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MINORITY CONSTRUCTION
EMPLOYMENT
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FEBRUARY 2009
Minority Construction Employment Plan
The Florida Marlins, City of Miami, and Miami -Dade County are fully
committed to ensuring that employee hiring and promotions, as well as
vendor and contractor hiring, be strictly based on merit, qualifications and
competency and that applicable personnel practices will not be .influenced
by an applicant's or employee's race, color, place of birth, religion, national
origin, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status or
handicapped status.
The Florida Marlins and Major League Baseball have a pro -active history of
promoting the economic growth, strength and well being of diverse
communities. In 1998, Major League Baseball authorized the creation of an
economically driven business initiative established to cultivate new and
existing partnerships with minority- and women -owned businesses. The
Diversity Business Partners Program aims at increasing opportunities for
minorities and women to participate in the procurement activities of Major
League Baseball. Since the formation of the Diversity Business Partners
Program, Major League Baseball and its teams have incurred expenditures
of over $300 million with mu-tority- and women -owned businesses. The
program has been recognized as an industry-leading initiative and,
recently, Major League Baseball was honored as one of the top 50
corporations in the nation for multicultural businesses by
DiversityBusiness.com.
As part of its commitment to diversity, the Florida Marlins and its affiliates
will ensure the application of non-discriminatory personnel practices,
including the following:
1. Taking all necessary action to attract and retain qualified employees,
regardless of race, color, place of birth, religion, national origin, gender,
sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran and handicapped status
2. Maintaining equitable principles in the recruitment, hiring, training,
compensation and promotion of employees; and
3. Monitoring and reviewing personnel practices to guarantee that equal
opportunities are being provided to all employees, regardless of race, color,
place of birth, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age,
marital status, veteran and handicapped status.
In addition, the Florida Marlins and its affiliates continue to aggressively
pursue practices that will serve to enable local and disadvantaged vendors
and contractors opportunities to contract with the Florida Marlins.
Specifically, the Florida Marlins, as part of the Construction Administration
Agreement and Management Agreement to be entered into with Miami -
Dade County and the City of Miami, have agreed to the following:
(a) Develop an aggressive small business outreach program to
increase participation of small businesses in the operations of the Baseball
Stadium;
(b) Afford local, small and disadvantaged businesses in Miami -
Dade County and the City of Miami an equal opportunity to compete for
business for the supply of goods and services to the operator of the
Baseball Stadium;
(c) Adopt an affirmative action plan that sets forth procedures that
the Florida Marlins and its affiliates will utilize to assure that it does not
discriminate in its employment, promotion and procurement practices;
(d) Require that all contracts for architectural work include
provisions mandating that the architect make reasonable good faith efforts
to ensure compliance with the goals set forth under Miami -Dade County's
Community Business Enterprise - Architects and Engineers Program (CBE-
A/E);
(e) Require that any construction management contract include
provisions mandating compliance with Miami -Dade County's Community
Small Business Enterprise programs (CSBE and SBE) and Community
Workforce programs ("CWP"); and
(f) Establish a small business program monitoring and assistance
program, which will be assigned one full-time staff person to monitor and
assist the Florida Marlins and its affiliates with compliance with the CBE-
A/E, CSBE, SBE, CWP, and other similar programs.
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