beth rubenstein.the lead of the racial equity initiative and the deputy director of policy and communications, and i'm here with my colleague guillermo paris. good morning commissioners. and director um my name is caramel perez and i'm the leadership and racial equity manager at operations. here's our mission for the racial equity initiative. as you can see, it's a two part mission that speaks and reflect to reflection and education, as well as making changes change to our policies and practices that you are interconnected. underline this work is the belief that positive organizational change can only happen with the combination of grassroots grassroots organizing and executive leadership. working towards racial equity can't rely on top down decision making if staff don't support the work, the workplace culture get stuck in all ways of doing things. on the other hand, it can't rely just on grassroots organizing as the department needs its leadership to approve and support policies and procedures. the

beth rubenstein that was written over 2 years ago. at the time feels like a different world over 2 years ago. had a different director. so at this point it was the low. i agree it is not low it it is something we have been working on. we developed a recruitment matrix that for the 12 high paying least racial low diverse jobs. land scape architect. it is a robust matrix of resources in terms of bipoc professional societies. the typepipe sideline huge the racial equity communities interested not guilty pipeline. going to public high schools. talking to them about you know you can have a career of public works whether you want to be an ash arborist or accountability. it is not low it it is a high priority. that changed since 2 years ago the book was written. >> if i can make a request. >> i think that what i like ton is how many high schools what high schools when communities. again, my concern here is yes we need landscape architects and need people to drive trucks i believe one thing as a global city a responsibility demonstrating how