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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 6 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: And the Central Street skirts this area, doesn't it? Doug Biggs: I'm sorry? Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Central Street, Central Avenue. Doug Biggs: Central Street [Avenue] is up on this side, yes. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: So people that are going to come and visit you, some of them would probably be in wheelchairs? Doug Biggs: Well, people that we're going to serve are clients who will be in the senior housing or medical respites, and we'll transport them there and back. In some cases, we may need to transport them by ambulance, but we'll also have our own vans, so that we could transport people elsewhere. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Okay. Doug Biggs: Other visitors may come and they may be in wheelchairs. I know, I recognize that that street needs some work and we're definitely going to work with East Bay Regional Parks on addressing that to the extent that we can. I will, just for the night's history lesson, point out, all of this property was started in 1942. It was built to train captains for the Liberty ships that were built up in Richmond, they were churning out a Liberty ship a day and they needed pilots, they needed captains. So they trained them here. There was a dock that went out in the water, they would actually bring Liberty ships in there and train them on that. The apartments that are up on Central Avenue are the old officers' housing for that whole development down there. Which I thought it was pretty classic. We've actually located all of the original blueprints in the facility and we're keeping them and we'll turn them over to East Bay Regional Parks. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Last question I have is, do you have any ideas as to why they missed the deadline to submit their petition? Doug Biggs: I just don't think they had enough signatures. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Thank you. Commissioner Arnold Brillinger: Thanks, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Hall? Commissioner Lisa Hall: Hi, Doug. Doug Biggs: Hey. Commissioner Lisa Hall: Doug, you're super star. I know Doug and Doug Biggs: Write that on Facebook, because not everybody's calling me that right now. 09/12/18 Page 6 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |