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ADA Coordinator's Report April 20, 2016 • The Department of Public Works is responding to a complaint about a broken sidewalk on Kinoole St. near the Sack and Save store. • A complainant reported that an individual who uses a disability placard is a fraud and is taking parking spaces away from people who need them. I referred the complainant to Kirby Shaw, Coordinator, Program and Policy Development at the Disability And Communication Access Board (DCAB). • DCAB's Facility Access Unit conducted public hearings in Hilo and Kona on the proposed Hawaii Outdoor Developed Area Accessibility Guidelines. • One of our departments received a Braille Document in the mail and was not sure what to do with it. The contact information the department had was out of service. I sent the document to Ho'opono in Honolulu for translation. We were puzzled because the translation did not make any sense. Ho'opono had up to date contact information for the sender so our employee phoned the sender. The sender said that he used the Braille as a wrapper for a check (payment) and it didn't mean anything, but he was impressed by the efforts we made to find out what the Braille document said. • Some of our swimming pool lifts are not working and we are purchasing new lifts to replace them. • Karyle Yamane started recently as the Program Manager for Paratransit services in the Mass Transit Agency, and I have been providing Karyle some technical services and support. Paratransit services are scheduled to start in Hilo and Kona on July 1,2016.