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Petitioners seek removal of affirmative-action language from county tax abatement ordinance; committee sends measure forward with no recommendation
Summary
Two county residents proposed removing affirmative-action and DEI-related requirements from the county's tax abatement ordinance; the committee forwarded the petition to the full council with no recommendation after extensive debate and procedural concerns.
Petitioners Amy Drake and Andy Rutten presented a proposed revision to the county tax abatement ordinance that would remove language requiring affirmative action, minority hiring goals and associated documentation from abatement applications.
The petitioners framed the change as an effort to remove what they described as preferential or discriminatory hiring requirements from the county's abatement code. "When we encourage minorities over, I guess, majority populations, that's reverse discrimination also,"…
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