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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,1 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 1 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM 1. ROLL CALL Chair Elizabeth Kenny: A meeting of the Commission on Disability for January. It's January, Wednesday, January 16th, 2019. Agenda item number one, roll call. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Present. Lisa Hall: Present. Susan Deutsch: Present. Jenny Linton: Present. Arnold Brillinger: Here. Laurie Kozisek: Three others have called in that they couldn't make it because we made a change to the date. So we have a quorum. 2. MINUTES 2-A None 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NO-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT) None 4. NEW BUSINSS 4-A Victoria Williams, Paratransit Coordinator, City of Alameda City of Alameda Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities for FY 2019/2020 Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Agenda item number two is the minutes and the December minutes are not available yet so we have no minutes to approve. I'll move on to agenda Item number three, Oral Communications/Non-agenda Public Comment. I don't believe we have anyone here for that. I'm going to move along to item number four, New Business. 4A, we have Victoria Williams, the Paratransit Coordinator for the City of Alameda here to speak to us tonight about the City of Alameda Transportation Program Plan for Seniors and People with Disabilities for the fiscal year of 2019-2020. Victoria Williams: Thank you very much. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. 03/13/19 Page 1 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,2 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 2 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Victoria Williams: Thank you for having me honorable chairperson and commission. We're happy to have these paper pieces to look at tonight so that we can go through everything. So we're here tonight to let you know what our plans are for next year and to get your support in that. Each city and county is required to take their plan for the following year to commissions and boards to get some support and to get the input of residents of the community. Well, our funding is Measure B and BB which gives us a supplemental program to East Bay Paratransit, the Adults with Disabilities Act mandated service. So each city gets to choose what programs work best for their city and we've chosen some really good ones, they've been going for some time and we've got more than a lot of cities. So I'd like to tell you a little bit about those. So our agenda is the service overview, then the recommended program, budget and our planning process. So the service overview, like I said, Alameda has a wide variety of transportation services for the residents of Alameda. We have the free Alameda Loop Shuttle. It runs Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. It's open to the public. Victoria Williams: There are two buses which are accessible and they have bike racks. We've got two-subsidized taxi programs. One is MRTIP - that stands for Medical Return Trip Improvement Program - to help people get home from their doctor's appointments in a smoother fashion. And the other is a premium taxi program, and that's for any purpose whatsoever. We have scholarship programs. One is a scholarship program that helps a resident who is low-income purchase taxi vouchers. And the other one is we've been able to provide some free AC Transit bus passes for people who live at Alameda Point Collaborative and in some of the Alameda Housing Authority properties. That's going really well too. We've got group trips. Mastick Senior Center provides once a month, a trip… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,3 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 3 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM go and get your business done and not have to wait a full hour for the bus to get back. There's another bus coming in a half an hour, so that's working well. Also the shuttle was renamed through a survey of residents and it previously was called the Alameda Paratransit Shuttle. And through a voting process it's now the Alameda Loop Shuttle and it does go in a loop so that makes good sense. Victoria Williams: The next page shows the shuttle status and you can see that the average monthly shuttle boardings have increased from 449 in 2016 to 451 in 2017 up to 686 in 2018. Now, we have two buses so we still need more than that. But Arnold was on the bus the other day when it was full, 18 people, he called to tell me. So it's getting there. The cost per trip however, is more expensive. It was $16 when we just had one bus and a $16 per trip average when we had one bus and now it's $21. And the funder, Alameda County Transportation Commission, is the agency that the money comes through. They have guidelines, it's called the Paratransit Program Implementation Guidelines. They want us to be under $20 but they give us two full years, two full fiscal years to get there. So we've made it through the first fiscal year, we still have another fiscal year and we're already at $21 so we think it's going to be great. Victoria Williams: The next page, this is the taxi service status and we are using a local Alameda taxi provider that has a couple of accessible taxis in the fleet. We are also in the process, this is the exciting news, we're in the process of negotiating for an emergency wheelchair breakdown service. Alameda County Transportation Commission funded such a thing and they even controlled it, managed it, ran the program for several years and they've stopped running it so there is nothing in the whole county. Some cities have fire departments who can do that, ours can't. So we're negotiating right now with the same transportation provid… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,4 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 4 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM after your appointment is finished and then they come pick you up. So it's improved from 27 rides per month average to 34 rides. It's still not huge but it's moving in the right direction. Victoria Williams: And then the scholarship programs. Again, we can help with assisting people to buy the taxi vouchers. A family can receive $90 worth of free taxi vouchers. It's a matching program so if someone can buy some, then we can match that SO they have their input as well. And then, as I mentioned before, the free AC Transit bus passes, you can see that one's going up quite well too. It started really well but it's still going well. So we're real happy with those programs and just to be able to get people out of their houses is, it's a huge deal. So we'd like to recommend that the Alameda Loop Shuttle continue doing what it's doing. We need to continue to market all the time and let it be known that the service is more frequent than it was. We're investigating real-time shuttle location technology so that will be a real help when we get to that point. But right now, we're still doing the research on that. Victoria Williams: My phone number's on the bus and on all the schedules and I don't get a huge amount of calls, you would think I would, I don't. So most part, I think it's working pretty well for people but I do hear from people saying, "Where is the bus?" And that happens, sometimes there's a problem. It slows down, it happens but that will help people and it will help me see where the bus is. So when I get the call from someone who can't access that, I can say, "Well, it's just right over on that corner, it'll be there soon." And then the taxi services. Again, we want to continue marketing and outreaching those and then we'll explore working with Uber and Lyft in some kind of a shared service way. And the next page, we'd like to recommend that we continue the scholarship programs as they are with more free bus passes. And we're… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,5 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 5 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM revenues of $624,272 to work with. The expenditures, the management would be $66,439. Customer service would be $38,000. Trip provision, $319,500. Capital improvements would be $120,000. And those would total $543,939 leaving us reserves of $80,333. And none of this comes from the general fund, it's all Measure B and Measure BB funding. Victoria Williams: And the next page shows our planning process. We did a survey in December, we're still analyzing that. We were really pleased that we got 178 responses and for the most part, things are good. We have a few suggestions. Some of them are really good ones, some of them are very creative and I wish we could do but we'll be analyzing those to see which ones are really feasible. And then we'll be coming to the commission meetings, the Transportation Commission and the Commission on Disabilities. Thank you. Rec and Park Commission, Human Services Social Services, Human Relations Board. And then our program plan which is our grant application is due earlier this year, it's due at the end of February rather than the end of March so we're working on that now. And that is it. Do you have questions for us? Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much, I really appreciate all of your hard work. And I want to also mention that you forgot in your outreach to mention that you guys were in the Fourth of July Parade this year. Victoria Williams: Yes, we were. Thank you. You saw us? Boy. That's a longer parade than I thought since we were walking and handing out things. It was fun, it was really fun. So thank you, I'll have to remember and put that in the next one. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, I enjoyed seeing you guys there. I do have a few questions that I just wanted to ask about. Victoria Williams: Sure. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: The emergency wheelchair breakdown service, can you tell me a little bit more about that? We did have somebody inquiring about this service. What is that? I don't know ev… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,6 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 6 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Chair Elizabeth Kenny: And then the taxi company is able to help the person with pushing them in and out? Victoria Williams: Right. That would be part of the contract that they would be able to do that and it wouldn't be a cost to them, there wouldn't be any cost to the rider at all. We would pay for that. Out of our funding because it's not their fault the chair broke. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. I just was wondering a little bit more about that. Another thing that I wanted to ask about: I had the opportunity to be part of the LimeBike interview process and I got the opportunity to speak with somebody who works for the city of Oakland and they have partnered with BORP, I believe, to try and start an accessible bike-share program over there for people with disabilities. Victoria Williams: Wow. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I don't know if that would fall under your duties under Paratransit quite, I'm not sure. Victoria Williams: I'm not either. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: But I was just wanted to put that out there as a transit option to think about. Victoria Williams: Interesting. Thanks, that's interesting. I'll make a note of that. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Those were my questions. Again, I want to thank you for your hard work. I'm going to pass it along to the other commissioners right now so I don't slow things down. Start with Commissioner Brillinger. Arnold Brillinger: I just want to say the MRTIP program - it's a very good program. What you do is you take Paratransit to your doctor's appointment, then you can call them up and say, "I'm here, I need a ride at such and such a time, I'll be done." And I've had several people comment on this and I'm always trying to listen to what do we need to fix it or what do we need. And this person or these people, actually but mostly one person gave me some insights and they've had three different drivers taking them back home and they said, their personality and they were just delightful peop… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,7 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 7 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM going to need an appointment," or "I'm going to need a taxi at between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM." Or something like that. But then they could call that day and say, "Oh, I'm getting out on time." Or, "I'm getting out a little bit later." And the people have been very agreeable, the drivers and everything with them. Also the office people, as far as I can tell, they've been very helpful. Victoria Williams: Great, thank you. That's great to hear. Arnold Brillinger: So I just wanted to say that. And we need more MRTIP riders and possibly, we need to make this known in the nursing homes. And of course, we need them for people who are at home getting back without having the extra long waits. Victoria Williams: That's right, thank you. That's great ideas. Arnold Brillinger: I don't have any personal times/experiences with them because I use AC Transit and I'm not sure that my vehicle, that my chair will fit into them because there's like a mini-van- type situation. Victoria Williams: Thank you. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Brillinger. Commissioner Linton? Jenny Linton: Thank you for your presentation. I'm very interested in the number of opportunities you provide for people who need transportation. Victoria Williams: Great, thank you. Jenny Linton: I was going to ask about the wheelchair emergency service too. We're glad to hear that that's going in place. I just have one question on the budget, and I should probably know this as a voter, Measure B and BB, is that an ongoing funding or will that sunset at some point but come back on? Victoria Williams: They will and I can't remember the years. Do you remember the years they sunset? I will be old when this is gone. Jenny Linton: And dead? Yeah, okay. Victoria Williams: I can't remember, I'm sorry. Arnold Brillinger: In like 10 or 15 years, right? Victoria Williams: More, I think, yeah. Arnold Brillinger: At least. Victoria Williams: I think we have at least 10 more years… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,8 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 8 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM even wrote it down but it didn't stay in my head. But we do have ongoing funding for some time and I would hope BB is going to replace B when that sunsets. They're both in process now and one will fall by the wayside and then the other one continues. And hopefully by then, we'll have something else voted in so that we all have those opportunities when we need them. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Linton. Commissioner Deutsch? Susan Deutsch: Thank you, I just have a question about the taxi service. What's the radius? How far can somebody use this taxi for a doctor's appointment? Victoria Williams: Alameda County. Susan Deutsch: I've gotten some information about using the bikes, adapted bikes, in the Bay Area for people with disabilities. Victoria Williams: Great. Susan Deutsch: There was an article in the New York Times that I found and it turns out that some cities around the country have been doing trials of this. And Oakland is going to be doing a trial. It's not as simple as people think but they're trying to solve the problem of a person using a bike and then they get to their destination, and they don't have their wheelchair. Victoria Williams: Oh. Susan Deutsch: So that's like one of the issues because there have been people with cerebral palsy that can ride these bikes and they really like it, it's a leisure activity but it seems like they're exploring this in Oakland. And I brought copies, in case people want copies of this. You could pass it. It's just interesting and we should just be aware of it and see what happens with the trials. Victoria Williams: Yes, absolutely. That's great. And I think that I would love to have a copy of that if there's plenty? We do have meetings every couple of months of those of us working on Paratransit projects. So they often keep us updated what's going on. If it comes through Paratransit, then I will get to hear about it. If it comes a different direction, then probably… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,9 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 9 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Lisa Hall: My question, and maybe I should know this too like you said, Jenny, is what about animals? Victoria Williams: Service animals are welcome. Lisa Hall: On the Paratransit, and the Loop and the taxis? Victoria Williams: That's correct. Lisa Hall: You're going to look into, like you said, down the road, Uber or Lyft? Victoria Williams: Right. Lisa Hall: Because I just spoke with a lady today, she's blind, and she had the most awful situation. She was not in a familiar place in the Bay Area and it was evening and her phone was about dying and she had her dog, and three Ubers would not take her because she had the dog. And she was literally in tears when the fourth guy that who they called, they had got somebody finally. And she said, "Please, I'm begging you." And he took her. But it was like, WOW, I was very surprised. So I was just like, I would hope that we do that. Victoria Williams: We do. Lisa Hall: Service animals are a must, right? Victoria Williams: Absolutely, they are. And it is also possible to take your animal, if it's a caged animal, to the vet, if it's not a service animal, if it's small enough to be caged. Lisa Hall: Right. Victoria Williams: But hopefully, as Uber and Lyft become more accessible, that should be a part of the program. Part of the progress. Lisa Hall: Because so many people use it. Victoria Williams: Right. Lisa Hall: Like you said. And there are a lot of people that can drive don't want to drive and they are using more transportation. Which is good, we want it. Victoria Williams: That's a good point, we'll have to watch for that because I hadn't thought of that yet. Lisa Hall: Yes. I hadn't either. Well, I was thinking, of course, that the Loop would, that you could bring your service animals but I never thought about Uber or Lyft. 03/13/19 Page 9 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 10 | MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Victoria Williams: Ahh, I hadn't either. Victoria Williams: As we're investigating, that's a good thing to keep at the top of our minds. Thank you. Lisa Hall: And then the subsidized taxi service and the scholarship programs. If somebody is interested, where would they just start? Call your number? Victoria Williams: Yes. Or Mastick Senior Center, my office is there so they can call Mastick and they'll find me or send them to my voicemail. And my phone numbers are on all of the schedules. Lisa Hall: I know a lot more of the seniors know about our information, about things going on because of Mastick and others and you reach out but there's a small disability group of younger people and they don't know about a lot of the services. So that's why we're obviously, we're trying to get the services, the word out. So that's good, I just want to make sure because somebody asked me about the taxi service and I said, "Yeah, I know we have it going, I'm just not sure about all the parameters." So thanks for all you're doing. Victoria Williams: Oh, you're welcome. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Hall. Also I would like to suggest that you have your friend reach out to the commission about what happened with Uber. We have reached out to Uber in the past about a very similar issue so we could definitely do that, again. And they could definitely use the reminder. So one thing that I wanted to ask about was have you guys considered running one of the shuttle days be a weekend day? Victoria Williams: We haven't at this point, there are some suggestions in the survey that they'd like to have more days but it's funding. So we haven't explored that at the moment, but I know it is something that would be great to do. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, I hear a lot more people talking about the shuttle than I have previously. I think there's a lot of confusion as to what it is. People think often, that it's the shuttle that's been talked about by different business districts… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,11 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 11 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright, I think it passes unanimously. Thank you. Victoria Williams: Thank you very much. 4-B Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Alameda Transportation Awareness Campaign Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Now we will move on to item 4B. We have Gail Payne, the Senior Transportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda, is going to present on the Transportation Awareness Campaign. Gail Payne: Thank you, Chair Kenny. Thank you, Commissioners. Good evening, I'm Gail Payne, a Senior Transportation Coordinator for the City of Alameda. When we went out and did outreach and went out to the community about the city-wide transportation plan, during that planning effort, we heard a lot from community members about them not realizing all the transportation options that are actually available and that that's one of the reasons why they're not taking advantage of all the options that we have. And we are blessed with quite a few for the size town we have. We have two ferry terminals which is really unusual for a size town that we are, AC Transit, we have our free Alameda Loop Shuttle. So we have these great options yet, what we haven't done is so much of a comprehensive effort of an awareness campaign of getting the word out. So with that in mind, it's actually now a project in the city-wide Transportation Choices Plan, this Transportation Awareness Campaign. Gail Payne: So we just met with the advisory group for the first time, so we're trying to get together a little action plan. And where we landed is just to really do a comprehensive, ongoing way of getting news and information and materials out there as well as working with our partners and community members and more of a grassroots effort. Doing a better job with social media and working with our public information officer on getting the word out in these fun ways that are a little bit different than we're used to. And so we focused on the A… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,12 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 12 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM Gail Payne: We want to also do a Line 19 pilot promotion, that's a fairly or new, restored line in Alameda AC Transit line. Some people might not realize that that's been restored back in December 2016, along Buena Vista Avenue. So there's available seats there, it's not a full bus. So let's get the word out. So we want to start small, start there with materials, and then build out of different geographic areas as we get better at these materials. And we are going to have our second advisory group meeting in February 7th so we're coming along and we're really open to how to do a better job of getting the word out. So thank you. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Gail. Can we offer some feedback right now? Gail Payne: Oh, yes. That would be perfect. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I'm sure this has come up before, my wife is on Facebook and member of Alameda Peeps. And they're constantly talking about transportation on there so it seems like a great merger to - I think they have something called, "Self-promotion Monday" and where you can kind of promote your own thing. If on Mondays, you guys put something like, "Hey, the 19 goes to X, Y, Z." Or, you know? Gail Payne: Yes, that's a great idea. Thank you. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes. I'm just going to open it up to any commissioners because this is specific. Commissioner Deutsch? Susan Deutsch: Thank you, Gail. I also have a suggestion. A lot of people on the Nextdoor app are talking about transportation all the time. And specifically, I've been hearing people talking about the Harbor Bay ferry. There's a new, an extra ferry run now at 9 o'clock but people are still complaining about the parking over there. So yeah, I don't know. I'm hoping that people start using that extra ferry run because by then, the parking lot is filled up and there's no street parking anymore. But the Nextdoor app is really good, people all over Alameda are commenting on it and I applaud the bicycle safety because I… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 13 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM 4-C Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Alameda Update on the Clement Avenue Project Chair Elizabeth Kenny: For agenda item 4C, we have Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator with the City of Alameda, is going to give an update on the Clement Avenue Project. And I believe this came out of a suggestion from Commissioner Aghapekian who unfortunately is not here tonight but he was wondering, he had made some comments about the lack of sidewalks along Clement Avenue and the safety hazard that that presented. And so I believe that's part of why we asked you to comment specifically about what's going on with Clement Avenue. Gail Payne: Great. So Clement Avenue. The good news is we do have a funded project. We received a competitive grant, federal funding, I guess that was back in maybe 2017. And we're just now got the consultant hired to work on that and that is Clement Avenue between Grand and Broadway. And what we're looking at, the main components of this project are indeed, making the sidewalks accessible. There's some sidewalks, there's a couple of portions where they don't even have some sidewalks along Clement Avenue. Clement Avenue is the Northern Waterfront, it's a former industrial site, so it has that industrial feel. It really wasn't built as thoroughly to accommodate people walking as other parts of our island. So we're going back and retrofitting and doing a better job. There's other parts of the street where one sidewalk is only 18 inches and that's actually by Walnut there. And then there's a lot of different spots where there's utility poles that are in the way and so that's just the sidewalk part. Gail Payne: And so how we're going to get around that is going to be tricky. And some ideas are maybe to have the sidewalk go into the street because we can't move the utility poles and so some parking loss could occur from that. And to widen the 18-inch sidewalk. It depends, it's a case-by- case … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,14 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 14 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM entrances and SO to reduce the impact on the street from that development so we're working closely with them. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, do any commissioners have any questions that. About the Clement Ave Project? When I brought up the Marina Shores Project, one thing that comes to mind is that project is speaking about water taxis which I can imagine will somehow fall under transportation. But there again, we want to keep an eye towards accessibility which I'm sure you guys, the Transportation Department does an excellent job of doing SO. Gail Payne: Absolutely. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Gail Payne: Thank you. 5. OLD BUSINESS Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, I believe that wraps up our New Business. I'm going to move on to item five, Old Business and then we're going to do our Commission and Board Liaison Reports. I'm going to start with Commissioner Brillinger. Arnold Brillinger: Okay, this is in line with Gail's report. Now, I haven't been to the Transportation Commission meetings but I've watched some of them online and they have a real, full agenda for next Wednesday here at 7 o'clock. And I would suggest that you take a look at it and see if there's something in there that you're interested in talking about or to. They've got things on down on Webster and Central. The whole thing about making sure that the kids get to school safely on their bikes and stuff, they've got another section on various projects. Well, they've got so many different projects, I'm surprised they could get it into their time. And I also wanted to mention about the ILC, that's the group that meets quarterly between AC Transit and Alameda, and they've taken and diverted some of the bus line 96 and shortened the 19, I think. Took out some of the route where it went around. Arnold Brillinger: Well anyway, they've took some from one and put it on the other and extended it more so it's all pretty good. The 19 will take you into Oakland. Well, th… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,15 | 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 t… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf,16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 16 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM and report back to you or would one of you like to go to the meetings? There aren't any other commissioner-type people there, it's mostly representatives from social service agencies. I'm just offering. It was on January 8th and its once quarterly. Oh no, I didn't say when the next one is but it'll be in three months and it's like around 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the morning. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I would suggest that we put that on as an agenda item to vote on for the retreat, we can talk about whether we want to do it. And vote on if we want to do it or not at the retreat. Laurie Kozisek: Yes, it is a lot of information. Let's see, the other thing I had was the Alameda County Complete Count Committee is a committee that's trying to get a full census count in Alameda County because for every person that we identify, we get several thousand dollars in federal assistance. They had their first meeting on the 9th, I was not able to attend because I was on something else but their next meeting is Wednesday, March 13th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Location to be determined, I can find out where it is. They would like input on how to reach hard- to-count people and included in that hard-to-count people is seniors, non-computer savvy seniors especially because the first outreach is by computer, and people with disabilities. So if anyone is interested in going to that meeting, I can send you the link and you can attend that. They're already in contact with The CIL, The Center for Independent Living and with I can't remember the name of it but it's the group that outreaches to homeless people. That's all I have. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: The Alameda Point Collaborative, is that who are there? Laurie Kozisek: No, it's a different group, I think. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. Alright great. Thank you, Laurie. Laurie Kozisek: You're welcome. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, item number seven, I think we covered. But in case anybody … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |
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