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It is so excess of for the amount of revenue being generated for your business, you have to make the way to look at it is lets say it takes 50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. If your business is generating 100,000 a year in revenues, you clearly are not going to come up with 50,000 to make the changes, at least not in year one. But some of it you can do in year one. That percentage is not in a fixed amount. That usually gets 15 of your gross revenues could be assessed as b...

Readily achievable, if you move your table out of the way to allow a person with a wheelchair access to your space. Restroom facilities only come into play after you have already made the entrance accessible and you have trouble accessible. Restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. And actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms. We have other priorities that come into play. [inaudible] you want that inspected to come out before you ...

It is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. Would you do if you get one of these notices . If you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program which i recommend you do you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. We call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. There are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the case. There are...

The ada gives us some guidance on that. Readily achievable says it can be done quickly and easily without a whole lot of steps. Feasible means that it may require a lot more money, a lot more alteration to get that done. Under the ada, you need to be surveying your property and putting together both a short term plan and a longterm plan. The short term plan is going to be the readily achievable solution. The longterm plan could take 20 years. I do not know. Your business might not be making huge...

Remediations, do it because you are going to have to do it sometime during the course of litigation if there is a problem with access to your premises, so long as the renovations are readily achievable. If it does not so much cost that it is so excess of for the amount of revenue being generated for your business, you have to make the way to look at it is lets say it takes 50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. If your business is generating 100,000 a year in revenues, you cle...

Have to be accessible when you do a project. Theres a big difference between a big project and a little project. A big project is going to be not as accessible as a new building, but a smaller project actually has a smaller level of access required in the California Building code. You might think that because you got a Building Permit that that means that everything is good and you are complying with the ada, but it is actually the difference in the Building Code because its is even if you have ...

First of all, the program has an inspectors knowledge of the California Building code, and the reason why that is so important is because you have to comply with both. The california billing code is enforced when you get a Building Permit, and forced by the local building requirements. It says all New Buildings have to be totally accessible. It also says that New Buildings when you do an alteration course have to be accessible when you do a project. Theres a big difference between a big project ...

We call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. There are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the case. There are a series of overlapping laws, all of which require essentially the same thing. Did different measures of damages and other things. The lawyers will sue you on these various labels. They all really say the same thing. The purpose of that letter is to establish damages. The first thing to do when you get that letter is to have your place...

Your inspector would have a background in inspection, design, and construction. That means we have some excellent general contractors out there that could be excellent task inspectors or building inspectors as well. In order to get the legal benefits, the protections that are important, you want your inspection to be under that theory that is how you can get that 90day [inaudible] as you start to interview your inspectors, i would ask them to a lot of questions. Do not rely on just the resume. W...

Inspector knows the contractor because the contractor can provide you with a construction bid for what is going to take. So i want to leave you with some closing thoughts. One of them, as mentioned at the beginning be proactive. Do not wait for the letter. Get the inspection now. The second is keep really good records. [inaudible] they had actually been doing work over the years. They have been removing barriers. But because they were not keeping good files documenting the reasons why they widen...