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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 13 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM services to also have a tangent into what's the homelessness situation but look at it with a broader lens than just mental health disabilities. Does that make sense? Susan Deutsch: Yes, because there are people that lose their jobs and end up becoming homeless for periods of time. They don't have mental illness but they just can't afford to pay their rent. Leslie Morrison: And they may have another disability. This commission really is looking onto the issue of homelessness, broadly, but how it impacts people with disabilities, I presume. So, right. Liz Acord: So, I would just say I think this dovetails nicely into the question that we would want to ask city staff working in the homelessness sector about the availability of funding potentially to work with the school district. So, I would say let's wrap this into our request to Laurie to ask city staff to provide some resources and help educate the committee or the commission rather on the general state of homelessness in Alameda. Jennifer Roloff: I think Doug Biggs, he came and spoke with us a little bit about Measure A, but he was particularly addressing what they were working on there, he wasn't talking about the broader spectrum and I think they were breaking ground on Jean Sweeney and there they had to displace a homeless encampment and it sounded like, if I remember correctly, it was a consortium of the police and of Doug Biggs and his organization, probably many other groups. So I don't know if it falls on any one responsibility. And I thought, when I was reading up on Measure A and Measure B, there was something that was posted along the lines of a new regulation that said if Crab Cove became a homeless encampment of sorts, you can't kick them out or displace them unless they have a place to go, and I don't think that was a city thing. I think that was obviously like county or state or. I think "Who makes these policies that affect our cities as well?" So, I don't know if it's just our city. If Laurie is the right resource or Doug, we could probably have Doug just come and re-visit the program. I think he's part of HUD, right? Jenn Barrett: I think it would be nice to hear from Doug or another city official who can provide us even more background into the need of Measure A. I think that would be a great topic to cover. Jennifer Roloff: Yeah, and by the time they come, the election might have already happened and we're not supposed to be so political anyway when it gets close to election time but I think he's funded by HUD, by the federal government, the Alameda Point Collaborative? When the military moved out, we're required to put resource or the federal government gets some of that military land, I think. So anyway, he could probably, definitely approach the city or we could start there. Leslie Morrison: He may also know other people who could join him in a presentation. People who are providing crisis services or something. Jenn Barrett: I'd also be interested to hear from city staff or the people who are running the warming shelter. I volunteered there once this year and it was a very good experience, so I'd love to learn more about what the city is doing in regards to that. Jennifer Roloff: Oh, right and I think Lisa belongs to that church. 03/13/19 Page 13 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |