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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 17 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Susan Deutch: Trying to cover some of the services that aren't being funded by the previous year's budget into this year's budget. Jennifer Roloff.: Oh, okay. Thank you. Jenn Barrett: Commissioner Deutch or Commissioner Roloff, do you have any liaison report? Susan Deutch: I am a liaison to the Library and the Park Department but there hasn't been anything on their agenda. Keep checking their agenda. Jenn Barrett: Thank you. Jennifer Roloff: And I will be attending Parks and Rec Commission tomorrow night. Jenn Barrett: Great. Jenny Linton: One more thing. At the City Council meeting last week we declared April, Autism Awareness Month in the City of Alameda. 5-B Subcommittees Report and Schedule Jenn Barrett: Yeah, Jennifer and I and Beth were all there. Okay, we'll move on to subcommittees report. Commissioner Brillinger, do you have anything for this? Arnold Brillinger: I don't. I don't know that I'm on any subcommittees. Jenn Barrett: Really? They were assigned during our retreat. We can look into that. Does anyone else have a subcommittee? Arnold Brillinger: I had a question. We do have a subcommittee. It's dealing with making sure that different buildings in Alameda are ADA accessible, right? And is that dealing with businesses? Jenn Barrett: Yes, so Anto and I are working on that and I actually maybe want to add to the next agenda but I came up with 10 ways for businesses to improve accessibility and so the thought that we had come up with was that if a business can show that they did something to help people with disabilities enter their businesses or use their services that we would, provide them with a sign, and this is just a draft that I've come up with so far but it says, "Alameda supports people of all abilities." Businesses displaying this poster have completed steps to make their businesses more accessible to all. We're still in a planning process of it and hopefully we can add it to the agenda, and we can get comments for the next meeting, but that's what Anton and I are starting to work on. Arnold Brillinger: Okay, I was just going to say that San Francisco, their Disability Council had a report from their small business part of the city government. And how they have put together and they've got a deadline for places to become accessible, businesses. And I think that they also help 04/11/18 Page 17 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |