Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston and the board that Alston runs have both been very, very serious lately about increasing the number of Minority and Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) entities that the county does business with.
Guilford County government has had a particular focus on the “minority” part of the equation since those numbers, in particular, have been very low for the county over the years.
The Board of Commissioners has paid roughly $300,000 for an MWBE study, welcomed a new MWBE Department director, purchased new comprehensive software to aid MWBE efforts – and the board also nearly tripled the department overnight by adding five new MWBE Department positions in one fell swoop in the middle of the fiscal year.
Now the county is taking its effort to the public.
On Monday, April 17, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., women and minority-owned business leaders, and anyone else who wants to know more about the program and its offerings, are invited to an information and connection event.
The Guilford County MWBE Department and East Greensboro NOW for a free information session to learn about the technical and financial assistance that the county is offering to MWBE business owners.
The event will be held at Barber Park Event Center at 1502 Barber Park Dr. in Greensboro.
According to promotional materials from the county, Guilford County’s MWBE Program is designed “to advocate for Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise businesses and provide equal access to opportunities to participate in all aspects of the County’s contracting and procurement programs, which include Professional Services; Goods and Other Services; and Construction.”
The notice adds, “This program is dedicated to the success of minority and women owned businesses.”
More information about the county’s MWBE program can be found at the following site…
https://www.guilfordcountync.gov/mwbe.
Racist idiots…
Racism at its best.
Democracy will cease to exist when you take from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not…
LBJ said it in the 60’s give black people what they want and they will be democrats for life so here we are mwbe nothing but a number of more freebies for minorities
The voters who bothered to show up are responsible for all of this.
Why not have this on the West side of Greensboro and not the east skip
This city is 42% black it doesn’t matter what side it’s on
41 % live in east Greensboro just drive through and you’ll see what I mean
Thanks Skip for Dumping $300,000 in the drain because you want someone to hold your hand and take hard earned tax money from people in Greensboro and the county!!!!!! You and the dumb bunch of ignoramuses that have nothing better to do than throw $300000 away!!!!! Please people in Guilford County let’s get rid of all Democrats on this board and get someone that has some semblance of how to manage a budget . These people have to be the worst of the bunch( this current commissioner board), but I will have to say the ones to blame are the people in the county who voted these people in . I have lived in other cousin NC and the annihilated was up to 1,000 dollars My current tax bill is over $3000 per year. Just do this group of nincompoops can spend $300000 on a meeting to get minorities to get on board to work in the county. It seems that the people in the finance group are doing a good job of sending info to the groups (minorities).
This is just another way that this commission board is incompetent. Vote them out ( current board).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The problem is social programs. If you will pay people to sit on their ass and pump out dependents they will vote for YOU! It’s REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION !!!! These entitled oppressed victims of a free market society are the lifeblood of socialist democrats. These aforementioned victims will always vote for whoever will GIVE THEM THE MOST OF MY MONEY!!! (AKA democrats) End social programs! I’ll be the first to tell you that sometimes folks will need a hand to get back on their feet but it should have never become what it has become which is for some a generational way of life or an entitlement. I could go on but I have to GO TO WORK…
Good luck!!
Skip it’s been reported that at the bid opening you weren’t happy with the number of minority ( black) contractors with the lowest bid and you asked Samet to increase the black numbers and supposedly a Samet rep said “This is racist bullsh$$”. Now this may be accurate or not but I suspect it is (I know the person who spoke out) what you asked is not only unethical but illegal. Just go ahead and call it what it is. Reparations. You are personally a Racist piece of horse crap. You’re supposed to represent All Guilford County taxpayers not just the black ones. Stand up and do the right thing because skip KARMA is a bitch