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April 22, 2019
Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer
District Update
Disparity Study
Meeting Agenda
•Introduce the study team
•Present overview of existing Diversity Programs
•Describe update study research objectives
•Describe Croson standard
•Outline disparity study data requirements
•Describe workforce study components
•Present study timeline
Mason Tillman Team
Subconsultant Certification
Marvin Woods, Principal
Project Controls Group M/DBE
Walle Amusa, President
ADEXO USA M/DBE
Prime Consultant Certification
Eleanor Ramsey, President/
Project Manager
Mason Tillman Associates
M/WBE
Overview of Current MWBE Program
•Contract goals
•Workforce goals
•Community benefits agreement
•First Source Hiring Program
•Building Union Diversity Program
•Partnership with St. Louis Internship Program
•Diversity reporting system
•Diversity program staff augmentation
Overview of Contract Goals
MWBE Goals
Industry MWBE Subcontract Goals
Building Construction 30% MBE
(African American/Hispanic American)
Non-Building Construction 17% MBE (African American)
State Funded Construction 10% MBE
10% WBE
Federal Funded Construction 10% MBE
5% WBE
Engineering Professional Services None
Purchases and Other Services None
Overview of Workforce Goals
Workforce Goals
Industry Workforce Goals
Building Construction 30% Minority
7% Women
Non-Building Construction 30% Minority
7% Women
State Funded Construction 14.7% Minority
6.9% Women
Federal Funded Construction 14.7 % Minority
6.9% Women
Engineering Professional Services 18% Minority
32% Women
Purchases and Other Services 18% Minority
32% Women
Croson Standard
-Compelling interest
•Evidence of systemic racial
discrimination
-Narrowly tailored
•Remedy documented
discrimination
-Update periodically
•Assess effectiveness of
remedy
•Richmond v.
Croson State/Local
•Adarand v.
Pena Federal
Croson Study Objectives
•Define relevant market area
•Determine if statistical disparity exists
•Ascertain practices affecting any documented disparity
•Assess effectiveness of race- and gender-neutral programs
•Draft detailed program recommendations
•Prepare a legally defensible study
Narrowly Tailored Remedy
•Disparity findings are race, gender, and industry-specific
•Subcontract goals limited to ethnicity and gender groups in industries
with disparity findings
•Goals defined by availability of the ethnicity and gender groups with
disparity in each industry
Study Parameters
Study Period:
January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2017
Building
Construction
Non-Building
Construction
Engineering
Professional
Services
Federally
Funded
Construction
Purchases
and Other
Services
Utilization
•Contracts awarded during the study period
-Prime contracts
•MSD extracted data
•Mason Tillman will normalize data, assign industry to each contract, and
determine business owner race and gender
-Subcontracts
•MSD extracted data
•Mason Tillman will conduct further research to reconstruct complete
subcontract data
-Market Area
•Mason Tillman will determine geographic market area by MSD’s spending
Availability
•Count of willing and able market area businesses identified from
government and non-government sources
•Businesses identified from non-government sources surveyed for:
-Willingness to contract with MSD
•Race, gender, industry
-Capacity to perform MSD contracts
•Bidding history, revenue, number of employees, owner education,
•Available businesses classified by race, gender, and industry
Anecdotal
•Qualitative evidence elicited from interviews with 30 business
owners
•Qualitative evidence compiled from e-survey with all available
businesses
•Qualitative evidence analyzed for patterns and practices of
contracting in market area
•Qualitative evidence used to inform the race- and gender-neutral
recommendations
Disparity
•When the utilization of businesses owned by minorities or women is
not at parity with their availability
-Disparity ratio is actual dollars spent (utilization) divided by expected
contract dollars (availability)
-Expected contract dollars is the proportion of dollars expected to be
spent with each group based on availability
-A statistical disparity occurs where the disparity ratio is less than 0.8
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Workforce
•Scope of work
-Determine the number of individuals by race, gender, and EEO category
available to work on MSD’s contracts
-Determine workers employed on MSD’s contracts by race, gender,
residency, and EEO category
•Construction – count of hours worked
•Trades
•Apprentice
•Professional services – count of individual workers
-Calculate any disparity between available workers and actual employment
-Provide recommendations to address any identified disparity
Public Comment
Please State:
•Your name
•Business name
•Organizational affiliation
-Limit responses to two (2) minutes
•Return comment card to Mason Tillman staff
Partner With Us
•Complete the business survey
•Agree to an anecdotal interview
Email MSDStlouisDisparityStudy@mtaltd.com
Mail
Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd.
1999 Harrison Street
Suite 1440
Oakland, CA 94612
Call (314) 754-9990
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