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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-10-12 | 4 | Elizabeth Kenny: So, now is the time for oral communications, non-agenda items, do we have any public comments? Kerry Parker: We do but it's for item 5A. Elizabeth Kenny: Okay, thank you. 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A Recognize Girls Inc. Julie Vu (Commissioner Franco) Elizabeth Kenny: The Commission would like to thank and recognize Julie Vu for some amazing volunteer work she did for the Commission, and I'm going to let Commissioner Franco speak with that, because Commissioner Franco worked with Miss Vu. La Donna Franco: Thank you. It's my great honor to recognize Julie Vu from Girls Inc, who volunteered her time to work on our resource guide. It was a daunting task, and quite time consuming. So on behalf of the Commission, I'd like to thank you for your time, energy, and effort that you put into the resource guide. While it's not yet complete by us, you have given us a great jumpstart into completing the resource guide, and getting that up to the website and to the public, and making it more available and accessible to the public. So, I'd like to thank you for that. It was a lot of piece-by-piece work, editing, cold calling, calling numbers and updating a lot of things. So it's just a wonderful start that you've given us for it, so thank you. And I'd also like to thank former Chair Audrey Lord-Hausman, for putting us in contact with Girls Inc as well. So, thank you. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, and we have a certificate for you, Julie, if you'd like to come up. (A certificate of appreciation was awarded to Julie Vu.) 5-B Review Commission Business: 6 meetings per year (Chair Kenny) Elizabeth Kenny: Now we're going to jump ahead to 5B, review of Commission business. I wanted to talk a little about the fact that we have six meetings per year, and our last meeting was in June, it's been a little while since we've had a meeting. And that's because City Hall is dark in August, we'll not be having meetings in August. What we are doing to have that sixth meeting is to have the retreat in January. We looked at possibly doing it in August, but our new members would come on that September-October time, it made more sense to keep the retreat in January, and have that extended break. But because there are only six meetings throughout the year, I just want to say how important it is for everybody to attend those meetings, and that there are lots of opportunities to get involved beyond the meetings. But the meetings are our one time that we come together as a group, it is very important to attend the meetings. 4-B Discuss Summer Events & Future Events (Events Subcommittee) Elizabeth Kenny: Next, we can go back to Item 4B, discuss the summer events and future events. We had the Events Subcommittee got us a table at the Art and Wine Fair, and I'd like to hear back from them, and what their future thoughts are too. Who would like to report? Page | 4 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-10-12.pdf |