Deputy Speaker Williams questions OMB on internal workforce diversity and pay equity
Williams asks whether OMB has identified disparities in its own workforce and what corrective actions are considered. Solomon discusses professional development, the OMB Institute for analyst advancement, and commitment to diverse leadership, while Williams asks if the agency's leadership reflects the city's diversity.
Okay, just a few more questions because one of the great things
about the racial equity plans here.
You have like a dual role because you have this role because you manage the budget to sort of hold agencies accountable, but you also are an agency.
And so just some questions specifically about your agency and how you are going to advance racial equity just in the functions of your agency.
So the agency's long-term racial equity goals, including advancing pay equity and incorporating the city's true cost of
living measure into pay parity analysis, has OMB identified any existing disparities within your agency's workforce and what corrective actions are being considered?
We are looking at ways to achieve, I mean, the pay equity piece is also a citywide effort.
With our agency ourselves, we're looking internally to be able to say, how could we offer more opportunities, either promotional opportunities or hiring opportunities, to make sure that we have
an effective and diverse cross-section of employees across our agency.
We spend a lot of time in professional development as well.
I know my first deputy director has been big on that long before I even got to OMB.
Having an OMB Institute to basically make sure that there's a pathway, an upward pathway for OMB analysts to be able to develop in the agency and get promoted.
So we're committed to that work and making sure that the agency makeup is representative of the diversity we'd like to see that exists, frankly.
Yes.
So do you, to that point, do you believe that your agency, its leadership structure reflects the diversity of the city it serves currently?
Do you believe that your agency reflects that?
I think we have a diverse leadership in the agency.
I think that we look for the best and the brightest, but we also look to have, again, a leadership structure that is representative of the diversity that we see in our daily lives.
And so I'm committed to that, and the opportunities that may exist will foster and make sure that we continue to build a solid OMB team that is also diverse.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, great.
Majority whip hangs, followed by Councilmember Brooks-Powers.