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Sacramento diversity office outlines plan to expand racial equity work, adopt outcome-focused measures
Summary
The Office of Diversity and Equity told the Measure U advisory committee it is expanding the city's Race, Gender and Equity Action Plan beyond workforce issues, aligning it with the SCORE initiative and using a results-based accountability framework to measure outcomes, though staff said budget cuts could slow progress.
Ami Zanzaleh Barnes, the city's Diversity and Equity manager, told the Measure U Community Advisory Committee on March 16 that the Office of Diversity and Equity is shifting its Race, Gender and Equity Action Plan beyond internal workforce work to include procurement, budgeting and service delivery and will align that expansion with the SCORE (Sacramento Centered on Racial Equity) initiative.
Barnes said the office will adopt a Results-Based Accountability (RBA) framework and a Clear Impact dashboard to help departments set and track performance measures that focus not just on outputs but on whether residents are "better off." "We want to move from how much we do to how well we do it and whether anyone is better off," Barnes said, outlining…
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