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2001-07-17 - Commission for Residents with Disabilities - Minutes Board or Commission: ❑ Commission on Residents With Disabilities Document Type: 0 A e g nda 0 Minutes Meeting ate: 07/17/2001 Type of Meeting: ❑ Special Meeting MINUTES OF THE BUFFALO GROVE COMMISSION FOR RESIDENTS WITH DISABILITIES July 17th, 2001 Next meeting scheduled for Wednesday,August 22nd , 2001. I. Call to Order—The meeting was called to order at 7:15 p.m. IL Roll Call- Commissioners present included Chairman Karen, Commissioners Chorney, Verson, Sussman, Holm,Weiner, Slaw and Spallone. Also present was Trustee Johnson, Staff Liaison Kelly and a journalism student, Rebecca Osman. III. Approval of the Minutes-Comm. Karen noted that Crete Lakes should be Great Lakes. A motion to approve the corrected minutes of the June 27th meeting was made by Comm. Holm and seconded by Comm. Verson. III. Chairman's Report- A. Comm. Kahen introduced Rebecca Osman, a journalism student observing the meeting in order to complete an assignment for her class. She is a college student at Triton Community College. B. Robyn Jones will be speaking at a special CRD meeting on October 23rd at 7:00 p.m. in honor of Disabilities Awareness month. At this time Comm. Karen explained who Robyn Jones is to Ms. Osman. He noted Jones is an instructor and director of the ADA Center at University of Illinois in Chicago. Various commissioners were concerned about how to publicize the event. It was suggested that the information be included in the Newsletter, and distributed in the Chamber newsletter,perhaps as an insert. Comm. Verson suggested a separate letter inviting the chamber be written. C. Comm. Karen distributed a copy of a web site called RADAR(A focused research and reporting on Critical Developmental Disability Issue)Ann Cameron Williams sent the link to Village Hall because it was a national site that included information about the Village of Buffalo Grove's efforts toward changing the Family Community Residence Ordinance. IV. Sub Committee Report- A. Buffalo Grove Days Report-Two shuttles will be reserved and the route will possibly be extended to St. Mary's Parking lot. B. Discussion about getting golf shirts for Comm. Spallone, and Slaw ensued. Good name tags are also needed for Comm. Slaw, Spallone, Sussman, Holm, and Chorney. C. Comm. Karen distributed sign up sheets for driving the carts. Some slots were filled and a tentative schedtile was created and copied, drivers are still needed for various slots. Comm. Karen noted that commissioners could indicate when they would drive the cart at the next meeting. V. Commissioners' Reports- Comm. Spallone said that Karen Graber from Mark Kirks office indicated Rep. Kirk could come in November to discuss prescription drugs and other health issues. It was agreed that either Tuesday, November 6th,Wednesday, November 7th, Tuesday, November 13th or Wednesday, November 14th would be the best potential dates for the meeting. Comm. Spallone will advise the commission of the final date at the next meeting. Comm. Karen said he would check if the room at Vernon Hills Library would be available any of those days. Comm. Verson asked how the event would be publicized, the commission generally agreed this was a matter to discuss at the next meeting. Comm. Chorney noted that the library closed exactly on time at 9:00 p.m. and should be notified that a Congressman would be speaking. Comm. Kahen read over the requirements to hold a free meeting at the library, and it was agreed that the commission filled the requirements. VI. Items for Discussion— Plan Commission Workshop/ Comm. Slaw. Comm. Slaw distributed copies of this power point slide show for the July 18th 2001 plan commission meeting to discuss the Community Family Residence ordinance change. First he asked who was coming, and indicated it would be best to be there by 8:15 p.m., then he inquired about power point availability. Liaison Kelly indicated she would set up the equipment prior to the meeting. He said that Comm. Kahen would begin the presentation by giving an introduction, the Comm. Slaw would take over with his 8-10 minute presentation. At this time Comm. Kahen interrupted to give Ms. Osman an overview of the history of this project. Comm. Slaw went through each slide making any corrections suggested by the commissioners. He also had concerns with the language of the proposed new ordinance. The"up to 2 paid professional staff is too limiting,he would prefer to have option of having more staff a possibility. Although the plan commission packet has the limiting language, he requested to have a copy of the original ordinance with the simple strike out and addition of only the word "plus" and not"up to two"language available for the plan commission. VII. Staff Liaison Report-None VIII. Questions from the Audience-No questions asked IX. Other Business-There was no other business. X. Adjournment-Motion to adjourn was made by Comm. Weiner and seconded by Comm. Sussman. Meeting adjourned at 8:35p.m.