Hartford Financial Services Group fire safety grant

Hartford Financial Services Group fire safety grant - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

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

Workforce	No
Spending	No
Data	No
Community Engagement	Yes

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

This grant will give the Minneapolis Fire Department the opportunity to provide smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to the deaf and hearing impaired throughout the city.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

Luke Scardigli - Finance Director, MFD

Casidy Anderson - Staff Captain, Community Outreach, MFD

Section 2: Data

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

This grant will impact all wards.

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

There should be no different outcomes based on race related to this grant. All funding from this grant is earmarked for the hearing impaired, regardless of race.

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

N/A

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	Yes
Collaborate	No
Empower	No

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

We want to make sure the citizens of the city (primarily the hearing impaired) are infromed and aware that the Fire Department is including them when planning ways to improve the safety and education necessary to improve fire prevention.

Section 4: Analysis

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

This is more about helping the hearing impaired community to achieve equity rather than a race based initiative.

Section 5: Evaluation

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

Measurements will be difficult. In this case, we are hoping to prevent casualties from incidents in homes where the hearing impaired live.

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

N/A

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Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA)