How do we give us a hug Okay, good evening.

Uh we'll call to order the um regular meeting for the Commission on Persons with Disabilities.

It is January fourteenth, twenty twenty six, and we'll start with roll call.

Uh, Chair Mullings.

Vice Chair Bondsmith here.

Commissioner Bieler.

Here.

Thank you.

Joining us remotely.

Commissioner Canadler.

Here.

Commissioner Lipp is absent.

Commissioner Lyons.

And Commissioner Schmidt is also absent.

Okay.

Um, this goes into non-agenda public comments.

Um, so we'll go straight into the minutes to um review and uh vote to approve the minutes submitted for November nineteenth, twenty twenty-five.

If there aren't any errors or anything, um, if someone wants to make a motion and a second to um vote to approve.

I move to approve.

Second.

Okay.

All right.

Um, and so everyone, if you would just find at the count of three, say aye or nay.

Uh so the for the minutes to approve them.

One, two, three.

Okay.

All right.

So those are approved and we'll be entered in.

Um and now moving forward to um the main point of this evening is to uh our main regular agenda item is a 2026 planning session um for commissioners to propose and discuss areas of focus, networking opportunities, possible presentations, and future agenda items again for the year 2026.

Um so this will be a little bit of an open discussion just amongst the commission.

Um, and feel free to speak out of turn, that sort of thing won't necessarily go in order.

Um, and then Chair Mullines, however, you'd like to lead the discussion or kick it off if there's a particular way that you'd like to handle it.

Um, we'll go ahead and get started.

I'm open to having a more informal approach to it.

You know, I'm happy to go through in order of how we how you have it laid out here in the agenda, like areas of focus, networking opportunities, presentations because those are kind of different areas to discuss.

That might be a good, like just managing our time effectively.

So if that works, um and then do you want to start?

Because you told me about uh having some ideas coming in, or if somebody has yeah, ideas off the bat, and not to put you on the hot feed.

No, I'm happy to, so well, I'm still pretty new, but I did want to share an idea that I'm interested in learning more about um and supporting this year.

So building on last year's emergency operations plan.

Um I'm particularly interested in how emergency and city communications are actually experienced by residents with different access and processing needs, um, especially around digital accessibility accessibility and neurodiversity.

Um, so has the commission ever looked at communication accessibility, or would that be new territory for us?

I'm trying to think like I think we've talked about like outreach, we've talked about like making sure we're casting a wide enough net and in a way that people engage with it.

I haven't, I'm not sure about in the notification aspect specifically.

What do you think?

I don't think we've talked a lot about notifications.

I know um digital accessibility has been a focus of the city, and there's either a project they've just concluded or is currently underway to focus on that, but we haven't I think interacted with that very directly, except for it coming up in previous meeting.

Um, but as far as the emergency operations plan, and especially the the um, I forget the name of the list that we discussed at a previous meeting where there's like a special on the list.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think that um we haven't really focused on a lot previously, but that was kind of included in your they came up with the fire department representatives presentation about like you can opt in.

Yeah, and that one is scheduled um to return to us once it's in more of a draft phase.

Right now it's like very early uh rudimentary stage of for the EOP, but um, but I look forward to that one.

Um Commissioner Bieler has her hand raised.

Oh, great.

Oh, thank you.

Um I do believe we've talked about the accessibility and digital accessibility specifically of certain materials or handouts or projects as they've come before us before where they're very specific about community outreach.

So maybe not in a global way, but we've addressed them individually.

And I do remember we um have also discussed whether we are appropriately or sufficiently engaging with specific communities or known, maybe like areas where people with disabilities um live or uh commune.

So in that sense, we have for the digital accessibility, we've also talked about different like formatting and testing, and um, I'm sorry I can't see all the commissioners from my my eagle eye view here, but whoever was saying that um that the it's been a focus of the city, it's come up a couple times, but I just wanted to mention that it's more about project by project or talking about community outreach specifically that we've addressed the digital accessibility of those methods.

I think a couple things um I think well, one of the reasons I think it's interesting to think about this is because information can be really hard to process when people are anxious or overwhelmed, so even something um like dense or unclear instructions can become barriers in those those moments.

Um, and then as far as digital accessibility, it might be interesting to think about um having an audit of the city websites from an accessibility standpoint.

I feel like we have discussed that, right?

Like in having Lillian, sorry if I'm being too informal, as the like in like our first, I think ADA coordinator.

I feel like that's that's been something we've discussed a few times.

Um and maybe it we're right for an update like on that, or maybe if you have something you could help us uh jog memory, yeah.

So digital accessibility is a big thing right now because the DOJ's rule about it is about to go into effect at the end of April for um our this for the size of our municipality.

Um so we're working through lots of things and doing a lot of department training.

Um, I'm hoping to host another website user testing session um that helps with some of that auditing because it gives community feedback directly um that I can relate directly to um departments who manage their own sites or pages.

So hoping to do that in February or March.

This this time it'll be a virtual one.

The last one I did was at Mastic, which was great.

We had a few participants um and went through prompts and everything.

It was great, but I think hopefully having it virtual will um just cast a wider net for who can join.

But yes, that's a that's definitely a big conversation point, a big a big area of focus right now in the ADA world.

So um I think it would be a great presentation as well.

Who are the test users or the test groups that we reach out to for that?

So um for this last session, I shared it specifically with our my newsletter audience um and then mastic, so they shared it through the RPD channels and the Mastic channels and then just posted it at Mastic.

Um yeah, unfortunately I didn't get anyone to sign up from the newsletter, so um I'm I will try to work with our um communications department at the city to just get it maybe shared a little bit more broadly for this upcoming one because I would love to get as many people as possible.

Um, and I even specified in the invitation the last time to um you know people who use all kinds of assistive tech to join us because obviously we want to audit the website with that in mind as well.

Yeah, yeah.

Given with the deadline coming up in April, could we propose some sort of report out post-April deadline?

I'm sure it's gonna be difficult to get folks in here maybe in March because of that deadline to talk through the compliance guidelines, SharePoint commissioners that, you know, is it, you know, CAG triple A, are we going which what what compliance rules are we adhering to?

Um, and then maybe a little bit more Lillian from your sub, you know, test groups would be kind of interesting to hear the different feedback, um, you know, different maybe different pages.

I think that's really important and uh definitely agree with my fellow commissioners here.

That'd be a great session.

I think like part of your proposed topic is about the emergency notifications in particular, which obviously like it's a heightened importance.

Um, but I think obviously the rest of this discussion has been like kind of the building blocks to be in a position to have effective emergency notification, but just make sure that doesn't drop off, but maybe with the return when the EOP's more ready, we could bring it up again.

Yeah, it's kind of a a crossover, I guess.

A couple ideas that got mixed up in there, but yeah, the emergency operations plan.

I'm just I am curious about how how people with different processing needs respond to that.

If we've asked how how they respond to that.

If we know people that have, I don't know, uh been ex have experienced it and have had any issues, or if there's been any feedback.

Yeah, that's great.

Because I think like just as a baseline, sometimes those notifications can be hard to decipher.

Yeah.

I think from a yeah just not uh adding any layer of um complicated or you know, neurodiverse or any other processing challenges or Absolutely.

I mean just myself when an emergency preparedness alert comes on my phone and that lo you know, we've all oh gosh, yeah.

Like it sends I I get a little bit like frazzled and disoriented so I can only, yeah, imagine in an actual emergency, what that might be like.

I got and I think like maybe there's a layer of that to like proactive like before an emergency, outside of an emergency and just kind of like I don't wanna go totally apologize for like nine eleven.

When back when we remember when we did like we're at red threat alert or you know, like but just kind of like we have this like background education, you know, or kind of like getting you used to like here's what these messages mean in an emergency.

Like I think that might be helpful.

Yeah, not just about the communications themselves.

So just a thought about that.

Well didn't they I um when I used to watch TV, they used to do that, right?

The test of the emergency broadcast system is only a test.

Yeah, so you get used to it if it had been a you know I could tell you the whole thing, it had been an actual actual emergency.

You've been instructed to blah blah blah.

So we maybe something like that could be implemented to get people aware of um what it is and and to even to test the system to make sure it's working and and people are getting the message.

Yeah.

So it would be best to test it before an actual situation.

Yeah, like a drill.

It makes me think of the Great Shake Out, yeah.

Which is I think a lot of businesses and companies and stop drop and roll.

Like it's just those things that like if you can ingrain it and in the moment of panic, like or just kind of if you need to do something when it's challenging to process and executive function through it.

Um the Great Shakeout like happens I think every October.

And a lot of organizations in nationwide and like certainly in California do like a test drill on that day.

I think I asked about it when we had the presentation on the EOP and I think there was no no plan or funding to do it, but I wonder if maybe even a digital version of that could be done.

Or maybe that's a nice timeline for a target.

Yeah, in between the April's a lot of plan and the October, like, you know, broader to do some kind of a simulation and maybe just the slice of that is focused on the community that we serve.

And and trying to reach out to those people and say, hey, was this at least received?

Yes.

And how was it interpreted and you have the information that you need to make a decision about what to do next.

Um, I think unless you practice it, you really don't know exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

Um and it and if we can align it with other activities are happening in the s like in the city or in the state in the same time.

There might be a little bit of I don't know, increased momentum.

Yeah.

For it.

Like that idea.

I don't know who to talk to about that.

You know.

Yeah, I would probably start with fire captain Andrews.

Um he's the one who came and did the presentation and then um Yeah, maybe go from there.

It's a good idea though.

Okay.

I wonder if also locally we could connect with the Alameda CERT people and bring them into it somehow so that we could maybe ourselves get educated if you don't already know about what CERT is and have them know who we are um and then maybe somehow build a relationship that way that if we're doing um I don't know outreach or I I do plan and and will go through the cer certification um and you know just build some bridges that way so that we know all the the small pods of cert people whoever they are throughout Alameda in the different neighborhoods um and they should you know connect with them and they can be aware of us and maybe know when Captain I go and call him Captain Dallas, Captain Dallas.

Captain Andrews comes back maybe they might be interested in hearing what he has to say during that presentation or something like that.

I think that's a great idea and I think it's a good opportunity kind of the way we've had traffic presentations and transportation presentations and then to your characterization like for the community or the portion of the community re we represent kind of we have this lens of thinking about things about, you know, if you're not thinking of standard usages or standard communication methods like it could be a great dialogue like where we get educated they maybe think about things they hadn't thought about before.

So I I like that idea.

They're pretty active so that's like yeah they're very active.

Um they're usually at the events when they have them on Park Street.

And then I knew I do know a couple of people I have to remember their names and see if I can contact them and ask more information.

Oh like I have the cert stuff so I can find them that way.

Um the only other other opportunity to do possibly something like this again would be on the neighborhoods that maybe do the I think it's called the night out.

I know we do it in the fern side where I live and um I don't know where other opportunities but that would also be a way to again just bring information to the local community at that point that that certain neighborhood and get them involved and so hopefully each little neighborhood can have their own also support network and and build from that.

So um I think yeah I I think like you were saying like if you get that emergency alert you're like if you have a community that's close by within your community I think that's that's soothing in itself and so you you know the drill you know the people you've mentioned you've met them and you know the bigger group which is the city of Alameda and um fire departments and whomever is responding but I think s having all of that would be would be relaxing during a horrible situation.

Yeah.

Wonderful.

Um other areas of focus like if we're comfortable moving on from I think that was a big topic.

Yeah.

Ideas um one thing I wanted to bring up that kind of moves into I guess like networking opportunities was just the idea of outreach.

Um when Lisa Hall and I were at the um Fourth of July parade.

It was so fun because there were a lot of community members that you know they were watching the parade and they would lock on to us, read our big sign and then start clapping and cheering.

And there was just a lot of and I was like I don't know if people know who we are but they seem enthusiastically supportive of the idea of this commission existing.

And so it just made me think like there's probably a lot more we could do to interact with the community.

Um try to balance like you know our time and availability but um certainly at city sponsored events.

Um if there's you know any interest in like having a booth or a table, um I think that would be really great for us to take advantage of.

Yeah.

Wholeheartedly agree and I would be happy to man a booth at these events too it'd be so fun.

Yeah.

I agree and I would love to see an um like kind of figure out a calendar, kind of like have targeted events and then also have a standing agenda item.

Like in the build up to that where we revisit like okay what do we want to how do we want to show up you know and also like that puts it on the agenda.

It also gives an opportunity like hopefully more you know community participation.

Yeah.

You know but like maybe that won't happen yet but like I think it will just help us like when we do show up we'll have this more built out thought through yeah presence.

Not to denigrate anything like you all actually showed up so that's wonderful.

I haven't done that yet so that's great.

I think like the benefit of having a booth or something is to get more one on one interaction with the community.

And often in our commission meetings we're like oh uh you know we hear about something out and everyone's like oh I've never heard of this or I wish that other people in the community knew more about this because it would potentially be a benefit to the population of people with disabilities.

So um I'd like maybe look back through previous agendas to remember what all those things are.

But like some of the grants and stuff that nobody knows about it would be great to share at a booth like that.

We could say, oh you know, here's something that we've heard about I'm thinking we could actually like even like recruit people for testing or you know like for feedback.

Like could you be part of our pilot pioneers or you know like we could just share word of the newsletter.

Exactly which has great content I read it all the time.

Yeah the newsletter is is the outreach but if nobody's aware of it or taking the time to read it or they're like well what is this?

Yeah.

If they saw our faces and talked to us and knew who we were they might be more inclined to then oh yeah that newsletter I remember.

Yeah.

They were talking about that might be really cool.

I'm excited about that.

And I think I think the newsletter's great.

Okay.

Is there a list like a like a central list somewhere of those types of events.

Like what are the city sponsors of events?

I don't know what qualifies as city sponsored versus permitted and right.

Which I'm fine with going to any like ARPD type of like field day kind of you know things like that.

Um there's a couple of different places I can look for that.

There is maybe a calendar of events that's city sponsored um and then of course ARPD I could check in with them to ask if there's things coming up where they would want city representatives or even like if we were to volunteer and you know happen to be the commissioners or something.

So um yeah I think that's a great idea.

Definitely want to pursue that.

And then also can you help us make sure we're brown out compliant.

Yes.

Actually like early conversation.

Chair Mollings I was just going to ask that.

Are there any restrictions or that are places we cannot go or like we can only have two people there and not right no um there are if we were to have um three or more commissioners go to what the same event we would just need to publish a special agenda or a special meeting announcement and say that it's a special meeting so that the commissioners can attend such and such event together.

Okay.

Um and that's how we would be compliant with that.

Great.

But yeah, questionable it's not a no.

Correct yeah.

Would we be able to attend things like Alameda Pride like and stuff like that.

Okay.

Beyond just have to plan it out.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Well I'm always there.

Yeah I think what was the answer to that one?

I think it was yes.

I think it's yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Yeah we could we could definitely look at some of those larger events as well.

Yeah.

So maybe as a like kind of operating model for all of us as commissioners as we all navigate this.

Like I've been on the commission for a while and I still have tons of questions when it comes to the Brown Act.

But maybe like as these events pop up or we wanna attend either in our personal capacity or associated with the commission.

If you have questions, again like further to like we do not want to chill, like our participation as residents much less what we can do as commissioners.

We should just email Lillian with questions or just as a like, hey I'm thinking about doing this or can we bring this up and like just making sure everybody still feels empowered to participate.

Yeah.

Um yeah I love that.

That's great.

And I think it also helps 'cause I I feel like a recurring theme m over many meetings has been you know, is our scope wide enough?

Are we focusing on the right issues?

Like what are we or this maybe it's an I statement.

Like I worry like I have this I have my personal experience I come to the table with you know as I participate in this um and then I'm always reminding myself it's more about it's not only physical disabilities.

We need to think about other things and so I just think that community engagement and just like being present and like more of a listening opportunity sometimes like it just seems like we'll we'll be able to show up better.

Yeah eventually I agree so that's great.

So how do because I'm new like how would we go about setting something like that up as far as logistics is that something that we the commissioners worry about a budget and all of that.

Um so I think I would still be the point person to set it up.

Um for instance with the Fourth of July parade um Commissioner Bond Smith and former Commissioner Hall like coordinated excuse me coordinated the meeting of it and those sorts of things but we had like the supplies you know from the city for that um little what kind of vehicle was that it was a bike bike car bicycle what do you call it like a like a petty cab yes thank you thank you Commissioner Beeler yes a petty cap.

No problem I'm happy to speak over the voice of God.

Yeah exactly right all the non-face participant um but as far as like what a budget would be or what level of engagement we can take to an event I would need to clarify that with the city clerk's office because I'm not sure how that sort of thing gets established for commissions.

Yeah thank you.

Um yeah because I I I think it would just be like the physical table some kind of a sun shelter structure maybe and then we already have a sign and so some chairs or something like that and then whatever permitting needs to happen to get a spot.

Maybe something like I don't know some sort of game or activity that would get people engaged and involved something that would draw them over versus because I don't know when I walk by and it's just people in a booth a lot of the times I can't be the only one that just walks by because I'm like I don't even know what they're offering.

And I'm too intimid you know a lot of people might be too intimidated to go and talk to just people but if there's something to draw them in there or a potential prize that could start a lot more conversations than if we didn't have that as an option.

That's a good idea.

Yeah I think a lot of the city boost at these events will have like stickers or bike bells, you know something.

Yeah with City of Alameda on it.

Yeah.

But I have no idea how that happens.

I'm trying to think of like a adapted game that would be like you know come over and put this blindfold on and try to throw this ball into a basket or something like I don't know.

I don't know if you say to get people to come over I think that's a great idea but I think we also have to offer something for the community of people who would need some adapted sort of game or if you want to try to see what it feels like to be visually impaired.

We're gonna put on these dark glasses and ask you to do this thing.

That's actually yeah that's a great idea it reminds me that MIT created this suit called the acronym is Agnes it's like the age gain empathy suit where it's that's um it's a suit with a that mimics all of the um the sensations so you know your vision your hearing your mobility like everything so that people can actually experience it before they experience it.

Yeah.

Something like that.

Yeah, I love that idea.

Yeah, that's that's cool.

A game like that.

Just just to have the experience.

And then that would be like, so this is who we are.

Not that it's all just physical disabilities, but you know, we're trying to get past obstacles.

We're trying to create safe housing.

We're trying to get and safe entrance, safe bike, you know, obstacles.

What obstacles do you have to get over?

So maybe it's an obstacle course.

I don't know.

Yeah.

That's a great idea.

I really like that.

Yeah, I'll think about it.

And then let us know if we're breaking any rules.

Yeah, well, that was the other thing.

Maybe give things away.

I don't know how I'm like, the liability.

Like I don't let people try to know something.

As I was speaking, I was thinking all of that too.

Yeah.

It'll be like finger, you know, on the table.

Okay, I'm kidding.

No.

I love this.

I love the creativity.

Um, and then the other thing for networking opportunities if we're okay to move on.

Yeah, yeah.

Um networking opportunities was um thinking about other boards and commissions that you might want to go visit or at least liaise with.

Mm-hmm.

Um, yeah, I think it's historically been done.

Yeah.

I think I will confess, like in my time, I think we've talked about it as an idea and I'm not aware of there being official mapping on, you know, where we have a commissioner for a designated counter board or counter commission.

I love the idea of at least loosely kind of of interest where we think there's good crossover, good synergy.

Not necessarily a mandate that you go to those meetings and like, you know, have a report out at our next meeting, but at least look at the agenda.

Like kind of keep track of the minutes, kind of have a s a finger on that pulse of that.

I I feel like I'd want to keep this, you know, as light touch with the like a floor with no ceiling.

You know, like where we can you can do as much as you want with it, but not burden folks if they, you know, feel like it's too onerous.

Do you know which boards are more active?

Uh yes.

I we can go through that in just a moment.

Commissioner Bieler has uh hand raised.

Well, I had this a similar idea as Commissioner Bondsmith, except for the reverse.

I was wondering who we might invite here, to report out on specific projects maybe that they have upcoming in 2026 or 2027, maybe at this point.

Um, but put perhaps the way to do that is to look at some agendas that are upcoming for those commissions or boards and then invite them here.

I mean, off the top of my head, the the one that stands out to me the most, maybe is the library board.

I know they meet pretty regularly.

They probably have a lot of programs that have a lot of that cross synergy for us.

Um, but then for ones that I really don't know much about, like I think we have some correct me if I'm wrong, uh a golf golf course commission, right?

Um I don't know anything about that uh clearly, but are there things that they're doing or initiatives that um relate to our our community that we we serve?

So I was kind of thinking the opposite, but they could go together really well.

Not mutually exclusive at all.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Well and I like the idea, like I think you know again, I don't want to overcommit or commit for others beyond myself, but I like the idea of like as a commission, this could be a way like we kind of direct some of our energy and attention, you know, and like we quote unquote get smarter, get educated on the agenda or like projects of the other commissions, and then maybe have a targeted ask rather than say like, hey, can you come in and no offense, commissioner uh dealer, or you know, and I don't think this is what you're proposing, like come in and tell us what you're doing or like tell us how you're already thinking about you know how you're incorporating folks with different needs potentially, but just maybe p have a more pinpointed discussion or interaction.

It could be a good or one way to do it, not necessarily the only way to do it.

And there are probably some boards where it's like, no, we really want to like more on the transportation level or the you know um other ones that we get on a more regular basis.

Yeah, exactly.

I was thinking the same thing, Chair.

I was thinking about how we would want to consider certain projects or agenda items that they have coming up.

We'd obviously need to be a little bit more familiar, or if they had anything in a general way that we thought they thought was applicable.

Then we would have liked them to talk about those specific things versus, yeah, like you said, a general policy that they might be um talking about, and and that might open the conversation up for them to invite us if they have questions around certain areas of interest that overlap.

So and then Lillian, I don't see on here, I know in previous times when we've explored this avenue of commission work.

Um I don't know if there's a police commission or I think there was something more like eat patrol meetings or something like there was an opportunity.

I don't see it on here, but like I definitely want to make sure that is in the mix as well.

Uh yes, so um the beat meetings are separate from commission or board um meetings.

Those happen, um, I think they're like every other month or once a quarter or something in the the beat assignments rotate.

I believe each beat or segment of Alameda gets two meetings a year.

Um, and um I think that it would be very interesting to try to connect to those if at all possible.

Um so maybe that looks like a commissioner just going to their respective beat meeting for their segment of Alameda and hearing what they share there.

Um, and we could yeah, see if there's some way to overlap some of that community engagement as well.

Okay.

Um and then if you don't mind, I'll just quickly go through just some of the highlighted ones that are active um from the list that might be appropriate or maybe not appropriate, it's the right word, but relevant to us potentially.

Um, so Commissioner Bieler, just so you're aware, I'm going through there's a general web page on the Alameda website, um, just boards and commissions, it's just a list.

So I'm just gonna highlight some of the ones that are actively meeting and that might be um, you know, reasonable overlap for us.

Great.

Um so the civil service board is staffed by our human resources department.

So that's kind of an interesting one that could be um, you know, it's talking about system policies and different things within like the employment and staff world.

It is open to the public, it is staffed by residents of Alameda as any other commission or board.

Um, so if you know employment type of things are of interest, um moving forward, um, I did not highlight the golf commission because that the form that that commission has taken has shifted over the years, so it's probably a better use of time to look at the Recreation and Park Commission in general.

Uh Commissioner Lyons, did you want to say something?

Um I'll wait.

Okay.

Um, and then there's of course the library board, which was already mentioned.

I think that would be a priority for sure because they do have a lot of programmatic and service um things, you know, at work all the time.

Um the planning board, which is about development, improvement, and beautification of the city.

And then uh the public art commission, um, if that's of interest, maybe to talk about representation of disability um with an art um public utilities board.

Uh uh that's an AMP one, so I don't know if that would be of interest to CP uh sorry, Commission on Personal Disabilities, but maybe um recreation and park commission, of course.

Social Service Human Relations Board, um, their little blurb is to um the social service needs of the people of Alameda and to encourage the formation of private social welfare welfare organizations to serve unmet needs.

Um and so that is a pretty important board for social resources.

Um and then the Transportation Commission, just like it sounds and that's it for that list.

Commissioner Lyons, what did you want to say?

Probably about the golf commission.

Um, yeah, I know it's changed.

So it's it's not what it used to be in terms of the golf commission, the way it did function.

I'm not really a hundred percent sure how it is now, but um I'd still like to investigate something with with the golf course.

And I don't know for sure, but I don't know that Rex, Alameda Parks and Rec really have anything to do or to say over the golf course, other than I know it is its largest park in Alameda.

Correct.

So the director of ARPD, uh Justin Long, he staffs the golf commission.

And um so basically he'll update them on any golf related things and they'll update him and then he will share that for with the wreck and park commission as well.

So it's not that the golf commission would um not be a place to go and I think we could absolutely learn from them probably just to even check it out.

Excuse me.

But what I was getting at is that the much of the content that's shared in the golf commission would also likely come up in the Recreation and Park Commission plus extra things.

But I see what you're saying that I think it would still be yeah worth a visit.

Did you did what did you mean by Justin's staffs the golf commission?

Oh like I staff this commission.

So um just the staff represent representative slash secretary person.

He doesn't select the commissioners I don't think like Justin Long doesn't appoint the commissioners okay I wasn't I've never been to a golf commission meeting so I don't know who's there.

So anyway whatever okay I'll check it out.

Yeah yeah and please let us know.

I will okay.

So just the point of going over the list was just to um you know bring those to your attention um since there's a lot of boards uh the boards and commissions that are active within Alameda and um to talk through if any of those stand out to anyone here.

Um Lillian did those commissions function similarly to ours where a lot of the content that we discuss is brought to us by different like planning groups or are they taking their like are they crafting their own initiatives and bringing them to city council does that make sense um it depends so the planning board is one where they definitely um you know offer stamps of approval before they get to council um so they are a uh an important stop in the process um transportation is similar um so some of those because they're related to infrastructure and development and then I also don't see the school board sorry I just noticed that.

Um yeah AUSD is not oh it's not us I see okay oh interesting um that was something we used to talk about like having a liaison with I just remember early in my days in the commission like there was a lot of talk about wanting to make sure we had a presence there you know that was a big area of focus.

Yeah I would definitely like to see if there's a way to connect us to um the school district a little bit um I wrote that down as one of even the community engagement ideas is to contact AUSD to see what we can do because I think there's probably some ways that we can engage with the um you know special education programs and different things that would be maybe it's maybe it would be very simple to just like join in or maybe it'd be I'm not sure so um I would love to try that.

As far as like the question about initiatives and crafting those initiatives and things it really depends on the the topic and and um so the board themselves is not going to craft something and then submit it to city council but just as we might receive a presentation and have you know insight and and uh feedback that they can take and develop after um some of these have a little bit of that you know planning board and transportation I think would be the two and social services where they maybe so those are the three where they can actually um be pretty active as opposed to um I don't want to say passive button advisory yes thank you advisory is better that's what I meant yes well we do have two commissioners not here tonight so maybe that gives us an opportunity for all of us to mull over opportunities that we're interested in maybe we revisited this when we have a full commission you know rather than folks like calling dibs on anything I don't know if anybody's prepared to do that at this point.

Sure we could do that we could revisit it and then um just since you mentioned that commissioner did get back to me that he would he is still curious about um pesticides or uh types of treatment um at public landscaping parks etc and just would is curious about some of those environmental choices that the city has made um so I am following up on that uh for him slash us to see what that could look like.

Yeah I like the idea of of thinking about the commissions that might be useful to kind of create a deeper relationship with and using the agendas probably to to drive some of that information gathering at least for me I know some of these some of these commissions have pretty long meetings and so it may not be feasible to go like maybe the transportation committee but looking at the agenda and using that as a source to kind of filter how we want to interact.

Yeah like in my experience like some of the like real highlight moments have been when I feel like we've really just chimed in with questions or thoughts like for a transportation plan and just you know that's why I feel like there's been a real value add and so I'm just like hoping that we can maybe hone in on some of those opportunities to just say like hey think about this you know and just kind of get in a little bit earlier.

All right um and then possible presentations is that receiving not giving or okay just triple checking and I think maybe I mean I think we have an organic opportunity like coming out here like unfolding with other like asking other commissions you know as we find something of interest as we participate or review agendas and just say like oh we'd like to learn I feel like we've had a couple of suggestions already yeah in this discussion about cert for example you know and just trying to get smarter have that overlap.

Any other thoughts on possible presentations about the other commission agendas and kind of looking through those and seeing if we might want to have a voice with some of the other discussions that they're having so I'm not sure.

I think to clarify a bit of the process too and then I'll get to Commissioner Bueller is um for some of those as you're reviewing the agendas if there's topics that stand out to you just so I understand um are you then hoping to have like that same presentation come before this commission or you're hoping to actually hear from people who serve on those commissions the first okay all right I just want to make sure I understood what what we were asking okay thank you.

Commissioner Bieler um I want to uh have more frequent updates Lynn I know this is a lot of work for you by the the C click fix uh some sort of regular cadence whether it's once or twice a year.

I think we were looking at data from 2024 when we revisited it in the fall of 2025.

So just want to throw that out there and then of course more the presentations we've been seeing especially around some of the social programs and the transportation programs I'm really curious to hear about the um basic uh universal basic income programming um all the type types of pilots and things like that I find it really helpful when folks come in and give us those presentations and I'm sorry I don't have that full list but I I know there's a few we've had regularly in the last say two years or so come before us I think we should continue those ones.

Thank you.

I'm like oh I feel like oh we could just ask anybody to I think one thing that has come up in different conversations is um I don't know the acronym East Bay regional parks and kind of like how they have I mean there's such a presence here or like there it seems like sometimes our conversations are kind of like shut down because they're like that's the part East Bay regional park.

So I wonder if there's a way to cajole them or get some yes that's on my list for sure.

Yeah because it has come up so frequently that I would be curious to see who, yeah, we could get to talk from East Bay Parks would be obviously ideal, and if not that, then some sort of connection person.

And I'll throw this out there, like and like I'm so late on this, but Commissioner Hall was excellent in just kind of having a network, and I know she talked a lot about annual conferences and kind of knowing what other similar community service oriented folks were thinking about and doing and like another opportunity we may have is like I don't want to use the term, but it's just easy and it's late in the day, but like benchmarking with other Alameda County cities or East Bay Cities or you know, Bay Area cities about like what are their commissions doing, which Lillian, maybe you have that network, kind of more at your fingertips and just understanding and maybe drafting off pro progress that other commissions have made rather than us sitting here and I mean I think our creative process is great, but I I'm also like happy to copy with pride and you know kind of learning from our neighbors.

So I don't know how to effectuate that, but that would be something that might be a good opportunity for us.

That's a great idea, yeah.

Um group that I think it would be great to hear from again would be um from the group that was working on like bus transportation.

They came and spoke to us about changes they were proposing to make.

Oh yeah, you know what choice.

Bus service lines, and then also like the bus pass.

Yeah group.

I think those are two distinct groups, but I'd love to hear from them again.

Was that the tri not the transportation commission?

Was it AC Transit?

I think one yeah, AC Transit was one.

I think there was also a presentation from our own transportation department, because they were talking about the um program that they were piloting with Uber Lyft, you ride share services and then paratransit um struggles, successes.

So yeah, that was a pretty robust presentation, so I could check in with them maybe because I think they just re-upped that program, and then also, of course, Woodstock has had great success, so um that's kind of a fun thing to hear about maybe for our successful transportation in Alameda.

What is Woodstock?

I'm totally ignorant.

Like I apologize.

Oh, yeah, okay.

The little yellow boat, it's great.

Oh, cute.

See, like events like like the opening day of Woods, like when I think there was something that the city had.

Okay, like some kind of a Woodstock party that we could attend.

Have fun.

Yeah, there's things like opportunities like that.

That would have been great.

Unfortunately, sometimes I don't hear about those things until it's too late.

So I don't I that's not throwing shade.

I'm just saying sometimes if I can't plan ahead with for the group or even for myself, then it does make it tricky.

But yes, there's lots of those little things happening where we could just show up and and celebrate somehow.

So I'll I'll keep that in mind for sure.

Yeah, and maybe a topic of discussion is like maybe adopting kind of a a default game plan.

Like if any one of us is interested and willing and like wants to go with something and could just be an ambassador, quote unquote, for the commission, and just like we have maybe a spiel or some way to remind people what is I don't even know, every other month, second Wednesday, or like whatever are, you know, default cadence.

I know it moves, but just you know, maybe we can kind of come up with like kind of to your point about the emergency notifications, like have something that like you're just programmed, like and we're all comfortable and you don't feel like you're speaking out of turn, like we we kind of come up with a consensus, like hey, if you want to go do that and you wanna tout the commission or you know, advertise it in some way, like here's a convenient, easy, quick way to do that.

Yeah, make it a little lift.

Have our have our elevator pitch.

Yeah, that we can all know and be on the same page, right?

Cause I think that's part of my problem is like, well, I'm like, do you want to have a long conversation?

I'll tell you like you know, my experience and this and that.

But yeah, you know, we could have a 30-second version and a five-minute version.

Yeah, I like it.

I like it.

Maybe we could have pins made that say ask me about the commission of versus accessibility.

Exactly what I'm thinking about, or like a QR code to your newsletter, it's just like super easy.

You know, but just kind of like we can go, it's not a commission meeting, but it's like we're kind of spreading the word, like just as we you I'm very impressed with the amount of engagement and activity already that I've been hearing about.

As you can tell I'm slow on the uptick on the Woodstock and like some other things, but I'm like what great opportunities you're already out there and you know in a position to to advocate and get the word out.

It'd be kind of nice to have like a like a tier one and a tier two.

Like tier two is like we got the table and the you know, yeah, the whole setup of a potential brown act like disclosure.

Publish that has happened, yeah.

Versus we hear about something two weeks in advance and we wanna we have the capacity to go, and it's like I don't know, like a one of those board things that you can just stick in the dirt or something.

Yeah, and then a little pin.

I like to represent.

Yeah, we need to be identified in some in some way.

I was thinking, oh, you want to get t shirts or but it can be I really like the idea of just ask me about it, right?

Like 'cause then we're not I don't have the burden of yeah.

Hi, I'm yeah, people self select.

Exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

So I think it comes up sometimes in my experience for me.

I mean, it just happened today.

It just comes up in conversation.

I was at the pool and someone asked me something and um we just got into this in conversation and I the woman who I was speaking with that said, no, there's a commission of persons with disabilities.

'Cause she told me she had a disability as well.

And I said, Oh, there's a commission of disability in City of Alameda.

She had just moved here.

She's from another country.

And so she's like, Well, what is that?

What do you what do you do?

No, I it took me a second, like we try to make sure people have access to everything, you know.

But the people but people are interested to know what it is, and it would be nice to have that 30-second blurb of you know what we do.

Yeah, it's this whole conversation's also making me just question like where do residents currently get all of their information from?

Do we know?

How many different sources or channels of information are there?

What's the most used?

What's the most reliable?

These kind of things are the um are what I'm wondering, and can we identify the best and most effective method of communication?

Maybe we're not even using it yet, but how do we find that out?

Like, how do we figure out how we're communicating and where there's room for improvement?

Yeah.

I think it's gonna be uh best for most and multiple.

Yeah, right.

Like I'm just anticipating what answers to your very good questions are.

Like I I just I doubt there's a one size fits all, but yeah.

Um then I'm wondering, are we are we hitting all the different options then?

And how can we improve on that?

Cause I feel like there's my limited experience here so far.

The common thing I'm hearing is people don't know about us, and when they find out, they're like, Oh my gosh, I didn't know.

This is so cool.

Everyone should know because just that the knowledge and the energy and the excitement is all there.

I agree.

And also maybe the reverse like how can we give people a voice if they maybe can't necessarily come to our meetings, and um, you know, what information like how do they reach out to reach us via other means if it's emailing you or um see click fix, like deciding how we want to advertise when we have those conversations and we pop up at like a city event, and people say, Oh, I have feedback about XYZ, and you say, Here's the channel to use.

Yeah.

Making sure that we have a consistent um a consistent route for that information so it's not gonna get lost.

What what is the best way, do you think?

Because I can refer people to the website, I say the ADA coordinator.

I mean, they can always directly contact me.

That's totally fine.

Um I've actually been asking myself the same question, Commissioner Knaylor, about um there are several communication channels that the city uses, but what are people really engaging with?

Um, because even when I did the website user testing session, I mean it was only it was such a small group of people, and yet none of them were aware that our website was as robust as it is.

Um, so I think it's I don't know, maybe if the four or five of you want to share, how do you get updates about Alameda and what's happening here?

What do you turn to?

I was gonna say, like, I have such a clear answer, but it's so me, like it's so personal.

Like, but it's like I'm just saying it's like it's my experience and I just don't like I was like, I wanted to answer your question, but I'm like, but that's what's works for me, but it's the website, you know, like the city of Alameda, like.ca.gov or whatever it is.

Like I go there and I'm like do my best to navigate and like that's what I feel like when I'm trying to figure out anything govern city government related, that's where I start.

But did you mean just like how did we know about woodstock?

That kind of thing, okay.

Not just about like the existence of information.

Like, how do how does one find out information?

Yeah, information what's going on in the general anything.

Yeah, yeah.

Sometimes I think it's just casual.

Like I hear it from my wife who is playing golf, so she uses it from five other people.

I used to hear it from my patients or Alameda Peeps.

I hear people love that.

I I've never done it, but everything used to.

Oh, I saw it on Alameda Peeps.

Um I like the um Alameda Post.

There's always a long list of activities of what's happening in Alameda that comes as an email.

Um what else?

I I think, yeah.

I think those are the those are the ways I usually just randomly find out about stuff.

Yeah.

I wonder I wonder how much people are finding stuff, uh like post social media wise through the city, because it's particularly younger generations, and those are the younger generations or those that are more um highly identified as being neurodivergent or or diagnosed these days.

So I guess, yeah, I'm also wondering about the digital back to the digital accessibility.

Um the information like things like the Woodstock, like that kind of level of of stuff.

I I sometimes will see on Facebook, the City of Alameda's um Facebook posts.

Um I think because I like liked it or joined it at one point, and so they're like go into my feed, but that's how I learn about a lot of that off, you know, random stuff rather than going to the website, like thinking, let me see what's on this month.

I'll just it comes to me.

And then emails, because I get all the ARPD emails about events that are happening.

I think I'm they're more like family focused, like kid camps kind of stuff, but so email is how I engage.

Does Alameda have like a TikTok?

I have no idea.

My next question, too.

Do we have a social media manager for the city?

Or like who does all we do?

We do.

Um, and um, Commissioner Beeler, I'll be right.

Sorry, I'll get you one second.

Um, good.

Oh, thank you.

Uh to the social media point, you're absolutely right.

Younger generations and people who you um, you know, you want to cast this wider net for your events and your community engagement, and so obviously you want to pull in the younger generations as well, like as of all ages, but my question with that is but do they intentionally follow the city of Alameda if they use Instagram or you know what I mean?

Like if they're using those social media platforms, are they like, oh, I should follow my local government?

I don't know.

Bad question.

That's and that's not even like a pointed question.

That's an honest question of you know, so if um we don't know who who that is engaging with our social media accounts are specifically Alameda owned, then is there like a third hand or third party that we want to engage with?

You know, like a local organization that would then get our words to the people like you know, do you know what I mean?

So it's like sidestepping just our own official account, but like finding those ways like TikTok is that's that's funny.

We should be making reels probably.

Okay, Commissioner Bieler, thank you.

Yeah, uh Lily and I actually have the same kind of thread.

I got off most of social media.

Um I don't qualify as a as a young generation, I don't think anymore now that I'm uh quite the elder millennial but um I do use Blue Sky and like Commissioner Lyons I actually get a lot of my information from the Alameda Post so I think to your point Lillian I'm kind of getting my information through a third party but also on social media and it's not through the Alamedia meetup.

Thank you.

I don't know if you're cold.

Um no I'm fine no because it's it's cooled off so do you want me to for you do you want me to close that one or this one?

Whatever one you want I can close this one.

Temperature change I'm a Bay Area person.

I layer I'm good.

You missed it.

It was so hot to me.

So we got into the pretty good um the one thing I wanted to mention is that I get a lot of inform I go to the library a lot and so the library always has like a lot of posters and I just want to stand by there and as read them all.

And then I'm like ooh I want to go to that and then I'll like take a picture of the QR code and then I'll put in my calendar.

And so that might be like just making a flyer that can live there for months.

We can get we can make a QR code.

Yeah to the newsletter yeah yeah that's what I think like we just have like some kind of landing zone you know like I think that's really my vision is like what do we like how do we want to be like ask us.

You know and like what do we want that first pitch or like you know kind of we're here reception area like to bring people in.

Yeah maybe if we could make like a a flyer that would work as like something that we could post at the library or at Mastic that we could also have on our person like to hand out or really show people and it could have like basic information about the commission website QR code for the newsletter and then like some kind of a link for if you have comments, questions or concerns here's what here's like the next step.

And maybe it's C click fix or maybe it's emailing Lillian or like something so that people know where to go about how do we continue engaging.

And I'm kind of tempted to have a ver sorry we're like kind of diving into the substance of it but like I'm kinda I'm tempted to have maybe not necessarily verbatim from our bylaws that we recently revisited like kind of what the commission is or the I can't remember if it was a mission statement or whatever.

Maybe we don't like maybe we truncated a little bit just so it's not a wall of text but like just one kind of again like back to the blurb like just something here's who we are here's what we do here's how to engage with us here's here's a few like we call it sorry like corporate lingo like BKMs best known methods like here are things like if you have like things you need to do like to your point like also have some like helpful stuff like right there in the I like that idea you know because people may be going there and being like but I want to do something.

Right.

I don't know I think there's a lot we could do with that idea.

I want to ask uh Commissioner Lip to bring puppies for a future prepation.

I think that I'm just gonna throw it out there because I feel like we have so much like we can just ask for what we want to do we're gonna have it.

I want puppies feature agenda item exactly that's why I'm like put my wish list out there of my stretch goal.

Actually thank you for bringing him up Commissioner Lip has mentioned in the past the idea of having um the social worker or a similar program manager from Foz Foz.

Friends of Alameda okay I never remember if it's Faz or Fawz.

Sorry I don't know about the um so the soft day um to have someone come before the commission to just talk through um you know what they do as far as like therapeutic uh services go even within um the organization so that might be something we could also look at only if they bring puppies.

No, kidding.

With puppies kidding not kidding kidding not kidding, just asking, putting it up there.

No.

That I think that would be great.

And I think like it would just out of curiosity, but also substantively, I think it's definitely within the mission, but what a different angle of serving different parts of our community.

You know, I just think we could learn a lot.

That would be really interesting.

Yeah.

I I think that would be good.

I just recently filled out an application for emotional support animals.

So I think for for all kinds of disabilities animals are good.

I think that would be a great presentation.

Probably educate some people.

Yeah.

Well then just for the dis and absolutely and I remember Commissioner Lip talking about, you know, just as folks age at home and like you know trying to keep their animals with I mean I just think it's just such a window or just like a very interesting way to like engage with it.

Kind of off topic but it reminded me of another question I had about emergency preparedness and people with disabilities and their pets like our came up.

I okay it's been talked about before.

Well just like trying to get folks to evacuate and like if they aren't willing to leave with their pet.

Yeah making sure they have somewhere they can bring their pet as well.

Yeah.

I don't think I yeah I don't think we talked about that a aspect at our most recent presentation but a prior one it did come up where they had had someone mention that to them that we were trying to integrate it into the plans to have like a pet space at a re where the reunification area is so that people with animals can safely do that.

Cool.

I think that when um Captain Andrews was here that was brought up and and discussed and I can't remember if they had a plan in their emergency plan or if they did they were reviving it.

But it was brought up and exactly like what you said a place to have the animals sheltered and housed.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Do you think that we could get someone from the library to come talk about their programs?

That'd be great.

I think so.

Yeah yeah.

Yeah definitely.

Um I wanted to ask you all if you would be interested in possibly hearing from the ARPD from the recreation and park um department.

Okay great.

About what they're doing to be more inclusive in their services and programs.

Or I think even just to offer insight or or ask you know direct questions about something along those lines.

Absolutely okay you took the words right out of my mouth.

I was literally gonna say that because you brought up that you get the emails and about camps and stuff and Mike's gonna say so how do you feel about that?

Do you see are you finding of things that you like and what you see and um so yeah that's that's awesome.

Okay, anything else that pops in your mind?

I have this idea and I don't I don't want it to sound like a a complaining thing but it's it's it's something that's crossed my mind about um the misuse of the accessible parking spots and um so when pe persons who maybe in the spot that don't have a placard displayed or a license plate um if there's some frequency in some specific locations in Alameda that it happens over and over again and um I I brought it up in a um a group that I'm involved in just randomly to hear about it and the one of the persons in the group said that where they lived um they were able to as a citizen write a ticket by they had some sort of app where they could take a photo and then it'd be submitted and I was just curious about first of all if it's if it's a priority if it's a complaint if the traffic uh department if the police department has that as a complaint, or um if there anybody's aware of it, or if that program could even possibly exist and what it what it would be.

So also how does it rank against street sweeping?

Like if traffic enforcement Well I no I'm just saying like there's this is my sorry, this is my like maybe my uh editorial comment, but I feel like there's a there's a prioritization of that, or you know, that's something that I have observed personally, like there are quite a few tickets, and maybe just the area where I live, it's you know, a very active like two different days a week.

There's street sweeping, like you know, pretty regular cadence of traffic enforcement going through, and I'm just wondering like as a priority, like are there stats or you know, like a policy towards the misuse of disabled or handicapped spaces.

Well, I have a phone number of the person that I can call in the City Valamita police department because it I I it came up and I had a question about it.

But I think for something like that, it's it's so it's such a no it's yeah.

These things are random.

That's right.

So fair enough.

You know, it it But you're like it sounded like you were saying there's kind of a habitual Oh yeah, I could tell you the spots, but it wouldn't waste your time now.

But um and I I've jokingly said when I when I call the non-emergency phone number and I say, you know, I'm at this location and I joke to the officer if they do show up and then they do, but sometimes by the time they do the person.

I see.

If you want to make a lot of money for the city only, just just sit here all day.

Like it's regularly.

Because this will happen all day long.

And it's gonna be in front of a post office or an ice cream store.

And that's pretty much every single time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So um, it's not a high priority.

It's just it's just uh I mean, I don't mean to say it's not a high priority.

It's it's it's it's it's a pet peeve of mine, I guess.

I mean, I think it's a very fair inquiry.

So, yeah, I I think is there a way to do that on C click fix that that it happens with enough like isn't enough real time to do anything about it, because that has a lag.

Yeah, no, I don't Yeah, this issue ha has come up um on a few occasions where I've been directly involved and I'm sure it's c it's come up more than that.

Um so of course there's C click fixed but again with the lag.

Um it's going to be basically just documenting like, oh, this is a trouble zone, it would be my understanding of it.

Um and then there are direct contact information that you can try, like our our traffic enforcement department.

Um if it's on public city property, they're very good about responding as fast as possible um to help with enforcement of that.

If it's um just general oh, sorry, keep hitting this thing.

If it's just general public property like um like a grocery store parking lot or um, you know, something like that, then that can be up to the private management to then enforce it.

Um so you can of course call APD and the police department and they can respond, but they are going to have to collaborate with the private management.

It it's a little bit funny how it parses out to just end up feeling like okay, what what is the policy here and what is the plan for these things?

So I think it would be an interesting topic for sure.

Um just in general, citywide accessibility.

Yeah, all right.

Any other um ideas for networking, areas of focus, future agenda items.

We have a lot to work with.

Yes, Commissioner Von Smith.

Um in previous years, I think the city has sponsored or partially sponsored people to attend it focused conferences.

I think um, that was Commissioner Hall, but I would talk about that.

Yeah.

I don't know if that's something that would be a possibility in the future, and you know, she would have more details on how that mechanistically happened.

Um, but there might be opportunities for us to get more education on, you know, some of how like how the laws work.

I think that was the focus of that conference, but there might be other things.

Um I think that's in the spring.

Okay.

I remember her talking about one that was like the conference.

Yes.

I don't remember what it was.

She found it hugely um beneficial.

Yeah, that's the Pacific ADA network.

Yeah, she um really appreciated their conferences.

They do a lot of really good webinars, all of the different nationwide um ADA networks.

I think there's, you know, gosh, maybe nine different ones based on the region.

They do uh webinars all the time, and then also one of them will host like the nationwide conference each year.

Um, so yes, that's definitely something I would encourage everyone to subscribe to, or all those newsletters, specifically the Pacifica ADA network, and then just watch for those webinars and things, but I can follow up on the more um the conference or something like that.

I just had a random idea.

Disability pride month.

Yes, that is it June or July.

Yeah, um July.

July.

It'd be kind of cool if we hosted some sort of event, like maybe some sort of screening, like community screening or something.

Um, so there's a lot of activism in the Bay Area that led to the ADA, and there's some pretty interesting films I've seen, and actually people that were involved in that advocacy that still live and are active in the Bay Area.

Um, it could be kind of interesting to have a community event or like a screening that we could also let people know we exist at and also bring people together, and maybe even get some of the people that uh participated in the film, like Jim LeBrecht is producer and director and involved in that movement, and he's local.

That's a great idea.

I think last year the city put up some banners, like about for the 25th or I don't know 30th.

I knew I was of the ADA passage.

Yeah, I love that idea.

Great idea.

And it seems like it's not astronomically budget heavy.

I don't think so.

I mean, because I see um I know if wherever we randomly get information, I know there's um city movies that happen at other times.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's a great idea.

The library was really helpful with me last year.

We did an autism awareness, um, like the celebration month in April.

So we did a display of books and authors, um, and then of course the banners for the uh the anniversary, which wasn't a lot, but it was something since it was my first year on, but I would I love the idea of a screening or some proper event to celebrate disability pride month in July.

That would be great.

So I can follow up with ARPD and library.

Okay, yeah.

Okay, anything else?

Any others?

That's a great idea.

It's a great idea.

Yeah, great discussion, commissioners.

Thank you.

Um so uh motion and a second to close this agenda item.

I'll move to close it.

Okay.

I'll second.

Okay.

Alright, thank you.

Um so we've closed that agenda item and we'll move now to commission communications.

So I know you all just um communicated quite a bit, but if there's anything specific that you wanted to relay as far as upcoming events or um anything you're working on that you'd like to share with the commission, now is the time.

I don't have anything, okay.

Uh Commissioner Bueller.

Nothing on my end.

Okay, thank you.

Um, so for uh the next is just staff communications.

Um I already mentioned it briefly, but I'm in the works to do another website user testing session.

So in February or March.

Um I'm hoping I'm communicating with the independent for center, sorry, independent of oh my goodness, Center for Independent Living, thank you, in Berkeley.

Um, to see if they'll help me promote to their um community base and just since it is virtual, you don't have to be a resident of Alameda to audit our website.

Um, so I'm hoping that something comes of that.

But as I cement those details, I will definitely share it with you all if you don't mind sharing it with your audiences as well.

Um, and then I already mentioned this as well, but the digital accessibility with that DOJ rule, um, that's something that we're working on across the city, many departments are in the works of auditing their web pages, hopefully, and working on what that looks like to be more accessible in the digital space.

And so that's that.

And then the sidewalk program continues.

We just had the city council earlier this month.

They re-upped it again.

So we're doing another year under the pilot.

And it's just been a very successful program as far as almost 70% compliance when property owners are notified that they have sidewalk repairs that need to be done adjacent to their property, that they are participating in the program, getting the repairs done, paying for the work, and so that's just that's huge.

As a side note, I spoke with the representative in Oakland.

They administer a similar program and they have a less than 30% compliance rate.

So feeling very excited about our sidewalk repair program and how it's going.

And then I believe that's it for my little portion.

Oh, sorry.

One other thing.

I mentioned this last time, but just want to remind everyone since it's this month, January 22nd is the point in time count.

So this is a nationwide thing that's done where simultaneously representatives from each local area goes out.

This one starts at 5 a.m.

And it's basically like a census for people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness.

And so they will go and they'll connect with them and ask them questions, offer resources, or purely just mark it down that there's a you know a person, an adult person or something like that.

So it's basically a census, like I said, um, but looking for volunteers who might want to participate in that.

Um for people who are interested, you can also help pass out care bags and um again different resources in the area.

And then if you're not able to do the point-in-time count, there is a homelessness donation drive being managed by our youth advisory committee from the Alameda Collaborative for Children Youth and Their Families, and they have a donation list, so there's a QR code where you can scan and just donate things like socks, toiletries, um, you know, different things like that.

Okay, all right.

That was it for my staff communications.

So if there's nothing else, we can go ahead and move to adjourn.

Anybody want to move to adjourn?

I'll move to adjourn.

Okay, in a second.

Second, okay, thank you, commissioners.

Have a great evening.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone.

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