2005-01-07 Committee on People with Disabilities Minutes

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D. Cowdrey questioned how do persons with disabilities that don’t drive get to the transfer station to redeem their bottles/cans? In California, they have curbside service or reachable machines available in grocery stores for bottle redemption. M. Gleason said he didn’t know and he hopes someday in the future there will be curbside service, delivery service, or pickup service for persons with disabilities. The bottle redemption centers are a new system and hopefully all issues could be addressed. L. Scadden said that MCPD should continue to track this issue and make sure information is disseminated on what is available. D. PARKS AND RECREATION REPORT AND ADA GUIDELINES UPDATE – A. MITCHENER A. Mitchener reported on the following: She offered staff training/briefing for 16 of the new intercession staff. She offered observations and assessments at four sites islandwide for 11 children with disabilities. One resulted in a formal recommendation for evaluation for special education at the parent’s request. Created a behavior assessment kit for the Parks and Recreation children’s program. Created a playground supervision checklist for the recreation staff to use in order to provide safe and inclusive playground supervision. The Recreation Division had a walk in collaboration with the Start Living Healthy program at Panaewa Zoo on December 29, 2004. Approximately 150 people registered and there were several people attending who had disabilities. In the past, wheelchairs were available for people to use. However, wheelchairs are no longer made available to the public due to a liability ruling by Corporation Counsel. Working with T. Spinola-Campbell in collaboration to purchase an assistive listening system for Parks and Recreation. Part of their goal is to make sure all new equipment is compatible with other systems used throughout the County. She attended two CPASS meetings. Research has included locating training resources for recreation staff, rentals of assistive listening systems, and recreation grants for funding adaptive recreation equipment and training material. A. Mitchener reported that the Department of Justice has asked for public comments on the new ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) published in July by the Access Board. Public comments are due by January 28, 2005. The public has a chance to comment on recreation facility issues such as swimming pools, golf courses, and playground equipment. She would like to offer a collection of information to the Recreation Committee to come up with some comments from MCPD. 3