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Commission on Disability
Minutes – March 3, 2016
Members Present:
Victoria Buckley, Chair; Nate Finch; Julie Miller; Len Morse-Fortier;
Francine Stieglitz; Janet Perry, Shaun Grady, Michael Martignetti, Sue Cusack
Town Liaisons:
Fred Lonardo, Building Commissioner; Linda Vine, Deputy Town Manager
Minutes:
December 2015, January 2016, and February 2016 minutes approved.
6:00 – Craig Dauphinais, Massachusetts Concrete & Aggregate Producers Association
(MaCAPA) - Presentation about Sidewalk Materials
The organization represents concrete and aggregate producers and other ready mix suppliers, and
their role is related to outreach and education.
Basics on Concrete – versatile, take any size and dimension that you need it to take, durable,
strong and rigid (versus asphalt, which is flexible), competitive cost, 40-50 year life span with
little to no maintenance if it is installed properly. Can be made up to 20-30K PSI, and the
technology has evolved sufficiently to improve the concrete reaction salt. Traditional salts (not
magnesium chloride) are less damaging to the surface than they used to be. He showed pictures
of 40-year-old concrete sidewalks in Grafton.
Each brick is one piece of a system that needs to be maintained, versus concrete, which is a
larger piece of a system. Brick is not good surface for smoothness.
Center Streetscape Design Review Ad Hoc Committee
This ad hoc committee is being created to “evaluate and make recommendations to the Board of
Selectmen on the various design elements (excluding engineering items related to traffic) for the
Center Streetscape Project in accordance with defined deliverables that are included in the
charge to the Committee. The Committee will have 9 voting members with one member of each
of the following boards/committees represented: Bicycle Advisory Committee, Center
Committee, Commission on Disability, Design Advisory Committee, Historic Districts
Commission, Historical Commission, Planning Board, Tourism Committee and Tree
Committee.” This task involves moving past the 25% design solution and engaging in
researching and presenting more developed design options to the Selectmen. The Commission
nominated members Len Morse-Fortier and Victoria Buckley to be forwarded to the Selectmen
for their consideration.
Review materials related to charge of Ad Hoc Committee
The charge was briefly reviewed and no questions were raised.
Continuation of the Brick Discussion
Victoria shared a chapter from Disability and Qualitative Inquiry: Methods for Rethinking an
Ableist World by Ronald J. Berger and Laura S. Lorenz published in 2015, Chapter 2: A
Bricolage of Urban Sidewalks: Observing Locations of Inequity. This chapter discusses the
internalized reaction to individuals with disabilities to brick on pathways of travel. The authors
examine the impact of urban sidewalks that “physical locations of inequality for people with
disabilities”.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Sue Cusack