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Austin honors 20 years of diversity in contracting; SMBR names 2025 awardees
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Austin proclaimed a Diversity Contracting Day and honored the 20th anniversary of its Small & Minority Business Resources program; SMBR director Edward Campos named this year’s awardees and highlighted the program’s history of recognizing more than 150 contractors and firms.
Vanessa Fuentes, Austin’s mayor pro tem and council member for District 2, opened a December City Hall ceremony by proclaiming a citywide Diversity Contracting Day and marking the 20th anniversary of the Small & Minority Business Resources (SMBR) program. "Small and minority owned businesses are not only vital to our local economy, they are the driving force of innovation and resilience," Fuentes said as she read the proclamation.
Edward Campos, director of the Austin…
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