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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 11 | things, like you said, you have to overcome. So getting input from the group and the diversity in your group alone, not to mention the diversity all throughout Alameda. We speak 41 different languages in Alameda, so there's a lot of diversity here to work with, and that's the point about pulling in the community to say, what does it look like for Alameda? What does it look like for your group? What kind of disabilities are we facing? How can we plan and prepare so that we are able to serve the community and work together in answering some of your questions? Sharon Oliver: We are a small city so we don't have enough staff to meet everyone's needs, it's imperative to engage the community to help us come up with solutions and be part of the solution in the planning effort and figuring out what will really work. And then once we make that plan, we have to test it. We really need to set up a shelter and have you folks come and say, "Well that was great," or "That didn't work at all." And then we'll go, "Okay, we thought it was going to work and it didn't." So that's the circle and the way you have to go to make it work. I know you have more and a long presentation coming, so if there's no more questions, I will let you get on with business. Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, I would just like to make the motion that we create a work group that will be part of the task force on functional limitations for emergency preparedness and I would like to volunteer for that group. Sharon Oliver: Yes, thank you. I volunteered the whole audience, I don't know if you noticed. [laughter] You don't want the group to be too big, but you definitely want to have people on it who are interested most importantly, and that understand the diverse group that we have. Kerry Parker: And I hear you have fun meetings. Sharon Oliver: We have fun meetings. I know it's Disaster, but we're a fun group. [laughter] It doesn't have to be all doom and gloom to have a great plan. I encourage it. Will you work with Kerry to get a group and once you feel you have a group ready to go, we'll plan a kick-off meeting in 2017? Probably more like February than January. Kerry Parker: We can make sure this gets out to the group if there's a task force that's building, we can send it out to the listeners so that everybody knows. Sharon Oliver: Yes if they want to be a part of it. Sharon Oliver: How long can you keep water? I don't have the definitive answer, but if you talk to East Bay MUD, they say they never wanted to stop moving. I keep water in a large 55 gallon drum that I dump and refill every 6 months. And I keep some bleach on hand SO if I have to purify it further and I have some little purifying straws. I have a variety of ways, but our water is awesome so I water my plants and refill. I don't buy flats of water because of my ecological bent. Sharon Oliver: You just want to rotate everything. You want to have it in your normal daily business to rotate, so if you buy water. Whatever you do, use it. Eat it, drink it, rotate it, buy some new, put a date on it because I can tell you, "do this," and you think, "I got it," and then you look and you go, "Oh, 10 years has passed." And I'm not even kidding, and there's cobwebs and it's horrible. We did it in the police station. We had some bottled water and we went to look and they were all deformed and weird, and it was in a cool dark place and it was deformed from age. You just have to put it in your daily practice of checking. You put soup cans in, you eat it, you get some new, you rotate it or you donate it to the food bank, and you rotate more in. You're making a paradigm shift in the way you handle life. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much. | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |