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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-05-09 | 16 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MUTES OF Wednesday May 9, 2018 6:30 p.m. something like that really working in this situation, and I think that would be a good approach for us going forward if that's something that you're interested in. I'm not 100% clear on how we buy in, but I think from what I'm hearing from other commissioners and from my own sense is that we would like to buy in. So how would that ideally look? Alex Ghenis: Well, Patrick do you want to address that or should I? Patrick Peligri-O'Day: You can go ahead. Alex Ghenis: Obviously, part of this is going to be how much time we can devote, depending on either grants that the city and ourselves could partner on to really make this a flagship, a replicable partnership for the rest of the Bay, the rest of the California, the rest of the country, or simply devoting a certain number of funds, which would be an equivalent number of hours from our organization from the existing resilience planning. So I think that a subcommittee would be fantastic. Also because I'm located in Berkeley, and if there are commissioners that are interested in doing a lot more email communication, and telephone calls and other little things, so that I'm not constantly bouncing back and forth and SO that everybody's time can be used a little bit better. And it seems like you all are very well networked within the disability community and the city over here, a subcommittee sounds fantastic. Alex Ghenis: Again, we would have to identify how much time and energy, and what types of resources we can provide. We really don't want to do this on our own. We want this to be a partnership. We're not just going to sit and write a white paper on the side. Hopefully this can be a really active involved thing, and there's certainly a lot of players. Patrick knows that there's a lot of players already in the climate resilience planning development. So yes, I think a subcommittee, and then figuring out what the options are for our involvement would be fantastic. Is that a good enough answer? Beth Kenny: I feel like it is. Does anyone else have questions about that response? And just so you know, a subcommittee, it would be, like I said, about three or maybe four members of the commission, and then they would also be reporting back to the commission as a whole because we're all very well networked. When you were talking about aiding transportation, I thought, "Oh man. Commissioner Billinger will be all over that." And when you talked about just the different architectural stuff or making things accessible, I thought about Vice Chair Barrett and Commissioner Aghapekian. And so I think that we can all still be part of it, but we'd have a subcommittee that could be in touch over email, and certainly if there are meetings that need to be attended, send a representative or send our thoughts. Is that what you also were thinking, Patrick? Patrick Peligri-O'Day: Yes. I'm very excited to hear what you all are saying. So thoughts off the top of my head. One, depending on the official path forward that this commission decides for itself, my next step would be to elevate this up to my boss. The project manager for this project is the Deputy Director of Public Works, Erin Smith, and she knows that I'm here and that we're having this meeting today, and the Director of Public Works, Liam Garland, who is the official executive sponsor for the project, from the city side. Funding is a question that would have to get worked out. And there might be different options, but it seems that this would work best if it's integrated into the current plan as much as possible. So there's existing outreach that's planned. There are three 05/30/18 Page 16 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-05-09.pdf |