Increasing Utilization Opportunities for MBE/WBE

• Affordable Housing Initiative Monthly Reports
• Public Housing Renovations
• RAD Resident Relocation Resources
• Columbia Community Housing Trust
• Patriot Place Apartments
• Increasing Utilization Opportunities for MBE/WBE

In November of 2014, the Columbia Housing Authority (CHA) secured the services of Tim Person & Associates, LLC (TPA) to provide diversity utilization consultation services to assist the CHA with its efforts to meet the State of Missouri’s mandated goals for the usage of Minority and Women owned Enterprises (MBE/WBE’s).   This mandate is the result of the Columbia Housing Authority successful application for and capturing several rounds of Missouri Housing Development Commission’s (MHDC) Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) which come with the stipulated goal for the utilization of 10% minority and 5% women owned businesses for all of the funded projects.

The CHA desired to extend the mandated goal to an internal self-initiated goal to find a way to maximize opportunities for locally sourced MBE/WBE’s for those projects and to find ways to create a long-term stable, sustainable environment for the MBE/WBE marketplace in Columbia/Mid-Missouri.

The following reports are a result of the CHA’s research to maximize opportunities for locally sourced MBE/WBE’s:

Minority & Women Owned Business Directory

• Minority & Women Owned Business Directory

Increasing Utilization Opportunities for MWBE Final Report

• Increasing Utilization Opportunities for MBE/WBE Final Report – Tim Person 112015

Attachments

• Wehoit – Minority and Women-Owned Business Development Project Report 2015-11-23
• Successful Black Entrepreneurs in Columbia, Missouri – Warren
• Plan for Economic and Minority Inclusion – BSA
• Mayor’s Columbia Race Relations Task Force Report 1996
• Remembering Sharp End Neighborhood – VOX Magazine 11-29-2012
• City’s changes witnessed over 89 years – Bill Clark – Tribune
• State of Missouri – OEO Policy and Program Initiatives 2011
• Mayor of St. Louis Executive Order – Minority and Women’s Business Participation
• KC Minority and Women Business Enterprise Ordinance