[Access] Accessibility/Facilities items

[Ken Ross]

Accessibility Friends,

Since your meeting on December 4 is right AFTER our meeting, I 
thought I would alert you to items on our agenda and where I think 
things stand with them.  These comments are so you can give me input, 
so that I can help the Facilities Council decide what can and should 
be done.

1.  Today, Leslie Gilbert and I Iooked at the accessibility from the 
parking area with a focus on wheelchair accessibility via a ramp.  We 
recommend that a five-foot strip be available for this, located as 
follows:  facing the church from the parking lot, it would be just to 
the right of the church post nearest the street.  We would paint this 
strip yellow, and I would like a sign explaining why.  I recommend 
"Wheelchair Loading Zone."  As to the ramp, I favor accepting Cindy's 
offer to look into a portable ramp.  The height of the curb at our 
recommendation location is about 3 1/2 inches.

Because of concerns expressed about parking down near the street, 
I've been watching that area and haven't seen what appear to be 
problems.  I need to know more what the problems are, and then I need 
to understand David Gilmartin's ideas of what might be done (signs, 
cones, etc?).

2.  George Koris and I looked at the idea of making the doors to the 
two more-nearly-ADA-compliant restrooms wider by using recessed door 
hinges.  George is convinced that this would be a major project 
involving reframing and re-hanging the doors so that they open on the 
left.  George is convinced that we would have to have this work done 
by a professional.  In view of the expenses involved, we feel that we 
need to be very sure that this change is needed before going forward.

3.  This week, Ed Zack is going to look into putting up a solar light 
near the upper part of the RE pathway, where light is most needed, 
and he will do so unless there's some unexpected reason why not. 
Assuming that this will work at all, we can then assess whether more 
needs to be done to provide adequate lighting down to the RE area.

4.  I remind you that we're committed to making a smooth threshold 
for the entrance to the more-nearly-ADA-compliant restroom in the RE 
area, when the temperature is high enough.  In fact, Ed Zack will 
take care of this.

See you December 4, if not before.

Ken
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Ken Ross
ruthken at pacinfo.com
home phone:  541-686-1549
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