The City of New Hope strives to be a great place to live, work and play for all people. We pledge to treat everyone equitably, respectfully and without bias regardless of their age, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, income, disability or other differences. The City acknowledges inequities exist in our community based upon these or other differences. To succeed in New Hope’s mission and vision and to accomplish our goals, we commit to ensuring outcomes are not dependent on the above differences.
We commit to the following to ensure equity in our community:
- We welcome and value people of all characteristics, backgrounds and experiences.
- To work toward having a workforce that reflects our community and our commitment to diversity.
- Creating a community where all members are connected to each other with a sense of shared purpose in achieving the city's mission, vision and values.
- To evaluate decisions with equity in mind.
COMMITMENTS
The City of New Hope commits to the long-term work of becoming culturally competent, welcoming and inclusive of all people both within and outside our organization in the issues and challenges we engage in. This includes (but is not limited to):
- Supporting, engaging, serving and including people with different racial, ethnic, economic, age and religious backgrounds as well as those with varying physical abilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.
- Entering intercultural relationships with humility; prepared to listen, learn and follow others' lead in taking actionable steps to adapt our methods and practices for mutual benefit.
- Incorporating this equity statement into policies, practices and procedures at an organizational level.
- Ensuring City services are accessible and welcoming to all community members.
- Reaching beyond our traditional constituencies and familiar stakeholders to seek input from a wide range of voices and backgrounds.
- Recruiting, hiring, retaining and developing a culturally competent staff whose demographics more closely reflect the community.
- Recruiting, retaining and developing culturally competent commission members whose demographics more closely reflect the community.
- Investing the required resources to ensure the successful execution and maintaining of the plan. Resources include, but are not limited to, funding, personnel, time, education and training.
- Forming a working group of employees whose goal is to increase diversity in the organization, implement the above commitments and ensure the City is a welcoming, attractive and inclusive environment for all.