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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 6 | Sharon Oliver: There's not an actual plan in place for that, not that there couldn't be. But we do recommend that you keep a - I say this, and I understand because I've been in classes where I say it's nice to have a little extra medication, and then people say, "But my insurance won't do that. They won't let me have an extra month." But if you can swing it in some fashion, if it won't go bad, it's nice to have the next month's supply and rotate it so that if something happens, you're not, "I have to fill it every week." Unless you have to fill it every week, and that's just the way it is. But it's nice to have extra on hand. And when we talk about preparedness, there's a lot of reasons why just to have extra on hand makes sense day-to-day. It's very stormy, or you don't feel good and you don't make the trip. There's other reasons to have some supplies on hand that's a little above and beyond just a few days so that you can be resilient all the time, not just when we have a big disaster. That's what we encourage. Elizabeth Kenny: I have one more question. Is there going to be mental health services available? Because, I imagine, people will be feeling strained during an emergency. Sharon Oliver: Yes, there are. We use Eaton Information and Referral. And I will tell you the East Bay has more services than any other county in the Bay Area. It's really fabulous. They're networked, and they're there for us, and we're going to be working with them very closely. In fact, we will feed them information, and they'll feed you information, and we'll go back and forth. We have a very strong partnership. But I just want to back up to the medication thing. So when we're talking about planning, if that's something important to your group, that's a place where we can plan. We can put agreements in place with the local pharmacies to say, "Hey, in a disaster, we would like you to service our population. If we have some folks who are really critical, we're going to ask you to service them and we're just going to get it done." Sharon Oliver: So when we talk about planning, the reason everybody has to contribute is because I might not think of it in the way you think of it, and that's the importance of the partnership and the team building to have a plan that works for our city that's not just a nice book on the shelf that gets dusty, but actually has some meat on the bones that gets looked at every year and say, "Is it still fresh? Does it still work for us?" Because when we wrote our plan literally, and I'm just going to stop there, we have the word 'VCR' in the plan, nobody's using a VCR - Well, I shouldn't say no one, most people are not using VCRs. [chuckle] Technology moves, this is a living document that needs to be looked at and refreshed. So that's why I'm encouraging you to put together a task force that can work with the city in understanding what needs to be in our plan, that actually has meat on the bones that we can have agreements with our businesses over. So I just wanted to go back on that. Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, I think that's a great idea about the task force or forming a work group specifically for emergency preparedness and to work with the functional limitation planning. Sharon Oliver: Absolutely. Elizabeth Kenny: Any other Commissioners have any questions or comments? Arnold Brillinger: I do. Captain? Sharon Oliver: Yes. Arnold Brillinger: I realize that you're talking about city preparedness Sharon Oliver: I'm talking about the whole community. | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |