David Agosta

The City of New Haven uses see,click,fix so that members of the pubic can publicly report issues of concern to the public. It has a category "NHFD - Safety Concern." This is the proper venue for members of the pubic to publicly report issues of concern to the public.

It is not appropriate for employees of the City of New Haven to close these reports with a vague "we told someone about it. Call us and we'll go in a back room, under a table and we might tell you what we're doing about the issue.

NHFD has not responded to a Freedom of Information Act request re: McQueeney Towers. Elm City Communities has not responded re: who to file an FOIA request for inspections, maintenance, repairs and outages

It has come to my attention that both elevators at McQueeney Towers have been failing regularly and are being allowed to remain non-functional for more than a week. There have been at least three fires in this facility within the last four years. Please investigate.

There is a pervasive fear of retaliation among the residents "You get in trouble if you complain." Please refer this matter to NHPD.

The Parks Commission is currently considering the removal of barriers that deny access to the summit of East Rock Park in very obvious violation of Federal Anti-discrimination law. It's meetings are in-person only. That denies the members of a protected class who are unable to attend there meetings in person the right to petition for a redress of grievances.

Please provide virtual access to the next meeting of the Parks Commission.

Shrubbery on the Trumbull St. of 415 Orange St. narrows the path of travel below the minimum allowed by 403.5.1.

Note: This is the address of the Alder for Ward 7..

This very obviously exceeds the absolute maximum for a vertical level change that is allowed by the ADA (or Rehab Act of 1973). It is at the location of the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen's food distribution.

People who are homeless and have disabilities have more than enough to deal with without suffering an injury as a result of the City of New Haven's Systemic Pattern of Discrimination against people who have disabilities.

Please prioritize the remediation of this violation of Federal Law and please take action on this before winter sets in.

T: "An elevator is broken every other weekend. John needs the walker. When the other one breaks, what's he gonna do? Walk down ten flights of stairs?"

Me: "They have the same problem at Bella Vista."

Tony: "Oh. That place?" They got it worse. You get in trouble if you complain. I got in trouble cuz I went to the liquor store and then got stuck in the elevator for an hour. What else was I gonna do? People @#$% in the elevator when it gets stuck cuz whataya gonna do? And then they get in trouble. We got people who can't get their mail cuz their mailbox is too high. You can't see the button to open the door. Sometimes, it doesn't work and you gotta push it."

Me: "What if the other one breaks and there's a fire?"

Tony: "I know, right?"

"Ghettoization" is the process by which people with disabilities are segregated into small areas of something resembling accessibility and denied the right to travel out of those zones. McQueeney Towers, a public housing facility that "has some ADA compliant units, is 3/4 ghettoized.

Residents may not safely access the public seating area across the street, which is also in front of a school. Apparently, the goal was to injure everyone equally, regardless of demographic.

This requires history (and, at the end, a quick lesson on what proves intentional discrimination against the members of a protected class.)

46.403 (h) (1) The obligation to provide an accessible path of travel may not be evaded by performing a series of small alterations to the area served by a single path of travel if those alterations could have been performed as a single undertaking."

In the background, in front of the building that The US Attorney's Office is in, is the illegal "small alteration." It is on a "path of travel" to the Town Hall of Records, which is the polling place for Ward 7, and the ballot drop boxes for everyone else.

In the foreground is another path of travel to that polling place and those drop boxes. I do not know how long these very obviously not "stable, firm and slip-resistant" antiques have been in place. I do know that across the street front he US Attorney's Office is best place to prove utter disregard for the civil-rights of the members of a protected class.

The "fix" being requested is an end to the inappropriate use of the assignment to a "Permanent Repair Related To Major Project." That means nothing other than "We are going to evade responsibility for this for as long as we can."

An injury was reported at his hazardous condition about 100 ft, north of a Public School.in February of 2021. The ADA violation is almost irrelevant. Injury. Public School. It does not actually present a "substantial limitation' on students' right to access their school because another ADA violation just north of this one makes this one inaccessible to those students.

It is not appropriate to assign exigent circumstances like the active discrimination on College St. or a known risk of injury to public school students to "when we get around to it."