Transition Advocacy Team
6320 North Center Drive, Potomac Building #15, Suite 100
Norfolk, VA 23502
August 14, 2003
Mr. Matt Rogers
Executive Director
Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
3550 Cellar Door Way
Virginia Beach, Va. 23456
Dear Mr. Rogers:
This letter is from the Transition Advocacy
Team. We met today and received a
report from Richard Dipeppe from the Endependence Center on your meeting at the
Amphitheater. We are excited that you
met with Mr. DiPeppe and Mark Wawner from the City of Virginia Beach. Our Team would like to thank you for
considering our proposal to provide accessible lawn seating at the Virginia
Beach Amphitheater.
It is the hope of the members of our Team that the
modifications will be done by next season.
We would also like to offer our assistance to advertise the new
accessibility in any way that we can help, radio or TV commercials, writing
letters to the editor, or through a story in the Virginia Pilot. We were the focus of a story in the Pilot
when we advocated for the Spirit of Norfolk to make their ticket booth
accessible, and have a relationship with the paper.
The Advocacy Team would like to continue to work
with the Amphitheater and the City of Virginia Beach toward achieving
accessibility on the lawn. We would
like to invite you, other Amphitheater staff, and Mark Wawner and his staff to
our next Advocacy Team meeting. We
would like to meet you in person and be able to discuss why we feel this is an
important issue.
Our next Advocacy Team meeting is Friday, September
05, 2003 from 4:30-6:30pm at the Endependence Center, 6320 North Center Drive,
Suite 100. Please contact Ms. Lisbet
Ward, our staff contact at the Endependence Center if you will be available to
attend, at 461-8007.
Sincerely,
members of Transition Advocacy Team
The Transition Advocacy Team is a
group of young adults with disabilities who work to remove barriers and
increase accessibility for persons with disabilities to the communities of the
Tidewater area.