The municipal authorities’s Fee for Racial Equality: goals and plans

This week, in Group Speak we talked concerning the metropolis’s new Racial Equality Fee, which was established in 2022 via standard session on the poll.

The Fee just lately introduced its new commissioners, at the moment eleven in whole.

One in all them is Yesenia Mata, Govt Director of La Colmena, representing Staten Island.

Yesenia joined us in our investigations and answered these questions:

1. Inform us slightly concerning the Fee. How was it created? What are your targets?

2. The Fee has been working since 2023, with its Govt Director, Linda Tigani. However now what would be the work of those commissioners? What are you going to give attention to?

3. Yesenia in your opinion How is town authorities enhancing racial fairness in points resembling housing, training or entry to meals?

4. And the fee has already recognized some priorities that will likely be efforts to attain racial fairness in municipal authorities companies. Are you able to briefly clarify what a few of them are?

5. And now, what’s subsequent? We perceive that they’re gathering the opinion of the group to outline these priorities. How do they do it? And the way do New Yorkers get their suggestions?

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