Updated information we do an eblast to folks. We encourage folks that come in, architects and builders and to go to the institute and we have a lot of classes and i sometimes feel and this is anecdotal and were in the bubble and the builders dont know what do you have behind the counter . No. This is public information. We will share it with you. We will tell you about the same training opportunities that we go to. We would love to see you there. It makes the process better. [inaudible] correct. I formally the executive director of the chamber of commerce in my city has my cell phone and direct line to my office. Gary was talking about politics. Thats just the reality. She also understands what we do and listens which is a gift for me so back to my earlier comment about small business. We hold workshops, outreach for Small Businesses. Im always available to go out and review an existing building regarding barriers and accessibility. And then informally its been really important to me a
Not just about that but hearing, vision anything that is not an element that was the way that i look perhaps or something you know, you frame it in a way that person might understand. And sometimes you have to be rather abrupt with it but it goes back to your civil right. Would you hire a veteran . Of course. Would you hire a person in a wheelchair . No. You couldnt, really . Thats a different conversation. You would be in violation of the law then. Youre good with that . Yeah so theres a lot of that too so its all about the visual. How do you get them to understand why the code is written that way. I find that in my role at Sutter Health so my job is to i basically see myself as the quarterback for disability Compliance Program so theres the policies and procedures but also the barrier removal, so i am kind of the quarterback for the team of planners and architects and everybody thats involved with building care sites or doing barrier removals and reporting on the progress there, and
A very looks neat but its not very functional with a set of stairs and the fact theyre using lines groves instead of the warning line it makes it very hard and yet a lot of architects still think that is okay. [inaudible] one of the this is commissioner dolim and the textbook and the examples that we all have in our career come up and i was trying to explain to a client with a strip mall and why they needed identification for the suites. We were arguing and no other way to see it and were in a vacant suite. I cant afford this and i have to go to the bankruptcy judge and get money because the property was in foreclosure and this isnt going to help anybody and right then the door was swung open and a lady that was blind and threw the door open and said is this the hair salon and i am late and is this suite 204 and like i prompted that but unfortunately it was really a situation you were talking about the signage. We were talking about the tactile signage that would identify the suites in