Please note: this meeting has been deferred. Details Meeting Name: Committee on Civil and Human Rights Agenda status: Deferred Meeting date/time: 4/16/2018 Deferred Minutes status: Deferred   Meeting location: 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl. Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Not available   Meeting video: Not available   Attachments: Meeting Items (3) 3 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia Int 0752-2018 * Laurie A. Cumbo     Create an office of diversity and inclusion within the department of citywide administrative services. Introduction This bill creates an Office of Diversity and Inclusion within the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. The Office is tasked with compiling and releasing employment statistics related to hiring, salary and promotion of city employees, disaggregated by gender, race, civil service title classification, and other categories as appropriate. The Office is also responsible for creating directives, policies, and procedures that endeavor to diversify the city’s workforce. This includes developing recruitment, hiring, and career advancement procedures that address unconscious and systemic barriers to achieve greater diversity in the recruitment and advancement of city employees, and training city agency employees responsible for recruitment, hiring and career advancement. The Office must also submit an annual report to the Mayor, City Council and the Equal Employment Practices Commission, and make such reports available online.     Action details Not available Int 0755-2018 * Mathieu Eugene     Requiring the equal employment practices commission to analyze and report annually on citywide racial and ethnic classification underutilization. Introduction The bill would require the Equal Employment Practices Commission (EEPC) to analyze and report annually on whether agencies are meeting their racial and ethnic affirmative employment objectives and, when not, identify the underutilized groups and provide recommendations on corrective action. The EEPC would also be required to review the city’s racial and ethnic classification categories, and provide recommendations on whether such categories accurately capture the racial and ethnic composition of the city’s government workforce. Finally, the EEPC would be required to provide recommendations to strengthen agency affirmative employment plans, and improve diversity in recruitment, selection, retention and promotion of City government employees. The reporting requirement would be repealed ten years after the law takes effect.     Action details Not available Int 0756-2018 * Mathieu Eugene     Requiring DCAS to review and report annually on the city’s efforts to collect racial and ethnic demographic information, including a review of racial classification categories and employee response rates. Introduction The bill would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) to include in its annual report an analysis of employee response rates to the city’s efforts to collect racial demographic information of city employees, and whether changes in the racial and ethnic classification categories have had an impact on employee response rates. Further, DCAS would be required to review the racial and ethnic classification categories used to collect demographic information and provide recommendations for how to improve the use of such categories to reflect the City’s workforce.     Action details Not available