AGENCY TESTIMONY
City-wide racial equity planning process
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Sherman outlines the process for developing the city's inaugural city-wide racial equity plan, emphasizing its focus on structural reform and transforming government towards equity and justice.
- Describes the planning process focused on core levers of government: budget, staffing, procurement, service delivery, and policymaking
- Highlights agency involvement, including briefings, training workshops, and ongoing support
- Mentions the timeline for sharing a preliminary plan with the public and the subsequent implementation phase
Sideya Sherman
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The charter requires the city to produce a city wide racial equity plan, inclusive of individual agency ratio equity plans on a biannual basis.
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Per the Citi Charter, the Citi's ratio equity plan should accomplish outcome measures short and long term goals and strategies to reduce racial disparities.
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The commission on racial equity ensures community voice is born into the process.
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Proposing community equity priorities and outcome indicators for possible inclusion in the plan.
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The MRE RJ team has been diligently working to roll out the city's inaugural city wide racial equity plan.
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We have designed a planning process that is 1st and foremost focused on structural reform and moving government towards equity injustice and greater unison.
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To get at the heart of this, our planning process is focus on the core levers of government.
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Budget, staffing, procurement, service delivery, and policy making to name a few.
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This is not a mere compliance exercise, but an opportunity for the city to pursue long term transformation.
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Agencies are examining their priorities relative to the foundational values, assessing disparity data and community equity priorities, and developing short, mid term and long term goals and strategies that are responsive.
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Over the past months, our team has worked on multiple fronts to ensure a successful racial equity planning process.
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We have brief senior leaders, identify planning teams across agencies, develop planning tools, led fold and led full day training workshops.
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We are providing continuous support to agencies throughout the process through dedicated office hours and 1 on 1 technical assistance.
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This is the first time our city has taken on a racial equity planning process at this scale.
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Together, we are building a shared understanding of structural inequity operating with a common set of values and building the uniform tools and processes needed to upend the way structural racism impacts our city.
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Agencies have enthusiastically embraced this process.
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This fall, we look forward to sharing a preliminary plan with the public and a final plan there after.
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Once the plan is released, our work continues with MOERJ quickly shifting towards implementation and working closely with agents these to advance critical goals, track progress, and make continuous improvements to eliminate racial disparities and promote fairness for all New Yorkers.