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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,1 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 1 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. NOTE: The first 30 minutes of video for this meeting were lost. This set of minutes has a summary of actions for those missing minutes, then goes into a verbatim transcript after that. SUMMARY OF ACTION 1. ROLL CALL Meeting Started at 6:41 PM Present: Chair Elizabeth Kenny, Vice Chair Jenn Barrett, Commissioners Jennifer Roloff, Anto Aghapekian, Susan Deutsch, Lisa Hall and Arnold Brillinger. Quorum established. Commissioner Leslie Morrison attempted to teleconference in, but was unable to do so. 2. MINUTES The minutes for the July 11 meeting were corrected to reflect the correct last name of a commissioner, and were accepted. Moved by Beth Kenny and seconded by Jennifer Roloff and approved unanimously. 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT) None 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A Doug Biggs, Executive Director, Alameda Point Collaborative Alameda Medical Respite and Wellness Center This presentation was lost, but a similar presentation was given by Mr. Biggs to the Planning Board on October 8, 2018. The video for this presentation can be found by going to https://alameda.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx, and selecting 2018 and Planning Board in the pull down menus. The introduction by staff starts at 1:10:00, and Doug Biggs starts to speak at 1:18:10. VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT [The remaining video starts right after Doug Biggs finished his presentation. Chair Elizabeth Kenny asked "Where is it?"] Doug Biggs: So this is McKay Avenue down here [points on screen]. And the entrance to Crab Cove, the little parking lot here So it's right across the street. I will point out, McKay Avenue is owned by the State of California. It's managed by the East Bay Regional Parks, it's a road that needs 09/12/18 Page 1 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,2 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 2 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. a lot of work. It will never meet the conditions required for the City to take over it, it's not built the right way, but we think there's some work that could be done on improving the sidewalks, and improving the paving. We also think and I've already had some initial discussions that it'll be a fairly compelling project for the State in doing one bit of road that's going to support both an East Bay Regional Parks site and a large medical program for the homeless and there's already some interest from the State in supporting that. I'll also point out that, if you're familiar with the area, that's where the market is and Neptune Cafe, there's a little square building behind a fence down there, that's the pump station that serves both our site and Crab Cove. It doesn't serve any of the residents down there but it serves those two facilities. We now own that pump station or we will once the lease is signed, so we'll be responsible for that. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: What's a pump station? Doug Biggs: It pumps the sewage up to the top just because there's that steep climb up there. And staff has already told me that's where my office is going to be. [Laughter] But I don't know. Commissioner Arnold Brillinger: Now, you were talking about Building 1, do you have any other ideas on what the other buildings would be used for? Doug Biggs: So building two, the twos, 2A, B, C and D, will be the buildings for our senior housing and that will contain 90 units. Building one will be the health center and the medical respite and the building twos will be senior housing. It'll have the individual units, it'll have a dining room. Probably kitchen facility, recreation space. So you can see here we'll also add on a community garden, a multipurpose terrace for people to have kind of an indoor/outdoor living area here. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, Commissioner Roloff. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: First of all, thank you, and thanks for all you do … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,3 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 3 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Doug Biggs: Yes. The test are all referred in, checked in, checked out. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay. And then it sounds like you mentioned you don't really need approval from the community, and I guess that means the City because it's all through state and federal funding, but as far as the satellite medical and behavioral wellness clinic, you mentioned that that's for City of Alameda residents. Doug Biggs: The Resource Center is for City of Alameda residents. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Oh, it is, okay, so will there be City funding or do you need anything from the City? Doug Biggs: The city has already allocated some funding for it $100,000 a year and that was approved by the Council as part of their homeless policy report that they accepted about five or six months ago. We're really going to be looking for private donations to operate that. The Realtors Association is interested in setting up a fund, some of the corporations because they're having a hard time keeping people housed, they're interested in donating to a fund for that. We want it to be as few strings attached as possible if we were to take federal funding for the Resource Center then we have to serve everybody. We don't really want to be in that position, we want to focus on Alamedans. So we're going to be doing a lot of private fund raising for that. Doug Biggs: I will also mention though that the areas where the City does have some authority over this is, the land is currently zoned Administrative Professional, which allows all of the uses we're proposing, but it has a G overlay which means a government overlay, because it's owned by the government now. When that property is transferred to us then the City has to remove that G overlay, that's going to be going before the Planning Board October 8th, and it'll be going to City Council probably in one of their November meetings, we're not sure what yet. It's an administrative procedure because they can't again,… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,4 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 4 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. and the community prevailed. They have made the statement, and some of you may have seen they've been out there gathering signatures on an open space measure, to have this declared open space in the hope that it would also become parkland. Doug Biggs: East Bay Regional Parks has been adamant that they do not want the space, it's not in any of their master plans, it's not in any of their acquisition strategy, it just would not do anything to complete that park. The City of Alameda has also been very clear. Both entities also had the opportunity to apply for it the same time we did, and then they chose not to. There was one other applicant, it was another nonprofit from Los Angeles that applied for it. Doug Biggs: The level of concerns people have had are Some of the statements and if you check out the website Friends of Crab Cove, it's pretty clear there, a sense that Crab Cove is used by a lot of youth, and it is, and a lot of children, it is, we totally get that. There's a sense that those kids shouldn't be exposed to homelessness. I think we've gotten past that in this community, but also when you look at what the uses are, this is about as nonactive use as you can get. These are going to be people who are interested in medical recovery, not in being out partying all the time. They're going to be pretty fragile. So we think we put in an array of services that fit well with the community. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Okay, thank you, those are all my questions. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you, Commissioner Roloff. Vice Chair Barrett? Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Thank you so much for coming to speak with us. I really enjoyed learning more about the program, and I'm looking forward to seeing it come into fruition, and thank you for asking such great questions. That was great. I don't have any, so thank you so much. Doug Biggs: Thank you. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Deutsch? Commissioner Susan Deutsch: Thank you very m… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,5 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 5 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Doug Biggs: And so we would be grandfathered in. If there was an attempt to deny the grandfathering, then that's a legal term called a taking which is kind of like eminent domain, or even harder where they would be forcefully taking property from us and would have to compensate us for not only all of our expenses we've incurred but the cost of not having that service. When the other piece of property was transferred, part of what the city was prepared to do was to put a companion ordinance on the ballot, that would have set aside money from the general fund to pay any legal costs, and that's probably what they would have to do in this case as well. I think doing the signatures, in some ways, that's fine, it's okay, it's good. It allows them to present, "These are people that are concerned about it", so that we do have to take notice. And I think for that in that sense, it was effective. And I get it, that it's not the most popular thing people would want in their neighborhood given a myriad of choices, but there aren't choices. But it's enough of a presence that we have to acknowledge it and we have to and we want to work with them. Commissioner Susan Deutsch: Thank you. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: And thanks for the presentation. And the same with me, I've have seen them at shopping centers and stuff. And the question I have is, you say you have 73, 78 parking spaces? Doug Biggs: Yes. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Do you need them? Do you really have so many people? Doug Biggs: No. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: So what's going to happen? Doug Biggs: Very good question. We don't. Currently, I think there's 95 or 100 parking spaces out there, and so we're taking out one row to put in the multipurpose area and a community garden. City Code requires you to have a certain number of parking spaces. And so we've kept that in for now, we don't think we'll need anywhere near that many. In the interim period we're definitely open to allowing… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,6 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 6 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: And the Central Street skirts this area, doesn't it? Doug Biggs: I'm sorry? Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Central Street, Central Avenue. Doug Biggs: Central Street [Avenue] is up on this side, yes. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: So people that are going to come and visit you, some of them would probably be in wheelchairs? Doug Biggs: Well, people that we're going to serve are clients who will be in the senior housing or medical respites, and we'll transport them there and back. In some cases, we may need to transport them by ambulance, but we'll also have our own vans, so that we could transport people elsewhere. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Okay. Doug Biggs: Other visitors may come and they may be in wheelchairs. I know, I recognize that that street needs some work and we're definitely going to work with East Bay Regional Parks on addressing that to the extent that we can. I will, just for the night's history lesson, point out, all of this property was started in 1942. It was built to train captains for the Liberty ships that were built up in Richmond, they were churning out a Liberty ship a day and they needed pilots, they needed captains. So they trained them here. There was a dock that went out in the water, they would actually bring Liberty ships in there and train them on that. The apartments that are up on Central Avenue are the old officers' housing for that whole development down there. Which I thought it was pretty classic. We've actually located all of the original blueprints in the facility and we're keeping them and we'll turn them over to East Bay Regional Parks. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Last question I have is, do you have any ideas as to why they missed the deadline to submit their petition? Doug Biggs: I just don't think they had enough signatures. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Thank you. Commissioner Arnold Brillinger: Thanks, Commissioner Aghapekian. Commissioner Hall? Commissione… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,7 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 7 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Commissioner Lisa Hall: He's done so much and as you know he's working with the Food Bank and we have many of our clients that come to the food bank are homeless. Doug Biggs: Yep. Commissioner Lisa Hall: And just yesterday it really got me. I was going to the laundromat up off Park Street and a lady came up to me and her gentleman friend came up to me and said, "She would like to talk to you." And she was in a wheelchair and she's homeless, and she asked me, because she saw my sign on my car and she asked me if I could help her in any way, like refer her. So that kind of brought it home for me, because I do have the Food Bank and everything, and I was like, "I know there's 211" but I was like Just as an FYI. What I did is I went home, I wrote pertinent numbers and made it on a piece of paper and made copies to keep in my car for when I run into people or anybody that asks, even at the Food Bank or whatever, because that really got to me, I felt very helpless with this woman, and she was obviously in desperate need and she was a resident of Alameda, she used to live on Lincoln Avenue. So it was very distressing. But also being disabled and a senior, I understand that I could be one, a couple of months away from being homeless, because as, in just the last two months, it's interesting you say Central Avenue Three families were evicted out of 470 Central for no other reason other than money. Commissioner Lisa Hall: And that's why we're trying to fight, the homeless epidemic is definitely here in Alameda, and because it's everywhere and this is the problem we have. I understand, and I can't say thank you so much for doing this because I know it's something we desperately need, just like the warming center we hope we can also put together. Because if you are a senior or a disabled person and you're on a fixed income, right off the bat, if you lose your place, you cannot qualify pretty much for anything because the realtors and the apartmen… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,8 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 8 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: So the Resource Center is not going to be accepting federal funds. Is there going to be any chance where we can expand that definition of homeless? Doug Biggs: For the Resource Center absolutely. Being very clear that we're talking about people who are at risk of becoming homeless because there's no reason to send somebody on to the streets and then take them off. If you could divert them from that then, by God, let's try and divert them from that. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I think especially with the senior housing, I know of several seniors who are in that situation right now where they're couch surfing, and I know we'll have enough unfortunately seniors to fill up the senior housing who are homeless. Doug Biggs: Yeah, perfect. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: By the HUD definition, but I would love to see that definition expanded. Doug Biggs: Yes. Part of it, if I could say, the situation is changing almost daily now. We're at such a hyper crisis, that what was true yesterday isn't true today, there's potentially a lot of funding coming down the pike. The State is releasing three pots of money, they've already released it this month. One pot focused on emergency shelters, the homeless emergency assistant project, another project focused on longer term subsidies, there's two propositions on the ballot in November, they could bring in additional significant funding for services. So if we have something in place, I think we could take advantage of some of these fundings. Alameda is loosening up and has loosened up the regulations around JADUs, Joint Accessory Dwelling Units. And Alameda's a great place for these. You've got these seniors living in these huge Victorians that don't need all that space. Well, if they could split off one piece of it to become a studio where they could live and somebody else can occupy the rest of it. And there's funding coming down the pike for those kind of things. So if we're creative, and if … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,9 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 9 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Commissioner Lisa Hall: Absolutely. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. Doug Biggs: And I think there are going to be a lot of community outreach opportunities. The most important thing and I think I told this to SSHRB as well, but Alameda talks about this, everyone belongs here. And so, reinforcing that message through this project I think is important. We're hoping to have a community event, a community day at the site in November. We haven't fixed the date yet, as soon we do I'll let you know. But having commission members there, and maybe agreeing to kind of co-host it. Having you and SSHRB and some of the churches that have expressed an interest, and being listed as co-host of the Community Outreach Day I think would be wonderful. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay, great. Then I propose that we take a vote on this. All in favor? All: Aye. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Any opposed? Alright. Doug Biggs: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you very much. I really appreciate this, Doug. Thank you. Doug Biggs: Alright, Thank you. Goodnight. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Goodnight. 5. OLD BUSINESS 5-A Commission and Board Liaison Reports (All Commissioners) Chair Elizabeth Kenny: So I think that is the end of item 4A, and we move on to old business, Agenda Item Five. And we need to go through our commission board and liaison reports. Commissioner Brillinger? Commissioner Arnold Brillinger: Okay. I've been going to various commissions around in the East Bay. And Oakland, their commission is involved in a number of things: One is in dealing with the aging and getting them involved in activities happening in the city. Whether it's by making sure that they've got transportation or making sure that they have the options. Because you don't want to just sit in your house and be there for the rest of your life. So they are also thinking about different ways of involving people. Also they are discussing people using the placards for disabled,… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,10 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 10 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thanks, Commissioner Brillinger. Let me know if it comes back to you. Commissioner Roloff? Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: I did talk to Kirsten Zazo who is the Chief Student Advocacy Officer for the District. She's going to come, I think I might have cc'd you, Beth and Laurie, to the meeting on the 28th. So she spent a lot of time, she got a steering committee together with a lot of stakeholders in Alameda, and did a needs assessment for mental and emotional health needs for the District. And she presented it to the District. And I might have mentioned this earlier and of course, the District doesn't have funding, so they're trying to focus on the no-cost ways that they can help with the findings that she had. But there are a lot of areas that do need funding, and they don't have any staff grant writers, and they really need all kinds of social services folks, they need mental health clinicians. So she's starting a roadshow. She was really glad that we had reached out and she's going to incorporate us as part of her roadshow to see what we can do and how we can possibly advocate. [ random BEEP] Oh, is my time up? Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: And how we can possibly advocate to the City or on behalf of our commission on how we can help. So if it's okay with everyone or tell me the protocol. She was going to send me the report ahead of the meeting, I thought I might have it today, so we can distribute to everyone if we take the opportunity to read it before she comes so we can be more interactive. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: So just for everybody's information, when somebody is going to present, like Doug Biggs tonight, they have to submit their information like 10 days ahead of time, so that it can be hyperlinked on the agenda. We can certainly send out that report earlier, but if anyone's presenting and not just public comment, you will have their materials beforehand. So everybody should be taking a look at that. An… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,11 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 11 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Right. And that actually might be a good link for the high school too, to have that resource. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes. Vice Chair Barrett. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Yeah, so, a few exciting things I launched our "10 ways to improve accessibility at your business". In August, I sent it to the head of the Chamber of Commerce. I'm going to be speaking at their meeting in October. They had a meeting today, but I was like, "Yeah, that's not going to work." So I printed out a flyer for everyone. If you want to just, if you know of anyone who can take it, just trying to spread the word as much as possible. I also have some extras. I don't know if we can hang them up in City Hall. And then please let me know if you have other contacts with business organizations. Alameda Magazine, maybe they would put something in for us or the newspaper? Commissioner Lisa Hall: Alameda Sun perhaps. Yeah. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Perfect. I might get in touch with you on the content. And my sister said that there's some kind of events newsletter that she thought might have been sent out by the City or maybe the Park Street. So I'm trying to find the contact for that because there's a newsletter that goes out pretty often to tell us what new businesses are in Alameda, and so that might be a good thing to spread the word with as well. The Planning Board met yesterday and they were discussing about the park that's going to take place on the waterfront opposite Jack London. So that was a very interesting presentation. The video's up online if anyone is interested in that. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: And as we're talking about speakers I haven't asked her yet, but I have a contact with a woman who works for Adobe, and she does accessibility for web design or computer-based. And I know a lot about buildings, but I know nothing about the web design, so I thought maybe if you guys are interested, I can try reaching out to her to try to ge… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,12 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 12 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Right. Okay. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: And I think those are like peers to the Chamber of Commerce. If I'm not mistaken. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I think they're separate, but I'm not sure. I think I got you in touch with WABA, I think that's what Linda is in. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Okay. I never heard back from her. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I'll shoot her another email. When I was talking to her about it in-person she did express interest. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: I'm sure they have websites. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: And that's the West one, right? Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: And GABA is the other one. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Okay. Great. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: And I can get you contact if you can't find one. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Oh. That would be awesome. Commissioner Arnold Brillinger: A DABA too. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: DABA? Commissioner Arnold Brillinger: Downtown. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: Oh downtown. A lot of our acronyms. Yeah. Okay, great. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Thank you. Commissioner Deutsch? Commissioner Susan Deutsch: So I was in contact with Amy Wooldridge, and she let me know that there is an accessible park playground being built at Littlejohn Park. And they have plans for it. And also I'm supposed to present our mission sometime in the fall and I will contact her again, try to present at the next meeting. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great, thank you Commissioner Deutsch. Commissioner Aghapekian? Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: I talked with Gail Payne, is the Transportation Department project manager about the Clement Street Corridor. This is the project that's still on the drawing 09/12/18 Page 12 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,13 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 13 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. boards and it's primarily goes from Broadway to Grand Street along Clement Street, and they're going to modernize it and make it accessible. I walked that distance to see and it needs a lot of work to make it accessible. And I have a meeting set up with her next Tuesday and to go over the plans. And she's also volunteering to come and do a presentation to us. I don't know when she'll be ready for it, but she would like to do that. And that's where that is. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: The flyer that we talked about for the emergency workshop is planned, and I talked with Mastick's director and she was very happy to help out. And the flyers are being distributed at Mastick Center. And then the parks, I've been talking and there is a lot of enthusiasm. I would like for us to push for making even the existing parks at least somewhat accessible if they're not totally. At least something. And I got positive feedbacks but I will work with Susan to help out as much as I can. Okay? Commissioner Susan Deutsch: I think that is may be part of the plan that they're redoing the playground. Already planned. She apologized for not having, presenting those plans to us, but she said she presented it to others. The next time she'll let us know what's going on, and I'll keep in touch. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Yeah, and I think she also mentioned that the next park that they were going to work on would be the Estuary Park. When I was talking to her, it's something we were all included on. But that's the area of town that we're all talking about, it's Clement Street, it's what they were talking about the Planning Board, it's the Marina project where they're going to be having lots of universally designed units. So I think it would make great sense to have Gail Payne come and talk to us about the transportation project on Clement Street. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Anybody who's tried to walk on Clement Street before, it's a big project, because a lot of … | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,14 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 14 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Vice Chair Jenn Barrett: I'm hoping to go to the Monday session. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. I was hoping to go to one of them. Unfortunately, I have to leave now, so I'm not going to be able to go to them but I have sent it out to a few different organizations so hopefully, we'll get some good response. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: Yes, I'm going to try and go to Tuesday. And I think this is the best place for education. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: And I think Anto, did you sign up for one too? Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: I did. Yeah. I would attend the Monday one. September 26th. Commissioner Lisa Hall: Well you're going to have a long day, aren't you? Because on Monday and Tuesday we'll be at the disability convention. Commissioner Anto Aghapekian: Oh, I'll be all night. Commissioner Lisa Hall: So you have a day in the evening, there you go. But yeah, I did want to bring that up. I am looking forward to Anto and I and one other perhaps Laurie? Commissioner Susan Deutsch: I'm going. Commissioner Lisa Hall: And Susan. We're all going to be attending that. So last year was so wonderful. They did have a little session on technology. It was very informative about especially for the blind and the deaf and even just speaking and it was pretty unreal. Yeah, great. It's a good information. 6. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright. So then we can move on to staff communications unless someone else has something. Alright, agenda item six. Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: Okay, I, I just got this a little while ago, so I couldn't put on the agenda but we may have it in the future. You said you wanted to reach out to Gail Payne, well she's trying to reach out to us and everyone else about a transportation awareness campaign. So she's got this action plan which is eight pages long on how she's going to reach out to the different groups. She's going to be reaching out to commuters, drivers, students… | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,15 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 15 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I believe so, yes. Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: I could have it as an old business item on the agenda, attached the agenda next month. Whether or not we actually have her come and speak, I can at least attach it and then everybody can see it. Everyone here and everyone in the audience. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Sure. If Gail is okay with it, would you be able to send it out to us for the listserv? Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: Yes. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. And it seemed like she was wanting a member of the commission to join the campaign. Am I correct in that? Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: Yes. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay. So why don't you, if you can send that out in the next week to the Commission and listserv, if anybody is interested in joining in this campaign, I think it would be great to have representation on it. Please get in contact with Laurie. I'm not sure how quickly it's all developing. It sounds like if August and September are already planned, we should get on it. Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: She's got a five-month next steps list here. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Yes, if you could send that out. And then anybody who is interested in joining that campaign, should they contact you or contact Gail directly? Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: Probably Gail. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Okay, all right, if you could contact Gail and maybe cc me, just so we know who wants to be part of the campaign - that would be great. Staff Support Laurie Kozisek: Okay. I don't think I have anything else. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, so I should know this by now. 7. ANOUNCEMENTS Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Any announcements? I think we kind of covered most of the announcements in our commission and board liaison reports. But does anyone have any other announcements they'd like to make? [pause] 8. ADJOURNMENT 09/12/18 Page 15 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf,16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-09-12 | 16 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday September 12, 2018 6:30 p.m. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Alright, then I'm going to move for adjournment. Commissioner Jennifer Roloff: I'll second that. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: Great. Thanks for a great meeting, you guys. 09/12/18 Page 16 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-09-12.pdf |
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