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County legislators adopt tougher contract law
Daily Record Staff//June 18, 2014//
The Monroe County Legislature has passed a bill sponsored by Legislator John Lightfoot, D-Rochester, to increase the participation levels for minority- and women-owned businesses working on county contracts.
The revised levels would require that 12 percent of county construction contracts go to minority-owned businesses and 3 percent to women-owned businesses. The previous goals were 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively.
The proposal was unanimously adopted at the June 10 meeting of the Legislature.
The legislation also requires the county executive to file a report with the legislature before April 1 of each year detailing the actual participation statistics for the preceding year. The county’s Department of Environmental Services estimated that nearly $1 million additional dollars would have been available to minority- and women-owned businesses if these goals were applied to last year’s Capital Improvement Program.
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