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MUNICIPAL ACTION GUIDE
Advancing Racial
Equity in Your City
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REAL RACEEOUITY AND LEADERSHIP
For most of our history, we kept many runners
sidelined from democracy's relay race. To our
perpetual damage and shame, our relay was run
th generations of great Americans barred from
the main track: People of color. Women. Native --
Americans. Immigrants. People of different faiths or
no faith. LGBTQ+. People with disabilities... Make
NO MISTAKE, we need ALL of us in this relay. And
we] must carry our baton proudly and high and far."
MAYOR JOHN HAMILTON OF BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
DURING HIS 2017 STATE OF THE CITY SPEECH.
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Introduction
NLC's Race, Equity and Leadership (REAL) initiative is dedicated to
helping local leaders understand and gain the tools necessary to combat
racial disparities in their communities. We've compiled these six steps
you can follow to begin improving equity throughout your city and
creating better outcomes for everyone in your community.
Definitions to Understand
Racial Equity
Racial Equity — "Closing the gaps" so that
race does not predict one's success, while also
improving outcomes for all.
Institutional Racism — Policies, practices and
procedures that work better for white people
than for people of color, often unintentionally
or inadvertently.
Structural Racism — A history and current
reality of institutional racism across all
institutions, combining to create a system that
negatively impacts communities of color.
REAL's Mission
The REAL initiative serves to strengthen local
leaders' knowledge and capacity to eliminate
racial disparities, heal racial divisions and
build more equitable communities. Through
training and online resources, REAL helps NLC
members build safe places where people from
all racial, ethical and cultural backgrounds
thrive socially, economically, academically and
physically.
1. SET AN EXAMPLE AND STRIKE THE RIGHT TONE PAGE 5
2. OBSERVE AND LISTEN PAGE 7
3. MAKE A PUBLIC DECLARATION PAGE 9
4. DEDICATE INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACTION PAGE 11
5. COMMIT TO POLICY AND SYSTEM CHANGE PAGE 13
6, CREATE A RACIAL EQUITY PLAN PAGE 14
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Boston, Massachusetts, has tred
facilitators and engaged thousands of
residents in a broad series of monthly
community race dialogues. Pictured,
Boston's Mayor Walsh attends a
community dialogue.
1. Set an Example and
Strike the Right Tone
As city leaders, you play a unique role in setting the tone of local
governments and institutions. Mayors and councilmembers can set
an example and commit themselves to prioritizing racial equity, by
participating in equity leadership trainings or starting a community
conversation to engage voices throughout the city.
REAL offers numerous trainings opportunities:
At NLC Conferences
Through NLC University
Regional Trainings & State Municipal Leagues
Individual City Trainings by REAL Staff
Online webinars at www.nlc.org/REAL
Quick tips for starting a
conversation on race in
your city
1. Encourage city staff to examine
the racial biases embedded in city
department services.
2. Convene community stakeholders
to understand their perspectives on
different racial impacts of city policies.
3. Engage both residents of color and
white residents to understand the
way policies historically and currently
impact each racial and ethnic group.
4. Integrate an understanding of structural
and institutional racism.
I think the single most important thing I can do as the
mayor would be a convener, a convener for these really hard
conversations that we need to be having about how our police
interact with our minority communities, how our minority
communities are impacted by education and housing and
transportation and poverty."
RESPONSE FROM THE 2016 MENINO SURVEY OF MAYORS
ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY IN YOUR CITY 5
The City of Madison, Wisconsin, has used its existing
Neighborhood Response Team infrastructure to orient
to the needs, issues and priorities of residents who
may historically have been left out of government
processes. By focusing on agendas driven by the
community, teams of city employees have engaged
other agencies to address how services are delivered.
In one case, this resulted in an opportunity for
the city to begin lighting basketball courts, like
those pictured, as residents in a neighborhood
identified the desire for evening access.
2. Observe and Listen
Without a doubt, there are already many voices promoting racial equity
within your community. One of the easiest and first things you can do is
to simply observe and listen:
To Voices in Your Community
Across America, communities of color tend to
have less access to government resources and
less communal experience with government as
a force for good. These differences result from
our historical legacy of structures and policies
that perpetuate differential outcomes based
on race. Local elected officials and city staff
must commit time and space to listen to the
lived experiences of communities of color and
intentionally consider these experiences in city
decision-making processes.
To Those Already Focusing on
Racial Equity in Your City
Seek out which organizations and community
efforts in your city are already doing work
with equity or bringing people together to
talk about race and offer to engage with
them. Create opportunities to engage city
staff that have institutional knowledge and
other important perspectives that provide
meaningful opportunities for them to inform
your understanding of local racial disparities.
To the Data
You know the importance of metrics and data
when evaluating city performance in services.
When analyzed through the lens of racial
equity, data on city services and resources
can reveal racial disparities that may not be
obvious without this analysis. Disaggregate
data from all city programs, services, policies
and practices by race and ethnicity of impacted
residents to gain a deeper understanding of
how these disparities can hide in plain sight.
Examples of data to examine by race:
Permitting fees
Tickets and citations
Arrests
Health outcomes
Code violations and inspections.
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City of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, released a statement on its website informing
residents of plans to advance racial equity. The webpage outlined
more than a year of work, including completed staff trainings, progress
made in city council and data analyses supporting the need for equity
efforts. The webpage, pictured above, also includes video links where
residents can hear the city's priorities directly from the Mayor. NATIONAL
LEAGUE OF CITIES MUNICIPAL ACTION GUIDE
3. Make a Public Declaration
Your residents need to know your city's commitment to racial equity.
As with instituting any citywide initiative, leaders can leverage the bully
pulpit and media attention to make constituents aware of the city's
priorities and efforts. A public declaration is a bold stance that builds
connection between communities of color and governing bodies.
Leaders can use these announcements to gain broader
support for and highlight existing work to advance racial
equity or healing in their communities. These announcements
open the door for meaningful communication between
leaders and impacted residents.
4 Ways to Make a Public Declaration:
Resolution — Allows your city to officially
announce and publicize the local
government's position on race -related
issues. Resolutions declare a commitment
to racial equity, and city leaders can bring
other councilmembers on board via a
public vote.
Racial equity guiding statement — This
short statement works to briefly amplify
an official's (or an office's) role and
mission in advancing racial equity, in a
message that can be easily shared.
Racial equity presence on a
website — Webpages dedicated to
racial equity can serve the purpose of
proclaiming the city's commitment,
while also informing residents of official
plans and progress made on those plans,
Webpages are easily available to many
city residents and can help them visualize
important statements from their leaders
through photos and videos.
Publicly sharing disparity data or
personnel demographics data — Data
visualization is a strategic method
to provide context to a city's new
initiative, Many times, data help confirm
the sentiments of city residents and
emphasize the need for the city to pay
attention to the feedback and concerns of
its constituents.
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of Equity & Human Rights, pictured, Tacoma has
been able to invest in significant staff training
on racial equity and unconscious bias, adopt the
use of tools to facilitate equitable budgeting and
force practices, and assess inequities in the
ribution of city resources across neighborhoods.
4. Dedicate Infrastructure
to Action
After declaring its committment, your city needs to dedicate new
or align existing resources to create a system capable of bringing
about changes. Building a team and developing staff skills to address
the impacts of racism throughout local government are necessary
steps toward achieving real progress. Local elected officials need to
provide the leadership to generate a citywide coordinated effort and
infrastructure to carry out these functions.
Suggested Steps for Building Your Team
Designate senior leadership to play an
oversight role.
Engage the private sector to raise external
resources to facilitate this work.
Identify which city agencies can collect
and analyze the data that will support
your city's efforts.
Offer additional support and resources to
city agencies already working on racial
equity.
Dedicate new or existing resources to
support racial equity work across all
departments.
Identify opportunities to support
individuals motivated by this work in
your office.
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In many cities, rates of asthma are higher in
communities of color. The Center for American
Progress notes that the system driving that
inequity is often the high rates of air pollution
in neighborhoods populated by people of color.
Investigating the root of the inequity could mean
uncovering zoning or other policies that allow
industrial facilities, garbage processing stations,
auto shops and other hazards to exist in and near
these communities. Achieving racial equity requires
a commitment to both uncovering these underlying
truths and to changing the policies that cause them.
5. Commit to Policy and
System Change
Institutions and structures have historically created and continue to
perpetuate racial inequities throughout cities — often unintentionally.
These inequities will continue to exist unless there is intentional
intervention to counter and reverse those effects. Local leaders have
the responsibility as chief policymakers to address the ways in which
institutional and structural racism have shaped their city.
By making long-lasting changes to both policies and systems that
benefit their residents of color, city leaders can commit to policy and
system changes that bring their practices in line with their priorities.
More racially equitable outcomes start by addressing the root of a city's
disparities and making meaningful policy and system changes.
Things to Keep in Mind
1. Even if policies do not contain explicit racial
biases, they can still inadvertently contribute
to racial inequity in your city.
2. Learn about policies that have historically
shaped inequity across the nation and
determine if they exist in your community.
3. Conduct an in-depth analysis of racial
disparities that you've discovered through
previous steps.
4. Begin with racial disparities in outcomes (ex.
educational achievement gaps) and track
backwards to uncover the root causes of
these differences.
Going Forward — Analyze Policy
through a Racial Equity Lens
Before making local policy decisions, ask the
following questions:
Who will be better/worse off through
this policy?
Who is deciding the goals, parameters or
features of this policy?
What historical structures or social norms
drive the policy?
Which systems will implement the policy?
Who has access, both physically and socially
to that system?
What do data analyses say about where
inequities have manifested due to previous
policy changes?
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6. Create a Racial Equity Plan
Racial equity plans provide a blueprint of the city's intentions to improve
outcomes for people of color by outlining citywide goals and agency -
specific strategies for accomplishing those goals. They give community
members, stakeholders and colleagues a means for holding their
government accountable and a benchmark from which to build trust.
Local governments can begin this process after going through the
previous steps to gain a comprehensive understanding of the needs and
hopes of residents of color. Each city department or bureau can create
action plans targeted by issue area. By combining those action -plans,
cities create an institutional road map that continues beyond leadership
transitions.
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Many cities have developed a city government
performance management system across
agencies to track progress on achieving city
goals. Aligning a racial equity goal within this
process is an opportunity to hold all city
agencies and staff accountable in ways that
impact their day to day work, without creating
separate siloed processes.
Steps to Making a Racial Equity Plan:
1, Create a racial equity guiding statement
for your city or each department.
2. Select a Citywide Equity Goal and create
five-year objectives.
3. Create actions to achieve each objective.
4. Create annual performance measures
for each action and commit to a
completion date.
5. Create or identify the mechanism by
which each action will be tracked,
measured or evaluated.
6. Identify lead staff for each action—the
person or body that holds the staff
accountable for completion.
The City of New Orleans, Louisiana,
outlined its plans to "dismantle barriers to
opportunity" in the racial equity plan titled
Equity New Orleans; The Road to Equitable
Government." The plan - published in print
and online - includes a statement from the
Mayor explaining the city's priorities and
setting the tone for staff and residents to
follow. In only 16 pages, the guide covers the
city's mission and vision, issue -specific data,
projected path to completion, and department
specific objectives and accomplishments.
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