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Bellevue staff and community group outline Diversity Advantage Plan update after city dialogues
Summary
City staff and members of the Centring Communities of Color initiative presented a multi-year engagement process and draft priorities that will feed Bellevue's Diversity Advantage Plan update, highlighting community trust-building, youth participation, affordable housing and —belonging' as central themes.
City staff and members of the Centring Communities of Color initiative presented results from multi-site community dialogues and an open house that will inform an update to Bellevue's Diversity Advantage Plan.
The presentation, introduced by City Manager and delivered by Chief DEI Officer Dr. Linda Whitehead and members of the Triple C team, summarized two years of work that the team said engaged roughly 300 people through seven dialogues and an open house to surface priorities for policy and programs. "Belonging was the central theme that we saw emerge," said Jerry Tiernan, a Triple C member who led synthesis of the dialogues.
Why it matters: The Diversity Advantage Plan (adopted in 2014) serves as…
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