Memo: TY from Victor Ashe/Outgoing President, US Conference of Mayors

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c021_003_007_012

Title (Dublin Core)

Memo: TY from Victor Ashe/Outgoing President, US Conference of Mayors

Description (Dublin Core)

Memorandum regarding a thank you letter from Victor Ashe, President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, to Senator Dole thanking Dole for asking for an extension to the deadline for curb cuts by cities.

Date (Dublin Core)

1995-06-16

Date Created (Dublin Core)

1995-06-16

Congress (Dublin Core)

104th (1995-1997)

Topics (Dublin Core)

See all items with this valuePeople with disabilities

See all items with this valueMayors

Policy Area (Curation)

Transportation and Public Works

Creator (Dublin Core)

Vachon, Alexander

Record Type (Dublin Core)

memorandums

Names (Dublin Core)

See all items with this valueAshe, Victor H. (Victor Henderson), 1945-

See all items with this valueDole, Robert J., 1923-2021

See all items with this valueHarkin, Tom

See all items with this valueMcCain, John, 1936-2018

See all items with this valueUnited States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Location representation (Dublin Core)

Seattle (inhabited place)

Knoxville (inhabited place)

Rights (Dublin Core)

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Language (Dublin Core)

eng

Collection Finding Aid (Dublin Core)

https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=54&q=

Physical Location (Dublin Core)

Collection 021, Box 3, Folder 7

Institution (Dublin Core)

Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Archival Collection (Dublin Core)

Alec Vachon Papers, 1969-2006

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MEMORANDUM TO SENATOR DOLE
DA: June 16, 1995
FR: Alec Vachon
RE: TY FROM VICTOR ASHE/OUTGOING PRESIDENT, U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS

ATTACHED IS A THANK YOU LETTER FROM VICTOR ASHE, outgoing President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, for your March 24th letter to Attorney General Reno asking for an extension of the deadline for curb cuts by cities. (Justice is now moving forward on issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking.) Although Ashe is personally unenthusiastic about ADA, his letter is positive on ADA. Ashe also raises the issue of the costs of paratransit required by ADA--I have been talking with the Mayors about this.

BTW, the new President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Norman Rice of Seattle, has the reputation of being very good on ADA.

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(The United States Conference of Mayors Logo) THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS

1620 EYE STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20006
TELEPHONE (202 293-7330
FAX (202) 293-2352
TDD (202) 293-9445

President: VICTOR ASHE
Mayor of Knoxville
Vitt President:
NORMAN RICE
Mayor of Seattle

Past Presidents:
JERRY ABRAMSON
Mayor of Louisville
ROBERT M. ISAAC
Mayor of Colorado Springs
JOSEPH P. RILEY, JR
Mayor of Charleston, SC

Trustees:
HECTOR LUIS ACEVEDO
Mayor of San Juan
CHARLES BOX
Mayor of Rockford
DEEDEE CORRADINI
Mayor of Salt Lake City
PAUL HELMKE
Mayor of Fort Wayne
SHARPE JAMES
Mayor of Newark, NJ
JAMES PERRON
Mayor of Elkhart
ELIZABETH D. RHEA
Mayor of Rock Hill
PETE SFERRAZZA
Mayor of Reno
DAVID SMITH
Mayor of Newark, CA
GREG SPARROW
Mayor of DeKalb
MICHAEL WHITE
Mayor of Cleveland

Advisory Board:
RICHARD M. DALEY, Chair
Mayor of Chicago
DENNIS ARCHER
Mayor of Detroit
RICHARD ARRINGTON
Mayor of Birmingham
ROBERT COBLE
Mayor of Columbia, SC
BRENT COLES
Mayor of Boise
CARDELL COOPER
Mayor of East Orange
LOUISE GARDNER
Mayor of Jefferson City
SUSAN GOLDING
Mayor of San Diego
KAY GRANGER
Mayor of Fort Worth
MIKE JOHANNS
Mayor of Lincoln
JAN LAVERTY JONES
Mayor of Las Vegas
FRANK JORDAN
Mayor of San Francisco
JOHN McCARTHY
Mayor of Everett
PATRICK McMANUS
Mayor of Lynn
RITA MULLINS
Mayor of Palatine
JOHN O. NORQUIST
Mayor of Milwaukee
MEYERA E. OBERNDORF
Mayor of Virginia Beach
DONALD PLUSQUELLIC
Mayor of Akron
SAUL RAMIREZ, JR.
Mayor of Laredo
SHARON SAYLES BELTON
Mayor of Minneapolis
KURT SCHMOKE
Mayor of Baltimore
PAUL SOGLIN
Mayor of Madison
BRUCE TODD
Mayor of Austin
WELLINGTON WEBB
Mayor of Denver

Executive Director:
J. Thomas Cochran

June 5, 1995

The Honorable Bob Dole
Majority Leader
United States Senate
141 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Dole:

On behalf of The U.S. Conference of Mayors, I would like to record our support for the letters which you and Senators Harkin, Kennedy, Hatch and McCain have sent to the Attorney General on implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The issues which your letters address -- the need for more time to make curb cuts and a simplified process for assuring that local building codes meet ADA requirements -- are real problems for our cities. We appreciate both your strong support for the ADA and your efforts to make its implementation more realistic for our cities. We look forward to the Attorney General's response to your letters.

There is another issue relating to implementation of the ADA which we must also bring to your attention, and that is the impact which its implementation is likely to have on public transportation systems. As it currently stands, compliance in early 1997 with ADA's paratransit requirements, when coupled with proposed reductions in federal operating assistance, threaten the future viability of many local transit systems and their ability to deliver services to persons with disabilities. We urge you to work with us to address this critical problem as well.

Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the nation's cities.

Sincerely yours,
(Victor Ashe's signature)
Victor Ashe
Mayor of Knoxville