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<br />Memo <br />To: Capital Expenditures Committee, Appropriations Committee <br />From: Victoria Buckley, Chair, Enablement Committee <br />Date: April 28, 2003 <br />RE: ADA & Public Buildings <br />Please find attached the two reports, requested by the Committees during <br />the discussion of Article 8L. One is the one page description of the <br />Enablement Committee’s ten compliance priorities from August 2002. The <br />second is the 37-page report from DPW, written and compiled in 1993, <br />called the “1993 ADA Town Building Transition Plan”. Please note that <br />DPW reviewed the items listed in this report at the request of the <br />Enablement Committee in August 2002. Please also note that there are <br />many problems with this annotated list, some of which are listed below: <br />1.It is very outdated, both in terms of what needs to be done and in <br />terms of costs. <br />2.The list was made by a “paper review” only – in other words, the <br />DPW simply looked at purchase orders and receipts to determine what <br />was done and what was not done. This list was not checked by actual <br />site survey or by need. <br />3.The plan was never reviewed or organized into a coherent package <br />with timelines and actual estimates. <br />The Enablement Committee would like to take this report as only a rough <br />starting point to generate a more specific plan for ADA compliance of the <br />town buildings. The Committee will work with DPW to further refine and <br />restructure the list of needs, compliance issues, and cost factors. <br />Thank you for your interest and assistance with these important issues. <br />Victoria Buckley <br />18 Bates Road <br />Lexington, MA 02421 <br />E-mail vbuckley@rcn.com <br />Home 781-863-5894 <br />Work 978-459-0389, extension 20 <br />