The City of Fernie has put its support behind the Elk Valley Regional Accessibility Plan and will start integrating recommendations into the city’s policies.
The goal of the plan is to take a step forward in fostering an inclusive and accessible region and guide municipalities to strengthen accessibility efforts.
“This includes working towards barrier free access to municipally owned buildings and facilities,” said Fernie acting corporate services director Camille Neal.
She say the plan includes improvements they can make on making their hiring efforts more accessible.
“This includes municipalities having images that include people with disabilities in media and marketing to have fair representation,” she said.
“Reviewing hiring practices and ensuring we’re using plain language that we’re offering flexible work options.”
Neal says now that the plan has been officially endorsed by the city they will be working with Elkford and Sparwood to implement changes.
“We will be rolling out communication and an implementation strategy regionally,” she added.
“We will be collaborating with Sparwood and Elkford and we will be implementing staff training and shifting perspectives in the work that we do.”
The endorsement passed in a unanimous vote.
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