NYC Department of Parks & Recreation is required to submit a report to the Office of the Mayor and the City Council for the preceding calendar year listing facilities that have features specifically designed to be used by people with disabilities. Attached is the report for calendar year 2021.
Language access is critical for New York City’s diverse communities. The city is home to approximately 3.4 million immigrants, and almost half of all New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home. Approximately a quarter of New York City’s population, or 1.8 million New Yorkers [...].
The Department of Records and Information Services has updated it's Language Access Plan to guide the agency in serving patrons who have limited English language proficiency. This plan will ensure that all patrons and prospective patrons will have access to the department’s resources.
By law, all City agencies that provide direct public services must create a language access implementation plan (LAIP) in order to ensure meaningful language access to their services. The LAIP explains how MOME will provide language access services to people who have limited English proficiency.
The language access implementation plan (LAIP) explains how NYC Parks will provide language access services to people with limited English proficiency.
The language access implementation plan (LAIP) explains how NYC Parks will provide language access services to people with limited English proficiency.
New Yorkers. LL 30 requires covered agencies to appoint language access coordinators, translate
commonly distributed documents into the ten (10) designated languages, provide telephonic
interpretation in at least 100 languages, and develop and implement a language acce ss
implementation plan. As req