Q&A
Community engagement workshops and coordination between equity-focused entities
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Council Member Williams inquires about community engagement workshops in The Bronx and plans for other boroughs. Commissioner Sherman explains the process and addresses concerns about potential overlap between different equity-focused entities.
- Three Bronx community engagement workshops have been held so far
- Plans to return to The Bronx to share readouts and early initiatives
- Goal to replicate the process in other boroughs as capacity allows
- Efforts to create efficiency and alignment between racial equity planning teams, TRIE, and CORE
- Collaboration with CORE to leverage community feedback and avoid duplication of efforts
Nantasha M. Williams
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Thank you.
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So it is my understanding that there has been three Bronx community engagement workshops so far.
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Are there any plans to hold similar workshops across other boroughs?
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Is there an expected timeline for the development and rollout of these workshops?
Sideya Sherman
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So our goal is to actually go back to The Bronx and share a readout of where we are based on their feedback and based on the feedback that we have internally.
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Obviously we also have been working on the city racial equity plan at the same time.
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There's significant overlap between the agencies that are represented in tree and the individuals as well as the racial equity planning process.
0:34:52
So we've certainly have prioritized the plan and intend to go back to those same community groups, share a report out of what we heard, share some of the early initiatives that we're able to fund and support, and then work in partnership with them to try to lift up some of the other recommendations and priorities.
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We certainly right would love to replicate that process across other boroughs as we have additional capacity, but again you know the the planning work that we do also serves as a vehicle for us to concentrate efforts across neighborhoods.
Nantasha M. Williams
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Okay yeah and you just just said a word I was thinking about you said overlap and I was thinking like is is there some duplicity here?
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There's it's like your office which is like a catchment but then there's core and then there's tree.
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It does seem like there's like a level of overlap or perhaps duplicity.
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So how are you ensuring either like coordination or you know this this entity is doing this, maybe this entity can do that to maximize the limited resources you do have versus sort of everyone on top of each other doing the same work or saving serving the same demographics.
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So like how how do you account for that?
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How do you address that?
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How are you seeking to like streamline and you know eliminate any overlap?
Sideya Sherman
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Absolutely, so one of the areas of overlap of not necessarily mission, is the composition of our racial equity planning teams, the agency partners who work on the planning process and those who also may be designees to the task force on racial inclusion equity.
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And so we want to create some efficiency there and try to ensure that as agencies move towards implementation that there's alignment with the work of tree, so that we're as effective as possible.
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We obviously also collaborate with the Commission on Racial Equity, which you know has a very external facing presence, right, and works across a number of communities to ensure that we're not duplicating efforts and that you know to the extent CORE is getting feedback that's important for us to know that we're leveraging the information that they have.