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Advocates push county to pilot a "budget equity" tool to center racial and economic equity in spending
Summary
The Budget Justice Coalition and Bay Area Equity Atlas proposed a pilot budget-equity tool for six county departments to increase public engagement, disaggregated data use and transparency; supervisors discussed phasing, community input and capacity-building.
Contra Costa County supervisors heard a presentation Feb. 4 from the Budget Justice Coalition and the Bay Area Equity Atlas proposing a Budget Equity Tool to bring disaggregated data and structured community input into department budgets.
Ryan Fukumori of the Bay Area Equity Atlas described the project as a public data repository designed "to make data more legible, accessible for ordinary citizens," and argued that disaggregated metrics help identify who is most vulnerable and…
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