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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-05-09 | 3 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MUTES OF Wednesday May 9, 2018 6:30 p.m. into it. Agenda Item Number Four, New Business, item 4A, Climate Change and Disability by Alex Ghenis. Climate Policy Specialist with the World Institute On Disability. Welcome, Alex. Alex Ghenis: Hi. Beth Kenny: And Patrick. Patrick Peligri-O'Day: Hi. Great pleasure to be here. My name is Patrick Peligri-O'Day. I am an Americorps fellow placed with the city working in the Public Works Department on the development of our climate action and adaptation plan. And I have been in touch with Alex for the past few months. We've been talking about the possibility of taking considerations of the disability community more seriously in this plan, because there's an important intersection between climate adaptation, climate preparedness efforts, and the disability community and Alex has been a really great resource. And so I'm very excited that he's here to talk to you all today and excited for his presentation. And Alex is a climate policy specialist. Is that your title? Alex Ghenis: Policy and research specialist. Patrick Peligri-O'Day: Policy and research specialist at the World Institute on Disability. He does a lot of really amazing work. He has worked mostly at the state level, I believe, with California Departments of Public Health and California Offices of Environmental Services. So it's a big pleasure to have him here in Alameda today talking to us. So without further ado, go ahead. Alex Ghenis: Great, thank you. Alex Ghenis: Hi everybody. So yes, my name is Alex Ghenis. I'm a policy and research specialist with the World Institute on Disability. We're located in Berkeley. We are a non-profit that focuses on a number of disability related issues such as employment, economic empowerment, healthcare, and also have been working in the field of disaster readiness for over a decade. About four years ago, we started an initiative to research and begin developing policies looking at the intersection of climate change and disability. So how people with disabilities will be affected by climate change, and then what we can do to safeguard people with disabilities' well being and as cities or other government entities such as Alameda are planning for climate change in the future, to ensure that disability is included in those plans. Alex Ghenis: So I'm here to talk just about that general issue, what Alameda is looking at in the future. We, as I mentioned just a minute ago, have done research, we've done presentations, we've done direct work with other entities around disaster readiness especially, and we're very interested in communicating and potentially partnering with Alameda to be a constructive partner in the development of the city's climate resilience plan. I've got a presentation here to give a bit of an overview. It's one that I've done before, but really tried to tweak it to meet the needs of Alameda and what you will be doing going forward. Alex Ghenis: So just a quick overview is the simple bullet points. Climate change is here and progressing. I'm going to give a quick run down on climate change because I think it's important to set the stage why we need to focus on adaptation and resilience, especially at the individual city 05/30/18 Page 3 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-05-09.pdf |