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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 11 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. Arnold Brillinger: That's why I thought, "Well, maybe it's for people whose wheelchairs break at home," they can call up and say, "Hey, the wheel came off", or something, but not for someone who is sitting down here on Park Street and saying, "Oh, my wheel fell off," or whatever the thing is. You know, they're not going to get any help. Gail Payne: Okay. Chair Kenny: One other question that I had is, when you talk about the group trips, is it the social club? Is it just for seniors, or are there other populations that are targeted in this? Gail Payne: So there's a couple different programs. There's three total that this funding subsidizes. There's the monthly Mastick trips, and those are mainly targeted for seniors. There's also the leisure program, and so that's targeted for individuals with mental disabilities, and adults specifically. Then the last one is the annual nursing home picnic. Chair Kenny: Great, thank you. Does anyone else have any more questions? Commissioner Lewis. Commissioner Lewis: Yeah. I just wanted to follow up. You were saying about the money available for accessible signal lights. I think you and I have talked about this before, Gail. What's a little complicated in Alameda, some streets are managed by the city, and some are managed by Caltrans, how is that going to get resolved? Gail Payne: We, as a city, have to take the initiative to provide the money to make it happen, and then we work with Caltrans. It's a whole process where we seek encroachment requests, and then we install, or they may come out and install with us. So it's definitely a little bit more cumbersome, yet we don't avoid those locations. This past batch that just came in, for example, there have been nine that were recently installed. The highest criterion was being near bus stops, so that's how we batched them. Moving forward, we'll have to see what the highest priorities are. If you have some locations where you'd like to have them installed, it would be interesting to know. Commissioner Lewis: I called, I believe it was your replacement, regarding just getting some type of notification across from that little intersection at Benton and Encinal, and a gentleman mentioned that I needed to call Caltrans if anything was going to get resolved, because that is a Caltrans high- way. Gail Payne: Wait, so, are you talking about the signal at Sherman and Encinal? Because it's right near. Commissioner Lewis: It's not actually that one. I was talking about the one across from Jay's, because there's the school Gail Payne: Okay. Commissioner Lewis: Right across the street. There's just a lot of foot traffic back and forth there. And just to get a I can't remember what you call those lights Gail Payne: Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacon. Commissioner Lewis: Yeah, like the one at Peru and Encinal. He was saying that it didn't qualify. 11 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |