I want a full-time job, but no one's Brock, I'd agree with that. Good evening. Welcome to our August 12th Commission on Disabilities meeting. Uh if we will start with uh pledge of allegiance. I have the trustee flag
here. I'm trying to get it so that it's not blurry. Uh I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with li with liberty and justice for all. Uh
if um uh Pauline, co-chair, if you could do a roll call of the members, please. Absolutely. So Ralph Tico present. Colleen Pero is present. Jason Baron is present. Yay. Mari Romanis present. Yahoo. And Marie Fiori
present. And Ellie Vargas present. Y. So everyone is present tonight. Thank you so much. Um so uh next item one uh is a motion to approve the meeting
minutes from June 10th, 2025 since we did not have a July meeting. Um, I sent the um the meeting minutes out to everyone for you to review before this meeting. Um, so if anyone has any questions or concerns about that, please let me know. Now, um, do we anyone have
any questions or concerns about the meeting minutes from um from the June 10th meeting? Seeing none and hearing none, um, from members that were at that meeting, could I have a motion to accept? Motion to approve.
Okay. Motion to approve. Okay. And second, either myself or Mario. I heard both of us at the same time, so how do I talk? Okay. Thank you, Mario.
Okay. So, item number two on on our um agenda, we have a guest speaker here tonight. Uh her name is Lauren, and I do not want to mispronounce your last name, so please do not beat me up. Is it Shrist? Is it Shrista? Shrista. Yeah,
Shrista. And he is she's the chair from the Swampscott Commission on Disabilities. So, thank Yeah, it's very exciting to see another commission in action, you know. So, I know you've been talking to Pauline. So, Pauline, if you want to uh
guide the discussions with Lauren, you're more than welcome to. Sure, I'd love to. Well, I had been stalking Lauren on social media for a few weeks and I said, you know, it would be very interesting because River is such a large city and I have been going into a
couple other areas and seeing the community and how they function. And um I noticed that Swam Scott was a lot smaller in population, but also that recently they received donations of two um all abilities
beach wheelchairs from one of their residents. And I was very interested to see that. And so I hunted Lauren down and made contact and we've became instant friends. um sharing some excellent thoughts and I thought it would be great if Lauren could join us
and share how she became a member of Swamcott and how she's been doing and what her members are doing currently and where they are in moving ahead with things. So Lauren, great to see you. Great to see you. And I actually did a
little presentation I can share my screen just summarizes it better. Sure. If you if do you see the shear tab on yours? Um, yes I do. Also, one disclosure about those wheelchairs. So, one was donated by these families, but another one is by
an organization. I don't know if River can potentially also reach out by um so there's this girl who was featured in a lot of our coverage of the water wheelchairs. Um, she it's her family. So, her grandfather created this prototype for his granddaughter. Um um
and uh so then he they've made a lot of prototypes. They've given to a lot of local communities um for the child-sized one. So just just you know there's two donors and stuff but both you know important. Yeah. All right. Let me see. Let me share my screen just cuz that
it's easier then. Let me see. Right. Do you guys see it? Not yet. Not yet. The wheels are turning. Yeah. All right. You see it? Yes. Okay. Um Yep. So, just about me. Um
photo taken by my husband just from Swamcott. Um chair of the Swam Commission on Disability. Um also founder of the Fully Fence like media uh platform and movement. Not a business. It's just my passion project where I advocate for fully fencing and
playgrounds. Um, and then very, you know, active disability advocate. Um, see about me. Um, my shirt says inclusive is the new cool, which was actually made by a friend of mine in Oklahoma who also has three autistic
kids. So, I have three autistic boys, uh, Ka Neil and Vad, uh, fraternal twins, age six, and a three-year-old. uh and live in Swampscott. So it's my sons are how I got into the disability world. Um so my son Kai
on the left, Neil bed and that's my husband with um two of my sons Kai in bed. So uh my sons are all I'd say considered rel pretty severe with autism. Um but the twins are the most severe and the one in the yellow life
jacket is very severe. um he uh non-speaking you know a lot of behaviors uh not potty trained and a lot of other stuff too. So, um, it's through them and everything I've gone through with them that has, you know, pushed me and through that
I've gotten to know a lot of other I mean, that's why I joined the Swans Commission disability. Uh, and that's why I've just become very active and it's introduced me a lot of other disabilities too. Um, like um, you know, different, you know, not just um, you
know, autism. See, um, this is just my fully fenced. is it just because it's part of you know what I also incorporate into the Swans Sky Commission disability um it's just my like I said not it's just my platform
um and where I provide templates people can use from like around the world to advocate for their uh to fully fencing playgrounds in their community working with someone in Oklahoma Sacramento and even Perth Australia right now um to helping them get you
know playgrounds fenced in and there's a recent an article I wrote for Ult, who makes a lot of New England playgrounds. Um, just talking about why it's important. And then recently as well, I'm very vocal and active in the autism and um,
disability community. I have a whole resource directory. Um, and I recently started one for support groups, which, you know, I just give out to, you know, people whoever wants it. And, um, it's actually pretty applicable to a lot of different disabilities. But um I was
contacted recently by the um Massachusetts School Counselor Association and they distribute it to all their members in Massachusetts. Um so it's just by by region and then I even have someone that are wellable to the whole United States. Um so just
something that I've also done in my efforts. Um and uh so now to the Swansack Commission disability. Um this is us at this is Michelle, another commission member at our recent um water wheelchair launch. Um so our members are
myself. I'm chair uh Jeffrey Brand. Um he is a um gentleman who has an adult child with um special needs I developmental disorder developmental um you know disability. And then um
Kevin Shields and who also has an adult child with special needs. And um the woman in the picture, Michelle, she has two u I believe she was also at the um all abilities day because I told all my committee members um to come and I posted a lot about it because I think
it's so incredible you guys did that because a lot of people talk about things and the fact that they actually did it is incredible. Um so I believe she was also there. She's a speech pathologist by trade and uh she also has two daughters, one who has autism and
then a recent member is uh Lisa Hayden. Um she has a young son with autism and then it's just our select board liaison David Gishman you know select board the people who you know run our town. Um
right just our mission is to remove barriers for pol participation that provides access and inclusion for all. Um, fun fact, our commission on disability didn't even have a mission statement until somewhat recently. Um, so I've been part of the commission on disability for three years, but I've
been chair for a year. And um, I'm a very can do, get done kind of person. So I was like, you know, they reached the town reached out to me and they said there's no mission statement. So I thought that was important. So I collaborated with the other members to create this and just our objectives. Um,
I'm not going to read them out, but you can see them there. But essentially just making the community inclusive for all. And something else I really encourage is people to email us which they they actually do um with any concerns or anything that comes up. Um we were contacted in December and actually ended
up taking like two three months by a gentleman who had actually uh paid out of pocket for our DPW to uh pave a part of like this access to the beach. And there ended up being a fight by our conservation commission who I guess he
didn't do the proper permits and they were going to tear it up and he asked for our support keeping it. I mean it really it was just a tiny path but it pro provided enough and there was a bench on it that he also put um that allowed enough people to be able to get access to the beach which there
previously was not. Um so that was something we were involved in. Um I have another sign. Oh yes. So our our impact um so we had you know the water wheelchair and I'm going to try to have more as well. Um I was actually contacted by a neighbor town uh
Marblehead a neighborhood in Marblehead about potentially uh you know is your beach DC is your beach part of DC? No no um Nant is um but I think Swamat is not it's okay. Um I know I think it goes up to
Nah, but then ours like goes up to doesn't go up to the Red Rock. Yeah, I think it's Well, I know it's Yeah, I think it's like wherever I think Lynn is not part of it either. Um and I know there's because some people complain about oh it's like they clean the beach only up to a certain point and stuff, but I don't think so. But when
actually at your all abilities day, I got talking to the woman from the DCR Universal Access. Rachel Rachel. Yeah. Um, and she was telling me um um that you know like they deal with a lot of the map issues. So I said I was
contacted by a local another town a neighborhood and they were looking to it's actually a Swans Scott beach but their neighborhood borders on it and they wanted to make make this beach accessible. So I went there. It's all rocks and I've been thinking for the
last like month how am I going to do it? Um because it's it's a crime today. There's nothing can go there. Um, so I'm going to speak with this DCR woman who gave me her card to find potentially a solution, a map that could go on these like this rocky beach. Um, like Revier,
I don't think Revier has many of these rocky beaches, but Swampscott and Marblehead, they tend to have kind of these they're like these beach with these big rocks and they're very slippery. Um, which is not really like cohesive for water wheelchairs. We even um, uh, brought one of the water
wheelchairs to try to test. talk offline about that too. Um, no, no, no. I'm saying no. Can you on this? But we can talk offline on that. Um, because my a couple of questions that you may want to ask is if they've done any type of work to that beach
that they they what is if the beach is is it do you know if it's town owned? It's town owned. Yeah. Okay. So if any any work has been done to that beach, they are obligated under uh 521 CMR
that that beach is supposed to be made accessible. Um so that's that's my other hat that I wear. Um yeah, during the day for the mass office and disabilities. Well, I think they're willing to and actually this neighborhood I think is willing to pay for the stuff. It's but they should they shouldn't have.
Oh, okay. Yeah. If it's a public, is it a public beach? It's public. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I think they they said they hired consultants and nobody can figure out how to make it work around these rocks. So, they would have to build they would probably have to they would probably have to talk to Lammy Corps of
Engineers. Um it's probably who they talk to, but um because of the topography, there could be issues with it. But when they do any type of work, they're they're obligated to try and make it accessible whether they have to build boardwalk or or whatever. But then you come into the,
you know, the Army Corps of Engineers and things like that. Okay. I didn't know that. So that's good. I Ralph, I'll reach out to you. Yeah, I'll re I'll reach out to you offline. I'll send you some pictures and stuff and and um yeah, I didn't know that. So that's good to know because like I said, I've been thinking and
searching about trying to find answers for that. Um, so that's good to know. Okay, I'll I'll circle back around with you about that. Um, another new initiative we're working on right now is we're fundraising. Uh, I believe we already have the three benches fully funded. Um, they are just putting
benches near the beaches. Like I said, despite being a beach town, it's really not the most accessible. Um, especially it's really only our main Kings Beach that really has any sort of benches and stuff. So, we're looking to add benches around town. Um, donated money donated by residents. um to put in just to give
residents a place to sit down. Um people want to go to the beach and they want to, you know, just that's just one of the projects we're working on. Um we're also um yeah, I already touched on um making sure the beaches are accessible, like I said, which is still a big issue
with a lot of our beaches or not accessible. They're like you have to practically go hiking to go to a lot of these beaches. um which is I mean even if you are an able-bodied person they're not particularly easy. So that's something we're working on. Um last year
we also um there was no accessible offerings through our recreation department. So I contacted um the um Greg and Kristen who run the inclusion sports and I connected them with our recck team wreck department and um
because I spoke to the rec department first and I connected them and um brought the inclusion sports swam as there was nothing before and so that's another thing I'm working on as well is trying to make our recreation department more uh accessible. So, I've been
speaking with some people in other towns as well who have had a little bit more um progress getting the recreation department to include like onetoone aids and stuff like um like my kids can't do anything at our recreation department. Um so, so that's something that's a work
in progress. Um this is our new elementary school. Uh so the second I knew they were building an elementary school, I was on them about making sure it was accessible. Um, one of our former members, Ginger, is hard of hearing. She worked with them to make sure that it is
okay for those who are hard of hearing um because they were planning also in holding like events there and meetings. So, it's not just students, it would be members of the community um to make sure that the acoustics match for those who have like the clear implants, which she did. Um, I also made sure that the
playgrounds were all fenced in. They were very good with that. Um, I was also concerned when I had toured there was like a big drop. Um, they said they're working on getting a piece of plastic, you know, there so kids couldn't go over. Um, so it really did a lot cuz
it's a very big school. Um, and trying to make sure it was accessible. Um, the next thing is our Michelle, another one of our members, um, got a a grant from the Fluty Foundation this summer. Um, and hopefully before school starts, I don't know if that's going to happen. Um
we're hoping to get it installed on the front playground. So we're working with our head of special education, Martha Raymond, um to get it donated. So just another way to show we're an inclusive town and hopefully it provides kind of education to how to other children, how
kids communicate and potentially helps um some children that might need it. So that's something else. Uh another thing that was this spring is we worked with the Swampscott Library. Um, Tonska Library. Currently, the bathrooms are on the bottom floor. Uh, it has some ramps,
but it's really not overly accessible. So, the library um asked for us to uh support them and write a letter for they were looking for a grant to make their library accessible, which of course we supported. Um, and I think they'll probably consult us if they get the
grant um about, you know, they have a whole plan um that we members of our commission looked at and everything looks good. So, um that's something else we're working on. Um and then yeah, just working to ensure the town's playgrounds are fence with gates and accessible. Um
I've, you know, fought before to have different playgrounds like that have openings. So autistic kids tend to alope or run. So um which is you know all my children and uh so it's important that they're fenced with the gate and that helps not just people kids with
disabilities but also you know even if you have one or two kids like to have everything contained one it keeps people out that you don't want in there and also it gives peace of mind for the caregivers. Again this applies to neurotypical children too um that they don't run out. So I'm a big advocate for
that. um you know through my fully fenced I'm working on Castle Island in South Boston getting fenced in because they redid it and there was a drowning of an autistic boy in 2023 um who had gotten away from his I think
it was grandfather at the Castle Island uh playground and he ended up drowning. Then they redid it and they still didn't put a fence. Um, so I think it was Nick Collins, Senator Nick Collins, uh, reached out to me because I had written to a bunch of representatives about getting it fenced in. Um, and he kind of
escalated it. So hopefully that's something that's going to get done. Um, I'm also looking forward to the Constitution Beach. I know that's not rever, but it's kind of close. Y they're redoing that. So um, uh, so what's next for our commission? I
I've talked a lot about it, but um continue to make the beaches more accessible. Um something we don't do enough right now is collaborate with the Council on Aging and the Senior Center, which is very dominant in our town. Like they have a big presence. Um so I think working more with them because a lot of
times elderly people have disabilities too. Um and we've collaborated them in the past with helping them get grants and stuff. Um so I think that in you know increasing our communication with them would be good. Um continue to add
more benches because we have a lot of interest in that and I feel like that's like I said that's a good way benches is a good way to at least provide you know something to a lot of the community um because everyone uses benches but especially those with disabilities. Um
um again continue to advocate for fully fenced playgrounds and splash pads around the world. um continue to advocate and also I was very inspired by your um um you know all abilities stay. So, I think I want to do I can't I don't I don't think we would ever, you know,
do not quite for a while do your level, but something a little bit like that where we have some members of the community test. Not not to toot any horns, but you really have to see uh the one that they do at Constitution Beach. The Triangle one. I didn't see about it until it was displayed.
Last year was our first one that we did and um I I piggybacked off of triangle and that's that's who um gave me some ideas on how to do the re this was our second one. It was you guys did such a good job though. It seems so organized.
Could have been better. I thought it was very good honestly. And I'm not being nice. I'm being honest. I have to I want to check out the triangle one. Um triangle. that Triangle does a very good job. I have I have the contact information uh who runs that. This was
their I believe this was their eighth or ninth year doing it. Oh, well that's probably why it's so good then they've kind of fine-tuned it and stuff. Yeah, I saw I saw that I think it was DC. I saw Yeah, they what I tried doing is they have theirs the week before buying.
So I try and make it easier for the Universal Access group because they have their equipment out west in Amherst. So, so I try and coordinate it so that they're bringing the equipment here the week before for Triangle's event last year so they leave the equipment here so they don't have to go back and forth
with it. So, but that's a very good idea. Yeah, that's a very good idea. I was wondering I was like, "Oh, wow. They're back to back, you know, and and I think they posted about the triangle one not long before." I was like, "Oh, wow." I was like, "Did I did I miss the Did I misread the day or something?" I was
like, "Oh, you know, this is the triangle one. I saw the different location. Yeah, they do a very good job. Yeah, I know. It looked good. But you guys got a really good turnout, though. I mean, there was a line to use the water wheelchairs. Yes. Yeah. And I saw and I ran into my friend
Lisa there who I didn't even know was going to be there. Um she's the the one who's going to be your September speech um speaker, the Lindago. Yeah. She's incredible. But I saw her her there and I got to meet her son for the first time. But you left a little early, right? You didn't see the excitement.
No. What happened? No. Well, was my husband was driving around with It's all right. You didn't miss anything. What? What happened? Was that the one where you said that someone came in at the end or? No, no, no, no, no. What happened? You You want to talk about it, Bobby?
Sure. Well, you know, everybody wanted a turn in the twoperson kayak/ canoe. So, Ralph decided that it would be a good idea if he went out before he set up the lunches, which was great. So, you know, Ralph being the
organized person that he is, he handed me his keys, his um to his truck and his Bluetooth, his phone, his mints, of course, because if they get wet, that would be all over, and his IDs, his ID badges. And so, he's got his vest on, he gets
in, Rob gets in, and um out they go. And, you know, they made it out. They went over a couple of smaller waves, which were great, and they caught one wave, and over they went. Wait, who who was the other person? It was Rob from Waypoint who was in the
um back back and Ralph was in the front. And so Ralph forgot one important item to give me and that was glasses. Oh no. But I I looked at some pictures that somebody so graciously sent me
when we tipped and I first went under and came up. My glasses were still on my face. But when we got hit with that 4 foot swell and went back under, that's when I lost my glasses. So Lauren, when you go to the beach in Swam, if you happen to find an extra
pair of glasses, send them to Ralph, please. Oh my go Oh my god, that's terrible. I wear contacts, so I can't imagine like you must have been like blind. And how did you Oh, I still am. I'm wearing an old prescription and struggling to read anything on the computer. Oh my god. But I would be like so like
you're in the water, you have to to paddle this thing and then you can't see anything like oh my gosh. But the best part was is after they came out of the water now Rob and um the w the other woman that was from Waypoint,
they were dumping out the water out of the boat and all of a sudden they hear yells for help and it was an older woman what who decided she was going to go in the water and she was fine. She was only up to about her calves, which was fine, but one of the waves must have caught her
and she went down on her knees, but then she went under and she was able to come up. She yelled for help. I will tell you the response time for her. I don't even think the pee for help was out and they were in the water getting her and they they were able to get her. She didn't go
back under or anything, but it was, you know, you don't think about these things until they're happening. like first of all I don't even know where this woman was from if she was from if she came with that group or if she was just a single person going in
but the importance of really if you're with a buddy you know you go back to your fencing and you know keep people in that need to be in keep people out that need to be out but again I don't know who she was with if she was with anybody at all but they were able to get her and they got her
out of the water safely but it's like they're you know they're emptying a boat and are diving in the water to get her activities. They're fully they're fully certified. They were acting as a certified and it went smoothly and she, you know, you could see she was grateful and there
were no ill effects. Obviously, she So, who did the rescuing? Was it Waypoint or was it wayoint? Yep. Wow. That's incredible. I I've been looking at that was another thing that I learned as a result. So Rob reached out to me when I posted about the all abilities
day and he said I'm going to be there but I didn't get end up meeting with him. I'm going to talk with him on Monday though. Um and I'm like super interested because I never heard about the organization. Lisa I guess has done stuff with them before for her son. But I'm interested one talking to them because I know he's
Lindbased which is close and then also for my own kids too, you know, see what their capabilities uh are for, you know, my kids and stuff too. Um, so that's something else I want to see. I even have a collaborate with Waypoint Adventure and DR Universal Access
program to bring more offerings to the Northshore because it really is not like tremendously you think about it. The Northshore, this is where all your beaches are. Yes. you know, got Southshore, Boston, and Northshore. So, and I think that this is one of the really interesting parts about when I started to stalk you,
which is not probably not the good best term to use. That's okay. I'm a stockholic. I love it. I love it. I'm like the FBI. Really interesting concept that the more minds together, the better. That the more you can collaborate, the more that you can share things. Why reinvent a
wheel if the wheel has already been invented? And so I think that really reaching out to you and getting in touch with um Lin Bego, who I just had a big long text conversation with prior to this meeting. Um she's really looking
forward to coming in September. I think that the more word that we can get out and the more ideas that we can brainstorm and bridge them across communities, I think that that would really um be beneficial to everyone. Oh, I I feel that way completely. That's
why I'm always talking with neighboring towns. I have a network of so many different people across so many different disability avenues. I feel like um because that's the thing and every person I learn something new from. Every person has a different like thought and contribution stuff. So I
completely agree with you. Um and like strangely enough, I've never spoken to the Marblehead Commission on Disability, but I heard they have one. Um so I I have yet to speak to them. So I I want to try to get in touch with them. I don't know how active they are, but um I
don't know. We'll see. But yes, I completely agree because like like you know what Ralph was saying about like the beaches becoming accessible, building a board with like that's something I never would have known had I not met you guys. You know what I mean? Right. So no, it's like because otherwise you're just sometimes you get so caught
up in trying to figure something else that you dig yourself into a hole versus if you just kind of look around and ask other people and stuff, you learn so much stuff. So no, I completely agree with you. Completely agree with you. Yeah. See, in re the thing with with RE, it's
DCR owned. So it's not owned by the municipality, but when a mun municipality owns the beaches, if Swamquad owns the beaches, then they have title two obligations, it has to be accessible. Yeah. I I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I don't even know Swam knows
that. Yes. And what triggers it is if they do work to it and different things trigger it. Yeah. It's time for a field trip to go to Swam Scott. There's so many beaches though. There's
like all these like new ocean eyesmen whales. There's a lot of There's a lot of private beaches too. They're probably I think I think that might be Marblehead though. Marblehead Beach. Marblehead has a lot of private beaches. Private. Yeah. We're We don't really have too many in like Swam Scott. I
think that's mostly when you get across the marble headline that they have that. But like I said, this one neighborhood uses the Swanscott Beach it seems. Um but yeah, so it's yeah they but there's like but all these beaches in Swans like I said you'd swear we were like I don't
know like it's like some jaggedy coast like with all the rocks and everything, you know, like not not the most beach friendly and stuff. But Fisherman's is pretty good. Um, Kings is good like in terms of sand and not being all rocks and stuff. So, but
yeah. So, what they have to let people know is if they're not accessible, they have to let people know where the accessible beaches. Well, I've heard stories about people falling and stuff. They're trying to Yeah. So, they probably have to stay open to the public. They have to put some warnings there.
Yeah. Oh, definitely. Well, I mean, it's you're pretty much an assumption that they're all not accessible, but how can you be a beach town? That's my whole thing. And I can't believe nobody's really talked about anymore in my town. It's like how can you be a beach town and like a large portion of the residents can't even go to the beach
because it's not accessible. This like I said this includes like elderly people and stuff too because when the beaches are like most of the beaches are all stone and I mean stone and an incline like right not accessible at all. And I said,"Wh why do these beaches not why can we not?
Is there nothing we can do to make make them accessible?" And people just kind of like write it off. And I'm like, "No." So yeah. So that's like pretty much my big thing is like trying to make them accessible. So no, that's that's good to know, Ralph. That's really good to know. So hopefully I can make some
headway with your insight. Uh and then I think this is just my It's an old picture of fish speech. kind of comes in a little pixely, but um personal laurenife.org. Where's Fisherman's Beach located there?
If um if the um is Yeah. Is it like in relationship to is it still called Anony's Pier one the restaurant or they changed the name? Uh nope. That's still there. But that's the one swamp. Where is it in relationship to Fisherman's Beach? Um so that is not near Fisherman's Beach. That's King's Beach. Fish down
near there's a pier. It's like this big boardwalk kind of thing pier that goes out into the water. Is it by the yacht club? Yes. Down. Yes. So the yacht club is actually also where the gas station is of the Yes. Gibbs. That's my mechanic. That's
my Yeah. So that's actually where the store. So it's the right the right. If you go down the right down there, that's where fish. And if you keep going down that road past Gibbs, that's where all those beaches are that are like very inaccessible like Like I said, they're
just like one after the other. Like Blue Ocean, Eisman's, Wales, like I think a Preston, but Fisherman's is accessible. Access. Yes, that is you can get to. They have a ramp, but it's even with the ramp. Um I feel like it could be better accessible because you kind of have to
go um to like the lockers, which is the yach club, and then do another ramp down like that's where we had the that's where the water wheelchairs are stored. The water wheelchairs can be used by any community. So even like Rivier residents can use them. They just have to and they can be used by anybody. Um so they're
just housed in Swans but can be used by anybody. Um you just have to go to the police station, rent it out, you know, so they know who has it and then you can take it. So and you can bring it to any beach as long as you transport it. So that is a good thing.
Re the DCR supposedly has two of them that are housing the Shirley bath house and I know they've been saying that they're trying to work with getting more this the issue they have is where to house them. Uh but there a lot of people
don't know with with the um with the DCR beaches. Uh and they they are trying to work on publicizing it more on how you could call to request that that the that there is a beach chair available for you for when you're going to be at the
beach. But this is DCR property DC publication. Wow. Yeah. So ours is so they people just call the police state or just go to the police station. Yeah. But they have they have they have to have the means to be able to transport it. Yeah. See, that's a thing. Um I mean, if you're just going to go to Fisherman's
Beach, you don't have to transport it in Swamp Scott. If you just want to take it to Fisherman's Beach, it's right there. Right. Yeah. So that's that's a thing. But if you want to transport it to somewhere else, um so one of the women, Deb, who her family donated it, she just she has like a Volvo kind of thing, like an older
Volvo, like you know how the ones that used to have the bigger backs, you know? Um, so she has one of those and she's kind of stuck it in the back and didn't even close the trunk and that was adult-sized one. Um, so the child one is a little bit smaller. Um, so
adult one is called the Moby and then um it's called Beach Buggy is the child size one. That one's like um that's a little bit more compact and not as long as the adultsiz one. So a little bit easier to store and stuff. Um I think they said we have room in our
lockers for more. So, we like I said, I think we're going to probably try to add um some more of those. But, yeah, that's the thing, too, is like publicizing like so many people don't even know these things um exist. And even the water wheelchairs, like they were donated like
a couple years ago and and I was like, why haven't these been released yet? We need to get them released. So, I was the one pushing, you know, get it released, get it released, and you know, just and then because I was like, people need to use these, you know, let's get these out. and then we release them and it's
great, you know. So, yeah. No, that's the thing about storing it. Um, other locations too and it's like, you know, it's like, okay, where do you store it? You know, do does it, if it's going to be in a beach, it has to be something you store it where it can withstand,
you know, storms and stuff, you know, right? You want it you want it to be able to be taken out of the elements. Yes. Yeah. If it's not in use, you want it to be stored out of the elements. Exactly. Exactly. And then where you store it, if it's like a temporary shed,
like is that temporary shed going to just be swept away in the like knocked over? You know what I mean? Like and a lot of conservation doesn't allow temporary sheds on the beach. Ah, okay. Well, see, that's another thing then probably. So, it has to be a per has to be stored in a
permanent structure because conservation does not allow temporary structures. There's a lot of conservation uh hurdles you have to go through such as uh just a point of information. I know DCRI you with DCR when you're doing permitting
for having events you can have a 10 by 10 tent but anything over that you need a special permit to have a tent any larger you Oh wow. What is the reasoning behind that? Do you know? Um yeah there's all kinds of conservation issues. there's issues with
uh with bird protocols and all different things and liability. Um so that's why yeah liability that's another thing I've heard a lot about too people were nervous about liability things and the other thing with the structures because why it has to be a permanent
structure because if a storm comes and they don't want anything washing into the ocean and Yeah. Yeah. So that's the thing. We were hoping to put them at some other beaches too, but the only place that we have a structure is the, you know, well, the other beaches are accessible, but we is the fisherman's
beach. You know what I mean? Because that's the only place we have to store it. And you said you're running into the same thing, too. They have it at the another there's another part of the beach. It's the Shirley near the Shirley bath house, I believe, is where they have them stored.
Uh, but I I don't know if where we were if that if there was room because I didn't see when that storage shed was open if they would had room to to put them in there. I know there's a um a senior living facility called the Jack Satter House that has been looking to
try and purchase or get um the the beach chairs and they'd be willing to have them at that location, but I'm not sure if they know how. They're not very easy to move from across the street to another location. Um, so that's the
other thing with them. They're not they're not very easily easy to move from one location to another, especially if you have to cross a road with them or anything like that. I have to say the child one is pretty easy to use. Yeah. Yeah. But that was different. Like I said, that was one where they
these this family makes it themselves. I'll send you their information, too. Yeah. Send it for your people. just they're easier to store and they're also um what is it? They're made of like the not plexiglass. Yeah, they're they're um Yeah, they're they're made of um
the tubing. Yeah. Why I'm blanking on the name, but you know what I mean. Yeah. PVC piping. PVC. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's very light. It's very light. Yeah. It's the wheels that makes them heavy. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. That's true.
But also the adult size ones are long, you know, but I think they make it a little bit more sturdy, you know, to hold um, you know, greater weights and stuff. But, but yeah, speaking of which, I'm excited about the Lindago just related to that weights. Um, I took a tour of her,
she'll talk more about it, but of her um, Lindago that she stores in Salem. She showed me gave me a tour of it and they have a changing table. I think it can hold up to like 300 lb, which is kind of cool. So, which is yeah, a lot of a lot of um
there's a lot of talk to make um new um buildings in um and that have restrooms that have adult they call it adult changing. I know that's a big movement which Yeah, there's a big movement for that. I'm a big supporter of that. Yeah, especially in the profound autism
community. Um it's a big need, you know. Yeah. Um Anyone on the commission have any questions or comments? Well, I actually I like what I see, but I'd like to see that the for example,
you know, it's nice to have all the beaches, but the blue line, for example, doesn't go far. How are you going to get there when you know it's a lot more complicated to travel and it's people don't think of those things when you're in a chair or what even if you're just blind? It makes it I happen to have both
disabilities that uh which the commission knows, but not everybody does. um you know that makes it complicated you know and then I have to think about you know I need an aid to be with me so it everything I have to think about so it just would be helpful if those things were taken little barriers
like that that just you know would be of course out of the way and unfortunately it's not always uh you know in that way uh but I like what I see I I think you know we could do more with that I think I'd like to see more of that and hopefully Ralph
next time when you get your new glasses you'll get a strap to go around so you don't lose those again cuz I know that's got to be terrible. No, it's got to be terrible. I mean, that's I can only imagine to not be able to see. I mean, believe me, Mario and I know what you're going through. Trust me,
it's painful. It's need to have the ones like the sky dabbers wear when you go out on your adventures, you know, or like You mean the the glass bottle glasses from back in the day? I remember those. Yeah.
Yeah. Any other members have any questions or comments? Uh, just to thank you, Lauren, for joining us. Thank you for Thank you for having me. It's so nice to meet all of you guys. Thank you. All the work you're doing. I think uh
it's very true. No man is an island. So once we collaborate and start to share ideas and progress that we've made, it's the better for all. So thank you and thank you Pauline for thinking of this. So really happy to meet you and hear all that you've done. Thank you. And Pauline has my email too.
It's this is my Lauren Trusta Lauren Polyfense, but I'm also Lauren Trusta26@gmail.com. So always feel free to email me um with anything, you know. I'd love to work with you guys. And and Lauren, I will send you my other contacts. Wonderful. Thank you again for that.
Very very helpful. Yeah, definitely. and um I may be able to do something else with your commission with with with Matt's office and disabilities. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah, reach out to me. We can chat more. Okay, definitely. Perfect. Thanks, guys. Bye. Thank you, Lauren. Thank you so much.
Keep up the good work. Thank you. Keep up the good work. All right. Bye. Bye. Um okay, so I will move on to um item number three is updates and next steps from the June 10th uh meeting. Um if we
have any quick updates from Pauline and Amarie regarding your calendar for future monthly guest speakers. I know Pauline briefly mentioned um who we're gonna have for September. So if you wanted to September we have Lisa um she is the
co-founder of the Lindbago. The Lindago is similar to a I don't even know how to put it. I guess more like a mobile changing station on one side available for you know full
size for adult and then on side a sensory relief area. So if people are overly stressed out, too much activity, just need to have a safe place to go and decompress. But it's an all-in-one unit.
Um she's very interesting to talk to. I also met her on Saturday and I met her husband and her son. Um, and she will be joining us on September I like I said September 9th I think it is. Um, and so
I have information from her. She has all the emails and she will be reaching out to confirm everything and she looks so forward to um, joining us. So, I'm finding that, you know, as I'm looking through people's social media, I'm I'm not a real social media person,
but I've become one. Um, I'm finding more and more interesting folks to come across. I will also, as I discussed with you, Ralph, I will reach out to uh board of health to come in and do a little bit of something on the resurgence of flu,
COVID, uh vaccine clinics coming up, um safe health practices, whatever else. I had one more thought though. I'm wondering if um I know that CPAC is not yet back in swing until the school year, but maybe
linking CPAC with Lauren um where she's done some stuff with schools as well, that might be an interesting guest speaker for them to tap into. So, that might be a possibility. And then I just had that question about November and then
Yeah, that's what I was going to talk about, too. Um Yeah, November on November's meeting is scheduled for um Veterans Day observance. So I am I believe that the city is closed that
day. So we may be skipping the November meeting. I will know um I will know by time by our September meeting. Um I will double check on that. So we may not be having a November meeting. Um, so I just wanted to let the commission be aware of that. Uh, because this year I believe
Veterans Day is being celebrated, uh, on on the Tuesday, um, which would be our schedule date, but I just I just want to check on that. Um, so, uh, the next item I have is, uh,
Marie, if you wanted to update, um, give us some updates regarding the music therapy program, the one that we're collaborating with our grand park and recreation department. briefly um I know you've had some communications um and what what the issues were with trying to
get the um the workshops going the ahead of things. Um so I'll let you talk about that. Sure. So we we were hoping that we were going to do it in the spring but due to staffing issues with the community center Boston um we weren't able to. So,
the thought was, well, let's do it in the summer, but when we tried to do it in July, there weren't many signups. Um, I had a feeling maybe that would be the case just because school was out of session. We weren't really able to collaborate with um the schools, CPAC.
So, the hope is that we're going to try for the fall um to be determined if it's going to be early fall, late fall. I think Jen from Parks and Wreck is going to look schedule and see what is open and then we'll make a decision. Um, but
it's also so seeming like maybe it's going to be something that's going to need to be more of an outreach um that we're going to have to try to go out to the schools and to the special education and with CPAC and see if there's a need um and hopefully, you know, it will be a
help to the community. So, that's the plan for now. We're just waiting to find out from parks and recreation um exactly when we can try for this again in the fall. Okay. Thank you. Uh the next item is one that we've carried over a couple of
months. Uh it was an update with it and letter sent to represent Turo regarding the River Beach Crossing safety concerns. Um I know specifically Ellie was going to try and contact this office directly to update was going to update the commission. So, I know Ellie has been having a few things that she's been
dealing with. So, I'm not sure if uh you able to do that. No, but I will contact him. Uh I have to go to Boston anyways. I'll take my mom to her doctor's appointment, send her back on the train, and then I'll go to city hall. Okay.
Whatever. And then go to his office. Okay. Thank you. And no no response whatsoever. Correct. Yeah. No, no response. I am not surprised. And you still have the letter, correct? That I sent you.
Yes. On the email. Okay. Um, next is uh we talked about it briefly, but updates and thoughts regarding the all abilities day out beach on Saturday, August 9th. I have a few a few quick pictures that I just
wanted to share. Uh, you see, um, you can see my screen. Uhhuh. Okay. Uh, let me see. And let me know if the Okay, you can see
this. The pictures are coming through to everyone. Yes. I feel Yep. This is one of the pictures. What we did a little different this year is we set up the tents on the sides of the ability mats. Um, so that uh and it went
right onto the cement where you come onto. So, anybody in a u mobility device could get right to the tables. Um so, we had that there. Um there's a few snapshots of some um attendance attendees coming and sitting in the
chairs. That's not me in the canoe, so don't worry about it. I made sure I didn't put any pictures of me capsizing or anything. Um this was somebody that was going out in the canoe. The water was starting to get a little choppy. Uh, let me see if I can make this a
little bigger for you. Is that any better? Yeah. Okay. Uh, we go to the next picture. See? This down.
Okay. Let me see the next picture. This is one of the chairs. Um, somebody was getting taken through the sand and in and out of the water. Just to interject, this young man that's in this chair, um, I think he was either
10 or 12. And he did not stop laughing and smiling the whole entire time I was down on the beach. I have never seen someone laugh and smile and giggle and spend so much time in the water. I thought he was
gonna come out looking like a prune because he was in there so much, but he and he went in the canoe before me. That's right. He did. And he But he came out. They said he that his life jacket weighed more than he did. That that's how much water was being taken in. and
he just kept laughing and smiling that there was no that there were no issues, no anything that they were just so pleased that he had so much fun. So that's awesome. You know, and he was, you know, kids are resilient and they're, you know, it
really doesn't matter that he wanted to go in that he was he was focused and he did what he needed to do and he enjoyed himself thoroughly. Uh the pictures I don't think the pictures are sharing on Re TV. I don't know.
You might you might have to double click on them to make them beta. I have no idea. Yeah, they just because all it's sharing on Re TV is um they have a different Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. just showing the all of them
together, which which is not you. No, but it tells you the full image it on the right side, but you can't really drag it to zoom in, which kind of defeats the ging.
And let's see. This one's not coming through either. So, which is weird because the other girl did the slideshow and it worked fine. Yeah, because it was a it was a slideshow and this is just photos that
I'm trying to share. Let's see. Let's see if this one comes through now. There's a little bit of a delay. Um, okay. Maybe it will now. Yeah. No, it's just going to show it
that way. Okay. Yeah, I see what you're talking about. Yeah. So, this one will be a picture of the the canoe that was brought there if it if it shares it. Um, and the boats. All
right. I'll stop sharing just to let people know that River TV was there. Um they did a great job of um of taking of of doing a video there. So that will probably be coming on at a later time also. Uh both local newspapers were
there and it should be in the paper also. Um but I I like I said there was it was very well attended this year. Thank you Pauline and Amarie for for coming down and assisting. Uh it was uh it was greatly appreciated. Um and I was
so happy with the turnout that we got. Um I there was well over um there was well over 80 85 participants that took that uh people that took place took took part in this event this year. So it is
getting uh bigger. Um so next year hopefully it'll get even bigger. Um and uh I thank all our partners. I thank the river recreation. Want to thank the Universal Access Group. Um I um I thank um
um who am I missing? Um Waypoint Adventures for being there. Uh also uh Mass Office and Disabilities. We had a table there for Mass Office of Disabilities. Yeah, the city of RE's liaison had a table there. Um
but yeah, it was it was it was a great event. It was a great day. Uh we couldn't ask for better weather except for the water being a little bit choppy. Yeah, a little bit. But yeah, I I think everybody had a great time. Uh we had music pro uh music
um by DJ Rick Freddy. Um we had cornhole. Uh we had we had food uh that we got from Nicks um on Nasquire Road. Um so it was it was a great event.
So but thank you. You're muted, Paulie. Oh, now you're muted again. No, should not. Now I can hear you. Okay. No, I said I had a blast. Um, did I stop sharing? Let me see.
Where's my background? Let me close my background. Okay. Um, all right. So, that's that. Item number four is the KOD Commission on Disabilities Alliance meeting um on
August 6th. I did not have the full um uh meeting notes um because the person that runs the meeting uh went right on vacation after the meeting. But I do have one thing that I wanted to mention is the house version for the wheelchair re repair bill has passed favor
favorably to the house consumer protection and professional lensure committee and is now advanced to the house ways and means committee and this is a major stride in the legislative process and a testament to the power of the collective voice. So now what's happening now is the bill has been
renumbered to H4358 which was previously house bill 1278 and now the house is now in the house ways and means the stage where the committee reviews bills for any financial impact on the state before deciding whether to send them to the whole house for a
debate on a vote. Um so it's it's it's passed its first uh its first major hurdle. So, what's hoping that that will uh we'll continue to move forward uh and and go through uh all the requirements um to become uh to become official. So,
I just wanted to let everyone know on that. Um it was basically an informal meeting um and actually I actually put the wrong date. There was no August 6th meeting. This was July 3rd. We didn't have an August 6th meeting because of um
the person running is on vacation that went on vacation right after the July 3rd. So, we did not have an August 6th meeting. So, this was from uh July 3rd's notes that I did not receive, but I just wanted to let everybody know that. Um item number five is uh if we had any
items for the from the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board for any new variances. We did not receive any um as of time posting for this meeting. Um so I wanted to let you know that um item
number six is commission members lateformational items. If any um commission members um had anyformational anything that they know about coming up um that they just wanted to let people
know about. Um, seeing none, I will move on to item number seven. Is actually Ralph, I do actually have some Okay. info. Yep. So, um, couple things to put
out there and this this affects anybody with disabilities that I I ran into and something I didn't even know. So, um, and I it's definitely a couple things have come up. So, we've talked in the past about um you know, someone say
medically gets sick on the way and about their chair. Now, as I was I had told Ralph that I found out that every city in town has different setups for that when situations like that occur. Uh I did find out that Salt Lake City, Utah,
actually has a way to take care of that issue. So, hopefully Mass will pick that up so that people who are in their power chairs uh will have a way to get that taken care of. when they go by ambulance or you know situations like that. Um hopefully we can pick that up. But I did
find out and my wife and I doing some digging um because I come home from one of my hospital visits and uh we were in the chair car the ambulance chair cars can actually be called to pick those up. So if so if people do that will assist.
In addition technically fire trucks can be taken care of to do that. This is just a matter of people getting that and that's what they do in the Salt Lake City. They the fire trucks take them. So, um the part of the problem with the power chairs is they're all set differently in terms of size. Uh you
know, you can have a smaller one, but the problem is the stretcher. Unless they can set the stretcher into a chair position, but even that because of the way the ambulances are packed, that's part of the problem. But the person shouldn't be leaving this somewhere. They need to have a resource. And most
city and towns have a way of connecting with law enforcement or somebody to try to even police departments to carry them. So there's ways to solve that problem. No one should have to be worrying about that uh going out because otherwise you're going to not want to leave. You're not going to want to go away from home. You're going to be
constantly thinking what happens to me. You know, that's that's living in fear. So that's something I did happen to run into. Um, the other thing I ran into, this is important, is that, um, and I didn't even know, I learned the hard
way, um, that, uh, Massioneer is not an entry point for ambulances no longer as of 5 years ago, even though they have a 24-hour emergency department. You have to go there by yourself, you know, in some form or fashion, or you have to be transported by ambulance from another
facility such as Mass General or one of the others. So, calling 911 will not solve that problem. I don't know if it will work calling them privately like when you call Coastal or one of those behind the scenes like an assisted living. I'm working on finding that out.
So, um just some important tips out there for everybody that might be running into that. Um yeah, because I was at um actually went to u uh Bagel Bin finally as they've reopened, which I'm happy to see. and uh we went to uh
go have a little meal over there and had one of my medical emergencies while I was over there. So that's how this some of this came up uh unfortunately. So uh you know but thought I might bring it out there for everybody while it's fresh
in my mind here. Maybe I know me and Pauline were talking about some form some future guest speakers um with the um emergency response departments in River uh such as fire department, police
department maybe when we have one of them discuss this with them. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah. Absolutely. So any information that you can find um you know we could you know put it all together and have it for a future meeting with them if we can
get them on the agenda. Um so Pauline does that sound good? Yes it does. Yeah. Yeah. Because they probably be the best ones that will know how reair will handle it and if they don't handle it how we could possibly see both.
Well no one should have to be I mean you have an EMS system. This should have been built into the MS system in the first place. Agreed. I mean, you're wasting I mean, what I hate about the MS system, and to be honest with you, I think it's the most ridiculous I've ever seen. It's not just dealing with this. You call and they're
sending all three steps of this EMS system instead of what is needed. You know, it's one thing if they sent, I guess, the police and and the paramedics together or justified paramedics together. They're sending all three now. So it makes it like a big entourage and it makes it too much information out
there in private, you know, about medications and this report. So if they're going to do that, then they should have just took care of this, too. I mean, I don't understand all this control. I just I don't know. Me personally, I think some of it's overdone. And then of course, those with disabilities or medical issues are more
embarrassed, shall we say. Uh but I did learn some other things too which part of the problem is and my wife and I found out you know it's the abuse of the systems too. Some people one of the people that took me to the hospital turned around and said yeah we've seen
some frequent flyers and somebody called four times in a day. I mean that's ridiculous. You know either go for help or you know what I mean? I I don't know. It's just this is what makes things more difficult for the rest of us. I guess I should put it that way right? You know. Yeah,
sure. That's true. In situations like that, Jason, where people are calling repeatedly, and this is just because of where my adult grown children are working and where they're working and with whom they're working. I'm I'm hearing this
now and past experiences as well, but people are falling through the cracks and people aren't getting the help that they need. And so I think part of it may be a panic, part of it might be an abuse of the system. Um I dare you when you say that, you know, you call 911 and you
get everyone and their sister in there. We had an incident at the end of our street where and because I'm close, I'm right by the Lynway, we had state police, rever police, fire department, and the last ones to show up and the ones that we needed was the ambulance.
However, in that situation, you know, was it over a was it overkill? B, was it, you know, trying to territorialize or C, was it whoever gets there first to take command of the situation? So, I think a lot of that has to be sifted through, too. But I do see
what you're saying. It's extremely heart-wrenching when you see, you know, upwards of 10 and 15 to 20 people coming to one 911 call for what could have been handled maybe on a smaller scale in more
Well, agreed. And it's it's also finding out that when I c spoke to two operators and needed to go to Massioneers emergency department, I couldn't do that till they got here. Right. And that's ridiculous. So that is because of my son who was telling me
that, you know, he was transporting people from MGH to Massionire. And I'm like, what do you mean? And he goes, well, they don't have an emergency room. Even though Yes, they do. They do. They do have the emergency room, but you can't Yep. You can't enter it as an ambulance. Yes, exactly.
Saying and I was like I was very interested in that because I never really thought about it. I never gave much thought to it. And then I'm thinking, well, you know what? That's good information to have. Too bad. Yeah. Well, they have well they have admissions upstairs, too. So, it's not fair because we're also one of the few
in the country that have that. And the problem is it's also just the o emergency department's overridden. I went the first time. MGH didn't do squat except for some blood work and threw me out. I was still having problems. I was having, you know, severe nosebleleeds,
just I mean, we're talking upwards of an hour at a time. Um, real bad. Um, went to went to Brighgam and, you know, the second time around better. They did a lot more work, blood work, all kinds of X-rays and stuff. um ended up getting
admitted and you know uh you know and that's another part of the story too to caution people make sure you know what you're looking at because I got a surprise when I got an email from my insurance saying uh your doctor submitted something that was denied I thought it was originally something for my primary for you know something come
to find out it was a hospital admission that I had had which they didn't send the paperwork to them for as a hospital in our health care system and in our transport and our 911 one and that's a whole another discussion for y but I just I know you'd appreciate it
so that's why I put it out there so thank you Jason no problem any other members have anything that uh wanted to discuss if not I will move on to item number seven residents concerns and issues I
have one that I just wanted to mention that I've received a couple of calls um but they've been all as anonymous Um the residents haven't been leaving their name or number uh so I haven't been able to contact them back and it's dealing
with the issues of um the sidewalks with um people young adults adults riding their uh scooters and bicycles on the sidewalks especially uh on Broadway but
I believe it's happening everywhere. Um, and I know there is um there is work being done um through the mayor's office, through the police department to try and enforce that because it is illegal to use any type of bicycle or
any type of motorized or any other type of vehicle except for a mobility device on a sidewalk. I know there's been a couple of near piss near misses uh with people coming out of businesses getting hit by uh people on these electronic uh
recreational scooters. Um and uh you know sidewalks are supposed to be cleared. 4 feet is a sidewalk. There has to be definitely at least a 36 inch clear path of uh of an obstruction in case something is there. Um, so it is it
is uh losing regulations, but I do know that the mayor's office along with uh public safety and the police department is trying to rectify that situation. Um, so we we we were made aware of it um through a couple of uh voicemails uh
that I had received at the Commission on Disabilities. Um, so, um, I just wanted to let people know that the city is trying to rectify that it's not just a river issue. It's happening everywhere. Um, but I don't know what happened to
the days of people not riding their bicycles on the sidewalk and then and now we have bike lanes and they're not using the bike lanes, but sidewalks are what what's in the word walk. sidewalk. You're walking on it or you have a
mobility device, but they're not supposed to be used by these recreational scooters, recreational bikes. Those are not supposed to be on any public sidewalks. So, I just wanted to let you know that um the city is dealing with it and trying to rectify
that situation. I hope so because people are just way too ignorant and they don't care. Yeah. Um Item number eight is next steps. In our next steps, we're just going to carry
over um the first um the first three items, the first three uh subgroups under item number three from this agenda as we usually do, which was the updates from Pauline and Marie regarding the calendar, uh updates
from Amarie from music therapy, and updates from Ellie regarding um the rea beach crossing safety concerns uh that we will talk about on the uh next month's meeting. Um
and as I said, I will also update everyone if we are going to be having a November um a November meeting. Um item number nine, I will turn over to uh Pauline as usual to read for me.
Okay. Our reminder, the Commission on Disabilities office number is 781-2868267. Residents can also call Rivia 311 directly and speak to their staff Monday through Friday. They will answer most questions, but if they are unable to assist you or if you prefer to talk with
the commission directly, please ask to be transferred to the disability office. Please leave a detailed message and we will respond to you shortly. As always, please don't hesitate to contact us if you would like something discussed or added to our monthly meeting agenda. You
can also let us know if you want to discuss any concerns. The commission is here to help you and assist all disabled residents and their families in rever. Thank you. Uh before I ask for a motion to adjourn, I
just want to wish since we will be meeting I believe it's after Labor Day, just wanted to reach uh wish everyone a happy and safe Labor Day. Enjoy the last few weeks of summer. I know parents that have Don't say that boo. I don't want some
boo. I know parents that have kids are jumping for joy that school is going to be starting in two weeks from today. Um so uh wish a safe return to all the students, faculty, teachers and
administrators uh especially our public safety officials and cross guards uh for a safe uh a safe return to school and a safe and prosperous uh school year. Um uh could I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn.
Second made by Jason. Jason and second by Ellie. Okay. And so moved and ordered. And our
next meeting via Zoom will be on Tuesday, September 9th at 6 PM. As always, thank you to the commission members. Uh and please stay safe and you also enjoy um enjoy the rest of your summer and have a safe and happy uh
Labor Day. You as well. You as well. Hey, have a good night. Good night.