Instructions Regarding Affirmative Action In Contracting - City of South Bend, Indiana

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INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN CONTRACTING CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA The City of South Bend, Indiana, has adopted an affirmative action ordinance which commits the City to procedures which will facilitate equal business opportunity for minorities and women in all City contracts. We hope that these instructions will enable You to comply with the requirements of the ordinance. I. DEFINITIONS For purposes of these instructions, the following definitions app Y: (a) Affirmative action means the official program or policy of the City of South Bend which gives preferential treatment to one or more groups of people who are classified according to race, sex or national origin; (b) Bidder means any person, partnership, corporation, association or joint venture submitting a bid for a City contract; (c) City means the City of South Bend, Indiana. (d) City contract means anv contract awarded by the City of South Bend or any of its agencies, boards or commissions for work, labor, services, supplies, equipment, materials or any combination of the foregoing. (e) Contracting agency means the City department, agency, board or commission having the power to award a City contract. f) Contractor means any person, partnership, corporation, association or joint venture which has been awarded a City contract. g) Discriminatory practice means the exclusion of a person or persons from equal employment opportunity or equal business opportunity because of race, sex or national origin. h) Minority means any person who is: (1) Black (all persons having origins in any of the Black African racial groups not of Hispanic origin); or (2) Hispanic (all persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race). Form AAC Page 1 of 6