City of Tucson says that ALL WHITE MALE OWNED BUSINESSES ARE 5% BETTER THAN WOMEN AND MINORITIES and they also said a few other things yesterday

The City of Tucson does the following according to a few City of Tucson employees that were at a round table event yesterday:
1.  the City of Tucson has a budget for buying homes for sale
2.  the City of Tucson gives advantages when picking a vendor if the vendor is woman or minority owned by reducing the Woman/Minority bid by 5% before comparing it to a white man's business's bid.
3. classes and services are reduced in price or given for free if someone says they cannot afford to pay the price.
4. The budget is down currently but they hope it to be back up soon.

Response to 1: I don't think the city should be involved in the housing market by buying houses, which would artificially inflate the prices of houses by buying houses and I don't know what they would do with these houses that would be inline with what they should be doing.  They should reduce taxes instead.

Response to 2: This is lame.  We should have an equal playing field.  We shouldn't give preference to any ethnicity or to any group.  I think everyone should compete on their own merits.

The city is 'insulting women and minorities' by saying that ALL WHITE MALE OWNED BUSINESSES ARE 5% BETTER THAN WOMEN AND MINORITIES.  And to even the playing field they need to adjust the numbers.

Response to 3: The city should not give away stuff for free.  If someone can't afford the published price tag then they should not buy the service.

Response to 4: They should be looking for ways to reduce spending and taxes and not looking to increase their spending.