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Council presses mayor's equity office over delayed racial equity plans and budget alignment
Summary
At a New York City Council hearing, MOERJ said it expects to release a preliminary citywide racial equity plan within the mayor's first 100 days; CORE and advocates said extended legal review and prior noncompliance have hindered oversight and risk leaving FY27 budget decisions unmoored from the charter's equity requirements.
Councilmember Sandy Nurse, chair of the Committee on Civil and Human Rights, opened an oversight hearing by criticizing the city's failure to publish charter-mandated racial equity plans and asking the mayor's Office of Equity and Racial Justice for an update on when those plans would be released and how they would be integrated into the FY27 budget.
"Unfortunately, no racial equity plans or progress reports have ever been issued," Nurse said, calling that omission "one of the biggest failures of the Adams administration." She asked MOERJ how legal review, agency staffing, and budget timing affect the city's ability to produce and use the plans.
Afiyatamensa, who identified themself as New York City's chief equity officer and commissioner of the mayor's Office of Equity and Racial Justice, described MOERJ's planning process and said more than 40 agencies and roughly 200 staff had been involved in drafting agency-level plans.…
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