Overview
- The city released the final racial equity plan Tuesday, fulfilling a court finding that officials missed charter deadlines and moving the document from draft to implementation.
- The 400-plus page blueprint groups eight citywide goals across 45 agencies and lists more than 200 agency goals, 800 strategies and 600 indicators to track progress.
- City leaders said the plan will inform future budgets through a new equity budget review that the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget and the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice plan to apply to the FY2028 preliminary budget.
- Officials described the citywide goals as directional commitments that currently lack citywide numerical targets while some agency-level measures do include specific benchmarks and timelines.
- The plan grew out of voter-approved 2022 charter changes that created an Office of Racial Equity and requires two-year reporting, and its success will depend on agency follow-through, measurable budget shifts, and whether contested language changes are clarified during rollout.