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Signage, language accessibility, and temporary closures of cooling centers
1:00:26
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Council Member Schulman inquires about improvements in signage, language accessibility, and temporary closures of cooling centers. Christina Farrell provides information on these aspects.
- Cooling center information is available in 14 languages
- The city is considering adding QR codes to signage for easier access to information
- On average, about 90% of cooling centers are open, with 10% experiencing temporary closures or issues
Lynn C. Schulman
1:00:26
You spoke about council member Brewer.
1:00:28
So the office of investigation, her, committee on investigations went out and audited a bunch of centers and all that.
1:00:36
You've made the corrections there, I guess, in terms of the signage and all that.
1:00:40
And do you have QR codes there or you just have just text on on the signage?
1:00:47
I don't
Christina Farrell
1:00:48
think we have QR codes on our We again, we don't receive funding for this program.
1:00:53
When we do update the the materials and everything, we'll see if we could put a QR code on that.
1:01:02
We definitely have QR codes on our advertising and things which will push people to the cool option site and to the cooling
Lynn C. Schulman
1:01:08
Pretty easy.
1:01:09
Yeah.
1:01:09
Mhmm.
1:01:10
Then you can do that in other languages too, which I've done with stuff.
1:01:13
So
Christina Farrell
1:01:14
We do.
1:01:14
Our cooling center, it's all of that information is available in 14 languages just like Notify
Lynn C. Schulman
1:01:19
How many cooling centers are temporarily closed as a percentage of all available cooling centers on average every year?
Christina Farrell
1:01:26
On average, about 90 are open and 10% will be having, you know, some kind of incident.