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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 27 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. number is 510-882-3404 and they're meeting again on Tuesday night. And I just wanted to share that. Thank you. Chair Beth Kenny: Great. Thank you, Commissioner Linton. So I think I misspoke a little bit about the Kiwanis Club. What it is, is they're starting a service club within the Kiwanis Club that is they're interested in getting people with disabilities to come join Kiwanis. So I think we should be in touch with them and reaching out. And I would love to be a part of that. It's called the Aktion Club and I encourage anyone who's interested to please check it out. Anto Aghapekian: I know the person. Chair Beth Kenny: That sounds great. So on the housing stuff that you were discussing, last night at City Council, they approved a master plan for the Marina Shores Project, which is, I believe, part of the Clement Street Corridor that you're talking about and the project would include 760 new residential developments. So by my math, that's over 220 universally designed units that should be part of this project, and that's 760 visitable units that will be part of this project, so I was pretty excited about that. Chair Beth Kenny: But the other thing that came up at City Council last night was, they were discussing the rent control ordinance or ballot measure, rather. The current ordinance is going on the ballot, and I just wanted to let you all know, because what the ballot measure basically does is put the current ordinance in the City Charter and by putting that ordinance in the City Charter, it means that no changes can be made to that ordinance, without a public vote. So, if we decide, "Oh, we really want to push to protect disabled people from no cause evictions," or ask for extra relocation costs for people who are disabled, or extra relocation time. Chair Beth Kenny: That would require, if this ballot measure passes, it would require a citywide vote. So it would have to go on the ballot. And honestly, for very small things, if they wanted to even change punctuation, it's my understanding that it would then have to go on a City ballot. And it made me think we should be thinking about what our disabled population faces in terms of rent, issues in rent stability, and certainly relocation if they have to move. I think there are some good issues we can be thinking and making some recommendations to the City Council regarding that. And I'd like it to be on our radar, and perhaps we can get an agenda speaker at some point to talk about that. Chair Beth Kenny: The November ballot has a ballot measure that is asking about, "Should we put the current rent control ordinance into the City Charter?" Well, I don't think that we can address really, the ballot measure. I wanted to let you guys know what that is, but it also sparked in me that we should just kind of proceed with, whether the ballot measure goes through or not, it might be something we should be looking at, protecting the disabled population who are renters in Alameda. And what sort of recommendations, if we need to make recommendations, what kind of recommendations we can make. Those are my announcements, and I think we'll go on to staff communication. 6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS 09/12/18 Page 27 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |