Agenda - 06-21-2022; 8-i - JCPC Certification and County Plan for FY 2022-2023

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26 We must also be able to engage with the community to ensure that we are moving in the direction the community wants and expects. Our racial equity plan is built around five strategies: racial equity tool, racial equity index, community engagement, training, and evaluation and accountability. Orange County, the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and 11 other jurisdictions in North Carolina became the first jurisdictions in the south to go through racial equity training with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity(GARS). This year long training was designed to build capacity to address institutional, instructional racism for local governments. This training allowed us to build a shared network across jurisdictions and regional boundaries, allowing us to eliminate silos that prevent us from addressing structural racism. The Racial Equity Action Plan sets forth a process and a set of questions to guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, initiatives,programs, and budget issues to address the impact of racial equity. The racial equity tool helps align racial equity goals with desired outcomes. The Racial Equity Plan commits government to shifting the power dynamic to a shared decision making model, working with the community. Each jurisdiction is experimenting with engagement tactics to reach communities of color focusing on listening, learning, and implementing solutions for all communities and then prioritizing for the perspective of those communities most impacted by racism. The GARE team is working with SAS and the Data for Good project on the racial equity index and this will be an open source,public data dashboard. It will help us assess our progress on equity in our community and we will use it to track racial equity data from the initiatives and follow trends on racial disparities across departments and jurisdictions. The first index being created is a workforce equity index. The Training Committee has worked on a plan that provides a continuous cycle of training for policy makers, managers, advisory boards, and commission and community members. The Evaluation and Accountability Committee will develop an evaluation plan based on the principles of the Results-Based Accountability framework. RBA is a national model and provides a disciplined, data-driven, decision- making process to help local governments take action to solve problems. The evaluation plan applies racial equity principles embedded into the RBA methodology into the Orange County Racial Equity Plan. The plan also has a stewardship plan that addresses who is accountable for completion of each action, how plans are implemented,how progress is reported, and how success is defined. Q: As part of the community outreach, how do members of the public become engaged and participate? A: They are asking people to respond to this presentation and let us know what they want out of a racial equity plan and what do they see as priorities. Q: How does this relate to the different boards and commissions that are an extension of the county? A: The boards and commissions will be trained on the racial equity tool and they will use that as part of their decision making process. Q: So then, at some point we would be asked to integrate that into our funding discussion? A: Yes. And as a matter of fact, outside agencies funding process will have this integrated for next fiscal year. Applicants will be required to complete the racial equity tool as part of the application. Toshina commented that the information was very valuable and actually falls right in line with what the Department is doing and pushing JCPCs to establish an Ethnic Disparities subcommittee to focus on disproportionality and disparities. If the JCPC is interested in forming a subcommittee for Racial and