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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-04-12 | 11 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:30 p.m. to rent the facility, please call," they never call back. So, if anybody can help us with that, we'd really be keen. We need to rent gym space from them and some other things. Stuart James: But again, you guys are the best folks to tell us what we need to do, and what some of the challenges are. I know one of the things I'd like to get very involved in, and we would help pay for it, is I understand that the city of Alameda's about to build a new park over by the Del Monte factory. Right? They acquired some land there. Am I wrong about that? Kerry Parker: We have the Jean Sweeney Park that's over near Del Monte that is being developed, and the Estuary Park, as well. And then, there's supposed to be more parks out at the point. Beth Kenny: Yes, out by the ferry. There's supposed to be some parks being built out by the ferry building. And I know at one point, they were talking about doing an accessible baseball field, moving towards making things much more accessible, SO. Stuart James: We would love to see if we can help with that process. We would like to see some more accessible things like wheelchair-friendly softball fields, of which we would be happy to go out and help you raise money to make that happen. We can talk to the Giants and the A's for you. The Giants just built a beautiful one in Sacramento, but they should be building one here. A lot of the stuff that we run, the tennis programs, we do wheelchair lacrosse, we do the Harlem Globetrotters, we're always having challenges finding facilities. We've been trying to rent the Alameda Point Gym, but we haven't been very successful at it. In any of those types of things, we always could use the help. We'd like to start doing those type events here. And as these new parks come to be, we'd like to have a voice in talking about some of the things we'd like to see go into those facilities. Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you very much. We're going to go around and have each of the commissioners have a chance to ask any questions, or comments that they might have. I'll start with Commissioner Brillinger. Arnold Brillinger: My question was where in Marina Village is your new facility? Stuart James: Where in Marina Village are we? So, we're right above the Webster Tunnel. Do you know where Pasta Pelican is? If you go through the Webster Tunnel, you sort of loop around behind Target. Stuart James: You go over the top of the tunnel, we're in an office complex that's in there. If you're coming from Oakland, the 31 bus stops right at our building. There are a number of shuttles. The Target complex is going to start stopping at our complex for us. Actually, I'd love to see if we can get the Alameda city shuttle to stop there. But I don't know how to do that yet. Kerry Parker: We know something about it. [laughter] Arnold Brillinger: Yes, I was going to say, we here can probably help in some of these things, too. I know that various people here have leads into Like the mayor, and so forth. And the mayor was at 05/24/17 Page 11 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-04-12.pdf |