good afternoon everyone we'll get the meeting started today is Friday March 14th and it is uh [Music] 12:01 and this is the Disabilities
Commission meeting and we are recording and in progress how's everybody doing good good um turn my volume up a little bit so I can hear a little bit better um
so pretty short meeting today i have just a couple of updates and if you have anything that you would like like to update the first and foremost is about uh the town van uh dispatch vendor
i had invited um both uh Amy and Liz to join the meeting uh neither one of them are available um because they um have meetings today and so Liz did send me an email um I had
asked her if there have been any other complaints and to see if anyone from EHS had reached out to dispatch and talked with them with regards to the concerns and if there had been any changes that
had been made based on the complaints and her comments were that uh there have been no other complaints that they did talk with management and relay all the concerns and they management have addressed it uh
with the dispatchers and they also noted that they do they are doing regular trainings customer service and disability awareness and that they are looking into updating their feedback form on the website and so um that is
all that they have for right now with regard to their dispatch um if there is anything further um they you know they would like to hear from us um you in particular Eric because you are the one that actually um
had brought the uh complaint regarding dispatch and wanted to know if there was anything further if there were any more concerns from you because she would like to um bring that forward to them um and know that how you feel um has anything
improved has anything gone better worse or is everything staying the same sure no that's fair and I think I mentioned you know I had I had such a poor taste in my mouth from the bad experiences that I had stopped using the service so
in fairness I I can't say if anything you know from my perspective as a user has changed um you know I had been using the Mark Connect service which is you know discounted rates on like a ride share you know like an Uber or Lift type service uh which is a great service and
very polite and courteous when you call there uh but yeah I mean in order to give it a fair shake you know I should try and book the town van but I should I I think I should also you know the others you know the and it's not a huge number but the few others in town that
have shared uh you know the concerns that I expressed with the dispatch service um you know they should be logging their concerns as well and kind of an official way so I should also recommend to people if I hear from
others that uh that they follow that kind of that course as well so no I think that's fair and that sounds good for right now okay all right so I will relay that information to Liz so that she knows that and that um if you have
the opportunity you might try and use it again to see if your um experience is any better or if it's still the same um for my next appointment okay all right sounds great we have we have an insider that can uh
give us another information right exactly and you know and it's important that you know we stay on top of it and not just let it slide because if they you know we can get lip service and say oh yeah we're doing all this and if it's not really happening that that's also
important to know right and we used to control dispatch i mean we didn't before we had a contract you know it was a position in in town that actually was our our dispatch so if we're paying for a service we would expect it to be equal
to or better than what we were providing that's right so exactly i mean I loved it when I first moved to town because it was like you were talking to someone that you knew like every every time I called it was like the person who was driving the van that answered the phone i mean and I know that that's not
practical but it was like you know it had that very homey feel to it you know so it was neat but uh the second item is update on the meeting with the select board uh so I did go to the meeting on Monday with the
three items that um we had approved the at the last meeting so the first two were the um items on the um non-disclosure and our policy for the ADA and the select board very graciously uh approved both of them they will be
going up on the website um probably Monday or Tuesday of next week but I was very grateful uh that the select board did approve them very readily and they also um approved uh going forward with um asking basically approving the
removal of Luigi due to the fact that he's unable to um attend our meeting so we do now have the vacancy so there's only you know the four of us on the board and we do have the vacancy and um in talking with you Eric through email
um you know I can send out that letter if you would like to the two members that um you had mentioned and invite them to you know apply and and see if they would like to join us yeah I would I would like it if we could and you know
I'm I'm like I'm I know that they were gung-ho you know when I first started talking about them as candidates and you know I don't know if they're waffling now but like you know but I I think it's worth sending a letter to each one of
them and um you know I can follow up and kind of just you know make sure that they're still engaged and interested and see if you know either of them uh um you know is still on board hopefully they're both still on board but um yeah I think that would be good
which yeah and it's it's a relatively easy process too you know you takes like all of three minutes to go online and just send out the application and the select board are pretty easy to um have someone join us um and they don't even
have to go to the meeting right yeah we're really just looking for um you know people that might have an issue with a person as opposed to you know it helps when someone speaks for themselves if they're there if we've never heard of the person but if um that's the only
time that you would maybe want to see the person but the select board in general is not going to say no to a volunteer especially um if this board is also you know backing them or any board for that matter right yeah we definitely
would have done that i mean I won't name names but one candidate in my in my mind uh would be um you know obviously like they're both you know if they're both interested in volunteering and contributing to you know the town discussion about
disability I think that's great but like out of the two candidates one of them is a little more fiery and a little more opinionated and the other one is you know I think a little more democratic so like um I'm kind of quietly hoping that uh you know like I I feel like um it
would be great to have the advisory support of of one of them if not directly kind of coming to these meetings and you know do you understand what I'm saying Diane yes yeah because I I feel like our meetings could get off track and on grievances and
things like that and I don't want that so I'm kind of rooting silently for one of them but you know G Eric was uh if I recall correctly it was the lady that was the gun hole
wasn't it she was but she's having a lot of like I mean I mean one week it was technology issues the second week it was scheduling issues i'm like "Okay now don't don't get inconsistent or unreliable now you know?" Like right
but yeah I mean I can I can have the one-on-one with each of them and kind of follow up and see where their mind is at currently you know yeah that would that would be helpful I think um so in all reality I mean those are the only two issues that um we had to
talk about today and the only thing now is just you know action items as to what our next steps going forward are you know basically you know sending a letter to both of the members you know both of the residents that are interested in becoming members
um sending the information that we had approved at the select board meeting on Monday night um uh to James um Dugen um you know because now we're getting a little bit closer to that May deadline
um getting his approval you know for the all the steps that we've taken you know as far as getting Eric Derber the ADA getting his information out on the website now getting the non-disclosure um information out there getting our policy out there you know making all
those steps forward you know what what else is you know is he looking for is there something that that else that we're missing so I think if we get all those things to him now I think we'll be in good shape as far as you know the grant is concerned for May
um let's see what else he thinks we're missing if we're missing anything so Eric is our ADA coordinator is that right yes eric Derba yeah okay yeah because I saw the uh the mod newsletter
today they're like you know make sure you're working with your ADA coordinator i'm like I was like okay this um so yeah this sounds good like uh like is there anything we need to be doing to like cle like like to prepare
to submit or like everything is kind of falling well everything's kind of together it's just these were some things that he said that we needed so um I want to get those things back to him to make sure they you know pass the
muster type thing and to be sure that he thinks you know he he basically said that you don't have to re recreate the wheel you know um look at the state see what they have you know use use your resources and um you know and basically
what we did was we just looked at what the state had and kind of changed changed the names you know and put us in there and um went from there and so I don't know why it wouldn't wouldn't work because it works for the
state so why would it work for the town you know so um I think the other thing that we should uh ask Jeff is uh upon submission of this um and it get
accepted what can we do next i'm not quite clear whether or not that we can go in and ask for grant on something um I'm sort of kind of under the impression May is the is the month that
you can go in and ask for grant for something so I'm not sure once they accept that what can we uh do in terms of asking for money from that point i think it's that
you have to wait till the following year to submit the next application for grant or whatever the case is i think that if he can uh clarify that for us with regards once this is submitted and is
accepted and approved by them what can we do next in terms of grant okay we want to stay ahead of it and that Yeah we can hit the ground running I guess in May make sure we're right yeah
i think part of it is are we looking to do a transition plan or what is it that we're actually looking looking for the money for and I think that's that's the biggest thing is that what we're looking for to do a train well I thought that uh I thought that
um we needed to uh get a consultant to uh go through the town of Littleton and tell us uh what's on target and what's not on target which is a transition plan okay that's what it's called
yeah that's what we will be looking for okay all right does anybody have anything else that they would like to I just sent a calendar invite for a placeholder for the April 11th Friday
because second Friday of the month april 11th yeah okay okay it works for me me too yep it's good george does that work for you yeah
usually uh I try to make anything work okay go if I got something I'll I'll definitely bring it ahead okay well well I know that I know that uh
that uh we need to uh touch bases with uh with the building commission there and uh see when they can u get us to go and look at the the
senior center and also 36 yeah are you available next Tuesday George because I have to um set up something for Lucy to go over there are you available Tuesday yeah Tuesday should be okay so I got a meeting with
uh Jim Serial on Monday so yeah Tuesday is open okay all right i'll send you a email as soon as I get that set up okay
all right if there's nothing else I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn so moved second all right moved and seconded all those in favor eric George
i Gary all right well thank you so much everyone and have a great weekend and you too hopefully it's nice yeah i'll talk to talk to you all soon happy St pat's Day yeah happy day
take care bye