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Sacramento HR warns proposed cuts would reduce diversity-and-equity staffing as council urges retention
Summary
Human Resources Director Shelley Banks Robinson told the City Council on April 1 that the Office of Diversity and Equity and Organizational Development are not legally mandated and are proposed for reductions; council members urged preserving those positions to implement the city's racial equity work.
Shelley Banks Robinson, the City of Sacramento human resources director, told the City Council on April 1 that most HR functions are mandated by law but that two programs—Organizational Development and the Office of Diversity and Equity—are not legally required and are targeted in the proposed budget reductions.
Robinson said HR is staffed with roughly 80 full-time employees and that the department’s general fund budget is about $5,600,000. “Most of our work in HR … is mandated by law. The only areas of HR that are not mandated are Organizational Development and the Office of Diversity and Equity which is where unfortunately you will see the proposed cuts for HR,” she said.
Why it matters: The Office of Diversity and Equity (ODE) and…
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