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| 昆士市長柯奇(Tom Koch)。(檔案照片) |
該委員會的任務包括調查昆士市的招聘作業，在接觸所有市民上的努力程度，加強市府個部門和公眾之間的關係與溝通，是否需要聘請一名全職的多元化/平等/包容員工等。
柯奇表示，一個半世紀以來，昆士市一直是來自世界各地移民定居的地方，美國也是不同國家，族裔，宗教，種族及語言的熔爐。昆士市定期自我評估表現，以確保能夠持續滿足市府所服務所有人們的不斷衍化需要。
柯奇還補充道，昆士市的最大資產就是人民，學生們在進出教室的上學受教育過程中，吸收了不同文化，傳統，觀點，及經驗而大為受益。
昆士市的人口非常多元，有41%自認為是亞裔，黑人，美國土著，西班牙裔或多族裔。根據昆士市公校系統數據，有60%的學生是非白人。麻州政府也因此認可昆士市為少數族裔佔多數的城市。
統計數據顯示，38%的昆士市家庭，家中至少有一人說一種英語以外的語言。33%的昆士居民出生於另一個國家，這比州政府的平均數據高二倍，比大波士頓/劍橋市都會區高一倍半。
柯奇市長表示，設立這”多元，平等及包容委員會”，他不僅只是要在如何服務大眾上做有意義的改進，更要傳達所有居民在昆士市內都受重視的訊息。他說，”我認為我們在這方面做得很好，但永遠都可以再改進”。
Below is from the City of Quincy:
Mayor Koch
Forms Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
QUINCY, MA
March 24, 2021 Mayor Thomas Koch announced that he is establishing a Mayoral
Commission to study the
city’s
performance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The committee will be tasked
with investigating the city’s
recruitment
and hiring practices, public outreach efforts to all populations, access to
public facilities, enhancing relationship
and
communication between City government/departments and the public, the need for
a full-time
Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
Officer, and maintaining/creating a welcoming environment for all people.
“For more
than a century and a half, Quincy has been a city where immigrants from around
the world have settled,” said
Mayor Koch.
“We are a melting pot of different national origins, ethnicities, religions,
races, and languages. Its important
that we
regularly self-assess our performance to ensure that we continue to meet the
evolving needs of all the people
whom we
serve.”
The
committee will be tasked with investigating particular areas of importance and
making recommendations for how the
city can
best serve its entire population. Mayor Koch will request that the committee
conduct their work through the
Spring and
Summer and have recommendations available for implementation not later than
this Fall
Added Mayor
Koch, “Quincy’s greatest asset is its people, whether they be lifetime Quincy
residents, first-generation
Americans,
or anywhere in between. Our schools benefit greatly from our diversity as
students absorb different cultures,
traditions,
perspectives, and experiences as part of their own education inside and out of
the classroom. Our business
community
also benefits greatly from the entrepreneurial spirit of many of our
first-generation Americans. We want to
make sure
Quincy remains a welcoming community to people from around the globe.”
Quincy’s
diverse population includes 41% of the population that identifies as either
Asian, Black, Native, Hispanic, or multiracial.
More than
60% of the Quincy Public School students identify as an ethnicity other than “white”
according to QPS
and DESE
data, making Quincy a State-recognized “majority-minority” district.
Statistics
show that 38% of households in Quincy have a language other than English spoken
in the home. More than 33%
of Quincy
residents were born in another country, which is more than double the State
average and one-and-a-half times
higher than
the greater Boston/Cambridge Metro Area.
Added Koch,
“My goal for this Mayoral Commission is not just to make meaningful
improvements in how we serve the
public but
to also send a message that all residents are valued in our community. I think
we do a decent job with that now
but we can
always improve. I want to thank the folks that volunteered to serve on this
important commission and I look
forward to
their recommendations.”
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