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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,1 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 1 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. 1. ROLL CALL Jenn Barrett, Acting Chair: Okay, I'd like to call this meeting to order. It's a little past 6:30 on Wednesday, April 11th. Laurie, can you do roll call for us? Jenn Barrett: Present. Jenny Linton: Present. Susan Deutch: Present. Arnold Brillinger: Present. Jennifer Roloff: Here. Laurie Kozisek: Elizabeth Kenny, Lisa Hall and Anto Aghapekian are not present. Tony Lewis has resigned. We have a quorum. 2. MINUTES Jenn Barrett: Thank you. Moving on to item number two, minutes. Does anyone have any comments from the meeting minutes from our last meeting which was on February 14th? Laurie Kozisek: We have no minutes available at this time. 3. ORAL COMMUNICAITONS/NON-AGEND (PUBLIC COMMENT) Jen Barrett: Okay. Thank you. Moving on to oral communications, do we have any speaker slips? Laurie Kozisek: No. 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A Changing Commission meeting dates to second Wednesday of odd months, starting May or July. New meeting months will be January, March, May, July, September, and November. Jen Barrett: Okay. Item number four, new business. 4A is changing of the commission meeting dates to the second Wednesday of odd months starting in May or July. New meeting months will be January, March, May, July, September, and November. Jennifer Roloff: Will this start next year? Laurie Kozisek: It can start now. 04/11/18 Page 1 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,2 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 2 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Jenn Barrett: Okay. So if we had one starting in May, that would be seven meetings this year. Do we want to vote on it? Jennifer Roloff: I would make a motion to have the meeting in May, unless you want to have discussion before. Jenn Barrett: I second that. Laurie Kozisek: You should also include that you want the meetings to be in odd months. Jennifer Roloff.: So I'll make a motion to change the odd months and start in May. Jenn Barrett: Okay. Can I be the second for that? Okay. All in favor? Jenn Barrett, Susan Deutch, Arnold Brillinger, Jennifer Roloff: Aye. Jenn Barrett: No. At all? Jenny Linton: Not in May. Jenn Barrett: Okay. Jenny Linton: Well we'll have an extra. 4-B Presentation: Karen Nakamura, Chair of Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster, UC Berkeley. Jenn Barrett: Yes. So we'll move on to our next item, 4B, which is the presentation by Karen Nakamura, Chair of Haas Institute's Disability Studies Cluster at UC Berkeley. Karen Nakamura: Great. Thank you very much. Do you have your little screen working so you don't have to hurt your necks? [Pause for A/V to be corrected.] Karen Nakamura: Thank you, Commissioners, and especially thank you, Commissioner Brillinger, for inviting me to speak today. So I was just hired by UC Berkeley to head the Disabilities Studies program. I was speaking to Commissioner Barrett earlier that I'd previously been about 20 years in New Haven, Connecticut teaching at Yale. And I'm particularly pleased that the proposed topic was to talk about intersectionality because I think it is increasingly an important topic for anyone who's in the disability space to think about it. So I'm an anthropologist, and it's natural for us to think about what diversity is. And increasingly, we've been thinking of disability as a natural part of human diversity. Disability has always existed across time, disability exists across cultures. 04/11/18 Page 2 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,3 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 3 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Karen Nakamura: And so anthropology, as a discipline that studies diversity across time and cultures is in a particularly good space to think about what it means especially in terms of all of its different ramifications. Now, disability also has an expressive component. So it's also a new way of thinking about human diversity. And one of the complexities of disability is that we are always constantly being changed by emerging disabilities. So the disabilities that we thought about 30 or 40 years are still with us, but there are also new emerging disabilities and new ways of thinking about disability that challenge and bring us to different places. And so the topic I want to talk about today is intersectionality. Now, I am the Chair of the Disability Studies Cluster in the Haas Institute for a fair and inclusive society which is a new institution that was created by UC Berkeley with generous funding from the Haas Foundation to really think about what intersectionality is. Karen Nakamura: Although I'm the Chair of the Disability Studies Cluster, there are other clusters that are thinking about race, questions about gender, questions about sexuality, questions about economic disparity, religion, socio-economic differences and so forth. And the goal of the Hass Institute is to try to figure out how all of those work together to try to bring us to a place where our society is more fair and inclusive. Now, the concept of intersectionality was brought forth by two African-American study scholars, Kimberle Crenshaw and Patricia Collins. And it comes out of many of the criticisms that especially black feminism and third world feminism had of second wave feminism in the US, that they were feeling increasingly left out of the conversations and out of some of both the political as well as the intellectual developments that were coming out of feminism, and they wanted to emphasize that identities interact in complex ways. Karen Nakamura: … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,4 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 4 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. intersectional within, there is gender, there's race, there's ethnicity, there's immigration status, disability of course, religion, socio-economic status, geographic locations, I don't think I have sexuality up there, occupation. Karen Nakamura: And so all of these are interacting in extremely complex ways, so that someone who might be, for example, might be a DACA status, also disabled, who's female but might identify as gender queer, they're in a very particular location. And it becomes difficult when all of our services, for example, at the university are compartmentalized. So we have the program for the Dreamers, we have the program for the LGBTQI students, we have the program for the disabled students. But each of those are only addressing one component and unable to grasp, or in many ways pushing out to other things, to the other units. If you're coming to the disabled student and you're having questions about also race, well, that should be handled by another unit, so they find themselves getting passed amongst different departments. I think this is a common experience for many people who find themselves in intersectional categories. Karen Nakamura: So in some ways the problem of intersectionality can get boiled down to really two types of questions. One is who are we imagining when we think of the problem of X? And because we come up, we have a particular thought or imagination of who X is dealing with, our solutions take a particular bent. So that sounds kind of on the ambiguous side, so let me be more specific. So when we think of "Well, what are the problems that disabled people have?" Well, the question then gets begged, "Who do we think of when we think of who are disabled people?" And to a great extent when we think of disabled people, and in Google Image when we search famous disabled, we get a particular array of faces, most of them are white, most of them are male. There are a few who are not. Most of them h… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,5 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 5 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. the bills are constructed, the laws are constructed in ways that enable that category of people to work, but it leaves out a whole group of other forms of disabled people in their imaginations. Karen Nakamura: And we can see this in all the ways that the ADA hasn't helped people. So if we think about the ADA and I'm sure you're all familiar that in the 28 years since the ADA has passed, employment rates for disabled people have not increased, in fact they've actually decreased. And so what does that mean? What does it mean when our employment rates are decreasing? What does it mean that the number of disabled people are also increasing? Why is there so much difficulty accessing services? Why is our infrastructure breaking in particular ways? So these are deep questions that we need to ask ourselves and at the same time we need to ask ourselves what are the protections we're building and who are we imagining are the people who are worth protecting. So in many ways the important question here is, who's getting left out? What questions are getting left out when we have a particular imagination of who a disabled person is. Karen Nakamura: So I'm going to have a couple of categories of people. One for example, is when we think about disability we often don't think for example about diabetes as a disability. We may if we think oh, yeah I'm sure, sure. But diabetes is a major cause of amputation and amputations caused by diabetes disproportionally affect African Americans. And so in any imagination of what disability policy is, we can't think of just people with amputations but we have to think well, if diabetes is a health crisis that affect populations disproportionately, then really we should start to think, well, if we have a disability policy we should start thinking about diabetes which then leads into earlier concerns, well what are the pre-cursors to diabetes? It high cortisol levels. What's causing high cortisol levels? Str… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,6 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 6 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Karen Nakamura: Now there are two effects of police violence that make it a disability issue. One is the disparate impact of police violence on racialized communities, African American and Hispanic, especially young men, and then the other is mental illness and Police violence. When you look at those statistics you see the people who are getting injured and killed by police violence are African American young men and young men with mental illness. And so we need to think about that I think as a disability issue. And then one of my final slides is thinking about addiction. Part of the complexity of the ADA when it was signed, Jesse Helms put in small addendum to the ADA that created a whole group of people who are not considered disabled. Some of them sort of make sense. Pyromaniacs, he didn't want as people with disabilities but he also included Alcoholism, he also included trans sexuality and bisexuality. But these were all carved out as particular named exceptions to the ADA. Karen Nakamura: At this point at ADA plus 28, let us rethink why don't we consider, particularly addiction, substance abuse, to be a disability and what would it mean for our disability policy, either out in the City of Alameda, Alameda County, if we seriously thought that people who were addicted were disabled, if they were our people, what is our responsibility as the disability community to addicts? And how does that change what policy means, what access means and so forth. And my final slide is the question, why don't we do all of this? And I think much of it is because of fear. We, in the disability community, we have, and I'd identify myself as disabled, we have gotten to a place where things are relatively stable, but at the same time I think all of us are also realizing that there is a real risk of backslide. That regardless of what your disability is, things don't seem to be getting better. They're stable, but falling behind. And I think there… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,7 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 7 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Karen Nakamura: Yes. Thank you. That's an excellent question. I think that my answer would be that they are only in our domain once they cross a particular line and we'll draw a line in the sand. So, once it crosses the line in the sand of amputation then they're our people. I think when we think about diabetes and the larger effects of diabetes even if you're pre-diabetic, the effects on your body are already apparent. We don't do this on, with other disabilities saying "Well oh you're just a little bit blind so we won't count you until you can't see enough or we don't do it with deafness." We don't say, "Well if you only have some hearing loss, you're not disabled until you get to a certain stage.' I think in general in the disability community, we have tried to create a big tent, but the big tent has particular patchy areas and some of the patchy areas we have to think, why are some of the areas that we have patchy? Karen Nakamura: Is it because in some ways we have either internalized ableism or is sometimes our internalized racism or our fear that if we accept people who other people see as unworthy of the disability status then we shouldn't include them? I think that's what drives sometimes our decisions of when we consider something to be a disability or not. Jenny Linton: I have a question. I've been a member of the National Association of the Dually Diagnosed, which looks at the developmentally disabled community that also suffers from mental illnesses. And one of the most striking things I learned in the most recent conference I went to was that two of the new places, domiciles for this population are in the jail system, as well as homelessness. What are we doing to combat this? Karen Nakamura: Yes. That's a huge issue and in some ways it's bigger than the scope of a city. It's a national issue. Right now, the three largest psychiatric institutions in the US, in terms of the number of people who are housed in them, … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,8 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 8 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Down syndrome adults, but you don't see the unhappy Down syndrome adults. And what I came to the realization with is that's because they become institutionalized. And so that is the situation that faces many different communities, is that I know, within the psychiatric disability end, the sort of management that one has to have of affect and so forth is incredibly draining. But one has to do it because of continuous concern of institutionalization or other forms of violence against them. And that in itself is the cause of more traumatization, so it is incredibly difficult. And that's where I think the importance of different communities, who haven't allied in the past is really important, so I appreciate your question. Thank you. Jennifer Roloff: My other question is, so right now there's petitions going around to get sort of a revision of Prop 13 back on the ballot. And I remember coming from a family, personally, who, I have a brother with disabilities after Prop 13 and then following Prop 9 in California, a lot of the resources closed up for people with disabilities. So, I think they're trying to put something back. I think it's its own measure, but you're probably familiar with it, I forget what the number is. It amends Prop 13 to include commercial that was excluded from the whole property tax. And I'm wondering does your organization get behind any political initiatives or do they do any lobbying? Karen Nakamura: We don't do lobbying per se because we're part of the University of California. That's not our goal, but we do produce white papers, and so we do have white papers that think particularly about the housing crisis and what are the factors behind the housing crisis and behind the de-funding of the state government. Many times, whether it's at the city, county, or state, or Federal level we're finding that we just don't have the money to do things and, in many ways, that was a deliberate strategy. If you can contr… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,9 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 9 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. intersectionally across different issues and so we have seven different clusters, and I mentioned them earlier on. And I am the Chair of the Disabilities Studies cluster, but our goal is as Commissioner Roloff asked about, is to think through what policy could look like and to produce analyses of the situation that we're in and different directions that we could head. And so, through Laurie, I will send a link to our homepage and to the white papers that we've produced. Jenn Barrett: Well thank you again so much for coming to speak. We really appreciate it. Arnold Brillinger: Karen, I'd like to thank you personally for coming. I heard you at the Berkeley Commission for Disability, and I said, "This is somebody we need to bring in here and enlighten our group and also because we broadcast this, and there are people at home that are hearing this and because it's our way of spreading the word and thank you very much. I really appreciate it.' 4-C Overview of City of Alameda Service Request System: See Click fix (City Staff) Jenn Barrett: Okay, we're going to move on to 4C, a presentation about SeeClickFix. Laurie Kozisek: There are two online resources that I want to tell you about, that I want everybody to know about. One of them is called SeeClickFix. You go to S-E-E-C-L-I-C-K-F-I-X.com This is the page here, that you get when you do that. You click on "I'm a Citizen" or you click on 'Sign up" over here and 'Sign up as a citizen', and then you put in your name, your display name, you might want to just have your last initial, and your email address, which will not show up in SeeClickFix, and your password, and where you either live or work, and it will assign you to the SeeClickFix for Alameda. You put in the Alameda address and then let me show you what it looks like here. Laurie Kozisek: Because I have a membership here as a citizen, and it looks like this. On the left hand lower side there, there's a scroll of a ticker tape … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 10 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. you have anything to do with Alameda Municipal Power that is not like a downed power line, you can put that down. AC Transit, paratransit, anything to do with Alameda Point, the animal shelter, Boards and Commission information, bus shelters, cable TV, city council, city manager, or code enforcement if you think there's something wrong with something someone is building. Laurie Kozisek: If you want to get your curb painted blue for an accessible space, election information, disaster preparedness, fire prevention, all kinds of graffiti, illegal dumping, lagoon problems, library, parking enforcement. Then we get down to your pedestrian or bicycle issues and a popular one is pothole repair, Public Works complements, recreation and park requests so if you have a tripping hazard in the park you would put it there or trees getting in the way so you have access issues. And then sidewalks is a very popular one if you have any sidewalk issues. Laurie Kozisek: And if you have any problems with signs or street sweeping or a streetlight out. If you have suggestions for traffic calming. Anyway, there's all kinds of things you can click on here. So you'd click on one and then you'd put a little description on it and then you'd go to the bottom here and click: Report your issue. I'm not going do that now. And then you would get an automatic response saying: Yes we got your request and it's put into our queue. And then we have a program called Lucity, that's just internal to us, that takes all of our requests and routes them to the correct person who gets a notification saying: "Here's something in our inbox you need to work on this". And then you have to assign it to somebody and follow it through and it keeps reminding you until you get it done. Laurie Kozisek: Great way to make the city more accessible is to let us know where there are issues. I put in a SeeClickFix for the door here. We had not gotten a button on it, but I have requested… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,11 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 11 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. seem to be causing repetitive problems, would that be logged here, and you would work with the school district? Where's the intersection with schools and city? Laurie Kozisek: We manage the Safe Route to Schools program, so you would talk to us. I believe there is one there on schools. If you're not sure, just put in say, "Traffic calming" And that will go to the same person, and they would try and get back with you about what the specific issue is, and maybe go out and observe it, and see what kind of traffic difficulties there are, and what can be done about it. Jennifer Roloff: Okay. Thank you. Arnold Brillinger: I'm just particularly interested in the part about calling it in, and having someone else fill out the thing. And thank you very much for that. A lot of us can't make our phones work in that way, where we can click, and take a picture of it right away, and stuff. And it doesn't work when we've got one hand, or whatever. Laurie Kozisek: Yes. So, we realize that many of the people that we talk to are not computer savvy. They call up and they say, "I've been in Alameda for 80 years." And then, they proceed to tell us what the problems are, and we try and find out where they are. And a photo helps, but you don't have to do a photo. And if you do a photo, do a close up, and do one far away, because sometimes we get pictures of a pothole, we don't know where it is. So it's nice to have the surrounding also. But yes, we would like to be accessible as possible, so that we can help people who cannot interface with us through a phone or through a computer. And I think, we even have a TTY, if you look it up. Well, I don't think that's used much anymore. Did you have any further follow up? 4-D Overview of "211" System Alameda County Social Service Referral Line (City Staff) Jenn Barrett: Great. Thank you. We'll move on to item number 4D, overview of the 211 system. Laurie Kozisek: Okay, the 211 system. It happens that I volun… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,12 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 12 | stay? Do you have a source of income?" All these different things that you need to know, and then guide you to people that can help you. So it's a wonderful resource, and I wish everyone knew about it. Any questions? Jenn Barrett: If you're calling on a cellphone that's in another area, but you're physically in the area that you want assistance, it'll work? Laurie Kozisek: Generally the cell tower you are closest to is where it will go. So, sometimes if you're right on the border in the Oakland hills, you will end up in the wrong one. And in that case, whoever you get to will say, I'll get a call from someone who lives in Brentwood but is working in Oakland, and she calls on her lunch break and says, "I need some services in Brentwood." But she gets to the 211 in Alameda County, so they switch her over to me in Contra Costa County and do their live transfer, or you just give them the backdoor number. Jenn Barrett: Great, thank you. 04/11/18 Page 12 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 13 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. OLD BUSINESS 5-A Commission and Board Liaison Report (All Commissioners) Jenn Barrett: Okay, we'll move on to our next item, number five, old business. 5A, Commission and Board Liaison Reports. Does anyone have a report that they would like to state? Commissioner Brillinger. Arnold Brillinger: Thank you. A while back when we decided on going to different commissions and councils, I chose transportation. And so I go to various, not just the transportation commission here in Alameda, but I go to other places too, to find out what's happening in the area of accessibility, and so forth. And so I went to the AC Transit accessibility committee meeting. And there, I've got something that I thought, "Oh, this ought to be broadcast around to various people." Now when I look here, you guys probably don't fit here, but the United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County is having their 27th annual convention on May 25th. And I'm sure that if you look them up, you will find more information on how that works, and how to register for it. But in the AAC meeting, that's the Accessibility for Alameda or AC Transit, they spend a lot of time talking about RM3, and I'm thinking, "Why don't I hear about these things except when I go to certain meetings?" Arnold Brillinger: And RM3 is the thing that's going to be on the ballot in June, and it's in the nine Bay Area, or nine county, it's in the Bay Area, and it's about increasing the toll on the Bay Bridge, and the other bridges. They plan to increase it a dollar in 2019, and another dollar three years later in 2022, and another dollar in 2025, and this is on the seven different bridges connecting in the Bay Area. Now it doesn't include the Golden Gate Bridge, because that's under a different ownership. But I thought, "This is something that we ought to all know about." And also, I want to talk a little bit about the SRAC. The SRAC is the Service Review Advisory Committee, and that's where I'm the ch… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,14 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 14 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Board, they continued with their meeting. But I heard a couple of things that were kind of interesting. And they showed some figures on the actual, and the projected growth of California in the 20 years from 1990 to 2010, it grew from 29 million to 37.2 million, 28% growth. Arnold Brillinger: In the next 30 years, from 2010 to 2040, they expect that it will grow from the 37.2 million to 46.6 million, which is a 25% growth. And of course Alameda is part of California, and needs to plan correctly on how they're going to deal with this. Now, the Bay Area growth in the 20 years from 1990 to 2010, it grew from 6 million to 7.1 million. 18% growth. Now, they expect that in the next 30 years, that it will grow from 7.1 million to 9.3 million, which is 30% growth. And this is a higher percentage than California's growth rate. And the city of Alameda, in those 20 years, 1990 to 2010, it actually lost some of its population, about 3.5% but they expect to regain that, so they've got to work on how to plan for this. Arnold Brillinger: And, now I don't want to bore you with a bunch of figures, but a couple of things that were brought out is that in the planning they can't say, "Oh, we've already got way too many cars trying to use the tube and the bridges, we don't want any more housing, we don't want any more people here." Traffic is not a way that you can decide on your building program. It has to be safety and something else, but it has to be safety and it's not a matter of just saying, "Oh, we've got more cars than we want to deal with, or more people." That's pretty much the end of my report but I just wanted to say that. And then Jenn, you probably had a different take on the meeting? Jenn Barrett: I thought it was really interesting. They talked about the requirements that the state has on providing additional housing, so every plan - I'm not sure how long the plan is, but three year plan, you have to increase. The state gives you … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,15 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 15 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. They're working on it, they're working on it and they need to let people know that they are working on it and put it in the papers or get the word out, because there's just not enough parking down there, for all the people that want to use the ferry. Susan Deutch: I just wanted to comment on the Harbor Bay Ferry. I do take that ferry and I live near that, and they took away street parking near the ferry and made it two hour parking, so there are limited parking spots now for people that need to take the ferry. And some people really do need to use their car to get to the ferry and when the parking lots filled up, they can't park in the street and there's no place for them to park, but some people have to get their kids to school in the morning and then get to the ferry on time and there's only three ferries. It's been an issue in Harbor Bay and a lot of people are talking about it, especially on that Nextdoor app, where people talk about issues. And they're trying to come up with some solutions to the parking problems so that more people will use that Harbor Bay Ferry, it's limited. Arnold Brillinger: Because the ridership has gone up. Susan Deutch: Yes. Arnold Brillinger: But they want to get more people on the bus, get there. Susan Deutch: Yes, it's just some people can't take bus for reasons. Arnold Brillinger: And they did talk about the fact that some people needed to drop their kids off first and then make it over to somewhere else and it just doesn't work out. Susan Deutch: Yes, and they took away the street parking there. And so it's become more difficult to take that Ferry. A lot of people in Harbor Bay are actually driving all the way across Alameda to get the other Ferry. Jennifer Roloff: Where there's more parking? Susan Deutch: Yes. Jennifer Roloff: I have another comment. You made a point that at the joint commission meetings they were saying, something like, "We don't want to hear about over development that ca… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 16 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. but as I shared my story with our friends and you hear about "This person became disabled from this biking accident." And I've been to City Council meetings for Bike Walk Alameda and other biking organizations who come and talk about the pretty bad accidents that have happened with the biking community. I know for liaisons, there is a health and safety issue around all the bikes and traffic in Alameda. Arnold Brillinger: I just now looked at my notes here. There was the public health and safety, those are the only reasons for accommodating, for zoning the land differently. Jennifer Roloff: Oh okay. Arnold Brillinger: Because the state says, "You can't use transportation issues as reason for rezoning or blocking housing." Jenn Barrett: Does anyone else have any items they want to comment on for their board liaison? Jenny Linton: Like Arnold I tend to go to meetings outside of Alameda as well. And we spent last month a couple of days at the public policy conference in Sacramento. It was put on by the Arc of California and United Cerebral Palsy. And they went through some of their priorities for 2018, a very nice overview of the state of support for the developmentally disabled in California. They're looking at things like a uniform holiday schedule. The state is trying to cut back on the daily services and it's causing problems for families and individuals that want to live independently. And there was a $25 million bridge funding proposed by Assembly Member Holden, that that they're hoping to part of the budget as well. Jenny Linton: Social groups were cancelled as a result of the recession or postponed. They've not yet been restored. We're looking to restore some campaign outdoor opportunities for the developmentally disabled population. And they put together an integrated living program. The housing and community development agency, the state has closed their last developmental center, the institutions, I think in 2006, and … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,17 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 17 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Susan Deutch: Trying to cover some of the services that aren't being funded by the previous year's budget into this year's budget. Jennifer Roloff.: Oh, okay. Thank you. Jenn Barrett: Commissioner Deutch or Commissioner Roloff, do you have any liaison report? Susan Deutch: I am a liaison to the Library and the Park Department but there hasn't been anything on their agenda. Keep checking their agenda. Jenn Barrett: Thank you. Jennifer Roloff: And I will be attending Parks and Rec Commission tomorrow night. Jenn Barrett: Great. Jenny Linton: One more thing. At the City Council meeting last week we declared April, Autism Awareness Month in the City of Alameda. 5-B Subcommittees Report and Schedule Jenn Barrett: Yeah, Jennifer and I and Beth were all there. Okay, we'll move on to subcommittees report. Commissioner Brillinger, do you have anything for this? Arnold Brillinger: I don't. I don't know that I'm on any subcommittees. Jenn Barrett: Really? They were assigned during our retreat. We can look into that. Does anyone else have a subcommittee? Arnold Brillinger: I had a question. We do have a subcommittee. It's dealing with making sure that different buildings in Alameda are ADA accessible, right? And is that dealing with businesses? Jenn Barrett: Yes, so Anto and I are working on that and I actually maybe want to add to the next agenda but I came up with 10 ways for businesses to improve accessibility and so the thought that we had come up with was that if a business can show that they did something to help people with disabilities enter their businesses or use their services that we would, provide them with a sign, and this is just a draft that I've come up with so far but it says, "Alameda supports people of all abilities." Businesses displaying this poster have completed steps to make their businesses more accessible to all. We're still in a planning process of it and hopefully we can add it to the agenda, and we can get c… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf,18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 18 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. them out if they need help, but I'd like to share some of that. Get some of that information for you and for you to take a look at it. Jenn Barrett: Great! Yeah, I think that for the purpose of this just right now is that we want to be as encouraging as possible and it's very expensive for businesses. Although it is the law that you readily achievable, make your businesses accessible, we want to be like a guiding force and work with the business to help them and reward them for small changes that they made in the hopes that they'll continue to make changes as financially, able to do so. That was our beginning thinking but we're definitely, excited to hear comments from the rest of the commission. Susan Deutch: We've done that in the past with some businesses and it works out pretty well. And we didn't pressure. Jenn Barrett: Okay, great! I'm glad to hear that you had success with that. Susan Deutch: Like the Marketplace they were not accessible, but we worked with them. 5. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS Jenn Barrett: That's awesome. Great. Okay, are there any other subcommittee reports? We'll move on to staff communications. I think just that there's the position open. Laurie Kozisek: There are two positions open to fill one existing and one potential vacancy for the Commission on Disability. 6. ANNOUNCEMENTS Jenn Barrett: Great, thank you, and we saw the email go out from you last week so that was great. Thank you so much! Item seven announcements, does anyone have any announcements? Okay, I'd like to adjourn this meeting at this time, do I have a second? 7. ADJOURNMENT Susan Deutch: Second. Jenn Barrett: All in favor? All: Aye. Jenn Barrett: Okay, thank you so much everyone. 04/11/18 Page 18 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |
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