TO: LINDA REICH, CITY MANAGER
FROM: WARREN MORELION, AICP, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
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2025 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Annual Report.
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RECOMMENDATION
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Receive and file the 2025 ADA Annual Report which documents the accessibility improvements completed in FY24 and FY25, outlines minor revisions to the schedule for future projects, and provides an overview of accessibility projects planned for FY26.
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FISCAL IMPACT
There is no fiscal impact.
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• Positive City Image
• Superior Customer Service
• Responsible Long-Range Planning
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BACKGROUND
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a comprehensive civil rights law that mandates equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities. The ADA prohibits discrimination in access to jobs, public accommodations, government services, public transportation, and telecommunications, and requires public entities to provide programs, activities, and services in a manner that ensures equitable access for people with disabilities.
In 2024, a comprehensive Citywide ADA self-evaluation and transition plan was completed evaluating the City’s programmatic and administrative activities, public buildings and park facilities, and public right-of-way facilities. The ADA Transition Plan was adopted by the City Council and requires the City to incorporate accessibility improvements and barrier removal into its long-range planning to bring programs and facilities that have structural barriers into compliance within a 20 year time period.
The purpose of the ADA Annual Report is to document the City’s commitment to and progress towards eliminating barriers to access for people with disabilities. It also creates a process for adjustments to the ADA Transition Plan, highlights the barriers removed, and identifies the planned accessibility projects for the coming fiscal year. Finally, the report demonstrates a good faith effort for ongoing compliance by sharing regular updates on the progress of the ADA Transition Plan with the public.
ISSUES/ANALYSIS
The ADA Annual Report summarizes the City’s general compliance with administrative requirements, including the Public Notice and ADA Grievance Procedure. The report also documents the City’s internal activities, as well as formal actions that have been implemented since the self-evaluation was completed.
Two adjustments were made in the ADA Annual Report to the ADA Transition Plan. The first amends the project phasing schedule to reflect the City’s most current Capital Improvement Program. Walnut Park and the Police Department improvements were moved up to earlier phases in the schedule, while the Water Environmental Building improvements, which has been identified as an employee-only facility, is being moved to a later phase.
The second change removes 12 facilities from the ADA Transition Plan following the determination that those facilities are owned by other entities and are therefore not the responsibility of the City. These 12 facilities consist of 11 parks owned by their respective homeowner associations, and The Preserve Community Center, which is owned by the Chino Valley Unified School District. The survey reports for each of the 12 non-city owned sites will be provided to the owners of these sites so they can understand the condition and can plan to remove the access barriers.
Finally, the ADA Annual Report highlights accessibility improvements completed in FY24 and FY25. For City buildings and park facilities, 94 barriers were removed at 11 locations. For public right-of-way improvements, 129 curb ramps were remediated and 417 sidewalk segments (measured in 10-foot increments) were repaired. Specific projects and locations are indicated within the attached ADA Annual Report. For FY26, there are 13 planned accessibility improvement projects in the City’s approved FY26 budget. The specific locations of these projects are also listed within the ADA Annual Report.
Attachment: 2025 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Annual Report