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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 11 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright, I think it passes unanimously. Thank you. Victoria Williams: Thank you very much. 4-B Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Alameda Transportation Awareness Campaign Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Now we will move on to item 4B. We have Gail Payne, the Senior Transportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda, is going to present on the Transportation Awareness Campaign. Gail Payne: Thank you, Chair Kenny. Thank you, Commissioners. Good evening, I'm Gail Payne, a Senior Transportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda. When we went out and did outreach and went out to the community about the city-wide transportation plan, during that planning effort, we heard a lot from community members about them not realizing all the transportation options that are actually available and that that's one of the reasons why they're not taking advantage of all the options that we have. And we are blessed with quite a few for the size town we have. We have two ferry terminals which is really unusual for a size town that we are, AC Transit, we have our free Alameda Loop Shuttle. So we have these great options yet, what we haven't done is so much of a comprehensive effort of an awareness campaign of getting the word out. So with that in mind, it's actually now a project in the city-wide Transportation Choices Plan, this Transportation Awareness Campaign. Gail Payne: So we just met with the advisory group for the first time, so we're trying to get together a little action plan. And where we landed is just to really do a comprehensive, ongoing way of getting news and information and materials out there as well as working with our partners and community members and more of a grassroots effort. Doing a better job with social media and working with our public information officer on getting the word out in these fun ways that are a little bit different than we're used to. And so we focused on the Alameda Loop Shuttle because we know that we want to get more riders there. We also want it to be a celebration. Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities, that was December 3rd. And so that's just one example. Gail Payne: Really, we don't have a big budget, we don't have budget to hire big consultant firms and giving their public relations spin on it. That's not what we can afford. And so we're really looking to community members to help us, our partners, the school district, AC Transit, all working together to come up with some ongoing materials that we can push out to inform Alamedans about all the transportation options. And so I see it more as a grassroots effort. Anything that, any type of group or way of reaching out to people, it would be really nice to hear from you about that. If you think about it later, just feel free to let us know because it's helpful. Another part of this awareness campaign is safety and bicycle safety education is not offered in schools, through schools, that is. It's offered through the county-wide, Safe Routes to Schools program for some of our schools. So the city wants to put together our own money and so most school kids in the city will have some type of bicycle safety education by, we were thinking all, by the time they leave and graduate from high school. 03/13/19 Page 11 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |