Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA)

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

Revised Comprehensive General Emergency Management Plan - 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	No
Arts & Culture	No

Workforce	Yes
Spending	No
Data	No
Community Engagement	No

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

The Emergency Operations Plan will increase the City's capabilities to respond to natural and human-caused hazards that impact the City of Minneapolis.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

Office of Emergency Management staff.

Section 2: Data

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

This will impact all wards, communities, and socio-economic and demographic groups in the City of Minneapolis.

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

Disasters are often seen as being equal-opportunity events that impact people regardless of age, gender, race, or economic status. While true to a certain degree, research has shown that disasters often disproportionately affect the most vulnerable members of our communities, particularly those that do not have the necessary resources to cope with and recover from such events. The Emergency Operations Plan will enable the City to better address the unmet needs of all members of the community affected by an emergency or disaster through the collaborative efforts of its departments and community, county, state, and federal partners.

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

Due to Minneapolis' risk profile and history of past emergencies and disasters, data specific to Minneapolis is limited. Further research is needed to better understand disaster impacts on Minneapolis through the lense of racial equity and BIPOC communities.

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?

The Emergency Operations Plan provides the organizational and procedural framework for City departments and community, county, state, and federal partners to respond to natural, technological, and human-caused hazards. Due to the inward-facing nature of the plan, as well as the sensitive security information it contains, the public was not engaged.

Section 4: Analysis

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

This Plan will support the City's efforts to deliver efficient and effective City services to the public when responding to natural, technological, and human-caused hazards.

Section 5: Evaluation

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

The work performed by the Office of Emergency Management will be captured and measured as part of the annual performance measurement and improvement tracking and reporting at the end of each year. Measurements will focus on the trained staff's ability to effectively perform the tasks they have been assigend during an emergency or disaster.

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

The work performed by the Office of Emergency Management will be reported in an annual performance report to City leadership through the Minneapolis Results and budget processes.

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