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City of White House Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Public Notice
Americans with Disabilities Act
On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the ADA, a comprehensive civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability. The ADA law broadly protects the rights of individuals with disabilities in employment, access to State and local government services, places of public accommodation, transportation and other important areas of American life. The ADA law also requires newly designed and constructed or altered State and local government facilities, public accommodations and commercial facilities to be readily accessible to and usable by individual with disabilities.
Discrimination Statement
In accordance with the requirements of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the City of White House, TN will not discriminate against any qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in the City’s services, programs, or activities.
The City does not discriminate on the basis of disability in its hiring or employment practices. The City will not ask a job applicant about the existence, nature, or severity of a disability. Applicants may be asked about their ability to perform specific job functions. Medical examinations or inquiries may be made, but only after a conditional offer of employment is made and only if required of all applicants for the position. The City will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant or employee with a disability upon request unless the accommodation would cause an undue hardship on the operation of the City’s business. The City will make an individualized assessment of whether a qualified individual with a disability meets the selection criteria for employment decisions. To the extent its selection criteria for employment decisions have the effect of disqualifying an individual because of disability; those criteria will be job related and consistent with business necessity.
The City will provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services, including qualified sign language interpreters and assistive listening devices, whenever necessary to ensure effective communication with members of the public who have hearing, sight, or speech impairments, unless to do so would result in a fundamental alteration of its programs or an undue administrative or financial burden. A person who requires an accommodation or an auxiliary aid or service to participate in a City program, service, or activity, should contact the City’s Human Resources Department, Title VI Coordinator, 615-616-1008 as far in advance as possible but no later than 120 hours before the scheduled event.
The City will not place a surcharge on a particular individual with a disability or any group of individuals with disabilities to cover the cost of providing auxiliary aids/services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who are wheelchair users.
Transition Plan
The City of White House is striving to make all City programs, services and facilities accessible to all persons, especially those with disabilities. Under the American with Disabilities Act, the city is adamant about the law. The American with Disabilities Act Transition Plan is the City’s commitment to providing equal access to all of its public programs, services, facilities and activities for citizens with disabilities. To develop this plan, the City has undertaken a comprehensive evaluation of its facilities and programs to determine what types of access barriers exist for individuals with disabilities.