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Board votes to terminate county DEIA committee; split vote highlights local debate
Summary
After a heated discussion, the board voted to terminate the county’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA) committee; the motion passed with the chair and one commissioner voting to terminate and one commissioner opposed.
Deschutes County commissioners voted to dissolve the county’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access (DEIA) committee after debate about the committee’s purpose, relationship to Human Resources and whether the work should continue under a different structure.
A commissioner asked that staff who had participated in the committee describe accomplishments and the draft work plan; another commissioner objected to inviting staff into the policy discussion and said the board had received written background…
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