HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-07-09 MinutesMILTON DISABILITY AWARENESS COMMITTEE (MDAQ
Minutes
Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Executive Conference Room, Milton City Hall
Attendees: Olga Espinola, Tina D'Aversa, Marie Latta, Linda Blow, Gary Arnold, Laura
York, Aqui Coggins, Scott Shamblen, Betsy Dixon
Introductions: Scott Sharnblen s.shamblengcomeast.net (Citizen) and Betsy Dixon
betsydixonbbgbellsouth.net (Earth Angels and Citizen)
Review of November Minutes
Updates
■ Merchant Education
o Marie suggested we update the letter in our packet, as it references July
2008
o Plan to use Milton Herald and website to get the word out and advertise
for future courses and to have citizens look out for sticker in the window
o Have customer service handouts (Maxie's and others), training, and course
info linked on the city's website
o Discussed next steps and courses for Merchants
■ Have businesses come to City Hall for classes, estimate a 2 hour
course
■ Use Marie, Canine Assistants, contact Mark Johnson and CHOA
■ Incentives for businesses: certification, sticker, listed on website,
use Milton Herald
■ Laura and Marie to begin and outline for class
■ How to encourage front line staff of businesses to come to classes
o City Employee training—they have had sensitivity training, however
possibly expand with more that is similar merchant education training
■ Marie will continue to offer one page training sheets and short
information for staff in staff meetings
• Communication
o Website: Could the district map be changed to a search to help citizens
find what district they live in? Marie will Contact Kelly Christy with IT
and put her in touch with Olga
• Public Relations
o Need to contact Milton Herald regarding: Merchant Education (Laura to
contact), ClTraining (Ann to contact), Ann's new adventures (Ann to
contact)
• Ann's new adventures
o Advocacy group working with Governor's council
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o Working on a state level to go to cities to help them implement programs,
i.e. DAC
a Bruce Anderson -Asset Based Community Development
Crisis intervention training
❑ Ann reported positive feedback
o Participants want more info on interactions and how to deal with specific
RIONOST OM
o Ann to follow up on feedback
• Marie's stuff
o Offered a Summary of the things she has done in the past 2 months with
the city
❑ Documents for consideration for resolutions—Marie presenting to Council
in February
■ Non-discrimination policy, required by ADA and good for the city
• Would want this to be published in Herald
■ Grievance Procedure and Incident or Complaint Form
■ Not as a substitute for City's grievance procedure, simply
in addition to in specific regards to those with disabilities
■ Creative to be proactive to help to resolve complaints
quickly
■ Help staff to diffuse situation and work with citizen to
resolution, and to know steps following a complaint
■ Olga to help with format
o Universal Design and Universal Accessibility
■ Plan to develop document stating Milton plans to be accessible
■ MDAC members to help other city committees think about
accessibility with projects (i.e. trail system)
o Concept of Visitable Homes encourage city to adopt ordinance for
multi -family homes to have some of them (possibly 5-10%) built
accessible
■ Organization called "Concrete Change"
■ Think about encouraging for new development single homes later
■ Very marketable concept (Aging in Place)
■ Discussion of development community opinion
■ Possibly start with encouraging outside compliance
■ Other cities with similar ordinances?
■ Accessibility to mailbox kiosks
• New Business
o 2125 Disability Day at Capitol—lunch with our representative?
o 1121 Conversations that Matter—Ann to send flyer
o Marie distributed documents
Summary of Action Items
Laura
o Contact Jason re: Merchant Education
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o Contact Mark re: training ideas/involvement
o Meet with Marie on outline for merchant education course
■ Ann
o Contact Jason re: CIT and new adventures
o Follow-up on feedback CIT
o Explore having lunch with representative
• Maxie
o Meet with Laura on outline for merchant education course
o Customer service handouts linked to the website
o Put Kelly Christy from IT in contact with Olga re: map on website
■ Olga
o Send feedback to Marie on ordinance
o Help Marie with formatting of documents
o Email Marie with ideas re: visitable homes/challenges with accessibility to
parking/mailbox kiosks
■ All
❑ Feedback to Marie re: documents
After no further business, the meeting adjourned.
Date Approved: February 4, 2009
Ann Coggins, Chair
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