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MBE /WBE UTILIZATION BOARD APRIL 21, 2014 5:30 P.M. For these minutes and future reference the MBE /WBE Utilization Board will be referred to as the Diversity Utilization Board or the DUB. Eight of the newly appointed DUB were present for this organizational meeting. Also present was Councilmember Valerie Schey who serves the Council as Chair of the Personnel & Finance Committee. Valerie will serve as liaison between the Council and the DUB. She served as Chair of the meeting. Liaisons to the City Administration also present were Jan Hall the City's Diversity Compliance Officer and George King the City Purchasing Manager. DUB, members present were Sam Centellas, Kareemah Fowler, Eric Horvath, Carrie Kosac, Cherri Peate, Joe Shabazz, Sheri Miller Story, and James Summers. Tom Capers was absent. Members of the public attending were Murray Miller and Daniel Vogt. Calling the meeting to order, Valerie Schey stated the first order of business was to elect officers for 2014 -2015. Proper motions, seconds and affirmations were followed resulting in James Summers elected to serve as President, Carrie Kosac to serve as Vice - President, and Kareemah Fowler to serve as Secretary. All candidates were unopposed and were voted unanimously. A housekeeping issue was discussed, namely who was going to assume responsibility for posting notice of meetings to comply with sunshine statues, and who specifically was to be notified and who would take and keep minutes. It was determined the City Clerk would assume the duty. Valerie then called upon Jan Hall who summarized what the DUB had accomplished in the past year. To help bring the new DUB up to speed Jan provided four handouts for the Board: 1. The current MBE /WBE Ordinance 2. Trinal's revised draft preliminary review of South Bend's Ordinance 1 -8111 dated 4 -11 -11 3. A draft of the City's Minority and Women's Business Utilization Plan drafted by the previous DUB 4. South Bend's Diversity Purchasing and Development 2013 Annual Participation Report. It was noted that some of the above material previously considered "deliberative" or for internal discussion only was now considered part of the public record. Through the question and answer process that followed, Valerie was able to identify the two tasks facing the DUB in 2014.