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OLLIE GARRETTPresident of Tabor 100

HB 2822 Hearing Photos

7Repeal I-200 Now!

6-7Yes! 200 Men

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Teresa Berntsen is the New OMWBE Director

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February 2016

2016 is ushering in a new level of enthusiasm, optimism and activism that may make it one of the best years for minority businesses. The biggest barrier we face is being targeted aggressively and there are several efforts to overturn or in some other way, eliminate Initiative 200.

In recent memory, I can’t remember a time when there was so much talk about repealing I-200. As you know this initiative has wreaked havoc on our businesses and education opportunities. Serious efforts have been launched to repeal I-200. While I don’t know how far these actions will go to overturn the law in 2016, I know that many around the region are committed to a long-term effort to eliminate this unjust law. Tabor 100 has been called to weigh in on the repeal both in the State Legislature and at the Port of Seattle.

We are proud to lend a voice to the chorus of those

calling for repeal. It will be important to broaden the I-200 repeal coalition and to approach the Legislature and/or the voters with the highest level of integrity. Given our relationships and the respect we have in the community, we will be crucial allies in the I-200 repeal effort.

Getting rid of I-200 is the single most important thing that can be done to provide more opportunity for your business. I urge all of you to join this effort by contacting our Government Relations Chair, Jamila Johnson, who has worked tirelessly to ensure Tabor 100 is registering with a meaningful voice in this effort.

We are looking forward to creating a model Business Assistance Center sometime this year and we want you to be a part of that effort as well. Contact Anthony Burnett, our Business Development Chair, for more information about this outstanding work.

As always, I urge you to “seize your opportunities.”

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MEET TERESA BERNTSEN, THE NEW OMWBE DIRECTOR

Teresa Berntsen has been appointed as the new Executive Director at OMWBE. The work of OMWBE is critically important to our administration and we believe that Teresa will be an effective, visionary leader who can manage this organization, take it to the next level, and provide the outcomes we all expect out of this agency.

The public sets high professional and ethical standards for those in public office and Governor Inslee expects all his appointees to maintain the trust of those we serve. Over the last 4 months we have seen Teresa serve with the highest of ethical principles and work hard to earn the trust of the staff, the Advisory Committee, her peers, community and business leaders, and this office. We support her 100%.

Teresa Berntsen is an experienced public sector executive who is well regarded for policy development and execution in both legislative and executive environments. With over 25 years experience, she is a trusted adviser to elected and appointed public officials.

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► ► Four Apps that can Help Save You Time

HENRY YATESPublic Affairs Chair

Whether your business is well-established or you are just getting started, your cell phone is a key business and personal life device that you rely on heavily and can save you time and money. Entrepreneur Magazine recently identified several apps that can make your business and personal life better.

Big Days allows you to remember and track your past and future events. It comes with an in-built countdown to give you a daily reminder, so you can plan things in advance. For instance, it will tell you there are X days to your business trip to Chehalis. It will tell you you haven’t had a relaxing weekend with friends/family in so many days, so you are reminded to take a break from your hectic schedule.

By logging each and every facet of your life like birthdays, anniversaries, business trips, conferences and weddings, you are better able to manage your life and work.

Inby can help keep your family happy. It informs you about all the latest sales, promotions and events taking place in your locality. The beauty of this app is that it not only focuses on big brands but on small businesses, local restaurants and shops.

With timely updates from favorite galleries, boutiques and libraries, you get points for thoughtful gifts and purchases. Also, you can stretch you dollar to the max with offers and promotions that you might otherwise miss from local businesses. You can even use Inby to pick the perfect destination for your team lunches and other meetings.

If you are like 55 percent of cell phone owners who us their phones to browse the internet, exchange emails or download apps, Launch by Quixey might be a good aid to use your time more productively. It is an Android launcher that uses Deep View Cards technology to enable you to search for information and messages that reside inside your apps and access them faster.

It helps you stay on top of literally everything in your phone, using intuitive gestures, customized folders, smart contact suggestions and app recommendations, so your freeing up time spent in navigation.

Sometimes, all you need is a simple “thank you” or another sort of heartfelt message to keep everyone happy. For example, did you forget to send a congratulatory note to your team after each project is over? Do you always forget a friend’s birthday?

Schemes not only reminds you of these events but sends scheduled messages to concerned people on set time and date. You can send an email, text, Facebook message or tweet, giving you the flexibility to keep it as short or as long as you want. The app notifies you each time a message is sent, so you can follow up with a call or another message if you want. The messages can be canceled or edited even after they are scheduled, giving you more overall flexibility.

MEET TRACEY HUNTER, TABOR’S NEW STAFF PERSON

With over 15 years of experience, Tracey has worked as an Administrative Professional and is a Microsoft Alumni. She has a background working with globally diverse teams and executives.

Her family has lived in South King County for over 20 years and she is connected to our community through various community activities. Most recently, she has started volunteering at the Housing Alliance Advocacy. Please help us welcome Tracey to the Tabor family!

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Needless to say, when the alarm clock rang at 0-Dark-Thirty on a Monday morning – I was not a happy camper. In my haze, wondering why in the world I was getting up at that hour [my Circadian rhythms are skewed towards the late night – and NOT the early rising…], I had to remind myself that I had made a commitment to actually BE somewhere by 7am. Greeting school kids. With a smile on my face.

Since I had helped to send out the call for 100 Black Men to show up at South Shore Pre-K – 8 School to meet the kids and welcome them into their school day – there was no way I was gonna miss it. Anthony Shoecraft, from the Community Center for Education Results [CCER] in Seattle, had corralled me into being there and making sure the call went out to the men of Tabor 100. Public Affairs Chair, Henry Yates, helped to blast the email invitation out to all of the Tabor members – and now it was “Show Time”!! Monday, February 8th , had been set to honor the school’s 8th annual celebration of National African-American Parent Involvement Day [NAAPID]. The goal was to have 100 Black men form a gauntlet at the school doors, and welcome every child with enthusiastic “high-fives” and words

of encouragement. Once the kids had been greeted, there would be a day-long program of activities that will engage students and attendees to strengthen school-family-community partnerships to advance student success.

My surly attitude was quickly boosted when I walked into the building to the beat of African-garbed drummers – only to see that well over 100 men had actually gotten there ahead of me. The final number would be closer to 200!! Right before the buses arrived – Shoecraft gave us our final marching orders on forming the gauntlet and greeting the students. The atmosphere was quickly becoming electric, as the gauntlet formed and a rousing cheer went up with the first busload of kids unloading. I’m sure the kids were partially thrilled and terrified – having never started a school day quite like this one!!

Over the next 45-minutes, buses stopped and unloaded, and nearly every single student entered through the double line of Black men – cheering them into the building. Professionals, Alphas, blue collar workers, Pastors, City Councilmen, Law professors and more. Some kids came with their parents – and there was more than one mother with tears in her eyes at the spectacle… Not sure who actually got more out of the event. The kids – or the 200… When the last busload had entered, the head of the gauntlet doubled back through – to also be greeted upon continued on page 5...

KEVIN WASHINGTONEducation Chair

► ► Let’s Try: Creating More Opportunities to be a part of the 200

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re-entry into the school for the group photo and program. The enthusiasm of the 200 Black men rolled on for the next 20 minutes… Couldn’t cut it, couldn’t stop it.

Rarely does such an opportunity crop up for 200 Black men to get together for something so special -- and to have such an impact on our children, as well as each other.

You weren’t there?? You missed something truly outstanding!!

Stay tuned – I’ll be working with Anthony and CCER to take more advantage of the assembled “200”. We need to make more opportunities to Show Up…

Photo on page 4 is from the CCR. Photo above is from the Seattle Times.

WELCOME NEW TABOR MEMBERS!

• Kara Williams, City of Seattle - Office of Housing

• J. Paul Blake, Evans School of Public Affairs at UW

• Annette Demps, A&D Quality Construction Co.

• Samatar Guled, Eastside for Hire• Jay Smith, Tahoma Consulting Group• Bian Weiming, Northwest Civil Engineers PLLC

Creating Opportunitities for YOU!

Together, Tabor 100 and the Minority Business Advisory Council will be:

Learn more about MBAC by visiting www.MBAC-WA.org.

• Creating opportunities for minority-owned businesses

• Promoting initiatives that impact economic development

• Building a stronger minority community with more opportunities

Highlights from The Seattle Medium

The Port of Seattle Commission unanimously approved a motion in support of Washington State House Bill 2822, which would repeal restrictions set forth in state law that affect equity for small businesses, including disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned businesses.

“Repealing these restrictions means the Port will be better able to support all of the businesses that contribute to the economic vibrancy of the region, especially those that have faced historical obstacles in competing for a fair share of the work,” said Commissioner Stephanie Bowman. “It’s our mission to support the creation of middle-class jobs in the region and many of those jobs are in small, family-owned, and minority-owned businesses.”

According to a press release, the Commission recognizes the economic and societal impacts of income inequality and the decline of the middle class. A recent Boston Consulting Group study identified

the loss of 9,000 middle class jobs in the region. Last month, the Port of Seattle launched the PortGen Small Business Accelerator Program began in January to support those businesses and enable them to compete more effectively.

“We applaud the Port of Seattle for this ongoing recognition of the inequalities caused by I-200,” said Ollie Garrett, President and CEO of Tabor 100. “We look forward to working with the Port to increase opportunities for underrepresented businesses.”

See full article here.

► ► Port Commission Approves Motion to Repeal I-200

► ► HB 2822 Hearing PhotosTABOR 100 ENGAGES IN THE I-200 FIGHT

On February 2, Tabor 100 representatives traveled to Olympia to testify before the House Capital Budget Committee in support of House Bill 2822, which would repeal I-200.

Sponsored by Representative Sharon Tomiko-Santos, HB 2822 was this year’s best hope for repeal of I-200, the 1998 measure that generally restricted racial and gender preferences in contracting and education. I-200, more than any other act in state government, has significantly reduced the number of minority businesses in the state and is used routinely to justify a lack of diversity in government contracting and enrollment in the state’s universities.

Led by Jamila Johnson, Tabor’s Government Affairs Chair, several Tabor members made the trek to Olympia to show support for the bill. Testifying on behalf of Tabor 100, Jamila pointed out that I-200 effectively put an end to state and local affirmative action and race-conscious admission processes.

She continued by saying that “prior to the passage of I-200 in Washington, minority contracting only accounted for 4.9 percent of state contract awards. By 2006, without the use of affirmative action, less than one percent of contracts are awarded to minority businesses. This number has continued to fall over the last 10 years.”

Jamila was joined by several other Tabor members, some who testified at the hearing and some who submitted written comments to the committee. “Affirmative action is not a grant of an advantage, but a remedial leveler.” Johnson explained to the Committee. Minority students and contractors do not operate on a level playing field.”

Unfortunately, HB 2822 did not meet the deadline for being passed out of committee so will not be put into law this year. Tabor 100 will continue to encourage and support efforts to repeal the I-200 law in the future.

THE TABOR 100 BOARD

President: Ollie Garrett President@Tabor100.org

Vice President: Brian Sims VP@Tabor100.org

Treasurer: Anita DeMahy Treasurer@Tabor100.org

Secretary: Sherlita Kennedy Secretary@Tabor100.org

Membership: Sharlene Spencer Membership@Tabor100.org

Education: Kevin C. Washington Education@Tabor100.org

Public Affairs: Henry Yates PublicAffairs@Tabor100.org

Economic Development: Open Position EconomicDevelopment@Tabor100.org

Government Affairs: Jamila Johnson GovernmentAffairs@Tabor100.org

Fund Development: John Berdes FundDevelopment@Tabor100.org

Business Development: Anthony Burnett BusinessDev@Tabor100.org

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UPCOMING MEETINGS

March 26: General Meeting at the Central Area Senior Center from 10 a.m. until noon.

March 29: Working with SDOT at the Bertha Knight Landes Room from 9:30 a.m. until noon.

April 5: Regional Contracting Forum at the Washington State Convention Center from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Education Committee meets after the Tabor General Meeting, the last Saturday of the month from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at The Central.

Please contact any of the Chair’s for more information about their committee.

City of Seattle WMBE News – February 2016City Purchasing and Contracting Services (CPCS) Director: Nancy Locke, Nancy.Locke@seattle.gov

Construction Subcontractor Legal PerspectivesMay 4, 2016 – 9:00 am to 1:00 pmCPCS will host a seminar that will be no cost for our construction subcontractors. The speakers include prominent lawyers in Seattle construction law who will present the topics including legal issues, perspectives and strategies for subcontractors. A brief summary is below:

The Bidding Process• Source Selection Methods (Design-Bid-Build, GC/CM, Design/Build)• Bid Mistakes• Bid Protests

Protecting Against Risk• Contract Drafting• Retainage and Bonds (see SHB 1575) (2015)• Bidder Responsibility Criteria and Use of “Ratings”• Insurance Products

Contract Drafting and Negotiating for the Subcontractor• What types of costs and what types of pricing formulas are traditional for subcontractors to

add into their bids to primes?• What are key provisions that a sub should watch for, that have particular implications for a

sub?• What provisions can be successfully negotiated, in their experience, to reduce the burden on

subs?• What provisions cause the greatest difficulty for subs, and what should subs watch for and/or

negotiate on those?• Must insurance flow-down from the prime to the sub, and how can a sub argue/negotiate?

Formalities of Bid Acceptance/Rejection• Purpose of Public Bidding• Invitation vs. Offer• Material/Immaterial Bid Irregularities• Protest

Managing Challenges in Construction Contracts• Effective Contracting Tools• Changed Conditions• Change Orders and Disputes

Your City WMBE Team

Escalating issues or special needs Nancy Locke at 206-684-8903 WMBE Compliance Miguel Beltran at 206-684-4525 Construction Contracting Aleanna Kondelis at 206-684-4542 City Purchasing Pam Tokunaga at 206-233-7114 Special Assistant to the Mayor Javier Valdez at 206-684-5584 Department WMBE Contacts Office of Arts and Culture Sheila Moss at 206-233-7016 Office of City Auditor Melissa Alderson at 206-386-4168 Seattle Civil Service Commission Jennifer Greenlee at 206-233-7118 Seattle Community Police Commission Fe’ Lopez at 206-684-5175 Department of Education and Early Learning Donnie Grabowski at 206-233-2603 Department of Information Technology Ann Kelson at 206-684-0539 Department of Neighborhoods Grace Dygico at 206-684-0466 Department of Planning and Development Denise Campbell at 206-386-4035 Seattle Employees Retirement System Deontrae Sherrard at 206-615-1431 Seattle Department of Human Resources Solomon Alemayehu at 206-733-9175 Human Services Department Abdiwali Mohamed at 206-684-4167 Law Department Dana Anderson at 206-684-7761 Legislative Department Eric Ishino at 206-684-8141 Seattle Public Library Jay Donahue at 206-684-7410 Municipal Court John Kerr at 206-684-8274 Office of Economic Development Amanda Allen at 206-684-8894 Office of Hearing Examiner Patricia Cole at 206-615-1570 Office of Housing Kara Williams at 206-733-9977 Office of Intergovernmental Relations Jasmin Weaver at 206-684-8208 Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Linh Huynh at 206-727-8515 Office of Sustainability and Environment Jeanie Boawn at 206-615-0817 Seattle Parks and Recreation Sue Goodwin at 206-615-0374 Seattle Police Department Valarie Anderson at 206-733-9315 Seattle Police Pension Fund Dan Oliver at 206-386-1289 Seattle City Light John Trausch at 206-233-1559 Seattle Department of Transportation Edson Zavala at 206-684-7949 Seattle Center Ned Dunn at 206-684-7212 Seattle Fire Department Travis Taylor at 206-733-9458 Seattle Firefighters Pension Board Steven Brown at 206-625-4355 Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission Wayne Barnett at 206-684-8577 Seattle Office for Civil Rights Brenda Anibarro at 206-684-4514 Seattle Public Utilities Jean Bailey at 206-733-9155