Posted on 05/05/2006 4:23:29 PM PDT by freedomdefender
SACRAMENTO -- A state agency won't use race anymore when awarding contracts.
The California Department of Transportation made the decision because it could not show minorities suffered discrimination in contracting, Caltrans said.
The department said it took the step early this week after a recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set out that standard.
Caltrans has had a goal of giving 10.5 percent of its federal contracting dollars to disadvantaged businesses. ...At stake is $5.1 billion for 1,400 transportation projects throughout California over the next five years.
"Caltrans funds so many different projects around the state that we saw this as a major problem, and it was contrary to what voters did when they adopted Prop. 209," which outlawed race-based hiring practices in the state, said Sharon Browne of the Pacific Legal Foundation. The group had threatened to sue Caltrans over its disadvantaged business program.
Leaders of the California Legislature's Asian, black and Latino caucuses have written to the department to voice their displeasure with the new policy.
LMAO, and WHO will be doing most of the Manuel labor?
Quotas? We don't need no stinking quotas!
Racial preferences ARE racist.
That's him! Good work...
Under DBE (Disadvantage Business Enterprises), MBE (Minority Business Enterprises)& WBE(Women Business Enterprises) are a subcategory of DBE
But for a Business to be certified as DBE they do not need to be a Minority or Women owned business (However Minority & Women business assume to be disadvantage they do not have to prove it... if you were say disabled you would have to prove disadvantage before becoming a DBE )
However the state of Calif. has been taking the Federal DOT money and then under the 3% to 5% DOT DBE requirement the state would only consider the subcategory MBE's or WBE's
About dang time, 10 years after we passed the California Civil Rights Initiative.
Now all contracts will go to the legitimate low bidders, the businesses with the lowest costs......those that hire nonunion illegals.
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