Commission: EEOC to issue full contracts; HUD funds received and intake policy expanded for certain transfers

During the finance and director’s reports, staff told commissioners the EEOC had indicated the starter contracts would be replaced with full contracts within roughly 60 to 90 days, which would restore per-case payments.

"They let us know that the contracts that we had received were only starter contracts and that they would be issuing full contracts to the Fair Employment Practices Agency ... in the next 60 to 90 days," a staff member said. Rachel confirmed the commission had already drawn down HUD funds and received case-processing payments and administrative funding. "We did receive the the full payment of our case processing and the administrative funding for HUD...that case processing was around 69,000 for last year," she said.

Staff also said the commission will continue to accept EEOC intake-only cases for people outside city limits and will accept EEOC transfers for complaints involving gender identity and expression and medical marijuana for investigation even though EEOC indicated it would not pay for those categories and would dismiss them at the federal level. "So, we will continue to take those cases...we can ensure that those cases get investigated," Rachel said.

The director offered case metrics for the commission: 85 open investigations, 34 pending intakes and 10 cases waiting for response and assignment. She said mandatory conciliations have risen and four cases remain in court.

Staff said they will continue to monitor contract finalization and payment timing with EEOC and HUD and will report any changes to the commission.