New policy to drive jobs to impoverished neighborhoods
http://www.wgrz.com/money/economy/ne...falo/479125482BUFFALO - ERIE COUNTY — "First source" is what County Executive Mark Poloncarz calls it. What it does, is address something that bothered Poloncarz a lot.
“It drove me crazy, as County Comptroller, county tax dollars go to for construction projects with contractors who came from outside the area and brought their own workforce, Poloncarz said.”
On Wednesday, Poloncarz signed an executive order to set aside a bloc of work hours from county-financed construction projects for people living in the poverty-prone neighborhoods.
“We know the workforce is there. It’s just insuring that public dollars that are being sent by Erie County are going back into the pockets of the people who paid for them through their taxes,” Poloncarz said.
This is the same guy that veto'd the buy made in American idea?
Why doesn't this law get voted on like the buy only made in American idea veto'd by Mark?
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Because the Made in America thing was shortsighted as most populist ideas are. Nothing is fully made in America and that bill or whatever you call it didn't take that into account. Equipment with parts made in other countries would have been prohibited or required a special process which would have just added to the bureaucracy... Mark was right to Veto it. It was stupid.
Not only that but municipal governments are required to put out to bid purchases above a certain $$ amount. They can't specify certain component makeup unless it's legitimately connected to proper functioning of the product. On the question of setting aside a % of contracting $ for certain groups, obviously this is just another Democratic attempt to rig contract awarding a la the requirement that the outfit hired to build the solar panel plant ( a white elephant before it even opened) be in business for 50 years. I believe that case goes to trial next spring.
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