Posted on 09/01/2017 3:04:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WOODLAWN — The Obama Foundation is asking the four construction teams vying to build the presidential center to set high standards for local and minority hiring.
The foundation announced four finalists Thursday morning and also the standards for hiring the foundation is setting for each.
Each of the firms has to lay out how it would meet a commitment to awarding half of its subcontracts to “diverse suppliers,” which expands the normal definition of firms from women and minority-owned firms to also include veteran-, disabled- or LGBTQ-owned firms.
As the definition of inclusive hiring is broadened, the foundation is specifying that at least 35 percent of contracts need to go to minority-owned firms.
Each of the firms also has to detail how it plans to recruit and retain employees from Woodlawn, Washington Park, South Shore and the South and West sides more broadly.
“The Obamas chose to develop the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side to give back to the community that has given so much to them. With this [request for proposals], the foundation has established significant and aggressive goals for diversity and inclusion,” said David Simas, CEO of the foundation. “We are committed to creating meaningful opportunities and jobs for local businesses, community members, and underrepresented communities in the South Side and throughout Chicago, and using our platform to pioneer new approaches to engaging minority populations in the construction industry to provide not just short-term jobs, but long-term professional opportunities.”
It’s not clear what would happen if the firm chosen fails to live up to the set standards. Community groups continue to push for a community benefits agreement that would codify the standards and create repercussions if they’re not met.
The firms being considered include:
• Clark/Smoot Presidential Builders, a partnership that includes Clark Construction Group, Smoot Construction Company, GMA Construction Group and Bowa Construction
• Lakeside Alliance, a partnership that includes Turner Construction Company, Power & Sons Construction, UJAMAA Construction Inc., Brown & Momen Inc. and Safeway Construction Company
• Power Mortenson Partners, a partnership that includes Power Construction Company, Mortenson Construction, GMA Construction, Bowa Group
• W.E. O’Neil Construction Company
Now that’s a predicament! Didn’t consider that one, did he.
Diversity = No White People.
Obama is a Kenyan racist.
I would question the structural safety of any building that has diversity as the top requirement for selecting builders, and I’m a licensed Professional Engineer.
This just means no white people. Unless they are willing to lay at his feet in complete fealty.
A company that has plenty of illegals on the payroll with all the usually fraudulent paperwork.
Sure I’d like to see that as well. America will have its first mud hut library.
Seriously...will anyone other than the mentally ill and America-haters go to this “library”? What a joke...a “library” for someone who never wrote anything in his worthless, parasitic, malignant criminal life. LOL
Celebrate diversity by never pointing out that someone looks or acts different. /s
There should be no library. soebarkha was, is and will always be a fake president who was never qualified to be so by birth. Just look at his Occidental records. That’s the reason they’re under lock and key.
“I guess one of Barry’s bathhouse buddies owns a construction company.”
Well, at least they’ll be up on how to install glory holes in the Men’s Room.
Democrats are noted for announcing with great fanfare a program as if they invented it and are the first to deploy it. For instance, Dwight D. Eisenhower pushed through the first Civil Rights legislation in nearly 100 years — since Reconstruction. His successor in the White House, Kennedy and his acolytes, took credit for Civil Rights for the next five decades.
Anyway, Obama diversity is hiring both Marxists and Leninists, with a few hardcore Maoists and Islamonazis for added spice.
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