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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 20 | went back to driving my car, it means that this has been going on for 10 years. If our transportation coordinators were spending half as much time as they are on bike lanes and streamlining those kinds of modes of transportation to just getting Paratransit to working the way it supposed to work, that would be great, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of outreach. Measure BB is my property taxes, I believe, I'm paying for this, it's not coming out of the sky. I would really like somebody to work on the Paratransit better. Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Gail Payne: And just to respond to that, you're speaking of the East Bay Paratransit, so that's a separate entity than the city, and that's why I'm not spending my time on it. Beth Kenny: I'd like to thank you again, Gail, for another informative presentation and I think that concludes our old business. Up next, we have Staff Communication. 6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS Kerry Parker: So, yesterday I updated the website for the Commission on Disability Issues meeting for 2017, given the formula that we have of on the even months, we meet on the second Wednesdays at 6:30 PM, except August because Counsel Chambers is dark in August. So, the meetings for this next year is slated for these dates: February 8th, April 12th, June 14th, October 11th and December 13th. I just posted all of those today. What is not yet scheduled is our extra meeting, our retreat, and that's something that we're probably going to look at, at our next meeting, because we'll put it on the agenda. It's not on the agenda for today, so we can't really make any decisions about it. Kerry Parker: Also for that February meeting, we already have a couple of items on the agenda. Gail mentioned one of them, the Paratransit program will be giving their annual update, and I expect we'll meet the new staff person at that meeting, very exciting. At the February meeting, we're going to vote for the Chair and the Vice Chair, because we do that annually. Be thinking about that. If the incumbents want to go again, if there's anybody else who would like the role of assisting and running the meetings and deciding on agendas, it's an interesting job to contemplate. Be thinking about that for the February meeting. And then possibly for February, we might be talking about the universal design ordinance. I don't know what the status of that is. I know the sub-committee has gone through some various iterations of that, so that could very possibly be something we're discussing in February. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Kerry. To follow up on the universal design ordinance, yes, we are going to try and have a meeting in February. However, the timetable for this has changed quite often, but at some point in the very near future, we will have a universal design ordinance that the Community Development Department has asked if the Commission on Disability Issues would recommend it. That will be coming up at one of our future meetings. If it's not at our February meeting, we may have a joint meeting with the planning board where it would be the first item, and where we could either recommend it or not recommend the universal design ordinance at that time. So keep that in mind, and I'm very excited about how it's going. The other announcement, I think Lisa Hall. Commissioner Hall? Lisa Hall: On October 22nd, I had the pleasure of attending the Making of the Invisible Visible Summit 2016, held at Will C. Wood School. This event was sponsored by the AANHP, the Asian- American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Disability Awareness Project. The program started with a warm welcome from Reverend Michael Yoshii of the Buena Vista UMC Church, whose church also have a disability ministry. It was very informative. A strong disability advocate also spoke, Mr. Austin | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |