City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. today will be busy tormenting city bureaucrats in a hearing on the city’s hiring of minority firms for city contracts.
Goode’s Committee on Commerce and Economic Development will sink its teeth into the city’s annual report on utilization of minority and female-owned firms. Goode has proposed a bill with a new twist — he wants the administration to rank departments so that he knows who is doing a better job than others.
Goode was the chief critic of building trades unions on their minority makeup in a recent political confrontation over construction of the $700 million Convention Center.
He has already shown in budget hearing that he is going to be no less forgiving of department heads. The hearing begins at 11 a.m.
Later, at 2 p.m., the administration will brief Council on proposed plans to close the Robin Hood Dell East for the 2008 summer concert series. While the Dell East is in bad need of repair, Council members have demanded that the administration find an alternate site for the concerts. Council members were particularly perturbed that they got word of the closure in a budget hearing, without any advance notice.
“It’s discouraging when you hear about something almost by accident,” Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell said yesterday.
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