Sacramento County EEO Advisory Committee Meeting - April 25, 2024
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Sacramento County Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee Meeting - April 25, 2024
The Sacramento County Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee met on April 25, 2024, at 3:30 PM. The meeting focused on reviewing workforce statistics reports for three departments (Environmental Management, Finance, and First Five Commission), discussing data limitations, and planning future meetings and presentations.
Consent Calendar
- Approval of absences: Motion by Amanda, second by Patrice, approved unanimously.
- Approval of minutes: Motion by Patrice, second by Paul, approved with one abstention (Patrick) and no non-approvals.
Public Comments & Testimony
- No public comments were received.
Discussion Items
- Workforce Statistics – Environmental Management (2022): The committee reviewed the 2022 report. Highlights: 106 employees, 50% minority, 15.9% female (down from 51.3% female in 2017). Management had 6 positions, with 16.7% female. Committee members noted zero African American or Latino in management, and expressed concern about lack of data on classification breakdowns and supervisory vs. management roles. A member noted that the dashboard does not provide age or classification data for 2022, but such data will be available for 2024 onward. The committee discussed the need for more granular data to assess upward mobility.
- Workforce Statistics – Finance (2022): The 2022 report showed 203 employees, 62.6% minority, 66% female. The top job categories were office clerical (112) and professionals (43). Hires: 46 hires, 73.9% minority, 67.4% female. Terminations: 42, with top reasons retirement and employee-initiated. Promotions: 45, with 71.1% minority, 77.8% female. Some members praised the representation numbers, but others cautioned that without classification data, it is impossible to tell if diversity is limited to entry-level positions. The committee agreed to invite the Finance department to present on their practices.
- Workforce Statistics – First Five Commission (2022): The 2022 report showed 12 employees, 41.7% minority, 83.3% female. The committee discussed whether small departments should be evaluated differently. Some members argued that small numbers can skew representation and that the committee should apply uniform percentage-based standards. Others noted that based on census data, the department's representation appeared reasonable. A motion to adopt a policy of evaluating all departments by percentages (rather than size) was made and seconded, but the meeting ended before a vote was taken; the item was to be agendized later.
Key Outcomes
- Invitation to Finance: The committee agreed to invite the Finance department to present on their recruitment, training, and promotion practices, and to provide demographic data by classification (including pay scales) prior to the meeting.
- Memo to Departments: The committee will send a memo to Environmental Management noting concerns about the lack of African American and Latino representation in management and encouraging further diversity efforts.
- Future Meeting Locations: The committee agreed to hold the May 20 meeting at the 700H building (due to presenter convenience) and the June 24 meeting at Green Haven. A rotating schedule of sites will be used thereafter, with flexibility for presenter locations.
- Policy on Evaluation: A motion was made to adopt a policy of evaluating all departments uniformly based on percentages rather than department size. The motion was not voted on due to time constraints; it will be agendized for a future meeting.
Meeting Transcript
Well, welcome everybody. When I do this from here as we're moving along, but um welcome and I don't know if you're not new to anything everybody's here. Welcome back. Um please go ahead and do the roll call meeting. Start from 3 30. Here, Amanda. Here we have a question here, Patrick. Here, sir. Patrice. Here Martin. Here and Paula. Thank you. Paul Rosa Alex Bay and had a call in. Well, um, we're gonna go ahead and do any approval of member absences. You said it was uh both correctly. You said no, yeah, okay. All right. Um she sent a note here to be the excuse absence. Uh we'll go ahead and uh we can for this particular action unless people do want to do a roll call and absences. Um we can because I've been in the several meetings. We can just say that there's if there's any uh one uh that may not be be opposed to that, and if there is um you can state so if not um we can go ahead and just do an approval. Is there anyone opposed to approving any of the absences? Okay, so we have actually I need to take a motion. So can I have a motion to approve? So moved. Okay, and have a second, please. Thank you. Okay, so Amanda first hangs second. Is there anyone uh opposed uh to an approval? Okay, uh staying you upstaying, yes. Okay, okay. All right, okay, approving of the minutes. Um so I just I have been in a lot of meetings. We can do that that way, but uh it depends uh how people are telling about that. So has everyone had a chance to take a look at the minutes of the last time and you're waiting for me. I apologize again. All right, if we have so can we have a motion to approve the minutes or any changes? Well, do a motion in a second if there's any discussion, we'll do that. So first okay. Patrice, yes, okay, second. Okay, Paul second. Okay, any discussion of the minutes hearing and seeing okay. Um are there any uh non-approvals or abstentions for the minutes abstention patrick exchange? Any non-approvals, anyone motion carries, hearing seeing okay, all right. Thank you all. All right, uh public comment. Do we have any public comments? No one's on the line. No public, but one day we might so but there. Okay, so seeing and hearing no public comments, we'll go on into uh unfinished business.
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