Buried in the Pensacola City Council’s agenda packet for this week’s set of meetings is Mayor Ashton Hayward’s quarterly Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Report for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2013.
The report shows the payments to SBEs and awards to SBE subcontractors. For this past quarter, SBEs accounted for 18 percent ($595,621) for the total expenditures ($3,261,470), according to the report.
However, African-American-owned businesses only received $135,607 of the total expenditures (4.16 percent); Women-owned businesses $52,911 (1.6 percent) ; and Physically Disabled $9,864 (.03 percent).
The city has spent over $300,000 on a disparity study and its implementation. There doesn’t appear to be any progress.