Metro - File #: 2023-0589

• File #: 2023-0589
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 9/12/2023
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 1/18/2024
• Title: RECEIVE and FILE the progress report on the 48 by '28 8-point Plan and Certification Reciprocity.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Annual reports, Central Los Angeles subregion, Certification, City of Los Angeles, Commerce, Construction, Contractors, Contracts, Databases, Disadvantaged business enterprises, Formula Allocation / Local Return, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Guidelines, Hilda Solis, Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Karen Bass, Local Returns, Los Angeles Unified School District, Measure M, Measure R, Memorandum Of Understanding, Motion / Motion Response, Non-contract, Outreach, Partnerships, Payment, Plan, Procurement, Professional Services, Program, Ramps (Interchanges), San Fernando Valley subregion, Small Business Enterprise, Small Business Prime Program, South Bay Cities subregion, Surveys, Transit operators, United States Department Of Transportation, Westside Cities subregion
• Related files: 2023-0462, 2024-0055

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JANUARY 18, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: 48 by '28 AND RECIPROCITY

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE and FILE the progress report on the 48 by '28 8-point Plan and Certification Reciprocity.

Issue
ISSUE

On July 27, 2023, the Board passed Motion 24 by Directors Hahn, Dupont-Walker, Solis, Butts, and Sandoval requesting progress updates on the following: a) implementing the initiatives laid out in the May 2022 "48 by '28 Plan" to increase small and disadvantaged business participation in Metro contracts; b) recommendations included in the September 2022 Office of the Inspector General (OIG) survey of small business enterprise certification programs; and c) developing an annual, fiscal year-end report on the agency's progress toward reaching the 48% target by 2028.

Background
BACKGROUND

With the passage of Measure R and Measure M, Metro has undertaken a historic infrastructure capital program that provides numerous opportunities for businesses across the region to compete for projects that create thousands of jobs. Increasing the percentage of transportation dollars that remain in the region and within economically and socially disadvantaged communities is vital to LA County's post pandemic recovery and aligns with the Board-Approved Equity Platform.

In May 2022, the Board adopted the 48 by '28 8-point plan of eight new initiatives aimed at achieving a 48% aspirational target of small business participation on Measure R and Measure M funded by 2028. Through partnership with local jurisdictions, Metro seeks to increase the percentage of transportation dollars that remain in the region and within economically and socially disadvantaged communities.
In July 2022, Metro's OIG completed its draft report on the Survey of Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Certification Programs and Exploring Opportunity for Reciprocity . The OIG report discussed ongoing efforts to assist Metr...