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Saginaw hears ADA transition plan update; staff to return with funding recommendation
Summary
City project manager Matt Poole and ADA coordinator Maria updated the Saginaw City Council on a multi‑year ADA transition plan, showing inventories, a monitoring dashboard and cost estimates; council asked staff to propose a realistic annual funding plan ahead of TxDOT’s next review in Feb. 2026.
Saginaw City Council on Monday received an update on the city’s Americans with Disabilities Act transition plan and asked staff to return with a recommended annual budget to begin implementation.
Matt Poole, the project manager on the transition plan, told the council the effort has included facility and programmatic evaluations across the city and spans an eight‑phase effort that began in 2017. "This is a federal requirement, to have an ADA transition plan in place," Poole said, noting the plan covers programmatic items such as website accessibility and physical infrastructure including 12 buildings, seven parks, 13 signalized intersections and about 135 miles of city sidewalks.
The plan moves from evaluation into implementation and includes administrative deliverables: designation of an ADA coordinator, an ADA grievance process and public notice. Poole demonstrated an interactive dashboard that maps noncompliant locations, links to facility‑level PDF reports and produces cost estimates and priority lists. He said the underlying database can show year‑by‑year programming and track completed, in‑progress and planned projects.
Maria, the city’s ADA coordinator, said the city received a satisfactory status on the initial TxDOT/DOJ surveys but also a follow‑up letter requesting additional documentation on a small number of items. She said the state agency requires updated responses every 18 months; staff noted the next monitoring window will be February 2026.
Council members pressed on the budget and pace of work. A council member noted the annual line item currently used for barrier removal is $50,000; Poole said the plan’s total estimate divided by 10 years equates to roughly $6.5 million per year. "We want to work with city staff to also integrate that in with already‑planned capital improvement projects," Poole said, urging that progress viable to TxDOT be documented even when improvements are made within other projects.
Council directed staff to develop a realistic, prioritized annual funding recommendation and suggested using the dashboard to produce a custom list of near‑term improvements that could fit available funding. Staff said they would meet with council and finance staff to refine a recommended dollar amount and priorities and return with the proposal.
The presentation closed with an agreement to coordinate further with TxDOT and to use the dashboard as the city’s primary tool for reporting progress and documenting barrier removal.
Next steps: staff will prepare a prioritized funding recommendation and follow up with council and the finance director; TxDOT monitoring responses are due in February 2026.
