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Port report finds LBE spending below goal; staff cites outreach and capacity-building steps
Summary
A contracts update for July–December 2013 shows about $8.6 million paid to contractors with roughly 14% going to local business enterprises (LBEs), below the Port Commission's 20% goal. Staff emphasized outreach, monitoring and capacity-building as remedies.
Port budget manager Megan Wallace told commissioners that, for the first two quarters of fiscal 2013–14 (July–December 2013), the port has paid roughly $8.6 million to contractors, of which about 14% has gone to local business enterprises (LBEs).
"Of the approximately $8,600,000 that we've actually paid to contractors, only about 14% of it has gone to LBEs," Wallace said, calling that figure a typo earlier in her presentation and then confirming the corrected number.
Wallace detailed delegated authority levels for the executive…
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