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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 12 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM Jenn Barrett: Time. Right, of course. Anto Aghapekian: I would like to volunteer on that. During the days. I will attend the meetings. Susan Deutsch: I could be available depending on what day the meetings are. Leslie Morrison: Lots of interest. Jenn Barrett: Great, that's awesome. Okay, so I will get back to Laurie on that, and if we have the three of you, it can be kind of like a sub-committee. We don't have quorum, so you guys are able to work on that together. Leslie Morrison: And talking about priorities, I have what was captured in the meeting minutes from February, and you are correct that one of the things that was discussed was homelessness and I'm just wondering if people here, if the commission feels knowledgeable about this issue. I'm new to the commission, so I don't really feel like I have a good handle on the implication of homelessness on the community of people with disabilities and whether or not we want to do something similar about spending the year becoming informed, or maybe folks are already informed about that. Jennifer Roloff: When we had our retreat for 2018, we thought that mental illness is absolutely a disability and that's something we wanted to focus on, so I think it took a little while to get the momentum going. I don't know, if there's a legal classification or whatnot, but with mental illness being a disability, I think it definitely falls within our guidelines and no one has told us otherwise, to date. Leslie Morrison: But my question is about the homelessness, it's sort of as a separate topic. Jennifer Roloff: Oh, I see. Right, right. Because not all homeless people necessarily have. Leslie Morrison: Necessarily have mental disability, that's right. Jennifer Roloff: Yes, that's a good point, that's tricky. Leslie Morrison: So I don't know, are people here informed about the situation of homelessness in Alameda and the challenges. Arnold Brillinger: I don't think that we are. You get little snippets and pieces of the figures here for Alameda, but I need to know or I think I need to know, how they come about with these. What do they include as homeless in their stats. And I don't even know who is in charge of that in Alameda or what group. So there's another area that we can focus in on getting some more programs for that. Leslie Morrison: It does seem to dovetail. I think there's a fair amount of overlap, I suspect, between people with mental health disabilities and homelessness although certainly it isn't mutually always that case. But it could be a nice companion if the commission is focusing on mental health 03/13/19 Page 12 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |