a. Generally. The city of New York, recognizing that racial inequity respects no boundaries of age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, immigration status, disability, education, or economic status, and that addressing racial equity can also address inequity affecting people based on other characteristics of identity, will undertake a process of citywide and agency planning and reporting with a goal of eliminating racial inequity. The citywide and agency racial equity plans shall be guided by the principle of equity with a focus on racial equity as defined in section 3400.
b. Citywide racial equity plan. The mayor shall issue a biennial preliminary citywide racial equity plan and citywide racial equity plan. The purpose of the publication of a preliminary citywide racial equity plan shall be to provide an opportunity for feedback from the public and from elected officials before publication of the final report. The preliminary and citywide equity plans shall include, at minimum:
1. Overarching citywide goals and strategies to improve racial equity throughout the city government's policymaking, operations, and workforce, including the equitable distribution of benefits, of supportive services, and of environmental burdens by neighborhood;
2. Performance and outcome indicators for citywide racial equity goals reported in accordance with the collection and reporting standards and guidelines, including for disaggregation of data, established by the office of racial equity pursuant to paragraph 2 of subdivision d of section 3401;
3. Neighborhood-level outcome indicators that permit the assessment of year-over-year change in wellbeing outcomes and in the level of disparity on a neighborhood level;
4. Maps of needs-based priority neighborhoods as identified by the office of racial equity; and
5. A statement from the mayor describing the status of racial equity in New York city; explaining why the citywide racial equity plan selected certain strategies, indicators, and goals. The preliminary racial equity plan shall also include the mayor's response to the commission's submission of proposed community racial equity priorities.
c. Agency racial equity plans. Every covered agency shall be required to develop biennially a preliminary agency racial equity plan and an agency racial equity plan, guided by the principles and values of equity as defined in section 3400, that will be incorporated into the citywide racial equity plan. The agency racial equity plan shall include, at a minimum:
1. Agency-specific goals and strategies for the short-term, to effectuate changes within the following two fiscal years, and for the long-term, to improve racial equity and reduce or eliminate racial disparities within the agency's jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, how and where the agency provides services, resources, and access; and
2. At least one outcome indicator that reports on an outcome as determined in consultation with the office of racial equity, disaggregated based upon the standards set forth by the office of racial equity.
d. Racial equity planning schedule. The city's racial equity planning shall be completed according to the following schedule:
1. Community racial equity priorities. Not later than October 1, 2023, and on or before October first of every second year thereafter, the commission on racial equity, as established in section 3404, shall make public and publicly disseminate the community racial equity priorities, in the manner provided in paragraph 1 of subdivision i of section 3404 of this chapter and submit to them to the mayor and the office of racial equity.
2. Preliminary citywide racial equity plan. Not later than January 16, 2024, and on or before January sixteenth of every second year thereafter, the mayor shall make public a preliminary citywide racial equity plan, and submit it to the speaker of the council, the commission on racial equity, the public advocate, and the comptroller. Biennially, not later than such date as the mayor may direct, each covered agency shall submit to the mayor its preliminary agency racial equity plan, which shall be included in the preliminary citywide racial equity plan.
3. Reply to preliminary racial equity plan. Not later than February 15, 2024, and on or before February fifteenth of every second year thereafter, the commission on racial equity shall make public the commission's reply to the preliminary citywide racial equity plan and provide it to the mayor and the office of racial equity.
4. Citywide racial equity plan. Not later than April 26, 2024, and by April twenty-sixth of every second year thereafter, the mayor shall make public the citywide racial equity plan and submit it to the speaker of the council and the commission on racial equity.
5. Evaluation of citywide racial equity plan. Beginning in 2024, and every second year thereafter, not later than three weeks after the mayor's submission of the citywide racial equity plan, the commission on racial equity shall publish and widely disseminate its evaluation of the citywide racial equity plan.
6. Preliminary racial equity progress report. Not later than January 16, 2026, and on or before January sixteenth of every second year thereafter, the office of racial equity shall publish a preliminary racial equity progress report, with data for indicators from the current equity plan for at least the prior fiscal year.
7. Final racial equity progress report. Not later than September 1, 2026, and on or before September first of every second year thereafter, the office of racial equity shall publish a final racial equity progress report that, for the prior two fiscal years, updates data for indicators from, published racial equity plans, updates maps of neighborhood-level indicator data, and provides an assessment of the extent to which the city and agencies are progressing towards goals included in the prior citywide racial equity plan.
e. Coordination of reporting. The mayor may, for any other equity reporting mandated by local law, consolidate that reporting into the racial equity plan reporting process as provided in this section, provided that the requirements of that local law reporting, aside from the date it must be completed, are met as part of consolidation.
(L.L. 2022/121, 12/2/2022, eff. 12/2/2022)