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Appendix • Develop awareness of the racial and economic disparities in the area and why those disparities exist; seek insights from experienced community leaders and organizations. • Seek out relationships with leaders from non-English speaking communities. Work with them to identify barriers to engagement and ways to bridge the divide to work with their communities. Translate materials and provide interpretation at community meetings. • Build incentives for engagement for each strategy that reduce barriers to participate. • Hold meetings at times, such as on evenings and weekends, and places that are convenient and accessible to the public, including low-income residents; whenever possible, provide childcare, meals, and transit passes. Meeting locations should be well served by public transit that runs at night and on weekends. • Establish an Equity Working Group as a way of creating an effective forum for bringing together the best thinking on equity issues through ongoing dialogue. At the same time, ensure that the recommendations of equity stakeholders do not live in a silo but are brought to other key decision -makers and advisory groups throughout the process. Ensure equity representation on technical advisory committees .75 Transparency • Structure your engagement and planning process to include substantive representation by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or organizations that represent low-income communities in various decision-making capacities. • Communicate all key decision points in the planning or policy process. 76 • Demonstrate how public input will be considered by describing how public input from outreach strategies will be used in the development, evaluation, and selection of the plan alternatives at each key decision point. • Establish regular communication mechanisms and communicate early and often to gauge progress, gain feedback on the process, share information, and gain new ideas for cultivating connections and maintaining relevance to community concerns. • Use diverse communication techniques such as social media, pictures, video, and art to help people absorb information visually.77 Empowerment: Sharing Power & Capacity • Empower community members to take an active role in neighborhood revitalization from the start of a process. This means: o Creating a participatory process for developing a shared vision for community change. o Engaging residents in documenting not only the disparities and conditions that merit change but also community assets to preserve and build from .71,79,10 • Share governance and decision-making by, for example, setting aside resources to be shaped and decided on by community members. Resources can include: grants for community engagement, land acquisition funds, the hiring of consultants, project selection, or participatory budgeting. • Structure the planning process so community organizations and leaders can: 1) Shape agendas and issues, 2) Organize and lead convenings, and 3) Identify concrete and measurable benchmarks for success, as well as the parties who will be responsible for both procedural (community engagement) and substantive (program/policy) outcomes. • Establish a system of neighborhood -level resident representation to empower/engage local neighborhoods in their own revitalization process .81 City of Redwood City Climate Action Plan 88