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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 4 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. Nicole Blake: Okay, yeah. Great. Chair Kenny: And Susan, your comment brought up another issue for me, in your survey, where you talk about housing, one of the things you're ranking is housing for people with disabilities. I would love to see it more fleshed out so that we can understand this better. One of the things we're working on is a Universal Design Ordinance. And so I would love to get a little bit more information on how many people have had a family member who lives with them, who has trouble getting upstairs. Or have had to build a ramp into their house to accommodate a family member. So, yeah, again I don't have the exact way of doing this, but I'd like to flesh out a little bit more about those needs around universal design and visit ability. Does anyone else have anything they'd like to say? Alright, well, thank you very much. Nicole Blake: Thank you. Chair Kenny: And we appreciate this and feel free to contact us. And we appreciate you bringing it here. Nicole Blake: Okay. Great. Thank you. Chair Kenny: Next item, we have Gail Payne to present the Alameda Paratransit Program for the fiscal year of 2017-2018. Welcome Gail. 4-B. Approve City of Alameda Paratransit Program Plan for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 (Gail Payne, Transportation Coordinator Gail Payne: Good evening, honorable chair and commissioners. Again, I'm Gail Payne, the city's transportation coordinator, and I'm here tonight to ask your approval for the City of Alameda Paratransit Program for fiscal year 2017-2018. So the next fiscal year starts July 1st, and I also would like to first introduce our new Paratransit coordinator, Victoria Williams. And I'd like her to come up and say a few words about herself. She has a lot of passion about seniors, and individuals with disabilities and providing services. So here she is. Victoria Williams: Hi there. Thank you very much for having me. I love to be here already. I've spent 30 years working with people who are aging or who might have disabilities. 12 years in senior transportation, 10 of those with the city of Hayward as a Paratransit coordinator. And then, 14 years in affordable housing, and the balance in other social service programs that serve people who have disabilities and people who are aging, which is all of us luckily. So I'm grateful to be here and I'm really looking forward to working with this great program and making it even better. Thank you. Gail Payne: Thank you Victoria. And Victoria already has gone above and beyond the call of duty at least once since she's been here, what is it, three weeks? Four weeks? Fourth week, and so we feel very fortunate. Just to step back, what is the city of Alameda Paratransit program? We are very fortunate in Alameda County to have passed measures B and BB. They're the transportation sales tax, and so that's where this money comes from. It comes directly to each local jurisdiction and we get to choose how we want to use it according to the guidelines by the Alameda county transportation commission. And they do require to apply every year. That application is due in March. So before the application, we always go out to the community, so that's what I'm doing tonight is asking for your approval on what I'm about to present. And so, I'm going to provide a service overview, talk a little bit about the program changes, the budget that we're recommending, and tell you about our planning process for this next fiscal year. 4 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |