TO: AC Transit Board of Directors
FROM: Michael A. Hursh, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
SUBJECT: Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goal for Fiscal Years 2023-2025
ACTION ITEM
AGENDA PLANNING REQUEST: ?
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
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Consider adopting the District's three-year Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Goal of 24% for Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2023 - 2025.
Staff Contact:
Michael Hursh, General Manager/Chief Executive Officer
Lynette Little, Director of Civil Rights & Compliance
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STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE:
Goal - Financial Stability and Resiliency
Initiative - Financial Efficiency and Revenue Maximization
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) mandates that AC Transit, as a recipient of Department of Transportation (DOT) funding, is required to adopt and implement a DBE program. Inclusive in the implementation is the establishment of a triennial DBE goal and periodic reporting to the FTA on the success and challenges of meeting the established triennial DBE goal. Supporting this requirement ensures that the District remains eligible to receive FTA funding
BUDGETARY/FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no budgetary/fiscal impact associated with this report.
BACKGROUND/RATIONALE:
On July 27, 2022, the Board adopted the District's FFY2023-2025 proposed 2% DBE goal. The proposed goal was submitted to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and after a technical consultation meeting, the District received a concur notification on September 19, 2022.
However, on October 3, 2022, at the request of the FTA, an additional technical consultation meeting occurred in which the FTA indicated that there were concerns about the District's "additional adjustments" which resulted in the proposed 2% goal. The "additional adjustment" in the goal calculation limited the available DBE pool to those firms located within the nine (9) Bay Area counties, as opposed to those DBE firms in the State that are willing to do business within the nine (9) B...
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