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CITY OF COLTON AGENDA REPORT For Council Meeting of January 18, 1994 QF -S-411D. o U,n Orao rata 1887 a Jfoi� TO HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DATE: January 6, 1994 FROM: GORDON R. JOHNSON Personnel Director SUBJECT: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION COMMITTEE UPDATE On October 26, 1993, you approved and adopted the 13 recommendations as presented in the Affirmative Action Task Force Report and Recommendations. You also appointed the following individuals to an Affirmative Action Committee and directed them to look at all of the recommendations and prepare recommended actions for consideration by the full City Council: Councilmembers Abe Beltran, Deirdre Bennett and Connie Cisneros plus Mel Albiso, Julie Biggs and me. The Committee held its first meeting on November 4 and directed me to, first, prepare a draft job description for Affirmative Action Officer with a proposed salary range and, second, prepare a draft plan to implement the Affirmative Action Task Force's 13 recommendations and send them to the Committee by November 30 for their review prior to agendizing it for full Council consideration. I prepared a draft job description and salary range for Affirmative Action Officer and, after gaining approval from the City Manager, placed in on the Council's agenda for December 7, 1993. No action was taken on this item. The City Manager directed me to not place this back on your agenda until February, 1994, during the meeting where you will be conducting the mid -year budget review. After gaining approval from the City Manager, I sent the Committee a draft plan to implement the Affirmative Action Task Force's 13 recommendations on November 30, 1993. The Committee held its second meeting on December 6, 1993, at which time there was considerable discussion about my Affirmative Action Officer staff report as well as the hiring authority of the City Manager. Mel Albiso provided the Committee with a typed response to my draft plan recommendations dated December 6, 1993. There was virtually no discussion of my November 30 draft. Subsequent to the December 6 meeting, the City Manager instructed me to incorporate Mel's responses in my draft plan and submit it to the Affirmative Action Committee for review. I have nearly completed it and will shortly be forwarding it to the Committee. In response to one of Mel's recommendations, I sent a memorandum to John Hutton concerning the adoption of a disadvantaged small minority women business program. In addition, in response to your direction at your December 7, 1993, meeting, I recommended to Ken Peterson that he contact the Purchasing Offices of other area public agencies who have active Affirmative Action Programs to see if they have incorporated any Affirmative Action language in their Purchasing Ordinances.