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Attachment A <br />-731�EN 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 />