Title
Introduction of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) by Amending Section 2-19 to Change the Name of the Commission on Disability Issues to the Commission on Disability. (Public Works 4205)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Introduction of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) by Amending Section 2-19 to Change the Name of the Commission on Disability Issues to the Commission on Disability
BACKGROUND
Alameda Municipal Code (AMC), Section 2-19, Commission on Disability Issues, as adopted on April 5, 2011 (Exhibit 1), shows all aspects of the Commission from establishment through duties.
The original Mayor's Committee on Disability Issues was founded in 1975. On August 17, 2004, the City Council passed an Ordinance amending the Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Section 2-19 establishing a Commission on Disability Issues, accepting amended bylaws and dissolving the Mayor's Committee on Disability Issues. The Commission's duties are to provide information and make recommendations regarding disability issues to the City Council and to receive information regarding the disabled from the community at large. The Public Works Department staffs the Commission. The new name was established to better reflect the broad duties of the Commission when advising the Mayor, City Council, Department Directors and other Boards and Commissions on issues pertaining to the disabled community of Alameda.
DISCUSSION
Staff recommends AMC, Section 2-19 be revised as detailed in Exhibit 2. These revisions are consistent with the wishes of the current Commission on Disability Issues. Over the past several months the Commission on Disability Issues have met to consider changing the name of the Commission to the Commission on Disability. On April 12, 2017, the Commission voted to take this to the City Council as an ordinance.
Staff proposes the revised ordinance take effect January 1, 2018...
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