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City of St. Anthony Village Racial Equity Plan Internal Goal: The City of St. Anthony staff, elected and appointed leaders recognize and are committed to racial equity efforts. Community Indicator Outcomes and Actions Timeline Accountability Performance Measure  City employees understand, are committed to, and have the needed resources to advance racial equity in their roles  Residents have an understanding on how their local government works. Specifically how to communicate with officials and how to participate in decisions Create a shared understanding of racial equity GARE Introductory Cohort The team participating in the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) 2017 cohort, along with staff leadership, will create a Racial Equity Plan as a working document for department directors, City Council, and others. Implementation will begin in 2018. Inclusion Committee Form a staff-driven Inclusion Committee to serve as a resource to employees by providing education about areas of diversity, support city’s goals by promoting diversity, cultural competency and community interaction, and to raise awareness of city’s diversity initiative and its purpose at the city. GARE Implementation Cohort The Inclusion Committee will participate in the 2018 GARE Implementation Cohort designed for jurisdictions that participated in the introductory cohort and are ready for support on plan implementation & peer-to-peer strategizing. Continuing GARE participation will allow the Inclusion Committee members to work towards becoming “subject matter specialists” to be well-equipped to support racial equity efforts. Build capacity and skills to advance racial equity Departmental Racial Equity Assessments The Implementation Team will provide department directors with resources for performing a departmental assessment of their delivery of services from a racial equity perspective. With the help of the GARE Racial Equity Toolkit department directors will review policies and practices to identify and remove any barriers to racial equity and embed racial equity into routine decision- making in a sustainable manner. The Racial Equity Tool is a simple set of questions:  Proposal: What is the policy, program, practice or budget decision under consideration? What are the desired results & outcomes?  Data: What’s the data? What does the data tell us? 2017 Ongoing Ongoing 2018 – 2019 GARE Cohort & Staff Leadership Committee members & Staff Leadership Advanced GARE cohort & Staff Leadership Inclusion Committee & Department Heads Racial Equity Plan finalized and implementation steps are underway Inclusion Committee convened, meeting quarterly with dept. heads and providing resources and training opportunities to staff Cohort sessions are attended and peer exchanged ideas are explored and applied where appropriate Assessments and identified mitigations are continuing and staff leadership and department heads hold regular check-ins to track progress 115