HomeMy WebLinkAboutGRAAC-2008-06-26Grand River Accessibility Advisory Committee ( GRAAC)
Thursday June 26, 2008 Kitchener City Hall, Conestoga Room
PRESENT: Sharon Ward - Zeller (Co-Chair),, Taposhi Batabyal (Co- Chair), Brad Ullner, Saul
Herzog, Myron Steinman, Gail Brunsdon, Sharon Giles, Ken Parker, Amy Ross, Sharon Giles,
Councillor .lane Mitchell, Councillor Kelly Galloway, Leigh Golden, Val Hummel, Deb Bergey,
Kelly Steiss, Linda Pretty (Recorder)
PRESENT (OTHERS): Anthony Cashin
REGRETS (MEMBERS): James Hunsberger, Gordon Cummer, Rosa Bustamante
REGRETS (OTHERS): Councillor Karen Scian
ABSENT WITHOUT REGRETS: Darryl Denny, Rik Louwagie
1.0 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
Sharon Ward - Zeller welcomed everyone to the June meeting and reminded the
group that the July meeting is cancelled. GRAAC will meet again on August 28 in the
Conestoga Room.
2.0 APPROVAL OF MAY MINUTES AND REVIEW OF JUNE AGENDA
• A minor change was made to Item 3.1, Page 2. The item should read "It was
also suggested to give something complimentary to people who do a good job
with snow - clearing, possibly a letter." As well, Brad said that the minutes should
note his concern about the GRAAC priority document by stating that he was
concerned about the use of the document in the future in circumstances that
cannot be anticipated now. With this change noted, a motion was made by
Sharon Giles, seconded by Ken Parker that the minutes of the May meeting be
approved. All were in favour; the motion was carried.
• A motion was made by Ken Parker, seconded by Gail Brunsdon, that the agenda
of the June meeting be approved. All were in favour; the motion was carried.
3.0 BUSINESS ARISING
3.1 Co -Chair Elections — Valrie Hummel
Val reviewed the election process and called for nominations.
Sharon Giles nominated Sharon Ward - Zeller and Taposhi Batabyal.
Myron Steinman nominated Amy Ross.
Ballots were distributed and votes collected. Results of the voting will be announced
later in the meeting.
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4.0 NEW BUSINESS
4.1 Planning Priorities - Introduction
* Refer to the minutes from April 10 and May 22 (Item 4.4.2).
The original GRAAC priorities document has been drafted to update the current one
which has guided the group up to now. The updates broaden the list to apply to all
municipalities on GRAAC, to include the AODA requirements and GRAAC
recommendations for the Herrington Audit. The new list will address high level topic
areas only to inform GRAAC as it develops its future agendas and sub - committee
work. Details of these areas will be addressed at the future meetings. This list is for
use by GRAAC and should be created by members. The decision of whether it will be
for staff use will be made in the future.
Based on earlier discussions from GRAAC, Kelly and Deb did the background work to
pull all the information together and distributed it to GRAAC members.
Kelly and Deb took turns reviewing the information and members commented on
topics in each theme area either to change, add or delete the information. Kelly and
Deb made changes directly to the draft priority document.
Deb explained the voting process for Planning Priorities. Green (high priority), red
(take it off the list), and yellow (leave it on the list, but not high priority) will be used
to indicate priorities.
ACTION:
(i) Transportation will be addressed at the August GRAAC meeting.
(ii) Members were asked to look at their priorities over the summer in
preparation for voting at the August meeting.
Myron will send the Co- Chair's an e -mail asking them to keep in mind the question of
how GRAAC can involve other members of the community and let them know about
the committee and its work.
5. ELECTION RESULTS - Valrie
The result of the election is that Taposhi and Sharon were voted Co- Chairs for the
coming year.
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6. SELF - EVALUATION SUMMARY — Sharon Ward - Zeller
Kelly collated the six responses received to the Self- Evaluation survey.
ACTION:
Sharon will e-mail a summary to members.
7.0 ADJOURNMENT
A motion was made by Brad UI I ner to adjourn the meeting at 4:05. All were in
favour; the motion was carried.
NOTE: The July meeting is cancelled.
The next GRAAC meeting will be held on Thursday August 28 at Kitchener City Hall in
the Conestoga Room on the main floor from 1:30 -4:00 p.m.
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