Metro - File #: 2020-0514

• File #: 2020-0514
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 7/30/2020
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 8/27/2020
• Final action: 8/27/2020
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the Equity and Race Program.
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: Budgeting, Community Transportation, Comprehensive Pricing Study, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Disparity Study, Equity Focus Communities, First/Last Mile, Housing, Informational Report, Job opportunities, Long range planning, Long Range Transportation Plan, Metro Equity Platform, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, NextGen Bus Study, Older Adults, Partnerships, Persons with disabilities, Plan, Policy Advisory Council, Program, Race, Race and ethnicity, Safety, Safety and security, Strategic planning, Transit Oriented Community, Transit safety

Date	Action By	Action	Result
8/27/2020	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
8/20/2020	Executive Management Committee

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
AUGUST 20, 2020

Subject
SUBJECT: EQUITY AND RACE PROGRAM UPDATE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the Equity and Race Program.

Issue
ISSUE

This report outlines the activities taken under the leadership of Metro's new Executive Officer, Equity and Race and plans to continue implementing the Metro Equity Platform Framework adopted by the Board in March 2018.

Background
BACKGROUND

Metro's Equity Platform ("Platform") was approved by the Metro Board of Directors ("Board") in March 2018 (Attachment A). The core objective is to increase access to opportunities including housing, jobs, healthcare, education, and other key determinants of health and thriving communities. The Platform is explicit in its focus on the vast disparities that exist in access to opportunity and is intended to help identify and implement projects or programs that reduce and ultimately eliminate those disparities. It is driven by access needs, not geographic equality, though some disparities have a geographic element.

The Platform provides a framework for advancing equity. It has been incorporated into Metro's Vision 2028 Strategic Plan and must be a critical factor in our decision making. In 2019, Metro published an Equity Platform FY19 Activation Plan (Attachment B) to highlight the Platform's broad portfolio of current, planned, and conceptual initiatives, and to show the Platforms intent and the distance the agency still has to go to fully realize the Platform's potential and impact for change. In January 2020, Metro welcomed the first Executive Officer, Equity and Race to lead, coordinate, and develop implementation of efforts under the Platform.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

The Equity Platform stands on four pillars - Define and Measure, Listen and Learn, Focus and Deliver, and Train and Grow. Progress over the last six months and objectives for the future under each o...