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WORK SESSION MEMORANDUM
Date: October 29, 2024
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
Through: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Rupa Venkatesh, Assistant City Manager
From: Claudia Menendez, Equity & Inclusion Office
Subject: October 22, 2024 Work Session Summary – Equity Indicators Update
BOTTOM LINE
The purpose of this memo is to document the summary of discussions during the October 22,
2024 Work Session item on the Equity Indicators Update. All Councilmembers were present
with the exception of Councilmember Canonico who was absent.
DISCUSSION SUMMARY
The Council work session on Equity Indicators covered the various workstreams the Equity &
Inclusion Office has underway to help the City organization embed equity into all areas of work.
The AIS and slideshow presentation offered several examples of work teams are doing with
guidance from the Equity & Inclusion team. Examples mentioned were:
• Equity Readiness Assessments- facilitated conversation with project teams that use a
series of questions to evaluate a project using an equity lens.
• Health Equity Index Maps- Engineering and FC Moves are using as a way to
demonstrate that equity indicators have been used for planning purposes. It was
suggested that additional projects could be added to the maps to show investment by
council district or council priorities.
• Light & Power – example of how feedback from the Spanish language community
connectors group propelled the Light & Power engineering team to do a neighborhood
walk through at Hickory Village Mobile Home Park and asses that additional lighting
was needed on Hickory St to create a safer environment for residents. This mobile
home park is in an industrial zone therefore has lamp post spaced further apart than a
residential zone who have. This is one way of providing equitable services to a
neighborhood that is often disproportionately affected due to it being a mobile home
park.
NEXT STEPS
Council and community will continue to receive updates on how the Equity & Inclusion Office is
guiding the City to make progress on advancing the Neighborhood and Community Vitality
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Strategic Objective 3 that strives to: Identify and remove systemic barriers and advance equity
so that persons of all identities, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender
identity, gender expression, age, mental and physical abilities, and socioeconomic levels can
access programs and services with ease and experience equitable outcomes.
Equity in action qualitative data or narratives will provide evidence of the systemic barriers that
have been identified and what actions have been proposed and or taken to remove the barriers.
Ongoing cross-departmental to create a more cohesive data-driven storytelling efforts to help
answer the following questions: Who do we serve? How do we know we are serving them well?
How do we know if they are positively impacted by our services?
FOLLOW-UP ITEMS
Slide 16 of the presentation provided some examples of metrics already being collected by City
departments that help show how we are addressing the needs of Council Priority #2 Improve
Human and Social Health for Vulnerable Populations. A suggestion was made to include the
socioeconomic needs of populations being served by the mentioned programs which listed the
following:
Financial assistance to third parties serving older adults, people with disabilities,
immigrant community, childcare programs, food systems programs, diverse health
needs.
A suggestion was offered to create 1-page infographic to help communicate to community
members of all education levels how the City is advancing equity. This type of infographic may
be included in the end of year report.
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