Jackson County Missouri - File #: 5123

• File #: 5123
• Version: 0
• Name: Repealing Code related to Minority and women owned business
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/30/2018
• In control: Justice and Law Enforcement Committee
• On agenda: 7/30/2018
• Final action: 8/13/2018
• Title: AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 629. and 664., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to minority- and women-owned business enterprise programs, and enacting, in lieu thereof, four new sections relating to the same subject.
• Sponsors: Alfred Jordan
• Indexes: JACKSON COUNTY CODE, MINORITY-AND -WOMENT-OWNED BUSINESS
• Related files: 5107, 5087, 5059, 4636

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/13/2018	0	County Legislature	adopt	Pass
8/13/2018	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda
8/6/2018	0	County Legislature	perfect	Pass
8/6/2018	0	County Legislature	Consent Agenda
8/6/2018	0	Justice and Law Enforcement Committee	recommend for perfection	Pass
7/31/2018	0	County Legislature	Go To 1st Perfection	Pass
7/30/2018	0	County Legislature	assign to committee

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


Title
AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 629. and 664., Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to minority- and women-owned business enterprise programs, and enacting, in lieu thereof, four new sections relating to the same subject.


Intro
ORDINANCE NO. 5123, July 30, 2018

INTRODUCED BY Alfred Jordan, County Legislator


Body
WHEREAS, by Ordinance 4636, dated June 30, 2014, the Legislature did authorize the adoption of an interim minority- and women-owned business enterprise (MBE/WBE) program; and,

WHEREAS, Ordinance 4636, as codified in section 664. of the Jackson County Code, directed that on or before the sunset date of December 31, 2017, reports be compiled and reviewed to determine whether the County has a compelling interest in continuing narrowly tailored remedies to redress discrimination against MBEs or WBEs so that the County will not function as a passive participant in a discriminatory marketplace; and,

WHEREAS, section 664 also directed that qualified experts be retained to prepare a disparity study regarding the existence and effects of any history of discrimination in contracting; and,

WHEREAS, on August 9, 2017, the County's retained expert, Colette Holt and Associates, presented its report to the County; and,

WHEREAS, by Ordinances 5059, dated December 4, 2017, 5087, dated March 19, 2018 and 5107, dated June 25, 2018, the sunset date of the interim ordinance was extended to allow additional time to review these reports and draft an appropriate permanent ordinance; and,

WHEREAS, the qualified experts now recommend the revisions to the interim ordinance, incorporated herein, be adopted as the permanent ordinance; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Enacting Clause. Sections 629. and 664., Jackson County Code, 1984, are hereby repealed, and four new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 604....