2003-06-06 Committee on People with Disabilities Minutes

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5. Held staff training on confidentiality. An awareness day was held for Summer Fun Directors and included mobility awareness, adapting toys and games, and a TTY scavenger hunt. 6. Will be working with 125 summer hires on disability awareness. 7. Training schedule is available up to November 2004. 8. Guest speaker, Makia Malo, a storyteller will be at Aunty Sally's Luau Hale on September 12, 2003, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. MCPD is invited to attend. 9. Discussed and shared ideas with a family on beach access and saf Beach. 10. Researching best practices for access to recreation programs. Oahu is creating a manual and is sharing their policy. Current policy regarding assistance to the water says lifeguards are not supposed to lift anyone into the w takes lifeguards away from their duty to oversee the entire picture, especially challenging when there is only one lifeguard per beach or pool area. The Oahu manual is suggesting lifeguards should be able to help assist patrons to the water with training on transfers. 11. Oahu has just begun an inclusion aide program. Their system al assist a person with a disability in a parks program. C. ELECTION OF OFFICERS L. Tobosa made a motion to nominate T. Yamanaka as vice-chair. seconded the motion. The motion was passed. Nominations were made from the floor for the following positions: Chair Î M. Gleason Vice-Chair Î T. Yamanaka Secretary Î B. Whitney L. Tobosa made a motion to accept the slate of officers. J. Souza seconded the motion. The motion was passed. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON NON-AGENDA ISSUES S. Golden raised a concern about non-accessible portable toilets. The only way to get compliance is to include a statement about the law on the county permit and require it as part of the permitting process. She recommended that the County of Hawaii include such a statement. J. Hartman reported that the County of Hawaii a lot of times uses the word ÐshallÑ rathe than Ðmust.Ñ The county is responsible for enforcing that requirement if they permit an 4