Restler agrees with Stevens on serious inequity in MWBE contracting
Restler says progress is real but the city is not doing enough to contract with Black and Latino-owned firms. He calls it a serious inequity and says the committee wants to work together on new engagement ideas and results.
Got it.
And that is why she's the vice chair of this committee, because she's spot on.
And it's right.
The data, you know, I think it's important to recognize progress where it's happened, and we see things moving in a positive direction.
We're not doing enough to contract with black and Latino-owned firms, and it's a serious issue.
It's a serious inequity.
It's one of the core purposes of this program existing and the work that we do in this area, and it's not happening.
It's not happening at the scale that it should.
And so I appreciate the data.
council members' commitment to kind of say, let's come up with new ideas for engagement.
Let's help get people actually into city contracts.
And, you know, I don't doubt the commitment of the MWB office and the administration.
And we really want to see results.
So we're eager to work on this together.
Hopefully we can, you know, some of the things that we've discussed today, I think, can get us there.