Accessibility Advisory Committee

Purpose of the Committee

To provide advice and make recommendations to Council regarding accessibility planning for Bowen Island Municipality and the Bowen Island Public Library.

Committee Members

  1. Councillor Alex Jurgensen, Chair
  2. Rod Harding
  3. Nick Moseley
  4. Kathy Pichora-Fuller
  5. Dr. Anamaria Richardson
  6. Marni Robinson
  7. Jessica Gladysz, Canadian Organization of Blind and DeafBlind
  8. Councillor Alison Morse
  9. Xerxes Au, Planner 1 (non-voting, Staff Resource)
  10. Tina Nielsen, Chief Librarian (non-voting, Staff Resource)

Other Staff Resources

Stef Shortt, Deputy Corporate Officer
Kristina Calli, Interim Human Resources Coordinator

To contact the Accessibility Advisory Committee, please email: aac@bimbc.ca.

Governing Documents

Terms of Reference

Video Recordings

BIM YouTube Channel

Agendas and Minutes

Agendas

Minutes

2025 – 2028 Accessibility Action Plan

On July 28, 2025 Council adopted the 2025 – 2028 Accessibility Action Plan. Staff, Council and volunteers are excited about its implementation moving forward.

Reference Documents

Elements from the Accessibility Improvements for Bowen Island Report dated 2022-2023 (by the Bowen Island Accessibility Group, a project of the Canadian Organization of the Blind and DeafBlind (COBD)

Canadian Academy of Audiology: Reducing Barriers for People Living with Hearing Loss During In-Person Meetings

Pichora-Fuller, M.K. (2019). Hearing Accessibility, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball, eds) Vol. 2, pp. 839-840. DOI.

Pichora-Fuller, M.K. (2019). Acoustic Ecology, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball, eds) Vol. 1, pp. 17-21. DOI.

Pichora-Fuller, M.K. (2019). Listening Effort, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (Jack S. Damico and Martin J. Ball, eds) Vol. 3, pp. 1117-1119. DOI.

Accessibility Delegations: Videos and Presentations

The Future of Hearing Accessibility: Auracast Bluetooth Hearing Aid Technology (May 6, 2024)
Jill Mecklenburger, Principal Audiologist, Global Audiology Group