The mayor of St. Louis, Cara Spencer, held the city's company program on Monday and owned by women in the city of the city and referred to Monday, with the pressure of federal and racial programming ending nationwide.
With this step, the city's business certification program will no longer accept new construction contracts with minorities or women managed by women. Existing contracts are not hired to avoid legal risks to developers, contractors and subcontractors.
St. Louis' officers are fighting to secure federal financing to help Tornado relax, and compliance with the Trump government could endanger financing, said Spencer.
“We have some discretionary allocations from the Fema. We have discretionary assignments from Community Development Block Grant Funds. We have the removal of ruins and a whole series of other things that we are looking for to take care of the federal government to get our residents and survive this exceptionally exhausting time,” she said. “If we don't get these funds, I don't see how we can rebuild our community.”
She added that she understood that she is being examined because it is surrendered to the threats of the Trump government. Spencer said she doesn't choose money about the residents.
“I thread the needle to try to protect our community and our victims of the tornado, which we may be able to get to enable so much federal aid,” she said.
The city received a letter from the US Attorney General and the Ministry of Transport, in which the officials took care of them and pressed them to make the change.
The city recently hired Griffin & Strong, an advisory company in Atlanta, to review the results of the city from disparity studies and to examine the best contract inclusion practices from all over the country.
“The problem is that we have to understand where we are, what the best practices are and what recommendations we have to have in the future,” said Otis Williams, President of the St. Louis Development Corporation.
Megan Green, President of the Board of Aldermen, posted on Sunday comments on Spencer's decision in her personal Facebook account. She said the board was to update the minority contract program regulation when he received a message that the program had a break.
“We live for a moment of aggressive programs in which our communities struggled to build. And we are forced to decide between Trump or to be on the right side of the story,” said Green. “Our office actively works with minority companies and the administration to create a new regulation that both concerns the differences and can survive the legal examination.”
Spencers, city officials, city councilors and parishioners will work to create a legislative template for building contracts that could be carried out by law by mid -September.
Spencer said the city had diversity goals because it needs it.
“We know that we have differences in the wealth and in the business world in the contractual community. I would like to fix them as mayor,” she said.