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Supports and encourages efforts by all employers to hire, retain, and promote more people of color and continue to collaborate more intentionally with private, public, and nonprofit partners to close racial disparities in the metropolitan area.

- Ensures all contractors performing work on city projects do not discriminate and that contracts include requirements that are compatible with project funding. - Notifies developers, general contractors, and owners of the requirements on their projects. - Requests, reviews, and approves affirmative action plans of companies entering into contracts in excess of $50,000 to ensure commitment to affirmative action and equal opportunity for all consisutents in compliance with Minneapolis ordinances. - Oversees the Small and Underutilized Business Program (SUBP) so that minority and women-owned businesses have opportunities to bid and compete on city projects. - Monitors participation and inclusion of minority, women, and low-income workers. - Administers federal Davis Bacon Act requirements on projects receiving over $2,000 in federal funds to guarantee prevailing wage. - Ensures the payment of prevailing wages to employees on city projects, pursuant to the city prevailing wage ordinance. - Implements Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 3 requirements which provide opportunities for low-income businesses and individuals.