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Working Group: Business Development
Key Issue: ACCESS TO CAPITAL
Recommendation: In partnership with local financial institutions, local government can create a guided pathway for MWBE borrowers, which connects them first to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and then moves them to traditional financial institutions, as appropriate.
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Working Group: Healthcare
Key Issue: ACCESS & AFFORDABILITY OF HEALTHCARE TO INCREASE RACIAL HEALTH EQUITY
Recommendation: Create/amend Land Trusts and Land Banks to include use of land for community health centers in neighborhoods with high populations of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
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Working Group: Healthcare
Key Issue: PREVENTATIVE CARE TO REDUCE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Recommendation: Create a partnership between Department of Public Health, Monroe Community College, and Rochester City School District to offer free online and in-person courses on preventive health topics in community settings
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Working Group: Healthcare
Key Issue: ANTI-RACIST TRAINING & LEADERSHIP
Recommendation: Convene a partnership between BOCES and RCSD to offer the New Visions program to RCSD students to introduce them to healthcare professions and mentor them in applying for post -secondary certification and higher education programs
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Working Group: Job Creation
Key Issue: EQUITABLE ACCESS TO CIVIL SERVICE JOBS
Recommendation: Simplify and streamline job classifications and applications.
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Working Group: Job Creation
Key Issue: MINORITY-AND-WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES (MWBEs)
Recommendation: Create a local MWBE certification program that supports businesses both before and after the certification process.
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Working Group: Policing
Key Issue: HIRING
Recommendation: We are recommending the City of Rochester enhance the Career Pathways to Public Safety program offered by the Rochester City School District, and the PREP program offered by Monroe Community College to firmly establish a direct pipeline for the youth of Monroe County to enter the ranks of local law enforcement
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Working Group: Human/Social Services
Key Issue: Parking Lot
Recommendation: Poverty - the disproportionately high rates of poverty among older Black Americans and other adults of color, and their greater need for services, is primarily caused by a lifetime of higher instances of occupational discrimination, underemployment, and lower rates of intergenerational wealth, due in part to redlining and discrimination. There are no quick fixes for the massive income and wealth disparities in our society that are engineered into the fabric of structural racism and the exploitation of labor. The only way to reduce these inequities in the next generation is to correct the current compensation structure of the workforce, while noting that many older adults are currently working in low wage jobs at well beyond “normal” retirement age. Nothing 159 short of “making work pay” will solve the moral injustice of increasing poverty and disparities in the older adult population of Monroe County, a condition largely attributable to declining wages and benefits. Therefore, both county and city governments should join and lead in all efforts to bring every job in Monroe County to a level of self-sufficient wages, comprehensive medical benefits, and retirement savings paid by the employer. One such effort is RMAPI’s employer pledge. Others include the “Fight for $15” and the drive for a voluntary living wage paid by all employers.
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