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<br />Report of the County of Hawai‘i, Equal Opportunity Officer, ADA <br />Coordinator, Teri Spinola-Campbell <br /> <br />T. Spinola-Campbell <br /> reported that DCAB conducted two training sessions for <br />County employees. One was on the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design <br />and Accessible Recreation Facilities. Francine Wai and Mona Higa were <br />instructors. The second training was Effective Communications with instructors <br />Christine Pagano and Lisa Ann Todd from Sprint Relay. We hired an ADA <br />student helper to assist the departments with website accessibility issues and <br />also conducted two classes for our employee on making pdf documents <br />accessible. <br /> <br />The Center for Disability Studies, the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, is working <br />on a project that will make access and functional need tips available to first <br />responders electronically and it will also include community resources. They will <br />be requesting a list of all the resources within the county so it would be great to <br />obtain contact information for your agencies. The Center for Disability Studies is <br />currently assessing a voluntary data base which allows people with disabilities to <br />self-register and provide information about themselves. The data base is not <br />maintained by any County department or agency, or State department or agency. <br />It’s maintained by a company and the information would be shared with first <br />responders on an as-needed basis. It’s good because the people who want to <br />use that data base have to register themselves and input information that is <br />pertinent for first responders to have. The Project Manager for these projects is <br />Dawn Skaggs. <br /> <br />ANNOUNCEMENTS <br /> <br /> <br />J. Navarro <br /> announced that the ARC of Kona will be having a bazaar on <br />November 17 in Kealakekua on the Konawaena School campus. This is a <br />fundraiser for the people in the group home in Captain Cook that was burglarized <br />earlier this month. The website is www.arcofkona.org if anyone wants to make <br />donations. <br /> <br />W. TanigawaJesse Floyd <br /> introduced Jesse Floyd. is the new representative <br />for East Hawai‘i and West Hawai‘i and for the Developmental Disabilities Council. <br /> <br />ADJOURNMENT <br /> <br />Paige adjourned the meeting at 10:50 a.m. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br />Sandra Arriola <br /> <br />3 <br />