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City accessibility consultant presents mitigation options; board discusses costs and responsibility for polling‑site fixes
Summary
Michael Shermis from the City of Bloomington’s accessibility office presented a survey-and‑mitigation approach to improve polling‑site accessibility. The county and city discussed low‑cost mitigations, larger structural fixes, who pays for them, and using software to track accessibility of polling sites.
Michael Shermis (identified in the meeting as representing the City of Bloomington Council for Community Accessibility) attended Oct. 2 to answer questions after a demonstration of an accessibility survey tool. Board members said the county would like a standard emblem or sign to mark accessible polling sites and asked Shermis to continue work on draft materials included in the meeting packet. Shermis said the proposed approach surveys each polling location, records barriers and suggests mitigations. Many…
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