City of Grand Forks Working on Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan

(KNOX) – City of Grand Forks staff has been working with its consultant on an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) transition plan.

Assistant Grand Forks City Engineer Christian Danielson says they have been going over the strategy for some time.

“We’ve been working on this plan for about a year-and-a-half now. In a nut shell what the plan includes is just policy, procedure, best practices that the city uses to bring all of our infrastructure within the right-of-way into compliance with ADA standards,” Danielson says.

Danielson says the plan is thorough.

“The plan also includes an inventory of all the infrastructure in our right-of-way that needs to be at a certain for ADA,” Danielson says.

The City of Grand Forks is required to post the draft plan for public comment. Comments that are relevant to the proposed plan end up getting incorporated into the plan itself.

The Americans with Disabilities Act became federal law on January 26, 1992.