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Resolution number DIS/2014/22
MOVED by Member D McKenzie, seconded by Deputy Chairperson CB
Brown:
That the Disability Strategic Advisory Panel:
a) receive the
Responses to DSAG questions to Council report.
b) acknowledge responses to questions
dated December 2013 and the progress outlined therein; noting the undertaking
to establish a network of qualified "accessibility champions";
appreciating the funding constraints faced by Auckland Council; and aware of
how long it takes to change attitudes both inside and outside Council.
c) thank Council for its detailed answers, and requests that,
consistent with Auckland's long-term liveability for all, Council continue to
improve its professional capability with regard to universal (inclusive)
access to the built environment, to transport systems, to a proportion of
housing, including social housing, to information systems, and to events,
arts and cultural facilities.
d) request that in particular, Council's Urban Design Panel
include senior professional practitioners skilled and experienced in
universal (inclusive) access design.
e) request that the Urban Design Panel work with the disabled
community on constructive solutions to universal access issues.
f) request that Council ensures that pedestrian facilities
are installed to facilitate access by pedestrians with disabilities to all
shopping centres and other locations of interest.
g) request that Council commits to producing fully accessible
bills as soon as possible, including from Council controlled organisations.
h) request that Council instructs Auckland Transport to
develop a comprehensive plan, in consultation with people with disabilities,
and with agreed budgets and time-lines, to make Auckland's public transport
system fully accessible to people with disabilities.
i) request that Council links public funding of events to a
requirement that agreed reasonable steps are taken to ensure as much as
possible that these events are accessible to people with disabilities.
j) request
that good timelines and monitoring systems are in place to ensure that
Council and its Council controlled organisations’ objectives are being met.
CARRIED
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