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South end Redevelopment Commisson Special Meeting - April 20, 1978 6. NEWS BUSINESS, Continued collateral with the bank so they can borrow money to pay their bills - in case they are not substantially funded. We go out of our way to encourage assist minority contractors residing in target areas. Mr. Scott: OK, maybe I was misled somewhere. My concern was not be- cause the company was not considered a minority contractor, because I don't believe there is any way you could look at the papers and tell if it was a minority contractor. I am speaking of employees. We don't really want to be known as a minority contractor. I don't believe there is anything in the bid package that would tell you if the bidder was a minority contractor or not..which I believe is good. Mr. Wiggins: This is supposed to be the same deal for everybody. All the contractors try to hire minority employees where they can. The contractors are supposed to set up a target of what they propose to do, including hiring and training of minorities. One of the objects is to train more people in the skills and particularly, those people in the area we are servicing, and minority people. If, in truth, everybody is operating under the same set of rules and operating in the same gashion, then one will balance the other. One of the jobs of the Equal Employment Opportunity Office is to check this out and make sure that the contractor is operating that way. I suppose if you were down to the point where you have two firms bidding against each other and both came up with an equal bid, then you would get into these other factors and weigh one against the other. I don't believe I have ever seen that happen. Mr. Scott: That was my only question. If one had one minority em- ployee and the other had three, the latter would be accepted. r. Wiggins: I have never seen that happen. What I have seen happen s that we have not taken the lowest bid on some occasions because he low bidder had a bad performance record. Ir. Butler: Mr. Wiggins, using your example, if mployees are minorities and the other contractc ew hundred dollars over your bid and 50% of his inority employees, that would not (favor him) s he bidders were meeting the affirmative action r numbers is not weighed by the commission or, dvisory board, the neighborhood advisory board, say 20% of your r comes in with a employees are o long as both of plan ... the percentage I presume, by the in their recommendation. . Robinson: We would have no way of knowing what the employee keup is. b) Commission approval requested for Section 312 Loan Applications for the following: Mr. Thomas C. Anders $6,200.00 18 /SOU- 2/23/1 -76 -78 2101 S. Kendall St. - 14 -