Lake Havasu City Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Advisory Board

City Hall Room 109 , 2330 McCulloch Blvd

Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:00pm

Call to Order

Mr. Hinman called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.

Roll Call

Present: Members Tiffany Calahan, Bruce Hinman, Christine Bergen, Charles Vaughn,

John Johnston, Ralph Avila, Dawn Carpenter, Charles Langerveld

Absent: Member Angelina Ortiz

Approval of April 30, 2009 Meeting Minutes

Mr. Langerveld motioned to accept the meeting minutes as distributed. Mr. Vaughn seconded. Motion unanimously carried.

Call to Public

There were no requests to address the board.

Chairman Announcements

Mr. Hinman announced October 3, 2009 there will be the annual Community Health Fair at the Aquatic Center. Also Prestige Assisted Living is looking for a speaker from the ADAAB to come in and explain what the board is all about. Ms. Bergen offered to call and set something up with Prestige. Mr. Vaughn offered to go with Ms. Bergen to give the presentation.

City ADA Project Update

Mr. Wagner explained to the board that the Rotary Community Park restroom located at the South end is currently being renovated and will be completed by the end of June. With that project completed the next project will be the renovation of the restroom located at the Island Ballfield. The parking lot at Fire Station #2 has been completed. Ms. Calahan asked since the list is dwindling if the board should be looking at other parks to update to become ADA compliant? Mr. Wagner responded that the board could do that. There are a lot of specialty items the board could look at purchasing to add to our local parks.

City ADA Parking Compliance Review and Update

Mr. Hinman explained that he and Ms. Calahan met with Luke Morris and Dan Kassik regarding the City ADA Parking Compliance. After meeting with them he feels the information was not properly explained to the board. Ms. Calahan explained that the businesses involved in this were originally pulled by request for permit. It was any business who pulled any type of permit. The businesses were broken down into 3 groups. First group are those who do not meet universal parking standards. Group 2 is those who do not meet the federal parking standards. And lastly, Group 3 are those businesses prior to 1993. Originally the City was to handle groups 1 & 2 and the ADAAB was going to take on educating group 3. Mr. Hinman feels the board should take on trying to educate all those businesses into becoming compliant. He suggested sending a letter to each business stating this problem area(s) and asking them to fix it and including to get more information they can contact the ADA Hotline. Ms. Garry interjected and explained to the board the city only has the authority to enforce city codes, they can not enforce ADA. Ms. Calahan stated she would be willing to work with Mr. Morris and Mr. Kassik and set up a database to work off of to send the letters. She would compile the information to include the business name, address, phone number. Mr. Hinman and Mr. Johnston offered to go around and observe that the violations are still correct. Ms. Bergen and Ms. Carpenter also volunteered to do this. Mr. Hinman felt Mr. Vaughn would be wonderful at taking phone calls from those businesses who respond to the letter. Ms. Bergen thought the calls could be distributed by letter of the alphabet and each member could be assigned a letter. Ms. Calahan thought each board member could dedicate themselves to taking all the calls that come in for a period of 1 month. The ADAAB decided to set up some kind of timeline and discuss this at a later time.

City Hotline Report Analysis

Mr. Wagner explained he spoke with the Human Resources department and there was some confusion but that has been worked out. He passed out a copy of the current Hotline report. Mr. Hinman showed the board the signage that was created to post inside the HAT busses and bus stops. The signs were designed to promote the ADA Hotline.

Review of the Subcommittee Member List

Mr. Hinman asked if anyone needed clarification on what subcommittee they were on. Ralph asked which one he was involved in. Mr. Hinman explained he was on the Media Outreach committee.

Business Recognition Subcommittee Discussion

Ms. Calahan reported they will be working on the recognitions for the next quarter.

Media Outreach Subcommittee Discussion

Mr. Hinman reported he and Mr. Vaughn were on KNTR promoting Jack Hardie Park. Mr. Vaughn contacted the bowling alley to post a rolling announcement on their score board for free. He is waiting to hear back from the owners. Mr. Avila asked if the board had any advertisements on television. Mr. Vaughn stated he was working on putting some PSAs together.

Community Education Subcommittee Discussion

Ms. Bergen spoke with Officer Ballistrea with the LHC Police Department regarding Smart Card. She wondered if Smart Card could be used in case of an emergency to identify persons in need. Ms. Ballistrea stated it can not be used for shut-in in an emergency. Ms. Bergen sent Ms. Ballistrea a copy of the form the board was working on for emergencies to see if she wants to contact Chief Muller to recommend he use it.

Government Relations Subcommittee Discussion

Committee had nothing new to report.

Jack Hardie Park Event Recap

Mr. Hinman stated most ADAAB members were present for the Jack Hardie Park Event. He felt there was a good turn out from the community.

Call to Public

There were no requests to address the board.

Next Meeting Time and Location

Mr. Johnston voiced he doesn’t think its wise to go 3 months without meeting. Mr. Johnston motioned the ADAAB meet every other month on the last Thursday of the month. Mr. Langersveld seconded. Motion unanimously carried. Next meeting will be Thursday July 30, 2009 at 3:00pm

Future Agenda Items

Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 4:48 p.m.