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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 17 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. kids sit on it and spin. Behind it, there's another item that also spins, but this is one that you could sit in and be safer. Susan Deutsch: So, this playground is owned by the community. They clean it once a month, they've been taken care of it. There are still donations coming in to help take care of it. When I was there, I saw a group of developmentally disabled adults going in, and they were cleaning the playground, which I thought, Wow, that's just a great opportunity for vocational training for some of those adults. Susan Deutsch: I felt like, when I was there, that people were valued, and people with disability were valued. And you could just see it in the way that playground was built. And I'm just saying this is a worthy goal, a community based effort to build an inclusive playground. This kind of play for all kids, it's just a worthy goal to work towards, I just see it as maybe a long range plan. But I think it provides for kids cognitive development, sensory development, physical development, and social development. Chair Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Commissioner Deutsch. Can we just go around? Susan Deutsch: Yes, sure. Chair Beth Kenny: And have comments. Susan Deutsch: Yes, I didn't show everything in the playground because that just won't be possible. Chair Beth Kenny: Seems like it's pretty huge. Susan Deutsch: Yes, well, I mean, it's big enough, I mean it's small enough, that my two and a half year old grandson gets all over there. But it is a good sized playground compared to some of the ones that I've been to here. Chair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Brillinger, yes. Arnold Brillinger: Yes. It seems to me that Alameda has a park that was built to be inclusive of all people. Maybe we could get a little bit of it at another time? Chair Beth Kenny: I don't have an exhaustive report on that. I think that what you may be thinking of is when we did the 25th anniversary of the ADA. We did our celebration in conjunction with the Parks and Rec Department. And they opened up a playground at that point that was their most inclusive. They are trying to include things with every new playground to make them more accessible. But I think the one that you're thinking of is the 25th anniversary ADA celebration. And so it had some of the elements in here. Susan Deutsch: But there's no access for a child in a wheelchair to get on to a climbing structure in that playground. But the surface of that playground allows kids with wheelchairs to roll around. So it's not like bark or sand. It's a surface that allows a wheelchair to roll. But there's no accessible 09/12/18 Page 17 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |