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Council Member Won Asks About Disaggregating MWBE Data

0:42:08

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Council Member Julie Won inquiries about the processes for disaggregating data on minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs), focusing on transparency for businesses owned by women of color. The discussion covers how the city sets specific goals for different ethnic and gender groups within the MWBE program and the availability of disaggregated data in local law reports.

Speaker 2

0:42:08

And can you please expand on how you are aggregating the data for minority and women owned businesses.

0:42:14

How are you disaggregating?

0:42:15

Because you were just testifying also for DDC.

0:42:19

That you were looking at black owned businesses, Hispanic owned, or Latinx owned businesses.

0:42:26

How are you disaggregating that even further for women of color owned businesses.

Speaker 4

0:42:36

I'm sorry.

0:42:36

Can you repeat the question?

0:42:38

How are we disaggregating the goals?

Speaker 2

0:42:40

For diversity within diversity, how are you aggregating the data to separate out and provide transparency publicly for women minority owned businesses.

Speaker 4

0:42:50

Yes.

0:42:51

Thank you so much for the question.

0:42:53

So I did see the way that we go about setting a goal.

0:42:57

Its pro form a to said disaggregated goal for 7 years now that we haven't set a global goal.

0:43:02

We've set disaggregated goals targeting specific ethnic and gender.

0:43:07

That's because about 8 years ago, we realized while, you know, Globally, their the MWD program was progressing.

0:43:16

We there were groups specifically black and Hispanic vendors were not doing as well.

0:43:22

So when we get for example, when we work with the structure program, we get a scope of services that will be required.

0:43:33

And we examine the SBS database for availability of vendors, specifically black and Hispanic vendors.

0:43:41

Once we determine the availability and capacity, then we a goal for the for black vendors, for Hispanic vendors, and for Asian vendors, as well as women owned businesses.

Speaker 2

0:43:54

But how are you separating out women black owned businesses?

0:43:58

Women Asian owned businesses?

0:44:00

Women Hispanic owned businesses out of your data?

0:44:03

Is it?

Speaker 6

0:44:05

So chair 1 and all of the quarterly local L1 reports that come out in the year end 1, they're disaggregated by all of those data points.

0:44:11

So all of the ones that are enabled by local law 1 and the council legislation, those are the data points that that are result in the local law 1 report quarterly and yearly.

0:44:19

Those are disaggregated goals in there.

0:44:21

You can find all that data there.

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