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San Francisco committee backs numeric point system to ease contractor outreach burden

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Government Audit and Oversight Committee · October 27, 2008
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Summary

The Human Rights Commission-backed amendment would replace rigid outreach checklist requirements with a 100-point good-faith-effort scale (80 points to pass), aiming to give small and minority contractors more flexibility to compete for city contracts.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Oct. 27 reviewed an ordinance amendment that would direct the Human Rights Commission to adopt a numeric point system measuring contractors’ ‘good faith’ outreach to Local Business Enterprises. The measure, presented by HRC Director Chris Iglesias, passed the committee forward to the full Board with a recommendation.

Iglesias told the committee the…

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