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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-05-09 | 23 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MUTES OF Wednesday May 9, 2018 6:30 p.m. Laurie Kozisek: These are more like making the path of travel accessible and at that point, you'll probably want to go and get a building permit to get those done. So, when you're getting a facade done, and you're changing the doorway and the entrance, you're going to have to spend a certain amount of your money making that accessible, and taking out that step. We might be able to push facade improvements that are there more for accessibility than for giving it a different look. Anyway, it's another pathway, and this one is one with more construction involved. Beth Kenny: And just to clarify, the city has you and some other people who are Certified Access Specialists, but you are not available to be hired by the merchants. You're there, if they get an area, you reinspect it to make sure it's in compliance with? Laurie Kozisek: There are two kinds of CASps. There's the one that work for the cities and counties, who generally do permit review and inspection. And we have some CASps that work for the building department as consultants, that do the review and inspection. I don't actively do that much, but I do, do building plan reviews, mostly the exterior. And then the other kind of CASps, is the one that is privately employed and just does this kind of thing for a living. And there are, I think, about 700 of them in the state of California. This is just a California program. I don't know how much it would cost to get inspection done but I can imagine it's not much, because it's just a very short hour or two to take a look at it. Beth Kenny: Thank you. Unless anybody else has any questions regarding this, I would like to suggest that you guys continue to move forward and reach out to the Chamber of Commerce and the business councils. I can try and send you a list of the ones that I know. Jenn Barrett: That will be great. Yes. Beth Kenny: Yes, and also, if I can start brainstorming on how we can get that grant tied into accessibility improvement, for the businesses. Anto Aghapekian: What grant, what grant? Beth Kenny: It came up, we were talking about. The city has done facade grants. They match the funds. So we're looking to see if there's some way we can have our own grant, or if we should have been attached to the facade grants, in some way that we can get some matching funding for if merchants are able to make these improvements. Oh, yes. I don't think that we need to vote on that. You guys already have your own subcommittees. Do you need anything else from the Commission? Jenn Barrett: No. Just any comments or other ideas. I think we had a great discussion on this, and we're looking forward to going and talking to the Chamber of Commerce. If you do have any adjustments or additional ideas for the list, I would really appreciate any comments on that. That would be great. 5. OLD BUSINESS 5-A Review of Liaison Assignments (All Commissioners) 05/30/18 Page 23 of 32 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-05-09.pdf |