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Deaf residents press council for an Office of Disability and city hiring outreach as vacancies persist
Summary
Deaf and disability advocates urged Riverside leaders to create a permanent Office of Disability, hire staff with disabilities and develop targeted recruitment, highlighting a claimed 73% unemployment rate among deaf and disabled residents and calling for immediate hiring partnerships.
Two public commenters during the Feb. 24 meeting urged the Riverside City Council to establish a permanent Office of Disability and to increase city hiring outreach to people with disabilities.
Kevin Bernhardt, who identified himself as deaf and said he moved to Riverside from New York, asked the council to create an Office of Disability (or Office for the Deaf) and budget staff to coordinate…
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