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Committee adopts ordinance requiring cultural‑competence training for city officials
Summary
The Judiciary and Legislation Committee adopted an ordinance adding mandatory cultural‑competence training to the city’s periodic ethics and anti‑harassment training for elected and appointed officials. The committee charged the Department of Employee Relations with working on content and implementation.
The Judiciary and Legislation Committee on Oct. 6 adopted an ordinance requiring cultural‑competence training for all elected and appointed city officials, to be delivered alongside the existing ethics and anti‑harassment training cycle.
Alderman (sponsor) noted the city’s diversity and asked the Department of Employee Relations to work with the clerk’s office to design a curriculum that covers language access, working with residents who speak English as a second language, LGBTQ+…
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