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Council vice chair urges labor equity; executive committee proposes bylaws work group
Summary
The council's vice chair said BIPOC members are carrying disproportionate workload and urged structural changes. The executive committee proposed a 12-month ad-hoc bylaws work group to clarify expectations and distribute labor more evenly.
The council's vice chair read prepared remarks asserting that representation is not the same as equity and that Black, Indigenous and other people of color on the council are disproportionately doing the work and should not shoulder the labor of educating others alone.
"Representation alone is not equity," the vice chair said, adding that "equity work requires shared…
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