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24 <br />Civil Rights Specialist is added. Currently, Human Right and Relations is paid for 50 <br />cases. <br />Specific Education and Outreach Outcomes - Proposed New Civil Rights Specialist <br />These are outlined below and include increasing the number: <br />^ Of presentation and workshops from 12 to 34; <br />^ In attendance at workshops and presentations from 190 to 500; <br />^ At Women Business Owners Roundtable meetings from 190 to 450; <br />^ Attending the education and advocacy programs from 148 to 450; <br />^ Of supportive services from 363 to 450 days; <br />^ Attending women's advocacy programs by 25 percent. <br />Relation of the Proposed New Civil Rights Specialist to the Board goal of the <br />implementation of the Orange County Civil Rights Ordinance. <br />Article VIII §8.2(b) of the Orange County Civil Rights Ordinance proscribes that: <br />...the commission staff shall make its determination on reasonable cause as <br />promptly as possible and, so faz as practicable, no later than 100 days after the <br />complaint was filed. <br />Currently the average time for resolution is 286 days. Without staff resources case <br />closure time will increase to at least 300 days and perhaps more. The new Civil Rights <br />Specialist would help to reduce the average length of time for case closures to a projected <br />180 days in 1999-00 and 150 days in 2000-01. <br />