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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-02-14 | 12 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m. decomposed granite. Is that what it's called? DG. For the jogging trail. So, yes, absolutely, we'll make it accessible. And that's part of what this will fund is accessible curb ramps and all that. Beth Kenny: And one thing that we hear from the community quite often is about accessible parking near things like this. So please keep that in mind as you're doing this trail. Gail Payne: We will, definitely. Thank you. Jennifer Roloff: And I'm sorry, one more question on that. So in this slide, The Recommended Program, does this Cross Alameda Trail, the bus benches and the flashing sign, is that in the capital portion of the budget that you showed us? Gail Payne: That is the capital portion. Jennifer Roloff: Okay, thank you. So if it's approved, then we go for it. Gail Payne: Yes. Arnold Brillinger: And I think also that when you say the "dirt part," it used to be the railroad right-of-way. It goes along there by Alameda College and then it continues on, and it goes through the middle of a block. And I've seen them doing a lot of construction in there on the trail. So, when she talks about the dirt path, that's what's left from the right-of-way and now it's being concreted, blacktopped, whatever. Victoria Williams: Thank you. Any other questions at this point? Jennifer Roloff: The taxi vouchers. The city only has to or they're only paid for as they're bought and used, right? Victoria Williams: That's right. Jennifer Roloff: So essentially, it's hard to budget for them because we don't know how many are. Like I know my mother buys them, for example, but then she says she never uses them. So they sit in a stack. So it's probably hard to manage the budget based on how that works. Victoria Williams: I guess yes, I think it is. Having been here one year, I haven't seen how that quite works out yet. Jennifer Roloff: Okay. Because the shuttle is a fixed cost, right? Gail Payne: No, it's true, we've always really been very conservative. And we've always overestimated the budget, which is one of the reasons why we have reserves always, because we haven't wanted at the end of this fiscal year, at each fiscal year to say, "Sorry, we ran out of money.' So we're always very conservative with that. And then we also have the vouchers expire after one year. That's why we started doing that because we didn't want people all of a sudden to have years 02/14/18 Page 12 of 24 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf |