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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-05-09 | 8 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MUTES OF Wednesday May 9, 2018 6:30 p.m. are fully accessible, physically accessible. Alex Ghenis: And also when we've worked with the Red Cross before, and we ensure that when their functional assessment service team members are looking at the layout of a disaster shelter to ensure that if there is a designated accessible area, there should be one or at least there should be the ability for people with disabilities to navigate everywhere. But the provision of accessible beds, the provision of wide enough aisle ways, the provision of not only accessible restrooms but washing areas, and then also the personal support and medical care needed both in the short-term and the long-term. And if the proper care can't be provided in the long-term in a disaster shelter then having a long-term plan to allow people to get to areas that can meet their needs. And finally recovery, which is housing and employment, which I think is actually self-explanatory. As we're rebuilding things, we always need to make sure that we rebuild them socially and physically accessibly. Alex Ghenis: So something for Alameda to keep in mind just with any sort of long-term planning is the integration here in California with Executive Order B-30-15. So I was just talking about the needs of people with disabilities. This is actually a state statute that is very important for the city to work with, especially in coordination with state agencies moving forward, looking at climate resilience. So it was signed in 2015 by Governor Brown. It set a greenhouse gas reduction target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. But the parts that are really especially important to us are, it mandated the updating of a full safeguarding California climate adaptation and resiliency plan every three years. And it mentioned that the state's recurring five-year infrastructure plan will take current and future climate change impacts into account in all infrastructure projects. And something that we've worked with the California Department of Public Health on is this last sentence, as they're producing their health equity language and efforts, "Actions should protect the states' most vulnerable populations." Alex Ghenis: And as I mentioned earlier, usually disability is a word in that list, Executive Order B-30-15 doesn't say disability specifically. It also doesn't say specifically any other type of "vulnerable populations," but it's something where we need to raise our hands if possible and really advocate for the disability community to be included here at the state and here at the city level. So Alameda's needs By the way, there's no good aerial pictures of Alameda on Google Image search. Can I say, I had to take this from jewishalameda.com It's like, I'm Jewish, but there's gotta be more. So there's Alameda, it's pretty, but it's flat, sea level, isolated in the potential situation of any sort of natural disaster, separated simply by a short series of bridges from the mainland East Bay on either side. This is something that I think people in the city are aware of, but it really does raise a certain amount of vulnerabilities. Alex Ghenis: So the things that Alameda cares about are: Stronger storms in extreme weather, which is what I mentioned earlier about disaster readiness really building resilient infrastructure. And something that I always advocate for is as And this is simple Americans with Disabilities Act basics of, if something is getting remodeled or given some sort of resilience retrofit, make sure that it is up to code and go beyond code, make sure that it's universally accessible. When going through climate resilience, there is going to be updating retrofits, focus on anything from transportation to building code to the size and height and strength of levees surrounding the city that wherever possible and wherever disability is applicable, to make sure that those retrofits meet and go beyond code. 05/30/18 Page 8 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-05-09.pdf |