HomeMy WebLinkAboutMilton Disability Awareness Committee Meeting Minutes 11 04 15MTITOGN\t
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Milton Disability Awareness Committee
Meeting Minutes
November 4, 2015
Committee Members In Attendance: Hope Winograd, Tass Welch, Dudley Arnold, Nancilee Wolfe,
Van Black, Ken Wood and Paul Schiell
MDAC Liaison: Sudie Gordon
Guests in Attendance: James Keating, Sarah LaDart
Tass Welch called the meeting to order and Paul Schiell seconded the motion. The motion passed
unanimously. (7 -0)
Committee members reviewed and approved the meeting minutes from October 14, 2015. Van Black
made the motion to approve the minutes and Dudley Arnold seconded the motion. The motion
passed unanimously. (7-0)
New Business:
• Sarah took the floor first to discuss a business survey the City of Milton. She is the
Economic Development Coordinator for the Milton .
• The survey is trying to gauge how happy businesses and consumers are with the City of
Milton.
• It will also give some idea of how ADA compliant various businesses are in the city and
how MDAC/City of Milton could do to help businesses with those issues.
• The goal of the survey is just to help businesses figure out how disability friendly their
establi shments appear to the general public.
• This is on no way meant to penalize or punish businesses. Only to be a friendly source of
help .
• Businesses could ultimately have some kind of window sticker indicating their excellent
ADA compliance or something of that nature.
• Nancilee mentioned the fact that companies can qualify for good tax incentives by hiring
people with special needs.
• There might be many companies unaware of these great benefits.
• This could potentially cause a spiral of positive effects for businesses in Milton .
• The committee then d iscussed the meeting schedule for 2016. We will meet January 13,
2016 at 5:30pm for a CTP focus group meeting.
• Tass Welch was re-elected as Chair of MDAC for another term . The vote was unanimous
(5-0).
• Van Black was re-elected as Co-Chair of MDAC for another term.
• MDAC took a new group photo for the 2016 year.
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Old Busi n e ss:
• MDAC deferred all old business to the next meeting.
Hope Winograd moved to adjourn the meeting and Van Black seconded the motion. The vote was
c~The ;ez iss:~ed ~ember9,2015
Tass Welch, Chair, MDAC
Minutes Sub m itte d By : Dudley Arnold
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