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Santa Monica ADA coordinator seeks CIP funding after federal grant denial
Summary
ADA coordinator Blake Stavros told the Disabilities Commission the city was not awarded the federal 'Safe Streets for All' grant and is preparing a CIP application for a facilities and right-of-way accessibility assessment; Stavros also outlined staff trainings, a delayed self-evaluation survey and a goal to bring city web content into compliance by April.
Blake Stavros, Santa Monica’s ADA coordinator, told the Disabilities Commission at its January meeting that the city was not selected for the federal "Safe Streets for All" grant it had sought with engineering and mobility staff. He said Public Works will prepare a capital improvements project (CIP) application for a facilities and public right-of-way accessibility assessment to include in the upcoming biennial CIP budget process.
That CIP application is a priority, Stavros said, but he currently does not have dedicated funding to implement the assessment and subsequent work. ‘‘We were not selected for the safe streets for all, federal grant that we had applied in conjunction with engineering and mobility over the summer,’’ he told…
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