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COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING - 20 FEBRUARY 2003

NOTICE OF MOTION

1. FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Councillor Wheeler to move:-

"1. This Council will enable people with any disability to engage actively in its Council related business. This to be in line with the Disability Discrimination Act 1996, and in any case to be implemented by January 2004.

By this dateline this Council will either be fully accessible by use of ramps, lifts, hearing loops etc, or in the case of buildings unable to be converted, meetings will be relocated so that they will be fully accessible for people with disabilities.

2. That an Access Sub-Committee of the Buildings, Land and Contracts Panel be formed which would include Councillors and representatives of disabled organisations with the express intention of auditing all our buildings and reporting back to the Buildings, Land and Contracts Panel at regular intervals."

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