Columbia Training ordinance (§ 19-180)

Female and minority employees as well as others will be encouraged to increase their skills and job potential through participation in training and education programs, and the city will regularly review and help to assure that such programs, when established or provided, are available to employees on an equal opportunity basis. The city will seek to have female and minority employees take advantage of training opportunities in numbers that are representative when compared to the size of the work force, and when training is available generally to other employees in the same classification within the parameters of departmental operations and an individual's capability to benefit from various types and degrees of training which may in some cases be significantly advanced and/or cumulative in nature.