JEDI Strategic Plan

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Project Overview

The JEDI Strategic Plan is a comprehensive five-year roadmap that will guide the city's work to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion across all operations and community services. The plan will establish clear goals, measurable outcomes, accountability structures, and resource allocation strategies to ensure JEDI is integrated into all city decision-making and service delivery. In January 2026, the city awarded a contract to The Executive Learning Lab to conduct a comprehensive JEDI assessment and develop the five-year strategic plan. This work builds on the city's existing commitment to equity and inclusion while establishing clear goals, metrics, and implementation strategies.

Goals for Community Engagement

• INFORM: Share the purpose, goals, vision, and opportunities for participation. Receive metrics report and findings.
• CONSULT: Gather feedback through surveys, focus groups, listening sessions, and Mayor and Council responses.
• INVOLVE: Engage with internal and external stakeholders through focus groups and listening sessions to gain a deeper understanding of their feedback.
• COLLABORATE: Utilize data and feedback to co-develop priorities, strategic recommendations, engagement metrics, measures of success, and timelines for reviewing, revising, and updating the strategic plan.
• EMPOWER: Ultimately, use the strategic plan to help empower city residents to be more engaged in helping shape policies, practices, and city priorities, utilizing the results to guide equitable access to services and programs.

Key Terms

• Justice: The consistent and systematic review and modification of policies, practices and conditions that could lead to unfair outcomes in order to ensure fair treatment, access and opportunity for all people who live, are employed by or visit the city.
• Equity: The consistent and systematic fair treatment of all people through policies, practices and resources intentionally to respond to identified needs and reduce barriers.
• Diversity: The presence of differences within a group including (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, age, ability, language, socioeconomic background and perspectives.
• Inclusion: The intentional design of environments, processes, and strategies so that all people can meaningfully participate, contribute and influence decisions and outcomes.
• Accessibility: The proactive removal of physical, digital, communication and systemic barrier to that all people can access services, information and opportunities.
• Assessment: The structured process of evaluating of policies, programs, services, experiences and outcomes to understand effectiveness, identify gaps and to inform plans for improvement.
• Belonging: The experience of being valued, respected, and supported to safely, authentically and robustly participate within the city.
• Data Driven: The use of qualitative and quantitative information to guide the analysis of programming and inform the development of future policies and practices.
• Engagement and Outreach: Ongoing interaction with community members through measured efforts to inform and connect in order to ensure awareness and participation in decisions and creating solutions.
• Shared Accountability: The recognition and expectation that all levels of the organization are responsible for outcomes related to fairness, access and service delivery.
• Transparency: The open sharing of information about decisions, processes and outcomes in ways that are understandable and accessible.