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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 23 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. 5. OLD BUSINESS 5-A. Commission and Board Liaison Reports Chair Beth Kenny: Now, we'll go on to agenda item five, Commission and Board Liaison Reports. Commissioner Billinger. Arnold Brillinger: Okay. If you were at the parade, you probably saw the shuttle go by. You probably saw me go by too because I made it all the way around. I would just want to say that we're working on doing all kinds of things to get people to ride the shuttle. Again, just like using the bikes is good for getting people out of single-person cars and the bus is also especially for older people and for those that are disabled. Right now, it's open to anybody. We're even going to have a couple of things like Gilligan's Island, there was a three-hour tour and turned into a long thing, right? Well, I came up with the idea. Arnold Brillinger: Let's have a free hour tour. Means that it's free. You don't have to pay anything to go on it, but we're going to have Dennis from the Alameda Sun come on and we're really sorry that we can't do this for as many people as we think that will be wanting to go on this to kind of give a historical tour as we go past some of these things in Alameda. And as we know, it goes on three different tours, three different routes, one on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, but we're going to also get some of the information and on 11 X 17 sheets, and have them laminated so that people can as they're going by, say, "Oh, look at there's where the peanut butter factory used to be for Skippy's.' Arnold Brillinger: Because it did start here in Alameda, and so forth. So those are just some of the things that we're getting to get people interested and aware because we realize a lot of people are working during the hours when it runs. But their older, their parents and their neighbors that are older, they need to know about it. So we're trying to get the information out to the various groups. So that's it for the shuttle. Now in Alameda, and we've had the presentation here from Victoria Williams on the Paratransit Program, where people can buy vouchers. Arnold Brillinger: They can have these tickets, they will bring them back from a doctor's appointment or a hospital or wherever they had to go for $2.50. Wherever it is in the county, and Alameda will pay the rest of it that way. And also, people of a certain age can get vouchers to ride regular taxis at a very much discounted price, like they get a $5 voucher for $1.50. And it helps them with making their budgeting work out. So, we do have those things. And I just wanted to say, besides the fact that I do go to the Oakland Commission on Disability and also Berkeley and stuff like that, they all seem to have representatives at the last meeting in Oakland where they talked about several things, one of them being the whole thing of shared bicycles and also accessible bicycles. Arnold Brillinger: And also, how to work with Uber and Lyft in getting rides that were equipped to handle wheelchairs. And there's an SB and I don't know the number of it, but just recently I heard about it, where in the legislature in Sacramento, they're considering this where a certain amount of each ride has to be specified to work or get some vehicles that can handle wheelchairs. So that's 09/12/18 Page 23 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |