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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-11-28 | 29 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 6:30 PM Arnold Brillinger: Now see, I'm going to have to go back and find out because I don't remember where it was that I saw it. Laurie Kozisek: Okay, do take a look at it again. There should be a number on it or something, so that you can see who the issuing person was, and their CASp number. Arnold Brillinger: I don't think it was signed, or that it had anything on there. Well, let me find out. I'll give you a call and let you check it out. Because I thought it was kind of interesting because I thought, "Oh, the group is working on this and here's somebody's order, or whatever. " But I don't think it looked like that. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Right. No, so that's something that you can pay for to have a certified accessibility inspector come in and look into your facility. Separate, more intensive than this program. This is more of a free encouragement. That's more of a compliance-based. 6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Okay. We'll move on to number six, staff communications. Laurie Kozisek: Thank you, Madam Chairman. The only thing I have to present is that I got an email today from someone who was ejected out of a restaurant because she had a service animal, which rather surprised her. So you might want to consider looking into service animals and educating people on what's a service animal as opposed to an emotional support animal or therapy animal or whatever, and add that to your education of businesses. Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Right. Yeah, that's a huge item. Thank you for bringing that up, and I think that's something that we should definitely look into. You see it on the news a lot recently, and it's definitely illegal to eject someone who has a service animal. So it's sad to hear that that's happening in Alameda if that was the case. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS Acting Chair Jenn Barrett: Item seven, any announcements? Commissioner Brillinger? Arnold Brillinger: The other day I was going down Park Street again, and I heard someone yelling. "Hey you, stop, stop," and I thought, "Well, there's a lot of 'hey yours out here, so I don't I'm not going to turn around." And so then, "You in a wheelchair, stop!" So then I did a U and I looked, and it was another lady in a power chair and she says, "You're on that commission for the city." I said, "Well, yes." And she says, "Well I've got a problem." And her problem was that her power chair had stopped on her when she was at Mastick, and I don't know how she ever got home, but it turned out that no one was really able to help her. Arnold Brillinger: And there's nothing. The county used to have a service where if you had some kind of a problem with your wheelchair, you could call them and see if you can get some help. Now 03/13/19 Page 29 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-11-28.pdf |