HomeMy WebLinkAboutCommission On Disability - Minutes - 09/28/2006Approved Thursday, November 9, 2006
COMMISSION ON DISABILITY
MEETING MINUTES
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Present: Susan Williams, Joanie Cook, Bill Livingston, Beverly Hageseth, Terry
Schlichting
City Reps: Steve White, Annie Houston
1. Call to Order: Susan Williams called the meeting to order at 12:20 p.m.
2. Approval of the Minutes of the July 23, 2006 meeting.
Motion: Beverly Hageseth made a motion to approve the minutes of the July 23,
2006 meeting as presented. Susan second. Motion carried.
3. Nominations: Susan stated nominations for the 2007 officers needed to be taken at
this meeting as the whole commission needed to vote on the candidates at the
October COD meeting. List of nominees are as follows:
Chairmen: Susan Williams
Vice Chairman: Steve Rierson
Secretary: Joanie Cook
Historian: Terry Schlicting
Motion: Beverly made a motion to approve the nominations as stated.
Susan second. Motion carried.
4. Mayor's Awards: The COD discussed plans for the Mayor's Awards which will be
held on Thursday, October 12, 2006 in place of the regular COD meeting. She
stated the Mayor would read the proclamation stating October was National
Disability Awareness Month at the City Council Meeting, the actual awards
luncheon would be held on Thursday,
October 12 and he would announce the actual recipients of the awards at the
Tuesday, October 17 City Council Meeting.
New Business: Beverly Hageseth reported that at the last meeting of the Larimer
County Office on Aging, a discussion was held regarding disaster preparedness.
She stated they also viewed a power point presentation with information relating to
a pandemic outbreak that was very informative and might be of interest to the
COD.
6. Old Business:
Heavy Doors: COD would like to revive this program and will discuss at a later
date.
Dial -a -Ride: Susan reported City Council members are leaning towards providing
service to the fixed route within city limits, which will really cut service to people
outside the fixed route.
Snow Removal: Susan stated she sent n e-mail to Randy regarding snow removal
and he forwarded it to Mr. Thornberry who is in charge of snow removal in Ft.
Collins. Susan asked Annie or Steve to invite Mr. Thornberry to a future COD
meeting to discuss issues and concerns relating to snow removal within Ft. Collins.
Susan announced that the November COD meeting would be our work session and
will last until 3:00 p.m. She also stated we might consider having a white elephant
gift exchange at the December meeting.
8. The meeting was adjourned at 1:15 P.M.
Respectfully submitted
Joanie Cook, Secretary