2018 Administration Department Annual Report

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2018 Annual Report • Administration • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota 31 In the spring, a group session was held in Rochester where the teams reviewed results based accountability and how that applies to furthering race and equity work. The team also had the opportunity to attend a GARE Speaker Series event in June in Brooklyn Park and heard from Larry Hiscock of Nexus Community Partners, JooHee Pomplun of The Alliance, and Nelima Munene of the African Career, Education and Resource, Inc. The teams met again in July at the Eagan Community Center to continue discussing progress with other teams, and learning more about results-based accountability and how that can be applied to racial equity plans. The team also met with other Implementation Cohort teams in mid-September a the Brookdale Public Library to discuss how our strategies for normalizing, organizing and operationalizing are working, and where adjustments are needed to racial equity action plans. Members of the city’s team attended a speaker series event in December at the Wellstone Center in St. Paul, where they heard from the editor of “A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota” and contributing essayists Taiyon J. Coleman, an Assistant Professor of English Literature at St. Catherine University, and Shannon Gibney, a writer, educator, activist, and the author of “See No Color.” Throughout the year the team has continued to work on the city’s Race & Equity Plan that was formalized at the end of 2017. The team made progress on action items from the plan like increasing staff capacity through customer service training, exploring methods to track and analyze code enforcement data, and the drafting of an internship program for the Public Works Department. In addition, activities like the Police Department’s participation in the COPS program, Students in Government and Youth in Government have also taken place throughout the past year. Work will continue on these and other action items from the plan. The city is continuing with GARE in 2019 and working with the League of Minnesota Cities on additional resources as they become available.