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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 8 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 6:30 p.m. Gail Payne: Are you having the problem with this program, with this service using premium or Mr. Tip, the long wait? Commissioner Lewis: I'm just saying, generally when you're using a taxi here in Alameda, because we're not San Francisco where you have DeSoto and Luxor and all that. I mean we pretty much have one company more or less here in Alameda, and I think that they're struggling. I don't want to put words in their mouths, but just based on the service because of Uber and Lyft, because most people are taking Uber and Lyft now as an alternative. I understand that Victoria's great, that we have Victoria and she'll be point person in all that, but I kind of think that it's important for us to get going on it because it's tough. If you're going to go grocery shopping and you're sitting and waiting an hour, you got frozen stuff, could be a potential problem. I just don't know what they're saying. Did they give an idea what the wait period is or what the number of drivers they have now? Or. Gail Payne: Actually, we should not be having that type of wait and I have not been hearing that type of problem in the survey. That didn't come out and so we can look at it in more depth. We can also talk to Alameda CTC to see what the potential is on moving forward with Uber/Lyft this fiscal year. So far none of the cities have done Uber/Lyft and so we wanted to not be the guinea pigs, the test run. However, we can check in with them and see what they recommend since they're the funding agency. Commissioner Lewis: Yeah. I think that would be a good thing. And also the other thing is I'm not sure how - the voucher program still will be administered through Mastick? Gail Payne: Yes. Commissioner Lewis: I was just wondering how that gets translated to the public. Gail Payne: When you say how it gets translated, you mean how the public learns about it? Commissioner Lewis: Yeah, how they know that. Gail Payne: Yeah, and that's something that we are going to do, like I said, a bigger push about that in general than we have already. Mastick has orientations that they do when new members come on board. There's also an orientation they do, I think its quarterly just on transportation and they talk about transportation for all the new members as well and we have a bunch of print media and then we also go face to face to the various groups and homes to talk about the program. And that's what Donatella Zepplin, who retired, was doing and now Victoria's taking her place and there was a little bit of a lag time between the two and so that effort will start up again. Commissioner Lewis: Yeah, because I was just thinking mainly also just for people who aren't seniors who don't necessarily have a reason to go Mastick, you know somebody who may have epilepsy or something, maybe a younger person and all that. What other avenues that they would know that might steer them in that? And to say I know you're not a senior but it's okay because Gail Payne: Right, Okay. So we can talk more with Victoria about this. There are a number of non- profit organizations, maybe that's one way. Like Center for Independent Living, they may have a listserv for their Alameda consumers so we could do a better job of maybe partnering with Alameda Meals on Wheels for example or other groups. And as Victoria gets her head into that she'll have 101 more ideas on that I'm sure. Commissioner Lewis: Yeah. And the Mr. Tip program too, that's the, if I'm understanding it, that's 8 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |