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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 7 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. Chair Kenny: Thank you, Gail. Does anyone have any questions they'd like to ask? Commissioner Brillinger? Arnold Brillinger: Yes. Now that means that you're going to have two vehicles? Gail Payne: Yes. Arnold Brillinger: Instead of one. One of the things that you should do because the second one isn't painted up yet, to say "shuttle" or whatever it says now, is get a big circle or something that says 'free'. Nobody knows that it's free. Also, now the Alameda Loop, that sounds pretty good, but we need to make sure that it's clear. I would say paint the vehicle in some bright colors so that you can't just say, "Oh, there's another vehicle going down the street," that something that says, "Hey! Here I am and it's Thursday. Jump out here and get on me." Those are a couple of things. I was wondering, could we back up a couple of slides in your presentation? Maybe right there. On the capital and outreach, now there will only be money for that the first year, right? Because we'll be using a lot of the Gail Payne: The reserves. Right. Arnold Brillinger: The reserves. And. Gail Payne: We still will have some money to do outreach. Arnold Brillinger: Okay, but not like this year? Gail Payne: We're not expecting maybe it would be as big. We're expecting it to be bigger next fiscal year than in other years, yes. We're thinking of doing a special push especially for the shuttle because we're having a more frequent shuttle. We will be using a shuttle wrap, a bus wrap, and to make it really bright and I wrote down "free" so that's something. We can do a better job of saying it's free. Arnold Brillinger: Because right now it's free to everybody in town, children included. Well, 12 and up maybe. Because you don't want the little critters [chuckle] going by themselves. But they could go with their parents, or grandparents and stuff like that. So people need to know that most of the time, that vehicle is making these loops empty. It's got two or three people in it. Once in a while it's got a wheelchair, [chuckle] that's me. But There are couple of other wheelchairs too I've seen on there. And the other thing is that it can only accommodate one wheelchair at a time. If there were two people going from the nursing home, they'd have to go by themselves, with their families and stuff. Gail Payne: Okay, thank you. Commissioner Lewis: I had a couple of questions. The one concern that I have about the taxis are that with Uber and Lyft, there's a shrinking pool of taxis that anyone can use. The wait period to get a taxi sometimes can be a wait up to an hour sometimes to get a taxi. And I don't know who your new provider is, is it not Welcome anymore? Gail Payne: It is. They've changed their name to First American Transit. Commissioner Lewis: Oh, First American now? Okay, but it's the same company more or less. Yeah, and I think that's really the problem that a lot of people have is the wait period that you're having because of Uber and Lyft, and I'm just kind of wondering why, why wait? 7 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |