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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-05-09 | 12 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MUTES OF Wednesday May 9, 2018 6:30 p.m. Alex Ghenis: So next steps for us certainly is to see how interested everybody here is, continue moving forward, seeing what the capacities of the commission and the rest of the city are, bringing you all in, and hopefully at least providing a conversation and a set of resources for you, if you choose to take this on whatever level you do. And then finally developing a plan, long-term plan for action, some timeframes, and resource needs. And the last slide is simply to collaborate. We hope to collaborate. So thank you. The next slide has my contact information if anybody wants to write it down as well. Beth Kenny: Thank you, Alex. That was very informative on topic presentation of what we're dealing with here. I'm going to start with Commissioner Brillinger. We've been trying to find a new way of going around and having everybody ask their questions, so go ahead Commissioner. Arnold Brillinger: Thank you very much, Alex. And I've been to a couple of meetings here because we do have people that are trying to figure out what we should do in this or this whole thing of climate change and rising sea level. So we do have people especially interested. And so there are people that are really working on this already. And we thank you very much for your input because we need to have this kind of information for ourselves. And I just want to say those that are interested in this, when you see meetings here in the city dealing with the climate control and the rising sea level, that you go ahead and put in your information also. Thank you. Beth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Brillinger. Commissioner Roloff? Jennifer Roloff: Hi. Thank you so much. That was so informative. A couple of questions. One, is Alameda your first target city? Is that because we're an island, and we're completely at sea level? Are you doing this presentation with Oakland and other cities vulnerable? Or can you tell us a little bit about that? Alex Ghenis: Yes. Our initial outreach was looking at the cities that were involved in the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities initiative. And included in those are Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco. Berkeley, the individual that was involved there, they were near the end of developing their general resilience plans and said that they weren't available to help. We had actually a very difficult time getting in touch with Oakland and San Francisco. And then How in the world did we meet? This was actually kind of a great chance meeting between Patrick and myself. And then you mentioned how much that the city is doing, and it kind of just turned into a conversation that turned into the potential for a partnership. So we have done outreach. I've found that Patrick and the city in general have been much more responsive than everybody else, and I really appreciate that. Jennifer Roloff: Okay, great. The other question I had, have you worked with or met with any of the folks from CASA? Are you familiar with CASA? Patrick, have you introduced Alex to any the CASA folks? It's Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda. They've been around for a while, but the past 12 months, they've had a big resurgence. They've had some great events. We have the Executive Director of Sierra Club lives in Alameda, and he's always really participatory. So I think that could be another partner in this. 05/30/18 Page 12 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-05-09.pdf |