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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-10-12 | 10 | Elizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Great. 4-C Revisit Highlights of ADA Conference (Attendees) Elizabeth Kenny: I think with that we can move on to Item 4C, which is, several of our Commissioners attended an ADA Conference, and we wanted to hear your thoughts on the conference, and any information you wanted to share about that experience. So I believe, Arnold, La Donna, did you attend? And Tony, you also attended? Arnold Brillinger: Tony was there. Elizabeth Kenny: So, is there any pieces of information you'd like to share with the Commission from that meeting? Tony Lewis: Well, the one I was most interested in was the one, I think Kerry sent out a timely email about service animals. And we went over the ideas proposed, was the whole idea about service animals, when businesses could refuse a person, the rights of the individuals with service animals, and just to find out what businesses actually had the right to, I was surprised to hear that churches are one of the few that were exempt under the ADA, that they didn't necessarily have to comply with that. So, that was interesting for me. And timely, speaking of the fair, I was with another person who was blind at the event that we did in July, and she had a service animal and we were taking Uber and we were refused by the Uber driver. And just to see how that whole process played out with Uber, I won't go into the details about it, because there was a lot of stuff around it. But just really going over, and I think it was helpful just being at the meeting to really get an understanding about when situations like that do come up, when it is blatant discrimination, what your rights are, and how you deal with the discrimination without it being a long drawn out process. So, that was one of the things. La Donna Franco: My thoughts about that workshop as well, that was a very poignant one for me as well. And just noting the two questions, particularly for businesses to ask individuals with disabilities about their service animal, "Is this animal required because of a disability?" And, "What work or task has this animal been trained to perform?" Being the only two questions that they are allowed to ask. And when it's presented, or asked out of the spirit of respect and civility, those are relevant questions, I think, and should be applied. I think the difficulties come when there's the confusion on what rights we do have, how much information is confidential. And a person's medical condition is confidential, it is not informed with the knowledge, or a business does not need to know that. So I think having these two questions on hand for businesses for individuals are very, very important. Arnold Brillinger: I would like to thank Kerry, because she's the one who figured out that the city could send four people to this conference and pay for it. Because I was going to go by myself Or not by myself, but as a single person, to find out what was going on. But thank you, Kerry, for doing that. And we need to remember that if there are things that come up, there is some money in the budget for educational, right? Kerry Parker: Right, education and conferences. Very specific and has something to do with the Or r business license. And it is set aside for education, as I understand it. That is the interpretation that what the fund is used for right now. Conferences like that. I don't know that we would be able Page 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-10-12.pdf |