8.17.2022 Commission on Disability

okay this is the meeting of the Fall River Commission on disability for Wednesday August 17 2022 um pursuant pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make any recording or or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are there are are therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present

and are deemed acknowledged and permissible since I messed this one up is it do I have to reread this again

this is going to be a very interesting agenda um shuffling things around a little bit but the first order of business is a second order rather is roll call chairman Dennis Paul Sally Vice chairwoman Debbie Pacheco president commissioner Lisa Silva present commissioner Dan robillard brother okay next is public input is there any public input or for more times is there any public input foreign

okay the next item is approval of the minutes for the meeting of June 8 2022.

emotional approve the minutes of the fall of a disability Commission meeting of June 8 2022.

second okay um are there any discussions suggestions of improvements on all right yep nope hearing done we'll do right to the Roll Call chairman Dennis Paul Sally yes Vice chairwoman Debbie pachico yes commissioner Lisa Silva yeah commissioner Dan robillard yes okay and just for the record um commissioner Antonio nielsouza had another commitment at this time so um she will not be able to attend this

meeting just so that for the for the record um is our is our um well no the next item of the are there's a couple of items that we need to take out of um out of order motion to move the agenda out of water to handle all loading items that's excellent do I hear that motion second not motion all right um roll call vote Jim and Dennis Paul Sally yes Vice chairwoman Debbie Pacheco

yes commissioner Lisa Silva yes commissioner Dan Robards yes okay um the first voting item concerns next year's scholarship luncheon which is going to be a little different um uh the work group is is um is recommending next year that we go with a I think it's called the sunrise breakfast form that which I have to say it tends to appeal more to kids or to students than not that chicken dinners are bad

but students tend to do more with breakfast and um at least in my experience of 27 years working in a college but what we want to do is we want to um it will be Saturday June 3rd I'm not sure if we settled on a time I think in the work group we were talking about keeping it at 11 A.M but Dan I might need you to go back and check with

um the staff at McGovern to see if that's going to be okay with them I'm not sure we finalized the time I will do that this week and I'll report that okay that sounds good um um just to update you on the deposit I think I slipped up a little but but it's going to be taken care of um I've been spending time chasing scholarship recipients for their college ID numbers and I'll get into that during

our scholarship update but um so it's straightened out um they're going to send a 100 deposit on City Hall will um but just just to let everybody know whether we're dealing with with Breeze or and more decorators or whether we're dealing with McGovern's the procedure is that no money leaves City Hall without an invoice so once we've approved these expenditures um uh you know with particularly with Lisa

and Dan if you can let people know that they need to send City Hall an invoice and once they send the invoice then they get paid is it does is that is there any questions about that can I just ask a follow-up question Mr Tim sure thank you uh I believe we voted uh maybe two meetings ago for the deposit so do I need to add do I need to

ask my govern for an invoice of a hundred dollars yes you need even if it's a deposit they need the city hall needs an invoice so um the the vote was taken on June 8th the minutes that you just approved deposit okay I thought I was ahead of the game but then I found out that I had not mentioned that I had forgotten about the invoice the the deposit so oh okay I have since sent

City Hall the minutes of the June 8th meeting and the fact that we've approved it and I also copied um the McGovern staff so the communications on that should be offset okay let me just uh give you a point of additional information as it relates to a date and time at least this is what I was told maybe maybe it's changed but I was told that a date and time is not firm until they

receive a deposit okay all right so what needs to so all that needs to happen and it could have already happened but what needs to happen then is the governance needs to send an invoice and then um city um the the um Rochelle will send the um we'll send the deposit so okay that may have already happened so yeah and I will I will follow up with McGovern but just so

that you know when everyone else knows the date and time is not from until that deposit is received that's what I was told in the past okay and that's usually the case in most businesses so all right so here's the here's the deal for next year it's going to be June 3rd um and we are doing we're doing um a breakfast next year which is cheaper than when we did the chicken dinner so um

what we did last year is we we um we budgeted to put at least 800 800 8 000 dollars of which for the for the um for the luncheon it only cost us twenty seven hundred so I'm not I don't remember what the decorations were I don't know if you had that on hand Lisa I didn't give you a heads up on it so I I don't expect you

to have that but I do know that for the um for the the luncheon uh at McGovern's it was 2700 and I did send that to everybody just so you have it for your records so out of 8 000 you know we didn't go anywhere near what we budgeted for uh I'll entertain a motion for next year's budget for um Mr chairman yep good could I just make sort of a comment

and a statement then I'd be prepared to make a motion go ahead um basically when we allocate when we vote we're allocating a number on paper nothing gets paid until their bills so uh we don't have to if we allocate too high we only spend what we spend and the rest they think so uh I I would rather allocate much higher than too low so because we only spend what we spend so

if we allocate eight and spend three we spend three that's it the other five stays in the account so I think we're better off to allocate higher uh rather than lower so I'm prepared to make the same motion uh in the same amount last year so I'd like to make a motion that we allocate uh an amount not to exceed eight thousand dollars for all issues involving the 2023 Fall River disability commission

scholarship breakfast do I hear a second to that motion oh second it's Debbie pachico okay wait for are you here for voting purposes I'm here okay um is there any is there any discussion so I have a question this would include the money um for the deposit for the decoration correct yes it will include the 365 deposit yep it just includes everything and it cools everything we need from

Soup To Nuts around the the event the whole of that or in this case from eggs to pancakes all right um if there's no further questions or discussion we can go on to a roll call vote timing done Tim and Dennis Paul Sally yes Vice chairwoman Debbie Pacheco yes commissioner Lisa Silva yeah commissioner Dan robard yes okay the second item that I want to um to bring up for voting purposes is

um I did share with you all uh an email I received from one of our recipients and I'm not going to there's no need to mention the name I share the contents of the email but I can explain the situation in general terms one of our scholarship recipients who was going to go to um Roger Williams University next year um has taken a Decor to the Marine Corps but has every intentions of going to

college and would let us know when when that when she is prepared to go but to resume and go to college um what I'd like to suggest and throw open for discussion is if we can defer the scholarship this will all be in the form of emotion of course and documented in the minutes so that the documentation would be kept on file with Health and Human Services but if we could defer her

scholar well this person's scholarship if we can defer the scholarship of three thousand dollars and when that person is ready to go to college the money will be there um so can can I have a motion to that effect and then we can discuss further if we need to motion to defer uh one scholarship from 2022 in the amount of three thousand dollars uh to be used at a wait a time when

proof of enrollment is uh received to give everybody a point of information we do have a system of proof of enrollment and that is that no money goes out of City Hall without the student's college ID number because the college ID number proves that that person is going to be a matriculating student and is registered to take courses so those checks and balances are are there so do I hear a second to commissioner

robillard's motion I have a question yes we need a second before we go into debate I'm sorry Lisa it was my fault okay okay go ahead go ahead commissioner Lisa okay so uh we're just throwing it but how long are we deferring it for eign I'm sorry Dennis let me just I'd like to piggyback on that if you don't mind no go ahead all right so I as much as I'm grateful that she

notified us that she's not accessing it right now and that she's decided to go another path I believe that the intent of these scholarships off of graduating seniors and I don't think that we should get into the because what's going to stop another a recipient to say I'm taking a year off and I'm thinking about going back to college in a year I think I think if we stay on path of what our

intentions were it was to help these graduating seniors obtain a scholarship to act you know to go on to college so I I mean Lisa what was your thoughts on that I I think you have to become an open-ended open-ended uh situation and I don't know I'm just I I'm not I would agree with Debbie because we're not we're not we we're deferring it but we don't know when to win and then so we

have this individual that we've just deferred the scholarship for till whenever and then next year if we're going to allow these these kids to continue withly defer the scholarships it's just going to become way too much to keep track of my opinion I wasn't even thinking of that peacefully so I even think for on for like um bookkeeping purposes wise absolutely like I think we've awarded a scholarship you've got

your checks and balances over at Government Center and whoever's tracking all of that that okay we've a lot we've a lot of nice scholarships here are the recipients we've paid them out and if they end up not enrolling it's just money back in in our um our account so to speak so I kind of felt the same way I mean I don't know that I mean any feedback from you

this is a good discussion by the way you've met Mr chairman I'd like to withdraw my motion at this time okay we don't need to vote on withdrawals right well I I would think only since we've had discussion okay and then and then I'd like to make another motion all right um I need some help here no I I want I I I want a roll call vote to withdraw this motion

that's what I was looking for okay um let's do a roll call vote on on do we need a second for your withdrawal um commissioner uh I yeah I would think yeah okay I'll second it Dennis okay good all right so I've just seconded it yeah okay thank you okay so this this vote is to withdraw holding the scholarship okay all right so we're ready for roll call

woman Debbie pachico yes commissioner Lisa Silva yeah commissioner Dan robillard yes okay um now I have a question and I I asked this to the chair or any any other person do we need a vote to to formally rescind it hey you know um Danny I don't know I just think do we just notify the applicant that we're not honoring the request to um what do you call it to hold on to the

scholarship until they enroll like I don't know like right okay so my my question now is has any money been been forwarded to to the person or The Institute no you know what you know what I need to go back and double check um I didn't think we had I didn't think I know that I got um I know that I got I'm not even sure if I got it I you know

what I don't wanna I don't want to talk out of turn here so okay you know what I'm gonna do just to be safe man just to be safe I'm going I'm going to make we've already we've already withdrawn her request to hold the scholarship now I want to make a motion to rescind that scholarship and type okay do I hear a second to that motion okay um is there any further discussion

did I make one point yes yep the re the reason I've made a motion to resist is just in case any funds went out we now have rescinded that scholarship and that money can come back to us okay that's that's uh no thanks for the clarification that's a good um if nothing went out this would be an unnecessary motion but I'd like to make this motion and take this vote just to save God and protect

the commission okay um this is uh and I believe the vice chair second did the motion am I correct correct okay is there any further discussion so just to clarify this is a motion to completely rescind that scholarship in the amount of three thousand dollars quick thanks thanks for the thanks for clarifying twice to uh it was awarded in 2022. yep okay are we ready for a vote phone call roll call vote

chairman Dennis Paul Sally yes Vice chairwoman Debbie Pacheco yes commissioner Lisa Silva yes commissioner Dan robleard yes okay and the last voting item for the record would be a motion to change um because of the new hours of Government Center um would be to change the uh the meeting from 3 30 to 3 P.M of course the second Wednesday of each month so I need a motion for that could I ask one question on the last

item please sure I can the can the recipient be notified of the last two votes that we just took yes I I um I had that recipient's email address and and the recipient and I have been corresponding back and forth so I will take responsibility for doing that very good so she'll be notified that her first request was denied and that the scholarship in general has been withdrawn yes yep very big responsibility for that

very good thank you now I'd like to make a motion to modify the meeting time of the Fall River disability commission from 3 30 pm on the second Wednesday of every month to 3 P.M on the second Wednesday of every month beginning with the meeting uh to commence in September of 2022. due to a change in the hours of operation at Fall River Government Center okay do I hear a second to that motion oh

I believe that was commissioner Lisa Silva to the second did okay is there any further discussion is there any discussion rather I think this is a good idea uh based on the change in the hours of operation so that we don't run into any issues uh of uh uh staff conflicts with the hours of operation particularly when we go back to meeting in prison which I assume will happen at some point in time okay um

are we ready to vote okay roll call vote and then miss Paul Sally yes Vice chairwoman Debbie Pacheco yes commissioner Lisa Silva yeah commissioner Dan robillard yes okay those are all the voting items guys um our next item is is Mr Nicholas Silva there okay um let me just briefly tell you um uh Lieutenant Nick Silva is from the Fall River emergency fire department and I heard a presentation on wsar a couple of

weeks ago about a program to service seniors and people with disabilities on issues like medical and it's called Care Fall River and I had asked him um I had asked the department if they wanted to come and um and talk to the commission about it because I think this is another good way to get information like that out to the public because these meetings are recorded I recorded apparently he's not present so I'm going

to go on with the agenda and maybe reschedule him for another reschedule either him or Luke or Captain John Morin from the Fall River emergency fire department for another time Mr chairman could I just ask a brief question yes Is this different I I and I assume it is I'm just wondering how uh how how this is would be different from the uh Department of Emergency Management yeah it is diff

um this is different because this is a grant that they got to do this program to help people with medications and things like that I don't mean Distributing the medications but things like labels or things like that um so this was a grant so it is different than the normal I guess day-to-day operation okay uh is this overseen and this will be my last question since there's not a representative here I'm just wondering

if you know if this is all the scene by Any Human Service Agency and the city is partnering uh with this uh with them whoever they may be or is this something that the city is taking on through the fire department you know again I I don't know um I know it's under the City's Fire emergency department I'm not sure if um you know I don't I don't know the the organizational chart on how that's being

done that's fine thank you that's right that's right I don't even think they went into it when they were um guests on the program actually it's a program that floor report and it's it's hosted by Ann O'Neal Souza um a colleague she hosted every Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock free plug so um um so um I don't think there was any mention um I mean it's it's it's it's definitely under the city and it's definitely a

grant that was given to the city and I think it was the fire emergency department but you can ask those questions if we when we reschedule the representative um so we can go on to work group updates and I've asked um I've asked Tammy Martino um is Tammy still here yes Dennis I'm still here great I've asked Tammy to update us on um under Ada as you know that we are now in the midst

of another round of ADA Improvement Grants so I thought I would ask Tammy to update us on any Ada related projects and what the city is thinking of doing for this round of Grants if if anything so I'm going to turn the floor over to you Tammy all right so I do know that the grant writer has reached out to all departments for suggestions um what she has come up with I couldn't

tell you her final opinion a couple of days um I do know that one of the items was the police station evidently when you come out of the police station on the entrance Door there is a ramp there that goes into the parking lot but when you get to the other side is like a six inch curb so there's no ramp on the opposite side that was one of the concerns that

we're going to be addressed but that is something we can handle in-house it's not you know Grant Worthy um the other item I know that she came across was of course the Ada counters here in the building which were plugging away at those uh in-house as well um we are doing I was looking through the the transition plan and a lot of these some of these things I noticed we've already done some are a

good idea what I like that is a good idea and I'm not sure if it's a good idea that I found a lot of commonality is uh drinking fountain so the public drinking contents I'm not quite sure how I feel about putting those in after covid are you asking for our opinion Sammy yes I would love your opinion hey hey I I for one I I for one would not put

them in uh right now with proven going right I was thinking of exploring because there's several there's several locations on the transition plan that do list the public drinking fountain so I was thinking of exploring more of the um the units where you can like fill your bottle affiliate cup and not like drink out of the fountain yeah that'd be fine at least from my point of view I

don't want to speak up for words in my colleague miles but from where I said that I I'd support that I I wouldn't support a fountain where you where you drunk out of it right that's where I was kind of I don't have good feelings about that either but where there are several locations I think I could come up with um you know a pretty good dollar and but the grant writer doesn't come up

with anything that could be a you know a relatively you know it's a small it would be a small portion of the grant but I don't foresee looking through this any big projects right now uh I know as this conversation goes on we'll probably hit the uh the voting places that's been a hot topic for the commission um but a lot of that is signage uh I know there's a couple of locations

uh in itself that are very questionable uh whether or not you even want to pursue them being utilized as a voting place so um I am willing to you know tackle something on the small scale or um again address the voting places um let's see I'm just flipping through my big list here I do know let's see um Government Center as you know we've done a lot we continue to do

um a lot in here right now what we have going on is again in the hearing room we're upgrading uh the technology in there and also adding the assistive listening system uh to that location that is going on now we just ordered uh all the equipment for that um Timmy is it possible to get an uh assisted listening device for the city council chamber yes Dennis still I mean they're always they're always available

uh all we have to do is have uh a request and the IP guides right in the back room so I can set anyone up okay I believe that's already um available in that room so they want they weren't available in the hearing room correct I see thank you you're welcome um even for them even for the hearing room though I assume they'd have to be they'd have to be requested right

uh most likely yeah because they're everything else well even like in the schools don't you have to ask uh you know you're notified ahead of time that yeah which means on on meeting notices and things like that uh that needs to be placed on on meeting notices and on agendas and so that people are aware that those requests have to be made ahead of time right or even if you know once you're

there because like I said the it guys are on hand they're there and they will gladly you know set you right up but as long as if the request is made if it's made ahead of time we'll have it ready for you if you're there and you need to request by who to whoever is running your meeting will get your set right up uh the assistive listening system was also mentioned for the police department

the community room they just upgraded the community room so I'll follow up and see if they have that available there now I'm not sure if they're they've completed the technology part in that room but I know they just uh went through that whole room but I'll check on that are these types of Grants uh eligible for uh and pardon me for my ignorance and proper terminology but I be are these grants

eligible for rent Cuts sidewalk repair or audible pedestrian uh signals for blind and visually and fit I would say that that all qualifies they are you know putting it in and uh and being collected these grants are up to two these grants are up to 250 000 dollars well get given given that I'd like to see uh a combination of all um audible pedestrian signals uh from blind and visually impaired people

uh and uh some some ramp Cuts or sidewalk repair some combination of those two items uh uh uh I I I would that that would be my personal preference for grant for this year when um you met with the signal division um to assess that particular uh intersection yeah uh met with them um I'm almost positive that the police department already has some funding in place um in areas that they've pointed out can I um

yeah let me let me just jump in um my impression is all they needed was a list um and we're waiting for where we're waiting for my Mobility instructor and we're waiting for so that we can put a list together but my impression was that they do have a funding structure and they have a couple of places already in mind um a couple of intersections in the city including one where where this the Flint

senior center in the curtain Loft area up going up to Walmart that area is not lit um so that's one area that they were thinking of putting both lighting and an audible pedestrian signal but I got the impression that there's already a funding structure in in place um but our sidewalks and curb Cuts areas are are another place that where I think we should probably consider going after some an ADA Improvement Grant um

depending on what you're doing depending on what your department feedback you know um when you met that day uh didn't BCM join in that meeting yep yep the acting director was there yep he was there

I believe are all done in house or um but that would you know even if they put it as part of one of their um Street Improvement projects basically all funded under something else okay I I know that there's some funding on the chapter 90. and we and look uh chapter 90 and grants is how that gets funded is what we've been told for a period of years so there is there was one area outside of

the police station that when I was there I looked at uh right on Pleasant Street that the the ramp looks like they were rather narrow in the area itself needed upgrading but I was told that that is on schedule that whole area is on schedule for uh Street upgrades so that would be included as part of that I know there are some Works being done on Parks um there's an ice skating rink that's

under I guess that's being done and um and there's a there's a whole there's a whole transition plan part of that and by the way just to let everybody know the transition plan and self-assessment is now published on our website so if anybody wants to go back over it and see what's there and what needs to be done um um it's readily accessible and it's now available on our website

um Sam had no trouble putting it on at all and um it is a public document but we did get feedback from other departments before we you know before we published it

pretty small stuff uh I'll meet again with the grant writer to see if she's come up with any additional ideas and we'll come up with some plan of action that I'll share with you uh when we decide you know with what she's put together or collected and what I'm seeing here on the transition plan because there's just a lot of little things that we can you know looking this over again we can take care of In-House

like Veterans Center uh is looking for an accessible picnic table a great idea I do want to revisit the Veterans Center ramp out front because I do know that when Mr Gallagher was here we put that and we put that ramp in and the transition plan is saying that it's not the right pitch so I want to read that Tammy could you and I uh schedule a tour of the Veterans Center sometime the

number one I'd just like to see the place and now number two that you're talking about a ramp I'd like to test it I would love to do that that is a very good idea because I do find that that location is very condensed and when I go over I never see anyone um actually in a in a wheelchair so as far as being you know accessible to you know wheelchairs I I would definitely

like that I'm not sure you know it's accessibility isn't it it it's not a one-size-fits-all thing I understand that regulation projects have to be followed in many cases but in some cases and I'm sure uh the Veterans Center is one of them where you'd have to follow regulations to the letter but in some cases uh you know there there are small things that can be done to give individuals

safe access without everything having to meet cold I believe that's I I don't want to put anybody on the spot or put the city in any issues of liability but there are things that can be done um that don't have to cost a lot of money and as long as the access is is safe for the people using it uh that should be the priority mm-hmm I think the key words in the in the Ada

is use is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities so um you can do some tailoring but I I as a rule as a rule to avoid complaints and things like that um and people getting in touch with the justice department I think it would be safe to just follow what the regulations are um that's right you don't have to um you know not everything has to you don't have to go into a whole

busting the budget over it a lot of things can be made easily accessible one of the issues that we're going to be working with um as a work group are polling places because even though there's a lot of little things and they they add up to quite a bit of money and if it adds up to so much money and it might be better not to use that specific polling place at all that would

probably be the best cost saving measure you can make instead of spending 20 or 30 thousand dollars in some places so um our work group has already begun working with the new chair of the election commission on polling places because there are some polling places or a couple that probably shouldn't even be used at all um but this is too late in the cycle to be making those kinds of changes

I I personally have one member here then if I drink uh that the commission should go on record and it in its advisory capacity that for the next election cycle we do not use the convey of fire station you want to put that in the form of emotion right right you said that right now I absolutely I'd like to make a most do we have a quorum still present uh I believe Lisa has excused yourself

okay Debbie's still here we're still here Dan's still here we still have a quorum game okay I'd like to make a motion that for the next election cycle not this one the next one yep the next the next one is to wait for this one right um that um uh that the Candace fire station uh not be used as a polling place in the city of Fall River and that all polling

places uh be reviewed before the next election in accordance with the city uh transition plan do I hear a second to that motion I'll second that Lisa any further discussion or questions all right roll call vote yes Vice chairman Debbie pachico yes commissioner Lisa Silva yeah commissioner Dan robard yes are there any other Ada related items uh I would like to mention something else that we're working on so we are

anticipating opening the concession stand down in the cafeteria we've been working with a group from cctc uh I don't know the exact name of it I do know that they um they work with autistic individuals so they're looking to open open something simple where their students uh can get some um some experience you know serving public meals so we're working on hopefully opening that by the winter time

I can give you a little more info on this um I won't be able to vote but um uh Community autism resources has a program called Gap the Gaucho Access program at Bristol Community College and they are going to open they want to open the cafe in Government Center selling coffee and sandwiches and things like that they're going to start off small but um these like to be open during daytime

hours and possibly depending on how things go um during City Council meetings and boards and commissions we're going to have um they're gonna they're probably going to be on the agenda for the next meeting so that's that's all I'm prepared to say right now because because uh I have to stay within my own lane yes uh thank you I think this is a great idea I know this was done some years ago

with another organization uh I did have one question um more than happy and willing and would love to hear their presentation uh but what is the role of what is the role of them being on the agenda they're providing a proposal together again for our our assistance okay so you know I'm I'm not the director of the program so I haven't seen it yet I've just simply said that they should

put a proposal if they want to put a proposal together um we would we would um we would put them on the agenda for the next month okay so so in short they will they have a or will have a request or might have a request for a future funding proposal correct correct very good thank you IO right now we're still in you know the incubator stage we've met a few times

come up with some options uh for accessibility and um we still have quite a ways to go but we're on the right path then if given what um Tammy has said and given what you have said uh would it be feasible in your opinion as chair to have them come to the work group first and then took a full commission yeah um I don't know what what I don't know what what the rest of the commission

thinks but that's what that's that's the beauty of a work group it could vet things out carefully and we can spend more time and then the the work group can make a recommendation to the full commission because I I I I I would like to vet this more thoroughly uh in a and more deliberative period Then at a commission meeting right off the bat um I think that's a good idea actually um

you know and then and and then when the work group is ready um um we could we could um get a give a recommendation to the full commission um and we could we would also make sure that the proposers are here to answer questions from the full commission if necessary obviously yeah obviously if they were going to have a funding proposal that would require coming before the full commission exactly but but prior to that

I I I'd like to discuss this more uh in a work group setting first just my own opinion and I I think it's I I think is that the destruction of the chair tool to allow that since the chair and the vice chair collectively set the agenda if I had to predict I would say that they're not going to be ready for you probably for a good two to three months

okay actually that that's to give you like a time yeah that's that's that happens to be very helpful information um you know I'm I'm I know the executive director obviously but um but that gives me something to go back and and tell the group right because we're gonna you know we'll regroup next month I mean the problem is without you know without going into in-house business the executive

directors retiring in December so um I think we were feeling a little bit of pressure but um and and the leadership has already been decided for after that retirement and I don't want to I Really Don't Wanna I'm not comfortable I really didn't expect this to come up to be honest with you today I wasn't prepared for that um I know I wouldn't have brought it up but it's up so um

I I don't want to go into too much in-house business but we were feeling a little pressure because the executive director is retiring and um it's going to be in-house that are going to take over the agency it's in-house but but we were we were feeling a little pressure so you're looking at what we're going to stay for the rest of the commission without getting into any more information is I feel that I can go back

and tell everybody to cool their Jets and relax and and we can vet this more carefully and that's all I'm going to say about it if it's all right with everybody else absolutely that's when I walk for 10 seconds that's all the more reason I think that this should go to a wet room first say it again uh I I agree with everything you've said and I believe that's all the more reason

why this item should go to the work group uh prior to coming to the full commission you've just given me more reasons why I think it should go to the work group fully agree okay do you have any more other any other Ada related items uh no I think that's uh everything that's going on in my neck of the woods okay all right thank you so much I I really appreciate updating the group of

updating the full commission and taking and and and um and taking your time to do that I appreciate that um okay um policies anything from the vice chair uh none at this time Mr Sally oh okay could I could I ask one question yes uh within the next 60 to 90 days could we have a work group meeting with uh the new executive director of the form of a Housing Authority

we can do that I think that's doable is somebody okay all right um um well I think we can arrange that thank you um Finance you all have the budget reports for July and under Outreach I just want to uh and see if Lisa do you have anything that um that you'd like to report to us

as commissioner Lisa Silva here I bought you it dropped off hello all right anything that you needed to um to report to us nope not at the moment I just want to urge everybody to check out our website every so often um besides the transition plan we've added resources um we've got to re we actually got a request from an organization that works with college students with uh students going

to college with learning disabilities on what their rights are and um and we actually had a request if we could post that on our website I checked out the website it is a very instructive and informative website so there is a link and by the way we don't publish the uh we don't we what we put on our website are links okay we don't we don't we don't reproduce the material the

documents we do the link We post links to the documents so there is a link to a guide for your rights and responsibilities for persons considering college with learning disabilities and it's a good site and it's it's um since it came as a request it obviously means that people are going on our website but there's also some information about service animals that might be of interest to people of what their rights

and responsibilities are um and there are also directories of different agencies disability related in Massachusetts um that are also on our resource and documentation so every so often check it out and um and give Sam some feedback if you need think that there needs to be any improvements and stuff like that so is there anything else under um under old business is there anything under old business

Mr chairman I just have a question because I think we've done that done this in several capacities in the last several years and how are we dealing with every group so uh nsrta is he coming to the work group on on a yearly basis or is he coming uh to the full commission and what when can we schedule that and whatever yeah I think it was your idea um commissioner robillard to have him

come with the work group so okay that's um if that's okay with everybody else um I think that's how we're preceding it but you had come to me with the suggestion that we do it through the work group I I apologize I forgot we we uh but I I do think that uh if there is any major proposals or anything like that uh that then uh the work group should have

um uh Mr Russo to address the full commission I agree I think that's the way to handle it that any I mean work groups don't handle proposals they um I mean they bet them but in the end everything um has to be voted on by the full commission yeah so but but I mean but I mean if there's any major changes in SRTA services or anything like that uh then I think that's worthy of coming

to the the full commission yep yeah I agree and okay so I guess we play that on a Case by case year by year basis yep okay thank you is there any other old business time say it again I'm sorry I said no I don't have any at this time this is Debbie pachico all right thank you um anything under new business as the chairman very briefly our next meeting is September uh 2000

2022 and I I would respectfully uh request that the election of officers be placed on the agenda um actually um under under new business on the agenda it actually states that okay I don't have the in the uh forward gender in front of me right so any other new business okay I'll entertain a motion to adjourn Al address I'll second that motion it's Debbie pachico okay roll call Tim and Dennis Paul Sally

yes Vice chairwoman Debbie Pacheco yes commissioner Lisa Silva yeah commissioner Dan robillard yes okay uh this meeting is adjourned hey what's the matter where are you all right thank you very much everyone have a great um day