(a) The managing director shall designate a city employee as program coordinator. The program coordinator shall work with all city departments to encourage and incorporate age-friendly city features in the planning, budgeting, design, construction, implementation, operation, and evaluation of city programs, services, facilities, and projects.
(b) The directors shall:
(1) Establish age-friendly checklists and administrative procedures appropriate to their departments, and apply the checklists to programs and projects within their departments. The age-friendly checklists shall be updated from time to time by the directors as necessary to reflect age-friendly city best practices;
(2) Establish appropriate metrics, as described in the action plan, to measure, assess, and report on progress in meeting the goals and objectives of the age-friendly city program; and
(3) Provide training for their staffs in developing age-friendly city policies, principles, and implementation procedures that may be applicable to the performance of their duties.
(c) Rules, policies, plans, and design guidelines shall be consistent with the age-friendly city concept and with the age-friendly city goals and strategies as elaborated in the action plan. Design standards, guidelines, and manuals shall incorporate national best practice guidelines and shall be updated from time to time by the directors as necessary to reflect current best practices.
(d) Within six months of October 11, 2018*, the directors shall establish and begin to apply to the activities of their departments age-friendly checklists, administrative procedures, and metrics as set forth in subsection (b) of this section. Where age-friendly checklists, administrative procedures, and metrics are already in use, they shall be updated within this period.
(e) Within one year of October 11, 2018*, the directors shall review existing ordinances, codes, subdivision standards, rules, policies, plans, and design guidelines, assess their consistency with the age-friendly city concept and with the age-friendly city goals and strategies as elaborated in the action plan, and initiate any updates needed to achieve compliance with subsection (c) of this section.
(Added by Ord. 18-36)
Editor’s note:
* “October 11, 2018” is substituted for “the effective date of this ordinance.”