{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 1, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\n1. ROLL CALL\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: A meeting of the Commission on Disability for January. It's January,\nWednesday, January 16th, 2019. Agenda item number one, roll call.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Present.\nLisa Hall: Present.\nSusan Deutsch: Present.\nJenny Linton: Present.\nArnold Brillinger: Here.\nLaurie Kozisek: Three others have called in that they couldn't make it because we made a change\nto the date. So we have a quorum.\n2.\nMINUTES\n2-A\nNone\n3.\nORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NO-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT)\nNone\n4. NEW BUSINSS\n4-A\nVictoria Williams, Paratransit Coordinator, City of Alameda\nCity of Alameda Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities\nfor FY 2019/2020\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Agenda item number two is the minutes and the December minutes are\nnot available yet so we have no minutes to approve. I'll move on to agenda Item number three, Oral\nCommunications/Non-agenda Public Comment. I don't believe we have anyone here for that. I'm\ngoing to move along to item number four, New Business. 4A, we have Victoria Williams, the\nParatransit Coordinator for the City of Alameda here to speak to us tonight about the City of\nAlameda Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities for the fiscal year of\n2019-2020.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you very much.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you.\n03/13/19\nPage 1 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 2, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nVictoria Williams: Thank you for having me honorable chairperson and commission. We're happy\nto have these paper pieces to look at tonight so that we can go through everything. So we're here\ntonight to let you know what our plans are for next year and to get your support in that. Each city\nand county is required to take their plan for the following year to commissions and boards to get\nsome support and to get the input of residents of the community. Well, our funding is Measure B\nand BB which gives us a supplemental program to East Bay Paratransit, the Adults with Disabilities\nAct mandated service. So each city gets to choose what programs work best for their city and we've\nchosen some really good ones, they've been going for some time and we've got more than a lot of\ncities. So I'd like to tell you a little bit about those. So our agenda is the service overview, then the\nrecommended program, budget and our planning process. So the service overview, like I said,\nAlameda has a wide variety of transportation services for the residents of Alameda. We have the\nfree Alameda Loop Shuttle. It runs Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. It's\nopen to the public.\nVictoria Williams: There are two buses which are accessible and they have bike racks. We've got\ntwo-subsidized taxi programs. One is MRTIP - that stands for Medical Return Trip Improvement\nProgram - to help people get home from their doctor's appointments in a smoother fashion. And the\nother is a premium taxi program, and that's for any purpose whatsoever. We have scholarship\nprograms. One is a scholarship program that helps a resident who is low-income purchase taxi\nvouchers. And the other one is we've been able to provide some free AC Transit bus passes for\npeople who live at Alameda Point Collaborative and in some of the Alameda Housing Authority\nproperties. That's going really well too. We've got group trips. Mastick Senior Center provides once\na month, a trip, a local trip, for people to go to. There's a Leisure Club which is a group of folks\nwho are over 18 and have special needs. So twice a month, they go on outings and we help fund\nthat. And once a year there's a nice, big picnic at Crown Bay. It's for those folks who live in skilled\nnursing facilities and so we help pay for the transportation to get people out to have fun. We've got\ncapital investments.\nVictoria Williams: We have some needs. Some of the bus stops are in not great shape and some of\nthe benches at bus stops need to be repaired or replaced. We share some bus stops through the\nshuttle. With AC Transit, we share some of the same bus stops. So we'll be doing some\nimprovements to those bus stops. And there are a few ADA accommodations we want to make sure\nare in place so we've got funding to use for that. Customer service and outreach, that would include\nmy talking to anybody who will listen and printing the schedules for the shuttles, and you have\nthose in front of you. And one of the newest things is that we're now at the movie theater. You'll see\nthe shuttle at the movie theater, you may recognize the voice. And let's see what else.\nVictoria Williams: And just monitoring the service management then is monitoring the service and\nkeeping track of things. And responding to phone calls, and helping people enroll and selling the\nvouchers, things like that. The next page is a little bit about the Alameda Loop Shuttle. In October,\nyou remember, you've heard me say this before. We changed from a one shuttle service that was\nseveral years old to two brand new shuttle buses. Which, like I said, are accessible and have room\nfor two bikes on the front. So we changed that in October. And what used to be a one-hour loop, we\nstill have a one-hour loop, but now that we have two buses, they're a half an hour apart so you can\n03/13/19\nPage 2 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 3, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\ngo and get your business done and not have to wait a full hour for the bus to get back. There's\nanother bus coming in a half an hour, so that's working well. Also the shuttle was renamed through\na survey of residents and it previously was called the Alameda Paratransit Shuttle. And through a\nvoting process it's now the Alameda Loop Shuttle and it does go in a loop so that makes good sense.\nVictoria Williams: The next page shows the shuttle status and you can see that the average\nmonthly shuttle boardings have increased from 449 in 2016 to 451 in 2017 up to 686 in 2018. Now,\nwe have two buses so we still need more than that. But Arnold was on the bus the other day when it\nwas full, 18 people, he called to tell me. So it's getting there. The cost per trip however, is more\nexpensive. It was $16 when we just had one bus and a $16 per trip average when we had one bus\nand now it's $21. And the funder, Alameda County Transportation Commission, is the agency that\nthe money comes through. They have guidelines, it's called the Paratransit Program Implementation\nGuidelines. They want us to be under $20 but they give us two full years, two full fiscal years to get\nthere. So we've made it through the first fiscal year, we still have another fiscal year and we're\nalready at $21 so we think it's going to be great.\nVictoria Williams: The next page, this is the taxi service status and we are using a local Alameda\ntaxi provider that has a couple of accessible taxis in the fleet. We are also in the process, this is the\nexciting news, we're in the process of negotiating for an emergency wheelchair breakdown service.\nAlameda County Transportation Commission funded such a thing and they even controlled it,\nmanaged it, ran the program for several years and they've stopped running it so there is nothing in\nthe whole county. Some cities have fire departments who can do that, ours can't. So we're\nnegotiating right now with the same transportation provider that we use with those accessible cabs\nto be able to offer that. We don't have everything finalized, we're looking at a pilot project where we\nstart it small and become successful within bringing people home within Alameda and then\nexpanding it probably to the county like the other programs. The other two taxi programs serve\npeople who need to go to any kind of appointment throughout Alameda County.\nVictoria Williams: And the second exciting thing, but it's not too close yet, we're exploring Uber\nand Lyft-type shared services. Some of the larger cities in the county have started that already so\nwe're watching to see how it goes for the big cities before we try something like that. Let them work\nout all the problems and then we'll tag on to that. But it's exciting. We've just done a survey and lots\nof people have cell phones, not everybody does, but there are concierge services that are go-\nbetweens, GoGoGrandparent and Arrive are two that I recommend to people and so it's happening,\ntransportation is happening. You don't have to have a car anymore, that would be a great goal. We\ndon't have to have a car, we have all of these options.\nVictoria Williams: Go to the next page about the taxi services. You can see that we've increased\nthose trips. In 2014, there were 48 premium taxi trips a month, that's an average. And now there are\n174, so you can see that one's been well-received. The MRTIP program again, that's the trip to come\nhome from your medical appointment. And it's primarily put together for those folks who use East\nBay Paratransit to get to their appointment. East Bay Paratransit is a shared ride service that you\nhave to call a day in advance. Well, most of us don't really know exactly when our doctor's\nappointments are going to be finished so it can cause some stress if your ride comes and you're not\nout to meet it and the ride leaves without you. So this is a service where you call the taxi company\n03/13/19\nPage 3 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 4, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nafter your appointment is finished and then they come pick you up. So it's improved from 27 rides\nper month average to 34 rides. It's still not huge but it's moving in the right direction.\nVictoria Williams: And then the scholarship programs. Again, we can help with assisting people to\nbuy the taxi vouchers. A family can receive $90 worth of free taxi vouchers. It's a matching program\nso if someone can buy some, then we can match that SO they have their input as well. And then, as I\nmentioned before, the free AC Transit bus passes, you can see that one's going up quite well too. It\nstarted really well but it's still going well. So we're real happy with those programs and just to be\nable to get people out of their houses is, it's a huge deal. So we'd like to recommend that the\nAlameda Loop Shuttle continue doing what it's doing. We need to continue to market all the time\nand let it be known that the service is more frequent than it was. We're investigating real-time\nshuttle location technology so that will be a real help when we get to that point. But right now, we're\nstill doing the research on that.\nVictoria Williams: My phone number's on the bus and on all the schedules and I don't get a huge\namount of calls, you would think I would, I don't. So most part, I think it's working pretty well for\npeople but I do hear from people saying, \"Where is the bus?\" And that happens, sometimes there's a\nproblem. It slows down, it happens but that will help people and it will help me see where the bus\nis. So when I get the call from someone who can't access that, I can say, \"Well, it's just right over on\nthat corner, it'll be there soon.\" And then the taxi services. Again, we want to continue marketing\nand outreaching those and then we'll explore working with Uber and Lyft in some kind of a shared\nservice way. And the next page, we'd like to recommend that we continue the scholarship programs\nas they are with more free bus passes. And we're working on, like I said, that emergency wheelchair\nbreakdown service which is new and exciting. Group trips, we'd like for those to continue as they\nare now with the Mastick monthly trip, the Leisure Club trips and the Skilled Nursing Facility\npicnic.\nVictoria Williams: Next page shows you a picture of our new shuttle stop sign, you'll see some of\nthose posted around town. They're not all up yet but they are orange and blue like the bus and the\nsame color of the last sign. So they're pretty, they're out there. And there are schedules being posted\nunderneath them so people standing at that sign will actually know when the bus is expected. So\nagain, our capital program would be the bus stop improvements, the benches. Oh, I forgot to\nmention the benches. We've ordered some benches and improving the shelters, replacing some of\nthe benches that are already currently in need of replacement. And then the outreach and marketing\nwill continue. We've got information on the website, we put out press releases and presentations,\nand orientations. Every other month I do a Transportation 101 at Mastick Senior Center and we talk\nabout all the kinds of transportation options that are available to Alameda residents and it's a lot, it's\ngreat. We will continue with, of course, we'll continue printing those shuttle schedules, and\nbrochures, and mailings and program incentives.\nVictoria Williams: The next page shows our budget. And I need to note that on the Measure B\nthey give us a projection so we don't know exactly but your original packet had a lower number\nthan this. This is a more recent number, $385,144 is what's projected for us to work with next year.\nWe've already got a carry over of $227,128 and we expect to sell about $4000 worth of the East Bay\nParatransit tickets, and about $8000 worth of taxi vouchers which will bring us with to total\n03/13/19\nPage 4 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 5, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nrevenues of $624,272 to work with. The expenditures, the management would be $66,439.\nCustomer service would be $38,000. Trip provision, $319,500. Capital improvements would be\n$120,000. And those would total $543,939 leaving us reserves of $80,333. And none of this comes\nfrom the general fund, it's all Measure B and Measure BB funding.\nVictoria Williams: And the next page shows our planning process. We did a survey in December,\nwe're still analyzing that. We were really pleased that we got 178 responses and for the most part,\nthings are good. We have a few suggestions. Some of them are really good ones, some of them are\nvery creative and I wish we could do but we'll be analyzing those to see which ones are really\nfeasible. And then we'll be coming to the commission meetings, the Transportation Commission and\nthe Commission on Disabilities. Thank you. Rec and Park Commission, Human Services Social\nServices, Human Relations Board. And then our program plan which is our grant application is due\nearlier this year, it's due at the end of February rather than the end of March so we're working on\nthat now. And that is it. Do you have questions for us?\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much, I really appreciate all of your hard work. And\nI\nwant to also mention that you forgot in your outreach to mention that you guys were in the Fourth\nof July Parade this year.\nVictoria Williams: Yes, we were. Thank you. You saw us? Boy. That's a longer parade than I\nthought since we were walking and handing out things. It was fun, it was really fun. So thank you,\nI'll have to remember and put that in the next one.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, I enjoyed seeing you guys there. I do have a few questions that I just\nwanted to ask about.\nVictoria Williams: Sure.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: The emergency wheelchair breakdown service, can you tell me a little bit\nmore about that? We did have somebody inquiring about this service. What is that? I don't know\neven, actually know what it entails. How do you get somebody who has a wheelchair that's broken\ndown to get it repaired? What does that involve?\nVictoria Williams: Well, we would have to do some major marketing to let people know that we've\ngot this service available because the previous program had little stickers that people put on their\nwheelchairs, so you had the phone number right there. And so let's say one of our riders goes to\nOakland to go to church and while they're there, their wheelchair, maybe it's a motorized chair,\ndoesn't work. They can't get home, it can't be pushed to the AC Transit. They can't get home.\nVictoria Williams: So that would entail, our vision of this and we're still working with the funder\nbecause they did it in the past. We're trying to get all of their information, how many rides, how\nmuch did it cost. What words were used in your contract? We're hoping our taxi company, they\ncould call the taxi company and the taxi company which has accessible vehicles could come and\npick them up and then take them and their chair home. So it would be a simple, smooth thing if it\nworks as well as we hope it does.\n03/13/19\nPage 5 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 6, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: And then the taxi company is able to help the person with pushing them\nin and out?\nVictoria Williams: Right. That would be part of the contract that they would be able to do that and\nit wouldn't be a cost to them, there wouldn't be any cost to the rider at all. We would pay for that.\nOut of our funding because it's not their fault the chair broke.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. I just was wondering a little bit more about that. Another\nthing that I wanted to ask about: I had the opportunity to be part of the LimeBike interview process\nand I got the opportunity to speak with somebody who works for the city of Oakland and they have\npartnered with BORP, I believe, to try and start an accessible bike-share program over there for\npeople with disabilities.\nVictoria Williams: Wow.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I don't know if that would fall under your duties under Paratransit quite,\nI'm not sure.\nVictoria Williams: I'm not either.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: But I was just wanted to put that out there as a transit option to think\nabout.\nVictoria Williams: Interesting. Thanks, that's interesting. I'll make a note of that.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Those were my questions. Again, I want to thank you for your hard work.\nI'm going to pass it along to the other commissioners right now so I don't slow things down. Start\nwith Commissioner Brillinger.\nArnold Brillinger: I just want to say the MRTIP program - it's a very good program. What you do\nis you take Paratransit to your doctor's appointment, then you can call them up and say, \"I'm here, I\nneed a ride at such and such a time, I'll be done.\" And I've had several people comment on this and\nI'm always trying to listen to what do we need to fix it or what do we need. And this person or these\npeople, actually but mostly one person gave me some insights and they've had three different\ndrivers taking them back home and they said, their personality and they were just delightful people,\nso there wasn't any, grumpiness or something like that about it. So that was good to hear. And then\nthe vehicles, I've heard about three different vehicles that they used. Two of them are fairly decent,\none of them could use a little bit of maintenance, or care, or some kind of thing. They even told me,\nthey said, \"Don't bring this one up.\" But I did anyway because we need to know that.\nArnold Brillinger: Because we want, and we need as many people as possible, to use this because\nit is paid for whether the people use it or not. I mean, there's a certain minimum that the company\ngets and we need to use it because it is such a convenience, the people going to their medical\nappointments and getting back. I think they're supposed to call the day ahead of time, say, \"I'm\n03/13/19\nPage 6 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 7, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\ngoing to need an appointment,\" or \"I'm going to need a taxi at between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM.\" Or\nsomething like that. But then they could call that day and say, \"Oh, I'm getting out on time.\" Or,\n\"I'm getting out a little bit later.\" And the people have been very agreeable, the drivers and\neverything with them. Also the office people, as far as I can tell, they've been very helpful.\nVictoria Williams: Great, thank you. That's great to hear.\nArnold Brillinger: So I just wanted to say that. And we need more MRTIP riders and possibly, we\nneed to make this known in the nursing homes. And of course, we need them for people who are at\nhome getting back without having the extra long waits.\nVictoria Williams: That's right, thank you. That's great ideas.\nArnold Brillinger: I don't have any personal times/experiences with them because I use AC Transit\nand I'm not sure that my vehicle, that my chair will fit into them because there's like a mini-van-\ntype situation.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Brillinger. Commissioner Linton?\nJenny Linton: Thank you for your presentation. I'm very interested in the number of opportunities\nyou provide for people who need transportation.\nVictoria Williams: Great, thank you.\nJenny Linton: I was going to ask about the wheelchair emergency service too. We're glad to hear\nthat that's going in place. I just have one question on the budget, and I should probably know this as\na voter, Measure B and BB, is that an ongoing funding or will that sunset at some point but come\nback on?\nVictoria Williams: They will and I can't remember the years. Do you remember the years they\nsunset? I will be old when this is gone.\nJenny Linton: And dead? Yeah, okay.\nVictoria Williams: I can't remember, I'm sorry.\nArnold Brillinger: In like 10 or 15 years, right?\nVictoria Williams: More, I think, yeah.\nArnold Brillinger: At least.\nVictoria Williams: I think we have at least 10 more years. And I just heard that some place and I\n03/13/19\nPage 7 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 8, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\neven wrote it down but it didn't stay in my head. But we do have ongoing funding for some time\nand I would hope BB is going to replace B when that sunsets. They're both in process now and one\nwill fall by the wayside and then the other one continues. And hopefully by then, we'll have\nsomething else voted in so that we all have those opportunities when we need them.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Linton. Commissioner Deutsch?\nSusan Deutsch: Thank you, I just have a question about the taxi service. What's the radius? How\nfar can somebody use this taxi for a doctor's appointment?\nVictoria Williams: Alameda County.\nSusan Deutsch: I've gotten some information about using the bikes, adapted bikes, in the Bay Area\nfor people with disabilities.\nVictoria Williams: Great.\nSusan Deutsch: There was an article in the New York Times that I found and it turns out that some\ncities around the country have been doing trials of this. And Oakland is going to be doing a trial. It's\nnot as simple as people think but they're trying to solve the problem of a person using a bike and\nthen they get to their destination, and they don't have their wheelchair.\nVictoria Williams: Oh.\nSusan Deutsch: So that's like one of the issues because there have been people with cerebral palsy\nthat can ride these bikes and they really like it, it's a leisure activity but it seems like they're\nexploring this in Oakland. And I brought copies, in case people want copies of this. You could pass\nit. It's just interesting and we should just be aware of it and see what happens with the trials.\nVictoria Williams: Yes, absolutely. That's great. And I think that I would love to have a copy of\nthat if there's plenty? We do have meetings every couple of months of those of us working on\nParatransit projects. So they often keep us updated what's going on. If it comes through Paratransit,\nthen I will get to hear about it. If it comes a different direction, then probably Gail or Rochelle will\nhear about it. Again, let the big city do it first and then we can follow along.\nSusan Deutsch: Well, it's just interesting. You're reading it in the New York Times and Oakland\nis\nin the forefront.\nVictoria Williams: Yes, that's a great.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Deutsch. Commissioner Hall?\nLisa Hall: Thank you, Victoria.\nVictoria Williams: You're welcome.\n03/13/19\nPage 8 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 9, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nLisa Hall: My question, and maybe I should know this too like you said, Jenny, is what about\nanimals?\nVictoria Williams: Service animals are welcome.\nLisa Hall: On the Paratransit, and the Loop and the taxis?\nVictoria Williams: That's correct.\nLisa Hall: You're going to look into, like you said, down the road, Uber or Lyft?\nVictoria Williams: Right.\nLisa Hall: Because I just spoke with a lady today, she's blind, and she had the most awful situation.\nShe was not in a familiar place in the Bay Area and it was evening and her phone was about dying\nand she had her dog, and three Ubers would not take her because she had the dog. And she was\nliterally in tears when the fourth guy that who they called, they had got somebody finally. And she\nsaid, \"Please, I'm begging you.\" And he took her. But it was like, WOW, I was very surprised. So I\nwas just like, I would hope that we do that.\nVictoria Williams: We do.\nLisa Hall: Service animals are a must, right?\nVictoria Williams: Absolutely, they are. And it is also possible to take your animal, if it's a caged\nanimal, to the vet, if it's not a service animal, if it's small enough to be caged.\nLisa Hall: Right.\nVictoria Williams: But hopefully, as Uber and Lyft become more accessible, that should be a part\nof the program. Part of the progress.\nLisa Hall: Because so many people use it.\nVictoria Williams: Right.\nLisa Hall: Like you said. And there are a lot of people that can drive don't want to drive and they\nare using more transportation. Which is good, we want it.\nVictoria Williams: That's a good point, we'll have to watch for that because I hadn't thought of that\nyet.\nLisa Hall: Yes. I hadn't either. Well, I was thinking, of course, that the Loop would, that you could\nbring your service animals but I never thought about Uber or Lyft.\n03/13/19\nPage 9 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 10, "text": "MEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nVictoria Williams: Ahh, I hadn't either.\nVictoria Williams: As we're investigating, that's a good thing to keep at the top of our minds.\nThank you.\nLisa Hall: And then the subsidized taxi service and the scholarship programs. If somebody is\ninterested, where would they just start? Call your number?\nVictoria Williams: Yes. Or Mastick Senior Center, my office is there so they can call Mastick and\nthey'll find me or send them to my voicemail. And my phone numbers are on all of the schedules.\nLisa Hall: I know a lot more of the seniors know about our information, about things going on\nbecause of Mastick and others and you reach out but there's a small disability group of younger\npeople and they don't know about a lot of the services. So that's why we're obviously, we're trying to\nget the services, the word out. So that's good, I just want to make sure because somebody asked me\nabout the taxi service and I said, \"Yeah, I know we have it going, I'm just not sure about all the\nparameters.\" So thanks for all you're doing.\nVictoria Williams: Oh, you're welcome.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Hall. Also I would like to suggest that you\nhave your friend reach out to the commission about what happened with Uber. We have reached out\nto Uber in the past about a very similar issue so we could definitely do that, again. And they could\ndefinitely use the reminder. So one thing that I wanted to ask about was have you guys considered\nrunning one of the shuttle days be a weekend day?\nVictoria Williams: We haven't at this point, there are some suggestions in the survey that they'd\nlike to have more days but it's funding. So we haven't explored that at the moment, but I know it is\nsomething that would be great to do.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, I hear a lot more people talking about the shuttle than I have\npreviously. I think there's a lot of confusion as to what it is. People think often, that it's the shuttle\nthat's been talked about by different business districts. But the other thing that I hear is like, \"Well,\nwhy doesn't it run on the weekend?\" But I do appreciate all that you have done and you are doing,\nit's a lot of work and I think you're doing a great job. So thank you.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you, thank you. So shall we tell our funders that we have your support?\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Why don't we take a vote on it? I move that we vote to support the\nTransportation Plan for the fiscal year, 2019-2020 for the City of Alameda Transportation Plan for\nSeniors and People with Disabilities. Do I have a second on that motion? Commissioner Deutsch\nseconded my motion. All in favor? Aye.\nAll: Aye.\n03/13/19\nPage 10 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 11, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright, I think it passes unanimously. Thank you.\nVictoria Williams: Thank you very much.\n4-B\nGail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Alameda\nTransportation Awareness Campaign\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Now we will move on to item 4B. We have Gail Payne, the Senior\nTransportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda, is going to present on the Transportation\nAwareness Campaign.\nGail Payne: Thank you, Chair Kenny. Thank you, Commissioners. Good evening, I'm Gail Payne,\na Senior Transportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda. When we went out and did outreach\nand went out to the community about the city-wide transportation plan, during that planning effort,\nwe heard a lot from community members about them not realizing all the transportation options that\nare actually available and that that's one of the reasons why they're not taking advantage of all the\noptions that we have. And we are blessed with quite a few for the size town we have. We have two\nferry terminals which is really unusual for a size town that we are, AC Transit, we have our free\nAlameda Loop Shuttle. So we have these great options yet, what we haven't done is so much of a\ncomprehensive effort of an awareness campaign of getting the word out. So with that in mind, it's\nactually now a project in the city-wide Transportation Choices Plan, this Transportation Awareness\nCampaign.\nGail Payne: So we just met with the advisory group for the first time, so we're trying to get\ntogether a little action plan. And where we landed is just to really do a comprehensive, ongoing way\nof getting news and information and materials out there as well as working with our partners and\ncommunity members and more of a grassroots effort. Doing a better job with social media and\nworking with our public information officer on getting the word out in these fun ways that are a\nlittle bit different than we're used to. And so we focused on the Alameda Loop Shuttle because we\nknow that we want to get more riders there. We also want it to be a celebration. Happy International\nDay of Persons with Disabilities, that was December 3rd. And so that's just one example.\nGail Payne: Really, we don't have a big budget, we don't have budget to hire big consultant firms\nand giving their public relations spin on it. That's not what we can afford. And so we're really\nlooking to community members to help us, our partners, the school district, AC Transit, all working\ntogether to come up with some ongoing materials that we can push out to inform Alamedans about\nall the transportation options. And so I see it more as a grassroots effort. Anything that, any type of\ngroup or way of reaching out to people, it would be really nice to hear from you about that. If you\nthink about it later, just feel free to let us know because it's helpful. Another part of this awareness\ncampaign is safety and bicycle safety education is not offered in schools, through schools, that is.\nIt's offered through the county-wide, Safe Routes to Schools program for some of our schools. So\nthe city wants to put together our own money and so most school kids in the city will have some\ntype of bicycle safety education by, we were thinking all, by the time they leave and graduate from\nhigh school.\n03/13/19\nPage 11 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 12, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nGail Payne: We want to also do a Line 19 pilot promotion, that's a fairly or new, restored line in\nAlameda AC Transit line. Some people might not realize that that's been restored back in December\n2016, along Buena Vista Avenue. So there's available seats there, it's not a full bus. So let's get the\nword out. So we want to start small, start there with materials, and then build out of different\ngeographic areas as we get better at these materials. And we are going to have our second advisory\ngroup meeting in February 7th so we're coming along and we're really open to how to do a better\njob of getting the word out. So thank you.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Gail. Can we offer some feedback right now?\nGail Payne: Oh, yes. That would be perfect.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I'm sure this has come up before, my wife is on Facebook and member of\nAlameda Peeps. And they're constantly talking about transportation on there so it seems like a great\nmerger to - I think they have something called, \"Self-promotion Monday\" and where you can kind\nof promote your own thing. If on Mondays, you guys put something like, \"Hey, the 19 goes to X, Y,\nZ.\" Or, you know?\nGail Payne: Yes, that's a great idea. Thank you.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes. I'm just going to open it up to any commissioners because this is\nspecific. Commissioner Deutsch?\nSusan Deutsch: Thank you, Gail. I also have a suggestion. A lot of people on the Nextdoor app are\ntalking about transportation all the time. And specifically, I've been hearing people talking about the\nHarbor Bay ferry. There's a new, an extra ferry run now at 9 o'clock but people are still complaining\nabout the parking over there. So yeah, I don't know. I'm hoping that people start using that extra\nferry run because by then, the parking lot is filled up and there's no street parking anymore. But the\nNextdoor app is really good, people all over Alameda are commenting on it and I applaud the\nbicycle safety because I see so many kids riding without helmets and, yeah. And I wish the\nLimeBike would solve that problem too, yeah.\nGail Payne: I also forgot to mention, the schools, I focus on that because that's more of the effort.\nHowever, there is a smaller component for adults and I'm really impressed with it. Victoria showed\nme some of their flyers. And what they've done is they've focused on some of the barriers, like night\nriding and how to lock a bike. And so they do a really great job of customizing the programs for\nsome of these obstacles that seem to happen for us when we bike.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Do any other commissioners have any suggestions they'd like\nto make on this topic? Alright, well thank you, Gail. I think we're going to keep you up here though\nbecause you're also our next agenda item.\nGail Payne: Yes.\n03/13/19\nPage 12 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 13, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\n4-C\nGail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Alameda\nUpdate on the Clement Avenue Project\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: For agenda item 4C, we have Gail Payne, Senior Transportation\nCoordinator with the City of Alameda, is going to give an update on the Clement Avenue Project.\nAnd I believe this came out of a suggestion from Commissioner Aghapekian who unfortunately is\nnot here tonight but he was wondering, he had made some comments about the lack of sidewalks\nalong Clement Avenue and the safety hazard that that presented. And so I believe that's part of why\nwe asked you to comment specifically about what's going on with Clement Avenue.\nGail Payne: Great. So Clement Avenue. The good news is we do have a funded project. We\nreceived a competitive grant, federal funding, I guess that was back in maybe 2017. And we're just\nnow got the consultant hired to work on that and that is Clement Avenue between Grand and\nBroadway. And what we're looking at, the main components of this project are indeed, making the\nsidewalks accessible. There's some sidewalks, there's a couple of portions where they don't even\nhave some sidewalks along Clement Avenue. Clement Avenue is the Northern Waterfront, it's a\nformer industrial site, so it has that industrial feel. It really wasn't built as thoroughly to\naccommodate people walking as other parts of our island. So we're going back and retrofitting and\ndoing a better job. There's other parts of the street where one sidewalk is only 18 inches and that's\nactually by Walnut there. And then there's a lot of different spots where there's utility poles that are\nin the way and so that's just the sidewalk part.\nGail Payne: And so how we're going to get around that is going to be tricky. And some ideas are\nmaybe to have the sidewalk go into the street because we can't move the utility poles and so some\nparking loss could occur from that. And to widen the 18-inch sidewalk. It depends, it's a case-by-\ncase issue. There's also some issues with curb ramps and some slopes on the sidewalk. So it's going\nto take some work. The other, the end-street part is we're trying to put a bike-way in and then take\nout or mitigate the railroad tracks that are in the middle. Again, it's an old industrial street and SO we\ndon't want those railroad tracks to be a hazard. And right now, they've been paved over but they\ncome up and get slippery for people and so we need to figure that out. And so that's the main scope\nof the project. We have a $5 million federal grant to figure it out and with our local money is\nattached, it's about $6 million. So we are starting that effort, hope to have outreach in the spring and\nsummer with some decisions in the fall and construction could even happen in next year if all goes\nsmoothly. Federal funds do take a little bit more time so fingers crossed.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I know that there's a big development project going on over there or\nslated to go on.\nGail Payne: Yeah, so that is west of the study site, that's Del Monte. Is that what you're thinking of?\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: No, I thought like Marina Shores is going in right there.\nGail Payne: Oh, yes. Oh, that one. There's an Alameda Marina. We're going to be working with\nthem on what improvements that development will fund and what project development components\nwe will fund. So absolutely, we're working with them and they've consolidated some of their\n03/13/19\nPage 13 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 14, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nentrances and SO to reduce the impact on the street from that development so we're working closely\nwith them.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, do any commissioners have any questions that. About the Clement\nAve Project? When I brought up the Marina Shores Project, one thing that comes to mind is that\nproject is speaking about water taxis which I can imagine will somehow fall under transportation.\nBut there again, we want to keep an eye towards accessibility which I'm sure you guys, the\nTransportation Department does an excellent job of doing SO.\nGail Payne: Absolutely.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you.\nGail Payne: Thank you.\n5.\nOLD BUSINESS\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, I believe that wraps up our New Business. I'm going to move on\nto item five, Old Business and then we're going to do our Commission and Board Liaison Reports.\nI'm going to start with Commissioner Brillinger.\nArnold Brillinger: Okay, this is in line with Gail's report. Now, I haven't been to the Transportation\nCommission meetings but I've watched some of them online and they have a real, full agenda for\nnext Wednesday here at 7 o'clock. And I would suggest that you take a look at it and see if there's\nsomething in there that you're interested in talking about or to. They've got things on down on\nWebster and Central. The whole thing about making sure that the kids get to school safely on their\nbikes and stuff, they've got another section on various projects. Well, they've got so many different\nprojects, I'm surprised they could get it into their time. And I also wanted to mention about the ILC,\nthat's the group that meets quarterly between AC Transit and Alameda, and they've taken and\ndiverted some of the bus line 96 and shortened the 19, I think. Took out some of the route where it\nwent around.\nArnold Brillinger: Well anyway, they've took some from one and put it on the other and extended\nit more so it's all pretty good. The 19 will take you into Oakland. Well, the 96 does too but not\ndowntown. Oh yes, it does. I just remembered. Okay, so either one of those. And I just want to say\nthat I'm into the BART Task Force and to the AAC which is the Alameda County Accessibility\nCommittee. And just kind of keeping up with them and seeing how things go. Thank you.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, thank you Commissioner Brillinger. Commissioner Linton?\nJenny Linton: I have been going to the Alameda County Commission on Developmental\nDisabilities, I hope I used the right term for the group, second Wednesday of the month at 1000\nBroadway. And they have been covering items like In-Home Supportive Services, that's a county\nprogram, lot on transportation, changes in BART, changes in some of the bus routes. Housing,\nhousing for the developmentally disabled as well as emergency preparedness and registration if\n03/13/19\nPage 14 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 15, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nyou'd like extra help during an emergency. I know we talked about that with the fire commission,\nwith the fire chief here a year ago or two years ago. And so anyway, I've been going to that on a\nmonthly basis.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, thank you, Commissioner Linton. Commissioner Deutsch?\nSusan Deutsch: Well, the Park Department, Parks and Rec, their last meeting, they were just\ndiscussing the new developments of Alameda Marina, Marina Shores and the Encinal Terminals on\nthe West end and just discussions about the Park but it's not in-depth yet, it's still a ways away\nbefore they really get into details SO.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Deutsch. Commissioner Hall?\nLisa Hall: Thank you. Our church has set up the Warming Center with the City of Alameda and\nwe've been dealing with the homeless but also a few people with disability concerns that have come\nto the shelter. So that's getting good feedback there. I also wanted to bring up to everyone's attention\nthat this year, the Women's March is going to have a disability contingent and they will be leading\nthe Women's March, one of the groups. The disability contingent will be leading the Women's\nMarch in Oakland this year. So anybody is welcome to join and strong support of the disability\ncommunity and there's a lot of different people from the Bay Area. So it's really been interesting.\nI'm meeting different people and how they're helping our disabled in Berkeley and Oakland and in\ndifferent ways. So I'm kind of excited about the Women's March because it's going to put us right\nout there that we are strong and we are enabled.\n6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Hall. Alright, at this point, I'm going to move\non to staff communications.\nLaurie Kozisek: Thank you, Chair Kenny. I went to a Senior Services meeting which is held\nquarterly at the Mastick Center and it is all different kinds of senior services representatives that\ntalk about the different programs that they have. And I picked up a few interesting tidbits I'll share\nwith you. Alameda Family Services provides case management for seniors two days a week at\nMastick Senior Center as part of its Senior Connection Program. There are about 10,000 seniors in\nAlameda, 20% of them are on MediCal/Medicaid. ECHO Housing offers free tenant-landlord\ncounselling and mediation. Centro De Legal offers free legal help to people who are being evicted\nin Alameda. There is a warming center at Christ Church at Santa Clara and Grand, thank you,\nwhenever the temperature drops below 40 degrees or there's over a 50% chance of rain. So that's\nprobably on tonight. All this week, okay. And there are some shared housing options developing.\nSome for-profit groups and some non-profit groups are trying to find ways to get people to rent out\nrooms that wouldn't otherwise want to rent out a room. We heard from one private group for-profit\ngroup that was trying to get Alameda and Oakland teachers who can't afford rent paired up with\npeople who would like to rent a house or rent a room to a teacher. Right now, there is a 2 million\nhousing unit shortage in California, 2 million. There are 35 new jobs created per housing unit\ncreated. I don't know where they're putting everyone. And should I continue to go to these meetings\n03/13/19\nPage 15 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}
{"body": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities", "date": "2019-01-16", "page": 16, "text": "ITEM 2-B\nCOMMISSION ON DISABILITY\nMEETING MINUTES\nWednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM\nand report back to you or would one of you like to go to the meetings? There aren't any other\ncommissioner-type people there, it's mostly representatives from social service agencies. I'm just\noffering. It was on January 8th and its once quarterly. Oh no, I didn't say when the next one is but\nit'll be in three months and it's like around 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the morning.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: I would suggest that we put that on as an agenda item to vote on for the\nretreat, we can talk about whether we want to do it. And vote on if we want to do it or not at the\nretreat.\nLaurie Kozisek: Yes, it is a lot of information. Let's see, the other thing I had was the Alameda\nCounty Complete Count Committee is a committee that's trying to get a full census count in\nAlameda County because for every person that we identify, we get several thousand dollars in\nfederal assistance. They had their first meeting on the 9th, I was not able to attend because I was on\nsomething else but their next meeting is Wednesday, March 13th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.\nLocation to be determined, I can find out where it is. They would like input on how to reach hard-\nto-count people and included in that hard-to-count people is seniors, non-computer savvy seniors\nespecially because the first outreach is by computer, and people with disabilities. So if anyone is\ninterested in going to that meeting, I can send you the link and you can attend that. They're already\nin contact with The CIL, The Center for Independent Living and with I can't remember the name\nof it but it's the group that outreaches to homeless people. That's all I have.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: The Alameda Point Collaborative, is that who are there?\nLaurie Kozisek: No, it's a different group, I think.\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. Alright great. Thank you, Laurie.\nLaurie Kozisek: You're welcome.\n7. ANNOUNCEMENTS\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, item number seven, I think we covered. But in case anybody has\nany additional announcements, we'll do announcements. Does anyone have any announcements\nthey'd like to make? Oh, we do have one. Hold on a second, folks.\nLaurie Kozisek: Another thing I looked up, Measure BB is going to go until 2045.\n8.\nADJOURNMENT\nChair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, thank you for looking that up. Alright, then I am going to move\nthat we adjourn tonight's meeting of the Commission on Disability.\n03/13/19\nPage 16 of 16", "path": "CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf"}