anchor Description
This program provides for an on-going comprehensive effort to ensure that County buildings and other facilities are built and maintained in compliance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. This program includes both the correction of deficiencies identified by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) during its proactive Project Civic Access (PCA) assessment of County facilities, an assessment by the County of all County government buildings and facilities not included in the PCA assessment, and remediation of any deficiencies identified by those assessments. The program also includes policy development, advanced technical training for County architects and engineers to ensure that ADA compliance and accessibility are incorporated throughout the County's planning, staff training, design, and construction process in order to ensure that County facilities are fully compliant with Title II of the ADA. In September revised Title II ADA regulations, including the Standards, were issued by DOJ. The new Standards include revisions to the ADA Accessbility Guideline (ADAAG) standards and supplemental standards for features not addressed in the ADAAG including pools, recreation facilities, ball fields, locker rooms, exercise rooms, picnic areas, golf courses, playgrounds, and residential housing. The Title II ADA regulations require jurisdictions to proactively address the supplemental standards by bringing all features addressed in the supplemental standards into compliance with the Standards.
anchorEstimated Schedule
Germantown Outdoor Pool ADA Improvements; Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD
anchorCost Change
Increase to support Germantown Outdoor Pool ADA improvements.
anchor Justification
Montgomery County was selected by DOJ for a Project Civic Access review in Project Civic Access is a proactive, ongoing initiative of the Disability Rights Section (DRS) of the DOJ Civil Rights Division to ensure ADA compliance in local and state governments throughout the country. DOJ has completed reviews and signed settlement agreements with over jurisdictions to date. DOJ has inspected approximately County government buildings and facilities. In addition, they have inspected polling places, ballfields, golf courses, and local parks. Montgomery County signed a legally binding settlement agreement to address the findings in August M-NCPPC was a co-signer of the agreement. The agreement requires the County to remediate all problems identified by DOJ within a negotiated timeline and to survey all remaining buildings, facilities, and programs not surveyed by DOJ. Programs and facilities must be surveyed within a three-year time frame, with approximately completed each year. Prior to the County was required to send a report of its findings to DOJ each year with a proposed remediation plan and timeline.
anchorFiscal Note
transfer in current revenue general funds to Facility Site Selection. transfer of in GO bonds from Clarksburg Library to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Compliance transfer of in GO Bonds to Facilities Site Selection: MCG
anchorDisclosures
Expenditures will continue indefinitely.
anchorCoordination
United States Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation, Office of the County Attorney, Montgomery County Public Schools, Revenue Authority, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Department of General Services.