REPORT TO TASK FORCE ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
SUBJECT
Title
Review and Discuss Community Listening Session Survey
Report
BACKGROUND
Charged with identifying key issues facing the City of Santa Clara (City) involving historically disenfranchised communities and making recommendations to policies that help the City achieve racial equity, the Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Task Force) is holding a series of community listening sessions. Through the community listening sessions, the Task Force will seek the community's input on what the City can do to build a more inclusive community and invite members of the public to share their experiences and ideas. In an effort to engage the community in multiple ways, the public can attend the community listening sessions virtually on Zoom, send an email to the Task Force, or take the Task Force's brief Community Listening Session survey at SantaClaraCA.gov/EquityTaskForce.
At the August 9, 2021 Task Force meeting, Chair Neil Datar inquired if staff could look into summarizing the responses received in the Community Listening Session survey. Suggestions for the Task Force's consideration are discussed below.
DISCUSSION
The Task Force will review the Community Listening Session survey responses received. The survey responses received since the August 9, 2021 regular meeting through September 10, 2021, at 12:00 p.m. are included with this report as Attachment 1. Any additional Community Listening Session Survey responses received from September 10, 2021, at 12:00 p.m. through September 13, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. will be provided as post-meeting material.
It is timely that the Task Force has requested staff look at how the survey responses can be summarized and reported back to the Task Force as the Community Listening Sessions Working Group is currently revising the listening session survey.
Since the Community Listening Sessions Working Group is currently in the process revising the survey, staff ...
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