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Commission on Disability Meeting Minutes October 1, 2015 Members Present: Victoria Buckley, Chair; Nate Finch; Julie Miller; Len Morse-Fortier; Francine Stieglitz; Michael Martignetti Town Liaisons: Fred Lonardo, Building Commissioner; Joe Pato, Chair, Board of Selectman; Harry Mackay, Council on Aging Guests: Shaun Grady, Lexington Resident; Shawn Newell, Assistant Director of Public Facilities; Wendy Manz, Friends of the Center Streetscape • Progress on ADA Master List: Shawn Newell, Assistant Director of Public Facilities, filled in for Pat Goddard, who was unable to come. He stated that the ADA Master List had 374 items on it in 2012. Of those, 129 items have been resolved through capital expenditures. One of those was finished this summer, the Clarke elevator, and the Commission is pleased that this was done prior to this school year. There has been approximately $1.2 million spent—mostly Bowman, Bridge, Town Office Building, Cary Hall, Clarke. There are still 132 operational items to be handled within Shawn's group or sub-contractors —of these, 50 are resolved—some of these are items like lowering grab bars. Many involve items in the school bathrooms. The Visitors' Center is scheduled in FY '17 for second floor access and other items. There are still 106 items to be addressed, or about $290,000-$292,000 needed. The Commission brought up that there should be no need for retrofitting—why, for example, does Fiske have items to be fixed? Isn't there a better way to make sure things are right from the planning stage? • Follow-up on Depot Building acoustic issues from last month: Victoria will follow up to see if anything was added to the depot rental agreements or renters' fact sheets as was discussed. • Update on Business Forum, "Shaping Lexington Center": Victoria attended meeting put on by Chamber of Commerce yesterday where they discussed the bank moratorium. She offered the desire for "universal design for accessibility"which was added to their brainstorming sheets. The maps there of Lexington Center were dated 2014 and showed narrow "concrete aggregate" sidewalks with bigger decorative brick trim. Joe says the current maps are on-line and show concrete with brick edging but that he would like to see the concrete area wider. • Update on Cary Hall Sidewalk: The test sidewalk was tested by the Commission with cane, rolling walker, manual wheelchair and electric wheelchair and the aggregate concrete was deemed too rough. The Commission prefers concrete. The HDC did not like the test sidewalk due to color. The decision was to try dyed concrete and for people to look at sample sidewalks in Newton, Cambridge, and Boston. Victoria saw those sites and said that color varies according to how old the concrete is. The Commission just wants enough contrast to be there between the edging and the walking surface. Since the grand opening of Cary Hall is happening soon and there is no consensus yet on materials,