Summary
Berkeley is updating its city code to ditch gendered terms like 'manhole' for inclusive ones like 'maintenance hole.' It's a small linguistic shift that aims to modernize local government language.
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Impact analysis
💰Financial impact
The administrative costs to update municipal codes are expected to be negligible and absorbed into current operating budgets.
✅Who benefits
Residents and workers who value inclusive language in local government will appreciate the updated municipal code.
⚠️Who could be affected
No groups negatively affected
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