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CREO expands contractor compliance monitoring; seeks debarment proceeding for unpaid wages
Summary
The city’s Civil Rights & Equal Opportunity office told the committee it is expanding monitoring of public contracts, reviewed nearly 10,000 certified payrolls in one month and is initiating a debarment proceeding for alleged subcontractor wage nonpayment; the hearing was delayed to April 30 to allow the contractor more time to respond.
Kansas City’s Civil Rights & Equal Opportunity office (CREO) summarized an expanded compliance program for publicly funded construction projects and told the Finance Committee it has initiated a debarment proceeding against a contractor accused of failing to pay subcontractor wages.
CREO director Jaime Ginn reported the office monitors workforce and contracting compliance across hundreds of city projects. In February alone the office and its outside compliance contractor reviewed roughly 10,000 payroll records, performed 15 site visits and conducted 58 worker interviews; CREO said it currently tracks about 695 city…
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