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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Committee for Persons with Disabilities - 05/03/2023 w 1201 Leopard Street City of Corpus Christi Corpus Christi,TX 78401 cctexas.com Meeting Minutes - Final-revised Committee for Persons with Disabilities Wednesday,May 3,2023 3:00 PM City Hall City Council Chambers The City of Corpus Christi promotes participation regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability or political belief. Reasonable accommodation is provided upon request and in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. For assistance or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact (361) 826-3300 at least 48 hours in advance. Upon request, this information can be available in larger print and/or in electronic format. The committee for persons with disabilities is hereby established for the purpose of carrying on a program to encourage, assist, and enable persons with disabilities to participate in the social and economic life of the city; to achieve maximum personal independence; to become gainfully employed; and to enjoy fully and use all public and private facilities available within the community. (Ord. No. 24364, § 1, 2-13-2001) A. Call To Order Chairperson Dr. Jennifer Scott called the meeting to order at 3:04 p.m. B. Moment of Reflection Conducted C. Pledge of Allegiance Conducted D. Roll Call Present: 7- Vice Chair Melanie R. Gomez,Angela Brengman,Ashley Voggt, Kelsey Dahlbeck, Sandra Flores, Olivia Allan, and Jennifer Scott Excused: 1 - Imelda Trevino E. Public Comment None F. Approval of Minutes and Action on Absences Present: 7- Vice Chair Melanie R. Gomez,Angela Brengman,Ashley Voggt, Kelsey Dahlbeck, Sandra Flores, Olivia Allan, and Jennifer Scott City of Corpus Christi Page 1 Printed on 7/6/2023 Committee for Persons with Meeting Minutes -Final-revised May 3,2023 Disabilities Excused: 1 - Imelda Trevino 1. 23-0787 Approval of the April 05, 2023 Regular Meeting Minutes Attachments: MeetingMinutes APR 2023 This Minutes was approved as amended to excuse Imelda Trevino's absence. G. Staff Reports a. Neighborhood Services: No Reports b. Development Services: No Reports c. Engineering Services: No Reports d. Parks & Recreation: No Reports e. CCPD Parking Enforcement: Ricardo Rodriguez reported on the ADA Citation report. There were 130 citations for disabled parking, 7 citations were issued for blocking architectural design, and 59 for blocking sidewalk. H. Presentations 1. Dustin Cronan — Mr. Cronan is in the verge of becoming a nonprofit owner for autism acceptance called Creating Connections Piece by Piece and then, so it's vision and mission is to improve the lives of those with autism through education and advocacy and educate the non-autistic community the equipped autistic community with resources and the influence those lawmakers to ensure justice and equality for those with autism. Dustin Cronan's phone number is 512-217-3986 and email Dustincronan3@gmail.com. Mr. Cronan's Facebook page is called Creating Connections Piece by Piece and his YouTube channel YouTube at Dustin Cronan in 2787. Mr. Cronan has been meeting with a lot of law enforcement Commission officials with chief Markel and today he also got this pin from the CCISD Police Department from the chief foreign key and his staff at CCISD. Mr. Cronan went to the board meeting City Council Mr. Cronan also has been giving presentations at the McKinsey jail probation officers met with chief Markel and even gave him one with them at the Police Academy. Mr. Cronan also got an upcoming meeting in June 2nd with the CCISD therapist which Mr. Cronan believes Dr. Scott's going to be in. Dr. Scott's has been in a couple of those meetings with the Judge Connie Scott and Sheriff Hooper and the meeting with Anthony Saunders who is the Deputy Chief at CCISD the police chief. Mr. Cronan also has been making videos on his YouTube channels to create awareness on his Facebook page creating connections piece by piece. Mr. Cronan has about 41 subscribers so far on his YouTube channel and about 1100 views on his YouTube channel. Mr. Cronan also met with the Fire Chief and they're also working on getting the presentation going and been trying to educate the whole community in especially even in CCISD or law enforcement fire department all our first responders are health in clinical and Councilman Michael Hunter also sent him help up this nonprofit organization. Mr. Cronan met with his aunt who's also helping him as well to set it up and they brainstormed. Mr. Cronan just got to go and recruit some board members also to get it going. City of Corpus Christi Page 2 Printed on 7/6/2023 Committee for Persons with Meeting Minutes -Final-revised May 3,2023 Disabilities I. Committee Liaison Reports Closed Caption Project: Nora Vargas stated communication staff still has this project radar, so it's on their list for their To Do List. Protected Bike paths Resolution Next Steps: Mrs. Vargas stated we have provided feedback on your resolution and it's what you have in front of you. The red is what we are recommending, and we've also added a comment on there so you can review this, and this can be put on next month's agenda as a voting item if you if you would like to review this on your time. T-shirt Size: Mrs. Vargas stated So, I've received everybody's T-shirt sizes those have been submitted and placed an order with Mira's Sports, hopefully we have those to you by next month. Bylaws: Mrs. Vargas stated you have a hard copy of your bylaws in front of you these are these were approved at the previous committee meeting I was just telling Doctor Scott that these can be changed at any point if you want to review them and want to make changes to them. Recommendations for the Vacancy: Mrs. Vargas stated your committee does have you all should have received an e-mail from me with the applications so if you did have a chance to review those applications what you can do is make a public comment at the council meeting that will be taking place next week on May 9th. J. Chairperson's Report Round Table Discussion 1. Committee Workshop — Dr. Scott stated she still working trying to work with the Imelda on getting a committee workshop put together. 2. Adding Events and speaking engagements to the calendar— Dr. Scott stated they'll just move that forward again if you're adding any events or speaking engagements to the calendar, please e-mail them to me. Under a specific timeline. 3. Subcommittee workplans - Dr. Scott stated she gave committee members an outline of the subcommittee assignments that we have now it'll be updated on the agenda for next month. 4. New committee assignments - no update. K. New Business None L. Subcommittee Reports • Engineering Subcommittee (ENG) — no update. • Public Service Announcement Subcommittee (PSA) — no update. •Accessible Recreation Playgrounds Subcommittee (ARP)— no update. • Community Volunteer Involvement (CVI)— no update. City of Corpus Christi Page 3 Printed on 7/6/2023 Committee for Persons with Meeting Minutes -Final-revised May 3,2023 Disabilities M. Future Agenda Items • T-shirts • Introduction of new committee members • Subcommittees • Protected bike path resolution N. Adjournment Adjourned at 3:34 p.m. This meeting may be held via videoconference call pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.127. If this meeting is held via videoconference call or other remote method of meeting, then a member of this governmental body presiding over this meeting will be physically present at the location of this meeting unless this meeting is held pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.125 due to an emergency or other public necessity pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.045. City of Corpus Christi Page 4 Printed on 7/6/2023