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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-10-11 | 13 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, October 11, 2017 6:30 p.m. Tony Lewis: Laurie is multi-talented, I want you to know. I did a dragon boat with her the other week, which was pretty fun and amazing. No, I think we'll be fine, but you could if you I have a Braille printer, so if you wanted to do that, I could print it for you. Laurie Kozisek: Oh, could you print that on Braille? Tony Lewis: What's that? Laurie Kozisek: A lot faster than my slate and stylus. Tony Lewis: Okay. Yes, if you wanted to do that, I could do it. If you could email it to me, I could do it, give her a printout of it. Laurie Kozisek: Okay, I'll do that. Tony Lewis: Okay. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS Beth Kenny: Wonderful. So Section Seven, Announcements. I don't know if any of you have seen it, but we got a new banner for Disability Awareness month and it's been hanging up, so thank you, Laurie. Laurie Kozisek: Actually, Kerry Parker did that because I was a little swamped. It's going to hang over Park Street for a week, and then over Webster Street for a week. Beth Kenny: Yes. And does anyone have any other announcements they'd like to make? Then I move we adjourn the meeting. Laurie Kozisek: Wait, wait. We need to ask if we have any speakers. Did either of you want to speak? Beth Kenny: Carol, are you speaking about the Pacific ADA? Carol Gottstein: I didn't know if anybody else had heard of Christina Hansen? She was a 28-year- old woman in a wheelchair, who just died in the Sonoma fire because she was in a wheelchair. CNN reported on how she had called everyone she knew. She lived right next door to her father, and her father was evidently the only one who tried to get her out, but he sustained third degree burns over more than half his body, and right now he's in a medically induced coma. They couldn't even airlift him to a burn center because the helicopters couldn't fly. So that, more than anything, underscores the importance of emergency preparedness and knowing where all the disabled people are in the community. Carol Gottstein: I have one more thing, it's really completely separate. I didn't think of it until after 12/13/17 Page 13 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-10-11.pdf |