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Workforce Equity

RGEAP History and Implementation

Workforce Equity

RGEAP History and Implementation

Government Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE) learning cohort

From December 2018 through May 2019, 12 staff leaders from the City of Sacramento completed the GARE’s Northern California learning cohort to build capacity and strategic planning that embeds racial equity in decision making and outcomes. From June through November 2019, the learning cohort continued to meet to draft a five-year equity action plan. The final plan was approved and released in January 2020.

The Race & Gender Equity Action Plan (2020-2025) serves as a living road map to guide the work of all City departments and offices. It supports the City's efforts to organize around and operationalize a racial equity lens to cultivate a City workforce that is more reflective of the community we serve.

Why did we create the RGEAP?

After going through the learning cohort experience in 2018-2019 with GARE, the City decided to focus on workforce equity to begin embedding a racial equity approach. Focused on internal programs, policies, and overarching strategies regarding the workforce employment continuum. A racial equity action plan was created to be a blueprint to systematically identify and address structural inequities within the City of Sacramento agency. With the aim to achieve better outcomes for all groups by actively working to dismantle structural barriers and promote fair treatment and opportunities, essentially ensuring that race (or identity dimension) no longer predicts life outcomes; it provides a roadmap for targeted strategies to improve services, policies, and practices to close racial gaps and create a more equitable society for all.

A phased approach to RGEAP implementation

The GARE Theory of Change and the Organizational Assessment Tool guided the cohort in the development of the RGEAP, the City’s racial equity statement, outcomes, and approach to advance work force equity. Due to the unforeseen challenges of the COVID-19 global pandemic, The City was focused on COVID response. Engagement with City staff on the RGEAP in 2020-2022 was slowed down to adapt to the now virtual work environment and support departments teams in the immediate, dynamic response needed to aid and support the Sacramento community.

To support departments and give them the time they needed to start to organize their equity teams, go through department assessments, and identify their prioritized actions, ODE provided direct consultation and virtual quarterly meeting sessions for peer learning and engagement.

Aligned with the efforts, practices, and commitments of the SCORE Resolution 2024-0354, the second phase of the RGEAP beginning in 2026 will began to focus on City Budget, procurement, contracting, grants, and delivery of services and programs to Sacramentans. This phase will be informed more directly by community engagement and center on external equity indicators and support for historically marginalized communities.

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