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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommission On Disability - Minutes - 09/26/2002COMMISSION ON DISABILITY Regular Meeting Minutes September 26. 2002 Council Information Center. City hall West Members present Mark Beck, Jill Lancaster, Susan Williams, Romola Fritz, Ruth Bell Skogerbce, Paul Ostrof, Joan Cook, Jem- Patterson, Diane Dittus, Laura Borten. City staff: Tracv Ochsner. Rachel Palmer Mark called the meeting to order at 12:1 i pm. Minutes approved with the correction that Susan will be the "idea person' behind the name tags for Mayors Awards. Passed unanimously. Motion made by Laura and seconded by Ruth. Sub CommitteefProgram Reports Hea%y Doors — Romola distributed brochures for the commission to use when visiting area businesses. If anyone encounters a heavy door, they can give the manager a brochure or send it with a letter at a later date. Susan notified Country- Buffett with a letter and a brochure and got a positive response back from the management. PHA — Nothing new to report. Emoloymem — The training for employers on hiring the disabled is in the works. Susan got a response from Wal Mart about donating the lunch and they said they could contribute $60 towards lunch. Susan will pick up the donation. Tracv also has donations from various agencies. There are two options for meeting space — the city building and the Lincoln Center. The Lincoln Center space is larger but costs $140. The consensus of the COD was to use the Lincoln Center. Tracv distributed a copy of a draft Byer for the event Fivers will be distributed through the employers and the employers' council and then promoted internally. Would also like to promote through the Chamber of Commerce. The commission would like to start collecting employers' email addresses for future promotion of events. Are there questions we would like to ask participants that might be useful to the COD in the future' Mavor's Awards — Hobby Lobbv only offered a 10%discount for table decorations so Susan called Wal Mart and they offered to donate the materials for the table decorations. Diane and Rachel will get materials from Wal Mart on October 1. Waf Mart s name will appear on the program for their contribution. Nomination packets have been sent. As of September 26. we have not received an} nominations. The deadline is October 5. Commission members are encouraged to make nominations. The following members will sen e as the Mayor's Awards selection committer Diane Dittus. Lama Burnett, Rachel Palmer, Jerr Patterson and Mark Beck. The selection committee will meet Monday. October 7 from 2:30 —4:30 pm at the facilities office. The mayor asked for "speaking points' for his talk. The commission recommended that the mayor discuss the programs that the COD has been working on and the strides the city has taken to improve the commu ax for the disabled. Include: heavy doors. PHA, close -captioned council meeting. art show, communiq-wide training, relationship with the BLN. Dial -A -Ride progress. award application, city of character, and the increase in handicap parking spaces. The Fort Collins Forum has agreed to urn an article in the October 10 paper regarding the Mayor's Awards. The Fort Collins Coloradoan will have a mini -section in an early October Sunday paper regarding emplo}ment of the disabled. It will be sponsored in the paper with advertising. Steve Sutter is coordinating these efforts with the newspapers. Art Show — The art show will be called the I" Annual Creative Abilities Art Show. To generate interest from artists. a letter will be sent to appropriate agencies to distribute to their constituents by the first part of October. The letter will include an application for artists that can be photocopied. The deadline on the artists application is August I. The committee set a $5 registration fee. The nest Art Show meeting is on October 3. Tracy will explore the issue of the COD collecting and disbursing money, for projects. New Business COD Budget — Mark would like to present a COD budget to the city council along with our work plan. The budget committee will be made up of Jem Patterson, Jill Lancaster and Rachel Palmer. Meeting adjourned at I AS pm.