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A minority contractor will be forced to comply with a 50 quota system on this job. Now, we hope the unions will supply him in for this job. Some of the subcontractors may have difficulty getting men, but we as the owners are going to force them to

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comply. The contractors, I understand that you do anticipate trouble. Well, as of this date, uh the contractors associations, a large number of have signed the Alameda County plan and the community in good faith has signed the Alameda County plan. But as of last monday, I was

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told by the attorney that no unions had signed this agreement. We feel the unions are dragging their feet on signing and ratifying the Alameda County plan. Do you expect that this will set any precedent in the Bay Area regarding construction in minority Housing. This project will

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set a precedent the Bay Area and that it will prove that minority contractors can build large projects and can develop them And use all their workers to get the job done. This has been a complaint in the past by large developers that said that minority contractors

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were not qualified to do jobs of this size. This job is over $1 million dollars and the minority contractor has been bonded and we expect it to go ahead on schedule. This particular project is 79 low cost housing units for the people of West Oakland that

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will be completely constructed by minority contractors. The nonprofit sponsor is the local minority contractors association. This is the first time in this country that the minority contractor association is the sponsor of one of these type projects.