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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-02-14 | 22 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m. Jennifer Roloff: How many people are on the listserv on your email blasts? Laurie Kozisek: It's not very many. Somewhere between 30 and 50 I haven't really counted, but it's just anyone who has shown an interest in that. I send them the agendas but I also send them, like if there's a meeting about, say, some particular kind of disability, some sort of a presentation or whatever, I'll send that out and I would love to have more people on that list. I try not to bother them with too many emails but I might do two a month on topics of interest. So, maybe you can spread it around and we'll have more people on the list. Jennifer Roloff: And do you have the right kind of email software that supports hundreds, for example, or are you just CC-ing? Laurie Kozisek: I'm BCC-ing. And it's just going out with the City email, so I think that's a pretty powerful email function. I've never had a bounce. Jennifer Roloff: Okay. I know sometimes if it goes over a certain number it'll go to spam folders. Laurie Kozisek: Yeah. I could break it up into two chunks. Beth Kenny: And the people on the listserv also get everything that you send to us as a commission, is that correct? Laurie Kozisek: No the commissioners are all on the email blasts, BCC'd. Occasionally I will send stuff to just you in which case you're in the "To:" because I figure you guys can email each other but, when it's going out on the email blasts it's all BCC so you don't see everyone else's. Because I don't want everyone to have your email addresses. Beth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Brillinger, you had an announcement. Arnold Brillinger: Yes. I went to the Commission on Disability in Berkeley, I think it was last week, and they had a program, they had a professor from UC Berkeley. They've got special chairs that are funded by philanthropists, and she's the Chair for the Disabilities, and she's from Japan. And it was very interesting hearing her, and I was thinking maybe we could ask her to come and give a presentation and also invite some other, like the Oakland group so she doesn't have to do it here for six people and there for eight people and so forth. But it was very interesting because she talks about that handicap is part of the diversity of human beings. Arnold Brillinger: And it's not a special group, it's just like there's a whole lot of people that are short, a lot of people that are tall but there's, most of people are medium-sized and so forth. And the same kind of things happen with disabilities. And she's got some insights into what they're doing in Japan for various things, and she said that the universal design, the word "universal" should not be there because universal means everybody. And no matter how many you want to include there's still some people that are on the fringes. They can't be helped by either visibility or special things. And so she's got some insights and I'd like to hear her again and I thought maybe we could invite her. Her name is Karen Nakamura. 02/14/18 Page 22 of 24 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf |