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Council directs staff to prioritize high‑impact ADA fixes, request 3/5/7‑year budget scenarios
Summary
After Kimley Horn presented an ADA self‑evaluation and transition plan identifying accessibility barriers and estimating a roughly $7 million implementation cost for work completed to date, council directed staff to present prioritized high‑impact projects for this fiscal year and produce 3‑, 5‑ and 7‑year implementation and budget scenarios.
Consultant Erin Urich of Kimley Horn presented the city’s ADA self‑evaluation and a transition plan that inventories programmatic and facility barriers in buildings, parks and selected rights of way. The consultant said the evaluations identified multiple public‑rights‑of‑way and facility items and provided a conceptual implementation cost estimate: "But the overall costs that we're looking at right now for everything that's been evaluated to date is a little over 7,000,000."
Council members expressed concern about the three‑year implementation proposal and the available city funding. Staff clarified the presentation was to seek council direction and that the $2.3 million per year for three years applied only to the improvements identified so far, not the full network. After extended discussion about legal obligations under Title II and the practical limits of annual budgets, council directed staff to identify high‑priority, high‑risk accessibility projects that could be addressed with current funding and to return with prioritized 3‑, 5‑ and 7‑year implementation timelines and associated budget scenarios to present during the next budget cycle.
