TACOMA, Wash. — The City of Tacoma has completed its Economic Disparity Study. City staff will be joined by Keen Independent Research to present the study findings on September 17 at noon during the City Council Study Session.
Through its Equity in Contracting (EIC) Program, the City seeks to ensure that small businesses and businesses owned by BIPOC individuals, women, and veterans have equal access to contracting opportunities with the City. While the current EIC Program focuses on the City’s public works contracts, the City’s goal is to expand the scope of the program to include City contracts for supplies, goods, and services.
More information is available at cityoftacoma.org/disparitystudy as well as makeittacoma.com.
Community members with questions about the Economic Disparity Study or the EIC Program, or who wish to request information in alternate formats, can reach EIC Program staff by calling 311 from anywhere within Tacoma city limits, or (253) 591-5000 from anywhere else, or by emailing eicoffice@cityoftacoma.org.
Council Study Sessions are conducted in a hybrid format with in-person and virtual options to attend. Access details are available at cityoftacoma.legistar.com.
The disparity in Tacoma is between proctor district and Lincoln District, Proctor pristine with policing , no homeless, Lincoln District overrun by criminal homeless, excrement in business entryway, strong armed robbery on the streets, no support from our council, no support from our mayor and city manager!
As a tax payer, I’m more concerned about fiscal efficiency than another stab at segregation posing as equity.
Government should have an obligation first to those who fund its very existence.
Without the goose there are no eggs.
If my tax dollars to government were an actual investment, I would sell to the next sucker who would buy this lop-sided piramid.
“GSPC recommends that the City institute both annual aspirational goals and a contract goal program based upon race and gender in order to address the disparities found in the Study, provided that they do not require prime contractors to select a less qualified contractor over a more qualified contractor and do not otherwise run afoul of the language in Initiative 200.” Quoted from cityoftacoma.org/disparitystudy
So Tacoma has a race and gender based contracting system but only if the best contractor is chosen? Sound kind of discriminatory. Sounds like a contradiction is terms. Why wouldn’t the best contractor always be chosen regardless of race or gender or any alleged disparity?