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Commission on Disability March 24, 2023 Meeting Minutes Members: Victoria Buckley (Chair), Sue Cusack, Shaun Grady, Leonard Morse-Fortier, Janet Perry, John Rossi, Francine Stieglitz, Nancy Wong Town Liaisons: Hemali Shah, Chief Equity Officer; Mark Sandeen, Select Board Committee Liaisons: Pam Lyons, Center Committee; Stephanie Hsu, Human Rights Commission Guests: Dan Brzycki, Architect for the Russian School of Mathematics; Vladimir Kondratenok, Russian School; Koren Stembridge and Alissa Lauzon, Cary Memorial Library Pursuant to Governor Baker’s March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §18, and the Governor’s March 15, 2020 and subsequent Orders imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the Lexington Commission on Disability will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. On July 16, 2022, Governor Baker signed into Law an Act Relative to Extending Certain State of Emergency Accommodations, which, among other things, extends the expiration of the provisions pertaining to the Open Meeting Law to March 31, 2023. Specifically, this extension allows public bodies to continue holding meetings remotely without a quorum of the public body physically present at a meeting location, and to provide "adequate, alternative" access to remote meetings. The Act does not make any new changes to the Open Meeting Law other than extending the expiration date of the temporary provisions regarding remote meetings. Minutes The minutes for February 2023 were unanimously approved. Farmers Market Accessibility Victoria met with Melissa Battite, representatives from the Farmers Market and David Pinsonneault to look at current site on Worthen Road where the practice field is. David then took engineers to the site and found two spots on the pathway that needed to address problems with the cross slope and down slopes. He also will attend to access from the parking spaces from the Worthen entrance. The Market opens at the end of May. Additional parking spaces will be made available on the Park Drive entryway. Francine recommends that at least 2 people who are in wheelchairs and our member who has a vision impairment could be beta testers for these changes.