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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 2 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. All: Aye. Chair Kenny: Anyone opposed? Carries unanimously. 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT) Chair Kenny: So, our third item is Oral Communications. Non-agenda items. Public comments, do we have anyone who would like to speak on non-agenda items? Kerry: We do not have any speaker slips for this item. Chair Kenny: Then we'll move right in to new business. First off, we're going to have Nicole Blake from the Social Service Human Relations Board, also called SSHRB. Nicole is the vice president of SSHRB and she's here to talk to us about their 2017 Community Needs Survey. 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A. Provide Comments on the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) Draft 2017 Community Needs Survey (Nicole Blake, Vice President SSHRB) Nicole Blake: Thank you commissioners. Good evening. My name is Nicole Blake. Thank you for this opportunity to present our draft 2017 Community Needs Survey. First, a little background on our history. So SSHRB, the Social Service Human Relations Board was established in 1917 with our original name as The City of Alameda Board of Social Services. And with that we were charged with advising the city council on all matters pertaining to care and relief of the needy. Fast forward to 1977, SSHRB's name was then changed by way of the city charter to its current name and with it with a mission to create an environment which encourages and brings about mutual understanding, respect and goodwill among groups of people in the community. Nicole Blake: And in order to further this mission, the charter set forth certain goals. One of which is to assess and report to the city council the social service needs of the people and the methods of meeting those needs. In order to achieve this goal, SSHRB created the assessment and awareness group in order to evaluate the community's social service and human relations needs through surveys and focus groups and to also build awareness of those needs among community stakeholders. We use the survey which you have a draft of tonight in your packet as one of the tools to identify these needs. SSHRB administers the survey roughly every five years and we use the information in order to help us make funding recommendations for both city and federal grants that focus on public service. And we also found that non-profits find the data collected helpful in writing their grant applications to help Alamedans. Nicole Blake: And so tonight's purpose, we're reaching out to you, since you are experts on disability issues in hopes that you can review the draft survey and we can get some input from you on what you think is working well, what needs to be improved, what gaps need to be filled. We realize that we probably don't have enough time tonight to go question by question, but we can direct comments to Jim Franz, that's on the next slide. And so we just want to make sure that the needs for people with disabilities is properly represented and included within the survey. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you can ask them here tonight, but you can also send them to Jim Franz. He's the Community Development and Resiliency Coordinator. Kerry: We got this in our packet. 2 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |