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Paris, Texas Diversity Initiahve Update June 2011 Tonight's Coals 1. Answer Questions 2. Provide Accurate Information 3. Move Forward issue: ~ do we need to spend any monev on a diversity initiative? 1. Learn fram other besr practice communities. 2. Assess awide range of opinions and perspec[ives about our cunent situation. 3. Develop a focused implementation plan for the future. 4. Be proaclive and change the percepiion and bad publicity we have received as a racist camrnunity. Stop and counteract negative outsider influences that create conflict, strife and disagreements in Paris. 6. Show that we are not as we have been portrayed. 7. Create a business cnvironment to attract new industry and jabs. 8. Show that our diversity is our strength and teach that to our youth. 9. Work together ta understand our differences and rnake them our competitive advantage. 10. Help small businesses with training and tools that help them recruit and keep a diverse workforce. Purpose of the Diversity RFP 1. Engage employers and connmunity to be proactive and together an issues of race and diversity Sn Paris, Texas. 2. Conduct a 3rd party assessment (interviews, focus groups, surveys, forums, data gathering). 3. Identify and Showcase Best Practices We Can Learn From, 4. Provide Recommendations, Action Plans, lmplementation Activities at a Leadership and Youth Summit. 5. Develop a Workplace Diversity Toolkit and Training Program for Small Business. Issue: PEDC Stole Ken Rogers' Ideas. 1. FEDC engaged with the Diversity TaskForce and NAACP Leadership in response to the Turner Industries crisis in May 2010. We have been warking with them since then. 2. PEDC's Plan of Work includes eonducting both Diversiry and Youth Summits. 3. The Diversity Taskforce supports hiring a third-garty consultant ta deveiap a plan for the future. 4. PEDC staff prepared the scope of work for the RFP. 5. We used Goagle searches far "diversity summit," "diversity taskforee," etc., for ideas from other communities, 6. The RFA scope of wark is not anybody's intellectual property. 7. The RPP includes language that the proposals and materials provided by Bidders in response to the RFP become property of the fiinding organizations. 8. The RFP gives PEDC the right to act in it's best interest at it's sole discretion. 9. How the individual companies deliver their services is their intellectual pxoperiy - their "know-how" and their ideas of "how-to" are uniquely theirs. We get the inte]Iectual property of the company we hire. The RFP Proeess l. WF Salutions and PEDC cooperated to leverage resources and coordinate effarts, 2. Cammittee Review of Written Proposals. 48