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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 5 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM to run it, how to make it work. So they had a hearing. The hearing was on where to place the bike lanes and the parking lanes. And there seemed to be a difference of opinion depending on if you were a business or if you were a biker, so that seems to be the crux of the matter. And the commission did not select any of the choices, but they did say that they would study them further. And also they adopted a recommendation to extend the protected two-way bike way from Patton Street to McKay Avenue, and approved the city of Alameda Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities for Fiscal Year 2019 to 2020, and that's the same program that we saw from Gail Payne. Arnold Brillinger: And then they also had a meeting in February, when they endorsed the Transportation Choices Plan and I thought, "Well, Transportation Choices Plan. "Basically that's providing more transportation options for Alamedans with the goal of reducing drive alone trips at the crossings and also throughout Alameda. And they also discussed the Otis Drive traffic calming and safety improvement workshop and survey debriefing. And if you want to see more on those, if they spark your interest, they're online. I should say that I did not go to these meetings, but I did catch them online. Jenn Barrett: Great. Thank you so much. Arnold Brillinger: I also went to the Oakland Mayor's Commission on Persons with Disabilities meeting. And Karen Nakamura - we all know her - she presented a program to us. She is on their commission in Oakland and at the January meeting, she was elected the president or the chairman of their commission. So, they've got a lot of things going on all the time. They had two meetings since our one meeting. I'm just going to let you know what their presentations were. They had a presentation on disabled parking spaces and abuse of disabled parking. They have a group in Oakland that just goes around and checks on people's blue cards. And they find some that are made up and they had some to show. Some of them looked really slick and looked professional, and some really looked like homemade jobs. But those placards that you hang up. Susan Deutsch: Interesting. Arnold Brillinger: And then on their presentation in February, they had a paving update. And we know that driving through Oakland, they've got a lot of potholes and they also realize that, too. And then they had a Measure KK. And out of the money that came in from that, they were checking into how much of it could be used for home modifications to enhance accessibility. And so maybe that's something that we should look into. We don't have a Measure KK necessarily, which was a funding measure, but maybe there are grants that we can find that will help out people who need some work done on their homes to make it more accessible. Arnold Brillinger: And then, another group that I didn't get to go (but I've been there before) is the AC Transit Inter-Agency Liaison Committee, and it meets every couple of months. It's several people from Alameda and several people from AC Transit from their board, and they get together and they compare what's going and what's not going. From their meeting, I picked up that bus route 96 is eventually going to connect with the Seaplane Lagoon Ferry Terminal, the new one that's being built out there. 03/13/19 Page 5 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |