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Commission on Disability Meeting Minutes for October 3, 2012 5: 45pm to 7: 00 pm Parker Room, G -1, Lexington Town Hall DRAFT Members Present: Victoria Buckley, Susan Cusack, Janice Cyr, Julie Miller, Leonard Morse - Fortier, Janet Perry, and Francine Stieglitz. Members Not Present: Michael Martignetti and Jennifer Williams Staff Present: Garry Rhodes, Building Commissioner and Linda Vine, Deputy Town Manager Additional Attendees: Yvette Kirby the Hancock Church Vice Moderator, and Don Mills of MillsWhitaker Architects, LLC. Meeting Began at 5:50pm 1. The minutes for the September 6, 2012 meeting were reviewed and approved unanimously. 2. Presentation and discussion of the Hancock Church renovation plans by architect Don Mills, of Mills Whitaker Architects. a. Don met with Tom Hopkins at AAB to discuss variances prior to submitting the requests. The Firm has good relationship with AAB and has won awards for integrating accessibility in their designs. They would like to submit the variance requests to the AAB by October 12 b. The project was originally a $5.5Million project and has been scaled down to $2.5Million, much of which will be for improving accessibility throughout the church. The building has had four additions and renovations over the years and has a total of 14 levels throughout. Some of the issues are: a back entrance like an entrance to a split level home, a 3 rd floor is not accessible, and bathrooms that are not accessible. c. Plans are to remove some of the six stairwells and install one 6 stop elevator that services all floors and a 3 stop inclined lift that will service the stage and the backstairs area. They will require a variance. d. Plans also include: renovating bathrooms to convert to accessible unisex units, modifying kitchen area with accessible counter and sink heights (if additional money is secured to upgrade kitchen totally) and building an accessible kitchenette. e. There are 3 platforms, some of which are not used. A variance will be requested for the area since it is not used by the public. The architect will submit a video of how the area will be used to support why a variance is requested.