POLICY: Partnerships to encourage civic engagement. Encourage continuous participation in City planning processes, especially targeting hard-to-reach populations, including developing partnerships with local community-based organizations and faith-based institutions to help facilitate conversations.

POLICY: Equitable engagement approach. Enhance equitable engagement practices and engage community members most impacted by racial and social inequities, including youth of color, and those living in Priority Equity Communities.

POLICY: Youth civic engagement. Encourage and enhance opportunities for youth to be civically engaged. Work in partnership with local school districts to develop a youth leadership group to provide input and guide youth-oriented planning and programmatic efforts in the City.

POLICY: Diversity on boards and commissions. Recruit adult community members most impacted by racial and social inequities to serve on the City’s boards and commissions. Seek to ensure that the City’s boards and commissions reflect the rich diversity of the city.

POLICY: Communicate City milestones and investments. Regularly monitor key milestones of investments in Priority Equity Communities and provide regular updates via City communication channels and networks.