Sorry, I just have to bring up my agenda. Okay. All right. I'd like to call to order this um Dyon town of Dyon Commission on Disability meeting. Today is the 2nd. It is 4:00 and we are currently at Old Town
Hall. This is a both in person and Zoom meeting and it is being recorded. Um, can I just get a roll call from members? Cynthia Boland in person, Nicole Melo in person, >> Jonathan Gail on Zoom, and Kevin Smith
on Zoom. >> And then may I ask that we do the pledge of allegiance, please? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. All right. So, um, our agenda, I just feel it, it feels like we haven't met in a gazillion years, but I know you guys met in August. Um, I was just away. >> Um, so old business. We're going to start with member reports. Um, Cindy, do
you have anything to report on currently? No, I have nothing to report on. Kevin, do you have anything to report on? Um, no. I don't have anything new um going on other than I think the only note that I'll make is um I did hear from the playground installer for
like the Timothy Ryan's playground and that's going to be happening soon. So like I'll have some stuff to report just on the accessibility aspects of that once um things get rolling there. >> Kevin, did you go to last weekend was like a walk for um
MD around the track? >> No, I didn't have a chance. I had something going on and I couldn't make it there. But yeah, one of the town u one of our town residents um the D Roa family, D Roas family held MD Walker's
brothers beating Beckers. Um and I know she had reached out to me and I kind of helped her and on a couple different things just to try to organize. Um but I wasn't able to attend. So I'm not sure what the turnout was. >> Okay. I was bummed. I felt like that would have been a good thing for the
commission to get involved in, but it was like too short of notice what I found out. >> And I think that was the library day too. Like is that the day the library was opening? >> Uh yes, it was that is the thing that I had
going on that I I am very much my background is appropriate. I am in outer space. >> Yes. >> I did too. So, I had one of one of our neighbors has uh a couple of boys um who have the same form of mus musculardrophe
and they had reached out asking about um accessibility and I told them that we could provide them with grass mats and so forth so that we could at least help make a path to get down there and I asked them to get back to me a couple times and didn't hear back. So, um you know, I know they still had to walk
because we made a donation. >> Yeah. Um, I hope any like if anything else comes up, if residents can think of us, um, that we would love to be involved, even if it's just, um, like advertising it or whatever, um, in
leading people their way because I think that's would be a great, um, collaboration. Um, did you say you had anything else, Kevin? No. >> No, that was it. >> All right. I don't have anything. So I think the next is um Jonathan
>> I will just tell you over the past couple of months I've had one way or another contact with about almost 80 residents in town over different just mostly questions about disability resources where to find things um looking for services for a parent who
has a disability or a senior with a disability wanting to connect somebody you know in a few cases for example with council on aging for disability transportation things like that. Um I think the last time I checked the count since July 1st was 78 people or 78
different between email and phone call. So it's ticking up overall in terms of people reaching out for information. Um I have met with a couple of residents to look at sidewalks which is a norm. I've met with a couple of residents uh since the 1 of September to look at the high
school. I've asked I've been asked by two different families to look at the physical plant of certain parts of the high school. Um the library of course as you all know um we worked really hard to become as accessible as possible. There are a couple still little things on the tick list that have to be done for
accessibility. Uh the parking lot accessibility side of that. The parking lot won't be paved until next year when they do uh the rest of Main Street. That'll be according to what uh Mr. Ferry has said sometime in the late spring, early summer. Um there are a few
door handles that still have to be replaced. There's a little bit of work that has to be done for the technology to be loaded in. Um but that's all coming together slowly but surely. So that's pretty much what I have right now. I think do we have separately on the agenda the threshold for lower town
hall or No. >> Yes, we do have it. >> Okay. Do you want me to hold off or do you want me to address it now? Um, if someone wants to make a motion to take it out of order, we can adjust it now. >> Well, I would just ask John, are you almost done with ADA coordinator report? Because then we kind of
>> Yeah, I am. I am done. >> I just have I have one question for you, Jonathan. Um, because what was my question? Oh, so I missed the meeting where we voted on the the letter that I had put together to send to the town administrator. So, I haven't sent it yet
because I wanted to meet and just know that you I'm guessing you guys approved it. Um, but I just wanted verification that it's approved and then I'll send it. >> Okay. And that that's that's the that's the letter for >> not the threshold. I know I'm I'm
getting off topic, but that was the letter for the um the housing the serpent. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. >> And we you guys voted on that and that's good to go. >> Yep, we did. So yeah, we didn't vote on that. Yeah, because that was to have Jonathan included in the conversation for the housing production plan, right?
>> Yeah. Okay, I will send that. I was out for that meeting, so I apologize. Um, all right. So, next is to discuss the KMA report. I'm guessing we're not going to discuss that. Um, so Jonathan, we're up we're up to the threshold. >> Okay. So, for the threshold, I had
gotten a call from Karen. I know we've all gone back and forth on the threshold many times. Um, and I got a call from Karen about 2 weeks ago basically saying that she had gotten a bill for $900 for the threshold and that it had been installed, which was news to me,
frankly. Um, so I I did go down and check it out. I also asked I I looked at it. I also asked Kevin to put eyes on it. Um, so we both took a look at it and it turns out that a long time ago, back several months ago, there was a
threshold that was put on there. Um, and that's what the bill for roughly $900 that the town has is for. The threshold meets the compliance in that it's the right it's the right height. It's low enough on height. It's got a little bit of a bevel to it. It would have been
much better had they made a threshold or put a new threshold in that had a wider bevel to it so that it had more of an angle on both sides for a wheelchair. It's not very beveled, so the chair has kind of will have kind of a little bounce going over it. Think of a speed
bump. Um, that's a sharp speed bump. Same concept, but technically it does meet the criteria in terms of the the low the lower of a height. And the bevel, as I said, barely survives the the the bevel test, as they say. So, um,
Kevin and I did put eyes on it. It does meet it. So, I told Karen to go ahead and pay the bill. >> Okay. I don't know how that like came to fruition, but um >> take it. >> So, >> take a win. >> Yeah, I kind of I had popped into after
Jonathan had alerted me to it and I went down and looked at it kind of the same critiques he has. I did mention to him too because like not having the visual of it is it looks like at some point they might be like I don't think it's as much the threshold as it is the way that
it like sits on the concrete instead of like they put it in and then the concrete got poured to it. I think style they used if it was installed and then they poured concrete like new construction >> you probably wouldn't even notice the bevel but it's sitting on top of existing it makes the bevel a little bit
more extreme but like I said it's all good. It looked I mean what they should have done and I agree with Kevin there is just they should have before they put it in they probably should have grounded grinded more under it >> and then so I did I kind of spoke to Karen for a second about it and I guess
there was an additional issue with the door and they were making a general repair and it made sense to put that threshold in at that time. That's kind of how it happened without really any >> Oh, >> you know, cuz I know we were kind of
like trying to push it along and then it it I guess it happened in November. >> What? Oh, >> yeah. So, and like Yeah. Nobody Nobody knew. I think it was an issue. >> We've been talking all these months and Yeah.
>> Well, I don't because it wasn't because we didn't think anything was done and the way it was done was not because of us. The way it was done, as Kevin said, is because somehow the door probably started hanging a little bit and was brushing against the ground. So, they had to do something so that that wouldn't happen and the door would open
and close correctly. >> Okay. So, now we know we just have to break something else and then whatever we're looking >> So, so the the future takeaway is if we have something like this again, we go to the door and loosen a few screws.
>> Yep. I can do that. I'll start carrying around a screwdriver. That's it. >> We don't have to have this on the agenda anymore. So, I I couldn't be more excited. >> Correct. Take it off. >> Um, does it does anyone have anything
additional? >> No, I don't think I have anything off the top of my head. And just to kind of segue into the next thing are the minutes. I don't have the minutes. I have been >> coralrained. I'm going to try to hopefully get a little more focused with some of my duties. So, uh, but yeah, I
don't have anything new or anything to really kind of bring up, I don't think. >> Are you Let me Let me in terms of minutes because it might make it a little bit easier. Um, when you put us on Zoom like this, are you um doing the AI as well so that it makes minutes?
>> I have no idea. I just record. I don't know if it does it on >> Maybe what I'll do. Oh, Jonathan, let me answer this for you. Um, the >> the because we're using the board of selectman's account. >> Y, >> it it's automatically set up to do AI companion. It's like,
>> okay, >> it's built on the pre-selected settings. So, it is there. >> Okay. >> But you still got to go. I mean, it does make it a little bit easier and like the minutes really aren't hefty. I just It's own fault. I haven't made the time to sit down and just do them. The problem with like AI Companion is it doesn't
really record who said what. So you gota I gotta go off my notes anyway. >> No, it doesn't unless you say this is dry. >> Absolutely. >> I agree. It's getting better, but it's not perfect by any means. You're right. >> Right. >> Can um anyone if you have any agenda
items for like next month, if you could like if you start thinking of them, send them over to me. Um >> yeah, absolutely. >> I think I think I would I would like us to start exploring more. I think the question of uh ticketing or fake ticketing for now for people who are
parking in disability spots. I think this is a good time to start doing that. Um you know it's remember this going without a budget now and this is a way to potentially give a little bit of a budget in the future to COD. So I think it's it's worth exploring you know maybe
a fake ticket and there are ways to do it. I've done that in the past with other towns. Um and then initially the second one would be a real ticket provided by from the police department. As we all know we don't have a lot of disability spots in town but there are people who deliberately I use that word
deliberately by the way abuse it and don't care. And some of those people are town towns officials regardless of whether they're an official or not they need to be held accountable. So I think >> it to the next agenda and we can have a further discussion on it. I think so. And I think Kevin and I both have
information we could provide on how that process would work so that we can begin to at least discuss it and explore it as well. Um, and I would also ask if it's possible for the next meeting that each of us can just look at one thing, just one simple thing on the KMA report
and begin to discuss something that's important to each of us on there because I think we need to start exploring it so we're not constantly kicking the can down the road. >> Yeah. especially now that the threshold is done. Um, and we can claim that was our claim that they made. Um, we can
find something else. >> Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure I can find things. I've just been, you know, if I start going through my list of complaints that residents have in town, I can come up with a lot of different things, but, you know, I think we can find a lot from the KMA report if we each just focused on one thing for a
while. >> Um, we don't have any public, so there's not going to be any public input. Um, >> I will. Do >> you have something, Kevin? >> No, I was gonna just jump right ahead of you and make a a motion to adjurnn.
>> And can I get a second? Uh, Cynthia Bullet second. All in favor? I >> I >> All right,