Finance Committee - 08/05/2020 Page 12
Mr. Hudson
So the ADA is mandated. You should be and we are engaged in a process of trying to bring all of our facilities
up to ADA compliance, we have a lot of facilities so that’s quite a challenge. But obviously when you are doing
work you know, we are trying to complete that work in the appropriate way and address the issues that we can.
In this case, you know, we were doing improvements along the sidewalk but just across the intersection there
was another ramp and that wasn’t compliant. So to make the proper connections we are trying to add this
work and do those things. So yeah we do have a long way to go with ADA still but we are working on it and
this change order will help us be more compliant.
Alderwoman Kelly
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else? Alderwoman Lu?
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you Mayor Donchess. | just want to let the group know that someone who may not be muted has a TV
in the background that | can hear.
Mayor Donchess
Someone has a TV in the background and they can hear it?
Alderwoman Lu
Yes. What I'd like to say about this is | am just new to this Committee and | just have a hard time
understanding what might not have been seen before. Because this was two months ago that it (audio cuts
out) and understand what the parties and the contractors and the folks who hired them missed in the amount of
| don’t know 20% of the, I’m just trying to understand how this comes about in two months.
Mr. Hudson
Sure so | can address that. It’s a combination of things. One is that we put this bid together in the winter time
and so it wasn’t the ideal time to go out and look at things. Second is you know as we started construction we
walked the project and looked at it more closely and realized that some of the things we had planned needed
to be improved. So you know hind sight is 20/20, | wish we would have foreseen this ahead of time. | believe
that this particular engineer that put this project together is learning quite a bit from this project and the next
project we will do better and should have fewer of these. But it is the natural process, you find some things
you didn’t expect and then there’s always some things that you could have foreseen but just didn’t for whatever
reason.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you, no specifics, just thank you.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone else? Ok could the Clerk please call the roll?
