Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA)

The Racial Equity Impact Analysis helps the City consider racial equity outcomes when shaping policies, practices, programs and budgets.

Combining 2021 and 2022 Parkway Paving Program - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

Public Safety	No
Housing	No
Economic Development	No
Public Services	No
Environmental Justice	No
Built Environment & Transportation	Yes
Public Health	No
Arts & Culture	No

Workforce	Yes
Spending	Yes
Data	Yes
Community Engagement	Yes

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

The desired outcome of this program is to rehabilitate Theodore Wirth Parkway in an expedient timeframe and to leverage city resources to efficiently complete work on the parkway system.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

Trey Joiner, Associate Transportation Planner who manages the parkway paving program PV001 from Public Works’ Transportation Planning and Programming Division, in coordination with the Park Board.

Section 2: Data

LIST THE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONSTITUENTS IN THOSE AREAS:

Category	Count	Percent
Race & Ethnicity (2015-2019)
White	8,083	22.8%
Of Color	27,416	77.2%
Black or African American alone	17,885	50.4%
American Indian and Alaskan Native alone	656	1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander alone	4,715	13.3%
Two or more races alone	2,090	5.9%
Hispanic or Latino	3,185	9.0%

What does available data tell you about how constituents from BIPOC communities currently relate to the desired outcome as compared to white constituents?

The desired outcome of this council action is to accept and appropriate funds from a future programing (2022) for the Parkway Paving Program (PV001). This project is located in neighborhoods with the majority of the population being Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

What data is unavailable or missing? How can you obtain additional data?

No additional data is needed to accept and appropriate the funds from the 2022 program for the Parkway Paving Program

Section 3: Community Engagement

Using the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, which participation strategy(s) was used when engaging those who would be most impacted?

Inform	Yes
Consult	No
Involve	No
Collaborate	No
Empower	No

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

No engagement has been completed specifically for the advancing of future funds for the Parkway Paving Program; however, Public Works annually and continuously engages with residents, via site visits, calls, and emails in the annual programming of PV001.

Section 4: Analysis

How does the outcome for this ordinance, amendment, or policy help the city achieve Racial Equity?

By advancing future funds for this program, the City is able to expeditiously rehabilitate the parkway system in this area of the city.

Section 5: Evaluation

How will impacts be measured? What are the success indicators and process benchmarks?

As part of this advancement of funds from the future year, there are no plans to measure the impacts of this specific action over time.

How will those who are impacted be informed of progress over time?

As part of this advancement of funds from the future year, there are no plans to measure the impacts of this specific action over time and subsequently inform the community of progress.

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