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Debate over Greer Sports & Events Center: easements, utilities and calls for more minority contracting oversight
Summary
Council advanced several easement and utility actions for the Sports & Events Center and debated whether to add a digital monument sign. During public forum, a resident accused city procurement of sidelining local and minority contractors; council asked staff for more detail and staff said they would return with designs and refined cost estimates.
Greer
City Council on March 24 took several procedural steps to support ongoing construction at the Sports and Events Center while fielding a public accusation that minority contractors were being excluded from work on the project.
Public forum: Jesse Peter Marsh, a Greer resident, used the public-forum portion of the agenda to say the Sports and Events Center bid process had a stated 20% local/minority participation goal but that, in his view, minority-owned businesses had not received meaningful portions of the work. Marsh said he had spoken with Harper Construction and other contractors and asserted that many local minority firms had been left out; he asked the mayor and city manager to explain what the city is doing to ensure equitable contracting. "I'm not calling a person a thief, but I said there's a fly in the milk," Marsh said, adding he had asked…
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