Serving as Southern California’s Catalyst for a brighter future, SCAG is dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout both the region and within the agency. Through ongoing policy and planning work impacting the region, and updated internal organizational practices, SCAG has made some strides in this area. In July 2020, SCAG’s Regional Council adopted Resolution 20‐623‐2, broadening the scope of this work in affirming its commitment to meaningfully advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and declaring its intent to end racial and social disparities internal to the agency, strengthen the way it engages and convenes to protect and expand community voice and power, and work in partnership with others to close the gap of racial injustice and better serve the region’s communities of color. The resolution called for the formation of an ad hoc Special Committee on Equity and Social Justice to further develop SCAG’s response to advancing social justice throughout the agency’s activities and advise the Regional Council on policies and practices to advance its resolved intentions. The staff report accompanying the resolution outlined work for the Special Committee, including: • Establishing an agency‐wide definition of “equity” to build a shared understanding; • Developing an Equity Inventory Report, which will catalogue the existing equity‐related activities throughout SCAG’s departments; and • Establishing an Equity Framework containing quantitative and qualitative indicators of existing inequities and disparities that exist in the region, and how communities and people in the region experience SCAG’s desired outcomes.

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