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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-03-13 | 9 | ITEM 3-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6:30 PM people to do that upgrade. Jennifer Roloff: Tell me how this works but if our commission is tasked with advising council, and the answer that we got back was just a fairly easy, "No, sorry, it doesn't apply," if we need go to council. So maybe you start that way, and if not, we can go to Council and ask if the guidelines of the grant could be extended. Or however policy would have us do it. Jenn Barrett: That's a fantastic idea, yes. Jennifer Roloff: Okay. Thanks. Jenn Barrett: That's great. Thank you. Jennifer Roloff: Let me know if I can do anything. 5-B Follow up discussions from February 9, 2019 retreat (All Commissioners) Jenn Barrett: Okay. Okay, we're going to move on to Item 5B: Follow up of discussions from our February 9th retreat. I think with this, we'll go around the table or around the commission again, but I think one of the things that I want to maybe focus on during our discussion is talk about priorities for the year and how we can achieve our goals. Commissioner Brillinger, would you like to start off? Arnold Brillinger: I do have some ideas, but I don't know where this discussion is. Jenn Barrett: Okay. So I'm just trying to summarize where we left off from our retreat, and I know that some of the topics that we thought were very important for our commission to focus on this year was the Census, making sure that people with disabilities are properly counted. Another one was mental health, we had a talk with the school, some of the school leaders last year and we wanted to make that maybe one of our priorities, is making sure that people with certain disabilities within the school had the resources that they needed, and a broader aspect of mental health in our city. And I think that housing and homelessness, if I remember correctly, was another topic that we thought was extremely important to discuss. I think it's hard to come up with what is our main goal, when all of these sound very important and large goals. And so I think that maybe our discussion can be around how we're going to attack one or all, or I think we need to break it down into a few achievable goals so that it's not too overwhelming. And we don't have to go in a circle, either. Arnold Brillinger: I would like to have more programs, presentations to the commission on mental health issues, because I found from that other on, that we really don't know as much as we could know. I didn't say should know because I don't know where that is. But, I think that that would be a good focus, that some of our presentations would deal with the mental health issues. Jennifer Roloff: And I guess this is more of an education for me and possibly for the whole commission, for children with mental health issues, we had the school district come in. And I guess what I would love to be educated on is the schools have their own budgets and the state funding is 03/13/19 Page 9 of 28 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-03-13.pdf |