NAACP Opposes Nominee for City Panel
The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People and minority business leaders are criticizing Mayor Dick Murphy’s decision to nominate a building industry lobbyist to a city commission that oversees equal-opportunity policies.
The City Council is to vote next week on the nomination of Brad Barnum, a lobbyist for the local chapter of Associated General Contractors, to the Citizens’ Equal Opportunity Commission, which advises the council on contracting fairness on city jobs.
The group successfully sued the city in 1993 to overturn a construction contracting program aimed at ensuring that minority- and female-owned businesses received work on city projects. Since then, the number of minority- and female-owned businesses receiving contracts has fallen from about 20% to less than 5%, according to city reports.
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