City of Surrey's 2021 - 2025 Financial Plan

PARKS, RECREATION & CULTURE

FUTURE INITIATIVES, GOALS & OBJECTIVES

INCLUSION

• Accessibility and Inclusion are working with Parks services to creating an inventory of park washrooms, playground equipment and pathway accessibility which will be provided as a layer in COSMOS and to further update the Call Centre guide; • Implement a pilot project with the call centre to offer virtual remote American Sign Language interpretation; • Sensory friendly kits will be rolled out to all recreation facilities during the Provinces phase 4 of the COVID-19 pandemic restart plan; • Support anti-racism initiatives in collaboration with social planning and consultant team and pilot anti-racism education and anti-bias training for PRC staff; • Develop an online Leisure Access Program; • Implement year four of the Surrey Anti -gang Family Empowerment Program with nine community partners; • Increase the baseline number of CHART cases set in 2020 by 5% in 2021 in order to address and prevent youth gang involvement in Surrey; • Virtual launch of the new Peer Mentorship Program to serve 80+ at- risk pre-teens ages 10-12 years old in Newton, Guildford and Whalley town centres; • Increase the water safety literacy into PUBLIC SAFETY

Provide free virtual fitness videos;

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• Continue to engage youth and seniors virtually online and on the phone through the Seniors Without Walls Program; • Surrey Civic Theatres will continue to actively seek opportunities to program 30% diversified performing arts presentations that include Indigenous, Black and People of Colours voices and stories; • Continue to program virtual events with closed captioning and sign language interpreters where possible; • At Museum of Surrey, Interior stairs to be repainted for those with visual difficulties, all washrooms to be made completely accessible through grant funding; and • Museum of Surrey Stories Gallery translated into Braille. all swimming and schoolboard lessons, programs and public swims in 2021; • Continued deployment of the Park Ambassador program to keep park visitors safe in response to the ongoing pandemic; and • Emergency Support Services will roll out virtual training to its volunteer team, allowing Surrey to activate a

remote and contactless evacuee support system of registration and referral.

City of Surrey | 2021—2025 Financial Plan | General Operating Fund | Parks, Recreation, & Culture

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