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The Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Persons with Disabilities

Monthly Meeting Minutes
Friday, February 18, 2005 (11.30-1.00)
DHSP Building, 1640 W. Roosevelt Road, Room 204
(Chaired by: Larry Voss)

Members Present: Drew Browning, David Mitchell, Larry Voss, Katie Keiling, Sally Bialas, Vandana Chaudhry, Kelly Munger, Carol Gill, Robin Jones, Kavitha Padmanabhan (Graduate Assistant)

Guests: Eynat Shevil (DIS), Joey Hampton (Campus Programs), Eunjung Kim (DIS)

Excused Absence: Janet Smith, Sabryna Cornish, Jeff E Lewis, and Peter Berg

Meeting called to order by: Larry Voss

Approval of Agenda: Motion to approve agenda made by David Mitchell and seconded by Sally Bialas.

Approval of minutes: Minutes of January 21st 2005, meeting were approved as presented unanimously.

Treasurer’s Report: $9000.00 is available for the expended year including all events like film nights, GA salary and
the daylong event in April.

New Business:

• New Graduate Assistant

Larry introduced the new graduate assistant to the members.

• Development of gift account

Recommendations were made that if external entities or co-sponsors were available they were to directly pay for a services. Robin recommended that there be a pre-approval process for these payments.

• Online reporting of Accessibility Issues

No reports were available since Peter was not present.

Old Business:

• Letter to Chancellor

Robin discussed the letter to the Chancellor regarding bus safety issues. She mentioned that they had not received a response yet.

• Disability Resource Center Task Force

The DRC was going to hold an open forum to finalize the draft that will go to the Chancellor.

Reports:

• Program Committee
  No reports were available since Janis was not present.

• Access Committee
  Larry showed pictures of the bus lifts, which are going to be retrofitted to make them safe. New busses will address the unsafe gap between the lift and the stairwell prior to delivery

• Campus survey Committee
  Carol reported that the committee had not met since the winter break and that they were scheduling a meeting soon.

• DSU Report
  Kelly reported that the next meeting was scheduled in two weeks. She also commented that the DSU would sponsor one guest for the April event.

Adjournment: The motion was adjourn was made by Robin Jones and seconded by David Mitchell.

Next meeting: The Next Meeting of CCSPD will be on March 18, 11.30 am to 1.00 pm in Room 448 DHSP Building,
1640 W Roosevelt Street.

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