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Attachment A <br /> 'It <br /> ,-iRZEN HILLS <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> DATE: March 20, 2023 <br /> TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br /> FROM: Dave Perrault, City Administrator <br /> SUBJECT: Assisted Hearing Technology <br /> Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Source: <br /> N/A $8,586.42 Cable Fund <br /> For Council Consideration <br /> Council should consider providing direction on whether or not to move forward with assisted <br /> hearing technology modifications to the City Council Chambers. <br /> Background <br /> Staff was previously directed by the City Council to move forward with securing a proposal to add <br /> a T-Coil System to the City Council Chambers to assist people with T-Coil enabled hearing aids. <br /> The cost for the implementation was estimated around$25,000. Since that worksession, Staff had <br /> worked with NineNorth on having Electronic Design review the Chambers and put together an <br /> actual contract for work. During their review, they noted a"hum"in the Council Chambers that <br /> they cannot mitigate. This hum would likely interfere with a T-Coil system and is no longer their <br /> recommendation. <br /> As a secondary option, they have proposed a Wi-Fi system. This system would work in tandem <br /> with someone's smart phone, but a user could also use a T-Coil Neck Loop that would be <br /> compatible with the system (example below). A normal user would need to download the specific <br /> app for the system used in the Council Chambers, the signal would be transmitted from the Wi-Fi <br /> system to the phone and from the phone to the hearing aids. Or if a person had T-Coil hearing aids, <br /> they could wear the neck loop and pick up the audio. <br /> Page 1 of 2 <br />