Wanda Kirkpatrick, the Met Council's director of diversity and equal opportunity, said the agency is taking steps to do so on the Central Corridor running between Minneapolis and St. Met Council member Steve Elkins said last week that he and others would push for proof that disadvantaged firms "are actually the ones doing the work" they're supposed to do. Nationwide, the federal government wants at least 10 percent of construction contract dollars going to disadvantaged firms. The conduct of the three companies comes to light as the Met Council is again pursuing an ambitious goal of awarding 15 percent of the construction dollars for the $957 million Central Corridor project to firms owned by minorities or women deemed Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE). Two of the disadvantaged firms involved in the alleged abuse on Hiawatha are now working on the Central Corridor with a new venture involving C.S. The joint venture claimed credit for giving work to firms headed by minorities or women, but the work really went to other companies, the government said. McCrossan, a prime contractor on the Central Corridor light-rail project, as having been a partner in a joint venture that broke rules on using so-called disadvantaged firms when building the Hiawatha Line. The federal government recently identified C.S. The accusations illustrate how the Metropolitan Council, which has overseen both projects, can be more lenient than federal officials in enforcing rules intended to give work to firms owned by minorities and women. Companies accused of misrepresenting their work on the metro area's first light-rail line are now at work on the second one.
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