Posted May 18, 20155:24 pm
From WKYC News:
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland City Council is creating ways to make the city more accessible to residents with little to no comprehension of the English language.
City leadership invited groups to work on this project, including the city's Director of the Community Relations board and representatives from the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland.
The groups are expected to recommend steps and policies to eliminate language barriers such as signage ink city facilities, telephone prompts, phone interpretation and translation for important documents and web site postings translated into other languages, primarily Spanish.
Census data shows that Hispanics make up about 10 percent of Cleveland's population. Nearly 12 percent of the city's residents over age 5 speak a language other than English at home.
According to city news release on Friday, Mayor Frank Jackson joined National Housing Services of Greater Cleveland, a non-profit agency, to commemorate the first Cleveland-supported refugee house, a four-unit apartment building in the Ohio City neighborhood.
"Immigrants built our great city, settled here and raised their families," said Council President Kevin Kelley. "All of us are part of a wonderfully rich melting pot and we want to preserve that culture."
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