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BR Metro Council Funds $300,000 “Disparity” Study of City Contracts
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:30 pm
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:30 pm
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Freiberg desperately trying to make up for that COA vote. Loupe still hasn’t been informed he’s on the city council. Has he ever made a meeting?
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The East Baton Rouge Metro Council agreed Wednesday to fund a $300,000 disparity study of City Hall's purchases, contracts and bids with small and disadvantaged businesses, a move Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome's administration said could lead to more local companies doing government business.
Slightly more than 9 percent of City Hall's 1,115 purchase orders in 2016 went to small and minority-owned businesses, said Chief Administrative Officer Darryl Gissel. Nearly half of the East Baton Rouge Parish population is black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2016 figures.
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Broome's administration had said the study could give the city-parish the legal framework to adopt goals for inclusion of certain types of businesses in its contracts. The study will focus on minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, small businesses and medium-sized businesses.
After the Metro Council voted 8-to-3 to approve the study, the audience broke into applause.
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Republican Metro Council members Barbara Freiberg, Dwight Hudson and Scott Wilson voted against the study, saying they had problems with the price tag. Councilman Chandler Loupe was absent.
Freiberg desperately trying to make up for that COA vote. Loupe still hasn’t been informed he’s on the city council. Has he ever made a meeting?
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Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:34 pm to TigersSEC2010
Summary
We want to do business with everyone except white male own businesses regardless of the increased cost.
We want to do business with everyone except white male own businesses regardless of the increased cost.
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:36 pm to TigersSEC2010
With racists, expect racism
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:37 pm to TigersSEC2010
Who gets the 300k to do the study?
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:42 pm to TigersSEC2010
Being a consultant who does studies for government must be the most lucrative profession in Louisiana
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:46 pm to TigersSEC2010
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Slightly more than 9 percent of City Hall's 1,115 purchase orders in 2016 went to small and minority-owned businesses, said Chief Administrative Officer Darryl Gissel. Nearly half of the East Baton Rouge Parish population is black,
I could not give much of a frick about half the population being black. I would be somewhat interested to know what percentage of business owners are black. And I would be totally interested in not wasting my tax dollars on this dumbass study.
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:48 pm to TigersSEC2010
:facepalm:
If the St George campaign were active, SWB would be driving people straight into their arms.
If the St George campaign were active, SWB would be driving people straight into their arms.
Posted on 2/14/18 at 11:56 pm to TigersSEC2010
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Posted on 2/15/18 at 12:01 am to YoungManOldMan
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Posted on 2/15/18 at 12:22 am to YoungManOldMan
If anyone wants to bid on a city contract you can just register and you will be informed via email whenever any rfp comes out. Black white or blue you can bid as long as you qualify.
This is a water of money. Spend 20k on advertising to let people know. It’s not that big of a deal.
This is a water of money. Spend 20k on advertising to let people know. It’s not that big of a deal.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:26 am to TigersSEC2010
So expect them to pay these small businesses a decent amount of money only for those businesses to be in over their heads and not to complete
Posted on 2/15/18 at 4:40 am to Martini
Yea, but they're going to structure the RFP to give higher scoring to DBEs, same thing Mitch started doing.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:06 am to TigersSEC2010
Sounds like racism
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:11 am to Nado Jenkins83
After not getting jobs, or going to school, or taking care of their families, or their homes, or themselves, or anything in their immediate vicinity for generations, let the mayor do her little study. She ain’t did nuffin to y’all.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:14 am to TigersSEC2010
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Broome's administration had said the study could give the city-parish the legal framework to adopt goals for inclusion of certain types of businesses in its contracts. The study will focus on minority-owned businesses,
So weave and rim shops
ETA: weaves for Broome and rims for the city admin vehicles
This post was edited on 2/15/18 at 5:17 am
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:16 am to Four Leaf Tayback
Don’t forget Cd’s and cassettes.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:24 am to Four Leaf Tayback
quote:Don't forget about barber shops. The ones that spell cuts with a z. Saw one on old Hammond by O'Neal the other day called distinguished cutz.
So weave and rim shops
And I'm not knocking the people who are trying to better themselves. But I am knocking an incompetent, racist mayor who's only out to serve "half the population" of EBR by paying for things by taxing the other half of the population.
Come back Kip and run again! We need you.
This post was edited on 2/15/18 at 5:25 am
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:29 am to Fa Sheaux Breaux
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Come back Kip and run again! We need you.
Agreed. Broome really is the worst.
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:31 am to TigersSEC2010
Democrips
Posted on 2/15/18 at 5:55 am to TigersSEC2010
This is BR moving towards a Fair Share program. Many southern cities have pretty stout DBE/HUB participation requirements including Houston at 23.7% goal which is always surpassed.
My biggest issue is the cities that have the programs and don’t enforce the actual participation of the small businesses. In these cities the politically connected minorities simply collect a paycheck a say “deal with it” to the prime contractor. At least in Houston the participation from them is on the mark as most small businesses here do great work.
We just participated in a bi-annual disparity study for Houston.
My biggest issue is the cities that have the programs and don’t enforce the actual participation of the small businesses. In these cities the politically connected minorities simply collect a paycheck a say “deal with it” to the prime contractor. At least in Houston the participation from them is on the mark as most small businesses here do great work.
We just participated in a bi-annual disparity study for Houston.
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