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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-05-09 | 14 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MUTES OF Wednesday May 9, 2018 6:30 p.m. Alex Ghenis: Thank you. May I? Beth Kenny: Yes. Alex Ghenis: We're located in Berkeley. I live around the corner from Alta Bates in Berkeley. They're going to shut it down by 2030 also. And then the only full UCare hospital, there's going to be nothing between Richmond and Oakland. It's certainly something that the whole East Bay I think is concerned about. When we're looking at this resilience in case of a disaster, people might not be able to get to the hospital. I think having redundancy of medical care all around the island, or at least emergency medical resources is going to be incredibly important as well. Susan Deutsch: Yes. Alex Ghenis: Yes. Thank you. Beth Kenny: Commissioner Barrett. Jenn Barrett: I just want to say thank you so much for your presentation. It was interesting. Your first comment, what does disability and climate change have? How do they go together? And by the end of it, it's how do they not go together? It's every single aspect. And then just a comment that we've been lucky that diseases haven't hit California as much as other areas, but they are coming. Lyme disease. KQED did a radio broadcast about Lyme disease just last week. And so something that our community needs to learn about as the rest of the country has had to. Beth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Hall. Lisa Hall: Thank you so much, Alex and Patrick. A lot of great information. One point you brought up, it's an ongoing struggle to get a list of people with disabilities in any city. And it's been an ongoing challenge that we're trying to work through because we have to gain the trust of those people to give us that information so we can help them. And I think another point you brought up, we have the eroding shoreline of Alameda, and we are unique and different than other towns because we are an island, and so we really have to concentrate on helping taking care of all of our people here, especially disabled people, because we've talked about in a crisis, an earthquake, things like that, there are so many things that are not accessible, and you made the statement that a deaf person did die up in the fire because they didn't get out. They didn't get heard. All your work you're doing is wonderful and we want to do what we can, too. Lisa Hall: I think most of us all acknowledge there's huge problems with the global warming of our world, and it's all connected. We're very connected. The housing and the food inequality, whatever you want to call it, is all connected too. And the sad fact that when a person becomes disabled, their whole life changes, but their whole economic standing, it shelves you right into poverty. It's more of a challenge already. You've got enough challenges. So anything we can do to help and raise awareness is awesome. So thank you so much for what you're doing. Alex Ghenis: Thank you. 05/30/18 Page 14 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-05-09.pdf |