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OneOrange Racial Equity Framework Update.
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Staff:
Department:
Loryn Clark, Deputy Town Manager
Town 'Manager's Office
Shenekia Weeks, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
Alysha Phanord, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Analyst
Overview:
OneOrange is committed to creating a community where race no longer predicts life outcomes and has been working to institutionalize the OneOrange Racial Equity Plan's components within our jurisdictions. There are five mutually reinforcing pillars of the Racial Equity Framework. Each is represented by a multi-jurisdictional subcommittee led by at least one jurisdictional member and includes staff from each jurisdiction. The subcommittees are Training, Racial Equity Assessment Lens (REAL), Community Engagement, Racial Equity Index, and Evaluation and Accountability; the Plan is based on the work of these committees.
Staff will share how they continue operationalizing the OneOrange Racial Equity Plan into institutional processes that enable more equitable outcomes internally and externally.
Recommendation(s):
That the Council receives the update and provides feedback on OneOrange implementation strategies.
Background
In January 2021, the Government Alliance on Race & Equity Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force, OneOrange, established subcommittees to work on each section of the Orange County Racial Equity Plan: A Framework for Moving Forward. OneOrange includes staff from the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Orange County.
In January 2022, all jurisdictions in Orange County received and adopted the OneOrange County Racial Equity Plan: A Framework for Moving Forward. Since January 2022, the OneOrange staff team has worked to share jurisdictional implementation strategies and design the Racial Equity Index. Additionally, we have socialized the Plan with potential jurisdictional partners; OWASA and Durham Technical Community College representatives attended a OneOrange staff team m...
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