The Communal Commission for Accessibility (CCA)

In Montpellier, some 60,000 people are disabled out of 311,835 inhabitants, i.e. almost 20% of the population.

Like any municipality with more than 5,000 inhabitants, Montpellier is obliged to set up a Commission Communale pour l'Accessibilité (CCA), made up of elected officials and representatives of users and services.

The CCA is chaired by Mrs. Emilie CABELLO, the Deputy Mayor for Universal Accessibility. All the work carried out by the CCA and, more generally, all reflections on the city's accessibility are carried out in close partnership with the Comité de Liaison et de Coordination Pluriel handicaps (CLCPH), which brings together some 50 associations of people with disabilities (motor, visual, auditory and mental).

The CCA is developed in the form of working groups with a Committee of Experts (5 full members and 5 deputies representing all forms of disability) drawn from the CLCPH. The Experts meet several times a quarter with the Technical Departments on different themes: roads, transport, the built environment, access to rights and information, as well as day-to-day business as requested by the CLCPH and the Departments.

• Draw up a report on the state of accessibility of the existing built environment, roads, public spaces and transport.
• Electronically identify establishments open to the public (ERP) that are accessible or in the process of being made accessible to disabled and elderly people.
• It is the recipient of the Programmed Accessibility Agendas (Ad'AP) filed in its area of intervention, the follow-up documents for these Ad'APs and the certificate of completion of the work.
• It is the recipient of the Programmed Accessibility Master Plans (SD'AP) filed in its area of intervention and the reports on the work corresponding to these SD'APs.
• Organize the census of housing accessible to disabled and elderly people.
• Prepare an annual report

3 Colleges:

• The College of Elected Metropolitan Officials
• The College of Elected Municipal Officials
• The College of Users

A body and working groups:

The CIA has several levels of reflection and action to achieve its objectives: a place for sharing a common culture and making the environment accessible.

Functioning:

• A plenary commission
• Working groups that can be thematic (Roads/Mobility; Built environment (ERP); Housing)
• A network of technical referents: they bring the knowledge, expertise of their commune of reference