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“All county property - existing or new -- must be handicapped accessible” under federal regulations, accountant Wally Cox informed the supervisors on Monday. The requirement will be “policed through suits brought against the Board of Supervisors,” he added.
Mr. Cox said his firm has prepared plans for 25 localities on making public buildings accessible to handicapped people. “You don’t have to rip up buildings to satisfy the law. There’s been very little capital outlay involved in the 25 plans we’ve done.”
The issue arose with Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke’s presentation of a proposed ordinance adopting the statewide building code’s standards on handicapped access as the county’s standards. These standards would apply when public buildings are constructed or structurally altered, Mr. Luke said, pointing out that recent “cosmetic changes” at the courthouse wouldn’t fall under the proposed provisions. In addition, he noted, the new ordinance would give the supervisors authority to waive the standards for handicapped access on a case-bycase basis.
Supervisor Newbill Miller asked if the ordinance drafted by Mr. Luke will satisfy federal regulations. ■ Mr. Luke said he wasn’t sure what federal requirements entail but added that revenue sharing money is apparently tied to provision for handicapped access.
Circuit Court Clerk Diane Bruce reported that federal authorities announced two years ago that revenue sharing would be forfeited if every public building for which revenue sharing has been expended isn’t handicapped accessible by October, 1986. She added that the county can’t say with surety that revenue sharing money has not been spent on the courthouse since in the first two or three years the program was in existence, Rappahannock deposited its revenue sharing in the general fund.
This year, the county’s revenue sharing money totals $35,000, Mr. Cox noted.
Ms. Bruce said that representatives from the Department of Rehabilitative Services have inspected
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