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City staff present AIM equity tool and seek community input on wildfire research

City of Bend Human Rights and Equity Commission · November 18, 2025
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Summary

City staff described the AIM equity tool as a simplified framework to help staff identify equity impacts, track outcomes and course-correct, and invited the Human Rights and Equity Commission to engage with a paired wildfire risk-reduction research project that will collect resident interviews through early December.

Lindsay, a city equity staffer, told the Human Rights and Equity Commission the AIM equity tool is "a set of guiding questions that help city staff examine how decisions affect or could affect either our internal, our external customers, or a mixture of both," and said the tool’s measure component will track outcomes to surface disparities and guide course corrections.

Assistant City Manager Stephanie Betteridge said council goals and an earlier equity framework led staff to develop the AIM tool because the prior framework "was not…

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