Action: C-2 | Longmont Indicators / Sustainability Plan

C-2Develop an inclusive standard of equitable access and opportunity for all residents that enhances capacity and is implemented uniformly across all city departments, policies, programs, and outcomes

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This strategy will ensure that residents share collective burdens equally and have equitable opportunity to fulfill their needs, advance their well-being, and participate in the generation of knowledge, decision making, and implementation of outcomes that affect them.

In late 2019, the City launched an internal equity team to create an organization and community where one's identity does not predict one's outcomes and that actively fosters social and racial equity. There are currently 28 members from across all departments. Regular membership election occurs yearly.

The Equity coordinator is working with divisions to develop equity plans and address equity staff capacity within teams and division. The Equity Team contributed to the advancement of equitable processes and procedures through the development and facilitation of discussions, training, and implementation of equitable tools.

2025 Equity Team projects and programs:

Social Equity Coordinator hired March 2025
Updated form and responded to Equity Issue Form submissions from staff.
Developed Training Platform plan for 2026 citywide staff training.
Created and facilitated "Seeing the Invisible: Developing and Equity Lens" training, which will serve as the foundational Equity training for all staff.
Facilitation of "Equitable Customer Service Training" to departments/teams within the City of Longmont. (Utility Billing, SOL volunteer program)
Introduced Equity Impact Assessment Tool to be incorporated in Project Management process
Recruitment for new iteration of Equity Team for term 2026-2028.

Tasks

What has been done?

12/31/2024
2024 Equity Team Projects and Programs
In 2024 the Equity Team launched the city-wide employee training:
Cultural Attributes Training: The purpose of this training is to ensure that all city employees understand and embody the cultural attributes that reflect our community's values and diversity. This initiative, launched by the equity team under the leadership of our city manager, is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance employee retention. By fostering an inclusive and culturally competent work environment, we aim to create a supportive atmosphere where all employees feel valued and respected.
In conjunction with the training the Sense of Belonging Survey was created with the intended to gauge how employees feel the city is doing at embodying the employee attributes set out by the City’s Culture Change Task Force in 2015. Alongside these city attributes—respect, integrity, service, enjoyment, communication, accountability, creativity, teamwork, action, balance, appreciation, leadership, and learning—many are intrinsically connected to fostering equity across the organization. The Equity Team aims to utilize these findings to assess the sense of belonging within the workplace and to prioritize employee attributes.
12/31/2023
2022 and 2023 Equity Team Projects
In 2022 and 2023, the Equity Team worked on a variety of projects including:
Courageous Conversation trainings were offered to all staff, including a longer training for the Equity Team and leadership. The trainings were designed specifically to help engage, sustain and deepen interracial dialogues.
Responded to Equity Issue Form submissions from staff. These submissions have developed into projects including developing necessity boxes for all staff which became available in 2023.
30% of staff participated in an Equity training in 2023.
11/30/2021
Launch Internal Equity Team

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Timeline

12/2019 → Continuous

Initiation period

Responsible organizations

Contact persons

Angel Sanchez
Social Equity Coordinator
Community & Neighborhood Resources
Adriana Perea
Community and Neighborhood Resources Director
Community & Neighborhood Resources

Information updated 01/30/2026

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Tasks

What has been done?

2024 Equity Team Projects and Programs

2022 and 2023 Equity Team Projects

Launch Internal Equity Team