97-060 - King County - Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling Grant

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MINORITY AND WOMEN'S 6USINESS ENTERPRISES 4.18.010 customary incidents of ownership and shall share in the risks and profits commensurate with their ownership interests, as demonstrated by an examination of the substance, rather than the form, of arrangements. 2. Control over management, interest in capital, interest in profit or loss and contributions to capital, equipment and expertise on which the claim of minority -owned status under this chapter is based. The minority owners must possess and exercise the legal power to direct the management and policies of the business and to make day -to -day as well as major decisions on matters of management, policy, and operations. If the owners of the business who are not minorities are disproportionately responsible for the operation of the business, then the business is not controlled by minorities. The business must be owned, controlled, and managed on a day -to -day, full -time basis by the minority owner(s). The requirements of this subsection S.2. shall not apply, if the minority business qualifies as a corporate sponsored dealership under the provisions of WAC 326 -02 -030. 3. Ownership and control shall be measured as though not subject to the community property interest of a spouse if both spouses certify that: a. Only one spouse participates in the management of the business; b. The nonparticipating spouse relinquishes control over his /her community property interest in the subject business. T. Minority business "Minority Business" means a business certified by the and Women's Businesses of the State of Washington as enterprise which is legitimately owned and controlled by person or persons as defined in this section and which has previously sought to do business in King County. The director is authorized to determine that specific racial groups have not been discriminated against in their ownership and /or operation of particular trades or areas of business in King County. The director may exclude such businesses from consideration as "minority businesses" under this chapter, in connection with contracts involving such trades or areas of business, as provided in Section 4.18.080 of this chapter. U. "Minority or Minorities" means a person who is a citizen of the United States and who is a member of one or more of the following historically disadvantaged racial groups: 1. Black or African American: Having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa; 2. Hispanic: Of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Central or South American culture or origin; 3. Asian American: Having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands; or 4. American Indian or Alaskan Native: Having origins in any of the original peoples of North America. The director shall have discretion to make a final decision as to whether an individual is a minority. V. "Nonprofit Corporation" shall mean a corporation organized pursuant to R.C.W. Ch. 24.03. In the case of nonprofit corporations organized under the laws of a state other than Washington, a nonprofit corporation shall mean one organized for one or more of the purposes set and meeting the definitions in R.C.W. 24.03.005. W. "Pass- Through" means buying or obtaining business, non minority business or non combination forth goods Office of a minority a minority in R.C.W. 24.03.015 from a non women's women /minority business, and reselling or transferring those goods to the county, county contractors or other persons doing business with the county for the purpose of obtaining any advantage or benefit conferred under this chapter, without performing a commercially useful function. X. "Percentage Factor" shall mean the special ranking factors 145 -3 (King County 12 -94)