York County and York City are updating the list of minority- and woman- owned businesses and Section 3 eligible businesses for Community Development Block Grant program and HOME Investment Partnership program assisted projects.  Eligible business include:

female business enterprise (WBE) at least 51% owned by a woman or women who also contract and operate it; and

minority business enterprise (MBE) at least 51% owned by a person or persons who certify they are U. S. Citizens and are Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans (American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts and Native Hawaiians) or Asian-Pacific Americans (origins from Japan, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, Samoa, Guam, U. S. Trust Territories of the Pacific, Northern Marianas, Laos, Cambodia or Taiwan); and

Section 3 eligible business 51% or more owned by Section 3 resident; or

whose permanent, full-time employees include persons, at least 30% of whom are currently Section 3 residents, or within three years of the date of 1st employment with the business concern were Section 3 residents; or

provides evidence of a commitment to subcontract in excess of 25% of the dollar award of all subcontractors to be awarded to business concerns that meet the Section 3 qualifications set forth above.

(A Section 3 resident is defined as a Public Housing Resident, or a resident of a metro area or non-metro county in which the Section 3 covered assistance is expended, and who qualifies as a low or very low income person.)

Any business meeting the above criteria is invited to submit a letter or email outlining its qualifications as an MBE or WBE or Section 3 owned business, and describing its specialty, to the York County Planning Commission, 28 E Market Street, York, PA, 17401 no later than Friday, April 15, 2016.  For further information, contact Wanda Montalvo, Senior Project Compliance Specialist, at 717-711-9870, wmontalvo@ycpc.org."