Articles Featuring: I-200 Poll Update Technical Assistance Center Update Education Levy, by Henry Yates Tabor 100 Public Affairs Chair General Meeting Photos Courtesy of Flyright Productions

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April 2018
Message from the President
Are we there yet?
The famous line echoed by every young
person traveling anywhere. You may be
asking the same question about what we are doing
as Tabor 100 to get to where we say we are going.
The simple answer is “no,” we are not there yet,
but the more complicated answer is that we are
working diligently to get to where we have said we
are going for many years. Our two main goals —
the overturning of I-200 and the creation of a
Business Assistance Center, the “Tabor Equity
Center”, are efforts that are well on their way to
reality.
Fortunately, our reputation has preceded us, and
we are using our good name and goodwill to
generate funding for the Equity Center. There are
significant resources in this community and many
have been willing to share their bounty with us.
When we are “there” my hope is that the center
can be used as an “incubator” and “business
growth” place where collaboration and innovation
thrive. We want to address the issue of “you’re not
big enough” by having like businesses
collaborating and working together to capture
opportunities that an individual business may not
be able to obtain on its own. We want you
to be able to compete on a level playing
field and capture work that may now be out
of reach.
The Center will help your business grow.
None of us are quite there yet and we may need
some additional help which the center will provide.
The Center will offer specialized classes on
everything from estimating to payroll and basic
accounting. The Center will help you get certified
with the Office of Minority and Women Business
Enterprise, the State Department of Veteran Affairs
and the Department of Enterprise Services.
On the I-200 front, Tabor’s Government Affairs
Chair, Riall Johnson, is working hard to do what is
needed to prepare Tabor 100 for next year’s
legislative session and to explore opportunities for
law changes even sooner. I will be the first to say
that without a change in this law, our Technical
Assistance Center will never reach its full potential.
I will end by once more calling on all of you to work
with Tabor 100. We are doing some exciting
things to help move both your business and
community forward. We are very close to “being
there.”
I-200 Poll Update
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WMBE Work
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Education Levy
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advocates who are committed to economic power,
educational excellence and social equity for
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March 2018 General Meeting
I-200 Affirmative Action Polling Update
In keeping with Tabor 100’s key objective of overturning I-200, we joined seven other
organizations in helping to fund a poll to determine the mood of Washington State voters
regarding equal opportunity in contracting, public employment and higher education. The poll of
500 respondents ran earlier in the month and asked specific questions about Affirmative Action.
The poll gave us renewed optimism that the people of the state are supportive of equal
opportunity by a significant margin.
WHERE DO VOTERS STAND ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?
• 69% - Familiar with the term, “Affirmative Action.”
• 65% - Believe Washington State should establish an Affirmative Action law that provides
equal opportunity for qualified women, veterans, the disabled and minorities.
• 63% - Will vote for an initiative on the ballot to establish an Affirmative Action law in
Washington State which would not use quotas or preferential treatment.
• 55% - Disagree with the statement, “Affirmative Action is the same thing as Preferential
Treatment.”
With these results we are hoping to craft a strategy that will lead to success in either the public
arena or in the state Legislature. Stay tuned for next steps.

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WMBE-WORK: Tabor—Driven Technical Assistance Center Update
Tabor continues our work towards the Technical
Assistance Center. There are various activities
going on that are bringing this early work towards
the mid-point.
The Tabor vision is to create the most
collaborative, sustainable and valuable solution
that provides important resources and a welcome
space where minority business owners and
individuals can gather and grow their business.
The funding search is underway. Proper funding is
the most critical evidence of the viability and
sustainability to this vision. The center needs
generous and enthusiastic funding. The Tabor
President and each member of the Board are
reaching out to seek the support and funding from
some of our most prominent corporate friends and
public agency partners. This early corporate and
agency focus will soon morph into an expansive
campaign reaching out to all who care and
support minority business. We hope your name
will be among them.
The facility search is underway and moving along.
Over this past month, the Tabor Board of
Directors found a potential facility that has all the
key components we hoped for. While not the only
option, this facility has been an exciting
breakthrough that we hope will prove the right
solution. Discussions for that facility are
underway. The Urban League also continues to
share the hope of locating near us.
The third effort underway is building
understanding and interest with our other
minority-focused non-profits, so that we are joining
together to build a common, energetic and
collaborative sense of community around this
need. We are receiving a very warm and
supportive response. Many of these partners are
interested in office spaces so they can be visible
and easy to access by their minority members in
this larger facility.
The Board continues to review ideas, options and
solutions for the best services to go into this
facility. There are many options our corporate and
public partners have to support WMBE work. The
Board’s mission for this effort is to make our Tabor
solution the most collaborative, sustainable,
valuable and obvious of those choices.

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Education Levy
By Henry Yates with Introduction by Kevin C. Washington
Minority and small businesspeople alike should
be following the renewal progress for the next
Family and Education Levy this fall. Yes, tax
fatigue is an issue – but the community needs to
make the necessary investments to improve
Seattle education. Take the Amazon HQ2
announcement as a velvet-covered 2x4… Kevin
C. Washington
On April 18, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced her
plans for renewal of the Education levy created by
then-Mayor Norm Rice almost three decades ago.
The levy would raise a record amount of money
for education and replace two existing education
levies set to expire. Most of the funding in the
proposal would significantly expand the city’s
subsidized preschool program. While many of the
programs that are currently funded by the existing
levy will remain (at a slightly reduced level); a
new $43.8 million program for aiding students as
they transition from High School is part of
Durkan’s proposal. The Mayor argues that new
money from the State will shore up programs she
intends to reduce in her proposal. The Mayor has
sent her levy plan to the City Council for its
approval- expect to see the education levy on the
ballot in November.
Total cost for the levy to a Seattle homeowner will
average $249 per year, about $80 more annually
than the previous levies. “We want to make sure
that we have a school-to-opportunity pipeline,”
Durkan said during an interview in her office last
week. Although about 75% of Seattle’s public
high school students graduate on-time, rates
remain low for Black, Hispanic and Native youth.
The Mayor’s proposal calls for new programs to
recruit a more diverse K-12 teaching corps and to
help homeless students.
Durkan’s preschool proposal will significantly
increase the dollars spent to prepare students for
learning through preschool programs. She
proposes $363 million for preschool, the largest
chunk of the $636.5 million proposal. About
$229.7 million will be devoted to the existing
services offered by the previously-approved
levy.
Another $43.8 million will be targeted toward
investments designed to better prepare students
achieve economic mobility as adults. College
prep, tuition support, job and apprenticeship
opportunities and other high school transition
programs will be featured.
In announcing the levy, Durkan addressed the
issue of rising property taxes in the Puget Sound
region. “People have seen their property taxes go
up. We’re living in a more and more unaffordable
city,” Durkan said. But the Mayor thinks voters will
be willing to “make a difference for the kids who
are going through our schools” by preparing them
to secure good jobs. For the past few years, the
area has literally had tens of thousands of unfilled
tech and knowledge worker positions—a situation
that needs an education pipeline remedy
The Mayor’s proposal must go through the City
Council and approval is anticipated in the June
timeframe. While many Councilmembers have
voiced concerns over some of the proposals, it is
important to note that four of the nine Coun-
cilmembers stood next to her when she unveiled
the proposal.
“We are taking an incredible step today to really
close the opportunity gap that exists in our city,”
she said at the press conference announcing the
levy proposal.

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Sara Kadletz, Montlake Partners
Commercial Real Estate
Lee Mozena, Zena Consulting
Kiti Ward, The Agape House
James Faison, Faison
Construction, Inc.
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Recognizing the business of one of Tabor 100’s founding members
Fred Maxie, we are encouraging all members to renew their car
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THE TABOR 100 BOARD
President: Ollie Garrett
President@Tabor100.org
Vice President: Brian Sims
VP@Tabor100.org
Treasurer: Aundrea Jackson
Treasurer@Tabor100.org
Secretary: Sherlita Kennedy
Secretary@Tabor100.org
Membership: Christina VanMiddlesworth
Membership@Tabor100.org
Education: Kevin C. Washington
Education@Tabor100.org
Public Affairs: Henry Yates
PublicAffairs@Tabor100.org
Economic Development: Vacant
EconomicDevelopment@Tabor100.org
Government Affairs: Riall Johnson
GovernmentAffairs@Tabor100.org
Fund Development: Abdul Yusuf
FundDevelopment@Tabor100.org
Business Development: Anthony Burnett
BusinessDev@Tabor100.org
TABOR OFFICE
2330 130th Ave. NE #101
Bellevue, WA 98005
425-882-4800 x 107
Staff@Tabor100.org
Newsletter Graphic Design and Editor:
Kalea Perry, KaleaPerry@Hotmail.com
March 2018 GM Photos courtesy of Keith
Williams, Flyright Productions
(206) 860-9813, FlyrightProductions.net
WE ENCOURAGE YOU
TO REACH OUT!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Apr. 28: Tabor 100 General Meeting,
10am-12pm, Central Area Senior Center
May 1: SMPS Seattle Workshop: Playbook for
Strategic Modern Marketing, 7:30 - 11:30am,
Washington Athletic Club Noble Room, Tickets:
Members $99 Non-Member $100
May 4: WSDOT Disparity Study Stakeholder
Session (Registration Required)
May 8: Celebration of Life for Rev. Dr. Samuel B.
McKinney, 9am - 1pm, McCaw Hall Seattle Center
May 15: 2018 NW Minority Business Expo, 4-7pm,
CenturyLink Field Verizon Lounge
May 30: Minority, Women and Veteran Procurement
Workshop, 10am-2pm, City of SeaTac City Hall
(RSVP Required)
May 31: Celebrating Dreams Celebrating
Success, 6– 9pm, Metropolist
Jun 14: SMPS Seattle: 2018 Reign Awards ,
5:30 - 8:30pm, Salty’s Alki Beach, Tickets: Members
$65 Non-Members $75
Jun. 28: WSDOT Disparity Study Stakeholder
Session (Registration Required)
Jun. 30: Tabor 100 General Meeting,
10am-12pm, Central Area Senior Center
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Apr. 28 & Jun. 30: Education Committee meets
after the Tabor General Meeting, from 12-2pm at
the Central Area Senior Center Combined Library
and Computer Room

9. City of Seattle 2018 WMBE Plan
All City departments, offices and commissions are developing their annual WMBE outreach plans to provide
opportunities for minority-owned and women-owned businesses to gain City contracts and purchasing
opportunities. The 2018 Citywide WMBE Plan will include a summary of the past performance, 2018
purchasing and consultant WMBE utilization goals, department goals for consultant prompt payments, and
the outreach events and additional strategies to support WMBEs and improve utilization for this year.
Upcoming Events
Working With SDOT: Move Seattle
June 14, 2018 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
City Hall, Bertha Knight Landes
This event is part of the SDOT hosted Working with SDOT outreach series. This particular event will
focus on highlighting contracting opportunities associated with the Move Seattle Levy. Information will be
presented on Move Seattle projects/activities, and requirements, as well as specific upcoming business
opportunities.
Regional Contracting Forum
October 9, 2018 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
McCaw Hall Seattle Center
This is a key event for businesses to introduce themselves to the region’s largest government entities:
King County, Port of Seattle, University of Washington, Sound Transit, Washington State Department of
Enterprise Services, Washington State Department of Transportation, Washington State Office of
Minority, and Women's Business Enterprises, Port of Tacoma, City of Seattle, and others.
Event features:
• Construction/Architectural Engineering: one-on-one sessions with prime contractors and consultants
during pre-scheduled interviews.
• Exhibit hall: Meet local, state and federal procurement representatives and business resources
providers.
City of Seattle WMBE News – April 2018
City Purchasing and Contracting Services
Director: Liz Alzeer, Liz.Alzeer@seattle.gov

10. The City is committed to socially-responsible procurement and promoting social equity through our contracts. We
work to ensure open and fair procurements, competitive and fair pricing, environmentally-sustainable solutions, best
labor practices, access to equal benefits and utilization of WMBE firms, when applicable, in City bid decisions and
contracts.
Your City WMBE Team
Director Liz Alzeer 206-684-4535
WMBE Compliance Miguel Beltran 206-684-4525
WMBE Assistance Carmen Kucinski 206-684-0188
City Purchasing Pam Tokunaga 206-233-7114
Mayor’s Policy Advisor for Economic
Inclusion and Contracting Equity Edson Zavala 206-684-5584
Department WMBE Contacts
Office of Arts and Culture Sheila Moss 206-233-7016
Office of City Auditor Melissa Alderson 206-386-4168
Seattle Civil Service Commission Jennifer Greenlee 206-233-7118
Seattle Community Police Commission Fe’ Lopez 206-684-5175
Dept. of Education and Early Learning Donnie Grabowski 206-233-2603
Dept. of Information Technology Jeremy Doane 206-684-5962
Dept. of Neighborhoods Grace Dygico 206-684-0466
Dept. of Planning and Development Samuel Assefa 206-386-1183
Dept. of Construction and Inspections Denise Campbell 206-386-4035
Finance and Administrative Services Javier Valdes 206-684-5584
Seattle Employees Retirement System Deontrae Sherrard 206-615-1431
Department of Human Resources Solomon Alemayehu 206-733-9175
Human Services Department Terry Hayes 206-684-0275
Law Department Dana Anderson 206-684-7761
Legislative Department Eric Ishino 206-684-8141
Seattle Public Library Jay Donahue 206-684-7410
Dept. of Education and Early Learning Donnie Graboski 206-233-2603
Municipal Court John Kerr 206-684-8274
Office of Economic Development Amanda Allen 206-684-8894
Office of Hearing Examiner Patricia Cole 206-615-1570
Office of Intergovernmental Relations Jasmin Weaver 206-684-8208
Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Katherine Cortes 206-733-9116
Office of Sustainability and Environment Jeanie Boawn 206-615-0817
Seattle Parks and Recreation Sue Goodwin 206-615-0374
Seattle Police Department Valarie Anderson 206-733-9315
Seattle Police Pension Fund Dan Oliver 206-386-1289
Seattle City Light Kara Williams 206-684-3641
Seattle Department of Transportation Viviana Garza 206-684-5188
Seattle Center Ned Dunn 206-684-7212
Seattle Fire Department Julie McCarty 206-386-1259
Seattle Firefighters Pension Board Steven Brown 206-625-4355
Seattle Ethics and Elections CommissionWayne Barnett 206-684-8577
Seattle Office for Civil Rights Brenda Anibarro 206-684-4514
Seattle Public Utilities Katia Garcia 206-733-9155
WMBE Program
The City actively supports utilization of
WMBE on City contracts as both primes
and subcontractors, and each City
department establishes plans and annual
voluntary goals for WMBE inclusion in
consulting and purchasing contracts. The
City recognizes WMBE firms that self-
identify with at least 51 percent minority or
women ownership. To learn more about the
City’s WMBE programs, contact the
Contract Compliance Manager, Miguel
Beltran at 206-684-4525
Priority Hire
City construction projects of $5 million or
more operate under a community
workforce agreement (CWA) and are
required to have a percentage of project
hours performed by workers living in
economically distressed areas and to
achieve goals for hiring women and people
of color. For more information contact the
Labor Equity Manager, Anna Pavlik at
206-615-1112
Acceptable Work Site
The City requires that our construction work
sites are respectful, appropriate, and free
from bullying, hazing and other similar
behaviors. CPCS monitors work site,
provides trainings and materials, responds
to complaints, and enforces as needed. For
more information, contact Michael DeGive
at 206-386-4128
WMBE Technical Assistance
The City of Seattle provides FREE
technical assistance to businesses seeking
to bid on government contracts. The
Technical Assistance office is managed
independently by the Washington
Procurement Technical Assistance Center
(PTAC) on the 41st floor of the Seattle
Municipal Tower. For more information,
contact Kylene Peterson at 206.684-8594
seattle@washingtonPTAC.org
Social Responsibility in City of Seattle Contracting

11. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2018 | 4:00 - 7:00 PM
CENTURYLINK FIELD, VERIZON LOUNGE, 800 OCCIDENTAL AVE. S, SEATTLE
Come snack on delicious bites and learn about
minority businesses in your community!
Women and minority owned businesses will be
showcasing their products and services—come
spend a Tuesday afternoon and learn what they
have to offer for you and your business.
Grab a drink at the cash bar, sample gourmet tastings from local caterers
and meet with local minority and women owned businesses.
Register HERE for free admission and your complimentary parking pass.
2018 NW MINORITY
BUSINESS EXPO
ENHANCING SOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
HOSTED BY: