Mayor Eric Adams and a host of city officials celebrated a bill package signing Monday that marked the latest local initiative to improve diversity at the FDNY.
The five-bill package will require the department to create a plan to recruit and retain diverse candidates, retrofit firehouses to serve a mixed gender workforce, implement diversity trainings, report on firehouse demographics, and submit a public report on complaints filed with the Department’s Equal Employment Opportunities Office.
“Our FDNY frontline heroes keep our city safe day in and day out, and today we take another step to strengthen and support New York City’s Bravest,” Adams said. “New York City’s diversity is our strength, and these five bills will help build a more inclusive FDNY that is reflective of the millions of New Yorkers we serve.”
Adams’ signature came Monday after the City Council passed the package in early November with no member of that body voting against any of the bills.