Community Services and Youth Committee - Regular Meeting

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Commissioner Trim here commissioner Stewart chair Tarmo here vice chair Cleary?

Here.

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Here.

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Callers online? Any callers online?

We have no callers online. We do have one participant in chambers.

We do have a person. Kevin?

Hello. Good evening commissioners. My name is Kevin, and I'm deaf, and I'm a disabled resident of Riverside. And I'm here and I'm here with a proposal that I'd like to add into your work plan in regards to the Riverside office for deaf and disabled support. I'd like to request to add it to your work plan in regards to add it to your agenda as well.

For section five, for your discussion, for your meeting, in your calendar later in the advocating more for that. I would like to tell you more. And I did distribute a draft for that proposal and how the office of disabled support is here to fight for the city of Riverside and how the Riverside City is run and how the government is run and managed here in our city in general. Also, I'm here, and I'm looking forward to hearing your discussion and ideas about how we can have equal representation for all residents here in our city. The draft and the letter that I've given to all of you, I'd like to be able to share with all of you and have the opportunity.

It is on your desks, and I would love for you to be able to do your best. And I trust that you will be able to read it and have the opportunity to edit as you see fit. Section nine, I'm adding new responsibilities for the Office disability support, so the ODS. And at the last meeting with city council, I was very impressed. I met someone who works for the city office for intergovernmental relations.

And that person who's in the city, who is a professional Stafford, who goes out and goes to government agencies and works with different agencies and different federal government agencies different counties, and is involved in different legislative decision making and law making, and advocates for our city. And that's a very powerful role. And her role has the opportunity to have the opportunity to add funding for our city. And I think it would be great to be able to have a deaf person who could go out with her and get deaf disability support. And her name is Chiquita Gillian.

And I would like to read that section eight from that previous meeting. So it's the proposed mission and scope of the ODDS. So section eight for the intergovernmental relations and inclusion advocacy. So collaborate with other municipal offices and departments and agencies of Riverside Municipal Government to foster, encourage for, advocate, and ensure actively equitable inclusion of deaf and disabled individuals within their operations. This effort is not limited to only Riverside Municipal functions, functions, but also includes representing these populations at other county, state, and federal governmental policy and legislative functions.

So now imagine all of you, of course, are volunteers here on this commission, and you are all here to represent our community, and to get resources our larger disabled community here in Riverside, and to be able to have the opportunity to go to Sacramento, or even to Congress. This person is already a professional in our community who could go and talk to other people, and possibly get funding resources for the city of Riverside from other legislators, and be able to have the opportunity to make a powerful impact. And she would also be able to have possibly another deaf advocate with them to advocate in Sacramento and talk, like, be able to talk in regards to following the ADA funding that the city does need to follow and required to follow, and to have that opportunity to have that type of funding that ODS would is screaming for. Because the money, of course, we all need that, and there's a lot of opportunities out there. And we need that type of resources to be provided for our city, and disabled people here in Riverside deserve that opportunity.

So we would really like to be able to talk to her and have the opportunity to partner with her. In addition, what the best way to get support is and to vote and to get a petition out there to get a million people to vote in the state of California, of course, in addition to pass a law and the money that's involved with the lobbyists for representatives. Of course, I would love to do what I can to do that. In addition to the governmental people who are out there who work, and what is the easiest way to get what you want. Right?

And the way to help the disabled people here in Riverside. I think there's a very simple way to follow ADA compliance and get the budgeting that we do need here in the city. And I think there's a way for us here in Riverside as deaf and disabled people to lead the country in what a disabled city can look like and what we can provide our disabled members here in our community. Today, as part of your discussion, I assume that there will be a discussion in regards to the proposals that have been mentioned in your agenda. So I'm looking forward to hearing that, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the city manager is going to do about all of these things, and I'm happy to hear your thoughts and hear your conversations.

Thank you. Thank you.

Any questions?

No? Okay. Right.

We have a presentation now. We are going to have a presentation from the Riverside Police Department and their Blue Envelope Program. So gentlemen.

Good evening commissioners. My name is Andrew Guerra. I'm a community service officer, with the Riverside Police Department. And I'm gonna give you a brief overview of our Blue Enbullet program. So as you can see from the presentation, we move on to the next slide.

Can we go to the next slide?

Pardon? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay.

There we go.

There we go. Here Here we go. We're getting there.

So the Blue Envelope program, it was designed for individuals as well as drivers who have developmental disabilities. Kind of listed here on the side you see the autism spectrum, dementia, anxiety, cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, and so on. And those are just to name a few, but we're open to any disability really. It provides an opportunity for an envelope to be presented to law enforcement, which I believe you all received a version of. The envelope can contain some information to help the officer and the individual, but it recognizes the barrier of communication, so it helps alleviate that issue.

Next slide please. So again, the overall purpose of the program is to improve communication during traffic stops and interactions. It helps reduce stress and anxiety for both the individuals involved and brings officer awareness of the disability and promotes a safe outcome for all individuals involved. Next slide. What goes inside of the envelope is your basic information during interaction, so a driver's license, a vehicle registration, your insurance card, some emergency contact information, and then there's also some space on the back of the envelope where an individual can include again their contact, emergency contact person, any tips on how to communicate with them for the officer so that they can improve that interaction or any as well it's optional, Anything that can help them with in regards to their disability.

Next slide. So again, how it works is that when the individual is approached by a law an officer, they could present the blue envelope to the officer, or there's other materials that we have here. As you can see, the stickers, there's the seat belt cover, the lanyard, the bracelet, the key chain. Any of those, materials can be looked at by the officer so that the officer is aware that that individual has a disability and that they may need to adjust how they approach that individual or how they communicate with that individual. And then we do have can we click on that link? There's a little brief video that kind of goes over it.

We'll get in here.

Yeah, no worries.

Give us one moment, please. Uh-huh.

The Blue Envelope program is now available in San Diego County. It's a new tool to assist law enforcement agencies and community organizations to better understand and assist members of the public with a condition or disability that may impact communication or require additional accommodations or awareness. Here's how it works. Individuals can display one of several items readily displaying the blue envelope logo. These items may be a physical blue envelope, wristbands, lanyards, stickers, pins or other items available for free through our community partners or your local law enforcement agency.

This allows a sheriff's deputy or police officer who sees the Blue Envelope logo to know an individual has a condition or disability requiring additional accommodations or assistance during a service call or emergency. There's also Blue Envelope branded products designed to carry important information such as medical or contact details. Participation in the Blue Envelope program is free and voluntary. For more information on the Blue Envelope program and where to pick up the Blue Envelope products, visit the website below. You can also scan the QR code on your screen. Thank you for making San Diego a Blue Envelope County.

So obviously, this is not our video, but you do have one in the works for our specific city. We're working with Riverside TV to do very something similar. Going back to the presentation on how to participate in our program is, again, the Blue Envelope program is completely free to the individuals participating. It is not a registry, so they don't have to have any proof of their disability. They can come to our Orange or Magnolia station and ask for the envelope at the front counter, and they will be issued one.

If they would like the materials, like the wristbands and the lanyards and all that stuff, they can request an appointment to meet with myself at our Orange station or Donna or another community service officer at Magnolia, and we will come down and give an explanation more of the program as well as offer any other resources that we can provide. And then next slide.

You have another slide?

Which is is fine. It's the last slide. It's our contact information. So again, myself is at the downtown station here, and then Donna Granillo is our Magnolia station contact. Those are the two stations that are offering the program. And then I'm open to any questions that you may have on the blue envelope.

I think it's a great idea.

Thank you.

Is there a way to maybe get some of these to have in our office because we work with individuals that would benefit from something like this or do they need to go down to the police station to get it?

Are you talking to your office as far as city hall?

No. We're a non profit organization and so I'm just thinking about having them in like for organizations that do assist individuals with disabilities. Could they have some of these envelopes in their office already to hand out or do people have to individually go to the police stations?

I think the I think we prefer them to go to the stations directly. We can definitely provide you with flyers on the program. That way, you can outreach that way.

Perfect. Thank you.

What about this?

Again. Yes. I we can definitely provide you as as flyers as well for your organ all organizations. And then we do have the website that has all of the resources as well as the downloadable flyer. I

have a a couple of concerns. I saw the seven, and my daughter has five of the seven disabilities. And I can see that one, well, doesn't, she doesn't drive. But this had, you can put all the information in it, but it's big, so I guess it fits in a glove box. But it wouldn't fit on her.

And I like the idea that you have these materials, things that somebody could just put on their body or put in the car. But I think it's unrealistic to expect people to go to the police station to go get them. As I'm a social worker, and I know that my clients tend to be very poor, most people who have a disability tend to be very poor, transportation to get somewhere will limit your ability to be effective in this kind of a program. And then the other thing is, I'm just wondering about training that law enforcement. How many hours of training does the typical post graduate get on working with people with a disability?

I can have my lieutenant come up and he can talk.

Thank you.

Good evening, commissioners. To answer your question, I don't know the exact number of hours off the top of my head, but there is a block of instruction, that, academy, recruits receive while they're in the police academy itself on doing working with persons with disabilities. In addition to that, we do provide ongoing training that we call CIT, where it's usually about a year, eighteen month cycle where we'll put the officers through refresher training that cover a variety of topics. And working with persons with disabilities is often one of those refresher things because it's ever changing for us. So we want to keep our officers up to date on that.

In addition to this program specifically, Andrew Guerra and some of our other personnel attended all of our roll calls and presented training to our patrol officers as well as disseminated disseminated the information to the entire police department.

I appreciate that. Is there any possibility that your law enforcement officers could socialize with people with disabilities in a very, you know, like, thing? Years and years ago, back in the 90s, I used to do something with kids and law enforcement called bowling with a badge, where, you know, it was just literally bowling, but they got to feel comfortable with law enforcement.

Sure. Especially the community services bureau within the police department that Andrew works with, that I work with, we're always looking for ideas for outreach and we do have a number of programs that we go engagement and that's with people with disabilities and, anybody else as well. So if there's other suggestions, we're happy to hear them. We do try to frequent as many community events as we can. I know we're engaged with CSDR quite a bit. We know that that's an important part of our community. And, so I'm not familiar with the the bowling with officers, but, we do other things and we're open to ideas.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Is there any other way that you are getting this type of information out to the community?

So we're doing a soft We just launched the program. So we're doing social media campaign that you'll see shortly. Again, we are working with Riverside TV to do the video aspects of the promotion. It's already being launched in all of the community events that we attend to through the community services bureau as well as our community engagement division. And then the website is currently live. And then we have the the printed flyers in all of our lobbies and then out to any individual contacts that we have.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, commissioners, for your time.

Thank you. Mhmm. Real quick. I apologize. Was there a slide that had the website on it, a link to the website? I wanted to see if we could see that again really quick.

I

think there was a couple if you go back, Fred.

I think that may have been the video.

Oh, in the video?

Yeah. Okay.

But yes. Would it be possible Back there.

There it is. There

Would it be possible to provide Fred with some of the, documents you have for that, like a link to the website or your flyer? And and that way you could get it to us?

I do have the link to the website so I

can Thank share you.

Yes. I'll be happy to share Fred with the flyer and all the other information that we do have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're going to move on to the consent calendar. And before we discuss items on the consent calendar, take a look at item number four.

I'd like to move item number four to discussion calendar, and off the consent calendar, it was just put there in error, no problem.

Okay. So now, okay. So now we're going to move on to item number three, meeting minutes for March 19. Any comments? Any discussion? Any corrections? Additions? We just need a motion to approve the minutes.

I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for 03/19/2026.

A second?

I second.

Okay.

Next item.

No, no, no. No.

We need to have a roll call. Okay.

Okay. Taking a vote on consent calendar. Commissioner Diane Segala. Yes. Commissioner Rand.

Yes.

Commissioner Trinh.

Yes.

Commissioner chair Tarmel yes vice chair Cleary

yes

commissioner Dunstan

yes

commissioner Lee yes motion passes.

Okay. We're now going through to the discussion calendar. Discussion calendar. Item number four since it's already been moved.

What was the instance because the state is unexcused?

Commissioner Stewart did not notify within twenty four hours.

Policy is

within twenty four hours before a meeting. Okay.

So that automatically puts them on the discussion calendar. Okay. So you can either discuss it or you can either excuse or unexcused.

Just for background, was for traffic. Just stuck in traffic.

She was stuck in traffic.

You also have the option to move this item to the next meetings to give her an opportunity to speak if you would like to.

Far as I'm concerned, I mean, excuse it, it's a non issue. Traffic is traffic.

Motion to excuse. Yes. Seconded.

No.

Okay. Taking a vote on excused absence for commissioner Stewart. Commissioner Diane Segala? Yes. Commissioner Rand?

Yes.

Commissioner Trim yes chair Tarmel

yes

vice chair Cleary yes commissioner Dunstan yes commissioner Lee yes motion passes

We are now moving to item number six. Five. Five. I sorry. I can't count. Okay. I I did at one time. Okay. Do we have any callers? Do we have any callers? I don't know.

No callers online

okay

one participant in chambers

we have one speaker kevin

Okay, so I'd like to discuss the annual work plan for 2026. So I'd like to say part of the work Office of Disability Support proposal. It's on page, we'll start with page one. Engage the community members to identify barriers that are faced and formulate possible resolutions. That kind of engagement is where the Office of Deaf and Disability Support can be involved.

They can do their work for the city. City services like the police, for example, the police officer if ODDS had collaboration with the police department would have it ready to go to distribute the blue envelope to all of the city, the people of Riverside that have disabilities. They can distribute it easily instead of you guys going and doing the work. That's part of the responsibility that can take. Related to the outreach plan for the Commission on Disabilities, there's resources.

That's a key for the disability of support. That's the kind of work outreach to be the face of the city at all the different city activities and events. For an example, when I go to the office of sustainability events, I meet people there who are interested in sustainability that are from the city, like you guys. And then the legislators and their staff and their representatives from all over California come down for that event, for the sustainability office. That's a lot of influence that they already have just by just existing.

People from Sacramento are coming down. They send the staff to the office of sustainability events. So imagine we were able to pull them down to come to the city event from Sacramento, the Bay Area, they can come to whatever events that the Office of Deaf and Disability Support can set up. It'd be the same concept as the sustainability office. That's why I'm saying this is something that we can do at a professional level to have accessibility to outreach for the commission's office.

And you guys have clients, you guys have concerns, you can have that office do the work for you. We can get the city manager to approve this work plan, it's already there. The roles and responsibilities are already there and listed. So let's make them do the work. You know, to have professionals. We can hire them and get them in and do that kind of responsibilities like this Blue Envelope Program or city outreach. That kind of whatever the necessities we have for the city. Whatever's on the agenda, whatever we need them to do. You you'd be the voice of the community, and these professionals would run it. So please consider adding that to the work plan with those responsibilities.

And that would be it. I look forward to hearing your discussion. Are there any questions for me? I'd be happy to answer them from my experience.

Unfortunately we can't take questions for public comment items.

Okay. Alright. Well thank you for your time. And I appreciate the effort. And I'd love to have deep conversations with you at your call. So thank you.

Thank you Kevin.

Thank you very much.

Alright. I don't think we discuss it, do we? No. Okay. Can we move on to item number six? That was five. Oh. We or have to approve. Okay. Do we have any comments from the audience?

I know. Okay. After the comments have been discussed, ask for a motion to approve or to approve the draft 2026 annual work plan. Required. So we need a motion to approve the draft 2026 annual work plan, which is part of this packet that Fred put on all of our places.

Mine has a blue top on it. Okay. I need a motion to approve this.

Well, I'll make a motion to approve this work plan.

Okay. Motion to approve. Okay. Aye Shelley. Okay. A second. I second. Okay. Thank you.

Give me one second. Okay. Taking a vote for item number five to approve the work plan. Commissioner Ryan Zagala. Yes. Commissioner Rand. Yes. Commissioner Trim. Yes. Chair Carmel.

Yes.

Vice Chair Cleary? Yes. Commissioner Dunstan?

Yes.

Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Item number six, review of the Commission on Disabilities webpage. Do we have any comments from the audience?

No callers on line, no participants in chambers.

Okay. Any, after the comments have been discussed, we will ask for a motion to approve the review of the Commission on Disabilities webpage.

So the review is actually a discussion for you guys to review the webpage. Marketing just displayed it right now on the screens. That's what it looks like right now. So what this item is for is for you guys to have an opportunity to look at it and then decide if you want to leave it as is or if you'd like to make an ad hoc committee to make some changes.

Are you telling me that I can't say anything right now as a suggestion for a change? You could. I could.

I could, yes. Think of it as a brainstorm extension.

Oh, then I'm good. So in the first section, where it says, create public awareness of needs in areas such as housing, employment, and transportation, may we add recreation and education? And then where it says, the next paragraph, meets at 05:30 to seven on the third Thursday of each month, can we add the sentence, we welcome everyone from the community to engage with us? Or something to that effect?

Any comments from the commissioners?

Is this a proposed webpage or one that already exists?

This is the current live page.

Okay, I will say it's hard to find. So, you know, if you're doing a search for it, I mean, just did a search for the Riverside Commission on Disabilities, and some you pages for the commission, but it's not anywhere near the top. You get the one with our upcoming meetings, that type of thing, but that's not this. I don't know what the webmaster can do to make it easier to locate, or to have it come up easier on a web search. The other thing is, since I can't find it, would you be able to scroll up so I can see what else is on below?

I think I want to get back to one of our concerns that we were talking about in our ad hoc committee earlier, is that there's a lot of different services there, but our primary contact in the city of Riverside for disabilities is our 211, and that should be front and center. And so I don't feel like that's visible enough for individuals to find, because Resource. Yeah, the resources. These are resources that are great, but is it very limited in scope to what might be needed?

I'm almost inclined to not have resources on the page if you're

not

gonna have everything, and I don't think you can have everything. I mean, from, I can start listing them off. Where's Rape Crisis Center, Alternative to Domestic Violence, Food Pantries, CPS, Adult Protective Services, there's just not enough to put it all in there.

I do also want to add that I do, I did find it when I looked for it on my phone, it comes up at cityofriverside.gov, and then Protopia Cloud. So that's what the title of the site is when it pops up on my particular phone.

My other concern with all those long lists of resources is that it's not engaging as a page. I think it's kind of boring, and doesn't make you want to stay there.

There's a paragraph on the page explaining the review and approval of the annual work plan, where it says background. And I look at that, and that tells me exactly what this is supposed to be. We were looking at it earlier. It basically, the Commission on Disabilities mission is to identify the needs of persons with disabilities and create a public awareness of these needs in the areas of employment, housing, transportation, media, physical and communication accessibility. Mission also supports programs and activities that promote greater independence for people with disabilities.

To me, that should be the first thing on this page. Because it really says what we are supposed to be about. I

did see that we had, that the suggestion was to create an ad hoc committee for that. Can that be done at this time? Because it looks like we aren't in agreement to go ahead and approve, like we don't want to keep it this way, that we'd like to make some changes.

We can do that.

Going back to where the background is at, that's just a summary of your mission statement.

I realize that.

But this is a template we follow from the city. So I get what your point, that should be the first thing that people see, but this is literally an internal report. So it's something, I mean, the public sees it, but it's a template we just follow from the city.

Okay.

We can ask if it can be moved. I'm not sure if that's

Or something

come up with something of similar language and statement.

Oh, you mean on the webpage. Yes. I'm sorry, misunderstood that To you're talking about the me

that should be the first thing on the webpage. Oh It says Commissioner on Disabilities. Oh geez, what do they do?

I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. Yeah, that's okay. Okay yeah, we can ask.

But I think if we are going to do an ad hoc committee, we need somebody there that does webpage development for this, so we can find out at that time what is and is not available to us.

Yeah, can see if marketing would be willing

to join us for a meeting. We can

have someone come down.

Okay, I make a motion we form an Ad Hoc Committee then to discuss the webpage?

Unfortunately, the only bad part about that is that you would have to do the meeting during the day, if that's okay with you guys.

I can do that, I don't know about anybody else.

I can do that. Okay.

What time are you saying?

It's between sorry, between hours of eight to five.

So if we met like today at 04:30?

Yeah, you would have a thirty minute meeting.

Yeah, it would be only a thirty minute meeting at that point.

If they're available, then yes. Yeah,

and if

we could stay, I mean, we can, they only have to stay for thirty minutes. I don't want them stay later, but you could have just their portion for that thirty minutes, and then we stay longer.

But to me, theirs would be at the end of the meeting, not at the beginning, because we're going to discuss what we want, and then ask them if that's possible. That's the only problem with that one. I see what you're saying, and I understand. I'm just trying to almost play devil's advocate.

Could meeting with the marketing department be a second meeting? The first meeting kind of establishes what individuals want, and the second meeting, you meet with the marketing department, and they tell you how that might be done.

Sure, that would work fine.

Sure, good We can ask and see their availability. The other

thing that I think I like is in that second paragraph, the part that the chair just read, where we tell people that if you can't come to the meeting, you can call in, and here's the information to do it.

The only problem with that is I did hear, I guess through the grapevine, that there is a possibility that all meetings will not be broadcast as they have been in the past due to budgetary restraints?

That was something that was talked about last year, and they shut that down already. So it's, this, as from what I know, it's still the same.

That was what was said at the training meeting we were at a couple weeks ago.

A couple weeks ago?

Yes, by the city manager.

We haven't heard anything different. We will let you know if that changes.

Further discussion?

So

we have a motion to form an ad hoc committee to discuss this issue. So motion. Who wants to make the motion?

I've made the motion.

Okay, and a second?

I'll second.

Okay, Nicole. Okay. For

this vote, we do also need to to know who's going to be on that Ad Hoc Committee. So we can do, I believe it's up to

four commissioners. I can be on

it. With a

chair. Okay.

How many people do we need? Okay. So three and I'm the extra. Three. We need three. Two more people. We have Commissioner Cleary. Kelly Dunston. Commissioner Dunston.

Okay.

I can do it. It fits with the thing I'm more doing.

Okay. And do we have a designated chair?

I guess I'm it.

Okay, Sandy's chair. She's chair. Since you're as needed, we would need someone

else to I'm just as needed. I'll do it. Okay. He'll do it.

Okay. So let's take a vote on item number six, forming an ad hoc for the webpage. Commissioner Diane Segala? Yes. Commissioner Rand? Yes. Commissioner Trem? Yes. Chair Tarmo? Yes. Vice Chair Cleary? Yes. Commissioner Dunstan? Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Motion passes. Item

number seven. Review and approve attending the Janet Goskie Senior Conference.

It'll be in the attachment, the event proposal form, May 6.

Yeah. And I think it's from 10:00 in the morning to 01:00 in the afternoon. Now they're not only asking for us to be a part, but they'd like us to, if it's possible. Oh, any callers?

No callers online. No participants in chambers.

Okay. They are requesting that we come. They are also requesting if we can sponsor, help sponsor this event, which would be about $250 if I'm not if I'm not mistaken.

$2.50 with the credit card fee, so give or take maybe Give or take. Dollars, about $2.60.

About $2.60.

So just to clarify, to attend the event, if you want to represent the commission, you can do that and it's free to attend. But to table, it's $250

Frederick, can you tell us again how much is in our budget till June?

I want to say about 1,800.

And next year we will not have a budget, correct? So we won't be able, if we're doing the brochures or anything like that's not available after this year?

I believe so.

Is this like use it or lose it money?

That's correct, so if we don't use it, then we would lose it at the end of this fiscal, which would be June 30.

May I ask how much it was to print the, trifold that we had last time it got printed?

The last order I did, I believe, was about 1,200. I'd have to find the original invoice to see how many copies we actually got.

And how, okay, thank you.

But if we do a one page for the card versus a trifold, it should be less.

Not necessarily because we're talking about a thicker cardstock type paper.

Yeah. But you're doing three for one.

Any more comments? All right, do we have a motion to approve attending the Janet Goskie Senior Center? Do

we need to know who would be, it says we need four commissioners, do we need to figure out four commissioners that would be able to attend before approving it?

Six, that's a Wednesday.

It's a Wednesday.

May 6 is a Wednesday?

What goes on at this conference with Janet Goskie?

There's just a lot of people with a lot of information trying to give you information on insurance and various programs that are open to seniors. They have a whole list of, they have a wall full information. Whole

I would suggest you decide who's going now. One, because it's getting closer to the date, and because it's, we're not, the next time we meet would be probably after.

And if we approve it, there's a cost, so we need to know that there are temp insurers that can't attend to I justify that

think Fred's checking to see how many people can actually attend with that fee, but also you have to keep in mind that you can't take more than five people, because then it would be quorum. So I would suggest a decision today.

Okay, any more discussion?

Discussion would be, is anybody available to attend?

I am able to attend, I just looked at my calendar.

I can only attend for about an hour, and that's it.

That is during my work hours, and I have two meetings that day, I just checked.

What hours again was this program?

10AM to 1PM.

10AM to one.

Cannot make it due to work as well. Pardon me? I cannot make it through the work. Okay.

What day again was that? Wednesday.

The sixth.

Wednesday, May 6.

Okay, I'll get the ten.

You're able to?

Yes.

Okay, so right now we have Commissioner Dunston and Commissioner Cleary. Anybody else?

Just pointing out that the reservation is for a table.

So would that be enough for that meeting?

Yeah, would be enough, but it's only two of you guys right now.

Well, if we can always add, you know, if somebody decides they can make it, we can always add. We'd have room for Sandy to come for an hour or whatever it is.

So I'm not sure, I would have to ask, but do you know if you have to have a list of people who are attending ahead of time or is it you can submit later? Okay, okay, then that's the case, then

that's fine. Okay.

So as of now, we're going to put down in the minutes that Vice Chair Cleary and Commissioner Dunstan attending. Yes. Possibility of Chair Carmel.

I'd like to ask if there's another city commission that already has a table that maybe we could sit with so we're not paying $250 but we could join forces?

Commissioner on Aging, I'm sure, has a table there. In the past, they've been pretty well staffed from what I had seen at the other conference I went to there, though. It's something we probably should have addressed a couple months ago and not the

Last minute.

You know, a half a month before the event, unfortunately.

Is this setting where we will have literature or something on our table or what?

We would probably have to. It would be nice to have our brochures on our table and a big bowl of candy.

Is that worth $250 to sit there and pass out candy though?

There's also the option just to attend

Yes, for

you can just go.

And you can hand out brochures that way because you still have that opportunity to talk with the other exhibitors

Yeah.

And hand out our resources.

There's also the possibility that one of the other exhibitors would add the brochures to their table while people meet and greet and talk to others.

Correct. I

also want to bring up the fact that if you're attending actual event as a commission, because you're going to speak about the commission, the commission has to agree, and we also have to vote on that.

Yes, absolutely.

So if you're attending this event, you're attending as individuals, not as commissioners, right now. But if you guys decide to attend as a commission, then you guys have to vote on it right now.

So in order to go in, we're not, the only reason we would need to vote on it, is if we're having a table, if I'm hearing you correctly, no.

No, you can have a table, you just can't discuss any items of the commission, if you're going as individuals. Can say, I'm a commissioner of this, I mean, I'm a commissioner of this commission, and that's it. Here's my brochure, these are the days of meetings, please join us.

So what would you consider items of the commission, what

would you say, oh that happened? Talking about what you are planning, for example, your annual work plan, all the items that you guys have on your annual work plan.

It makes it difficult to attend as an individual.

Correct.

And even state you're on the commission because

They start asking questions.

They

start start asking asking questions and

You can't say You

cannot discuss it.

Yeah, understand. It makes it difficult. That's why I'm saying if you guys want to attend as a commission, you guys just have to vote on it right now. That's it. That's all there is.

So we can vote on them attending as a commission, but we don't have to agree to a table? Is that what

I'm That's hearing correct. So you have three options. You can either attend as individuals, limited on what you can talk about. You can attend as a commission and you can talk about whatever you want to. Or you could do that with the table. That would be option three.

I think because our budget is use it or lose it at this point, that we might as well do as much promotion as we possibly can.

Okay, you can guys go ahead and motion.

I'll make a motion that we do attend and we do purchase a table so that we're able to actually show who we are.

And attend as a commission.

And attend as a commission, yes.

And who would be in charge of bringing the brochure and the tablecloth and all of those items?

Fred. We would be available to assist.

Got it,

thank you.

And I do want

to add, the $250 sponsorship does include a logo recognition on all event materials.

So now we need a logo?

Well, do have one.

Aye, do I hear a second?

I second.

Okay. Fred?

Who seconded? Tram, sorry. Oh Tram. I apologize, I don't know your guys' names by memory yet. I know. Okay, Commissioner Diane Segala? Yes. Commissioner Rand? Yes. Commissioner Trim? Yes. Chair Tarmo? Yes. Vice Chair Cleary?

Yes.

Commissioner Dunston?

Yes.

And Commissioner Lee?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Okay. Oops, I had to turn the page. Communications. Updates of conferences, seminars, and regional meetings. Do anybody on the commission have any updates?

I can share. Okay. Riverside Unified School District partnered with Riverside City College, actually Riverside City College District, and we had our transition summit last night, and we had over 150 individuals, and that's, or individuals that came and received information about how the college can support students with disabilities that are going through their systems. There was several resources there that would give one on one support, in addition to those services that are done directly through the college. So we're really happy to have that partnership.

Anybody else? Well, I can share that I met with Commissioner Trim and her associate, or her assistant, Lauren, right?

She's my co teacher, yes.

Oh, okay. And Parks and Rec, Christiana, and a couple of students from UCR who are trying to put together an event for people with disabilities. And I think it was May, I can't, the May. And no date has, or at least to my knowledge, no date has been actually set. But they're working on it.

The students from UC are working on it. So we had that meeting a few weeks ago and we'll see how it progresses. Anybody else? Alright. Item number nine. Items for future commission on disabilities consideration. Alright. This is your chance.

For did you by any chance hear back from the pickleball and or Champions Coffee yet?

Not Champions Coffee, but I did hear back from Romeo and Friends. They may be available in June or July. I have not heard back for pickleball.

Okay. I was told by the pickleball that Henry injured his knee, but I'll see if I can follow-up follow-up with him. Okay. But, Champions Coffee was interested in talking to you. Champions Coffee wants to talk to you, wants to present, but I sent him sent him your note I gave him your number. I mean, I gave

you

the guy's number.

Yes, so I will see if I can get them in for

May. Okay.

Frederick, is there a list of who's going to be presenting through the rest of the year?

I have a list up to about probably August.

Okay. So who's coming up?

I'm just going to go down the list. I have Rolling Star Inc, Indian Health, Muslim Family Foundation speech pathologist, behavior support, PD just came today, I have Dial A Ride, I have RCC in here, and then I also have two eleven.

I'm just curious if we've ever yet been able to get RCC to come in and talk about Disabled Student Services?

Not yet.

Did we get any feedback back from housing authority or housing program supported housing for this population?

No, at the moment we don't have anyone reaching out yet, because we have the other presentations that we have on file. If you want to move them up, we can do that, and see if we can get somebody right away. But to get somebody by the next meeting is a little difficult just because they're very busy. But we can probably do it for the next two meetings. Okay.

Would it be possible to get more information on a department of disability? I noticed that the city of Los Angeles does have a department of disability, and I know we have the department that you work with, and I'd kind of like to hear how those departments compare, what type of services that department might have or what goes through that department compared to what our city is doing? Is that a possible thing for future discussion? I don't know who could talk to us about that, but I am curious.

I mean, we can research and find out to see if we can have some type of presentation from the city of Los Angeles. I don't know how soon we can get them out because I know that they're really busy also, but we can try and research and find out someone. If you guys do know somebody, we'd love to get that information. We can call them.

I don't. It's just based on the public comments today and the interest in that, I'd like to hear more about what other cities are doing.

Okay. I did do some background research to find who's doing this, and I'll look through my notes to find who the contact is. But I think it was the city of Chicago who was really, really exceptional.

Fred, did you reach out to Sean Johnson with Operation Safe House?

Not yet, but that is on my list.

Okay. No problem. If we could

get RCC here to do a presentation, what specifically, is there something specific you'd want to hear, or?

Specifically what I'm interested in is what the city is doing to assist and work with RCC on post secondary college programs for people with intellectual disabilities.

Okay. So I because we actually kind of our organization is engaged with RCC in exactly what you're talking about, so

I'm looking at if you go to thinkcollege.net, those exemplary programs that are in other communities, but we don't have here. We don't have a college to career program, for example. Okay. And the UC Davis Seeds program, which would be our best and brightest, I'd love to have, at our own UCR one day.

Okay. Commissioner Randy, perfect. Commissioner Randy, if you have a contact that we can have, that we can contact so we can get them to come out representation, that would be wonderful. Yes. You can send that over, please.

Commissioner Trim, do you think it would be what do you think about asking, Doctor. Shorter to come? Do think? To speak on

programs? She heads the Riverside County Office of Education Disability Programs. Yeah. So you want her to talk regarding the Riverside County Office of Education? Is that what you had in mind?

I I don't exactly have anything specific in mind, but I thought maybe she might be a good resource since we seem to be talking about college and education.

I think we'd I mean, I'm not opposed to the idea. I just think we have to have a clear ask for her on what what she what we wanted her to present on.

I think so too. She's she's going to work with me on the with the city of Temecula. Alright. It was just a thought. Anybody else? Any further comments? Alright. Updates from the Resource Guide Any updates?

That's the meeting you guys just had prior to this I

think we decided that we wanted to move away from a resource guide guide and move towards a way to encourage people to engage with us as a community. We gave some draft ideas to Frederick, who's gonna work his magic and make it look all gorgeous and give it to us, and we'll look through it again, and hopefully we can get something done before we have no money June 30.

That said, we're not giving up on the idea of resources, it's that we would direct them to the larger resource network, which is in the city, 211.

Any further updates? Or is that as current as it's gonna get? Alright. Updates from the event ad hoc committee. Okay. I will just speak very briefly. We have a call May 7 with the city of Temecula on putting on some sort of a miniature Special Olympics in the city of Riverside. Okay. And I think I've told you that the last time this was done was 1965. Okay.

So we're a little behind the time. But anyway, the city of Temecula has done this for the past sixteen years. So they have a pretty good handle on it. And they have offered to meet with us via Zoom. Okay?

And I think I included Fred and officer chair well, ex chair trim and parks and rec. And we're gonna try and put this on not next year, I think the year after. Okay. We're gonna try and have we're gonna try and have yeah. Try and have some sort of a I don't wanna say miniature, Olympics, but that's kind of what it is for Special Olympics for the city of Riverside.

So the first meeting with the city of Temecula is May 7 at ten in the morning. So that's kind of what's going on. Does anybody else have any further ideas or anything else that they would like to have discussed at the next meeting, which will be May 21. Anything else? Okay.

Are we ready? Okay. This meeting is adjourned.