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Neighborhood Resource Teams overview: staff describe equity focus, recent growth and next steps
Summary
City staff presented an overview of Neighborhood Resource Teams (NRTs) on Jan. 14, describing the initiative’s racial equity mission, recent additions of two teams (East Milwaukee Street and Sandburg), and planned boundary tweaks and survey follow-up.
Tarek Salaf, coordinator of Neighborhood Resource Teams (NRTs) in the Department of Civil Rights, briefed the Common Council Executive Committee on Jan. 14 about the teams’ mission, recent activity and planned next steps, emphasizing their role as a racial-equity tool and a citywide catalyst for resident-driven change.
Salaf told the committee NRTs date to 1991 and that his office reframed them around racial equity after he joined in 2012. “The mission is about promoting racial equity, improving quality of life for everybody, and making sure that we're tuning in to what's actually relevant for people that are living in areas with neighborhood resource teams,” he said.
Salaf described NRTs as…
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