Articles by Sharon Toji
Sharon Toji is a long-time community organizer and political activist who was a charter member and first clerk of the Irvine Unified School District Board of Directors. As an advocate for disability rights, she currently serves as voting delegate of the Hearing Loss Association of America to the American National Standards Association Committee on Building Accessibility (ANSI), and is on the California State Architect's Access Committee, the State Fire Marshal's Committee on Accessible Egress, and the Access Advisory Committee of the State Building Standards Commission. With her husband Tosh, she owns H Toji and Company, an architectural graphics company and Access Communications, a consulting company for communications issues in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Sharon Toji: Los Angeles is certainly not alone in wasting bond money. San Francisco passed bonds some years ago specifically to do ADA upgrades, an administrator used the money to upgrade his house, among other illegalities. After a federal suit was brought, because the ADA upgrades were never made, they had to go back to the public for more money, and the public gave again. This time around, we actually prefer to work in San Francisco because their paperwork demands are not as ridiculous and we can concentrate more on signs. Also, their bond work is definitely not in the luxury class. They are doing only what is necessary, with no frills and much less waste. Otherwise, the public would mutiny, after having had their money wasted once.
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