The Stafford County Government is one step closer to creating a new advisory board that would focus on discrimination and human rights violations.
A charter for the new group states the advisory board would provide recommendations to the Stafford Board of Supervisors about how to better deliver government services to the county minority community, as well as suggest community events that would work to "celebrate diversity, and inclusion, and equity county-wide."
A committee of three Stafford Board of Supervisors members has urged for the creation of a new Stafford County Diversity Advisory Coalition. The new advisory board could be approved at the Sept. 1 Board of Supervisors meeting.
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