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administrative policy manual to ensure that the current practices comply with ADA requirements. County staff made the following changes to its employment practices to comply with the law: 1) Removed worker compensation type questions from the job application form and modified the pre-employment physical form to include the job's essential functions. 2) Revised all county job descriptions to highlight the essential functions of the job. 3) Revised the administrative policy manual hiring section to include worker compensation type questions after the conditional offer of employment has been made. 4) Prepared and had the Board approve a complaint resolution procedure to handle accessibility complaints from the general public. This procedure was, in turn, made part of the administrative policy manual. In addition, when an employee requests a reasonable accommodation to a disability, that request will begin with the immediate supervisor. If that supervisor cannot satisfactorily resolve the request, the request will be forwarded to the appropriate department head. If the department head, after consulting with the Personnel Department and the ADA Coordinator, cannot satisfactorily resolve the request, the requesting employee may file a formal complaint using the established complaint resolution procedure. AREA #11: BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION POLICIES The county recognizes that its existing facilities must comply with ADA accessibility requirements. To that end, county staff prepared and had the Board approve the ADA required transition plan. The county also recognizes that any new facilities or part of a facility, or the alteration of existing facilities begun after January 26, 1992 must conform to ADA requirements. To date, only three county facilities, the Sandridge Golf Course Clubhouse, the Administration Annex, and the new Courthouse, began the construction process after January 26, 1992. These three facilities were designed and constructed or are being constructed in conformance with ADA, the Florida Accessibilities Requirements Manual, and the county -enforced building code. The county's Purchasing Division will include a mandate in bid specifications that all appropriate county owned building projects meet ADA requirements. In addition, building projects conducted by the county's Buildings and Grounds Division will also conform to ADA requirements. AREA #12: EMPLOYEE TRAINING County staff conducted a training session during June 1992 for all of its supervisory employees to acclimate them to ADA requirements. The county's ADA coordinator has also written several county newsletter articles regarding ADA requirements and status reports on what the county is doing to comply with this federal law. County staff will continue to hold regular training workshops for its employees concerning ADA related topics and write county newletter articles to keep employees up to date on ADA requirements and interpretations.