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Advisory Board on Disability Affairs Meeting of June 1, 2022.
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QUORUM: In Person was reached
CALL TO ORDER: Meeting was called to order 10:00am
MEETING MINUTES APPROVAL:
April 6, 2022
Ms. Blaire pointed out two items which need to be addressed and corrected:
Page 3 - Under Section - My Squad - 2nd to last Paragraph - the word “not” has to be added to “this program has been running for a year”; and
Page 3 - Under Section - My Squad - 2nd to last Paragraph - change “receiving” to “sending out proper notification.”
Board agreed to approve minutes pending above changes be completed.
Motion by: Blake Sando / 2nd Philippa Milne / All approved unanimously
SECRETARY’S REPORT: None
BOARD MEMBERS REPORTS: None
NEW BUSINESS:
Update Granada Golf Course Pathway - Ms. Elejabarrieta
Ms. Elejabarrieta advised two to three months ago; City paved a path on the Granada Golf Course parallel to Coral Way from approximately Anderson to Segovia. Ms. Elejabarrieta stated the path was phase 1of the project and that Miami-Dade County in phase 2 of the project was installing a traffic circle on Anderson and Coral Way in 2023. Ms. Elejabarrieta advised that once Phase 2 is completed by the County, the City will create an accessible crosswalk from the path on Granada to the intersection on Anderson.
Ms. Dietz stated that the path on the Anderson side currently ends into a driveway and there are no detectable warning signals and the path on the other side ends in grass. Ms. Dietz also stated there is no way to access the bus stop from the pathway. Ms. Dietz expressed concern about creating a crosswalk in the traffic circle on Anderson. Ms. Dietz expressed her disappointment with the City on the installation of this inaccessible path on Granada.
Commission Anderson stated this was not a City commission voted item, had it been, she would have brought up these issues.
Ms. Blaire stated that department directors must understand the elements they should be l...
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