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City outlines push to complete ADA transition-plan work; staff to issue prioritized bid packages
Summary
City staff summarized progress on the 2007 ADA Transition Plan, reported roughly half the items remain, and said prioritized bid packages will be prepared so contractors can address accessible paths of travel, doors, restrooms and signage over the next year.
City staff presented an updated progress report on the 2007 ADA Transition Plan and told the Access Advisory Committee they will prepare prioritized construction bid packages intended to accelerate accessibility work across city facilities.
Craig Shallenberger, who joined the meeting remotely, told the committee he had rechecked the plan’s nine high-priority public-facing sites identified in the 2007 Puente Peters Architects study and that about 1,814 of roughly 3,500 listed items had been completed. “This leaves a little over 1,700 items to complete,” he said, and added that many remaining items are “readily achievable and relatively simple.”
Shallenberger described the ad hoc committee’s agreed priorities: (1) path-of-travel issues from public parking and the public right-of-way to building entrances; (2) doorways and door hardware; (3) restrooms; and (4) directional and wayfinding signage. He said staff and the ad hoc would prepare bid packages for those categories and aimed to have them ready for review before the committee’s next quarterly meeting in May.
The update included new finances and implementation notes. Shallenberger said the city has ongoing funds for transition work and listed other simultaneous projects — including City Hall upgrades, police station work and Harbor Way path-of-travel work — that address accessibility but are funded outside the transition-plan accounts.
Committee members praised the organization of the inventory and urged inclusion of specific items in bid packages such as stair-edge striping and service-counter accessibility. Several members asked that Shallenberger circulate the spreadsheet version of the Puente Peters inventory; he said he would do so. Members also raised coordination concerns about previous technology projects (for example, parking payment kiosks) that were deployed without sufficient accessibility calibration; one member asked staff to review upcoming parking-system changes to avoid repeating past mistakes.
Shallenberger said the ad hoc committee will review the bid packages before they are issued to contractors and that staff are aiming to complete the next tranche of transition-plan items within the coming year. The committee asked for notifications and the chance to comment on specific bid documents before awards.
No formal committee vote was taken; the meeting discussion concluded with a staff commitment to produce bid packages and continue ad hoc review and community outreach.
