Sioux City Times

The Sioux City Council and members of the NAACP have worked together over the last several months to explore approaches to strengthen equality, diversity and inclusiveness in the community and city government, and the city council recently passed a decision to form the Inclusive Sioux City Committee to continue their work, KCAU 9 News reported.

“We have long embraced our community of Sioux City as being one of diversity, and now we’re formalizing a lot of those steps that have been taken in the past and we’ve stepped it up to make it more formal, and actually have some structure to it, so that everyone, everyone in the City of Sioux City will have a seat at the table to provide their input and develop opportunities, more opportunities than what we have today,” Sioux City Mayor Pro Tem Dan Moore said.

Members said that the committee will consist of 11 members and will represent different groups including religious groups, the LGBTQ+ community and people from different races to include their input.

Sioux City NAACP President Ike Rayford said the committee is a way to make sure that people of all groups feel included in the community.

“This is just not a race thing, this is a cultural thing. This is an opportunity for communities of different heritages just to be represented so that it just looks like what Sioux City, what the residents of Sioux City, looks like. It’s not even just racial things, but like, sex, men and women are they represented well,” Rayford said.