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Norwalk ADA committee faces funding cutbacks as curb-ramp and senior-center projects stall
Summary
Members of the Norwalk ADA Transition Committee were told the city removed the committee's requested community-services funding from the mayor's budget, leaving planned curb ramps, a senior-center accessibility ramp and other projects at risk; committee members agreed to write to the city council and ECD to seek restoration.
The Norwalk ADA Transition Committee learned April 1 that funds requested for accessibility projects were removed from the mayor's proposed allocations, leaving several priority projects unfunded for the coming cycle.
Bill Nadek, the city's ADA coordinator, told the committee the community-services line item that had been set at $480,000 as part of a $630,000 package was “totally, zeroed out” after an email went out Friday. The request had included $150,000 for a Norwalk Senior Center ramp, $80,000 for the Benjamin Franklin Community Center and $400,000 staged over two years for work at the Gallaher mansion.
The loss of funding means the committee must narrow…
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