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i-N. II. SELF EVALUATION Oil Crry PROGRAM", AND SERVICES (continued) H. Availability f Services and Programs To Handicapped Persons (continued) ---- In all three of the above instances the limitations on delivering those services to handicapped persons apply to the sight and hearing impaired. In the case of the hearing impaired, part of this limitation is being resolved by the City's purchase of a telecommunications device for the dear (TDD) in the Fall of 1984. This device will allow for telephone conmiunications with the deaf, however, this does not resolve the difficulty of face to face situations. In that case City Staff must rely upon informational brochures that we have available and the ability of City Staff to find a common ground for handling the situation. In the case of the visually handicapped, except for blind or significantly sight impaired individuals, the City can communicate most written information by enlarging it on our photocopying equipment to a level where it is readable for the affected individual. For those individuals who are severely sight impaired or blind, we will need to depend upon our ability to verbally communicate with the individual and provide whatever assistance is necessary under the circumstances. t C. Recreation Programming Offered By The City's Department Of Parks, Recreation and Forestry At the present time all of the City's recreation programs are available to handicapped persons. The City presently "mainstreams" individuals at the Groveland and Lambert Park Shelter Buildings during our summer recreation programs. The City also offers adaptive aquatic programs on Thursday evenings at the Edgewood Community Center Pool. The City's Park and Recreation Department has in the past and will continue in the future to make efforts to work with local residents to mainstream their children into our recreation programs through the assistance of volunteers and/or special assistants. These special assistants could include, but are not limited to, qualified sign language interpretors or persons qualified to provide braille or taped material. D. Policies and Practices Concerning Emolovment The Clerk -Administrator, whose duties include personnel management functions, has reviewed the City's employment practices and is of the opinion that the City's practices are presently consistent with Federal and State Law as it relates to non-discrimination on the basis of an individual's handicaps. Chapter 6.06 of the Mounds View Municipal Coda states, 116.06 Appointment Procedure - all appointments in the Municipal Service shall he made according to merit and fitness. No person shall in any way be favored or discriminated against because of race, creed, color, nation of origin, age, sex, handicap,