2012-7-18, Committee on People with Disabilities-Minutes

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P. De Lima would like to prioritize having a telephone conferencing from a Kona office and would like Jesslie to know about it. I think that we should just prioritize that for the last four months. Paige would like to dismantle all the ad hocs. ADA Day was postponed because we didn’t have a good response for help. ANNOUNCEMENTS P. Aughe An idea that had is to do A Day with the Mayor and film it. And in honor of October’s Disability Employment Month we do a video of me and anyone else who is interested, with the Mayor, going around Hilo and other areas just to give him a more 1-on-1 interaction in the perspective that he might not get without somebody who is disabled and also for the public to get some perspective too. And then do a 15 minute interview with him about what his ideas are in regards to serving people with disabilities. P. De Lima feels it is important for the Mayor to see and talk about the issues that people with disabilities have to deal with. Our thought is to have one of the meetings highlighted with that video and for the Mayor to speak on behalf of what P. De Lima his experience of his day with Pauline was. would like to discuss that and ADA Awareness Day at our next meeting. L. Tobosa had a concern from someone who attended the last meeting and was W. Tanigawa not aware that ADA Day was cancelled. apologized for that and will be sending out an e-mail to all the people apologizing for not informing everyone that ADA Day had been postponed. T. Trujillo interpreting for James who is saying that the interpreter should have a break pretty soon. BREAK D. Budget Planning for Fiscal Year July 2012 - June 2013 P. De Lima inquired if the committee would have a new budget when it A. Parker reconvenes with whoever the new mayor is. said it would be a new budget. What’s there now would go back into General Fund. Paige wants to take the next four months and do something to make a difference and achieve some goals. The ad hoc committees would provide their recommendation as they did last year. In October, make a pre-report and November do the final report, and then have a presentation to the Mayor. Do the final finale in November and have a big meeting. She also wanted to thank the public for coming to the meeting and told them that they were just as important as if you were sitting on the committee. A. Parker Regarding budget, stated that rather than changing budget line items, if changes are needed to fund a special event or project, a request can be made (budget exception form) to the budget review committee. 4