Agenda - 05-16-2017-12-2 - Information Item - Orange County Facilities Accessibility Self-Assessment Final Report Cover Memo

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5 • The Orange County ADA Coordinator is Annette Moore • For questions about this self-assessment, please contact Brennan Bouma at bbouma @orangecountync.gov. • For questions or concerns regarding the accessibility of County facilities, please contact Alisa Cornetto at acornetto @orangecountync.gov. • For County Staff with a question or concern about accessibility in the workplace, please contact Tyran Fennell at tfennell @orangecountync.gov. This self-assessment was conducted in good faith by a team of County staff and volunteers who have received various levels of training in the assessment of accessibility. The Orange County Facilities Accessibility Self-Assessment Checklist (Appendix A) is a 7-page document with over 50 accessibility criteria created in partnership with these volunteers. It is based on a summary of a detailed 90-page ADA checklist created by the Institute for Human Centered Design. While the County Planning and Inspections Department reviewed the assessment checklist and were involved in several field assessments of County facilities, the findings of the assessments were not individually verified. ihsh 1.4 or o n c m 'only ACCCSSIbliliy The implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)for state and local governments is addressed in Title II. When the ADA was passed in 1992, Title II required every state and local government to complete a comprehensive self-evaluation and create a "Transition plan"1 for how their facilities would be retrofitted to meet the new standard. This facilities self-assessment and implementation plan follows a similar model. In the 25 years since its passing, the ADA code has gone through several major updates. Because accessibility is a federal civil rights issue and because Orange County is committed to maintaining fully accessible facilities for all of our residents, all new and existing County facilities are updated to meet or exceed these updates to the requirements. Beyond our normal preventive and corrective maintenance activities, ensuring our facilities are meeting the latest accessibility code requirements as our facilities are used and maintained over time requires periodic self-assessments. Recently, the County's Department of the Environment Agriculture, Parks, and Recreation conducted an accessibility assessment for County parks as part of Orange County Parks Master Plan. Other detailed assessments by the Orange County Health Department and at facilities such as the Skills Development Center and the Seymour Senior Center have also been conducted in recent years, however this is the first comprehensive accessibility self-assessment since 2007. On June 2nd, 2015, the Board of Orange County Commissioners celebrated the 25th anniversary of the ADA with a "Proclamation Supporting the Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act" which ends with the following commitment: I "The ADA and City Governments: Common Problems"https://www.ada.gov/comprob.htm 4