HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommission On Disability - Minutes - 06/26/2014COMMISSION ON DISABILITY
Fort Collins City Hall 12:15 pm
Thursday June 26, 2014
Present: Jeni Arndt, Jeff Coon, Mike Devereaux, Leslie Efird, Hettie Hueber, Rose
Luna, Michelle Miller
Absent: Tommy Klender, Michael Marr (with contact)
City: Ethan Cozzens, Rosanne McDonnell, Bob Overbeck City Councilperson
Guests: Elder Haus employees and clients, Charles Beaver and Andrea Liebl from
Transfort, Taylor Summer and Dawn Sakes with ARC of Larimer County.
Called to Order: 12:30 pm
1. Introductions: Guests, Board Members and City Liaisons introduced themselves.
2. Approval of Minutes from February: Coon moved to approve. Hueber
seconded.
3. Open Discussion: Nothing discussed.
4. New Business:
a. Transfort employees Liebl and Beaver presented an update. Extended service
hours added. Six routes run until 10:30 pm. MAX runs from 5:00 am –12:00
midnight. Discussion of route changes.
Coon presented the idea of “Adopt a Bus Stop” for snow removal by
volunteers.
New app: ridestransfort.com/app
New website: ridestransfort.com
MAX will be free until August 24th
. After that, the charge will be the same as
other Transfort bus rides.
b. BB-PTAG recommendations. Review of their priorities for transportation.
5. Old Business
a. Person First Festival update by Jeff Coon. Planning is coming along. Coon will
MC and organize the parade. 10:30 the parade will start. Grand Marshall will
be “Miss Wheelchair Colorado”. Hettie Hueber will recognize the Mayor’s
Awards recipients.
b. Affordable Housing update by Jeff Coon. Michael Marr and Jeff Coon attended
the meeting in the City Clerk’s office. It is not accessible. FYI. We should make
that known. Affordable housing is one issue, but we also need accessible
housing.
c. Aside: Overbeck mentioned that Council is looking for input on how to solve
the panhandling issue in Old Town. Question from Rose Luna about
affordable housing.
d. 2014 Workplan: Leslie Efird attended a DDA meeting. Discussion of
workplan. Arndt moved to approve 2014 workplan and Luna seconded.
Workplan adopted.
e. Subcommittee meeting for Mayor’s awards on July 10th
at 12:00.
f. Next meeting will be July 24th
. Coon will be absent.
6. Community News and Updates
Luna updated us that Elderhaus has bought a building and is moving in
November, 2014 to the former Cottonwood Club.
7. Adjourn
Meeting adjourned at 1:54. Coon moved to adjourn. Hueber seconded.
Submitted by: Jeni Arndt