We need a city "golden fleece" award for city employees that waste money on idiotic projects.

I can also recommend other projects for this invaluable group of denizen representatives, such as a committee to investigate inequality in Jersey City, as well as the related plight of fat people that can't afford a gym.

You don't need a committee to waste money and time on this issue . Then again maybe thats the solution . Quick fix : get a list of what the JC school system buys and open a company that provides it.

Eugene McKnight is on this committee. That tells you the value of its final product.

Diane. Cut the crap. Tell us what you think is needed.

One of the authors of the study hard at work.

Diane Coleman to head Jersey City committee studying exclusion of minorities from commerce

By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
on December 22, 2014 at 12:31 PM

City Councilwoman Diane Coleman will chair a committee to determine the best ways to implement the recommendations of a study that found a paucity of minority-owned businesses winning contracts with the city.

Coleman will join fellow council members Joyce Watterman and Daniel Rivera on the 13-member committee, formed to examine a disparity report, also known as a Croson study, that analyzed city procurement trends and practices from 2002 through 2008.

The study found few businesses owned by minority women won city contracts and that developers awarded tax breaks were not hiring minority- or women-owned businesses. The disparity had a "negative effect on the earnings of African-American, Hispanic and other minority firms," the study found.

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