2013-07-31, Committee on People with Disabilities Minutes

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REPORT OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I OPPORTUNITY OFFICER AND ADA COORDINATOR, TERI SPINOLA-CAMPBELL Contacted the Police Department regarding the concerns about illegal parking in the accessible space and access aisle of Coconut Island and asked for increased surveillance and citations in the area for people that were parking illegally. Received a positive response from the police. The Department of Parks and Recreation is also considering placement of barriers outside of the access aisle in the parking lot at Coconut Island to discourage parking in the access aisle. As long as you’re outside the access aisle, you can put something up. So a lot depends on the space that’s available. Work on the accessible parking space and the curb ramp at the entrance to the University Heights Park in Hilo is scheduled to start this week. This week the Highways Division of Public Works starts paving the shoulder from the bus stop to the driveway to the Hilo Medical Center. Teri and Alisa attended training with the facility access unit staff from DCAB – it was with the CERT volunteers, the community emergency response team volunteers. They had a survey on emergency shelter. They used the ADA checklist for polling places, cause it had a nice kind of survey document that’s available on line at www.ADA.gov . The Department of Justice has postponed issuing proposed regulations governing the accessibility of websites under Title II and Title III. And they postponed the dates now to November 2013 for Title II and March 2014 for Title III REPORT OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I ADA RECREATION SPECIALIST, ALISA MITCHENER W. Tanigawa stated that Alisa could not be here because she’s at the Beach Access Day. She wanted to let the committee and everyone know that Deep and Beyond is offering a Snorkel Day at Spencer’s Beach on Friday, August 9 from 10 to 2:00. She recommended checking out the beach access on that day, but she will be observing and would welcome committee members’ input. For Hilo, it will be August 23 at Richardson’s Ocean Park. Alisa also has Snorkel Day at Kahalu‘u on the third Friday, every month, year round in addition to the Spencer Beach. ANNOUNCEMENTS J. Floyd According to , Workforce Solutions is going to have an Employer Forum on September 25, 2013 at the ADRC from 10-3 and it is for persons with disabilities. They are going to have an employer present who will discuss what they’ve done to work with people with disabilities, hiring people with disabilities, talk about what the challenges are, and answer questions. There will be some employees that have disabilities also there for discussion. 5