Missoula City Council hears JEDI Proposal and Update
Partial audio from the meeting is included below.
The council heard from the Director of Missoula Parks and Recreation, Donna Gauckler, as well as Ashley Brittner Wells, the National League of Cities JEDI Coordinator.
Brittner Wells provided a timeline for the JEDI project.
“In November of 2020 City Council hired the Listening Engaging Action Reflection Network or LEARN Missoula,” said Brittner Wells. “Through their research they seek to determine the level of municipal systems awareness of implicit and explicit biases and inequities toward BIPOC (Black and Indigenous People of Color) residents and how they use data to make changes. They re centering BIPOC voices through research, interviews and data collection.”