The Fall River Commission on Disability held a meeting on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Due to a potential loss of quorum, the agenda was reordered to address time-sensitive voting matters first. The commission unanimously approved a motion to renew the disability parking enforcement program for the coming year. They also unanimously approved a motion to transfer $8,000 from the disability awareness line to the Fall River Scholarship line for 2022, a decision made on the advice of former CFO Mary Sahali to utilize unused funds. The minutes from the February 9, 2022 meeting were subsequently approved unanimously. Under updates, the commission discussed the City Council's interest in ADA-related matters, particularly outdoor dining and accessibility improvements in Government Center. A motion was unanimously passed to establish a liaison from the City Council to work exclusively with the commission's ADA work group, with the understanding that the work group would report back to the full commission. Vice Chair Debbie Pacheco reported no updates on policies. The December budget report was distributed, and the outreach work group is awaiting numbers from schools for an upcoming meeting. In new business, Chairman Dennis Paul Sally reported sending a letter of support for Jen Klein's universally accessible Copycat Woods project and announced that the Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission would attend the May meeting to discuss disability abuse.
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meeting of the fall river commission on disability wednesday march 9th 2020 um bear with me here i'm trying to go fast pursuant pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make any audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are thereby advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those by those
0:48present and are deemed acknowledged and permissible do i have to read that again because i stumbled on it no i'm fine okay roll call okay chairman done this paul sally um present get presents vice chairwoman debbie pacheco president commissioner lisa silva president commissioner danny robillard pleasant commissioner ann o'neil souza president okay um with your indulgence i need to move the
1:32agenda around a minute because i mean not a minute i need to move them around because we may be losing our quorum at four o'clock we have somebody leaving at 3 45.
1:44so i have a couple of items to be voted on so if we can go to item number five there's not gonna be a guess yep
2:01do i hear a second to that i'll second that okay exactly we need a roll call chairman dennis paul sally yes vice chairwoman debbie pacheco yes commissioner lisa silva yes commissioner danny robillard yes commissioner and o'neil souza yeah okay now um sergeant kevin kevin dolan was unable to make it today but he told us we will come in june he will come to report to us in june and answer any questions
2:42um however this is a budgetary matter particularly for the for the fbi
3:02okay where's the echo okay okay so um is there let's let's get a motion on the floor for discussion if we need to um a motion to renew the disability parking enforcement program for the coming year so i need that motion made i'm sorry can you emotionally review the disability okay a motion was made say it again lee uh lisa i'm sorry i'm sorry
3:56for another
4:09and they need a second
4:20is that what i heard a second by lisa yes i second that okay discussion
4:39i'll call for a roll call
5:04um i i need to take one more item
5:36program to transfer the sum of eight thousand dollars from the disability awareness line in our budget for 2022 over to the uh four river scholarship luncheon wine the two uh former scholarship line excuse me four of the scholarship wine for 2020 second okay is there a discussion mr chairman very briefly yes thank you uh we decided to bring this transfer forward after a conversation last year
6:28with mary sahari uh if you have unused money so we didn't have to allocate uh money uh when we already had money that was voted on previously but unused so that's why this is done it's new for the commission we've never had a transfer like this but this is being done on the advice of uh former cfo mary sahali thank you any other okay this will require also well these
7:02all require roll call votes so we'll do roll call chairman dennis paul sally yes vice chairman debbie patico yes commissioner lisa silva yes commissioner danny robillard yes commissioner ananiel souza yes okay i think we can go back to the order of the agenda now in the approval for the minutes of february 9th do i hear a motion to approve for the for february night motion to approve minutes of the form of
7:37a commission on disability for february 9 2022
7:53yes vice chairwoman debbie pacheco yes commissioner lisa silva yes commissioner danny roblard yes commissioner and o'neil souza yeah okay um again moving in order of the agenda now we're on item number six and that's um updates and these i don't think there's anything that needs to be voted on um so the first item is ada um the only thing i have to say on under that item is there is an update
8:32the city council um committee on i hope i'm saying all this right the committee on human services housing youth and elderly affairs is chaired by andrew raposo but this is being spearheaded by council linda pereira who's reached out to us a number of times on ada related things particularly outdoor dining they want a kind of an update on the ada improvement grant what we did with it
9:07what what changes improvements were made in government center and they also want to know what other kinds of accessibility are needed throughout the city which people we've been working on pretty regularly as a work group ada work group but the the part that i want to hear everybody's feedback on and maybe even emotion is they want to create a liaison to the city council um i don't know if i should get my
9:37feelings or let's before i i'm not going to get my feeling yet what i'd like to do is open it up mr chairman yes thank you very much uh i could i could support a liaison uh with the caveat that the liaison uh worked with the ada uh and that the aga group report back to the full commission as we do with all matters uh that require uh full commission action once it just
10:11is a matter of courtesy we give updates when necessary at every meeting so i would support a commission liaison to the forum with disability commission with the understanding and quick caveat that they work exclusively with the ada white group do you want to put that in a form of a motion for further discussion so made that the foreign that the former commission on disability enrolls the wheelies on from the florida
10:45city council to work exclusively with the ada work group and that the ada work group will report any and all uh
11:05do i hear a second to that i'll second that okay what about further discussion mr pacelli it's this is debbie okay i just need to get some clarification sure so basically the city council is going one of their members is going to be a liaison in working with us is it not am i right that's correct oh okay okay so and what mr robot just made motion for is that that person
11:40worked with the ada subcommittee and then that apa sub committee will report back out to the full commission that's correct work with the ada work group yeah we're not a subcommittee we're a work group i'm sorry for a group i'm sorry let me clarify thank you for clarifying that um okay that makes a little bit makes sense to me i just wanted to make sure i understood clearly that um there'll be a
12:02member of the city council that will be working um with our ada working group on any um concern so to speak yep that's correct all right thank you for answering that and clarifying to be reported back to the full commission that's also an important part of that thank you okay are there any other uh comments or questions mr chairman very briefly uh we give ada work group updates to the full commission every month so
12:33uh these these would just be included in those updates okay um any further any other questions or comments okay i'll take a roll call vote chairman dennis paul sully yes vice chairwoman debbie pacheco yes commissioner lisa silva yes commissioner danny robillard yes commissioner ann o'neil souza yes okay i'll just go through them mr chairman one point of clarity could we send could we send a motion a copy of the
13:15motion we just made along with this vote to the committee yes we will i'll send it to uh chair andrew raposo very good thank you are you um i'm just going to go through these quickly um anything on policies vice chair debbie pachiko no updates at this time okay under finance you all just received the budget report for december but it came this afternoon so um you know look over it um
13:48you know because we'll be making some um allocations next month particular scholarship program and under outreach i just want to let everybody know that we've heard from one school already a charter school and i've given them until march 18th to give us numbers and the work group on outreach will be working um and and meeting on march 30th and we'll have at least a suggestion um and the next full commission meeting
14:24but right now we're still waiting for numbers to come in from the principles of the schools any questions about that okay is there any hello is there any okay is there any old question of old questions old business new business i just want to outline that the next meeting we're going to be meeting with um jen klein this is the copy cut the copycat um woods they're they're they're trying to
15:04make it universally accessible they had asked for support from the commission um and there was a deadline i did write on behalf of the commission there i figured there was no cost involved just a letter of support that it should be universally accessible because they're applying for a grant and the grant is specifically for accessibility so i figured um since there was a deadline i figured
15:31it would be um i would be i would respond on behalf of the commission um is there any questions about that but but jen klein will be coming next month to talk more about the project itself just to kind of to educate us on what they're trying to do are there any questions about that german extremely briefly uh would you send a copy wherever the the records of the commission are kept
16:00uh so that we have it on file that letter should support i'll do that thank you um and then finally i just want to just tell you that in in may um we're going to be meeting with um a state agency called the massachusetts disabled persons protection commission they deal with disability abuse they are having they outreached to all the commissions jeff dugan from the mass office on disability
16:36sent us all the email to get in touch with the disabled persons protection commission um so they will be coming to our main meeting to explain what what they do and how we can help them and just to let everybody know you know i'm not going into anything specifically but we've had have we have had reports of disability abuse i can tell you that between health and human services office and even some calls that i've
17:05gotten i do know that um it's an issue so i thought i think it's good to have them come and and kind of educate us about what they do and and how they can be of assistance um is there any other new business can i have a motion emotional
17:43dennis paul sally yes vice chairwoman debbie pacheco yes commissioner lisa silva yes commissioner danny robillard yeah commissioner antonio souza yes we're returned thank you