On September 22, 2026, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors' Procurement and Contracting Policy Committee convened but lacked a quorum, so no formal actions were taken. The committee heard a quarterly report from the Auditor-Controller's office on contractor payments, discussed vendor pool data, and scheduled future agenda items. Public comment was opened but no speakers came forward.
Quarterly Report on Contractor Payments (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2026): Auditor-Controller Melissa Wilk presented the report. For payments up to $500,000, total payments reached $2.6 billion, with $1.51 billion paid to local contractors (stated as 88.2% of those dollars) and $1.26 billion to MWSLBE contractors (48.55%). Category breakdowns for MWSLBE payments: Construction $1.272 million (37.88%), Architecture & Engineering $39.5 million (56.49%), Professional Services $512.6 million (58.53%), and Goods & Services $581.7 million (44.2%). For all payments (including over $500,000), totals were $5.89 billion; local contractors received $3.11 billion (stated as 52.82%) and MWSLBE contractors received $2.06 billion (just over 35%). Category breakdowns: Construction $345.2 million (27%), A&E $58 million (49.36%), Professional Services $709.3 million (31.95%), and Goods & Services $950.4 million (41.23%).
Streamlining Future Reports: Chair Miley and staff discussed shifting to a five-year look-back (instead of back to 2009) and a condensed format (from ~64 pages to ~20). The next report will cover July 1, 2026 – September 30, 2026, and a draft will be shared at the October work group meeting.
Vendor Pool Inquiry: Chair Miley asked what percentage of the 12,391 registered vendors actually receive county contracts. The auditor's office agreed to run a report showing contractors currently receiving payments or purchase orders, and to bring it to the next meeting.
Disparity Study Update: Chair Miley requested a report/update on the disparity study be agendized for the November meeting; it was confirmed for that date.
Deed Redaction Project: Chair Miley requested an update on the auditor's office project redacting restrictive covenants from deeds, also for the November meeting.
So good good afternoon, everyone. We're going to we don't have uh a quorum today for the meeting of the procurement and contracting um policy committee, uh, but we're going to go ahead and uh at least hear the report and um if necessary reschedule this for a future procurement and contracting committee meeting, but we will hear the meeting. Uh I mean hear the report uh today, and I believe I can take uh any public comment on the report as well. We just it's just not you can't take any action or anything. Yeah, okay. Okay, and we have only one item this afternoon. Um it's the quarterly report from the auditor controller's office. The information presented in our report today is based on payments made to contractors. The summary chart of all of these payments up to $500,000 for the period July 1st, 2009 through June 30th, 2026 is shown on page A1. It includes total payments up to $500,000 and the amount of $2.6 billion. $1.51 billion was paid to local contractors or $88.2% of those dollars. $1.26 billion was paid to MWSLBE contractors, which equals 48.55%. Payments to the MWBE SLUB contractors by category are as follows. Construction received 1.272 million dollars or 37.88%. Architecture and engineering received $39.5 million or $56.49%. Professional services was $512.6 million dollars or $58.53% of the total dollars paid to MWBE SLEBs out of all the payments, up to $500,000. And goods and services was $581.7 million, which equals $44.2% of the goods and services. A little more. And that's it. There we go. So this is our summary page A2. Uh, this is also included in our report. And this is summarizing all of the payments that were made to contractors during this period from July 1, 2009 through June 30th. It includes those amounts that are over $500,000 as well. These total payments were $5.89 billion. $3.11 million was paid to local contractors or $52.82%. $2.06 billion was paid to MWBE SLEB contractors or $35%, just over 35% of the total dollars. And again, the breakdown by category to MWBE SLEB contractors were as follows. Construction was $345, $345.2 million, which is $27% of the construction dollars. Architecture and engineering was $58 million, which is $49.36% of the AE dollars. Professional services was $709, $709.3 million, which is $31.95%, and goods and services was $950.4 million or $41.23% of those goods and services dollars that were paid to MWBE SLEBs out of all of the payments for this period. This report is available in its entirety on our SLEB website at uh ACGov.org. And just our next report for the period July 1, 2006 through September 30th, 2026, will be presented in the streamlined format that we've talked about. It will cover the prior five fiscal year periods and have similar breakdowns. And we'll be prepared to share a draft of that at our October work group meeting if you would like. And that concludes our report, and then we can take any questions. Okay, thank you. Um you mentioned the next report will it'll be a um a different type of report. We talked about streamlining the report, and rather than going back 17 years to 2009, our our max look back will be five years. So every time you see the report, we'll have a max look back at five, but we'll still look at annual, we'll still look at the categories, we'll still look at quarterly. Um of the other information is left. Okay, great, because that's what I was gonna ask. So I just wanted to make sure what you were saying. Um was responsive to my what I was thinking. Okay. And we can bring that to the next work group meeting if you'd like. Also, our next meeting is this is the September. I think our next meeting will be it'll be an evening meeting five o'clock. Do you have that date? Yeah, we'll go from about sixty-four pages currently to twenty.