5868420 Public Oversight Roundtable on Review of District Agencies’ Compliance with Certified Business Enterprise Expenditure Goals (Revised)

Council of the District of Columbia

Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs

Notice of Public Oversight Roundtable

 

John A. Wilson Building   1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Ste. 119    Washington, DC 20004                                           

 

Revised

 

COUNCILMEMBER VINCENT B. ORANGE, SR.

 

      ANNOUNCES A PUBLIC OVERSIGHT ROUNDTABLE OF THE     

COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS, CONSUMER, AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

 

Review of District Agencies’ Compliance with Certified Business Enterprise Expenditure Goals

 

Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 9:00 am

John A. Wilson Building, Room 500

1350 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20004

 

Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr. announces the scheduling of a public oversight roundtable of the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs to review District government agencies’ compliance with the Fiscal Year 2015 certified business enterprise (“CBE”) expenditure goals and to examine the agencies’ plans for complying with CBE utilization requirements in Fiscal Year 2016.  The public oversight roundtable is scheduled for Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. This notice is being revised to reflect the change of the date of the roundtable from January 25, 2016 to March 9, 2016. In addition, the notice is being revised to reflect the roundtable has moved from Room 412 to Room 500.

 

The purpose of the public oversight roundtable to is to hear from the Department of Small and Local Business Development, the Office of the District of Columbia Auditor, and appropriate District government agencies on compliance with CBE utilization requirements.

 

Individuals and representatives of organizations who wish to testify at the public oversight roundtable are asked to contact Ms. Faye Caldwell of the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs at [phone] or by email at [e-mail].  Witnesses are asked to furnish their names, addresses, telephone number, email address, and organizational affiliation, if any, by the close of business, Monday, March 7, 2016.  Each witness is requested to bring 20 copies of his/her written testimony.  Representatives of organizations and government agencies will be limited to 5 minutes in order to permit each witness an opportunity to be heard.  Individual witnesses will be limited to 3 minutes.

 

If you are unable to testify at the roundtable, written statements are encouraged and will be made part of the official record.  The official record will remain open until the close of business of Wednesday, March 23, 2016.  Copies of written statements should be submitted to the Committee on Business, Consumer, and Regulatory Affairs, Council of the District of Columbia, Suite 119, of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.