Americans with Disabilities Act

Advisory Committee

Meeting Minutes

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Edwards Hall, Room 210

11-12pm

In Attendance:

Cori Bright-Kerrigan, Gerald Campbell, Amelia Cepeda, Michael Fauerbach, Holly Fitch, Jeff Garner, James Lee, Tom Mayo, Kelly Davis (SAC representative, sitting in for Diane Odeh), Brandon Washington

Note taker: Barbara Fuentes

1.  Welcome and Introduction of Members

2.  Redevelopment of Committee

  1. Review Charge
  2. Review Accomplishments
  3. Meeting dates/times
  4. the group decided to meet as a larger group every other month, with sub-committees meeting more regularly
  5. Cori will reserve space and send out meeting reminders for the remaining meetings

3.  Updates

  1. Building/Construction-Tom Mayo

·  Shared handout with committee

·  South Access Road-to connect SoVi with BHG Parkway-Corps permitting in progress

·  Student Academic Health and Life Fitness Center-design in progress

·  Recreation fields at eastern core-construction complete. Sod grows until 11/1

·  Alico Arena addition and partial remodel -Phase 1 starts 11/2016 and complete 7/2017

·  WGCU Broadcast tower-replace existing broadcast tower in Charlotte Co. Schedule TBD

·  North Lake Village dining facility-design in progress -Construction 11/16-7/17

·  AB 9-appropriation for planning and design. Design consultant selection in progress

·  Dunkin Donuts addition and LINK remodel-Chartwells funded and managed. Construction complete 10/16

·  Holmes Hall canopy-exterior roofed instructional are to support the pending Construction management program

·  EPA NPDES Permit-National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

·  Concerns were raised that all the additions and construction could affect accessible parking spaces

·  Cori stated the ADA Committee will do walk-throughs of all new construction

·  Tom Mayo prefers to have ADA review drawings of any construction before construction is done due to expenses of making changes after the fact

·  Cori suggested that the ADA Committee meet as a group to review any design plans

  1. OIEC-Brandon Washington

·  OIEC will be sending out on-line training to faculty and staff with a disability component

·  Students will eventually be sent a training as well

·  Discussed the new Diversity and Inclusion Certification Program that will have trainings, programs and events for faculty and staff

  1. Adaptive Services-Cori Bright-Kerrigan

·  Over 900 students registered with OAS

·  Still in the process of hiring a new Case Manager

·  Discussed Eagles Gather, the student group focusing on disability awareness

·  Continuing to conduct training sessions

·  Will present on October 19th for the Certificate Program through OIEC

4.  Old Business

  1. Campus Accessibility survey -Cori

·  Survey was done to see the state of our campus in terms of accessibility

·  Good response rate

·  Need to have a subcommittee to review the data

·  Brandon Washington, Tom Mayo and Holly Fitch agreed to be on the subcommittee which will meet every other month in between ADA Committee meetings

  1. Adaptive Sports Clinic

·  The purpose of the sports clinic is to promote Disability awareness and sensitivity

·  October is Disability Awareness month

·  Adaptive Services and Campus Rec worked together to develop this clinic

·  Date and time will be October 22, 2015 from 11 am to 3 pm

·  There will be waterskiing, kayaking, wheelchair tennis, blindfold yoga, as well as various vendors from community agencies

·  This is also promoted as a Service Learning opportunity through the Service Learning office

·  Cori encouraged the ADA Advisory Committee members to come out and support the clinic

5.  New Business

  1. Accessible Technology Initiative

·  AET purchased Kaltura-a program that will allow professors to caption videos

·  Having accessible technology is an ongoing issue with the faculty in the area of purchasing accessible software

  1. Website-Jeff

o  The website is getting a complete redesign

o  The rollout will be Summer 2017

o  10,000 pdfs on the current website needing to be converted

o  The new accommodation link, Faciliti, supports varying disabilities and the viewer can change the preferred display to meet their specific need

o  A tech team will be convened to change and establish thresholds and standards for programming.

o  Planning for 2018 when the laws in regards to accessibility become more stringent

  1. Software purchases

o  There needs to be a subcommittee to oversee the accessible technology initiative

o  Will focus on creating a checklist that makes sure all future software that is purchased is accessible

o  Will focus on creating communication measures and training initiatives on ensuring accessible technology

o  Jeff Garner, Michael Fauerbach, Amelia Cepeda and Diane Odeh volunteered to be on the subcommittee

  1. Other forms of technology
  2. Will focus on closed captioning, software and website for now and move to other areas as needed

6.  Adjournment