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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION – MARCH 20, 2023 7 <br /> <br />Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen stated that if they desire to go forward for <br />the design for Old Highway 10 he would need to know if Council would like to go to RFP for the <br />consultant or have staff direct select. It would add six to eight weeks to the timeline if they went <br />out for RFP. <br /> <br />After discussion, Council agree to let staff direct select a consultant for the Old Highway 10 trail. <br /> <br />Mayor Grant directed staff to direct select and have the item on the second meeting in April, and <br />to get clarification from Ramsey County on funding. <br /> <br />D. Assisted Hearing Technology <br /> <br />City Administrator Perrault stated that staff had worked with NineNorth and Electronic Design <br />to review the Chambers and found there is a hum in the room that they cannot identify. NineNorth <br />feels the hum would likely interfere with a T-Coil system and they are no longer recommending <br />that system, but proposing to go with a Wi-Fi system. There would be Wi-Fi equipment in the <br />Council Chambers and users would need to have an app on their phone that would connect to their <br />hearing aid. Or if someone had a T-Coil hearing aid they could wear the neck loop and pick up <br />the audio. The hip packs are also still available for use. The Wi-Fi system is just under $9,000 <br />for the system, versus $25,000 for the T-Coil system. <br /> <br />Councilmember Fabel thought it would make sense to have a few people try the options out <br />before they decide. <br /> <br />City Administrator Perrault there is concern with the app having to be downloaded onto <br />phones, and someone having to figure out how to install it and connect it to their hearing aids. <br />The technology probably won’t be widely available for about 10 years, and the people coming in <br />to use assisted hearing technology will probably not have the app already on their phones. He felt <br />the return on investment for Wi-Fi would be relatively low considering we already have the hip <br />packs. Better signage could be made to make it more obvious that the hip packs are available. <br />However, they are confident the hum would not be picked up on the Wi-Fi system. <br /> <br />Councilmember Fabel said he could test what we currently have to see how well it works. He <br />had a terrible hum when he put his hearing aid into T-Coil operation. <br /> <br />Councilmember Rousseau felt it didn’t seem like a good solution and they shouldn’t move <br />forward unless someone tried it out first. She thought we should keep the hip packs and make <br />people more aware that they were available. <br /> <br />Mayor Grant thought they should go forward and try to test it somewhere else. He felt they <br />should have a solution beyond the hip pack. <br /> <br />Councilmember Holden suggested larger signage for the hip packs until they figure out if <br />anything else will work. <br /> <br />Mayor Grant said they could have Councilmember Fabel turn on his T-Coil and they could turn <br />off things in the Chambers until the hum stops. <br />
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