Nathan Wiebe, chief of investigations for the Office of the City Auditor, filed two complaints with the city’s Ethics Review Commission this week against members of advisory commissions. Wiebe filed a complaint against Isabel López-Aguilar, a member of the Hispanic/Latino Quality of Life Resource Advisory Commission and program coordinator at the Latino HealthCare Forum. The […]
Hispanic/Latino Quality of Life Resource Advisory Commission
The Hispanic/Latino Quality of Life Resource Advisory Commission recommends programs and policies to the Austin City Council with the goal of alleviating economic and social inequities that confront Hispanics and Latinos in the community.
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Newly created Equity Office to address lack of equal representation in city government
Austin is a majority-minority city, or, in other words, a city where no demographic group forms a majority of the population. But that status presents considerable challenges when it comes to making sure Austin’s diverse population is represented equally in city government. In a move to address long-running issues of inequality in Austin, city officials […]