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Meeting Minutes for April 5, 2012
5: 45pm to 7: 00 pm
Stone Room Main Floor of Cary Hall
Members Present: Victoria Buckley, Susan Cusack, Janice Cyr, Julie Miller, Leonard Morse -
Fortier, Janet Perry, and Francine Stieglitz.
Members Not Present: Hank Manz, Michael Martinetti and Jennifer Williams
Staff: Garry Rhodes and Linda Vine
Additional Attendees: Mark Barrett, Town Project Manager and Doug Anderson, Manager of
Code Advisory Group, Commercial Construction Consulting, Inc.
Meeting Began at 5:45 PM
1. Minutes for the February and March meetings were approved unanimously.
2. Review of The Americans With Disabilities Act, Title II Self- Evaluation Project by
consultant — Doug Anderson, Accessibility Consultant
a. Title II Project is to benefit people who need access to Town of Lexington Public
buildings.
b. Doug Anderson reviewed the Americans with Disabilities Act- Title II Self —
Evaluation Project. Comments:
i. Project contains 3 Titles: Title I Development, Title II Self Evaluation, and
Title III — Employment.
ii. Title II is our main focus and is for State and Local premises. At core, Title
II requires that every public entity perform a self evaluation to determine if
the programs, activities and services are available and accessible for people
with disabilities and to develop a transition plan to make them available.
Entities must have a review every three years and provide a transition plan
for each building (or department) to meet requirements.
iii. Some buildings such as Lexington Town Hall, Cary Hall, should be clear of
needing a transition plan.
iv. The Department of Justice says anything not compliant is a violation and
you must get a variance. Additionally, 60% of the building must be
accessible (versus 50% years ago).
v. It is better for contractors to use 1 and 13" instead of 1 and 12" for ramping
since there is no permitted tolerance for ramps. AAB has specific tolerances
for measurements required.
c. The report developed by Doug Anderson identifies programs, activities, and
services provided by Lexington at public facilities. The next step with the report is
for the CoD to review all the information by each area and prioritizes each area.
Commission on Disability
Meeting Minutes for April 5, 2012
5: 45pm to 7: 00 pm
Stone Room Hain Floor of Cary Hall
This information will then become the transition plan. This is important to ensure
that accessibility expertise is part of the RFR process.
i. The process suggested is to "chip away" at the report — perhaps two people
from the CoD could join a committee to do the reviews or all committee
members could go through the report and rank importance of each item.
ii. When reviewing booklet, it's best not to pay too much attention on the cost
column. These will be re- evaluated when priorities are set. Look at
buildings first, parking lots and garages secondly.
iii. Curb cut regulations are not clear and cause confusion.
3. Discussion of changing May meeting date from Thursday, May 3 rd to Wednesday, May 9th
was approved.
4. Status update on Shriver Grant — not noted.
5. Panera Bread — letter written to deny variance — variance was denied.
6. Additional new business and update on projects —not noted.
Meeting Adjourned at: 7:05 PM
Next Meeting: May 9, 2012
Meeting Minutes Submitted by: Janice Cyr, Commission Member