Record #: R2014-358   
Type: Resolution Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 5/28/2014 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Finance
Final action: 5/20/2015
Title: Chicago Board of Education, Community College District No. 508, Chicago Park District, Chicago Transit Authority, and Chicago Housing Authority urged to adopt diversity in non-minority owned firms disclosure requirements
Sponsors: Thomas, Latasha R., Austin, Carrie M., Burnett, Jr., Walter, Ervin, Jason C., Graham, Deborah L., Mitts, Emma, Willie B. Cochran, Chandler, Michael D., Lane, Lona, Holmes, Natashia, Brookins, Jr., Howard, Harris, Michelle A., Sawyer, Roderick T., Dowell, Pat, Beale, Anthony, Foulkes, Toni, Thompson, JoAnn
Attachments: 1. R2014-358.pdf
Related files: R2015-407
 
RESOLUTION
 
WHEREAS, this City Council now has under consideration an ordinance entitled the Diversity in Non-Minority-Owned Firms Disclosure Ordinance; and
 
WHEREAS, the purpose of that ordinance is to document whether non-minority-owned and controlled professional service firms involved in discretionary city transactions are availing themselves ofthe talents of members of minority groups and fostering their professional development; and
 
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of this City Council that all governmental bodies serving the people ofthe City of Chicago should adopt similar policies; now, therefore,
 
BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Mayor and members ofthe City Council ofthe City of Chicago, assembled this 2jfday of  I^A frpJ   , 201^ do hereby encourage the respective governing bodies of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Community College District • No. 508, the Chicago Park District, the Chicago transit Authority and the Chicago Housing Authority to adopt, in the appropriate form, and to enforce procedures and reporting requirements equal to those contained in the Diversity in Non-Minority-Owned Firms Disclosure Ordinance;'and
 
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that suitable copies of this Resolution be presented to