City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0228R

• File #: 06-0228R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Making Central Garage More MBE/WBE Inclusive
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/30/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/30/2006
• Title: Informational Hearing - Making Central Garage More MBE/WBE Inclusive FOR the purpose of requesting the Chief of Compliance for the Department of Public Works, the Contract Administrator for the Department of Public Works, the Director of the Bureau of Purchasing, and the Director of Mayor's Office of Minority Business Development brief the City Council on ways that they feel Central Garage contracts can be made more inclusive of MBE/WBE businesses.
• Sponsors: President Young, Paula Johnson Branch, James B. Kraft, Keiffer Mitchell, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector, Kenneth Harris, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Helen L. Holton, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Central Garage, MBE-WBE, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/30/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
10/30/2006	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Young


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Making Central Garage More MBE/WBE Inclusive

FOR the purpose of requesting the Chief of Compliance for the Department of Public Works, the Contract Administrator for the Department of Public Works, the Director of the Bureau of Purchasing, and the Director of Mayor's Office of Minority Business Development brief the City Council on ways that they feel Central Garage contracts can be made more inclusive of MBE/WBE businesses.
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In compliance with the provision of Ordinance 00-98, the Mayor's Office of Minority Business Development is charged with the mission of ensuring that the City of Baltimore is prepared to create new opportunities for minority-owned (African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, or Native American) and women-owned (51% ownership) businesses. The Council oversight continued with a request to the Baltimore City Delegation to the 2001 Maryland General Assembly to sponsor legislation to amend State law to provide for a Maryland Minority and Women Business Enterprise program that is consistent with the more progressive Baltimore City policy. Each year the Council continues to oversee the City's compliance with the minority and women's business program's annual goals.

Central Garage, under the auspices of the Department of Public Works' General Services divisio...