Recommendation to request City Manager to work with City Attorney and Development Services to report back on the existing services the City provides for small businesses to increase compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and expand equity and access for people with disabilities; and Report back on feasibility of developing proactive solutions for small businesses to address construction related accessibility and ADA compliance issues, including, but not limited to education, outreach, the feasibility of additional support, and recommended changes to the federal legislative and state legislative agendas that support expanded access at small businesses for disabled residents.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And I'm sure someone from Council District one is going to come and connect with you right now. So. So thank you for that. We're going to be moving to item 19, please. Communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Zendejas, Councilmember Pierce, Councilman Austin, recommendation request city manager to work with City Attorney and Development Services to report back on the existing services the city provides for small businesses to increase compliance with the ADA. Councilman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I want to thank my colleagues who signed on to this item with me. As many of you who have business improvement districts in your districts may be aware, we're seeing a proliferation of ADA lawsuits. And I want to figure out a way that the city can help business owners make sure that they're able to comply with our ADA requirements to help streamline the process for them to be able to do so, develop some some ways and some mechanisms that maybe we can be more proactive so that businesses have an opportunity to fix any deficiencies before they're hit with lawsuits. So we can try to do some outreach and education. We want to make sure that our businesses are ADA compliant so that everyone has access to the offerings that we have in the city. But at the same time, we want to make sure that we're business friendly and that we're being proactive to help educate and help streamline the permitting process to make some of those ADA changes occur. So with that, again, I want to thank my colleagues who signed on and asked my colleagues to support this. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Super. Now a stand in support. And I also want to mention new business owners when they're moving into an existing facilities that we keep an eye out for them. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Yes, I fully support this. I think this is a resource, but also a guideline or guide for for our businesses, particularly our small businesses who've been impacted by, you know, the ADA issue and may need some some guidance and assistance from the city. This will help many of our businesses tremendously. And so I'm looking forward to it. Yes. So happy to support. Thank you. And councilman in the house. This is obviously very important to me personally. I'm so excited that we're moving forward in taking a look at what we can do to help our small businesses become ADA compliant. It's very important because the ADA came into effect almost 30 years ago. So if we still now have small businesses that are struggling to make their businesses ADA, we really need to step in and try to help them so that it can really, truly be business friendly environment for everyone. Thank you, Councilwoman Price, for bringing this up and for and for allowing me to cosign on this. Thank you. And that concludes the council comment. I don't have any control and I'm Christianson I think are not here anymore so I don't have any public comment on item 19. We'll do a roll call vote. District one. Yeah. Mr. Two. District three. Yes. District four. Yes. Five. District six. District seven. Eight. District eight, District nine. Okay. Motion carries. Great. Mayor, there is public comment. Oh, you know, no one signed up for public comment. Yeah. You need to send up a public comment. No one's signed up for public comment. And so, members, please go ahead and cast your votes. I think we all we just did a motion case.