#1 2009-03-10 10:20:50
#9-09 MARCH 10, 2009 - TOWN of WAREHAM
Board of Selectmen/Sewer Commissioners
MEETING AGENDA
7:00 PM – Room #320 Multi-Service Center, 48 Marion Road, Wareham Massachusetts [...]
8. TOWN BUSINESS
a. Vote on Town Meeting venue.
b. Discussion with the Community Preservation Committee to update the board.
c. Signing of letter to DHCD re special conditions for the HDSP grant.
d. Any other town business.
9. LIAISON REPORTS
10. ADJOURNMENT
11. SIGNING OF DOCUMENTS APPROVED BY THE BOARD
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#2 2009-03-10 10:49:47
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#3 2009-03-10 14:48:03
my question is this i guess. if they move the meeting to town hall is it to keep people standing so most of them will leave? or is it so they can create a fiasco and then come out with the charter rewrite's recommendation to dissolve that in the charter. certainly can't have common folk making complicated decisions can we bruce
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#4 2009-03-10 15:57:54
This was posted in the Standard Times in 2000. Have the viiolations been corrected?
Wareham must move meetings
Town Hall not equipped for handicapped people
By Mary Jo Curtis,
Standard-Times staff writer
WAREHAM -- The state's Office on Disability has directed town officials to move their meetings from Memorial Town Hall to a location that's accessible to the handicapped.
In a Jan. 12 letter to Town Administrator Joseph F. Murphy Jr., Bruce Bruneau, coordinator of the state Office on Disability's Community Access Monitor Project, said he found a variety of violations of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act during his Dec. 15 inspection of the Town Hall.
Until those violations are corrected, all public meetings should be relocated "to a site that provides, at the minimum, accessible parking, an accessible path of travel, an accessible entrance, and an accessible bathroom," said Mr. Bruneau, who asked that the town respond to him by Jan. 26.
"This is a start," said Karen L'Esperance, a member of the Special Education Parent Advisory Committee ...
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