Oregon county closes door on nearly $1M-a-year DEI office, opts to ‘focus on merit’ instead.
“[We] believed that it was really important to focus on merit, fairness and equality, not to racialize the workplace and the county,” Clackamas County Commissioner Ben West.
Doing away with the DEI office allows the county to focus on a “diversity of ideas” rather than identity politics, he argued.
Joining a growing trend, Clackamas County plans to make better use of taxpayer funds by re-allocating the money to more productive activities.
Molière Celebration of Clackamas County!
P.S. – We would appreciate it if the folks at the Clackamas County HQ could tell us how an office with only 2 reported employees was budgeted for the reported $830,000 [numbers derived from the posted news article].