Commission on Disability

Board Members

Thomas Andruskevich

Demetra Edwards

Charles Hince

Patricia Luchini

Michael Nicholson
Position: Chairman
Contact by EMail

Dino B. DeBartolomeis
Phone: (508) 473-5275
Contact by EMail

Ann Balmelli O'Connor

Theresa Calcagni
Phone: (508) 634-2307
Contact by EMail

Francis ONeill

Information

Meeting Schedule: Tuesday
Meeting Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Room 14
Address: Town Hall, 52 Main Street, Milford

The Milford Commission on Disability serves as an advisory board to the Town of Milford on issues of equal access for individuals with disabilities. Members are appointed by the Board of Selectmen and serve three year terms.

The Commission is also a resource for individuals with disabilities regarding employment, programs and services provided by state and local governments, goods and services provided by private companies, and access to commercial facilities.

Several members of the Commission on Disability are certified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Community Access Monitors, and can offer advice to new businesses and businesses undergoing renovation on ways to make their facilities accessible to individuals with disabilities and comply with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Federal) and the Architectural Access Board (State).

Commission on Disability Activities Account

The Milford Commission on Disability maintains an account through which we acknowledge and utilize funds from individuals and organizations wishing to make donations for the support of activities relating to handicapped accessibility in the Town of Milford. If you are considering a donation to this fund, please make your check or other financial instrument payable to: Town of Milford - Commission on Disability" with the notation "Donation", and mail to: Town of Milford, ATTN: Commission on Disability, 52 Main Street, MA 01757. Your donation will be promptly and gratefully acknowledged by the Commission on Disability.

About Portable Document Format (PDF)

Some documents on this web site are produced in Portable Document Format (PDF). Efforts are currently underway to ensure that all files are produced using the latest version of Acrobat (file conversion software for PDFs), which is the most accessible technology currently available for these types of files. In order to improve viewing of these files, please download the latest version of Adobe Reader^TM, which is available for free at the Adobe web site, at http://www.adobe.com. However, recognizing that even this version does not always work for all users, alternative accessible formats are provided wherever possible, most commonly through a text or an HTML file.

Internet Accessibility Statement

The Town if Milford is committed to achieving meaningful accessibility to this online environment for all users, including users with disabilities. We follow specific enterprise standards designed to meet the needs of our citizens with disabilities. Our enterprise standards are generally based on standards used by the Federal government for technology accessibility for people with disabilities, and web content accessibility guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For more information about the Federal standards, please visit the Federal Access Board’s Section 508 web site, at http://www.section508.gov. For more information about the W3C guidelines, please visit their web site, at http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT. The Town of Milford web site is regularly tested using leading web accessibility technologies and reviewed by users to verify that this web site is compliant with applicable standards.

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