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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-02-14 | 23 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m. Beth Kenny: And do you have any contact information for her? You said she's part of the Berkeley Commission? Arnold Brillinger: No. She gave a presentation at the Berkeley Commission. That's where I heard her. And also at the Berkeley Commission they had Eric, you remember Eric? Who came with us, to the sub-committees. And then I went to the Transportation Commission last week and I don't have a whole long list like I did last month, or last meeting. Because, mostly they had the same presentation from Victoria after a whole lot of other discussion on things that I didn't understand, that didn't really have to do with transportation. So their commission saw pretty much what we saw today. Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Arnold. I wanted to make an announcement. I don't know if any of you have been following, there's so much going on right now but, what's been going on in Congress with the ADA. Right now there is an attempt to undo parts of the ADA and make it so that the onus is not on the business to become compliant, it's the disabled person will have to let them know they intend to come to their business and give them sufficient time before any sort of claim can be filed for them not being accessible, or in compliance with the ADA. Beth Kenny: It would be a severe gutting of the ADA and I just want to keep it on everybody's radar. I read an excellent piece in The Washington Post, written by Tammy Duckworth, who is a disabled veteran congress person. I want to keep it on everybody's radar, and I think that it also made me really glad that we are getting the sub-committee going to look at making the businesses in Alameda more accessible and how we can go about that. That's my announcement. Anyone else have anything to say? Arnold Brillinger: Could you give us a little bit more information on what you just said about businesses in Alameda? Beth Kenny: Oh, I said that, after reading that article, what made me feel a little bit better was that we had already been talking about the issue of focusing in on how to get the businesses of Alameda to be more accessible. We were already thinking about that before reading this upsetting news. Jenn Barrett: Yeah. And I'm definitely excited to start working with our sub-committee on that. Jenny Linton: I have an announcement. Next month David and I will be going to a conference sponsored by The Arc of California, called the Developmental Disabilities Public Policy Conference, it's March 11th and 12th, Sunday and Monday. Followed on Tuesday morning by a visit with our legislator, so we'll report back after next month. David's my son. It's in Sacramento. Look forward to meeting our legislator. Beth Kenny: Yes, I look forward to hearing about it. Jenny Linton: Did we decide on whether we're going to even months or odd months for meetings? 02/14/18 Page 23 of 24 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf |