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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 15 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM you'd like extra help during an emergency. I know we talked about that with the fire commission, with the fire chief here a year ago or two years ago. And so anyway, I've been going to that on a monthly basis. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, thank you, Commissioner Linton. Commissioner Deutsch? Susan Deutsch: Well, the Park Department, Parks and Rec, their last meeting, they were just discussing the new developments of Alameda Marina, Marina Shores and the Encinal Terminals on the West end and just discussions about the Park but it's not in-depth yet, it's still a ways away before they really get into details SO. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Deutsch. Commissioner Hall? Lisa Hall: Thank you. Our church has set up the Warming Center with the City of Alameda and we've been dealing with the homeless but also a few people with disability concerns that have come to the shelter. So that's getting good feedback there. I also wanted to bring up to everyone's attention that this year, the Women's March is going to have a disability contingent and they will be leading the Women's March, one of the groups. The disability contingent will be leading the Women's March in Oakland this year. So anybody is welcome to join and strong support of the disability community and there's a lot of different people from the Bay Area. So it's really been interesting. I'm meeting different people and how they're helping our disabled in Berkeley and Oakland and in different ways. So I'm kind of excited about the Women's March because it's going to put us right out there that we are strong and we are enabled. 6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Hall. Alright, at this point, I'm going to move on to staff communications. Laurie Kozisek: Thank you, Chair Kenny. I went to a Senior Services meeting which is held quarterly at the Mastick Center and it is all different kinds of senior services representatives that talk about the different programs that they have. And I picked up a few interesting tidbits I'll share with you. Alameda Family Services provides case management for seniors two days a week at Mastick Senior Center as part of its Senior Connection Program. There are about 10,000 seniors in Alameda, 20% of them are on MediCal/Medicaid. ECHO Housing offers free tenant-landlord counselling and mediation. Centro De Legal offers free legal help to people who are being evicted in Alameda. There is a warming center at Christ Church at Santa Clara and Grand, thank you, whenever the temperature drops below 40 degrees or there's over a 50% chance of rain. So that's probably on tonight. All this week, okay. And there are some shared housing options developing. Some for-profit groups and some non-profit groups are trying to find ways to get people to rent out rooms that wouldn't otherwise want to rent out a room. We heard from one private group for-profit group that was trying to get Alameda and Oakland teachers who can't afford rent paired up with people who would like to rent a house or rent a room to a teacher. Right now, there is a 2 million housing unit shortage in California, 2 million. There are 35 new jobs created per housing unit created. I don't know where they're putting everyone. And should I continue to go to these meetings 03/13/19 Page 15 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |