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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-04-12 | 17 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:30 p.m. Stuart James: Yes. Beth Kenny: Thank you so much for coming and this has been a great presentation, and I do think that there's a lot of opportunity for us to work together. As Commissioner Deutsch said, there's interest by the Parks and Rec Department to make things more accessible, and so we can work there together. There are many opportunities and I have to plug my own, which, one of the things that this commission has been working on for many, many years is a Universal Design Ordinance. I'm not sure if you're familiar with universal design. The idea that things should be designed to be accessible to the most amount of people. So you have the backing put in the shower SO that if you need a grab bar, it can be easily put in. You have the hallways be an acceptable width SO that wheelchairs can get in. You have zero step entrance. As you know there's quite a bit of construction that's coming up on the Point, so we're trying to get this ordinance passed soon, and I think it works well with your mission as well. [chuckle] So, yes, I thank you for coming in and. Stuart James: No worries, and I hope you all come for a visit. We're a little messy still, but come anyway. Yes. Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you very much. Stuart James: Okay. Thank you. [applause] Beth Kenny: Thank you. [Background conversation] 5. OLD BUSINESS 5-A Proposed Name Change Beth Kenny: Now, we move on to old business, and the first items of old business are changes that we had talked about making during the CDI retreat, and we'll vote on whether we want to accept these changes or not at this time. So, the first one is the proposed name changes. There are three up there, and I wrote a few pros and cons for each. Beth Kenny: And if we do end up changing the name, we have to do it by ordinance. So, it would have to go through the city council, which we can do, but that was not a factor that I knew about when I was writing the pros and cons. Beth Kenny: So, the first proposed name change is Commission on Disability. And the pros I have is it's easy to change logo, etcetera, just remove 'issues', and we can sort of phase out, as new people get their badges, have the issues removed. It's not too different from what we have, so we won't have to change everything right away. The con is that it does require a change to the logo, but only a slight one. And I know, Commissioner Brillinger, you were worried about being known as CDI, and I spoke with Harry and we both thought that we could, even if we changed it to Commission on Disability, 05/24/17 Page 17 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-04-12.pdf |