The Mayor's Office of Small & Emerging Business Development worked with small and emerging businesses in Orleans Parish to enhance their opportunities for growth. It assisted small businesses in recognizing opportunities to do business with the City of New Orleans, and initiated programs to better prepare them to more competitively pursue private sector opportunities. The Office worked to assist city agencies and quasi agencies in better coordinating their small business development programs to provide more valuable and efficient services to the small business community.

The Office sponsored workshops, educational activities, a newsletter, and special programs designed to identify procurement opportunities. Of particular importance was its role in monitoring the city's Open Access Plan, created by Mayor Morial in 1995 in an effort to provide disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned business enterprises with a stake in major construction and other development projects in the Crescent City.

The records described below were selected from a considerably larger group of documents that remained in the Archives after City Hall staff members recalled approximately half of what was originally transfered from the Office in 2002. We have no record of what was recalled or why, nor do we know what became of those materials once they left the Archives. Much of what was left behind comprised monthly Open Access Plan reports for a dozen or so major construction/development projects; we did not retain those reports.

Detailed Description of the Records

Folder Title	Dates	Notes
Box 1
Affirmative Action Program for the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center	undated
Approved Vendors Listing	1999
Business Calling Program	2000
Business of Art Grant Application	1995
Business of Art I	1994
Business of Art II	1995
Business of Art III	1995
Business of Art IV	1995
Business of Art V	1996
Business of Art X	1998
Business of Art XII	1999
Business of Art XIV	2000
Business of Art XVI	2001
Business of Art, Selection Committee Exhibition	1997
Business of Arts and Sciences	1997
Business of Arts and Sciences	1998
Business of Arts and Sciences	1999
Box 2
Certification Information	undated
Certified Business Enterprises	undated
Certified Firms	undated
City Business and Permitting Assistance Center, Policies and Procedures Manual	1997
Conference on Women	1999
Croson, Disparity Studies and Implications for Minority/Women Business Enterprise	undated	Re: City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469 (1989)
Department of Public Works, Project Coordination List	1997/05/12
Development of Minority/Women Business Enterprise Goals and Employment Goals for the Sewerage & Water Board	1994	National Economic Research Associates
Dillard's	1997
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification Checklist	undated
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Plan for the New Orleans International Airport	1996
Disadvantaged Business Participation with City Agencies	1996-1997
Divisional Objectives	1995-1996
Empowerment Zones	1996-1997
Entergy Thermal Project	1999
Enterprise Communities, Performance Review	1996
Enterprise Zone Strategy	1998
Governor's Arts Awards	1997
Handelman Project Feasibility Analysis	undated	Submitted by the Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation (CCEOC); prepared by Hewitt-Washington & Associates, Oakland Econometrics, and Silas Lee & Associates
Harrah's Jazz Company Certification, Priority List	1995
Box 3
Job Descriptions	1994
Louisiana Association of Business Enterprise Specialists (LABES)	1996-1997
Mayor's Women in Ministry	1997
Minority/Women Participation in Business Procurement	1997
NAACP ACT-SO Awards Ceremony	2000	ACT-SO=Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics
National Black Chamber of Commerce Annual Business Convention	1999	Held in New Orleans
New Businesses (Quarterly Report)	1995	Third Quarter
Newcorp	1996
Newsletters	1997	Produced by the Office
Office Information/Activities	1995-1999	2 folders
Box 4
Olympics	1997
Open Access Compliance Office, Responsibilities	1996
Open Access Information	undated
Open Access Plan	1995-2000	Includes copy of Mayor Morial's Executive Order 95-002 which created the Open Access program along with copies of individual Plans for several projects active during the period
Open Access Plan, Operation and Maintenance of City-Owned Cemeteries	undated
Open Access Program Certification Application, Sole Proprietorship	2000
Overall Economic Development Plan	1995-1997
Project Management Update	1997
Box 5
Rebuild New Orleans, NOW! Non-Street Capital Projects	1997	Projects Bidding July-December
Regional Transit Authority, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Application	undated
Ritz Carlton and All Suites Hotel Development Projects, Evaluations, Pre-Bid Conference	1997
Riverwalk Ship Collision	1996-1997
Role of Local Organizations, Research Relating to the Creation of a Small Business Bonding Assistance and Contract Financing Program	1995	MSBDFA Management Group, Inc.
Seminar-Business to Business Networking	1997
Seminar--How to Do Business with Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.	1997
Seminar--How to Do Business with the Hotel Industry	1997
Seminar--Marketing on the Internet	1997
Seminar--Opportunities to do Business with …	1996
Seminar--Opportunities to Do Business with South Africa	1996
Seminars, General	1996-1998
Seminars, General	2000-2001
Seminar--The Enterprising Woman: Portraits of Success	1996
Small Business Contract Financing and Bonding Assistance Program	undated
Small Business Procurement Opportunity Center	1997
Sopena Corporation	1996
Southeast Louisiana Black Chamber of Commerce	1997
Super Bowl XXXI	1997
Task Force Meetings	1998
Treme Historical Development Corporation	1996-1997
Wall Street Summit	2000	Sponsored by the Rainbow/Push Coalition
Women Business Owners Association	1995-1997
Women Business Owners Association Achievers	1995-1998
Women's Business Council	1996-1997
Women's History Month	1997

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