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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,1 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 1 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, December 12, 2017 6:30 p.m. LOCATION: City Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Third Floor, Council Chambers Alameda, CA 94501 1. ROLL CALL Beth Kenny: Alright, I'd like to call to order the Commission on Disability meeting for December 13, 2017. We're starting a little bit late tonight, at about approximately 6:45 [due to recording difficulties]. Laurie Kozisek: Okay. I'll do the roll call. Beth Kenny. Beth Kenny: Present. Laurie Kozisek: Anto Aghapekian. Anto Aghapekian: Present. Laurie Kozisek: Lisa Hall. Lisa Hall: Present. Laurie Kozisek: Jenny Linton. Jenny Linton: Present. Laurie Kozisek: Jenn Barrett. Jenn Barrett: Present. Laurie Kozisek: Arnold Brillinger. Arnold Brillinger: Ho ho ho. [laughter] Laurie Kozisek: Present. Okay. Tom Mills, is not here. Tony Lewis, not here. And Susan Deutsch said that she was sick and could not make it. 12/12/17 Page 1 of 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,2 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 2 | 2. MINUTES 2-A Approval of Minutes for the October 11, 2017 Meeting Beth Kenny: Thank you. Agenda item number two. The minutes, does anybody have any changes they would like to make from the minutes from our October 11th, 2017, meeting? Arnold Brillinger: I make a motion that we accept the minutes. Beth Kenny: I'll second that motion. All in favor? Arnold Brillinger: Aye. Beth Kenny: Any opposed? Minutes approved. 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGANDA (PUBLIC COMMENT) Beth Kenny: Do we have any non-agenda public comment? Any speaker slips? Laurie Kozisek: No. 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A Retreat Planning Beth Kenny: Okay. New business, first thing is we need to select a date for the retreat. Jenn, you haven't experienced this before. Because the City is dark in August, we don't get to meet then, so we make up that meeting in the winter time having a retreat where we just talk about goals for the commission and go over some sunshine ordinance and Brown Acts, stuff like that. It takes place on a Saturday at Mastick. Laurie has spoken to Jackie Krause from Mastick, and she said she could do a Saturday in February, but that January is a bad month for them. Does anyone have a Saturday in February they need to rule out? Laurie Kozisek: Madam Chairman, may I also mention that you have a meeting, a regular meeting in February on the 14th. Beth Kenny: Okay. Arnold Brillinger: Is it possible to do it in March? Beth Kenny: I don't believe that we checked with Jackie about that. I imagine that it would be, I think that my thought was that we try and plan for the year. And so it might be good to have it before our first meeting of the year. Arnold Brillinger: Okay. Makes sense. Beth Kenny: Could we do the first Saturday in February? 12/12/17 Page 2 of 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,3 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 3 | Arnold Brillinger: What day is that? Jenny Linton: February 3. Laurie Kozisek: Last year it was in March. Beth Kenny: Okay. Laurie Kozisek: The retreat was in March 11th, of last year. Beth Kenny: Alright, so what Is it the second? Anto Aghapekian: The third. Beth Kenny: I'm going to suggest February 3rd. Does anyone have any objections to that? Alright, all in favor? Arnold Brillinger: Aye. Beth Kenny: Great. The retreat will be February 3rd. I expect it'll start around 10:00, end by around 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon. The other thing about the retreat that I wanted to let people know is that I will be sending out, with the agenda for the retreat, some questions that I want you guys to think about and come prepared to talk about at the retreat. Basically, for those of you who were there last year, the ones that I put up on the board to spark conversation about the commission goals. 4-B Commission involvement in requests for exemptions to the Universal Design Ordinance Beth Kenny: Let's move on to item 4B. I don't know if everyone here is aware, but the Universal Design Ordinance passed City Council and is now in effect as a law in ordinance in the City of Alameda. Arnold Brillinger: Is it that it starts in January or it's in effect right now? Beth Kenny: It's in effect right now. Next Tuesday night the Encinal terminals will be presenting their development to City Council, and they've reached out to make sure it will be in line with the Universal Design Ordinance. They're aware it's the first big development to be under the Universal Design Ordinance. Part of the Universal Design Ordinance is that there is a waiver people can submit, and they can apply for this waiver at the design review process, which goes before the Planning Board. However, we've asked that the Planning Board let us know when anybody asks for a waiver of Universal Design elements. And the waivers can be something where it's financially impossible, or the physical location doesn't make it feasible. We've asked to be notified when those waive… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,4 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 4 | requests regarding Universal Design. Do I have a second? Arnold Brillinger: Second. Beth Kenny: All in favor? All: Aye. Beth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright, carries unanimously. That was a mouthful. 12/12/17 Page 4 of 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,5 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 5 | 5. OLD BUSINESS 5-A. Commission and Board Liaison Reports Beth Kenny: Now we move on to old business. Section 5-A: Commission and Board Liaison Reports. I would like to start this off with Vice Chair Brillinger. I was fortunate enough to attend a thing in which I got to see his board liaison work. Arnold Brillinger: Well, okay. I've been to a number of meetings that deal with transportation in Alameda. And the first one that I went to was right after our last meeting. It was the ILC [City of Alameda and AC Transit Interagency Liaison Committee], and the highlights I'd like to tell you about that. It was on the 16th of October at 10:00 in the morning. It was in this room right next to us here. The ILC is basically people from AC Transit, some of the people from the board of directors, and also several people from Alameda; the mayor, the vice mayor, whoever, councilmen. They meet, and they talk about the different transportation, things that happen in Alameda. One of the things that they do have, and I've been to these meetings before, but I never really looked at some of these handouts that they have. And just like for the 51A, for the bus line, they've got all kinds of ridership and customer trends on what's happening. They have lists of our charts that talk about conduct and courtesy of the drivers, the amount of complaints they get on pass-ups, or hazardous driving, or routes and schedule problems, or no shows, or lates, or if there are problems at the bus stop. Maybe there's a lot of garbage or something like that at the bus stop. Those are all things that they keep track of, and for each individual bus route. Not just the 51A, but the 21 and the 20 and the 96. Boy sounds like I know them all. Arnold Brillinger: That was interesting. And of course it's not like they've got 86 complaints about signage. They've only got one or two complaints on this item or that. But still, it's interesting and then you can compare them month to month or actually quarter to quarter, because they meet four times a year. Now one o… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,6 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 6 | Arnold Brillinger: They're going to buy 12 to 15 buses to begin with, and use them on the routes where they really have so many people wanting to get into San Francisco, mostly in Emeryville and Berkeley. Those were the things that were discussed there. The Salesforce Tower, you see that now sticking up, and that's the center of the Trans-Bay, the whole terminal thing. Where the Muni will match in with AC Transit and Contra Costa, their commuters and all kinds of things and trains, and who knows what. It's going to be really a fantastic thing when they get it all together. Because it's going to be the tallest building in San Francisco for a while and the second tallest building in the state. That's pretty much it for the ILC meeting. Arnold Brillinger: And then the Transportation Commission had a meeting on the 15th of November at 7:00 PM and they approved the AC Transit's Trans-Bay Tomorrow proposal because they got the presentation too. Except, it didn't want to reduce some of the OX frequency, and that's what AC transit was saying, "Let's do it this way." And the Transportation Commission said, "Ah, that's the part we don't want to happen." And then, there was a status report on a plan for access to the Harbor Bay Ferry terminal. That again is, "Do we charge for parking? Do we do this? Can we get the buses to be there on time?", and so forth. They had some discussion on that. Arnold Brillinger: And then, the last thing, and this was really exciting to me, I heard a suggestion, and this was during the public comments. And the person who gave the presentation was suggesting that Alameda and, well in the East Bay, that they have a tramway, gondolas, big ones, going from the west end, somewhere there, across the water and I would have thought connect with Jack London Square or Jack London area. No, they said, "Let's go to the West Oakland terminal, the BART terminal," which would make a lot of sense. Arnold Brillinger: Like I said, that was just a suggestion. They didn't discuss that, but I thought, "Whoa, this so… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,7 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 7 | Arnold Brillinger: They're in the loop, yes. And Wednesdays is when it goes down to the east end out to Harbor Bay Isle, and it goes through some of the housing, the HOAs and stuff like that, to pick up people. And again, comes through the same part in the middle of town to run them through and also South Shore Center. And then, on Thursdays, it's a central loop, it goes through the middle again, and Mastick and South Shore, but also goes out this way to Brookside, which is where Nob Hill is, and also the Park Street Landing, which is where the Dollar store is, or the Dollar Tree is. Arnold Brillinger: It's worthwhile to get on and to go and I suggest I've even been going around to nursing homes and saying, "Hey, you see this bus that's coming around? Take your loved one," and I'm telling this to responsible people, "Take your loved ones just on a ride for an hour. They will see something different than the four walls of their nursing home. Or take them out, go to South Shore and push them around for a while. Go through the grocery store and stuff. Just make their lives a little bit more interesting." And the neat thing about this is that it has lifts for wheelchairs and even in my wheelchair, I can be in the back of it and I could do a 360. There is some room back there. But they also have bike racks in the front of it. I made up a sign that says, "Take your bike for a ride." And then when you get to a certain place, you can take it off, ride around for a while. When you come back, there's another shuttle. Beth Kenny: Thank you very much for all your hard work, Vice-Chair Brillinger. You're really doing a lot in the transportation department so thank you. Arnold Brillinger: Yes. Also, I wanted to say that I do travel around to other disability commissions and councils. And I have reported to the Oakland one and also the San Francisco one that the City Council passed the Universal Design Ordinance. I've had some people say, "Oh, can we get copies of it?" I said, "Sure. Here it is online. Download it." Because we … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,8 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 8 | Anto Aghapekian: Right. Arnold Brillinger: And I once went to one of the meetings and I say, "This used to be Alameda's best kept secret, the fact that it has a shuttle that's free for everyone and no one knows that it's happening." I've also told the person who deals with the different para-transit issues here in Alameda. Her name is Victoria Williams and her office is at Mastick and I told her, "One day I'm just going to take a handful of schedules and sit outside wherever, either at the library or at South Shore or whatever and say, 'Hey! Take a trip! Take a tour!" Kind of like Gilligan's tour. They had a three-hour tour. Well, this is just a one-hour tour. Take the tour and see where it goes on Tuesdays. Arnold Brillinger: Then Wednesday take another tour. And I'm just going to have them and just sit there and say, "Hey, here comes a bus now. You want to go? Get on. It's free." And they also have things that we're going to put in the movie theater, like It won't be a video, necessarily, but it'll be an advertising slide. Also, and just tell people about it. Just tell people about it. Thank you. Beth Kenny: Thank you. If nobody has any other commission or board reports Anto Aghapekian: I went to the Planning Board meeting, it was in September. And the main topic that they discussed was auxiliary units on your property. There was a lot of participation and opposition because the size of the addition they were talking about it, 1,000 square feet. And where 1,000 square feet is going to fit on the 100 lots that we have in Alameda is beyond me. But they're talking about it, and no resolutions were made. And at present, I don't know where it stands. But they were talking about it. We may get part of the zoning, to increase the number of available units, mostly rented. But that's what their planning. Beth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Hall? Lisa Hall: Hi. Yeah. I'd just like to say a little word about reaching out to the community for the Thanksgiving, Christ Church had its annual Thanksgiv… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,9 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 9 | Beth Kenny: Thank you very much. I just wanted to add, one thing that I had talked about having beyond the planning of our next year, is talking a little bit more about emergency preparedness. And Commissioner Lewis and I have yet to meet, and it's my fault because I had to cancel. But I have spoken with Captain Oliver and with Jackie Krause from Mastick. Captain Oliver, obviously, is interested, but Jackie Krause would like to work with us along this issue, too, and has worked with, when the City did other efforts, to create a way to know who are the people who are going to need a little bit of extra help in the event of an emergency. I think that would be really great to be able to work with Mastick and Jackie Krause. Jenn Barrett: I went to the opening of the new fire station, and I saw you there. That was great. And it's just so great to hear about how seriously they're taking the emergency preparedness, and so I think it's a great time, now that they've just had that new ceremony with the new chief, to reach out to them and work together. That's awesome. Beth Kenny: Wonderful. And I'm glad you guys went to that. Laurie Kozisek: I had one more item. As of January 1st, you will be the Commission on Disability. [applause] Laurie Kozisek: Just wanted to prepare you for that. 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS Beth Kenny: Agenda item number seven. Does anyone have any announcements they'd like to make? Lisa Hall: More of a question. Going back to the calendar. Generally, we have six meetings a year. Is that correct? Beth Kenny: We're supposed to have six meetings a year. Lisa Hall: But because August is closed, we have to put that meeting in some other month. The usual months that we would have it is, am I right then? It's February, April, June, October, December. Beth Kenny: Yes Lisa Hall: Okay. But then we always have to put a special meeting in for retreat because August is closed. Beth Kenny: That's correct. And I know that previously, I've inquired about us moving so that we were on January, March, that schedule, but apparent… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf,10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-12-13 | 10 | All: Aye. 8. ADJOURNMENT Beth Kenny: We're adjourned. Happy holidays everybody. 12/12/17 Page 10 of 10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-12-13.pdf |
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