HAVOC

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      April 6^th, 2005                                         Newsletter editor:  Paul Burge 

             OFFICERS   

                 PRESIDENT………..…............(386) 760-3180 ……David Dixon

                 VICE PRESIDENT…………...(386) 322-7955 …… Paul Burge

                 SECRETARY…………………(386) 763-2464 …….Grace Harris

                 TREASURER…   ...(386) 740-9319  W: 274-0648..Carol Carmella

                 CORRESPONDING SEC’Y…(386) 255-0488..........Pat Lapovski

Call to Order …………………………………….David Dixon, President

Introductions:

Transportation Update: Ken Fischer, VOTRAN General Manager

Program: Central City Front Porch Florida

       Yvonne Dixon, Community Liaison

Minutes of March 2 , 2005 Meeting ………..Grace Harris, Secretary

Financial Report………………………………Carol Carmella, Treasurer

                                      Committee Reports:

Membership/Publicity……………………………...Nick Nagy

Pedestrian Safety………………………………….Michael Porter

Accessibility………………………………………..A.J. Devies

Announcements:

Member/Guest Comments:

Adjournment

HAVOC

President’s Message

April, 2005

Thanks to Frank Bruno, Volusia County Council Chair, for the installation of HAVOC Officers at the March luncheon meeting. This was the first time HAVOC officers have been installed by a county official that is also a good friend of the disabled community. We also appreciated his sharing the 2005 County Council goals. It was very informative.

Ken Fischer has been giving updates each month on changes to the Medicaid Transportation program. VOTRAN and the County Council should be commended for their commitment to provide Medicaid Transportation services even with recent funding cuts and change in payment policies. Mr. Fischer will be joining us again at the April meeting to address some questions that were raised at the March meeting. We must be mindful to keep questions limited to transit issues that affect the disabled and not individual customer service complaints. VOTRAN does have a complaint/grievance process that has been established in cooperation with the Transportation Disadvantaged Local Coordinating Board. Complaints regarding service issues are best handled through the established process.

I look forward to working with all of you for another year. We are gaining new members every month and hoping to get everyone involved working with a committee. If you know of a member that has not been to a meeting in a while, please give them a personal invitation to come and be active again.

David E. Dixon

President

386-760-3180

seemor@bellsouth.net

HAVOC

March 2, 2005 Meeting Minutes

President David Dixon called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.

There were 23 members and 3 guests. Welcome new members!!

At this time President Dixon asks us all to go ahead and enjoy the food and we will get back to the meeting as soon as we all get seated. And of course he didn’t have to say it twice! We all really enjoyed it. For all of you who did not make it. We really missed you.

President Dixon introduced Ken Fischer: General Manager of Votran

He talked about the changes coming up in Votran. They are going to start checking to see if people are really going to places that they say for Medicaid related Dr Appointments, etc… also if Medicaid is paying for this transportation. Then they want to make sure it’s for Medicaid health reasons only. There were a few more things. If you need to know any thing that’s coming up that you have question’s about. Call Votran to have them answered and they will do there best.

President Dixon introduced one more speaker Frank Bruno

          He talked about a few things he will be working on.

1.    Customer service, (he feels we need to be kinder to those who need help)

2.    Homeless people,( we need to get them off the street but in a better place and even help them to relocate with relative’s)

3.    work on the school system ,( trying to make it where they go to school in there own area and not be bused around)

At this time President Dixon called one at a time for each officers to come up to the front and take the oath of office. Frank Bruno administered the oath to the entire elected officer’s for there term. There was a photo taken at this time. The officer’s are listed below:                   

President:                             Dave Dixon

                   Vice President:                    Paul Burge

                   Recording Secretary:        Grace Harris

                   Treasure:                             Carol Carmella

                   Corresponding Sec’y:       Pat Lapovski

At this time we all thanked Frank Bruno for coming.

At this time introductions were made as we went around the room.

Feb 2, minutes were approved by everyone. Motion to accept the minutes were made, Seconded and approved by all.

President David Dixon talked about a few of our members who have taken ill. Joan Clearly, Steve Hoyte, Nick Nagy, He asked that Sunshine Lady to send out cards.

President David Dixon talked about a wheelchair race week on May 21^st about opening a booth for the white cane laws.

(Call for more information.)

President Dixon asked for Committee Reports to wait till next month.

Carol Carmella, Treasurer: Reported a balance in the checking account is $1,084.07

Michael Porter, Pedestrian Safety Chairman:

 AJ Devies, Accessibility Chairman:  

Nick Nagy, Membership/Publicity Chairperson:

Dominick Sileo, Chairperson of the Nominating Committee:      

Joan Cleary, Fundraising Committee:

Denise Boehner, Sunshine Lady:

At this time President Dixon asked Grace Harris for her announcement:

 For the history of HAVOC:  I am working on a scrapbook and I need help to update the book. Please bring what you think should be in the history of Havoc. The dates that are missing are: 1977, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2001-2005. Please have names with any photo’s on them! And the date and newspaper name of any clippings.

(Meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.)

Respectfully Submitted:

Recording Secretary, Grace Harris

MEMBERS CORNER

A. J. Devies

Chairman, HAVOC Accessibility Committee: 386-238-5815   ajdevies@att.net

Officer Daniel Garcia

Daytona Beach Police Department

Traffic/Parking Enforcement

Office: 671-5366 from 8:00am to 9:00am and 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Cell: 547-9781 at other times

1-800-949-4ada (1-800-949-4232) ADA Tech Support - SE-DBTAC
Answers questions on ADA for individuals and/or businesses
Comprehensive list of publications from which to order - most are free. You can request ADA Technical Assistance CD-ROM, which contains the most important publications. 

Publications are also available in large print, Braille, and other formats.

 

1-800-514-0301 Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division
ADA information, publications

 

1-800-669-9777 HUD/FHA
 Fair Housing information

 

1-850-488-7082 FL Commission on Human Rights Investigates and mediates FHA and ADA complaints

1-877-ada4you (1-877-232-4968) State of FL ADA Working Group

Michael Porter

Pedestrian Safety Chairman:

Community Legal Services              of Mid Florida

28-A Orange Avenue

Daytona Beach, Florida 32114  386-255-6573

Interested in G.E.D. or College classes, Home Ownership, Housing  counseling , Credit repair , starting your own business and obtaining  Business capital. Call Mid Florida Housing @ [386]252-7200

U.S Department of Transportation

Aviation Consumers Protection Division

Toll-Free Hotline for airline Disability-Related Problems

7 am – 11 pm Eastern Standard Time, daily 1-800-778-4838 (voice) 1-800-455-9880 (TTY)

Following is a photo of your new officer’s after taking an oath office administered by Frank Bruno, Volusia County Council Chair

Right to Left

Frank Bruno, Volusia County Council Chair

Cooresp. Sec’y --- Pat Lapovski

Record. Sec’y --- Grace Harris

President --- David Dixon & Seemore

Vice President --- Paul Burge

Treasurer --- Carol Carmella

          A notice mentioned at the last meeting. That Alice Melanson wants to share with others. She would like to hear from others interested in a forming a disabled bowling team. The alley is one that’s she and others have used before. And it is wheelchair accessible. A ball guide ramp is used to guide the ball. Contact Alice Melanson if interested.

386-761-0673

We have a # of members that are ill.

Steve Hoyte, Joan Cleary, Nick Nagy also Alan Rush. Karin Stafford’s grandson passed. Please keep them in your thoughts. Maybe call and wish them well at home.

Joan 386-788-5406

Nick 386-761-2330

Steve Hoyte 386-252-4154

I would to share a letter I received from A.J. Devies and the President and Michael Porter’s hard work on HAVOC’s behalf

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.  Michael Porter and I have been attending the Beach Policy Advisory Board meetings each month since late last year just to remind the Advisory Board and the County staff that their new Beach Management Plan relies solely on beach driving to provide access to people with disabilities, and that with the toll booths closed at dusk, people with disabilities no longer have access to the beach.  Also, people who don't drive to the beach (they walk or use Votran) just plain can't get onto the beach.

David, Michael and I have also attended County Council meetings, and we are working with other organizations such as Sons of the Beach to keep cars on the beach (although we have different reasons for doing so.)

David has also contacted every elected official in the County with a list of concerns about shortcomings in the Beach Management Plan.  Channel 13 also filmed and aired a speech I

gave to the Advisory Board last fall criticizing their beach management plan.
          I am in the process of preparing an ADA complaint covering non-compliant facilities at the beach approaches and beach-front parks, which is all that the ADA laws currently address.  I am waiting for David to work with the politicians before I send the paperwork to Washington D.C.  No point in wasting OUR taxes suing ourselves, which is what an ADA complaint would do.
          The ADA regulations that cover beach access seaward from the seawall are written, but have not been through the complicated regulatory approval process.  These regulations state that beach driving cannot be the sole means of access to a beach, so just keeping cars on the beach will not meet ADA requirements if the new law gets approved in its current wording.
          If there is time, I can go over all of this at the meeting on Wednesday, otherwise feel free to include the information from Tim and this reply in the newsletter.
AJ

    Grace Harris our Recording Sec’y. Is hard at work of putting HAVOC history into a beautiful scrapbook. She is in need of your help though. All entries are done by years. And she has some gaps between years. She would like your help in filling these years. If you have any photo’s or Newspaper clipping’s. Please pass them onto her. The years missing are listed below. Also place the names on the reverse of any pictures. And for the Newspaper clipping’s. The paper name and date’s are needed on them.

HELPFUL TIPS

Sealed envelope - Put in the freezer for a few hours,
then slide a knife under the flap. The envelope can
then be resealed.

Use Empty toilet paper roll to store appliance cords.
It keeps them neat and you can write on the roll what
appliance it belongs to.

    Well it’s that time of year again for renewal. Lets see if we can increase our attendance.  Also if you enjoy receiving the Newsletter as we enjoy sending it. Please renew your membership now to keep an uninterrupted mailing coming your way. The cost is still only $5 for a full year of HAVOC membership. Cut on the dotted line mail to our treasurer Carol Carmella. And a membership card will be sent back or given to you at the next meeting. If you find you just can’t submit the HAVOC dues. Call President David Dixon 386-760-3180. If you can and would care to have the Newsletter emailed to you. Contact me the editor at 386-322-7955 or at the meeting. SAVE SOME TREE’S

Carol Carmella

199 Bay Ct.

Deland, Fl. 32174

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