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Advisory Committee on Persons with Disabilities

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Sterling Building
1255 Euclid Ave, Suite 310
Cleveland OH 44115

Matt Hawes
mhawes@cuyahogacounty.us
Telephone: 216-443-6986
FAX: 216-443-6866

Responsibility:
To serve as an advocacy group for disabled persons within Cuyahoga County. The Committee will comment on areas of employment, law, architectural attitudinal barriers and other relevant issues concerning disabled persons.

Appointing Authority		Length of Term
Cuyahoga County	18	3 years

Public Meetings:
Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Old Brooklyn Neighborhood Family Service Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 4261 Fulton Parkway (Corner of Fulton Parkway and Memphis Ave.) Cleveland, Ohio 44144. Several sub-committee meetings are held at various times throughout the county as needed. Meetings are not held in December.

Authorization:
Resolution #326322
Resolution #983141

Cuyahoga County, Ohio takes profound pride and deep personal pleasure in proclaiming National Disablity Employment Awareness Month October 2007 in Cuyahoga County.

Universal Design Standards:
Cuyahoga County welcome and encourage all people to participate in all aspects of the county, and to that end, have instituted these Universal Design Standards.

Universal Design and Visitability
From Accessability to Zoning

The majority of the Boards and Commissions in Cuyahoga County are Citizen Policy Making and Advisory Boards and Commissions. All of these boards and commissions are governed by the laws and regulations that have authorized them. Members represent the specific mission of the boards or commission to which they have been appointed.