2005-05-06 Committee on People with Disabilities Minutes

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L. Scadden asked if there will be any plans to have more recruitments for East Hawaii so M. Mattos, Jr. will have a partner. Sergeant D. Veriato said that interested people should contact him and he will start the process. A. Johnson asked if the security guards working at the Sack N Save parking lots have the authority to issue tickets. Sergeant D. Veriato responded that people can turn in the license numbers and description of the cars illegally parked. S. Scadden suggested that Sergeant D. Veriato publish a notice in the newspaper that he is searching and recruiting for the parking enforcement volunteer officers. Secondly, a sentence should be included that would say other people are allowed to copy down the license number and description of cars and submit it to the police department if there is no volunteer officer in place. Sergeant D. Veriato replied that a flyer will be passed out with the next county paychecks and flyers going out in the lettersthataresenttothepublicexplainingwhattheycando.Inaddition,thereisa county program called the Blue Card Program and the public can write down the license number and the description of the violation on the blue card and send it back to the police department. This includes all types of traffic, parking, and disabled parking violations. J. Souza asked if he would be able to e-mail a photo taken with his camera phone of the license number of a car parked illegally. Sergeant D. Veriato said the photo can be e-mailed to him at hcpd2377@co.hawaii.hi.us B. UPDATE FROM DCAB C. FLEMING/D. JACKSON/N. OLESEN The April report from D. Jackson, DCAB was distributed to MCPD members. The May report was not distributedsince there was not ample time to prepare the alternative format materials. N. Olesen reported DCAB is restructuring for the fiscal year starting in July. He was reappointed by the legislature for another four years primarily because of his technical ability. He is the only DCAB member who is a registered engineer and bothcommitteesthatheservesonneedsthatexpertise. TheStandingCommitteeonFacilityAccesshasquiteanagendabecausearchitects are having a lot of difficulty meeting ADA requirements in existing structures. If they thinkthatchangesarenotfeasible,thearchitectsmustpetitionforavariance. DCAB can usually find a compromise that meets the ADA Requirements. When it comestoADAcomplianceTitleIIforstateandcounty,thereisnosuchthingas unreasonable or financially not being able to do it. C. ADA COORDINATORS REPORT T. SPINOLA-CAMPBELL T.Spinola-CampbellprovidedherreportastheADACoordinatorforMarchandApril 2005. ADA Coordinators report attached. 3