Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced on Thursday the creation of an Equity and Inclusion cabinet charged with tackling issues of systemic racism within city government.
The new cabinet will work to dismantle systemic racism and to achieve racial equity in all city “planning and operations,” Walsh said during his daily press briefing. The cabinet will work in concert with the city’s office of Resilience and Racial Equity, Diversity, Language and Communication Access, Women’s Advancement, Immigrant Advance and Human rights, the Democratic mayor said.
“It will apply an equity lens to every single department and service, ensuring accountability to this lens in all of our city policies and practices,” Walsh said.
Walsh also announced the creation of the Boston Racial Equity Fund, which will provide financial support to non-profit organizations focused on the needs of communities of color in the city.
The steps are in response to calls for political leaders to reform police departments across the country following the officer-involved killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, which shed light on problematic police practices and racism within departments.
The move comes a day after Boston City Council voted to approve a $3.61 billion operating budget for the coming fiscal year, which had been re-submitted with a $12 million reallocation of police department overtime funds to a variety of social programs.
“This is only a beginning,” Walsh said. “It’s a strong start, and we’re certainly not going to let up in the city of Boston.”
Walsh said on Sunday that officials have already had to cut $65 million from the budget because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier in the day, a group of protestors showed up at his Dorchester home calling for the Democratic mayor to remove police officers from Boston Public Schools and put a cap on the police’s overtime budget.
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