EAG: AUSTIN, Texas – The Austin Independent School District plans to spend nearly $1 million to set and track race- and gender-based quotas for district contractors.
Austin school board members on Monday approved a new “Historically Underutilized Business” program to replace the district’s voluntary process for soliciting contract for work on school projects and other contracts, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
“This is a historic step for the district,” said Nicole Conley, AISD CFO who headed an advisory committee pushing for the program. “Although many school districts in Texas have minority purchasing programs, AISD has joined the likes of Dallas and Houston by taking the additional step to create a narrowly tailored HUB program … to help broaden opportunities for local businesses and ensure our contract awards reflect the markets, communities and families we serve.”
For the first two years, the program will apply to school projects funded through bonds, but district officials plan on applying it districtwide in September 2018. The goal is to increase the percentages of woman- and minority-owned businesses doing work in the district. MORE
They are so stupid. Don’t they know that all that businesses do is hire a woman or minority to be the front for the company so they can claim to be woman or minority owned? It just ends up being another financial drag on business and accomplishes nothing.
Oh, that’s a good one. Female construction workers? In my entire life, I’ve met one. She lived in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn and she used to walk her dog on my street.
Gosh, was that girl buff. I saw her once in short-shorts and a tank top, and I bet she could have lifted a Volkswagen and carried it across the street.
Austin. That seething cesspool of liberalism. A stinkweed among the roses.
keep austin stupid.
They got AIDS wrong.
Just recently, my two sons told me they are finished with Austin and are moving well outside the city. They say people escaping Calipornia are moving there after selling their nothing-burger homes for a fortune and then buying really nice homes in Austin for a fraction of what they made. That’s driving the cost of homes up as they are willing to pay 20% and more over the asking price of the homes. Then, they expect the city to fund all kids of crap like multi-million bike paths and the tax rates are sky-rocketing. I just spoke to one of my neighbors the other day for the first time and found out he moved here from Calipornia because he simply couldn’t afford to live there any longer and still afford to pursue his hobby of restoring Pontiac GTO’s. The only thing he misses is the nice weather.
Back when I played in a tuxedo band we used to do Christmas parties for corporations. One was a large construction company in Seattle which was banned from getting government contracts because of racist policies. That night we had a substitute keyboard player who was really black. We played to a all-white audience and the poor guy was getting glaring looks all night. But he never complained and did a stellar job!
this is gonna be fun …. ’cause I guarantee ya probably at least 85% of construction workers, particularly in Austin, are Third-World, Spanish-speaking, semi-skilled & unskilled workers from Mexico & Central America
… so their schools will be crumbling within 15 years, instead of the usual 50+
but hey, at least they’ll be ‘diverse’ in their homogeny
So the guys started drywall, electrical, plumbing, moving companies, etc. in their wives names and got preferential treatment.
More bullshit.
This LGBT/gender thing is passing through much faster than I thought. First gay marriage and now construction workers need to identify as female in order to find work.
Watch for an influx of queer Back Hoe operators
So does the school district have the same policy for its sports teams?
So will a 100% Mexican drywall company be forced to hire a gaggle of gringos?
Keep Austin Weird. It’s the only microaggressive explanation.
Maybe the school district could place racial quotas on school basketball, football, and field and track teams too..oh wait.