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NEWS / The Charlotte Post
Thursday, November 20, 1997
Lack of highway contracts questioned
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abled white males.
Alston isn’t the only person
wondering why hlack contractors
aren’t getting a larger percentage
of the work. Last month, state
lawmakers asked DOT to update
a disparity in contracting study
that was originally completed in
1993.
Some state ofiBdals, however,
defend current efforts to increase
hlack participation in the high
way bonanza and contend that*
North Carolina is doing aU it can
to give black contractors opportu
nities to make money off road pro
jects.
Douglas Galyon, for example,
believes the state is doing an
admirable job of including black
contractors in the industry.
Galyon is the Greensboro repre
sentative on the state transporta
tion board.
“The department has done an
outstanding job in that area,” he
said in a brief telephone inter
view. Galyon was asked if he had
received any calls from people in
his district regarding the partici
pation of black contractors in
state projects. He said he had not.
Furthermore, he said he was not
personally worried about the dis
parity.
“The state has a very specific
procedure” that ensures black
firms get a shot at work, but
declined to describe that proce
dure.
Construction comparries owned
by white women actually do more
business with the state than firms
owned by black men, according to
George Gibson, head of DOT’S
contractual service division.
Firms owned by ethnic minorities
participate in only 3.9 percent of
all federally funded road work on
state highways while firms owned
by white women were awarded
7.1 percent of those jobs. On fed
eral projects, a black woman is
counted as an ethnic minority, not
a woman.
According to Gibson, the level of
minority participation expected is
a “goal, not a quota.” The goals
are set by a comrrrittee, which
takes into consideration such
variables as the avafiahUity of cer
tified contractors in the area
where the road work is to be per
formed. A goal compliance com
mittee, which includes the chief
engineer and a representative
from the state Office on CivQ
Rights, reviews contracts award
ed to determine if the prime con
tractor exerted a “good faith
effort” to irse black-owned subcon
tractors.
He added that the state does not
keep statistics that indicate
whether black firms are used pri
marily as prime contractors,
resporrsible for the complete pro
ject, or subcontractors who do a
portion.
“The disparity study may deter
mine that there aren’t sufficient
Haitians dispute American policy
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that standard was toughened.
Last Wednesday, Congress
granted permanent residency to
thousands of Nicaraguans,
Cubans, Salvadorans,
Guatemalans, and Europeans,
imder the comparatively lenient
rules that existed before 1996.
But about 14,000 Haitians were
left out, although President
Clinton and many spiritual lead
ers have asked House Speaker
Newt Gingrich for parity.
“The Haitian community is
nobody’s constituency,” explained
Ahx Cantave, president of the
Haitian studies Association at
UMass-Bosten. “Haitians are per
ceived as non-entities unless
there is a crisis, or unless we cre
ate a crisis. Otherwise, we are for
gotten.”
The 14,000 Haitians who fled a
1991 military coup were allowed
into the United States when the
Immigration and Naturalization
Property revaluation meetings
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actual property taxes.”
'The tax rates that apply to the
new assessed values will be set in
June and will be reflected in tax
bills that will be mailed in August
and September.
'Tax office persormel are going te
corrrmunity meetings now to help
property owners understand the
intricacies of revaluation and
answer questions about the
process, something that can’t be
done in an office.
“Having conducted previous
revaluatorrs, I can attest there
will be numerous questions from
property owners about how the
revaluation is conducted and the
timing of each stage, including
opportunities for appeals,”
Petoskey said.
“Instead of merely sittitrg in our
offices with calculators and com
puter printouts, we’re goitrg out
into neighborhoods to meet with
people face to face to address as
many questions and concerns as
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views placed them in danger in
their native land.
Hundreds landed in Boston.
“We are happy that some of our
fellow Central Americans may be
able to adjust their status based
on being victims of Communism,”
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