: Yeah.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: And the other thing is, I don't know about the rest of the commission, but\nfrom the comments, I'm assuming that we'd also be willing to help in any way as far as community\noutreach, because I do think that there's a lot of misunderstanding out there. I don't know what that\nwould take but I would like to propose that I think you have a second for.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: I'll second that, definitely.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: And I think we should take a vote on that. If that's something you would\nbe interested in\n09/12/18\nPage 8 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 9, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: Absolutely.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay.\nDoug Biggs: And I think there are going to be a lot of community outreach opportunities. The most\nimportant thing and I think I told this to SSHRB as well, but Alameda talks about this, everyone\nbelongs here. And so, reinforcing that message through this project I think is important. We're\nhoping to have a community event, a community day at the site in November. We haven't fixed the\ndate yet, as soon we do I'll let you know. But having commission members there, and maybe\nagreeing to kind of co-host it. Having you and SSHRB and some of the churches that have\nexpressed an interest, and being listed as co-host of the Community Outreach Day I think would be\nwonderful.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay, great. Then I propose that we take a vote on this. All in favor?\nAll: Aye.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright.\nDoug Biggs: Thank you very much. Appreciate it.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much. I really appreciate this, Doug. Thank you.\nDoug Biggs: Alright, Thank you. Goodnight.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Goodnight.\n5.\nOLD BUSINESS\n5-A\nCommission and Board Liaison Reports (All Commissioners)\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: So I think that is the end of item 4A, and we move on to old business,\nAgenda Item Five. And we need to go through our commission board and liaison reports.\nCommissioner Brillinger?\nCommissioner Arnold Brillinger: Okay. I've been going to various commissions around in the\nEast Bay. And Oakland, their commission is involved in a number of things: One is in dealing with\nthe aging and getting them involved in activities happening in the city. Whether it's by making sure\nthat they've got transportation or making sure that they have the options. Because you don't want to\njust sit in your house and be there for the rest of your life. So they are also thinking about different\nways of involving people. Also they are discussing people using the placards for disabled, the blue\nplacards and abusing that privilege. And so, I'm just letting you know that that's one of the things\nthat they're discussing. And so I had one more thing I was going to say and I don't remember\nexactly what it is, maybe it would come to me later.\n09/12/18\nPage 9 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 10, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thanks, Commissioner Brillinger. Let me know if it comes back to you.\nCommissioner Roloff?\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: I did talk to Kirsten Zazo who is the Chief Student Advocacy\nOfficer for the District. She's going to come, I think I might have cc'd you, Beth and Laurie, to the\nmeeting on the 28th. So she spent a lot of time, she got a steering committee together with a lot of\nstakeholders in Alameda, and did a needs assessment for mental and emotional health needs for the\nDistrict. And she presented it to the District. And I might have mentioned this earlier and of course,\nthe District doesn't have funding, so they're trying to focus on the no-cost ways that they can help\nwith the findings that she had. But there are a lot of areas that do need funding, and they don't have\nany staff grant writers, and they really need all kinds of social services folks, they need mental\nhealth clinicians. So she's starting a roadshow. She was really glad that we had reached out and she's\ngoing to incorporate us as part of her roadshow to see what we can do and how we can possibly\nadvocate. [ random BEEP] Oh, is my time up?\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: And how we can possibly advocate to the City or on behalf of our\ncommission on how we can help. So if it's okay with everyone or tell me the protocol. She was\ngoing to send me the report ahead of the meeting, I thought I might have it today, so we can\ndistribute to everyone if we take the opportunity to read it before she comes so we can be more\ninteractive.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: So just for everybody's information, when somebody is going to present,\nlike Doug Biggs tonight, they have to submit their information like 10 days ahead of time, so that it\ncan be hyperlinked on the agenda. We can certainly send out that report earlier, but if anyone's\npresenting and not just public comment, you will have their materials beforehand. So everybody\nshould be taking a look at that. And I think if it's the one that she presented at the school board, the\nsame report she presented at the school board. It's quite detailed. It might be good to have it more\nthan a week out.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Well, I think there's the actual report that is probably a binder or\nsomething I don't know. But then there's her PowerPoint that you might have seen at school board,\nthat's her presentation. So she said, you know, I thought I might have it already but she'd send me\nboth. So whatever we want to attach. The PowerPoint would probably be the procedural attachment.\nIf we wanted to have the report, so we could actually get a little deeper if we wanted to, we could\nsend that out earlier.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, I think that all sounds great, and I appreciate that you set that up\nand looking forward to hearing more about it at our November meeting.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: I asked her also if she saw the correlation between high school\nstudents and school students that ended up homeless in Alameda and she said, \"You know,\nabsolutely,\" so maybe that's an area we can focus on for projects like Doug's.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yeah, and I am excited about Doug's project to have a mental health\nservice drop-in clinic on the island. Even if it's limited to housing, at this point, I believe it's the first\ndrop-in clinic that offers mental health services.\n09/12/18\nPage 10 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 11, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Right. And that actually might be a good link for the high school\ntoo, to have that resource.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes. Vice Chair Barrett.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Yeah, so, a few exciting things I launched our \"10 ways to improve\naccessibility at your business\". In August, I sent it to the head of the Chamber of Commerce. I'm\ngoing to be speaking at their meeting in October. They had a meeting today, but I was like, \"Yeah,\nthat's not going to work.\" So I printed out a flyer for everyone. If you want to just, if you know of\nanyone who can take it, just trying to spread the word as much as possible. I also have some extras.\nI don't know if we can hang them up in City Hall. And then please let me know if you have other\ncontacts with business organizations. Alameda Magazine, maybe they would put something in for\nus or the newspaper?\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: Alameda Sun perhaps. Yeah.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Perfect. I might get in touch with you on the content. And my sister said\nthat there's some kind of events newsletter that she thought might have been sent out by the City or\nmaybe the Park Street. So I'm trying to find the contact for that because there's a newsletter that\ngoes out pretty often to tell us what new businesses are in Alameda, and so that might be a good\nthing to spread the word with as well. The Planning Board met yesterday and they were discussing\nabout the park that's going to take place on the waterfront opposite Jack London. So that was a very\ninteresting presentation. The video's up online if anyone is interested in that.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: And as we're talking about speakers I haven't asked her yet, but I have\na\ncontact with a woman who works for Adobe, and she does accessibility for web design or\ncomputer-based. And I know a lot about buildings, but I know nothing about the web design, so I\nthought maybe if you guys are interested, I can try reaching out to her to try to get her to speak at a\nmeeting in the future.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yeah, I'm interested in that. I think there's so much that is happening with\ntechnology that's really benefiting people with disabilities, and I rely heavily on my wife for\ntechnology-related things, so, anything I can learn would be great.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Right. And it may be just helpful for people who watch our meetings,\nwho don't know that these services are built in to our new technologies.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: And also maybe we could have her come and speak with somebody from\nthe Alameda City College because they actually offer classes designed around people using the\naccessible technology, and they have some good disability services there around that whole thing.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Yes, I'll look into that.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: There's also WABA and GABA, right?\n09/12/18\nPage 11 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 12, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Right. Okay.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: And I think those are like peers to the Chamber of Commerce. If\nI'm not mistaken.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I think they're separate, but I'm not sure. I think I got you in touch with\nWABA, I think that's what Linda is in.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Okay. I never heard back from her.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I'll shoot her another email. When I was talking to her about it in-person\nshe did express interest.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: I'm sure they have websites.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: And that's the West one, right?\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: And GABA is the other one.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Okay. Great.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: And I can get you contact if you can't find one.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Oh. That would be awesome.\nCommissioner Arnold Brillinger: A DABA too.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: DABA?\nCommissioner Arnold Brillinger: Downtown.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: Oh downtown. A lot of our acronyms. Yeah. Okay, great.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Deutsch?\nCommissioner Susan Deutsch: So I was in contact with Amy Wooldridge, and she let me know\nthat there is an accessible park playground being built at Littlejohn Park. And they have plans for it.\nAnd also I'm supposed to present our mission sometime in the fall and I will contact her again, try\nto present at the next meeting.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, thank you Commissioner Deutsch. Commissioner Aghapekian?\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: I talked with Gail Payne, is the Transportation Department\nproject manager about the Clement Street Corridor. This is the project that's still on the drawing\n09/12/18\nPage 12 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 13, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nboards and it's primarily goes from Broadway to Grand Street along Clement Street, and they're\ngoing to modernize it and make it accessible. I walked that distance to see and it needs a lot of work\nto make it accessible. And I have a meeting set up with her next Tuesday and to go over the plans.\nAnd she's also volunteering to come and do a presentation to us. I don't know when she'll be ready\nfor it, but she would like to do that. And that's where that is.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: The flyer that we talked about for the emergency workshop is\nplanned, and I talked with Mastick's director and she was very happy to help out. And the flyers are\nbeing distributed at Mastick Center. And then the parks, I've been talking and there is a lot of\nenthusiasm. I would like for us to push for making even the existing parks at least somewhat\naccessible if they're not totally. At least something. And I got positive feedbacks but I will work\nwith Susan to help out as much as I can. Okay?\nCommissioner Susan Deutsch: I think that is may be part of the plan that they're redoing the\nplayground. Already planned. She apologized for not having, presenting those plans to us, but she\nsaid she presented it to others. The next time she'll let us know what's going on, and I'll keep in\ntouch.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Yeah, and I think she also mentioned that the next park that they\nwere going to work on would be the Estuary Park. When I was talking to her, it's something we\nwere all included on. But that's the area of town that we're all talking about, it's Clement Street, it's\nwhat they were talking about the Planning Board, it's the Marina project where they're going to be\nhaving lots of universally designed units. So I think it would make great sense to have Gail Payne\ncome and talk to us about the transportation project on Clement Street.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Anybody who's tried to walk on Clement Street before, it's a big project,\nbecause a lot of it doesn't even have sidewalks. If we can reach out to Gail, Laurie, that would be\ngreat. Thank you, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Hall?\n[Commissioner Lisa Hall and Chair Elizabeth Kenny briefly discussed the upcoming election.\n]\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: As far as my reports on city council, well, they didn't meet in August, so\nI'm a little light on reporting.\n5-B\nClimate Action Input Sessions\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I'm going to move on to the climate action input sessions. Those are\ncoming up and I asked Laurie to attach it to our agenda just because I had sent it out to some\ndifferent groups that I know of and I encourage you all to do that. Send it out to Alameda Special\nEducation Parents Group, because there are needs out there that people have that we're just not\ngoing to think of unless they're brought to our attention. And I think that as many people who can\nhave input especially people with disabilities is going to be important. And I encourage you all to\nattend one of these sessions. I don't believe there's any difference between the three sessions, so I\ndon't think that you have to go to more than one if you're interested in going. Pick one. Alright, does\nanyone else want to talk about item 5B, the climate action?\n09/12/18\nPage 13 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 14, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nVice Chair Jenn Barrett: I'm hoping to go to the Monday session.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. I was hoping to go to one of them. Unfortunately, I have to leave\nnow, so I'm not going to be able to go to them but I have sent it out to a few different organizations\nso hopefully, we'll get some good response.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: Yes, I'm going to try and go to Tuesday. And I think this is the best\nplace for education.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: And I think Anto, did you sign up for one too?\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: I did. Yeah. I would attend the Monday one. September 26th.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: Well you're going to have a long day, aren't you? Because on Monday\nand Tuesday we'll be at the disability convention.\nCommissioner Anto Aghapekian: Oh, I'll be all night.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: So you have a day in the evening, there you go. But yeah, I did want to\nbring that up. I am looking forward to Anto and I and one other perhaps Laurie?\nCommissioner Susan Deutsch: I'm going.\nCommissioner Lisa Hall: And Susan. We're all going to be attending that. So last year was so\nwonderful. They did have a little session on technology. It was very informative about especially for\nthe blind and the deaf and even just speaking and it was pretty unreal. Yeah, great. It's a good\ninformation.\n6.\nSTAFF COMMUNICATIONS\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright. So then we can move on to staff communications unless someone\nelse has something. Alright, agenda item six.\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: Okay, I, I just got this a little while ago, so I couldn't put on the\nagenda but we may have it in the future. You said you wanted to reach out to Gail Payne, well she's\ntrying to reach out to us and everyone else about a transportation awareness campaign. So she's got\nthis action plan which is eight pages long on how she's going to reach out to the different groups.\nShe's going to be reaching out to commuters, drivers, students, parents, people walking, biking,\ntaking transit, employees, older people, people with disabilities, people buying cars, visitors, and\nputting out different messages on how you can make your carbon footprint lower. And how much\ncars cost, all these different things to try to get you out of your car, essentially. She's going to have\ndifferent monthly themes. So like August would be Back to School Safety month then September\nwould be World Car Free day. And then she's got different tactics. Did I send you a copy of this? I\nthink I did.\n09/12/18\nPage 14 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 15, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I believe so, yes.\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: I could have it as an old business item on the agenda, attached the\nagenda next month. Whether or not we actually have her come and speak, I can at least attach it and\nthen everybody can see it. Everyone here and everyone in the audience.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Sure. If Gail is okay with it, would you be able to send it out to us for the\nlistserv?\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: Yes.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. And it seemed like she was wanting a member of the commission\nto join the campaign. Am I correct in that?\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: Yes.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. So why don't you, if you can send that out in the next week to the\nCommission and listserv, if anybody is interested in joining in this campaign, I think it would be\ngreat to have representation on it. Please get in contact with Laurie. I'm not sure how quickly it's all\ndeveloping. It sounds like if August and September are already planned, we should get on it.\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: She's got a five-month next steps list here.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, if you could send that out. And then anybody who is interested in\njoining that campaign, should they contact you or contact Gail directly?\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: Probably Gail.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay, all right, if you could contact Gail and maybe cc me, just so we\nknow who wants to be part of the campaign - that would be great.\nStaff Support Laurie Kozisek: Okay. I don't think I have anything else.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, so I should know this by now.\n7.\nANOUNCEMENTS\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Any announcements? I think we kind of covered most of the\nannouncements in our commission and board liaison reports. But does anyone have any other\nannouncements they'd like to make?\n[pause]\n8.\nADJOURNMENT\n09/12/18\nPage 15 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2018-09-12", "page": 16, "text": "COMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, then I'm going to move for adjournment.\nCommissioner Jennifer Roloff: I'll second that.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Thanks for a great meeting, you guys.\n09/12/18\nPage 16 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf"}