April 15, 2010<\/p>\n
Earl \u2018Skip\u2019 Cooper, II
\nPresident
\nBlack Business Association
\nLos \u00a0 Angeles,CA<\/p>\n
Dear Skip:<\/p>\n
Having more than twenty-five years of\u00a0professional experience with\u00a0the California Assembly Bill 3678, which addresses procurement practice of major gas, electric and telecommunication firms, serves as an important measurement that the proposed AB 2758 misses the \u2018true\u2019 vital sectors for improved outcomes.\u00a0 Although the Public Utilities Code mandates annual review by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has shown considerable increased capital outlay on supplier diversity initiatives, it does not adequately disclose the improvements of vital socioeconomic sectors that remain unchanged and in many cases have deteriorated since its implementation by CPUC General Order 156.<\/p>\n
A vital sector for example can be shown where AT&T downsized regional analog switching stations so as to improve to digital technology upgrades, thereby\u00a0allowing for significantly less real estate reprenting a fraction of the previously required operating space.\u00a0 Unfortunately, local small businesses and related jobs in those older areas have suffered from the rightsizing efforts of AT&T.\u00a0 Illustrating how when vital sectors are identified as the benefactor (major industry) then in the final analyses the protected ethnic classes receive little focus or needed socioecomic improvements.\u00a0 Annual procurement expenditures have to be drilled down to geographical sectors, just as governmental representation is identified and implemented.<\/p>\n
From a legislative viewpoint, vital sectors should almost always lean toward communities identified as underutilized by major public and private buying organizations.\u00a0 AB 2758 should not exclude geographical areas in its language to open opportunity for sufficient industry growth to provide sustainable careers and that create long-term employment for the very minority group members mentioned in the bill.\u00a0 Major industries that benefit from government intervention for green technology, broadband expansion and the like must be held accountable to make regular investments into geographical areas that are undeserved, i.e. enterprise\/empowerment zones.\u00a0 The complexity of socioeconomic development is therefore not with the annual spend reports, but with the essential investment into viable enterprises located in the serving areas of these regulated entities and emerging sectors.<\/p>\n
The facts shared on this proposed legislation state that California\u2019s largest utility and telecommunications companies have increased their diverse procurement by more than 300{ccc488d5a2ce4d1842f7a5a096256d3759c870d7ef5844ed8e9a39b694d97103} for women, minority and disabled veteran-owned businesses, but yet, somehow AB 2758 as written is assumed to positively impact and improve communities like the original AB 3678 did.\u00a0 Sadly, AB 3678 did not address this area either, so why should protected class members believe or expect AB 2758 to produce improved outcomes for true vital markets?\u00a0 Vital markets do not change by producing annual spend reports, but such markets can improve by influencing and directing the geographical areas of where that annual spend ends up.<\/p>\n
Driving annual reports is a subset of true socioeconomic improvement, which is to create economic relief for protected classes set forth in half-century old federal legislation.\u00a0 Such work remains undone and any bill that skirts reiterating the importance of those geographical markets that have been grossly left behind perpetuates a gateway for underserved communities to remain at the rear, in short supply of economic growth.<\/p>\n
Accordingly, in order for me to endorse this bill it needs to have geographical impetus to make a difference.\u00a0 Following the guidelines of empowerment and enterprise zones as the vital sectors is a good start.\u00a0 As industry is constantly changing, but the areas where people reside and need help has remained poorly underserved\u00a0constant for far too long.<\/p>\n
Empowering regards,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Dean L. Jones, C.P.M.<\/p>\n
CEO<\/p>\n
Southland Partnership Corporation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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