2014-04-16, Committee on People with Disabilities, Minutes

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L. TobosaC. Cholas moved to combine the three reports. Seconded by . All were in favor of accepting writing the recommendation to the Mayor, compiling the Ad hoc committees’ reports. None opposed. One other department that Chris is interested in is Housing with regards to C. Cholas Mohouli Senior Housing. stated that out of the 60 apartments only three are made with accessibility. That is below the five percent rule. They are all visitable; they have big bathrooms, have no-step entrances. But only three of them have the counters, stoves and things that should be Fair Housing accessible but are not. He doesn’t understand why those features weren’t put in all of them. Chris is concerned about the future of housing and would like to start the Housing Ad Hoc Committee again to look at public housing. Renee stated that would be fine and it can be discussed as it relates to reports. R. Souza will be joining Chris with the Housing ad hoc committee. Raelene spoke about a State housing project, how they had to renovate the homes twice even though it was brand new because they were in violation. So even if the plans go to DCAB for approval, it somehow still falls through the cracks. It was decided to bring in someone from County Housing to speak to the committee. The Housing committee will do some research first so it can be presented at the meeting. Mohouli Senior Housing is the newest and there will be a second phase to that and we can check on whatever other projects are going on. ANNOUNCEMENTS J. Floyd announced that Snorkel Day in on April 25 by Deep and Beyond. (According to Alisa, it is actually on May 23.) NEXT MEETING The next meeting will be on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 in Hilo at the ADRC Training Room. ADJOURNMENT Meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m. Transcribed by: Sandra Arriola 4