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QUESTION
What are the vision prescription requirements for lifeguards, and do all current NYC Parks-employed lifeguards meet them?
0:54:29
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The NYC Parks Department expects both new and returning lifeguards to meet specific vision prescription requirements.
- The beginning prescription requirement is 20/40 in one eye and 20/30 in the other.
- Council Member Shekar Krishnan questions if all currently employed lifeguards, including long-term employees, meet these standards.
- First Deputy Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa confirms the expectation but does not specify if compliance is actively verified among all lifeguards.
Shekar Krishnan
0:54:29
What was the prescription requirement that you had said in the beginning?
Iris Rodriguez-Rosa
0:54:31
In the beginning, it's 2040 and 1 eye and 230 in in the other eye.
Shekar Krishnan
0:54:36
On 140.
0:54:38
1 eye, 23 or the other eye.
0:54:40
Knowing that prescriptions change and eyesight changes over time, do you think that every lifeguard currently, who is employed by Parks, still has that prescription.
0:54:49
If that's the requirement, does every lifeguard currently have that prescription?
0:54:53
I'm sure some have been there for many years.
0:54:55
Is that actually a requirement that every single lifeguard on the existing staff currently meets?
Iris Rodriguez-Rosa
0:55:01
It's expected that that current the new lifeguards and the the returning lifeguards should be able to have that.
Shekar Krishnan
0:55:07
So all returning lifeguards have that same purse meet that same prescription requirement.
Iris Rodriguez-Rosa
0:55:10
What is expected?
0:55:11
This.