CONCORD — The 2023 recipient of the City of Concord’s prestigious Jo Atwater Continuous Core Values award is Alicia Broadway. This is the highest honor bestowed upon a city employee.
Gastonia hires diversity coordinator
Gastonia has hired a person to help employees and the community with diversity, equity and inclusion issues.
Cherie Jzar, 44, began work with the city on Jan. 4. A certified city planner, Jzar has more than 18 years of experience in community planning, outreach and engagement, public relations, neighborhood development, and program management, according to the city. She will earn a salary of $92,000 a year with the city. We re trying to make sure we re doing everything in a straightforward way, said Mayor Walker Reid, and that we are considering diversity, equity and inclusion in all of our decision-making.
Paying attention to diversity and inclusion issues has become a growing trend around the nation and Gastonia wants to be transparent in the way it conducts business, Reid said.