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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-07-11 | 25 | COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday July 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Jenn Barrett, Vice Chair: Yes, I didn't have anything from the Planning Board for this particular update. And then for the businesses, I got some contacts. Thank you, Beth, for providing that. I'm going to get in touch and hopefully have it start rolling before our next meeting. And then one other thing I wanted to bring up, when you were presenting, I was thinking about beach access. My aunt, we were in Cape Cod, and she's in a wheelchair, and they had a beach buggy. Just there were two that you could just take and you just transfer them onto this beach buggy that has these huge wheels that can go on the sand. And it just was so awesome, and it allowed her to come out on the beach with us. So I think that's something else we can talk to the Parks Department about maybe adding. Susan Deutsch: Yes. And another, I have a relative who has a house in Martha's Vineyard and what they have on their beaches is something built right over the sand that you can just push a wheel chair on to get out to the beach. Chair Beth Kenny: And we have heard from people wanting to be able to access things like the Sand Castle Contest. So I like what you guys are thinking. Chair Beth Kenny: Commissioner Deutsch? Susan Deutsch: The Parks Department cancelled their meeting, which I think was last week. Oh, tomorrow? Yes, it's cancelled the meeting. Chair Beth Kenny: Yes. Commissioner Aghapekian? Anto Aghapekian: I have three items that I'd like to talk about. The first one is in our local newspapers, they announced all the City meeting. There's the City meeting calendars, and all the commissions are listed. Their schedule of the commission meetings are announced in the newspaper, and it comes out weekly. And I'd like us to be on this schedule so that people know when we meet and hopefully they're coming. That's one item. The other item is on Clement Avenue, you probably have heard about. Anto Aghapekian: They're calling it the Clement Avenue Corridor. It's about a mile and a half street that's going to be converted into amenities and leisure, amenities and circulation area. The City has about $5 million donation, not donation, but a grant from the federal government to work on this project. And the lady who is responsible for this project from the City planning department is Gayle Payne. Anto Aghapekian: And so she is the contact person. And what happened during the Central Avenue presentation with Gayle, it was after the fact. All we were told or this commission was informed was, after the fact, this is what we're going to do. What I would like to see happen this time around is before the planning department starts planning and hiring designers to do the design, I think that we should get in touch with Gayle and I volunteer to do this. I will walk that one and a half mile to Clement Avenue and highlight all the areas that are hazards for people in wheelchairs and highlight it on a map and pass it on to her through this Commission, of course, so that they do include all the things that are necessary to make that one and a half mile promenade to be accessible for a 09/12/18 Page 25 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-07-11.pdf |