Laserfiche WebLink
<br />Joyce Imaino <br /> stated that United Health has a list of all the people who are <br />disabled living in that area and inquired if Housing works or could work with <br />insurances. Alan wasn’t sure about that because the information they have are <br />public record too and Housing is not allowed to release certain things. And I <br />don’t know if they can turn it over to us or not, but that would be very interesting. <br />Something like that is a great resource. <br /> <br />According to Alan during Flossie there was a lot of confusion at the shelters on <br />where you could bring your animal, where you couldn’t, and DOE didn’t want <br />them. But we’re trying to get around that so they understand that they have to <br />take these animals at the shelters. <br /> <br />Joyce inquired if Hawai‘i Disability Rights is involved in any of the housing issues. <br />Alan stated that Hawai‘i Disability Rights is at the table with Fair Housing which is <br />involved in the Analysis of Impediment study. They all meet quarterly. <br /> <br />Chris stated that what we find with the Committee on People with Disabilities is <br />housing and transportation are the two biggest issues. <br /> <br />Alan stated that Housing has no oversight of private developers. We don’t know <br />what they’re doing necessarily. When they are recipients of federal money or the <br />county money, than we can see what they’re doing, we can kind of check it. But I <br />will still say that the majority of the development is done by private developers <br />who we have no knowledge or oversight on. They do fill out forms. But the <br />county does not check after that. And it turns out that the county is not going to <br />monitor the federal requirements. DCAB does not review plans for Fair Housing <br />design accessibility guidelines. They do for ADA. You’re going to have more <br />available visibility under Fair Housing design requirement than under ADA. <br /> <br />W. Tanigawa <br /> thanked Alan for coming. <br /> <br />Discussion about recruiting committee members due to resignation of <br />Dr. Ron Wagner-Wright and Raelene Souza <br /> <br /> <br />W. Tanigawa <br /> stated that he discussed with Renee about bringing new members <br />in and she said the Mayor makes that decision. We should also consider - the <br />larger the committee, the harder it is to get a quorum. And this has been a <br />problem for the committee this past year. There was discussion about the <br />J. Souza <br />number of members the committee should have. felt that we should <br />have only committed people be involved. <br /> <br />C. Cholas <br /> recommended that we make membership on the Mayor’s Committee <br />L. Tobasa <br />a nine member committee. seconded that motion. All were in favor. <br />None opposed. <br /> <br />C. Cholas <br /> also recommended that the committee send both Dr. Ron and <br />Raelene a note of thanks because they did serve for a while. <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />