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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-02-14 | 7 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:30 p.m. time-wise, but sometimes you really need to know if it's getting close to your doctor's appointment and your heart starts pounding a little faster. It's nice to look down and say "Oh, they're turning the corner. Let me grab my purse and meet them up front." So those are the kinds of things we'd like to add. Jenn Barrett: For the loop shuttle, is there a sign with the times on the street? Victoria Williams: Thank you. It's in the process. Those signs are on order. And underneath those signs, there will be timetables and a map that says, "You are here." so people could really use it. We have the shuttle schedules that you've all got a copy of there. We have those distributed around town, but we don't have them at the stops yet. So we think that'll really improve business. Victoria Williams: Okay, next slide. So for the scholarship program, we'd like to continue doing the taxi subsidies that we're doing now, the 70% discount. We'd like to continue with the Alameda Point Collaborative bus passes and we'd actually like to expand that to have free bus passes for other Alameda Housing Authority properties. It's working so well. It's such a great way to spend a little bit of money to get so many people out on the road that we'd like to offer that to more people. And we currently offer group trips. We'd like to continue doing those. Mastick Senior Center has one senior trip a month. There's a great annual barbecue at the park where all the skilled nursing facilities in town take their residents there. We help fund transportation for that. It's a wonderful event. And we also have a leisure club, people with disabilities who are 18 or over, and they take two trips a month. So we'd like those group trips to continue. Victoria Williams: And then we have a capital improvement program. The Cross Alameda Trail project has been under funded. We actually have funding that we need to spend. We can help our riders by contributing to the Cross Alameda Trail project for a couple of ways. It would be adding separating lanes, so a bike lane and a pedestrian lane would be separate. So those of us who are riding bikes wouldn't be running into people who have a wheelchair or a walker. And those of us using a walker wouldn't be frightened that a bike was coming up behind us and we couldn't hear it in time to scoot over separate lanes. That section intersects with a couple of shuttle stops. And it would also create a mid-block crossing between Independence Plaza, Affordable Senior Housing and the drugstore Walgreens and Starbucks across Atlantic. Victoria Williams: So people cross there all the time. We want to make it safer for them and they are our clients. And so we think that would be a really helpful way to spend some money that needs to be spent and to make it safer for those folks to come across to their drugstore and get their Starbucks and not be in the mid-block because they just don't want to go to the ends where there are crosswalks. We'd also like to add some benches at shuttle and bus stops. We do share some stops with AC Transit at a couple of places, but we'd like to add benches. And we were hoping to add a flashing beacon at Mastick Senior Center, but a study has been done since we created this report here and we don't really qualify for that. Victoria Williams: We do qualify for a paddle sign that can be put up there to slow traffic. So we'll be getting that. But we were hoping for a flashing beacon. And then of course, we need to increase the outreach and the marketing. We've got a website and we send out regular press releases. We do 02/14/18 Page 7 of 24 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-02-14.pdf |