Burlington Accessibility Advisory Committee Meeting

Minutes

Meeting #:
Date:	Thursday, November 11, 2021
Time:	7:00 P.m. - 9:00 P.m.
Location:	Virtual

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1.

Members Present:

Adam Spencer (Chair), Cheryl Hurst, John Kalbfleisch, Ron Baliko, Tricia Pokorny, Brenda Agnew

2.

Member Regrets:

Doug Benton, Cindy Bond, Barbara Davis, Rachel Cloutier, Morgan Callaway

3.

Others Present:

Kevin Arjoon (City Clerk), Judi Lytle (Accessibility Coordinator), Councillor Bentivegna, Suzanne Gillies (Clerk)

4.

Land Acknowledgement:

The Chair read the Land Acknowledgement.

5.

Declarations of Interest:

None.

6.

Delegation(s):

6.1

Election rebate program - Kevin Arjoon, City Clerk

Kevin provided an overview of the memo he previously provided to the committee and answered questions from the members.

7.

Approval of Minutes:

7.1

Approve the minutes from the meeting held October 14, 2021

On motion the minutes from the October 14, 2021 meeting were approved as presented.

8.

Regular Items:

8.1

Anti-isolation subcommittee update (Cindy)

Cindy Bond was not in attendance; therefore no update was provided.

8.2

International Day of Persons with Disabilities (Dec 3)

Suzanne advised the committee that the flag raising for International Day of Persons with Disabilities is confirmed for December 3rd with Mayor Meed Ward reading the proclamation and helping to raise the flag.  Suzanne will send out a calendar invite to committee members.  Suzanne will work with communications staff on a media release and social media posts.

8.3

ITAC update (Doug)

Doug Benton was not in attendance; therefore no update was provided.

8.4

2022 workplan and budget discussion

The committee was asked to look at the 2021 workplan and think about what can be done in 2022.  Ideas briefly discussed included:

• Can anti-isolation be included in the resource list?  or highlighted in a different way?
• 'Did you know' campaign, which could include a spotlight on businesses, organizations or individuals that are committed to accessibility.
• What can be done for NAAW?  

8.5

Coordinators report (Judi)

Judi spoke to her coordinators report and answered the following questions from committee members:

• Will you receive feedback from the 2021 compliance report?  Not sure on what timing is for feedback to be provided.
• What will accessible EV charging stations look like?  Through research it was found that there are no accessible requirements in the USA yet.  Work needs to be done, no one seems to have done any work on this.  Need to find some best practices, Judi is using her network to see what has been done or discussed.  Need standards to come from the Ministry of Transportation.  

9.

Other Business:

9.1

Committee recruitment:

Suzanne advised the committee that recruitment is open for advisory committees and hope to have some new members early in the New Year. 

10.

Adjournment:

Chair adjourned the meeting at 8:25 p.m.