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Background on CIP Bond Amendment 11 17 98 1. Count. Building: In 1995 DRH and the Mayor's Committee iyere 2i% en assurances that the County Building would be rerimated for accessibility during 1996. This teas not done. reportedly because of the plans to relocate County offices to the Penms Building. But the offices remain vv here they are. and remain very inaccessible. The architect's suryeN has already been done for this building. To some people this looks like stall tactics. (We kiimN of one local business that has claimed for fire years that it ould be ntoyinL "nest year" as an excuse v\h,\ they didn't become accessible this year. We understand that that business ~~as recently sued.) 2. Tax Office: DRH received a complaint from an out of state wheelchair user «ho ryas told at tite Tax Office that they had no table at ~N hich lie could inspect the tax maps. All counters are inaccessible. He had to leayc \N ithout doing his business. (This complaint has not Net been pas~ed on to the Administration We are \yaitiug for permission from the complainant.) 3. Senior Centers: DRH vv as im ok ed in an inspection of a Senior Center which is party inaccessible. It «as reported that the Senior vohntteers tylto administer the Center had. on their mN it. decided that ~yheelchairs «ould not be allrn~ ed. Wheelchair users Nv ere told that they could not brine their heelchairs to the Center. The volunteers v\ ere afraid that if the inaccessibiIt h of the Center vas made obvious by the presence of iyheeIchairs. the Center ~v ould be closed down by the County. This is blatantly illegal discrimination against people v~ ith disabilities. (This complaint iyas made to Protection and Advocacy. not to DRH. We only did the inspection. and do not knm v the present status of the complaint.) d. Items 3. 4. and parts of 5 miLlit be cmy!red in the Parks and Recreation settlement. Ncyertheless. they are of hiLh enouLh priority that eye feel targeted funding is justified. But much of the Bay front project is ne« development. and so not covered by the settlement. Still it is important to the accessibility of our Island.